Sydney L Hans
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5507364 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sydney L Hans |
| PRENOMES | Sydney L |
| SOBRENOME | Hans |
| ASSINATURA | HANS S L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4582-4102 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 123 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1982 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Family Support, Stress, Conflict, and Mental Health Among Mothers in Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder
Background: Family can be a critical, yet complicated, source of support for mothers with substance use disorder(SUD). Objectives: The purpose of the current study is to explore associations between support, stress, andconflict within the family and mothers’ mental health among mothers in treatment for opioid usedisorder (OUD). Results: The sample comprised 150 Black women who are parents of 3- to 5-year-oldchildren and in methadone treatment. Th…
Young mothers’ prenatal attachment and later attachment‐related representations of their young children
Although mother‐to‐infant attachment begins during pregnancy, few studies have explored correlates of prenatal attachment and associations with later measures of attachment representations. This study explored whether prenatal attachment is related to attachment representations during toddlerhood and whether associations between them reflect the broader quality of mothers’ relationships. Young, ethnically/racially diverse, low‐income American wom…
Young, low-income mothers’ social relationships and involvement in doula home visiting services
Parenting Among Women in Methadone Treatment
Associations between parenting representations and behavior among young mothers and mothers with opioid use disorder
Mothers’ representations reflect how they experience their child and their relationship, and can guide parenting behavior. While studies of representations typically focus on infancy, this study examines associations between mothers’ representations and behavior with their preschoolers using two samples: young mothers ( n = 201; 42% African American, 42% Latina, 8% European‐American, 8% multi‐ethnic; M age = 32 months) and mothers in treatment fo…
Making meaning of motherhood
Although adolescent childbearing is widely viewed as a major social problem, and research suggests that young mothers and their children are at risk for poor economic and academic outcomes, these ideas may be in need of revision. Recent scholarship has pointed out that young mothers have been unfairly blamed and stigmatized for problems that should be attributed to social and economic inequality, racism, and poverty. The present study extends tha…
The Educare intervention
The effectiveness of Educare, a center-based early education program, in improving child outcomes at age 3 was evaluated in a randomized clinical trial. Educare programs serve children from birth to age 5 and are designed to reduce the achievement gap between children from low-income families and their more advantaged peers. This study began following 239 children from low-income families who were randomly assigned as infants (<19 months) to Educ…
Increasing parenting self‐efficacy
High levels of infant crying place families at risk for disrupted relationships, parenting stress, and even for child maltreatment. We conducted an evaluation of the Fussy Baby Network ® (FBN), a program supporting families struggling with infant crying and related concerns. The study contrasted 29 families who sought help from FBN with 27 families with excessively crying infants who did not seek services. Researchers measured parenting self‐effi…
Young First-Time Mothers’ Parenting of Infants
Parenting Profiles of Young Low-income African American and Latina Mothers and Infant Socioemotional Development
SYNOPSISObjective. Parenting styles are complex and have been well studied in parents of children and adolescents; however, less is known about parenting styles in early infancy, especially among ethnic minority groups. This study examines empirically identifiable profiles of early parenting that are associated with later infant socioemotional development. Design. 239 young, low-income, African American (54.8%) and Latina (45.2%) mothers were vid…
Maternal support for infant learning
Teenage Childbearing, Reproductive Justice, and Infant Mental Health
Reproductive justice advocates emphasize the rights of women to choose to have children, to decide the conditions under which they give birth, and to parent their children with support, safety, and dignity. This article examines what a reproductive justice perspective contributes to infant mental health work with teenage mothers and their families. It explores the historical framing of teenage pregnancy in which young mothers are the cause of a v…
Randomized Controlled Trial of Doula-Home-Visiting Services
Introduction Although home-visiting programs typically engage families during pregnancy, few studies have examined maternal and child health outcomes during the antenatal and newborn period and fewer have demonstrated intervention impacts. Illinois has developed an innovative model in which programs utilizing evidence-based home-visiting models incorporate community doulas who focus on childbirth education, breastfeeding, pregnancy health, and ne…
Change over time in young mothers' engagement with a community-based doula home visiting program
Prenatal Depressive Symptoms and Toddler Behavior Problems
Infant risk factors associated with internalizing, externalizing, and co-occurring behavior problems in young children
