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dc.contributor.authorBesemer, KL
dc.contributor.authorDennison, SM
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-04T12:31:58Z
dc.date.available2019-07-04T12:31:58Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.issn1062-1024
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10826-018-1237-7
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/381093
dc.description.abstractParental imprisonment, and more recently other close family imprisonment, has been associated with long-term harms to children. A number of researchers have proposed that parenting stress caused by family imprisonment could impact on caregivers’ ability to offer a secure parent–child relationship after a close family member is imprisoned. Such relationship problems might then mediate further harms to children. The Family Stress-Proximal Process (FSPP) model conceptualises family imprisonment as an ongoing stressor that influences relational processes in families. Using HILDA, a nationally-representative Australian survey, we test key aspects of this theoretical model for women affected by close family imprisonment. We demonstrate that recent close family imprisonment does indeed significantly increase risks of high maternal parenting stress. Women affected by this high parenting stress are also significantly more likely to report feeling less satisfied with their relationship with their child one year later. Nonetheless, only a third of women experiences high parenting stress after close family imprisonment. And, women who experience close family imprisonment without high parenting stress do not have a greater risk of subsequent relationship dissatisfaction. We conclude that the prevention or reduction of parenting stress in families affected by close family imprisonment could have a protective effect on subsequent mother-child relationships.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.publisher.placeUnited States
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom1
dc.relation.ispartofpageto12
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Child and Family Studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHealth services and systems
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPublic health
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCriminology not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPsychology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLinguistics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4203
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4206
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode440299
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode52
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4704
dc.titleFamily Imprisonment, Maternal Parenting Stress and Its Impact on Mother-Child Relationship Satisfaction
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
gro.description.notepublicThis publication has been entered into Griffith Research Online as an Advanced Online Version.
gro.rights.copyright© 2018 Springer Netherlands. This is an electronic version of an article published in Journal of Child and Family Studies, pp 1–12, 2018. Journal of Child and Family Studies is available online at: http://link.springer.com/ with the open URL of your article.
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gro.griffith.authorDennison, Susan M.
gro.griffith.authorBesemer, Kirsten L.


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