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Thursday, 1:40 PM - 3:10 PM
Risk and Resilience Processes in Minoritized and Marginalized Families during Pregnancy, Infancy, and Early Childhood
Families who are marginalized due to poverty, residential instability, and minoritized racial/ethnic identities are at particularly high risk for intergenerational transmission of adversity and mental health problems from parents to children. At the same time, the pregnancy, infancy, and early childhood periods are transformative windows to leverage resilience processes that support disadvantaged parents in maintaining positive mental health and effective parenting. This symposium will present cutting-edge, multi-method findings on resilience processes in underserved families. The first paper identifies resilience factors mitigating the intergenerational transmission of teen pregnancy from mothers to daughters in a large sample of minoritized, marginalized families affected by residential instability. The second paper leverages a rare dataset of parents and infants experiencing homelessness to illustrate that parental social support protects against the effects of parental childhood adversity and predicts higher parental responsiveness to infants. The third paper shows that higher levels of parental benevolent childhood experiences (BCEs), which are safe and supportive relationships and household resources, are associated with parents’ ability to maintain family routines and effective parenting with their preschoolers while experiencing homelessness. Finally, the fourth paper identifies lower parental hostile attribution biases towards children as a link between parents’ lower childhood adversity and warm, effective parenting in a separate sample of houseless families with preschoolers. A world-renowned child resilience researcher will moderate the paper discussion. Presenters include the team that developed the Benevolent Childhood Experiences Scale, the most commonly used instrument to assess positive childhood experiences around the world.
Paper #1 | |
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Title | Different Dimensions of Childhood Experiences Influence Intergenerational Teenage Pregnancy/Childbirth in Marginalized Families |
Presenting author | Jillian Merrick, Pritzker Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, United States |
Paper #2 | |
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Title | Resilience in Infants Experiencing Homelessness: Parent Adversity and Social Support in Minoritized and Marginalized Families |
Presenting author | Janette E. Herbers, Ph.D., Villanova University, United States |
Paper #3 | |
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Title | Benevolent Childhood Experiences Moderate Intergenerational Transmission of Household Predictability for Families Experiencing Homelessness |
Presenting author | Hopewell Hodges, University of Minnesota – Institute of Child Development, United States |
Paper #4 | |
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Title | Parental Attributional Biases as Malleable Targets to Strengthen Parenting in Minoritized Homeless Families with Preschoolers |
Presenting author | Angela J. Narayan, University of Denver Department of Psychology, United States |
Session chairs |
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Ann S. Masten, Ph.D., University of Minnesota – Institute of Child Development, United States; Hopewell Hodges, , United States |
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Risk and Resilience Processes in Minoritized and Marginalized Families during Pregnancy, Infancy, and Early Childhood
Description
Primary Panel | Panel 9. Family Context & Processes |
Session Type | Paper Symposium |
Session Location | Level 2 - Minneapolis Convention Center |