The purpose of the current study was to examine the unique and interactive contributions of infant negative emotionality and family risk factors in the development of internalizing-only, externalizing-only, and co-occurring behavior problems in early childhood. The sample included 412 infants and their primary caregivers. Interviews and temperament assessments took place when infants were 5-7 months old, and primary caregivers completed child beh…
Effect of Low-Income Unmarried Fathers' Presence at Birth on Involvement
The birth of a child represents a unique window of opportunity to understand and support ongoing father involvement among low-income unmarried parents. Using data collected as part of a randomized controlled trial of a community-based home visiting intervention provided to 248 low-income African American women, a propensity score matching approach was used to estimate the effect of fathers' presence at birth on multiple measures of later father i…
Father Participation in a Community‐doula Home‐visiting Intervention With Young, African American Mothers
This article examines the extent and nature of father participation in a perinatal, community‐based doula home‐visiting intervention that served young, African American mothers from low‐income backgrounds and their infants. Home‐visitor service records were used to assess the quantity, setting, and content of father‐attended visits. Correlates of fathers’ participation and thematic insights from mothers’ and home‐visitors’ perspectives on how fat…
Promoting Positive Mother–Infant Relationships
Doulas, whose traditional role is to support women during labor and delivery, are being increasingly utilized within community‐based programs where a primary goal is supporting mother–infant relationships. The present study investigated the effect of doula services on parenting among young, low‐income mothers. A total of 248 pregnant women were randomly assigned to receive either doula services or routine medical and social services. The doulas p…
Domain-Specific Trajectories of Involvement Among Fathers of Children Born to Young, Low-Income, African American Mothers
Although research on low-income, nonresidential fathers is expanding, fathers’ involvement with their children over time has mainly been studied using composite measures of involvement. This study examines 3 domains of father involvement (financial support, child care, decision making) with a sample of young, low-income African American mothers (N = 248). These domains are examined separately to assess the extent to which unique patterns and pred…
They mess with me, I mess with them”
Young mothers' involvement in a prenatal and postpartum support program
The involvement of 124 young mothers in a doula support program was measured in two dimensions—quantity of program contact and quality of mother–doula helping relationship. The study examined each dimension's differential associations with maternal outcomes, as well as the moderating effects of mother characteristics on these associations. Quantity of program contact was related to the quality of helping relationship, especially when rated by dou…
Young African American mothers' changing perceptions of their infants during the transition to parenthood
Although theory and empirical research with middle‐class, mostly White women have suggested that motherhood is an important developmental transition for women, rarely have investigations of adolescent motherhood systematically examined developmental change. This study examines one aspect of change during the transition to parenthood: the mother's emerging perception of her infant. During pregnancy and at 4 months' postpartum, 220 urban African Am…
Mothers' representations of their infants and parenting behavior
Associations between mothers' psychological distress, experiences of verbal and violent relational conflict, representations of the relationships with their infants, and parenting behavior were examined in 100 African American mothers of 17‐ to 20‐month‐old infants. Maternal representations of infants were assessed via the Working Model of the Child Interview (WMCI; Zeanah, Benoit, Hirshberg, & Barton, 1986). Results showed that mothers who exper…
Mother expectation of bother and infant attachment behaviors as predictors of mother and child communication at 24 months in children of methadone-maintained women
This study used a transactional model of development (Sameroff, 1975) to test whether methadone exposure, mother's expectation of her future infant's degree of bother during pregnancy, infant attachment behaviors assessed at 12 months, and mother and child communication assessed at 24 months reciprocally influence each other in a sample of 30 full-term, African American toddlers exposed in utero to methadone and 42 comparison toddlers. Toddlers w…
Relation of maternal responsiveness during infancy to the development of behavior problems in high-risk youths
Although problematic parenting has been consistently associated with behavior problems in youths, prospective links between early parenting and childhood behavior problems are less well established. This study examined the association of maternal responsiveness (MRes) during infancy and behavior problems in middle childhood (N = 77). MRes was significantly associated with disruptive behavior problems but was unrelated to attention problems. Absen…
Mothers' representations of their infants and parenting behavior
Associations between mothers' psychological distress, experiences of verbal and violent relational conflict, representations of the relationships with their infants, and parenting behavior were examined in 100 African American mothers of 17‐ to 20‐month‐old infants. Maternal representations of infants were assessed via the Working Model of the Child Interview (WMCI; Zeanah, Benoit, Hirshberg, & Barton, 1986). Results showed that mothers who exper…
