Maximiliane E Szinovacz
Biographic Data
| ID | 82096 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maximiliane E Szinovacz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maximiliane E |
| FAMILY NAME | Szinovacz |
| SIGNATURE | SZINOVACZ M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Eastern Virginia Medical School |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 305 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Positive, Negative, and Ambivalent Interactions With Family and Friends
Although the relationship between social relationships and mental health is well established, debate continues about the relative importance of specific sources (spouses, children, relatives, friends) as well as of positive and negative interactions. The authors examined the associations of positive, negative, and ambivalent interactions with life satisfaction and depressive symptoms for spouses, children, relatives, and friends, using data from …
Changes in adult children's participation in parent care
Care-giving research has focused on primary care-givers and relied on cross-sectional data. This approach neglects the dynamic and systemic character of care-giver networks. Our analyses address changes in care-givers and care networks over a two-year period using pooled data from the US Health and Retirement Study, 1992–2000. Based on a matrix of specific adult-child care-givers across two consecutive time-points, we assess changes in any adult-…
The division of parent care between spouses
Research on the division of family work has focused on household work and child-care to the exclusion of other domains, whereas studies on care-giving for older people typically ignore spouses' support to care-givers. In this paper we apply an approach that is typical of research on spouses' division of family work in caring for parents, in that the theoretical model focuses on the ‘cultural mandates’ that guide spouses' division of care, namely …
Caregiving Contexts
Grandparenthood
Grandparenthood can be considered at three distinct levels: the societal level (referring to societal norms, functions, and esteem of grandparents), the family level (referring to interactions and supports among grandparents, parents, and grandchildren), and the individual level (referring to the meaning and significance of grandparenthood to the grandparents). The meaning and significance of grandparenthood often derive from societal and familia…
Retirement and marital decision making
This study explores how partner's employment and preretirement decision-making structures affect retirement satisfaction, using pooled data from Waves 1 to 4 of the Health and Retirement Surveys. Based on resource theory, the analyses indicate that retired husbands are least satisfied if their wives remain employed and had more say in decisions prior to the husband's retirement. Retired wives are least satisfied if their husbands remain employed …
Retirement Transitions and Spouse Disability
These results highlight the importance of retirement context on postretirement well-being. They suggest that both type of retirement transition and marital contexts such as spouse's disability influence postretirement well-being, and these effects differ by gender
Honeymoons and Joint Lunches
With hypotheses derived from a life course perspective in conjunction with life event stress and role theories, we examine whether a spouse's employment and length of retirement affect a person's postretirement depressive symptoms and whether such effects differ by gender. Analyses use pooled data from Waves 1-4 of the Health and Retirement Survey, using a subsample of married individuals who either remained continuously employed over time or com…
Dimensions of Marital Quality and Retirement
This study examines whether the meaning of marital conflict and marital solidarity are affected by the transition to retirement, whether the retirement transition alters stability and variability of, and cross-spouse influences on, marital quality, and whether retirement influences latent means of marital quality. Data from both waves of the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) addressed these questions ( N= 407 couples for wives' re…
Caring for a demented relative at home
Couple Retirement Patterns and Retirement Age
The main purpose of this article is to assess to the extent to which divergent retirement policies in Austria and the United States influence couples’ retirement timing decisions. The Austrian data are from the European Community Household Panel (1995-98), and the U.S. data are from the Health and Retirement Survey (1992-96). Results indicate that in Austria both husbands’ and wives’ retirement age is contingent on the interaction between the age…
Influences of Family Obligations and Relationships on Retirement
Our data suggest the importance of family obligations and relationships in retirement decisions and demonstrate considerable diversity in these processes. Models of retirement should pay greater attention to the interdependence of work and family spheres and to the diversity of retirement processes among various population groups
Marital Characteristics and Retirement Decisions
