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Parental conflict is a well-established predictor of child maladjustment. Most research, however, has not considered how the couple’s positivity–negativity interaction ratio (i.e., the ability to compensate for negative behaviors with positive) may be linked with child adjustment. We examined interparental positivity–negativity interaction ratios r...
According to family systems theory, a family is regarded as an organized whole and relations within this system are interconnected. However, it is not clear to date whether the interparental and the sibling relationship are associated and, if such an association exists, whether it is positive or negative. Previous findings on the associations betwe...
Scientific evidence has shown that healthcare clowning can decrease the level of stress and anxiety in pediatric patients. However, little attention has been devoted to the potentially beneficial impact of clown visits in the child and adolescent psychiatry setting. Therefore, this pilot study aims at investigating short-term effects of clown visit...
Die Entscheidung für eine außerfamiliäre Kinderbetreuung in der Kita löst bei vielen Eltern Verunsicherung aus. Sie fragen sich, ob, ab wann und wie häufig ihr Kind in der Kita betreut werden soll und was es für einen gelingen Kita-Besuch zu beachten gilt.
Dieses Buch richtet sich an Eltern und andere Bezugspersonen von Kindern, die sich auf die K...
Globally, parents and children in same-sex parent families are impacted by many laws related to the parental sexual orientation. These laws vary considerably from one country to another, ranging from full legal recognition to criminalization. The psychological consequences of living in an ambiguous or hostile legal climate likely interfere with par...
Das Konzept der Resilienz hat in der psychologischen Forschung in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten zunehmend an Bedeutung gewonnen, weil es jenseits der aus der Risikoforschung gewonnenen Erkenntnisse einen entscheidenden Beitrag zum Verständnis gesunder Entwicklungsprozesse von Kindern und Jugendlichen leistet. Resilienz ist kein starres, über die Lebe...
Preregistration for secondary data analysis: https://osf.io/hqtga
Preregistration for secondary data analysis: https://osf.io/ar2vh
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is among the most common mental disorders in children and adolescents. While most studies in this field have focused on the genetic and neurobiological underpinnings of the disorder, research focusing on the family environment as a critical context contributing toward the manifestation and maintenance...
Parental psychological control is an intrusive form of parenting used to control the child's beliefs and behavior, which can have long-term negative effects on the child's psychological and autonomy development. The influence may be particularly apparent during adolescence, although there is relatively little research on parental psychological cont...
Preregistration of an EMA-Study with the goal of investigating fear of positive evaluation and emotion regulation in adolescents' daily life
Previous research has shown that interparental and parent-child interactions are key predictors of child adjustment, but little is known about the joint predictive power of these family factors with regard to the development of children’s internalizing and externalizing problems. The aims of the present study are (1) to examine the codevelopment of...
Study protocol for a scoping review on the role of companion animals and animal-assisted interventions in the lives of LGBTQ+ people.
Project page: https://osf.io/yg5vk/
CRediT (protocol):
Conceptualization: MS, VG, MW, SF, AEG, PK, MZ
Methodology: MS
Data Curation: MS, VG, MW, PK
Writing – Original Draft: MS
Writing – Review & Editing: MZ, AEG,...
Lesbische, schwule, bisexuelle, transgender, queere und andere Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene mit diversen sexuellen Orientierungen und Geschlechtsidentitäten (LGBTQ*) sind besonders vulnerabel in Bezug auf psychische Belastungen. Diese Vulnerabilität ist auf minderheitenspezifische Stressfaktoren, wie etwa Diskriminierung oder Verinnerlichung ne...
Repeated admission of children and adolescents to psychiatric inpatient care is an undesirable health care outcome, not only because it is preceded in most cases by acute crises, but also due to the severe distress for patients and their families as well as the high societal costs associated with inpatient care. With the increasing efforts for earl...
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common mental disorders in childhood and adolescence. The child's ADHD symptoms are associated with increased stress levels for parents. Previous research has shown that par-enting stress has a negative impact on parental relationship quality, but those negative effects can be mitig...