Infant risk factors associated with internalizing, externalizing, and co-occurring behavior problems in young children
The purpose of the current study was to examine the unique and interactive contributions of infant negative emotionality and family risk factors in the development of internalizing-only, externalizing-only, and co-occurring behavior problems in early childhood. The sample included 412 infants and their primary caregivers. Interviews and temperament assessments took place when infants were 5-7 months old, and primary caregivers completed child beh…
Young mothers' involvement in a prenatal and postpartum support program
The involvement of 124 young mothers in a doula support program was measured in two dimensions—quantity of program contact and quality of mother–doula helping relationship. The study examined each dimension's differential associations with maternal outcomes, as well as the moderating effects of mother characteristics on these associations. Quantity of program contact was related to the quality of helping relationship, especially when rated by dou…
Effect of Low-Income Unmarried Fathers' Presence at Birth on Involvement
The birth of a child represents a unique window of opportunity to understand and support ongoing father involvement among low-income unmarried parents. Using data collected as part of a randomized controlled trial of a community-based home visiting intervention provided to 248 low-income African American women, a propensity score matching approach was used to estimate the effect of fathers' presence at birth on multiple measures of later father i…
The Educare intervention
The effectiveness of Educare, a center-based early education program, in improving child outcomes at age 3 was evaluated in a randomized clinical trial. Educare programs serve children from birth to age 5 and are designed to reduce the achievement gap between children from low-income families and their more advantaged peers. This study began following 239 children from low-income families who were randomly assigned as infants (<19 months) to Educ…
Father Participation in a Community‐doula Home‐visiting Intervention With Young, African American Mothers
This article examines the extent and nature of father participation in a perinatal, community‐based doula home‐visiting intervention that served young, African American mothers from low‐income backgrounds and their infants. Home‐visitor service records were used to assess the quantity, setting, and content of father‐attended visits. Correlates of fathers’ participation and thematic insights from mothers’ and home‐visitors’ perspectives on how fat…
Promoting Positive Mother–Infant Relationships
Doulas, whose traditional role is to support women during labor and delivery, are being increasingly utilized within community‐based programs where a primary goal is supporting mother–infant relationships. The present study investigated the effect of doula services on parenting among young, low‐income mothers. A total of 248 pregnant women were randomly assigned to receive either doula services or routine medical and social services. The doulas p…
Domain-Specific Trajectories of Involvement Among Fathers of Children Born to Young, Low-Income, African American Mothers
Although research on low-income, nonresidential fathers is expanding, fathers’ involvement with their children over time has mainly been studied using composite measures of involvement. This study examines 3 domains of father involvement (financial support, child care, decision making) with a sample of young, low-income African American mothers (N = 248). These domains are examined separately to assess the extent to which unique patterns and pred…
Increasing parenting self‐efficacy
High levels of infant crying place families at risk for disrupted relationships, parenting stress, and even for child maltreatment. We conducted an evaluation of the Fussy Baby Network ® (FBN), a program supporting families struggling with infant crying and related concerns. The study contrasted 29 families who sought help from FBN with 27 families with excessively crying infants who did not seek services. Researchers measured parenting self‐effi…
Teenage Childbearing, Reproductive Justice, and Infant Mental Health
Reproductive justice advocates emphasize the rights of women to choose to have children, to decide the conditions under which they give birth, and to parent their children with support, safety, and dignity. This article examines what a reproductive justice perspective contributes to infant mental health work with teenage mothers and their families. It explores the historical framing of teenage pregnancy in which young mothers are the cause of a v…
They mess with me, I mess with them”
Young African American mothers' changing perceptions of their infants during the transition to parenthood
Although theory and empirical research with middle‐class, mostly White women have suggested that motherhood is an important developmental transition for women, rarely have investigations of adolescent motherhood systematically examined developmental change. This study examines one aspect of change during the transition to parenthood: the mother's emerging perception of her infant. During pregnancy and at 4 months' postpartum, 220 urban African Am…
Postneonatal mental and motor development of infants exposed in utero to opioid drugs
We compared the mental and motor development of 33 infants from innercity, African American families whose mothers used opioid drugs during pregnancy with that of 45 infants from demographically comparable families where the mothers were not users of opioids. We found that during the first 2 years of life, the children exposed to opioid drugs showed poorer functioning on Bayley Scales mental and psychomotor development indices as well as on Infan…
