International Journal of the Environmental Research and Public Health

Special Issue Information Dear Colleagues, Clinicians and researchers have shown, from a multidisciplinary perspective, how a variety of psychosocial factors can contribute to an individual's dysfunctional development. In fact, the current literature agrees that it is the quality of the parent/child family interaction that is able to influence the psychological well-being of the adolescent, more than the family structure. In particular, the literature agrees that conflict, parental stress and parental psychopathological characteristics can compromise the growth of children. On the contrary, a good quality of marital adaptability was found to be an important protective factor for a child's emotional-behavioral development, which can mitigate the adverse effects exerted by risk factors. Recent studies have highlighted that children in families in which the parental couple show high levels of mutual support and adaptive dyadic coping strategies with respect to daily stress management have better social skills and fewer emotional-behavioral problems. Furthermore, the current COVID-19 pandemic, imposing intense cohabitation between family members, could affect the characteristics of these relationships. This Special Issue will welcome research and documents, as well as systematic reviews or meta-analysis, within a multidisciplinary perspective on the aforementioned topic in different family structures (close, separated, blended families, etc.). Dr. Mimma Tafà Guest Editor