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ArticleJournal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43)2025

Family stress model and parenting in infancy: Social support and parenting self-efficacy as resilience factors.

Yu Chen, Caitlin F Canfield, Eric D Finegood, Juliana Gutierrez, Shanna Williams, Lauren K O'Connell, Alan Mendelsohn

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Article in Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Family stress model pathways to cognitive function in older adulthood.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2026
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7 authors.

Yu ChenDepartment of Pediatrics, New York University Grossman School of Medicine.ORCID 0000-0002-5159-3382
Caitlin F CanfieldDepartment of Pediatrics, New York University Grossman School of Medicine.
Eric D FinegoodCharles Stewart Mott Department of Public Health, Michigan State University, College of Human Medicine.
Juliana GutierrezDepartment of Pediatrics, New York University Grossman School of Medicine.
Shanna WilliamsHurley Medical Center, Hurley Children's Hospital.
Lauren K O'ConnellDepartment of Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics, Charles Stewart Mott Children's Hospital, University of Michigan.ORCID 0000-0003-0215-7223
Alan MendelsohnDepartment of Pediatrics, New York University Grossman School of Medicine.

Funding

Universal strengths-based parenting support in pediatric health care for families with very young children following the Flint Water CrisisR01HD096909 · NICHD · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI Caitlin Ford Canfield, Eric D Finegood · 2019 to 2026
$4.2M
Annenberg Foundation-Institutes of HealthBen F. Bryer FoundationCommunity Foundation of Greater FlintHagerman FoundationKiwanis Club of FlintNational Institute of Child Health and Human DevelopmentNICHD NIH HHS R01 HD096909
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

According to the family stress model (FSM), economic stressors undermine optimal child development through negative impacts on parent psychological well-being and family relationships, which in turn disrupt positive parenting. However, few studies have examined the role of interparental conflict among these pathways and the resilience factors that buffer the FSM processes. Understanding risk and resilience is especially relevant for families in Flint, MI, for whom poverty resulting from structural racism and chronic disinvestment has coincided with public health crises. Using 199 families from low socioeconomic backgrounds in an ongoing parenting intervention in Flint, this study examined whether parent psychological distress and interparental conflict mediated the association between economic pressure at baseline (around birth) and cognitive stimulation at 9 months, and whether parenting self-efficacy and social support moderated the sequential mediation. Data were collected through parent interviews at both time points. We found that the negative association between economic pressure at baseline and cognitive stimulation at 9 months was sequentially mediated by parent psychological distress and interparental conflict. Furthermore, this negative sequential mediation was reduced and became nonsignificant when parents reported higher levels of parenting self-efficacy and social support. These findings suggest that improving interparental relationships in addition to parent mental health may promote positive parenting in at-risk two-parent families and that strength-based interventions are needed to reinforce parenting self-efficacy and facilitate parents' social networks and connections with the community to foster positive parenting. Programs should address these issues during infancy to build a strong foundation for long-term healthy development. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

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Family ConflictParentingParentsResilience, PsychologicalSelf EfficacySocial SupportStress, PsychologicalAdultFemaleHumansInfantMalePovertyPsychological Distress

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PMCPMC12356486

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