The COVID-19 pandemic had and still has far-reaching effects on psychological well-being as well as societal and private life in Austria. Due to short-time work, school closures, and limited childcare services, stronger shifts toward "traditional" role distributions in household and childcare were expected. In the early months of the 2020 pandemic,...
Following the global outbreak of COVID-19 in March 2020, individuals report psychological distress associated with the “new normal”—social distancing, financial hardships, and increased responsibilities while working from home. Given the interpersonal nature of stress and coping responses between romantic partners, based on the systemic transac�tio...
A robust body of international evidence documents that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender,
and other youth with diverse sexual orientations and/or gender identities (i.e., sexual and gender minority youth) face unique mental health vulnerabilities but are also equipped with unique resources. However, it is unclear to what extent these findings are...
Durchschnittlich sind ein bis zwei Schüler*innen pro Schulklasse von der Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit-/Hyperaktivitätsstörung (ADHS) betroffen. Diese Schüler*innen profitieren von effektiven Klassenmanagement-Interventionen durch Lehrpersonen, die aber oftmals nicht in die Unterrichtspraxis transferiert werden. In der vorliegenden Studie wurde an einer ö...
In recent years, fear of positive evaluation has emerged as one of the key aspects of social anxiety, alongside fear of negative evaluation. Fears of evaluation intensify during adolescence, a time when individuals are expected to navigate new, emotionally challenging situations. The purpose of this study was to examine the associations between soc...
The present study was aimed at examining the level of agreement between parent and
child perceptions of sibling and peer bullying (victimization and perpetration), and investigating whether any differential associations with child emotional and conduct problems could be identified across raters. The actor-partner interdependence model (APIM) was ut...
Hintergrund: Virtual Reality (VR) wird zunehmend als Hilfsmittel für psychologische Interventionen eingesetzt. Auch für sozial-emotionale Fähigkeiten kann VR realitätsnahe Übungsszenarien kreieren. Fragestellung: Dieses systematische Review gibt einen Überblick über den aktuellen Forschungsstand zu VR-Trainings sozial-emotionaler Fähigkeiten. Metho...
Background:
Parents and children in LGBTQ+ parent families face unique stressors (i.e., minority stress), but also possess unique resources (i.e., positive identity aspects) related to their family identity. Empirical evidence and theory suggest that these minority stressors and positive identity aspects are situated on the individual, couple, and...
Theoretischer Hintergrund & Fragestellung:
Früheren Forschungsbefunden zufolge hat ein erhöhtes Stresslevel der Eltern einen negativen Effekt auf die Partnerschaftsqualität. Dieser negative Effekt kann jedoch durch dyadisches Coping, die partnerschaftliche Stressbewältigung, moderiert werden. Während positives dyadisches Coping ein Prädiktor für P...
Objective
The family remains one of the most important relationship systems into early adulthood and provides an important foundation for lifelong mental health. Dysfunctional family cohesion can promote adjustment problems in adolescents and might also affect adolescents’ self-concept and strategies for coping with emotional distress. To test thes...
A robust body of international evidence documents that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and other youth with diverse sexual orientations and/or gender identities (i.e., sexual and gender minority youth) face unique mental health vulnerabilities but are also equipped with unique resources. However, it is unclear to what extent these findings are...
Investigations into the intimate relationships of sexual minorities are proliferating, but often adopt a deficit-oriented and US-centered perspective. In this tri-nation online study with sexual minority participants from Austria, Germany, and Switzerland (N = 571), we (i) assessed the construct validity of the German version of a well-known measur...
Background: Parents and children in LGBTQ+ parent families face unique stressors (i.e., minority stress), but also possess unique resources (i.e., positive identity aspects) related to their family identity. Empirical evidence and theory suggest that these minority stressors and positive identity aspects are situated on the individual-, couple-, an...
Hintergrund: Virtual Reality (VR) wird zunehmend als Hilfsmittel für psychologische Interventionen eingesetzt. Auch für sozial-emotionale Fähigkeiten kann VR realitätsnahe Übungsszenarien kreieren. Fragestellung: Dieses systematische Review gibt einen Überblick über den aktuellen Forschungsstand zu VR-Trainings sozial-emotionaler Fähigkeiten. Metho...
