OBJECTIVE Using the 2011-2012 National Survey of Children's Health data set, we compared spouse/partner relationships and parent-child relationships (family relationships), parenting stress, and children's general health, emotional difficulties, coping behavior, and learning behavior (child outcomes) in households of same-sex (female) versus different-sex continuously coupled parents with biolo...

OBJECTIVE To develop a measure of parenting stress related to caring for a child with an illness and to evaluate its psychometric properties with a group of parents of children with cancer. METHODS One hundred twenty-six parents (105 mothers, 21 fathers) of children (65 boys and 61 girls, M: age: 12.75 years) being followed by an oncology service were assessed using the 42-item self-report Pe...

The aim of the study was to investigate the perception of the family functioning in parents of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) with normal-range intelligence and the relationships between family functioning, parenting stress and quality of life. Dyads of parents of children with ASD without intellectual disability and parents of typically developing children (controls) completed a...

BACKGROUND Prenatal cocaine exposure is a marker of developmental risk. Social environmental risk factors may include maternal stress and maternal perceptions of difficult infant temperament. OBJECTIVES To examine factors that may predict or moderate maternal ratings of parenting stress and difficult temperament in cocaine-exposed (CE) infants. METHOD Neonatal behavior, infant temperament, ...

OBJECTIVES Few studies have explored the impact of different types of neglect on children's development. Measures of cognition, language, behavior, and parenting stress were used to explore differences between children experiencing various forms of neglect, as well as to compare children with and without a history of early neglect. METHODS Children, ages 3 to 10 years with a history of famili...

The present study was designed to assess and compare parenting stress and family burden in mothers of children with disabilities and children without disability. For this purpose, a multi group design was adopted which consisted of five groups of mothers viz. mothers of children with mental disability, mothers of children with both mental and physical disability, mothers of children with physic...

Previous research has shown that a positive marital functioning represents a resource in adoptive families, leading to a decrease in parenting stress, but little is known about the factors mediating such a relationship. This study aimed to explore whether adult attachment avoidance and anxiety mediate the effect of dyadic functioning on parenting stress in 90 internationally adoptive couples (m...

BACKGROUND Little research has been carried out on whether the parental stress affects children's oral health in general and dental caries in particular. This study aimed to investigate the association between parental stress and early childhood caries (ECC). METHODS A cross-sectional study was designed that included 250 children of 4-6 year-old; 127 ones attended the pediatric department of ...

Although stepmothering is a common undertaking in American families, little research has investigated the mental health consequences, and their correlates, associated with adopting a stepmother role. To help fill this gap, the current study examines parenting stress and participants’ perceptions of their (step)children’s regard toward them and the family as mediators in the relation between par...

Positive parenting is hampered by social-contextual risks—lack of income, education, and support, as well as maternal mental illness—but current models do not examine the effect of each factor in concert with the others. Using structural equation modeling and a community sample (N 5 202) of African American mothers diagnosed with depression, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia, we examined the d...