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Satisfying relationships are central to health and well-being, yet the insecurities of anxiously attached people can detract from the quality of their romantic relationships. One factor associated with relationship quality is perceiving a partner as responsive to one's needs, and responsiveness to a partner's sexual needs might be a particularly powerful way to signal responsiveness to anxiously attached partners. In a 21-day daily experience and longitudinal study of 121 couples, we tested perceived partner sexual responsiveness as a buffer against the lower relationship quality (satisfaction, commitment, trust) and sexual satisfaction that anxiously attached people typically experience. On days when anxiously attached people perceived their partner as responsive to their sexual needs, they reported similar levels of relationship and sexual satisfaction, trust, and commitment as people lower in anxiety. Perceived partner sexual responsiveness was also important for maintaining commitment over time. Our findings suggest that perceived partner sexual responsiveness is one promising protective factor for anxiously attached partners. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).Despite the increase in research on coparenting, few studies have focused on non-North American or non-European families, which has hindered practice and policy targeting diverse countries. The authors used a qualitative, longitudinal, multiple case study to investigate coparenting agreement/disagreement and support/undermining, defined by Feinberg's model, in a sample of South-Brazilian families across the Transition to Parenthood (TtoP). Twelve first-time mothers and fathers (six nuclear families) of children who attended different childcare arrangements (i.e., maternal care, nanny care, and daycare center) participated in individual, semi-structured, face-to-face interviews at 6, 12, and 18 months postpartum. Deductive thematic analysis was adopted to explore and interpret the data. Similarities and singularities between families were found. Overall, agreement remained relatively stable during the first year, whereas disagreements concerning discipline demanded more parental negotiation as infants advanced toward toddlerhood. Support and undermining coexisted in the same families, although mothers and fathers expressed undermining differently. Our findings also revealed how Brazilian sociocultural aspects linked to the upbringing in the family of origin, gender role expectations, labor and financial spheres, as well as childcare arrangements, may have shaped the coparenting dynamics of the participants. This study contributes to the literature by shedding light on coparenting in South-Brazilian families. Our findings offer support to two key themes aligned with Feinberg's model of coparenting, that is agreement/disagreement and support/undermining, further reinforcing the importance of understanding coparenting in light of the families' ecological context, without disregarding singularities that mark each coparental relationship. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).Sibling relationships have a profound and lasting impact on children's development and parents often seek for ways to optimize them. Programs to guide parents in efforts to improve sibling interactions draw from different perspectives (mainly behavior management and mediation) and advise the use of different techniques (mainly direct children's behavior using reinforcement practices or maintain impartiality and facilitate communication). We systematically searched PsycINFO and MEDLINE for randomized evaluations of parenting programs to improve sibling interactions, to estimate their effects on sibling interactions, and identified eight studies (136 effect sizes) four evaluations of behavior management, three evaluations of mediation; and one evaluation of behavior management combined with mediation. The overall effect of the programs on sibling interactions was substantial (d = 0.85, 95% [CI 0.27, 1.43]). Subgroup analyses of more specific outcomes (i.e., positive versus negative interactions, and communication skills, problem-solving skills, and aggression) suggested substantial but imprecisely estimated and heterogeneous effects. Evidence for the superiority of either approach (behavior management or mediation) was unsystematic. Our findings indicate that the parenting program literature for sibling interactions is relatively immature in terms of the number, size, and robustness of studies-substantially lagging behind that of other family interventions. selleck Available studies suggest promising effects, but their small numbers and ample heterogeneity result in imprecise estimations. We call for a more systematic body of evidence to understand the promise and boundary effects of the various parenting program approaches for improving sibling interactions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).The current research examined whether men's hostile sexism was a risk factor for family-based aggression during a nationwide COVID-19 lockdown in which families were confined to the home for 5 weeks. Parents who had reported on their sexist attitudes and aggressive behavior toward intimate partners and children prior to the COVID-19 pandemic completed assessments of aggressive behavior toward their partners and children during the lockdown (N = 362 parents of which 310 were drawn from the same family). Accounting for pre-lockdown levels of aggression, men who more strongly endorsed hostile sexism reported greater aggressive behavior toward their intimate partners and their children during the lockdown. The contextual factors that help explain these longitudinal associations differed across targets of family-based aggression. Men's hostile sexism