Julie C. Laurin

Université de Montréal | UdeM · Department of Psychology

The transition to parenthood is marked by increased potential stressors and relationship satisfaction declines among new parents. Recently, it has been suggested that people with greater mindfulness perceived their environment as less stressful during difficult times in life, which in turn, is associated with greater relationship satisfaction. Acco...

Clinical trainees are especially prone to psychological distress. Mindfulness has shown to promote well-being among health care professionals, yet the mechanisms through which it reduces psychological distress are still uncertain. Self-determination theory suggests that mindfulness allows individuals to be more open and receptive to information fro...

Many couples transitioning into parenthood are at risk for dyadic adjustment declines. It is therefore important to explore key, theory-driven deterrents of enduring relationships during this period, as well as potential underlying mechanisms. This study examined the relationship between perceived conditional negative regard (i.e. a behavior that t...

The present study examined how toddler temperament (negative affectivity, effortful control, and surgency) and parent stress relate to parents’ use of autonomy support (AS) when making requests. Based on past studies pointing to parent stress and toddler difficult temperament as possible risk factors, we proposed a mediation model where toddler tem...

Introduction. The birth of a first child is a period full of wonder and excitement, as well as fatigue and stress. Research suggests that compared to nonparents, parents express less well-being and more couple hardship, and that this relationship is stronger for younger families (Nelson, Kushlev, & Lyubomirsky, 2014). Another novel reality of primi...

Introduction. Bidirectional influences characterize all family interactions. While the influence of parent’s relationship quality on children functioning is well documented in the developmental literature, children’s influence on parental relationship quality is often overlooked, especially with young children. The transition to parenthood requires...

The transition to parenthood is a salient period characterized by the emergence of the coparenting relationship. It is defined as the quality of coordination between parents in their new, renegotiated roles and in their parenting responsibilities, which together ensures the well-being of their child and family (Feinberg, Brown, & Kan, 2012). This i...

Introduction. Primiparous parents face the emergence of a wondrous and challenging novel coparenting relationship, which only includes the aspects of the parental relationship affecting the child and thus, includes the parents’ supportive or undermining communications and the way they manage parental responsibilities (Feinberg, 2003). Similarly, a...

Introduction: This research is examining the relationship between perceived conditional negative regard (Kanat-Maymon, Roth, Assor & Raizer, 2016) and couple satisfaction, as well as how stress mediates this link in new-parents couples. Interestingly, while autonomy need-thwarting has been shown to by influenced by stress within parent-child relati...

Context Controlling parenting (CP) is a disciplinary tactic with iatrogenic effects on children functioning (Pomerantz & Grolnick, 2009). Yet, children may react differently to different types of CP used (Soenens & Vansteenkiste, 2010). This study’s objective was to examine whether external and internal CP predicted distinct forms of toddlers’ nonc...

Motivational research conducted within self-determination theory suggests that autonomy-supportive (AS) parenting fosters rule internalization, while more controlling tactics hinder it. The goal of the present study is to examine how AS in a socialization context relates to toddlers’ internalization. Toddlers participated in a clean-up and a toy pr...

Background Most preschoolers growing up in western industrialized countries receive child care services (CCS) during the day, while their parents are at work. Meta-analytic data suggest that CCS represent a stressful experience for preschoolers. This may be because preschoolers have not yet developed the social skills necessary to cope with the new...

Clinical approaches that focus on the maintenance or improvement of couple relationships typically only target couple dyads. As such, these dyads are perceived as a relatively independent, separate therapeutic context from other family relational systems, including children. These relationships can strongly influence the relational quality of the c...

Objective: To determine if child-care services (CCS) at a population level can reduce social inequalities in academic performance until early adolescence. Methods: A 12-year population-based prospective cohort study of families with a newborn (n = 1269). Two CCS variables were estimated: "intensity" (low, moderate, and high number of hours) and...

We examined the distinct effects of early types of externally and internally controlling parenting (coercion and overprotection) on the development of childhood anxiety, while controlling for other important risk factors. Developmental trajectories of child anxiety were modeled from a Quebec representative sample (N = 2,120 children; 2.5- to 8-year...

Faculté des arts et des sciences Thèse présentée à la Faculté des études supérieures en vue de l'obtention du grade de Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.) en psychologie recherche et intervention option clinique Octobre, 2013