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Accentuating the Positive, Eliminating the Negative? Relationship Maintenance as a Predictor of Two-Dimensional Relationship Quality
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Malinen, Kaisa; Tolvanen, Asko; Ronka, Anna – Family Relations, 2012
In this study, relationship maintenance and its connections with positive and negative relationship quality were examined among Finnish parents (N = 177 women and 153 men; i.e., partners from 150 couples and 27 women and 3 men whose partner did not participate in the study). Relationship maintenance was measured using Stafford, Dainton, and Haas's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Marriage, Positive Attitudes, Evaluation
Nonstandard Work Schedules and Developmentally Generative Parenting Practices: An Application of Propensity Score Techniques
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Grzywacz, Joseph G.; Daniel, Stephanie S.; Tucker, Jenna; Walls, Jill; Leerkes, Esther – Family Relations, 2011
Data from the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care (Phase I) and propensity score techniques were used to determine whether working full time in a nonstandard schedule job during the child's first year predicted parenting practices over 3 years. Results indicated that women who worked full time in a…
Descriptors: Working Hours, Mothers, Parenting Styles, Child Development
Relationship-Specific Investments, Family Chaos, and Cohabitation Dissolution Following a Nonmarital Birth
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Kamp Dush, Claire M. – Family Relations, 2011
Predictors of two types of cohabitation dissolution, dissolution with a continued romantic relationship and without (i.e., breakup), were examined using data from mothers cohabiting at the time of a nonmarital birth in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 1,624). Life tables indicated 64% of unions dissolved within 5 years; of…
Descriptors: Mothers, One Parent Family, Interpersonal Relationship, Maximum Likelihood Statistics
The Contributions of Parenting to Social Competencies and Positive Values in Middle School Youth: Positive Family Communication, Maintaining Standards, and Supportive Family Relationships
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Hillaker, Barbara D.; Brophy-Herb, Holly E.; Villarruel, Francisco A.; Haas, Bruce E. – Family Relations, 2008
Three aspects of parenting, positive family communication, facilitation of supportive family relationships, and maintenance of standards in the family, were examined as predictors of positive values and social competencies in sixth- (n = 1,453), seventh- (n = 3,732), and eighth- (n = 4,474) grade youth. Hierarchical regression analyses indicated…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Family Relationship, Interpersonal Communication, Family Environment
Examining Risk Factors Associated with Family Reunification for Runaway Youth: Does Ethnicity Matter?
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Thompson, Sanna J.; Kost, Kathleen A.; Pollio, David E. – Family Relations, 2003
Investigates the likelihood of family reunification across ethnic groups of youth using runaway shelter services nationwide. Youths who reported abuse or neglect by their parental figures or had parent(s) who were unemployed were less likely to reunify following a runaway episode. However, completing youth shelter services markedly increased the…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Ethnicity, Family Environment, Homeless Shelters
Gender, Ethnicity, and the Family Environment: Contributions to Assessment Efforts within the Realm of Juvenile Justice
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Gavazzi, Stephen M. – Family Relations, 2006
The present study examines potential variation in the family environments of African American and Caucasian males and females coming to the attention of the juvenile court. Results of initial analysis of variance (ANOVA) procedures indicated a significant Gender x Ethnicity interaction on scores from the family/parenting domain of the Global Risk…
Descriptors: African Americans, Whites, Ethnicity, Males
Ecological Determinants of Parenting.
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Reis, Janet; And Others – Family Relations, 1986
Used an ecological model of human development to assess the interrelationship between psychological determinants of parenting, parental age, and parenting skill for a sample of parents (N=310). Found parents' race to be significantly related to attitudes toward childrearing, knowledge of child development, and perceived social support. (Author/ABB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Rearing, Developmental Psychology, Ecological Factors
Female Victims of Spousal Violence: Factors Influencing Their Level of Fearfulness.
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DeMaris, Alfred; Swinford, Steven – Family Relations, 1996
Employed data from the National Family Violence Survey to explore predictors of fear of future abuse among married or cohabitating women (n=356) whose partners abused them. Fear was higher in women whose partners initiated the violence; subjected them to forced sex or; made them afraid to retaliate in violence. (SNR)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Battered Women, Family Environment, Family Violence
The Influence of Family Functioning and Parent-Adolescent Acculturation on North American Chinese Adolescent Outcomes
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Crane, D. Russell; Ngai, So Wa; Larson, Jeffry H.; Hafen, McArthur, Jr. – Family Relations, 2005
The present study investigated the associations between family functioning, acculturation between parents and their adolescents, and adolescent adjustment problems. Chinese adolescents and their parents (N=41) living in the United States and Canada participated in this study. Results showed that differences in acculturation between parents and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, North Americans, Acculturation, Depression (Psychology)