predicted greater aggression toward intimate partners when men experienced low power during couples' interactions, whereas men's hostile sexism predicted greater aggressive parenting when men reported lower partner-child relationship quality. Novel effects also emerged for benevolent sexism. Men's higher benevolent sexism predicted lower aggressive parenting, and women's higher benevolent sexism predicted greater aggressive behavior toward partners, irrespective of power and relationship quality. The current study provides the first longitudinal demonstration that men's hostile sexism predicts residual changes in aggression toward both intimate partners and children. Such aggressive behavior will intensify the health, well-being, and developmental costs of the pandemic, highlighting the importance of targeting power-related gender role beliefs when screening for aggression risk and delivering therapeutic and education interventions as families face the unprecedented challenges of COVID-19. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).Intimacy is vital to romantic relationships, yet is often thwarted by relational challenges, such as sexual difficulties. With prevalence estimates ranging from 10% to 28%, genito-pelvic pain/penetration disorder (GPPPD) is an important sexual problem resulting in negative consequences for affected women and their partners, including significant sexual dysfunction and dissatisfaction. Findings from cross-sectional studies indicate that higher levels of intimacy are associated with better sexuality outcomes in couples coping with GPPPD. However, single-occasion measurements may not capture the daily variations in intimacy that could have important implications for couples' sexual well-being. The present study focused on a key intimacy-building component-perceived partner responsiveness (PPR)-and its daily associations with women's pain and both partners' sexual function and satisfaction. Using daily diaries over an 8-week period, 160 women (Mage = 26.23, SD = 6.26) with GPPPD and their partners (Mage = 27.73, SD = 7.35) reported on PPR, sexual function and satisfaction, as well as women's pain, on days when sexual activity occurred (M = 8.87, SD = 5.87). Drawing on the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model, a multivariate multilevel modeling approach was adopted. Controlling for trait-level PPR, when women and partners reported greater PPR, women reported greater sexual function and satisfaction and partners reported greater sexual function. When partners reported greater PPR, they reported greater sexual satisfaction. No association was found between PPR and women's pain. PPR may facilitate better sexual function and satisfaction and could be an important target in sex and couple therapy for GPPPD. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).The Social-Emotional Responding Task (SERT) assesses children's anticipated emotions in the contexts of transgressions (Malti, The Social-Emotional Responding Task. Unpublished tool by T. Malti, 2017.). We present a systematic psychometric evaluation of the SERT using data from two different samples of 4-8-year-old children from Canada (N = 291, Mage = 6.55 years, SDs = 2.02, 50% boys in Sample 1 and N = 282, Mage = 6.57 years, SDs = 1.56, 49% boys in Sample 2). Children reported their anticipated emotions in six vignettes describing three domains of transgressions [aggressive acts (AA), prosocial omission (PO), and social exclusion (SE)]. Caregivers rated children's sympathy and prosocial and aggressive behaviors. Results supported a one-factor ("domain-general") model over a three-factor ("domain-specific") model, indicating convergence of anticipated emotions across vignettes and domains. Measurement invariance was established across gender and age groups, indicating the robustness of the assessment. Construct validity was supported by associations with sympathy and less robustly, with prosocial and aggressive behavior. We discuss the use of SERT as an assessment tool for children's social-emotional capacities in research and practice settings. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).Comparability of measurement across different cultural groups is an essential prerequisite for any cross-cultural assessment. However, cross-cultural measurement invariance is rarely achieved and detecting the source of noninvariance is often challenging. In particular, when different language versions of a measure are administered to different cultural groups, noninvariance on certain items may originate either from translation inconsistencies (translation bias) or from actual differences between cultural groups (culture bias). If, on the other hand, a measure is administered in a common language version (e.g., English), item noninvariance may also result from comprehension issues of nonnative speakers (comprehension bias). Here, we outline a procedure suitable for dissociating these sources of item noninvariance, termed the culture, comprehension, and translation bias (CCT) procedure. The CCT procedure is based on a between-subjects design comparing samples from two different cultures who complete a measure in either the same or a different language version. We demonstrate in a simulation study and illustrate in an empirical example with actual cross-cultural data how performing multiple pairwise comparisons across (a) groups differing in culture but not in language, (b) groups differing in language but not in culture, and (c) groups differing in both culture and language allows to pinpoint the source of item noninvariance with high specificity. The CCT procedure thus provides a valuable tool for improving cross-cultural assessment through directing the process of item translation and cultural adaptation. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).