Background: The Adult Dyspraxia/DCD Checklist (ADC) is the only existing self-report questionnaire to screen adults for potential Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD). It was developed in English and Hebrew, however, its factor structure has not yet been assessed.
Aims: The goals of the current study were to (1) develop and refine a German tr...
Background
Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) is a common neurodevelopmental disorder primarily characterized by fine and gross motor coordination difficulties. Yet, many aspects remain unclear regarding the clinical presentation of secondary symptoms and their implications for Clinical Psychology. Therefore, the purpose of this review is to...
Investigations into the intimate relationships of sexual minorities are proliferating, but often adopt a deficit-oriented and US-centered perspective. In this tri-nation online study with sexual minority participants from Austria, Germany, and Switzerland (N = 571), we (i) assessed the construct validity of the German version of a well-known measur...
Objective: Individuals with diverse sexual and gender orientations (i.e., identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexual, non-binary, transgender, or otherwise as non-heterosexual or non cis-gender) are particularly vulnerable to the adverse psychosocial ramifications of COVID-19-related control measures such as lockdowns, social distancing, and sh...
OBJECTIVE: To systematically summarize the content and statistically aggregate the empirical literature on the association of the parent-child relationship (PCR) with child shame and and guilt affects. HYPOTHESES: H1: Negative PCR --> shame and maladaptive guilt; H2: Positive PCR --> adaptive guilt. RESULTS: Family environment is a correlate of sel...
Preliminary results from an ongoing longitudinal project on the associations between fear of positive evaluation, emotion dysregulation, and social anxiety in an adolescent sample.
Theoretischer Hintergrund & Fragestellung:
Früheren Forschungsbefunden zufolge hat ein erhöhtes Stresslevel der Eltern einen negativen Effekt auf die Partnerschaftsqualität. Dieser negative Effekt kann jedoch durch dyadisches Coping, die partnerschaftliche Stressbewältigung, moderiert werden. Während positives dyadisches Coping ein Prädiktor für Pa...
Longitudinal psychological research on family outcomes provides crucial information about families in a changing society, but an evidence synthesis for Austria is currently lacking. Therefore, we aim to summarize psychological longitudinal research on family-related outcomes in Austria using a scoping review approach. Adhering to PRISMA guidelines,...
We would like to express our concern regarding the recently published study in European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry by Karl Sallin, Kathinka Evers, Håkan Jarbin, Lars Joelsson, and Predrag Petrovic entitled “ Separation and not residency permit restores function in resignation syndrome: a retrospective cohort study ”.
Zusammenfassung. Theoretischer Hintergrund: Die Familie stellt in Krisen einen zentralen Schutzfaktor für Jugendliche dar. Fragestellung: Diese Studie untersuchte die Zusammenhänge zwischen familiärer Unterstützung, der Sorge um die Gesundheit anderer und der psychischen Belastung von Jugendlichen. Methode: Daten einer Online-Studie zum Ende des 1....
**Advanced Author Manuscript available on PsychArchives. For upcoming publication in Clinical Psychology in Europe**
Background: Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) is a common neurodevelopmental disorder primarily characterized by fine and gross motor coordination difficulties. Yet, many aspects remain unclear regarding the clinical present...
Die Bindungstheorie und die Befunde der Bindungsforschung haben das Wissen über die gesunde psychische Entwicklung von Kindern und Jugendlichen grundlegend geprägt. Die aufmerksame Wahrnehmung und feinfühlige Beantwortung von kindlichen Bindungsbedürfnissen durch die primären Bezugspersonen bilden das Fundament für die Entwicklung von zentralen Res...
Theoretical background: The COVID-19 pandemic led to widespread limitations in adolescents’ daily life, inclusive school closures, and thus to negative effects on their mental health in German-speaking countries from spring 2020 onwards. Objective: This study examined the associations between family support, psychological distress, and concern for...
Bullying across the sibling, peer, and cyber context has consistently been associated with a range of long-term health and well-being consequences for children and adolescents. Although research examining different bullying forms simultaneously in the same study are emerging, it remains unclear to what extend sibling, peer, and cyber bullying co-oc...
