Daily diary study demonstrates family stressors increase negative mood in transgender and nonbinary parents, highlighting family stress processes as targets for crisis interventions.
= 9.35; 85.90% White) in the United States who completed a baseline assessment and an 8-day follow-up daily diary survey from May to June 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Multilevel modeling results showed that both family stressors were associated with parental negative mood at the between-person and within-person levels. Within-person associations were contemporaneous only, with no evidence of prospective next-day effects. Cross-level interactions revealed that lifetime gender identity microaggression exposure attenuated the mood reactivity to interparental conflicts, such that interparental conflict only predicted daily increases in parental negative mood for TGNB parents with lower to moderate lifetime exposure to gender identity microaggressions. These findings identify daily family stress processes as potential intervention targets to support TGNB-parent families' well-being during public health crises. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).
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