Kenneth E Leonard
Biographic Data
| ID | 183869 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth E Leonard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth E |
| FAMILY NAME | Leonard |
| SIGNATURE | LEONARD K E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6658-1264 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 307 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Parent Alcohol Use and Problems in Children’s Alcohol-Related Learning and Subsequent Alcohol Use
Background: Alcohol cognitions can emerge early in life and have lasting associations with alcohol use behavior. Observational learning theories suggest that witnessing alcohol use and its consequences may be an important mechanism underlying early development of alcohol cognitions. Parents are among the earliest contributors to children’s alcohol-related learning, although findings regarding the association of parental alcohol use and problems w…
The Effects of Strain-Based Work–Parenting Conflict on Dual Income Couples’ Energy
(1) Background: Gender differences between men's and women's parenting roles are well-documented as the "second shift". We examined the main effects and interaction of work distress and parenting distress with energy (i.e., vigor) in a sample of 310 dual-income, different-sex couples with kids married for approximately nine years. (2) Methods: We used actor-partner interdependence modeling (APIM) to examine how spouses' distress was associated wi…
The Influence of Drinking Buddies
When targeting risky drinking behavior in a therapeutic context, assessing and addressing a person's reasons for drinking, as well as their drinking buddy's reasons for drinking, may reduce the risk of escalations in either friend's drinking frequency over time
Does state self‐control depletion predict relationship functioning and partner aggression? An ecological momentary assessment study of community couples
Intimate relationship functioning depends upon the ability to accommodate one's partner and to inhibit retaliatory and aggressive impulses when disagreements arise. However, accommodation and inhibition may be difficult when self‐control strength is weak or depleted by prior exertion of self‐control. The present study considered whether state self‐control depletion prospectively predicts male and female self‐reports of anger with partner and argu…
A dyadic approach to attachment anxiety and avoidance, marital conflict, and drinking
In this research, we integrate attachment theory and dyadic methodology to examine how attachment anxiety and avoidance might interact with marital conflict to influence alcohol consumption, drinking motives, and alcohol-related problems in a sample of 280 married and cohabiting couples over 3 years. Both husband and wife attachment anxiety were related to higher levels of own drinking to cope and alcohol-related problems. Additionally, both husb…
Etiology of Teen Dating Violence among Adolescent Children of Alcoholics
Thirty years of research show alcohol to be a cause of intimate partner violence
Research over the past 30 years has demonstrated that excessive alcohol use meets all of the epidemiological criteria for causality. While neither a necessary nor a sufficient cause, excessive alcohol use does contribute to the occurrence of partner violence and that contribution is approximately equal to other contributing causes such as gender roles, anger and marital functioning. Current theories of how excessive drinking results in partner vi…
Perfectionistic Concerns, Social Negativity, and Subjective Well‐Being
Partner‐specific perfectionistic concerns (PC) include concern over mistakes, self‐criticism, and socially prescribed perfectionism as it pertains to one's partner. The social disconnection model proposes that PC influences well‐being indirectly through interpersonal problems. Thus, we hypothesized that social negativity (expressed anger, hostility, and rejection) would mediate the relationship between dyadic PC and subjective well‐being. Data fr…
(Dis)similarity in impulsivity and marital satisfaction
Developmental cascade model for adolescent substance use from infancy to late adolescence
A developmental cascade model for adolescent substance use beginning in infancy was examined in a sample of children with alcoholic and nonalcoholic parents. The model examined the role of parents' alcohol diagnoses, depression and antisocial behavior in a cascading process of risk via 3 major hypothesized pathways: first, via parental warmth/sensitivity from toddler to kindergarten age predicting higher parental monitoring in middle childhood th…
Daily associations among self‐control, heavy episodic drinking, and relationship functioning