Students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) often experience school-related difficulties. Although evidence-based classroom management strategies (CMS) are known to alleviate such problems, they are rarely implemented. The current study examined whether a path model including variables influencing the use of effective CMS develope...
Background: Systemic therapy is a widespread evidence-based psychotherapy approach. Its main goal revolves around the concept of viewing mental symptoms within the context of social systems (e.g., families, couples). Systematic reviews and meta-analyses have confirmed that systemic therapy significantly reduces symptom severity of DSM- or ICD-diagn...
Objective: To summarize psychological longitudinal research (including population, method, and design characteristics) on family-related outcomes in Austria using a scoping review approach.Background: Evidence-based family policy and practice rely on country-specific research and evidence syntheses to aid in decision making. Longitudinal psychologi...
Following the global outbreak of COVID-19 in March 2020, individuals report psychological distress associated with the “new normal”—social distancing, financial hardships, and increased responsibilities while working from home. Given the interpersonal nature of stress and coping responses between romantic partners, based on the systemic transaction...
In dyadic interaction, a verbal focus on one individual (“you-talk”, “I-talk”), rather than on the couple (“we-talk”) has predominantly been linked to dysfunctional relationship processes. However, context differences in these links have not yet been systematically examined. Is it functional to asymmetrically focus on one partner during support int...
Relationship science contends that the quality of couples’ communication predicts relationship satisfaction over time. Most studies testing these links have examined between-person associations, yet couple dynamics are also theorized at the within-person level: For a given couple, worsened communication is presumed to predict deteriorations in futu...
Our goal is to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of the published literature to date examining the relationship between the parent-child relationship and child shame and guilt.
Scientific evidence has shown that healthcare clowning can decrease the level of stress and negative emotions in pediatric patients. However, little attention has been devoted to potential positive impacts of clown visits in the child and adolescent psychiatry setting. Therefore, this pilot study aims at investigating short-term effects of clown vi...
Objective
Parenting during pandemic restrictions places extreme demands on everyday family life, leading to increased stress levels for parents and distressed parent-child interactions. This RCT aimed to investigate whether cognitive reappraisal and self-compassion are helpful emotion regulation (ER) strategies to reduce individual and parental str...
Objective. Parenting during pandemic restrictions places extreme demands on everyday family life, leading to increased stress levels for parents and distressed parent-child interactions. This RCT aimed to investigate whether cognitive reappraisal and self-compassion are helpful emotion regulation (ER) strategies to reduce individual and parental st...
Developmental Coordination Disorder and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder are unique neurodevelopmental disorders with overlaps in executive functions and motor control. The conditions co-occur in up to 50% of cases, raising questions of the pathological mechanisms of DCD versus ADHD. Few studies have examined these overlaps in adults with D...
Die COVID-19-Pandemie hat in Österreich im Frühjahr und im Herbst 2020 zu Schulschließungen geführt. In der Bevölkerung macht sich deswegen Unmut breit. Die rasch wandelbaren Meinungen im politischen Diskurs verunsichern zudem viele Menschen. Aus Verunsicherung wird schnell Einschüchterung. Wenn aber Menschen eingeschüchtert sind („chilling effect“...
Diabetes mellitus type I is a chronic disease, often diagnosed in childhood and associated with an increased risk of diabetes-related emotional and behavioral problems. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to investigate whether the quantity of parent-child time spent together is associated with fewer emotional and behavioral problems of the c...
Objective
To examine how constructiveness in interparental conflict affects mothers' perception of children's psychological and physical health and whether coparenting and positive parenting mediate these effects.
Background
Children exposed to high levels of interparental conflict are at elevated risk of developing health problems. However, previ...
Background: Previous research suggests that exposure to interparental conflict may affect children’s attention and memory performance, but few studies have examined this hypothesis experimentally.
Objective: The goal of this study is to address this gap by an experimental approach using audiotaped couple conflict simulations.
Method: School class...
Smartphone use among parents is rising sharply, as they seek connectedness with partners, friends and work during the sometimes detached times of parenthood. Since parents increasingly use smartphones while interacting with their children, there is growing research about the implications of parental smartphone for parent-child interactions. However...
