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The Marital Relationship in Remarried Families.
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Deal, James E.; And Others – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1992
Compared the marital relationship in families with remarried mothers and families whose mothers had never divorced on dimensions of spouses' depression, marital satisfaction, sharing of housekeeping and child-rearing roles, and positive and negative affect spouses directed to one another. (BC)
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Depression (Psychology), Family (Sociological Unit), Family Life
Dinnertime Stories: Connecting Family Practices with Relationship Beliefs and Child Adjustment.
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Fiese, Barbara H.; Marjinsky, Kathleen A. T. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1999
The Syracuse Dinnertime project investigated the relationship between family dinnertime rituals and narratives and child behavior. Findings indicated that couples that worked together to tell their family story also worked together and with their children in positive dinnertime exchanges. Narratives were not significantly related to child behavior…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Family Environment, Family History, Family Influence
Narratives of Adoptive Parents: Perspectives from Individual and Couple Interviews.
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Grotevant, Harold D.; Fravel, Deborah Lewis; Gorall, Dean; Piper, Joyce – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1999
Examined family narratives among adoptive parents. Found that individual interviews of parents in open adoptions showed greater narrative coherence than those with parents in mediated adoptions; joint interviews produced greater narrative coherence than individual interviews; more coherence in joint interviews was correlated with partners' greater…
Descriptors: Adoptive Parents, Family Environment, Family History, Family Influence
Maternal Depression, Family Functioning, and Child Outcomes: A Narrative Assessment.
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Dickstein, Susan; St. Andre, Martin; Sameroff, Arnold; Seifer, Ronald; Schiller, Masha – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1999
Investigated differences in family narratives between mothers with and those without current depressive symptoms as an indicator of family functioning. Found that Family Narrative Consortium measures of narrative coherence distinguished level of symptom severity. Found that more coherent narratives were associated with marital satisfaction,…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Family Environment, Family History, Family Influence
Summary and Discussion.
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Hetherington, E. Mavis – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1992
Summarizes and discusses results of the longitudinal study that comprises this monograph issue. Results concern: (1) marital, parent-child, and sibling relationships in families with single and remarried mothers; (2) the relationship between parenting style and adolescent adjustment; and (3) the relationship between marital transitions and…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Longitudinal Studies
Narrative Connections in the Family Context: Summary and Conclusions.
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Sameroff, Arnold J.; Fiese, Barbara H. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1999
Investigated reliability of the Family Narrative Consortium (FNC) scales for measuring the effect of social context on construction of family narratives. Analyzed data from four FNC studies to determine reliability of scale dimensions of narrative coherence, narrative interaction, and relationship beliefs. Found that the scale was a set of…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Family Environment, Family History, Family Influence
Method.
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Hagan, Margaret Stanley – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1992
Discusses the research methodology of the longitudinal study that makes up this monograph issue. Discusses (1) subjects; (2) experimental procedure; (3) assessment measures of demographic factors, children's adjustment, adult depression, marital relationship, parent-child relationship, sibling relationship, and family interactions; and (5)…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Demography, Depression (Psychology)
What We Talk about When We Talk about Families.
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Cowan, Philip A. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1999
Discusses aspects of the Family Narrative Consortium's multisite, multidisciplinary collaboration to study the effect of social context on family narratives. Considers the value of the study for developing a coding system for narratives that yields comparable results across research sites. Examines the measures, epistemological issues,…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Family Environment, Family History, Family Influence
The Effect of Family Relationships on Adolescent Development during Family Reorganization.
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Anderson, Edward R.; And Others – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1992
Data concerning children's adjustment indicated that (1) the quality of marital relationships was related to the quality of parent-child relationships; (2) authoritative parenting correlated with high levels of children's social and scholastic competence; and (3) the quality of sibling relationships correlated with children's social competence and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescent Development, Adolescents