• 407-01 - Parent Weight-related Conversations: Helpful or Harmful? Presented by: Jerica Mohlman-Berge (WAS FORMERLY POSTER 416-16 FS ON SATURDAY, 10:45 AM)
• 407-02 - Parenting, Anger Regulation and Adjustment in Low-income Urban Youth Presented by: Benjamin Houltberg, Amanda Morris, Lixian Cui (WAS FORMERLY POSTER 416-17 FS ON SATURDAY, 10:45 AM)
• 407-03 - Transition to Parenthood: Stress, Co-parenting, and Relationship Quality
  Presented by: Jared A. Durtschi, Kristy L. Soloski

• 407-01 - The Content of Father Stereotypes
  Presented by: Melinda Markham, Jessica Troilo, Marilyn Coleman, Larry Ganong, Ghadir Khalil (NOW PRESENTED AS POSTER #303-27A ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 8:00 AM)
• 407-02 - Defining Divorced Nonresidential Father Involvement: A Qualitative Study
  Presented by: Jessica Troilo, Marilyn Coleman (NOW PRESENTED AS POSTER #303-27B ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 8:00 AM)

Abstracts

Parent Weight-related Conversations: Helpful or Harmful?

Presented by: Jerica Mohlman-Berge

Little is known about whether parent weight conversations (e.g. conversations about healthy eating, comments on child's weight/size) have the same negative effects on adolescent health behaviors as weight teasing. This poster reports results examining associations between parent weight conversations and adolescent weight and health behaviors. Adolescents whose parents talked with them about healthy eating and physical activity had more healthy dietary intake and fewer sedentary behaviors. In contrast, adolescents whose parents talked with them about weight/size or losing weight engaged in less physical activity, utilized more unhealthy weight control behaviors and had higher levels of depression, lower body satisfaction, and lower self-esteem.

Parenting, Anger Regulation and Adjustment in Low-income Urban Youth

Presented by: Benjamin Houltberg, Amanda Morris, Lixian Cui

Data were collected from 84 children from an urban southern city located in disadvantaged communities. In this study we examine youth perceptions of anger regulation and reactivity as possible mediators between parenting and children's adjustment. In the final model, responsive and inconsistent discipline behaviors were associated with antisocial and prosocial behaviors in different ways. Responsive parenting was only related to prosocial behavior (directly and indirectly through anger regulation) while inconsistent parenting was associated to antisocial behavior, both directly and indirectly through anger reactivity. The patterns of associations in the model remained after controlling for age and gender.

Transition to Parenthood: Stress, Co-parenting, and Relationship Quality

Presented by: Jared A. Durtschi, Kristy L. Soloski

Couples often experience increased stress as they adjust to their parental roles and balance the needs of their romantic relationship. We studied the impact of parental stress and the coparental relationship on relationship quality, using a sample of 768 couples across four years from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study. Direct effects from parental stress and coparenting were found on relationship quality for mothers and fathers. Also, stronger coparental relationships significantly reduced the negative impact of parental stress on relationship quality. Finally, changes in trajectories of parents' relationship quality were significantly predicted by changes in parental stress and coparenting.