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In this student presentation, the focus is on resilience in cross cultural contexts as experienced by foster and adoptive families. The topic is explored from the point of view of the child primarily, and the parents welcoming that child into their family system secondarily; it is a bidirectional interaction. By reviewing literature on childhood turbulence, blogs written by foster/adoptive parents, and considering personal experiences, several distinct challenges stood out. Resilience is strengthened by mutual support to handle challenges constructively. The entire system can collaborate to facilitate and maintain resilience from a family systems perspective. A children’s book was written to illustrate a family’s transitional process in foster care/adoption. Stemming from unique personal perspectives on cross-cultural fostering/adoption, paralleled with a desire to make this information child friendly, this short story was told from the viewpoint of a young child learning to manage expectations and challenges while gaining a new sibling through adoption.

Gängkriminaliteten är ett växande fenomen och tillika ett centralt ämne för dagens kriminalpolitiska debatt. De kriminella nätverken rekryterar allt fler och yngre individer, och deras våldsbaserade framfart drabbar såväl egna medlemmar som övriga samhällsmedborgare. Det krävs ett gediget arbete för att komma åt problematiken, och på individnivå visar en sammantagen beskrivning svårigheterna med att lämna kriminella nätverk. Aktuell, kvalitativ studie syftar till att undersöka vilka motiverande faktorer som frivårdens personal upplever är centrala för individer som ämnar lämna kriminella nätverk, samt hur och i vilken utsträckning frivården arbetar med dessa faktorer. Semistrukturerade intervjuer har genomförts med tio deltagare, alla anställda på frivårdskontor runt om i Sverige. De motiverande faktorer (och tillhörande arbete) som framställs som centrala för avhopparprocessen resulterar i tre övergripande kategorier; negativa konsekvenser, prosociala relationer samt psykosocial mognad. Inom ramen för resultat och analys framträder också frivårdens utmaningar gällande arbetet med aktuell målgrupp, vilka lyfts upp i ett separat avsnitt. Tid, resurser, samverkan och timing visar sig vara avgörande för att få klienterna att byta riktning. Flera av resultaten kan ställas i paritet med tidigare forskning, andra berör viktiga aspekter att ta fasta på för framtiden. / <p>2021-01-13</p>

Given the current debate on the discrepancies of pornography research and the inconclusiveness of addiction to pornography, this study examines the associative nature between pornography use and loneliness using a measurement model and two structural equation models where pornography use and loneliness are regressed on each other, respectively. Survey data was collected from a sample of 1,247 participants, who completed an online questionnaire containing questions on pornography use, the University of Los Angeles Loneliness Scale (UCLALS), and other demographic variables. Results from our analyses revealed significant and positive associations between pornography use and loneliness for all three models. Findings provide grounds for future possible models of bidirectionality suggesting a possible addictive cycle between pornography use and loneliness.

Much of the literature regarding relational aggression in romantic relationships has focused on the behaviors and outcomes of the actor and victim independently. Additionally, the relationships studied usually cover emerging adult samples, and rarely expand to long-term committed relationships, such as cohabiting or married couples. In this paper I sought to determine if relationally aggressive behaviors in long-term committed relationships over time resulted as a function of individual predictors (e.g. neuroticism), or as a process of couple interactions (e.g. couple attachment); and how these traits directly and indirectly (through relational aggression) influenced relationship quality. An Actor Partner Independence Model (APIM) was run using 1,558 individuals from the RELATE study. Anxious attachment was the strongest predictor of relational aggression. For both men and women, participating in relationally aggressive behaviors had a direct influence on their own relationship quality. Anxiously attached partners were more likely to be relationally aggressive and to have more relationally aggressive partners. Female, as well as male, relational aggression partially mediated the link between male and female anxious attachment, and female relationship quality. For men, only their own relational aggression mediated the link between male and female anxious attachment, and their own relationship quality.

This study examined the Bowenian notion that triangulation is precipitated by the interaction between a person's level of differentiation-of-self and the amount of chronic familial emotional anxiety. Another aspect of this study was to examine the relationship between marital quality and child triangulation. The sample for this study was taken from the Flourishing Families project and included only the families that indicated marriage as their relationship status, resulting in a total of 336 families with a target child between the ages of 11 and 14. Initial bivariate analysis indicated that differentiation-of-self, and family stress would be associated with child triangulation. Upon further examination using structural equation modeling, findings indicate that neither differentiation-of-self nor family stress are associated with child triangulation. However, marital quality was highly negatively associated with differentiation-of-self and moderately negatively associated with child triangulation.