Spina Bifida (SB) is the second most common birth defect worldwide. Since the chances of survival in children with severe SB-forms have increased, medical care has shifted its emphasis from life-saving interventions to fostering the... more
Spina Bifida (SB) is the second most common birth defect worldwide. Since the chances of survival in children with severe SB-forms have increased, medical care has shifted its emphasis from life-saving interventions to fostering the quality of life for these children and their families. Little is known, however, about the impact of SB on family adjustment. Reviewers have struggled to synthesize the few contradictory studies available. In this systematic review a new attempt was made to summarize the findings by using meta-analysis and by delimiting the scope of review to one concept of family adjustment: Parents' psychological adjustment. The questions addressed were: (a) do parents of children with SB have more psychological distress than controls? (b) do mothers and fathers differ? and (c) which factors correlate with variations in psychological adjustment? PsycInfo, Medline, and reference lists were scanned. Thirty-three relevant studies were identified of which 15 were eligi...
Research Interests: Quality of life, Social Support, Mental Retardation, Humans, Child, and 15 moreFemale, Male, Sample Size, Meta Analysis, Medical Care, Systematic review, Family Relations, Parents, Psychological distress, Sex Factors, Conduct Problems, Spina Bifida, Psychological Adjustment, Birth Defect, and Spinal Dysraphism
Page 1. Psychological Assessment: A Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 1991, Vol. 3, No. 2,182-187 Copyright J 991 by the Amei n Psychological Association, Inc. 1040-3590/91/J3.00 Factor Structure and Construct Validity of the... more
Page 1. Psychological Assessment: A Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 1991, Vol. 3, No. 2,182-187 Copyright J 991 by the Amei n Psychological Association, Inc. 1040-3590/91/J3.00 Factor Structure and Construct Validity of the Block ...
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This study examined the time Dutch mothers (N = 301) and fathers (N = 255) spend per day engaging in 4 activities (going somewhere, doing something, watching TV, and eating together) with their adolescent children both concurrently and 5... more
This study examined the time Dutch mothers (N = 301) and fathers (N = 255) spend per day engaging in 4 activities (going somewhere, doing something, watching TV, and eating together) with their adolescent children both concurrently and 5 years later. Also assessed was whether parent-child shared time was related to parent or child gender and whether age-related differences could be explained by adolescent pubertal status, family conflict, adolescent and parent work or volunteer hours, parental work stress, and adolescent computer use. Finally, the study examined whether family conflict predicted changes in shared time and whether shared time predicted changes in conflict. The findings showed that age changes depended on the activity and that pubertal status mediated age differences in TV viewing among mixed-gender parent-child pairs. Shared time during pre-, early, and mid-adolescence was linked to decreases in family conflict 5 years later.
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Research Interests: Psychology, Personality, Parenting, Adolescent, Multivariate Analysis, and 14 moreHumans, Adolescence, Personality Development, Female, Male, Child and Adolescent Psychology, Family Environment, Cluster Analysis, Follow-up studies, Netherlands, Social Adjustment, Adult, Personality Type, and Psychological Theory
Research Interests: Psychology, Parenting, Juvenile Delinquency, Social Support, Delinquency, and 20 moreAdolescent, Authoritarianism, Humans, Child, Effect size, Female, Male, Young Adult, Social Environment, Metaanalysis, Meta Analysis, Abnormal Child Psychology, Middle Aged, Abnormal, Adult, Parenting Style, Hostility, Child Rearing, Parent‐child Relations, and Nino
Research Interests: Psychology, Violence, Parenting, Juvenile Delinquency, Adolescent, and 21 moreAuthoritarianism, Humans, Child, Crime, Child Abuse, Male, Punishment, Cluster Analysis, Follow-up studies, Pennsylvania, Abnormal Child Psychology, Theft, Abnormal, Longitudinal Studies, Adult, Parenting Style, Parent‐child Relations, Adolescent Behavior, Predictive value of tests, Cohort Studies, and Severity of Illness Index
In this study links between spousal and parent-child relationships among Finnish (n = 157 couples) and Dutch (n = 276 couples) dual earners with young children were examined using paired questionnaire data. Variable-oriented analyses... more
In this study links between spousal and parent-child relationships among Finnish (n = 157 couples) and Dutch (n = 276 couples) dual earners with young children were examined using paired questionnaire data. Variable-oriented analyses (structural equation modeling with a multigroup procedure) supported the spillover hypothesis, as higher levels of satisfaction in the spousal relationship were related to higher quality in
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Research Interests: Psychology, Parenting, Personality Assessment, Young Adulthood, Self Control, and 22 moreAdolescent, Affect, Humans, Child, Aggression, Alcoholism, Female, Male, Young Adult, Family Functioning, Social Environment, Family Relations, Longitudinal Studies, Adult, Public health systems and services research, Longitudinal Study, Alcohol Abuse, Long Term Effect, Parent-Child Relationship, Alcohol Use, Parent‐child Relations, and Statistics as Topic
In many contemporary families, both parents are involved in paid work and family responsibilities. This creates challenges for the successful reconciliation of work and family. In this study, we examined whether and how the division of... more
In many contemporary families, both parents are involved in paid work and family responsibilities. This creates challenges for the successful reconciliation of work and family. In this study, we examined whether and how the division of paid work and unpaid work between partners is related to work–family interference. Analyses were based on survey data of 147 Finnish, 186 German, and 265 Dutch dual-earner couples with young children and show that there is no recipe for a division of paid work and unpaid work that ...