Parenting and Families in the United States and Canada

Costigan, Catherine L.; Taknint, Joelle T.; Miao, Sheena

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-43645-6_10

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“…Parents' racial and ethnic identity that invokes a sense of belonging to a collective and of cultural pride facilitates positive cultural and racial/ethnic socialization. Positive cultural socialization practices, in turn, facilitate children's healthy ethnic–racial identity and well‐being (Costigan, Taknint, & Miao, ; James et al, ; McBride Murry et al, ; Washington, Rose, Colombo, Hong, & Coard, ). Among Hispanic youth, endorsing a Hispanic identity was associated with more positive appraisals of family functioning and fewer depressive symptoms (Ángel Cano et al, ).…”

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“…Among Latinx parents from immigrant backgrounds, perceived parenting competence in this study was associated with higher cultural parenting self‐efficacy. Theoretically, cultural parenting self‐efficacy includes appraisals that influence socialization processes for children who are navigating two cultural worlds (Costigan et al, ). Fishbane () discussed the important role that neuroplasticity plays in creating flexible bicultural identities, and she also highlighted the importance of support persons understanding processes associated with navigating these cultural beliefs and practices.…”

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Family Processes and Children's and Adolescents' Well‐Being

Buehler

2020

J of Marriage and Family

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The primary purpose of this review was to examine theory and research published during the past decade that focused on family processes and children's and adolescents' well‐being. Scholarship focused on family processes and child and adolescent well‐being made significant and exciting advances during this decade based on several key advancements. In addition to a brief introduction and a conclusion, this decade in review is organized into four sections. In the first section, advances made in the literature because of increased attention to complexity and specificity are illustrated. The second section describes advances that were made because of increased attention to family processes in diverse families. Diversity in the samples of families studied, extensions in family process models, and the revisioning of grand theories using a diversity lens that were used to conceptualize family processes are detailed. In the third section, the importance of time in the study of family processes and child and adolescent well‐being is described. The emphasis on families' daily lives is noted. In addition, prospective considerations and studies of change over time are highlighted. Strengths in family functioning are detailed in the fourth section of this article: positivity, regulatory processes, and family organization. These three areas were selected to elaborate the idea that one of the major advancements in the family process literature during the past decade was an emphasis on family strengths. This review concludes with a commentary regarding how conceptual and methodological advancements during the past decade can guide future scholarship.

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Section: Increased Focus On Diversitymentioning

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Section: Increased Focus On Diversitymentioning

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Family Processes and Children's and Adolescents' Well‐Being

Buehler

2020

J of Marriage and Family

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“…These findings parallel recent assertions of the importance of family cohesion in development. Costigan et al (2017), state in a recent handbook on positive development of minority children and youth, that family cohesion is an important variable associated with higher-order problem solving skills among middle school-aged populations. Other studies indicate that family cohesion together with parental support and parental expectations significantly predicts academic outcomes in White college students but in another study no such associations were witnessed among African American adolescent students (Walker and Satterwhite 2002).…”

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Family Functioning and Not Family Structure Predicts Adolescents’ Reasoning and Math Skills

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Objectives A large body of research exists on families and their impact on children's developmental outcomes. Fewer studies examine family processes within different family structures and their impact on adolescents. This study extends prior work by evaluating associations between family structure (two biological parents, single-parent-mother only, and blended families with a step parent), family functioning (communication, cohesion and flexibility) and adolescents' logic and reasoning skills and math performance. Methods A convenience sample of 269 African American adolescents was recruited from a university-based summer enrichment program. The sample was mostly female (63%), with a mean age of 16.34 years. Data were derived from the baseline assessment during which participants completed the Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scales (FACES IV), a computer-administered test of cognitive skills, and a paper-based math performance test. Results Families with different structures varied in their family functioning (Wilks' ʌ = 0.942, F (6, 496) = 2.486, p = 0.022, η 2 = 0.835). Families differed on the dimensions of cohesion (F (2, 250) = 5.80, p = 0.003, η 2 = 0.044), flexibility (F (2, 250) = 5.48, p = 0.005, η 2 = 0.042) and communication (F (2, 250) = 5.80, p = 0.003, η 2 = 0.047). Different dimensions of family functioning significantly predicted both logic and reasoning skills (F (7, 244) = 2.14, p = 0.040, R 2 = 0.06) and math outcomes (F (7, 142) = 3.16, p = 0.004, R 2 = 0.14). Conclusions Families with different household structures differ in their functioning, including in their levels of cohesion, flexibility and communication. Family functioning is more important than family structure in predicting African American adolescents' reasoning skills and math performance.

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“…Family functioning has been demonstrated to have a crucial impact on the development of cognitive function such as intellectual and academic functioning in children (Costigan et al, 2017;El-Sheikh & Buckhalt, 2003;Lin et al, 2019). Moreover similar to parenting (Bámaca-Colbert et al, 2017;Burlaka et al, 2017), family functioning could play important role in the development of prefrontal function in children.…”

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The COMT rs4680 polymorphism, family functioning and preschoolers’ attentional control indexed by intraindividual reaction time variability

Zhang

Xiao-hui

Wang

2020

Developmental Psychobiology

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Trial-to-trial intraindividual reaction time variability (IIRTV) serves as an index of attentional control and related endogenous brain function. What determinants contribute to preschoolers' attentional control indexed by IIRTV remains unknown. The present study examined how catechol-o-methyltransferase (COMT) rs4680 polymorphism interacted with family functioning (cohesion and adaptability) to impact on preschoolers' attentional control indexed by IIRTV. One hundred forty-four preschool children (M age = 4.19, SD = 0.63) completed the flanker task to assess their IIRTV. Their parents were asked to fill out the Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scale II to assess family functioning. After controlling for age, socioeconomic status (SES) and mean reaction time, results showed that the COMT rs4680 polymorphism was positively associated with preschoolers' IIRTV at the 5% significance level (p = .02) but not after multiple testing adjustment (p = .08). Moreover the COMT rs4680 polymorphism significantly interacted with family functioning to impact on preschoolers' IIRTV and the interaction effects remained significant after correction for multiple testing (p = .01, ΔR 2 = 0.06 in congruent conditions; p = .04, ΔR 2 = 0.04 in combined conditions). In addition, the significant interaction between SES and COMT rs4680 polymorphism was also found in the present study (p = .01, ΔR 2 = 0.05 in congruent conditions; p = .05, ΔR 2 = 0.03 in combined conditions). No sex differences were found in the present sample. The findings of the present study expand our knowledge about the gene × environment underpinnings of children's attentional control and endogenous brain function, and provide evidence for the Vantage Sensitivity model on children's development. K E Y W O R D S family functioning, gene-environment, intraindividual reaction time variability, rs4680 polymorphism How to cite this article: Zhang Y, Yang X, Wang Z. The COMT rs4680 polymorphism, family functioning and preschoolers' attentional control indexed by intraindividual reaction time variability.

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Parenting and Families in the United States and Canada

Cited by 8 publications

References 73 publications

Family Processes and Children's and Adolescents' Well‐Being

Family Processes and Children's and Adolescents' Well‐Being

Family Functioning and Not Family Structure Predicts Adolescents’ Reasoning and Math Skills

The COMT rs4680 polymorphism, family functioning and preschoolers’ attentional control indexed by intraindividual reaction time variability

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