Change over time in young mothers' engagement with a community-based doula home visiting program
Parenting Profiles of Young Low-income African American and Latina Mothers and Infant Socioemotional Development
SYNOPSISObjective. Parenting styles are complex and have been well studied in parents of children and adolescents; however, less is known about parenting styles in early infancy, especially among ethnic minority groups. This study examines empirically identifiable profiles of early parenting that are associated with later infant socioemotional development. Design. 239 young, low-income, African American (54.8%) and Latina (45.2%) mothers were vid…
Maternal support for infant learning
Mother expectation of bother and infant attachment behaviors as predictors of mother and child communication at 24 months in children of methadone-maintained women
This study used a transactional model of development (Sameroff, 1975) to test whether methadone exposure, mother's expectation of her future infant's degree of bother during pregnancy, infant attachment behaviors assessed at 12 months, and mother and child communication assessed at 24 months reciprocally influence each other in a sample of 30 full-term, African American toddlers exposed in utero to methadone and 42 comparison toddlers. Toddlers w…
Salience of visual patterns in the human infant
Salience of visual patterns in the human infant
Support networks of adolescent mothers
The relation between social support and lower-income African-American adolescent mothers' parenting experience, parenting behavior, and psychological symptoms was studied. Larger support networks were associated with better maternal adjustment unless individuals providing support were also providers of conflict. The young women's own mothers were their most prominent providers of support, and the number of different types of support the grandmoth…
Relation of maternal responsiveness during infancy to the development of behavior problems in high-risk youths
Although problematic parenting has been consistently associated with behavior problems in youths, prospective links between early parenting and childhood behavior problems are less well established. This study examined the association of maternal responsiveness (MRes) during infancy and behavior problems in middle childhood (N = 77). MRes was significantly associated with disruptive behavior problems but was unrelated to attention problems. Absen…
Success in Early Intervention
Attachment in preterm infants and their mothers
High-risk neonatal status, indexed by an intracranial hemorrhage (ICH), and maternal representations of past and present attachment relationships were examined as predictors of infant attachment in a sample of preterm infants. Participants included 50 19-month-old infants and their middle-class, predominantly African American mothers. A maternal-report questionnaire and a structured interview were used to assess past relationship history with mot…
Postneonatal mental and motor development of infants exposed in utero to opioid drugs
We compared the mental and motor development of 33 infants from innercity, African American families whose mothers used opioid drugs during pregnancy with that of 45 infants from demographically comparable families where the mothers were not users of opioids. We found that during the first 2 years of life, the children exposed to opioid drugs showed poorer functioning on Bayley Scales mental and psychomotor development indices as well as on Infan…
Mother expectation of bother and infant attachment behaviors as predictors of mother and child communication at 24 months in children of methadone-maintained women
This study used a transactional model of development (Sameroff, 1975) to test whether methadone exposure, mother's expectation of her future infant's degree of bother during pregnancy, infant attachment behaviors assessed at 12 months, and mother and child communication assessed at 24 months reciprocally influence each other in a sample of 30 full-term, African American toddlers exposed in utero to methadone and 42 comparison toddlers. Toddlers w…
Mothers' representations of their infants and parenting behavior
Associations between mothers' psychological distress, experiences of verbal and violent relational conflict, representations of the relationships with their infants, and parenting behavior were examined in 100 African American mothers of 17‐ to 20‐month‐old infants. Maternal representations of infants were assessed via the Working Model of the Child Interview (WMCI; Zeanah, Benoit, Hirshberg, & Barton, 1986). Results showed that mothers who exper…
Young African American mothers' changing perceptions of their infants during the transition to parenthood
Although theory and empirical research with middle‐class, mostly White women have suggested that motherhood is an important developmental transition for women, rarely have investigations of adolescent motherhood systematically examined developmental change. This study examines one aspect of change during the transition to parenthood: the mother's emerging perception of her infant. During pregnancy and at 4 months' postpartum, 220 urban African Am…
They mess with me, I mess with them”
Young mothers' involvement in a prenatal and postpartum support program
The involvement of 124 young mothers in a doula support program was measured in two dimensions—quantity of program contact and quality of mother–doula helping relationship. The study examined each dimension's differential associations with maternal outcomes, as well as the moderating effects of mother characteristics on these associations. Quantity of program contact was related to the quality of helping relationship, especially when rated by dou…
Domain-Specific Trajectories of Involvement Among Fathers of Children Born to Young, Low-Income, African American Mothers