This study assesses the effect of spouse and marital relationship characteristics on labor force withdrawal. The authors further explore differences between husbands’ and wives’ retirement. The analyses are based on two waves of the National Survey of Families and Households. Marital characteristics influence retirement decisions in several ways and contribute significantly to model fit. Husbands adjust their retirement in terms of wives’ benefit…
Effects of Retirement on Marital Conflict Tactics
This study explores whether spouses' retirement influences their use of selected conflict tactics using panel data from the National Survey of Families and Households ( N = 559 couples). The data indicate that husbands but not wives perceive a decline in heated arguments on the wife's retirement. This change is partially due to a decline in disagreements. In addition, husbands' retirement appears to enhance engagement in calm discussions by the h…
Changes in Housework After Retirement
Grounded in family systems theory and based on panel data from the National Survey of Families and Households, this study shows that retirees spend more time with housework both in their own and their partner's domain than do continuously employed spouses. Moreover, husbands and wives spend less time with female chores if their partner retires. The data further reveal that the effect of changes in paid labor on housework time is contingent on the…
Effects of Surrogate Parenting on Grandparents' Well-Being
The findings suggest that effects of surrogate parenting differ by gender, and that they are partially contingent on grandparents' vulnerabilities (marital status, education, and presence of childless dependent children in the household) before grandchildren join the household. Mediating effects of other life changes are relatively small
The Retiree Identity
While employment constitutes the main reference for individuals' self-definition as retiree, other life circumstances also have some influence. Full understanding of retirement transitions will require more attention to the meaning context of retirement among divergent population groups
Handbook on grandparenthood
Grandparents Today
This article presents a demographic profile of grandparents, using the National Survey of Families and Households. Specific dimensions of grandparenthood addressed include grandparents' survival, the timing of grandparenthood, grandparents' involvement in other roles, surrogate parenting, and stepgrandparents. The data indicate considerable heterogeneity among grandparents of different genders and races or ethnicities. They also suggest modificat…
Caregiving Responsibilities and Child Spanking
Adult Children Taking Parents into Their Homes
This article explores whether childhood living arrangements (living with single or remarried parents, exposure to extended households) impact attitudes toward and implementation of parental coresidence. The results indicate that positive attitudes toward parental coresidence are less common among those raised by single fathers and more common among women exposed to traditional extended households. Parental coresidence is more prevalent among men …
Living With Grandparents
This study, based on data from the National Survey of Families and Households, confirms normative preference for nuclear households across all cohorts and racial/ethnic groups throughout this century. However, a noteworthy minority (about 30%) did live with grandparents at some time during their childhood. Living with grandparents as well as having a grandparent live in one's parental household were somewhat more prevalent during the 30's and 40'…
Comparing One-Partner and Couple Data on Sensitive Marital Behaviors
Maximiliane E. Szinovacz, Lance C. Egley, Comparing One-Partner and Couple Data on Sensitive Marital Behaviors: The Case of Marital Violence, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 57, No. 4 (Nov., 1995), pp. 995-1010
Battering of Women
The Essence of Battering * The Structural Dynamics of Battering * The Interpersonal Dynamics of Battering * The Developmental Process and Organizational Structure of Battering: The Initial Stages * The Developmental Process and Organizational Structure of Battering: The Later Stages * Interventions with Men Who Batter Women * Intrapersonal Intervention PrograMs. Interpersonal Intervention PrograMs. Community-coordinated Interventions and Change i…
Who Cares for the Elderly? Public Policy and the Experiences of Adult Daughters
Comparing One-Partner and Couple Data on Sensitive Marital Behaviors
Maximiliane E. Szinovacz, Lance C. Egley, Comparing One-Partner and Couple Data on Sensitive Marital Behaviors: The Case of Marital Violence, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 57, No. 4 (Nov., 1995), pp. 995-1010
Influences of Family Obligations and Relationships on Retirement
Our data suggest the importance of family obligations and relationships in retirement decisions and demonstrate considerable diversity in these processes. Models of retirement should pay greater attention to the interdependence of work and family spheres and to the diversity of retirement processes among various population groups
Changes in Housework After Retirement