An emerging literature suggests that temporary deficits in the ability to inhibit impulsive urges may be proximally associated with intimate partner aggression. The current study examined the experience of alcohol use and the depletion of self-control in the prediction of relationship functioning. Daily diary data collected from 118 heterosexual couples were analyzed using parallel multi-level Actor-Partner Interdependence Models to assess the ef…
Dependence regulation in newlywed couples
According to the risk regulation model ( S. L. Murray, J. G. Holmes, & N. L. Collins, 2006 ), people need to trust in their partner's regard before they risk interdependence. This study prospectively examines the association between perceived regard and levels of dependence in newlywed couples over 9 years of marriage. Analyses demonstrate that changes in perceived regard predict levels of dependence, changes in dependence do not predict perceive…
Female intimate partner violence perpetration
Cross-sectional and longitudinal predictors of mutual and nonmutual intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration were identified in a sample of female college freshmen (N = 499). Using female reports, couples were classified as to whether the relationship included no IPV, female-only IPV, or mutual IPV (male-only IPV was too rare to analyze). Mutual IPV was more common than asymmetrical IPV, and women in mutually violent relationships perpetrated…
Marital aggression and child peer competence
This study examined longitudinal data linking marital aggression with child peer competence in kindergarten. The study compared three conceptual models for understanding the relation between marital aggression and child peer competence. Model 1 examines the direct effects of marital aggression, parental alcoholism, and parenting on child peer competence, model 2 posits that this relation is mediated by child social problem solving abilities (soci…
A Randomized Trial
Spousal and Alcohol-Related Predictors of Smoking Cessation
We investigated the longitudinal influence of spousal and individual heavy drinking and heavy smoking on smoking cessation among married couples. Couples' (N = 634) past-year smoking, alcohol problems, and heavy drinking were assessed. We used an event history analysis and found that spousal and one's own heavy smoking and one's own heavy drinking decreased the likelihood of smoking cessation. Heavy drinking and spousal behavior should be conside…
Women's physical aggression in bars
Although women drink in bars and experience aggression in bar settings, much of the research has focused on men's experiences of aggression in bars. We used data from questionnaires and face‐to‐face interviews to examine the contributors to the occurrence and severity of women's experience of specific incidents of aggression in bars. Young women ( n =92) provided event‐based descriptions of their most recent experience of physical aggression in a…
A conceptual model for the development of externalizing behavior problems among kindergarten children of alcoholic families
The purpose of this study was to test a conceptual model predicting children's externalizing behavior problems in kindergarten in a sample of children with alcoholic (n = 130) and nonalcoholic (n = 97) parents. The model examined the role of parents' alcohol diagnoses, depression, and antisocial behavior at 12-18 months of child age in predicting parental warmth/sensitivity at 2 years of child age. Parental warmth/sensitivity at 2 years was hypot…
Alcohol and intimate partner violence
Intimate partner violence (IPV) has been recognized as a prevalent and serious problem for more than 20 years. At a fundamental level violence against women, as well as many other forms of violence, occurs because physical aggression is accepted or tolerated, at least under some circumstances. However, many other factors contribute to the occurrence of violence, and ‘the field appears to be developing toward an integrative, metatheoretical model …
Spousal influence on smoking behaviors in a US community sample of newly married couples
Impact of fathers' alcoholism and associated risk factors on parent–infant attachment stability from 12 to 18 months
This study examined short‐term attachment stability and sought to identify predictors of stability and change within a sample characterized by fathers' alcoholism. Results suggest moderate stability of attachment classifications (60% for mothers, 53% for fathers) from 12 to 18 months. Higher paternal and maternal alcohol symptoms, maternal depression, and maternal antisocial behavior were found in families with stable insecure mother–infant attac…
Alcohol consumption and the occurrence and severity of aggression