Although research on low-income, nonresidential fathers is expanding, fathers’ involvement with their children over time has mainly been studied using composite measures of involvement. This study examines 3 domains of father involvement (financial support, child care, decision making) with a sample of young, low-income African American mothers (N = 248). These domains are examined separately to assess the extent to which unique patterns and pred…
Promoting Positive Mother–Infant Relationships
Doulas, whose traditional role is to support women during labor and delivery, are being increasingly utilized within community‐based programs where a primary goal is supporting mother–infant relationships. The present study investigated the effect of doula services on parenting among young, low‐income mothers. A total of 248 pregnant women were randomly assigned to receive either doula services or routine medical and social services. The doulas p…
Father Participation in a Community‐doula Home‐visiting Intervention With Young, African American Mothers
This article examines the extent and nature of father participation in a perinatal, community‐based doula home‐visiting intervention that served young, African American mothers from low‐income backgrounds and their infants. Home‐visitor service records were used to assess the quantity, setting, and content of father‐attended visits. Correlates of fathers’ participation and thematic insights from mothers’ and home‐visitors’ perspectives on how fat…
Prenatal Depressive Symptoms and Toddler Behavior Problems
Infant risk factors associated with internalizing, externalizing, and co-occurring behavior problems in young children
The purpose of the current study was to examine the unique and interactive contributions of infant negative emotionality and family risk factors in the development of internalizing-only, externalizing-only, and co-occurring behavior problems in early childhood. The sample included 412 infants and their primary caregivers. Interviews and temperament assessments took place when infants were 5-7 months old, and primary caregivers completed child beh…
Effect of Low-Income Unmarried Fathers' Presence at Birth on Involvement
The birth of a child represents a unique window of opportunity to understand and support ongoing father involvement among low-income unmarried parents. Using data collected as part of a randomized controlled trial of a community-based home visiting intervention provided to 248 low-income African American women, a propensity score matching approach was used to estimate the effect of fathers' presence at birth on multiple measures of later father i…
Change over time in young mothers' engagement with a community-based doula home visiting program
Randomized Controlled Trial of Doula-Home-Visiting Services
Introduction Although home-visiting programs typically engage families during pregnancy, few studies have examined maternal and child health outcomes during the antenatal and newborn period and fewer have demonstrated intervention impacts. Illinois has developed an innovative model in which programs utilizing evidence-based home-visiting models incorporate community doulas who focus on childbirth education, breastfeeding, pregnancy health, and ne…
Young First-Time Mothers’ Parenting of Infants
Parenting Profiles of Young Low-income African American and Latina Mothers and Infant Socioemotional Development
SYNOPSISObjective. Parenting styles are complex and have been well studied in parents of children and adolescents; however, less is known about parenting styles in early infancy, especially among ethnic minority groups. This study examines empirically identifiable profiles of early parenting that are associated with later infant socioemotional development. Design. 239 young, low-income, African American (54.8%) and Latina (45.2%) mothers were vid…
Maternal support for infant learning
Teenage Childbearing, Reproductive Justice, and Infant Mental Health
Reproductive justice advocates emphasize the rights of women to choose to have children, to decide the conditions under which they give birth, and to parent their children with support, safety, and dignity. This article examines what a reproductive justice perspective contributes to infant mental health work with teenage mothers and their families. It explores the historical framing of teenage pregnancy in which young mothers are the cause of a v…
The Educare intervention
The effectiveness of Educare, a center-based early education program, in improving child outcomes at age 3 was evaluated in a randomized clinical trial. Educare programs serve children from birth to age 5 and are designed to reduce the achievement gap between children from low-income families and their more advantaged peers. This study began following 239 children from low-income families who were randomly assigned as infants (<19 months) to Educ…
Increasing parenting self‐efficacy
High levels of infant crying place families at risk for disrupted relationships, parenting stress, and even for child maltreatment. We conducted an evaluation of the Fussy Baby Network ® (FBN), a program supporting families struggling with infant crying and related concerns. The study contrasted 29 families who sought help from FBN with 27 families with excessively crying infants who did not seek services. Researchers measured parenting self‐effi…
Psychology (30 obras) · Developmental psychology (27 obras) · Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (18 obras) · Medicine (17 obras) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (16 obras) · Psychiatry (12 obras) · Clinical Psychology (10 obras) · Pregnancy (9 obras) · Social Psychology (9 obras) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (8 obras)