Staff View
Features of parent-child interaction as predictors of emotional, cognitive, and behavioral markers of resilience in children of alcoholics

Descriptive

TitleInfo
Title
Features of parent-child interaction as predictors of emotional, cognitive, and behavioral markers of resilience in children of alcoholics
Name (type = personal)
NamePart (type = family)
Haverfield
NamePart (type = given)
Marie C.
NamePart (type = date)
1983-
DisplayForm
Marie C. Haverfield
Role
RoleTerm (authority = RULIB)
author
Name (type = personal)
NamePart (type = family)
Theiss
NamePart (type = given)
Jennifer A.
DisplayForm
Jennifer A. Theiss
Affiliation
Advisory Committee
Role
RoleTerm (authority = RULIB)
chair
Name (type = personal)
NamePart (type = family)
Greene
NamePart (type = given)
Kathryn
DisplayForm
Kathryn Greene
Affiliation
Advisory Committee
Role
RoleTerm (authority = RULIB)
internal member
Name (type = personal)
NamePart (type = family)
Katz
NamePart (type = given)
Vikki S.
DisplayForm
Vikki S. Katz
Affiliation
Advisory Committee
Role
RoleTerm (authority = RULIB)
internal member
Name (type = personal)
NamePart (type = family)
McLaren
NamePart (type = given)
Rachel
DisplayForm
Rachel McLaren
Affiliation
Advisory Committee
Role
RoleTerm (authority = RULIB)
outside member
Name (type = corporate)
NamePart
Rutgers University
Role
RoleTerm (authority = RULIB)
degree grantor
Name (type = corporate)
NamePart
Graduate School - New Brunswick
Role
RoleTerm (authority = RULIB)
school
TypeOfResource
Text
Genre (authority = marcgt)
theses
OriginInfo
DateCreated (qualifier = exact)
2015
DateOther (qualifier = exact); (type = degree)
2015-05
CopyrightDate (encoding = w3cdtf); (qualifier = exact)
2015
Place
PlaceTerm (type = code)
xx
Language
LanguageTerm (authority = ISO639-2b); (type = code)
eng
Abstract (type = abstract)
Research in child development suggests that parental communication is one of the primary influences on children’s healthy adjustment and development of prosocial skills. Interactions between parents and children establish norms for how one is to manage emotion, develop a strong sense of self, and demonstrate social competence. In families of alcoholics, however, features of interaction between parents and children may have different outcomes. The communication environment in families of alcoholics can be characterized by conflict, neglect, and inconsistencies, which are often associated with emotional, cognitive, and behavioral challenges for children of alcoholics. Despite these challenging circumstances, some children of alcoholics manage to successfully adapt to the conditions in their family and become resilient in the face of adversity. This study considers how features of interpersonal communication in the family may act as a protective factor for children of alcoholics and facilitate resilience. The goals of this study are three-fold. First, the study sets out to gain a better understanding of adolescent resilience by examining emotion regulation ability, expressive self-efficacy, and impulsivity as markers of emotional, cognitive, and behavioral well-being. Second, the research draws on Baumrind’s (1991) parenting styles typology and Gottman’s (2001) Emotion Regulation Theory to examine responsiveness, control, emotion coaching, and emotion dismissing as features of parents’ communication behavior that predict adolescent resilience for children of alcoholics and children of non-alcoholic parents. Third, this study explores a variety of methods to assess resilience, extend existing communication constructs, and examine the extent to which features of parent-child communication and adolescent resilience differ between children of alcoholics and children of non-alcoholics. To address these goals, this study invited parent-adolescent dyads (30 from families with an alcoholic parent, 30 from families without an alcoholic parent) to participate in a study in which they completed self-report measures of the parent’s communication behavior and the adolescent’s resilience, adolescents’ heart rate variability was measured to account for physiological changes in emotion regulation, and both parent-adolescent dyads participated in two video-taped interactions that were later coded for various features of parent-child communication and markers of resilience. The results highlight the importance of parental communication in promoting adolescent resilience and point to some notable differences in these associations between families with an alcoholic parent and families without an alcoholic parent. These findings are discussed in terms of their implications for advancing the literature on family communication, promoting adolescent resilience, and responding to the challenging communication climate in families of alcoholics.
Subject (authority = RUETD)
Topic
Communication, Information and Library Studies
Subject (authority = ETD-LCSH)
Topic
Parent and child
Subject (authority = ETD-LCSH)
Topic
Children of alcoholics
Subject (authority = ETD-LCSH)
Topic
Child development
RelatedItem (type = host)
TitleInfo
Title
Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Identifier (type = RULIB)
ETD
Identifier
ETD_6289
PhysicalDescription
Form (authority = gmd)
electronic resource
InternetMediaType
application/pdf
InternetMediaType
text/xml
Extent
1 online resource (xi, 200 p. : ill.)
Note (type = degree)
Ph.D.
Note (type = bibliography)
Includes bibliographical references
Note (type = statement of responsibility)
by Marie C. Haverfield
RelatedItem (type = host)
TitleInfo
Title
Graduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Identifier (type = local)
rucore19991600001
Location
PhysicalLocation (authority = marcorg); (displayLabel = Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey)
NjNbRU
Identifier (type = doi)
doi:10.7282/T38917QC
Genre (authority = ExL-Esploro)
ETD doctoral
Back to the top

Rights

RightsDeclaration (ID = rulibRdec0006)
The author owns the copyright to this work.
RightsHolder (type = personal)
Name
FamilyName
Haverfield
GivenName
Marie
MiddleName
C.
Role
Copyright Holder
RightsEvent
Type
Permission or license
DateTime (encoding = w3cdtf); (qualifier = exact); (point = start)
2015-04-09 16:15:37
AssociatedEntity
Name
Marie Haverfield
Role
Copyright holder
Affiliation
Rutgers University. Graduate School - New Brunswick
AssociatedObject
Type
License
Name
Author Agreement License
Detail
I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
Copyright
Status
Copyright protected
Availability
Status
Open
Reason
Permission or license
Back to the top

Technical

RULTechMD (ID = TECHNICAL1)
ContentModel
ETD
OperatingSystem (VERSION = 5.1)
windows xp
Back to the top
Version 8.5.5
Rutgers University Libraries - Copyright ©2024