Although a considerable body of experimental research supports the contention that alcohol facilitates aggression, some investigators have argued that these findings cannot be generalized to actual occurrences of aggression. Moreover, controversy continues concerning whether expectancies supporting alcohol's influence on aggression moderate the relationship. The present study is an event‐based examination of the relationship between alcohol consu…
The Impact of Marital Aggression on Women's Psychological and Marital Functioning in a Newlywed Sample
Temperament and behavioral problems among infants in alcoholic families
This study examined the association between paternal alcoholism and 12‐month infant temperament and 18‐month behavior problems. The role of associated parental psychopathology and maternal drinking in exacerbating risk for maladaptive behavioral outcomes was also examined. Participants were 213 families (102 control families, 94 paternal alcoholic families, and 17 families with alcoholic fathers and heavy drinking mothers) who were assessed when …
Cognition During Marital Conflict
This article describes and analyzes the stream of thought occurring concurrently with overt communication about marital conflict. The research considers how marital conflicts may be affected by selective attention to different elements of conflict (different emotions, issues, interactional behaviors, and background events) and by spontaneous attributions about communicative intentions and outcomes. One hundred eighteen couples discussed a current…
Attachment Styles and Marital Adjustment among Newlywed Couples
Recent research has shown a relation between adults' attachment styles and their interpersonal functioning. The present study examined attachment styles and marital adjustment among 322 young, newlywed couples participating in a longitudinal study of alcohol use and marital functioning. Couples completed a three-item measure of adult attachment styles and measures of marital intimacy, partners' marital functioning and partners' conflict resolutio…
Nonstranger sexual aggression
Cognition During Marital Conflict
This article describes and analyzes the stream of thought occurring concurrently with overt communication about marital conflict. The research considers how marital conflicts may be affected by selective attention to different elements of conflict (different emotions, issues, interactional behaviors, and background events) and by spontaneous attributions about communicative intentions and outcomes. One hundred eighteen couples discussed a current…
A conceptual model for the development of externalizing behavior problems among kindergarten children of alcoholic families
The purpose of this study was to test a conceptual model predicting children's externalizing behavior problems in kindergarten in a sample of children with alcoholic (n = 130) and nonalcoholic (n = 97) parents. The model examined the role of parents' alcohol diagnoses, depression, and antisocial behavior at 12-18 months of child age in predicting parental warmth/sensitivity at 2 years of child age. Parental warmth/sensitivity at 2 years was hypot…
Spousal influence on smoking behaviors in a US community sample of newly married couples
Prevalence and distribution of premarital aggression among couples applying for a marriage license
The Impact of Marital Aggression on Women's Psychological and Marital Functioning in a Newlywed Sample
Developmental cascade model for adolescent substance use from infancy to late adolescence
A developmental cascade model for adolescent substance use beginning in infancy was examined in a sample of children with alcoholic and nonalcoholic parents. The model examined the role of parents' alcohol diagnoses, depression and antisocial behavior in a cascading process of risk via 3 major hypothesized pathways: first, via parental warmth/sensitivity from toddler to kindergarten age predicting higher parental monitoring in middle childhood th…
An Empirical Typology of Drinking Partnerships and Their Relationship to Marital Functioning and Drinking Consequences
Using cluster analysis, we identified a natural typology of drinking partnerships in early marriage. We found an interpretable five-cl(ster solution that evidenced significant and meaningful relationships with both marital functioning and drinking con.sequences. Cluster profiles were derived from hasbands and wives drinking frequencies, typical quantities. the percentage of couple's total drinking done in each other's presence, and the percentage…
Alcohol consumption and the occurrence and severity of aggression
Although a considerable body of experimental research supports the contention that alcohol facilitates aggression, some investigators have argued that these findings cannot be generalized to actual occurrences of aggression. Moreover, controversy continues concerning whether expectancies supporting alcohol's influence on aggression moderate the relationship. The present study is an event‐based examination of the relationship between alcohol consu…
