Today’s articles all related to families. First, Blake et al. (2023) published “Intergenerational patterns of attachment in custodial grandfamilies” in Journal of Family Psychology. Here’s the edited abstract:

The present study aimed to identify intergenerational patterns of attachment insecurity among grandmothers, adolescent grandchildren, and birth mothers in custodial grandfamilies and to test the relations among triadic attachment patterns and grandchild socioemotional outcomes.

Today, I address two studies relating to older adults. First, Pfund, Strecher, Kross & Hill (2023) published “Sense of Purpose and Strategies for Coping with Anxiety Across Adulthood” in GeroPsych: The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry. Here’s the edited abstract:

Once again, I present three studies on very different topics, but each for me was a helpful correction to my own assumptions. First, Salmerón, Altamura, Delgado, Karagiorgi & Vargas (2023) published “Reading Comprehension on Handheld Devices Versus on Paper: A narrative review and meta-analysis of the medium effect and its moderators” in Journal of Educational Psychology. Here are the edited abstract and impact statements with my own added bold:

Today, I present three studies that involve important relationships. First, Laugen, Kårstad, Reinfjell & Wichstrøm (2023) published “The Development of Emotion Understanding in Children: The importance of parents, teachers, and peers” in Developmental Psychology. Here are the edited abstract and impact statements:

Cohen et al. (2023) published “Relative Brain Age is Associated with Socioeconomic Status and Anxiety/Depression Problems in Youth” in Developmental Psychology. Here are the edited abstract and impact statements:

Brain age, a measure of biological aging in the brain, has been linked to psychiatric illness, principally in adult populations.

All three studies of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) addressed here are from the same journal. Estimates of the frequency of BPD range from 1.4% to over 5%, with most sources saying that 75% of BPD patients are female, while noting that men with BPD may well be more often diagnosed with PTSD and depression. First, Aleva et al. (2023) published “Emotion Dysregulation in Young People with Borderline Personality Disorder: One pattern or distinct subgroups?” in Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment. Here’s the edited abstract:

Today I present two studies of how children respond to others. First, Sehl, Denison & Friedman (2023) published “Local or foreign? Flexibility in children’s preference for similar others” Developmental Psychology. Here’s the edited abstract and impact statement:

The two studies I address today both relate to benefits of healthy social relationships. First, Sahi et al. (2023) published “You Changed my Mind: Immediate and enduring impacts of social emotion regulation” in Emotion. Here’s the edited abstract:

As social creatures, our relationships with other people have tremendous downstream impacts on health

This is a long summary of an interesting article. Oliver & Midouhas (2023) published “Maternal Psychological Distress and Children’s Adjustment Problems: Mediation by household chaos” in Journal of Family Psychology. Here’s the highly edited article:

Today, I address two studies, the first of multiracial youth, the second of Hispanic youth. Christophe, Atkin, Williams, Quick, Wu & LOVING Study Collaborative (2023) published “Family-Based and External Discrimination Experienced by Multiracial Individuals: Links to internalizing symptoms and familial support” in Journal of Family Psychology. Here’s the edited abstract and impact statement:

The article I address today summarizes important research in a context in which many children are encountering much less supportive school experiences than we’d like. Brummelman & Sedikides (2023) published “Unequal selves in the classroom: Nature, origins, and consequences of socioeconomic disparities in children’s self-views” in Developmental Psychology. Here’s the edited abstract and impact statement:

Poor sleep quality is seen as related to a number of poor mental health outcomes. Here, I address three recent studies using different approaches to collecting data, identifying correlates, and recommending therapeutic interventions. First, Mansolf & Blackwell (2023 ) published “Sleep-Related Items on the School-Age CBCL and the PROMIS Sleep Disturbance 4-item short-form: A psychometric comparison from the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) program” in Psychological Assessment. Here’s the edited abstract and impact statement:

I found this article to be intriguing. It’s a long post but worth the read. Touloumakos, Vlachou & Papdatou-Pastou (2023) published “’Visual Type? Not My Type’: A systematic study on the learning styles neuromyth employing frequentist and Bayesian statistics” in Mind, Brain & Education. Here’s the highly edited article:

Today, I address three recent studies related to racism and trauma. First, Pieterse, Johnson & Carter (2023) published “The Relationship Between Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Race-Based Traumatic Stress” in Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. Here’s the edited abstract and impact statement:

Today, I present two articles related to youth homelessness. First, So, Davis, Barnes, Freese, Atella & Shlafer (2023) published “Health and Care Utilization among Youth with a History of Parental Incarceration and Homelessness” in Families, Systems, & Health. Here’s the edited abstract and impact statements:

Today, I focus on therapy and two studies examining cognition and affect. First, Stevens (2023) published “Revisiting the Cognitive Primacy Hypothesis: Implications for psychotherapy” in Journal of Psychotherapy Integration.  Here’s the edited abstract and impact statement:

Kroencke, Kuper, Mota, Geukes, Zeigler-Hill & Back (2023) published “Narcissistic Status Pursuit in Everyday Social Life: A within-person process approach to the behavioral and emotional dynamics of narcissism” in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.  Here’s the edited abstract:

Today, I address three articles that deal in different ways with dissociative behaviors. First, Carpenter, Hepp & Trull (2023) published “Pain Before, During, and After Nonsuicidal Self-Injury: Findings from a large web study” in Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science. Here’s the edited abstract and impact statement:

Today, I address a fascinating article on BPD subtypes. Wolf, Scharoba, Noack, Keller & Weidner (2023) published “Subtypes of Borderline Personality Disorder in a Day-Clinic Setting—Clinical and therapeutic differences” in Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment. Here’s the highly edited article with some bold:

Since the last post was long, this is a fun short one. Shaw (2023) published “What Makes Humans Smart?” in Harvard Magazine emphasizing the work of Joseph Henrich, a professor of biological anthropology. I love this updated look at sociobiology and think it has important implications for mental health professionals. Here’s the edited article: