s description): This study implements the Experience Sampling Method to collect in situ data on the daily emotions experienced in one-parent families. Parents and adolescents in 55 one-parent families will carry alarm watches and provide reports on their emotions at random times when signalled across two one-week periods. The underling hypothesis is that the well-being of adolescents in one-parent families is affected by the ongoing emotional states of the single parent. Within-family time-lag regression analyses will be employed to test the prediction that negative emotions which parents experience at their jobs or in other situations get carried over into interactions with their adolescent children, and that these negative emotions then get transmitted to the adolescent. Additional analyses will test the expectation that this transmission is related to higher rates of problem behaviors in adolescents. Lastly, the study will evaluate the prediction that this transmission is greatest in families where single-parents experience a large amount of stress, and is least in families where parents are able to use social support, withdrawal, or expressive leisure to curb the propagation of negative emotion.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)
Type
Small Research Grants (R03)
Project #
1R03HD035082-01
Application #
2026396
Study Section
Pediatrics Subcommittee (CHHD)
Project Start
1997-08-01
Project End
1999-07-31
Budget Start
1997-08-01
Budget End
1999-07-31
Support Year
1
Fiscal Year
1997
Total Cost
Indirect Cost
Name
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Department
Miscellaneous
Type
Schools of Earth Sciences/Natur
DUNS #
041544081
City
Champaign
State
IL
Country
United States
Zip Code
61820