Spousal and Alcohol-Related Predictors of Smoking Cessation
We investigated the longitudinal influence of spousal and individual heavy drinking and heavy smoking on smoking cessation among married couples. Couples' (N = 634) past-year smoking, alcohol problems, and heavy drinking were assessed. We used an event history analysis and found that spousal and one's own heavy smoking and one's own heavy drinking decreased the likelihood of smoking cessation. Heavy drinking and spousal behavior should be conside…
Daily associations among self‐control, heavy episodic drinking, and relationship functioning
An emerging literature suggests that temporary deficits in the ability to inhibit impulsive urges may be proximally associated with intimate partner aggression. The current study examined the experience of alcohol use and the depletion of self-control in the prediction of relationship functioning. Daily diary data collected from 118 heterosexual couples were analyzed using parallel multi-level Actor-Partner Interdependence Models to assess the ef…
Attributions for episodes of marital aggression
A Randomized Trial
Does state self‐control depletion predict relationship functioning and partner aggression? An ecological momentary assessment study of community couples
Intimate relationship functioning depends upon the ability to accommodate one's partner and to inhibit retaliatory and aggressive impulses when disagreements arise. However, accommodation and inhibition may be difficult when self‐control strength is weak or depleted by prior exertion of self‐control. The present study considered whether state self‐control depletion prospectively predicts male and female self‐reports of anger with partner and argu…
(Dis)similarity in impulsivity and marital satisfaction
Female intimate partner violence perpetration
Cross-sectional and longitudinal predictors of mutual and nonmutual intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration were identified in a sample of female college freshmen (N = 499). Using female reports, couples were classified as to whether the relationship included no IPV, female-only IPV, or mutual IPV (male-only IPV was too rare to analyze). Mutual IPV was more common than asymmetrical IPV, and women in mutually violent relationships perpetrated…
Impact of fathers' alcoholism and associated risk factors on parent–infant attachment stability from 12 to 18 months
This study examined short‐term attachment stability and sought to identify predictors of stability and change within a sample characterized by fathers' alcoholism. Results suggest moderate stability of attachment classifications (60% for mothers, 53% for fathers) from 12 to 18 months. Higher paternal and maternal alcohol symptoms, maternal depression, and maternal antisocial behavior were found in families with stable insecure mother–infant attac…
Temperament and behavioral problems among infants in alcoholic families
This study examined the association between paternal alcoholism and 12‐month infant temperament and 18‐month behavior problems. The role of associated parental psychopathology and maternal drinking in exacerbating risk for maladaptive behavioral outcomes was also examined. Participants were 213 families (102 control families, 94 paternal alcoholic families, and 17 families with alcoholic fathers and heavy drinking mothers) who were assessed when …
A dyadic approach to attachment anxiety and avoidance, marital conflict, and drinking
In this research, we integrate attachment theory and dyadic methodology to examine how attachment anxiety and avoidance might interact with marital conflict to influence alcohol consumption, drinking motives, and alcohol-related problems in a sample of 280 married and cohabiting couples over 3 years. Both husband and wife attachment anxiety were related to higher levels of own drinking to cope and alcohol-related problems. Additionally, both husb…
Women's physical aggression in bars
Although women drink in bars and experience aggression in bar settings, much of the research has focused on men's experiences of aggression in bars. We used data from questionnaires and face‐to‐face interviews to examine the contributors to the occurrence and severity of women's experience of specific incidents of aggression in bars. Young women ( n =92) provided event‐based descriptions of their most recent experience of physical aggression in a…
Male Premarital Aggression and Gender Identity among Black and White Newlywed Couples
Joni Boye-Beaman, Kenneth E. Leonard, Marilyn Senchak, Male Premarital Aggression and Gender Identity among Black and White Newlywed Couples, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 55, No. 2 (May, 1993), pp. 303-313
Alcohol and Expectations of Attack