Grounded in family systems theory and based on panel data from the National Survey of Families and Households, this study shows that retirees spend more time with housework both in their own and their partner's domain than do continuously employed spouses. Moreover, husbands and wives spend less time with female chores if their partner retires. The data further reveal that the effect of changes in paid labor on housework time is contingent on the…
Effects of Surrogate Parenting on Grandparents' Well-Being
The findings suggest that effects of surrogate parenting differ by gender, and that they are partially contingent on grandparents' vulnerabilities (marital status, education, and presence of childless dependent children in the household) before grandchildren join the household. Mediating effects of other life changes are relatively small
Positive, Negative, and Ambivalent Interactions With Family and Friends
Although the relationship between social relationships and mental health is well established, debate continues about the relative importance of specific sources (spouses, children, relatives, friends) as well as of positive and negative interactions. The authors examined the associations of positive, negative, and ambivalent interactions with life satisfaction and depressive symptoms for spouses, children, relatives, and friends, using data from …
Using Couple Data as a Methodological Tool
The paper demonstrates the use of couple data as a methodological tool. Using Straus's Conflict Tactics Scale as an example, it is shown that couple data may be used for the evaluation of scale items and for the assessment of the validity of frequency estimates of violence and its relationship with other variables. The results provide clear evidence that aggregate husband-wife data cannot substitute for couple data
The Retiree Identity
While employment constitutes the main reference for individuals' self-definition as retiree, other life circumstances also have some influence. Full understanding of retirement transitions will require more attention to the meaning context of retirement among divergent population groups
The division of parent care between spouses
Research on the division of family work has focused on household work and child-care to the exclusion of other domains, whereas studies on care-giving for older people typically ignore spouses' support to care-givers. In this paper we apply an approach that is typical of research on spouses' division of family work in caring for parents, in that the theoretical model focuses on the ‘cultural mandates’ that guide spouses' division of care, namely …
Honeymoons and Joint Lunches
With hypotheses derived from a life course perspective in conjunction with life event stress and role theories, we examine whether a spouse's employment and length of retirement affect a person's postretirement depressive symptoms and whether such effects differ by gender. Analyses use pooled data from Waves 1-4 of the Health and Retirement Survey, using a subsample of married individuals who either remained continuously employed over time or com…
Caring for a demented relative at home
Retirement Transitions and Spouse Disability
These results highlight the importance of retirement context on postretirement well-being. They suggest that both type of retirement transition and marital contexts such as spouse's disability influence postretirement well-being, and these effects differ by gender
Employment Status, Gender Role Attitudes, and Marital Dependence in Later Life
Cette etude examine les consequences de la retraite sur les relations conjugales. Elle explore les relations entre le statut de chacun des deux epoux (employe/retraite), leurs attitudes et leurs perceptions de la dependance conjugale. Les AA. montrent que l'emploi et la retraite jouent un role plus important pour les femmes que pour les hommes dans leurs perceptions de la dependance devant le mariage
Changes in adult children's participation in parent care
Care-giving research has focused on primary care-givers and relied on cross-sectional data. This approach neglects the dynamic and systemic character of care-giver networks. Our analyses address changes in care-givers and care networks over a two-year period using pooled data from the US Health and Retirement Study, 1992–2000. Based on a matrix of specific adult-child care-givers across two consecutive time-points, we assess changes in any adult-…
Retirement and marital decision making
This study explores how partner's employment and preretirement decision-making structures affect retirement satisfaction, using pooled data from Waves 1 to 4 of the Health and Retirement Surveys. Based on resource theory, the analyses indicate that retired husbands are least satisfied if their wives remain employed and had more say in decisions prior to the husband's retirement. Retired wives are least satisfied if their husbands remain employed …
Dimensions of Marital Quality and Retirement
