Couples who
report less distress during the transition to parenthood are able to stay positive and give each other the benefit of the doubt that they can get through the initial strain of having a newborn.
Not exact matches
They are also
less likely to be happy because they need more help with skills of daily living, have poorer health and
report more symptoms of psychological
distress.
Although the Australian work of McIntosh (2010) found that infants under two who spent one night or more a week and toddlers who spend 10 days a month of overnight time in their non-primary caregiver's care are more irritable, more severely
distressed and insecure in their relationships with their primary parent,
less persistent at tasks, and more physically and emotionally stressed, this study has been largely discredited by a recently published consensus
report endorsed by 110 child development experts (Warshak, 2013), which found that McIntosh drew unwarranted conclusions from her unrepresentative and flawed data.
In a recent study, people
reported more mental
distress when the days were shorter and there was
less sunshine.
Teens who said their families were warm and caring also
reported less marijuana use and
less emotional
distress than their peers.
They were also
less likely to
report hostility,
distressing social interactions, and psychosomatic symptoms.
«Women in lesbian relationships, who
report partner empathy, also find premenstrual change
less distressing, and are better able to cope,» Ussher points out.
This group also
reported less fatigue and fewer headaches and backaches associated with
distress.
In a recent study, people
reported more mental
distress when the days were shorter and there was
less sunshine.
Caregivers have
reported reduced
distress and view their children's behaviors as
less dysfunctional.
As well as
reporting reduced symptoms of emotional
distress and difficult behaviour in their children, parents in counties where Triple P was delivered were also more likely to use appropriate discipline strategies, their levels of psychological
distress were
less and they were more likely to find parenting a good experience.
Parents
reporting higher levels of initial parental
distress had children who displayed more ODD - related symptoms on the Eyberg intensity scale at pretreatment, but made greater gains by follow - up than children of parents
reporting less initial parental
distress.
The caregivers who had been treated with TF - CBT also continued to
report less severe abuse - specific
distress during the follow - up period than those who had been treated with CCT.
64 %
less likely to have clinically - concerning levels of psychological
distress, based on self -
reports (14.0 % of Child FIRST mothers versus 39.0 % of the control group mothers).
The main hypotheses stated that couples from Sample 1 would
report less severe relationship violence than characterlogically violent couples from Sample 2, and would
report greater amounts of low - level violence than
distressed non-violent couples from Sample 2.
Having started the programme, children were relatively
less likely to complete it if they:
reported «abnormal» compared to «normal» levels of psychological
distress; were boys; were from lone parent families; lived in
less favourable socioeconomic circumstances; and had participated in a relatively large MEND programme group; or where managers had run more programmes.
Couples with successful ART have been
reported to show greater marital cohesion (e.g. a mutual feeling of being a couple, sharing things and ideas)(Slade et al., 1997),
less marital
distress (Benazon et al., 1992), to experience their relationships with their partners in a more positive way (Strauss et al., 1992) and to have more stable relationships (Sydsjö et al., 2002) than couples experiencing spontaneous pregnancy.
This means that participants
reported less parental
distress than they may actually be experiencing.
Mothers
reported greater experiences of emotional
distress,
less employment, greater child involvement, and sense of responsibility for their child's behaviour.