10 intoxicated and 10 nonintoxicated subjects expressed their expectations regarding the level of shock they anticipated receiving from their opponent in a competitive reaction time situation. Prior to receiving any knowledge concerning their opponents' aggressive intent, subjects who consumed alcohol indicated that they expected their opponent to set higher intensities of shock than did the nonintoxicated subjects. This finding supports the hypo…
Effects of racial prejudice and race of target on aggression
Three studies were conducted to investigate the relationship between prejudice and physical aggression using the competitive reaction time paradigm. In Study 1, high and low prejudiced subjects competed against either a black or white opponent. The race of the opponent did not differentially affect the aggressive behavior of either high or low prejudiced subjects. In Study 2, high prejudiced subjects were confronted with a competitor who behaved …
Nonstranger sexual aggression
Spousal Violence and Alcohol/Drug Problems Among Parolees and Their Spouses
The relationships of alcohol and drug problems to spousal violence for a sample of male parolees (n = 82) and their spouses were investigated. Alcohol problems were present in 76% of the parolees and 56% of the spouses. Seventy three percent of the parolees and 40% of the spouses reported using some type of illegal drug on a regular basis. Both parolees and their spouses gave reports on his and her spousal violence. During the three months preced…
Alcohol and the Family
Part I: Genetics. Searles, The Contribution of Genetic Factors to the Development of Alcoholism. Cadoret, Genetics of Alcoholism. Tarter, Moss. Laird, Biological Biological Markers for Vulnerability to Alcoholism. Rowe, Behavior Genetic Models of Alcohol Abuse. Part II: Family Processes. Barnes, Impact of the Family on Adolescent Drinking Patterns. Johnson, Psychosocial Functioning in Children of Alcoholics. Bennett, Wolin, Family Culture and Alc…
Prevalence and distribution of premarital aggression among couples applying for a marriage license
Attachment Styles and Marital Adjustment among Newlywed Couples
Recent research has shown a relation between adults' attachment styles and their interpersonal functioning. The present study examined attachment styles and marital adjustment among 322 young, newlywed couples participating in a longitudinal study of alcohol use and marital functioning. Couples completed a three-item measure of adult attachment styles and measures of marital intimacy, partners' marital functioning and partners' conflict resolutio…
Male Premarital Aggression and Gender Identity among Black and White Newlywed Couples
Joni Boye-Beaman, Kenneth E. Leonard, Marilyn Senchak, Male Premarital Aggression and Gender Identity among Black and White Newlywed Couples, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 55, No. 2 (May, 1993), pp. 303-313
Attributions for episodes of marital aggression
Prospective prediction of husband marital aggression within newlywed couples.
An Empirical Typology of Drinking Partnerships and Their Relationship to Marital Functioning and Drinking Consequences
Using cluster analysis, we identified a natural typology of drinking partnerships in early marriage. We found an interpretable five-cl(ster solution that evidenced significant and meaningful relationships with both marital functioning and drinking con.sequences. Cluster profiles were derived from hasbands and wives drinking frequencies, typical quantities. the percentage of couple's total drinking done in each other's presence, and the percentage…
Drinking and marital aggression in newlyweds
OBJECTIVE: Research suggests that domestically violent men are more likely to be heavy drinkers than nonviolent men. However, very little data has addressed the relationship between the occurrence of a domestic violence episode and the co-occurrence of husband or wife alcohol consumption. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between husband and wife drinking and whether the most serious conflict involved verbal aggression, mo…
Cognition During Marital Conflict
This article describes and analyzes the stream of thought occurring concurrently with overt communication about marital conflict. The research considers how marital conflicts may be affected by selective attention to different elements of conflict (different emotions, issues, interactional behaviors, and background events) and by spontaneous attributions about communicative intentions and outcomes. One hundred eighteen couples discussed a current…
The Impact of Marital Aggression on Women's Psychological and Marital Functioning in a Newlywed Sample
Temperament and behavioral problems among infants in alcoholic families
