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Employment Status and Psychosocial Adjustment among Adolescents and Parents during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Multi-Informant Data from Ecological Momentary Assessments
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Ming-Te Wang; Christina L. Scanlon; Juan Del Toro; Jacqueline D. Schall – Developmental Psychology, 2024
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many families experienced financial and health stressors associated with parental employment. Using multi-informant and daily-diary data from a nationwide U.S. sample of parents and children (626 dyads; 18,780 daily assessments across 30 days: May 18, 2020-June 1, 2020, October 19, 2020-November 2, 2020; parents:…
Descriptors: Employment Level, Adolescents, Parents, Stress Variables
Prosocial Speech Acts: Links to Pragmatics and Aging
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Madeleine Long; Sarah E. MacPherson; Paula Rubio-Fernandez – Developmental Psychology, 2024
This study investigated how adults over the lifespan flexibly adapt their use of prosocial speech acts when conveying bad news to communicative partners. Experiment 1a (N = 100 Scottish adults aged 18-72 years) assessed whether participants' use of prosocial speech acts varied according to audience design considerations (i.e., whether or not the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Communication (Thought Transfer), Affective Behavior
Parsing Alcohol-Dependent Mothers' Insensitivity to Child Distress: Longitudinal Links with Children's Affective and Anxiety Problems
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Jacques, Debrielle T.; Sturge-Apple, Melissa L.; Davies, Patrick T.; Cicchetti, Dante – Developmental Psychology, 2021
Prior work suggests that substance-dependent mothers insensitively respond to their child's emotional needs, which can increase children's risk for psychopathology. However, the mechanisms and processes underlying these associations remain unclarified. Mothers' insensitivity to children's distress is an especially unique predictor of child…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Addictive Behavior, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship
Life Transitions and Mental Health in a National Cohort of Young Australian Women
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Lee, Christiana; Gramotnev, Helen – Developmental Psychology, 2007
Young adulthood, a time of major life transitions and risk of poor mental health, may affect emotional well-being throughout adult life. This article uses longitudinal survey data to examine young Australian women's transitions across 4 domains: residential independence, relationships, work and study, and motherhood. Changes over 3 years in…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Quality of Life, Mothers, Life Satisfaction