This study examines whether the meaning of marital conflict and marital solidarity are affected by the transition to retirement, whether the retirement transition alters stability and variability of, and cross-spouse influences on, marital quality, and whether retirement influences latent means of marital quality. Data from both waves of the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) addressed these questions ( N= 407 couples for wives' re…
Effects of Retirement on Marital Conflict Tactics
This study explores whether spouses' retirement influences their use of selected conflict tactics using panel data from the National Survey of Families and Households ( N = 559 couples). The data indicate that husbands but not wives perceive a decline in heated arguments on the wife's retirement. This change is partially due to a decline in disagreements. In addition, husbands' retirement appears to enhance engagement in calm discussions by the h…
Female Retirement
PAST research on retirement has nearly exclusively centered on the adjustment problems of male retirees. This trend is particularly obvious in studies on the effects of retirement on the marital relationship. Data from a pilot study of 25 female retirees and their husbands indicate that female retirement can, indeed, influence a couple's marital satisfaction and task allocation patterns. The retirement of the wife does not always lead to a redist…
Role Allocation, Family Structure and Female Employment
Earlier studies on the effects of female employment on family task allocation and decision-making patterns failed to incorporate existing evidence regarding interrelations between closeness of contacts with kin and family interaction patterns. It is hypothesized that a wife's gainful employment will have differential effects on family interaction patterns, depending on the relative availability and the relative effectiveness offamily-internal and…
Changing Family Roles and Interactions
No abstract available for this article
Couple Retirement Patterns and Retirement Age
The main purpose of this article is to assess to the extent to which divergent retirement policies in Austria and the United States influence couples’ retirement timing decisions. The Austrian data are from the European Community Household Panel (1995-98), and the U.S. data are from the Health and Retirement Survey (1992-96). Results indicate that in Austria both husbands’ and wives’ retirement age is contingent on the interaction between the age…
Adult Children Taking Parents into Their Homes
This article explores whether childhood living arrangements (living with single or remarried parents, exposure to extended households) impact attitudes toward and implementation of parental coresidence. The results indicate that positive attitudes toward parental coresidence are less common among those raised by single fathers and more common among women exposed to traditional extended households. Parental coresidence is more prevalent among men …
Living With Grandparents
This study, based on data from the National Survey of Families and Households, confirms normative preference for nuclear households across all cohorts and racial/ethnic groups throughout this century. However, a noteworthy minority (about 30%) did live with grandparents at some time during their childhood. Living with grandparents as well as having a grandparent live in one's parental household were somewhat more prevalent during the 30's and 40'…
Caregiving Responsibilities and Child Spanking
Another Look at Normative Resource Theory
Role Allocation, Family Structure and Female Employment
Earlier studies on the effects of female employment on family task allocation and decision-making patterns failed to incorporate existing evidence regarding interrelations between closeness of contacts with kin and family interaction patterns. It is hypothesized that a wife's gainful employment will have differential effects on family interaction patterns, depending on the relative availability and the relative effectiveness offamily-internal and…
Conflict and Power in Marriage. Expecting the First Child
Another Look at Normative Resource Theory
Female Retirement
PAST research on retirement has nearly exclusively centered on the adjustment problems of male retirees. This trend is particularly obvious in studies on the effects of retirement on the marital relationship. Data from a pilot study of 25 female retirees and their husbands indicate that female retirement can, indeed, influence a couple's marital satisfaction and task allocation patterns. The retirement of the wife does not always lead to a redist…
Frauenhaeuser Gewalt in der Ehe und was Frauen dagegen tun (Women's Refuge)
Family Decision-Making
Family Decision-Making
The authors present a new model of the process of decision-making that takes into account the importance of sex roles. They use a series of couples as examples that illustrate the model at various stages of the life cycle. They also consider how decision-making is changing. A major contribution to the study of sexual politics and bargaining within relationships. 'The authors are to be commended for their attempt to bring order to the complexities…
Family Decision-Making
Using Couple Data as a Methodological Tool
