OBJECTIVE To examine whether depressed mood and anger mediate the effects of sexual abuse and family conflict/violence on self-injurious behavior and substance use. METHODS A cross-sectional national survey was conducted including 9,085 16-19 year old students attending all high schools in Iceland in 2004. Participants reported frequency of sexual abuse, family conflict/violence, self-injurio...

Previous research has found that employed mothers experience conflict between the roles of mother and employee, and that interrole conflict is negatively correlated with marital adjustment. Furthermore, research has shown that social support and personality hardiness moderate the interrole conflict/marital adjustment reiationship. However, a longitudinal assessment of the effect of interrole co...

OBJECTIVE To test adherence to blood glucose monitoring (BGM) as a mediator between diabetes-specific family conflict and glycemic control (hemoglobin A(1c) [HbA(1c)] levels) for 1 year. DESIGN Three waves of prospective data spanning 1 year. SETTING Diabetes clinic in a large tertiary care children's hospital in the Midwestern United States. PARTICIPANTS One hundred forty-five dyads comp...

the aim of this study was to compare marital satisfaction between parents of children with attention deficit hyper activity disorder (adhd) and parents of normal children.in this study we have selected 400 parents (200 parents of children with adhd and 200 parents of normal children), whose children age range was 6-18 years. data were collected using enrich marital satisfaction questionnaire, k...

The study provided validity evidence for a fourfold taxonomy of work-family balance that comprises direction of influence (work to family vs. family to work) and types of effect (work-family conflict vs. work-family facilitation). Data were collected from 189 employed parents in China. The results obtained from a confirmatory factor analysis supported the factorial validity of the fourfold taxo...

This study explored the relations between aspects of family functioning (parent-child relationship, family and self-expressiveness, and interparental conflict) and young adults’ patterns of anger expression. Contrary to the hypothesis that family and self-expressiveness would be related to interparental conflict, the results suggested that young adults’retrospective reports of interparental con...