Globally, parents and children in same-gender parent families are impacted by a multitude of laws related to parental sexual orientation. These sexual orientation laws vary considerably from one country to another, ranging from full legal recognition of the family structure in some countries to its criminalization in others. The psychological conse...
Die Familie ist die primäre Erziehungs-und Sozialisationsstätte, die das Kind in seiner Entwicklung stark und nachhaltig prägt. Dabei bildet die Partnerschaft der Eltern einen zentralen Dreh-und Angelpunkt des familiären Funktionierens (Zemp & Bodenmann, 2015). Ein harmonisches Familienklima ist nachweislich eine der wichtigsten Grundlagen für ein...
Die Qualität der elterlichen Partnerschaft und des Coparenting zählen zu den wichtigsten familiären Schutzfaktoren für die kindliche Entwicklung, wobei sie vielschichtig zusammenhängen. Aufgrund der unterschiedlichen Familiensysteme und -beziehungen könnten sich diese Zusammenhänge zwischen Kern-, Trennungs- und Stieffamilien unterscheiden, was bis...
Smartphone use among parents is rising sharply, as they seek connectedness with partners, friends and work during the sometimes detached times of parenthood. Since parents increasingly use smartphones while interacting with their children, there is growing research about the implications of parental smartphone use for parent-child interactions. How...
Dieses essential beleuchtet den aktuellen Kenntnisstand zur Inanspruchnahme öffentlicher Kindertagesbetreuung aus bindungstheoretischer Sicht. Es gibt Fachpersonen, die mit Familien arbeiten, einen Überblick und praktische Hinweise zum Thema. Die wissenschaftlichen Befunde zur Frage, ob die Betreuung in Kinderkrippen/Kitas negative Auswirkungen auf...
Die Feinfühligkeit (resp. Sensitivität) der primären Bezugspersonen ist eine Schlüsselvariable im Verständnis von Bindungserfahrungen und ihren Folgen für die Kindesentwicklung. Das Feinfühligkeitskonzept gründet im Wesentlichen auf den Untersuchungen von Mary Ainsworth (1977), die Feinfühligkeit als die Fähigkeit von Betreuungspersonen definierte,...
Bowlby (1969) veränderte im 20. Jahrhundert den Blick von Erwachsenen auf Kinder, indem er deutlich machte, dass unvorhersehbare und unkontrollierbare Trennungen von ihren vertrauten Bezugspersonen für kleine Kinder nicht ohne emotionale Konsequenzen für sie und die Beziehung zu ihren Eltern sind. So zeigte er, dass Kleinkinder, die für die Geburt...
Die wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse im Rahmen der Bindungstheorie von John Bowlby (1969, 1973) haben das Wissen über die Bedingungen für eine gesunde Kindesentwicklung über die letzten Jahrzehnte grundlegend geprägt. Durch frühkindliche Erfahrungen von Geborgenheit und Nähe von den primären Bezugspersonen gelangen Kinder zu der wichtigen Überzeugun...
Die bislang größte Datenbasis zur Untersuchung der Frage, wie sich außerfamiliäre Betreuung auf die Entwicklung von Kindern auswirkt, liefert eine Längsschnittstudie (1991–2007) des amerikanischen „NICHD Early Child Care Research Network“, bei der über 1.300 Kinder ab Geburt bis zur 6. Klassenstufe in verschiedenen Staaten der USA begleitet wurden....
Zusammengenommen deuten die bisherigen wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse darauf hin, dass Kinder, die ab einem frühen Alter und/oder während einem Großteil der Zeit im Kleinkindalter außerfamiliär betreut werden, ein höheres Risiko für spätere Verhaltensauffälligkeiten aufweisen und dieser Befund bleibt robust bis ins Jugendalter. Allerdings findet s...
Die zentrale Bedeutung der elterlichen Erziehung für die gesunde kindliche Entwicklung ist wissenschaftlich gut fundiert. Dahingegen ist die Literatur zu den Determinanten des elterlichen Erziehungsverhaltens weitaus spärlicher. Diese Übersichtsarbeit fasst den Kenntnisstand zur elterlichen Partnerschaft als wichtiger Einflussgröße für das Erziehun...