The paper demonstrates the use of couple data as a methodological tool. Using Straus's Conflict Tactics Scale as an example, it is shown that couple data may be used for the evaluation of scale items and for the assessment of the validity of frequency estimates of violence and its relationship with other variables. The results provide clear evidence that aggregate husband-wife data cannot substitute for couple data
Changing Family Roles and Interactions
No abstract available for this article
Family Systems and Inheritance Patterns
Contents Family Systems and Inheritance Public Opinion about Property Distribution at Death Widowhood, Income Maintenance, and Economic Well-Being On the Economics of Inheritance Disinheritance and Will Contests The Lawyer as Will Maker Analytic Essays: Jack Goody and Inheritance Selective Guide to Current Reference Sources on Family Systems and Inheritance Reference Notes Included
Sozialpolitik fur das Kind (Social Policy for the Child)
Families and Retirement
Who Cares for the Elderly? Public Policy and the Experiences of Adult Daughters
Employment Status, Gender Role Attitudes, and Marital Dependence in Later Life
Cette etude examine les consequences de la retraite sur les relations conjugales. Elle explore les relations entre le statut de chacun des deux epoux (employe/retraite), leurs attitudes et leurs perceptions de la dependance conjugale. Les AA. montrent que l'emploi et la retraite jouent un role plus important pour les femmes que pour les hommes dans leurs perceptions de la dependance devant le mariage
Battering of Women
The Essence of Battering * The Structural Dynamics of Battering * The Interpersonal Dynamics of Battering * The Developmental Process and Organizational Structure of Battering: The Initial Stages * The Developmental Process and Organizational Structure of Battering: The Later Stages * Interventions with Men Who Batter Women * Intrapersonal Intervention PrograMs. Interpersonal Intervention PrograMs. Community-coordinated Interventions and Change i…
Comparing One-Partner and Couple Data on Sensitive Marital Behaviors
Maximiliane E. Szinovacz, Lance C. Egley, Comparing One-Partner and Couple Data on Sensitive Marital Behaviors: The Case of Marital Violence, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 57, No. 4 (Nov., 1995), pp. 995-1010
Living With Grandparents
This study, based on data from the National Survey of Families and Households, confirms normative preference for nuclear households across all cohorts and racial/ethnic groups throughout this century. However, a noteworthy minority (about 30%) did live with grandparents at some time during their childhood. Living with grandparents as well as having a grandparent live in one's parental household were somewhat more prevalent during the 30's and 40'…
Caregiving Responsibilities and Child Spanking
Adult Children Taking Parents into Their Homes
This article explores whether childhood living arrangements (living with single or remarried parents, exposure to extended households) impact attitudes toward and implementation of parental coresidence. The results indicate that positive attitudes toward parental coresidence are less common among those raised by single fathers and more common among women exposed to traditional extended households. Parental coresidence is more prevalent among men …
Handbook on grandparenthood
Grandparents Today
This article presents a demographic profile of grandparents, using the National Survey of Families and Households. Specific dimensions of grandparenthood addressed include grandparents' survival, the timing of grandparenthood, grandparents' involvement in other roles, surrogate parenting, and stepgrandparents. The data indicate considerable heterogeneity among grandparents of different genders and races or ethnicities. They also suggest modificat…
Effects of Surrogate Parenting on Grandparents' Well-Being
The findings suggest that effects of surrogate parenting differ by gender, and that they are partially contingent on grandparents' vulnerabilities (marital status, education, and presence of childless dependent children in the household) before grandchildren join the household. Mediating effects of other life changes are relatively small
The Retiree Identity
While employment constitutes the main reference for individuals' self-definition as retiree, other life circumstances also have some influence. Full understanding of retirement transitions will require more attention to the meaning context of retirement among divergent population groups
Marital Characteristics and Retirement Decisions
This study assesses the effect of spouse and marital relationship characteristics on labor force withdrawal. The authors further explore differences between husbands’ and wives’ retirement. The analyses are based on two waves of the National Survey of Families and Households. Marital characteristics influence retirement decisions in several ways and contribute significantly to model fit. Husbands adjust their retirement in terms of wives’ benefit…
Psychology (36 works) · Sociology (26 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (17 works) · Medicine (14 works) · Political science (14 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Developmental psychology (12 works) · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Retirement, Disability, and Employment (11 works)