Our own Dr. Karen Smith headlined a recently published paper in collaboration with colleagues, NORC at the University of Chicago, and Child and Parent Services (CAPS) in Indiana. Researchers were able to collect data from two unique samples in Berkeley, California and Indiana. The paper outlines two studies in which researchers examined how loneliness, perceptions of control, and childhood trauma contribute to parents’ perceptions of stress.
Over the course of a 10 week parenting program, participants showed reductions in stress and loneliness and increases in control. Decreases in stress and loneliness were most pronounced for parents with higher levels of childhood trauma exposure. The findings suggest that targeting perceptions of control in parents may have efficacy at reducing stress.
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