Family Hardiness and Parent and Family Functioning in Households with Children Experiencing Adverse Life Conditions: a Meta-Analysis

Overview

Journal Int J Psychol Res (Medellin)

Specialty Psychology

Date 2022 Jan 31

PMID 35096359

Authors

Carl J Dunst

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Abstract

Objective: The purposes of the meta-analysis were to evaluate the relationship between family hardiness and diﬀerent dimensions of parent and family functioning in households experiencing adverse child or family life events and circumstances and determine if family hardiness had either or both stress-buﬀering and healthenhancing eﬀects on parent and family functioning.

Method: Studies were included if the correlations between family hardiness and diﬀerent dimensions of parental or family functioning were reported. The synthesis included 53 studies (N = 4418 participants) conducted in nine countries between 1992 and 2017.

Results: showed that family hardiness was related to less parental stress, anxiety/depression, and parenting burden/demands and positively related to parental global health, well-being, and parenting practices. Results also showed that family hardiness was negatively related to family stress and positively related to family life satisfaction, adaptation, and cohesion. The eﬀects sizes between family hardiness and positive parent and family functioning indicators were larger than those for stress-buﬀering indicators. Child and family life events and child age moderated the relationship between family hardiness and family but not parental functioning.

Conclusion: The results are consistent with the hypothesis that family hardiness is an internal resource that simultaneously has stress-buﬀering and health-enhancing eﬀects on parent and family functioning.

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