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Stress and child development: a review of the Family Stress Model

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Masarik, April S, Conger, Rand D·2017·Current Opinion in Psychology
DOI 10.1016/j.copsyc.2016.05.008
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In the present report, we provide an illustrative review of the Family Stress Model (FSM) framework [1] to understand how family stress influences children across development in physical, social-emotional, and cognitive domains. We note that the FSM as a theory has evolved through inspection of: (a) new explanatory pathways (mediators); (b) factors that moderate FSM pathways; and (c) joint tests of competing models. Also important, most researchers cited in this review used longitudinal designs to test the proposed causal ordering of FSM pathways, which replicated among a diverse set of families varied in structure, ethnic background, and geographic location. We encourage continued FSM scholarship with prevention and intervention efforts in mind.

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  • Parenting is influenced by perceptions and beliefs about parenting itself and by the level of parental stress.

    “Parenting is influenced by perceptions and beliefs about parenting itself [24, 26] and the level of parental stress [27, 28].”

    From Socioeconomic position, family context, and child cognitive development (2024) · cites this paper as [28]

  • The family stress model shows that more stressed parents have greater difficulties in providing good-quality cognitive and socioemotional scaffolding and subsequently promoting cognition.

    “Both factors seem to be involved in the family stress model, which shows that more stressed parents have greater difficulties in providing good-quality cognitive and socioemotional scaffolding [29] and, subsequently, promoting cognition [28].”

    From Socioeconomic position, family context, and child cognitive development (2024) · cites this paper as [28]

  • Parental stress has been previously linked to scarcity of resources.

    “Parental stress has also been previously linked to scarcity of resources [28]”

    From Socioeconomic position, family context, and child cognitive development (2024) · cites this paper as [28]

  • The family stress model seems to be related to child development.

    “The family stress model seems to be related to child development [20, 28, 53].”

    From Socioeconomic position, family context, and child cognitive development (2024) · cites this paper as [28]

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Authors
Masarik, A. S., & Conger, R. D.
Affiliations
  • Boise State University (US)
  • University of California, Davis (US)
Corresponding author
Masarik, April S
ORCID
Masarik, April S
Venue
Current Opinion in Psychology
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2017-02
Volume
13
Pages
85-90
ISSN
2352-250X (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.copsyc.2016.05.008
OpenAlex
W2395333007
Cited by
1,190
References
41
Citations by year
2026: 204 · 2025: 224 · 2024: 176 · 2023: 178 · 2022: 150 · 2021: 111 · 2020: 80 · 2019: 44 · 2018: 15 · 2017: 7
FWCI
3.26
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
  • Current Opinion in Psychology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Scholar Works (Boise State University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Social Sciences › Demography › Family Dynamics and Relationships
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
Keywords
family stress model, family stress, child development, social-emotional development, cognitive development, physical development, mediation pathways, moderation, causal pathways, family structure, prevention and intervention

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