This study examined the association between paternal alcoholism and 12‐month infant temperament and 18‐month behavior problems. The role of associated parental psychopathology and maternal drinking in exacerbating risk for maladaptive behavioral outcomes was also examined. Participants were 213 families (102 control families, 94 paternal alcoholic families, and 17 families with alcoholic fathers and heavy drinking mothers) who were assessed when …
Alcohol consumption and the occurrence and severity of aggression
Although a considerable body of experimental research supports the contention that alcohol facilitates aggression, some investigators have argued that these findings cannot be generalized to actual occurrences of aggression. Moreover, controversy continues concerning whether expectancies supporting alcohol's influence on aggression moderate the relationship. The present study is an event‐based examination of the relationship between alcohol consu…
Impact of fathers' alcoholism and associated risk factors on parent–infant attachment stability from 12 to 18 months
This study examined short‐term attachment stability and sought to identify predictors of stability and change within a sample characterized by fathers' alcoholism. Results suggest moderate stability of attachment classifications (60% for mothers, 53% for fathers) from 12 to 18 months. Higher paternal and maternal alcohol symptoms, maternal depression, and maternal antisocial behavior were found in families with stable insecure mother–infant attac…
Alcohol and intimate partner violence
Intimate partner violence (IPV) has been recognized as a prevalent and serious problem for more than 20 years. At a fundamental level violence against women, as well as many other forms of violence, occurs because physical aggression is accepted or tolerated, at least under some circumstances. However, many other factors contribute to the occurrence of violence, and ‘the field appears to be developing toward an integrative, metatheoretical model …
Spousal influence on smoking behaviors in a US community sample of newly married couples
Women's physical aggression in bars
Although women drink in bars and experience aggression in bar settings, much of the research has focused on men's experiences of aggression in bars. We used data from questionnaires and face‐to‐face interviews to examine the contributors to the occurrence and severity of women's experience of specific incidents of aggression in bars. Young women ( n =92) provided event‐based descriptions of their most recent experience of physical aggression in a…
A conceptual model for the development of externalizing behavior problems among kindergarten children of alcoholic families
The purpose of this study was to test a conceptual model predicting children's externalizing behavior problems in kindergarten in a sample of children with alcoholic (n = 130) and nonalcoholic (n = 97) parents. The model examined the role of parents' alcohol diagnoses, depression, and antisocial behavior at 12-18 months of child age in predicting parental warmth/sensitivity at 2 years of child age. Parental warmth/sensitivity at 2 years was hypot…
Spousal and Alcohol-Related Predictors of Smoking Cessation
We investigated the longitudinal influence of spousal and individual heavy drinking and heavy smoking on smoking cessation among married couples. Couples' (N = 634) past-year smoking, alcohol problems, and heavy drinking were assessed. We used an event history analysis and found that spousal and one's own heavy smoking and one's own heavy drinking decreased the likelihood of smoking cessation. Heavy drinking and spousal behavior should be conside…
Marital aggression and child peer competence
This study examined longitudinal data linking marital aggression with child peer competence in kindergarten. The study compared three conceptual models for understanding the relation between marital aggression and child peer competence. Model 1 examines the direct effects of marital aggression, parental alcoholism, and parenting on child peer competence, model 2 posits that this relation is mediated by child social problem solving abilities (soci…
A Randomized Trial
Female intimate partner violence perpetration
Cross-sectional and longitudinal predictors of mutual and nonmutual intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration were identified in a sample of female college freshmen (N = 499). Using female reports, couples were classified as to whether the relationship included no IPV, female-only IPV, or mutual IPV (male-only IPV was too rare to analyze). Mutual IPV was more common than asymmetrical IPV, and women in mutually violent relationships perpetrated…
Psychology (36 works) · Developmental psychology (26 works) · Medicine (21 works) · Clinical Psychology (20 works) · Poison control (17 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (14 works) · Clinical Psychology (14 works) · Aggression (13 works) · Intimate Partner and Family Violence (13 works)