Patrick C Mckenry
Biographic Data
| ID | 85386 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick C Mckenry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick C |
| FAMILY NAME | Mckenry |
| SIGNATURE | MCKENRY P C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 69 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 313 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 69 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Stress, Attachment Style, and Partner Violence Among Same-Sex Couples
Attachment theory has been utilized in studies of relationship violence with heterosexual samples but not with same-sex samples. The purpose of this exploratory study was to compare two nested models of perpetration of violence derived from literature using structural equation modeling procedures. The sample for this study (N = 87) consisted of 46 gay men and 41 lesbians who had recently been in a same-sex intimate relationship, who had perpetrat…
Perpetration of Gay and Lesbian Partner Violence
Women's Use of Aggression Toward Their Former Spouses During Marital Separation
The purpose of this study was to assess predictors of women's use of verbal and physical aggression during marital separation among a sample of 147 divorced mothers. The predictor variables examined were women's self-esteem, mastery, attachment style, gender-role identity, and husband's verbal and physical aggression during separation. Hierarchical multiple regressions revealed that women's psychological characteristics and men's use of aggressio…
Athlete Aggression on the Rink and off the Ice
Because male athletes have exhibited aggressive tendencies in a variety of settings, they may be at risk for using violence both within and beyond their sports involvement. Five former college/professional hockey players were interviewed to determine their perspectives on the nature of aggression and violence in sports competition as well as in social relationships.The informants were asked aboutathletes'violence and aggression toward teammates, …
The Legacy of Welfare
The current study explores the impact of parental welfare history on individuals' current use of welfare by decomposing intergenerational differences using techniques traditionally employed in the race and sex wage discrimination literature. This research extends Rank and Cheng's examination of welfare across generations by including various attitudinal, cultural, and community factors. Empirical testing of the the oretical explanations of welfar…
Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Family Emotional Involvement and Criticism Scale
Using a convenience sample of 152 married couples, the present study tested models that alternately considered family members' perceptions of Expressed Emotion to be a one-, two-, three-, or four-factor construct as measured by the Family Emotional Involvement and Criticism Scale. Results of confirmatory factor analysis procedures indicated that perceptions of Expressed Emotion were best represented by a four-factor model that consisted of involv…
The Impact of Parental Support, Behavioral Control, and Psychological Control on the Academic Achievement and Self-Esteem of African American and European American Adolescents
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between adolescent functioning (i.e., self-esteem and academic achievement) and parental support, behavioral control, and psychological control in European American and African American adolescents. Hierarchical regression analyses indicated that supportive behaviors of African American mothers toward their adolescent children positively predicted both self-esteem and academic achievement…
The Psychosocial Well-Being of Black and White Mothers Following Marital Dissolution
A subsample of divorced/separated Black and White mothers from the National Survey of Families and Households was followed over a five-year period to determine cultural differences in psychosocial well-being. Discriminant analysis, with education and time since divorce/separation controlled, indicated that White mothers at Time 2 differed from Black mothers in terms of higher levels of personal mastery, informal support, and economic well-being. …
The Relationship Between Marriage and Psychological Well-being
This study examined the relationship between marriage and psychological well-being using a sample from the National Survey of Families and Households panel data. Eight different marital status groups were identified and used to test two competing perspectives explaining the relationship between marriage and individual psychological well-being (protection vs. selection). Findings confirmed the strong effects of marital status on psychological well…
Relationship Transitions as Seen in the National Survey of Families and Households
The examination of relationship history in two waves of the National Survey of Families and Households data resulted in twenty-one different marital status classifications. The findings indicate the diversity of marital status categories and the complexity of studying relationship dissolution and recoupling
Qualitative Evaluation of a Parent Education Program for Divorcing Parents
In response to the significant increase in divorce and the expanding number of children affected by this stressor, parent education programs for divorcing individuals have been developed. There are over 500 of these programs nationwide, yet few of these programs have been evaluated through quantitative methods, and none have been evaluated through use of extensive qualitative means. It was the purpose of the current study to explore, in depth, th…
A Comparative Study of Divorce in Three Chinese Societies
Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong are three of very few areas of the world which have high rates of economic growth along with low divorce rates. However, the divorce rates in those countries have increased rapidly since 1970. In contrast to western families that experience an increased rate of divorce with industrialization, the variation in the divorce rates in these three Chinese societies were not accounted for by industrialization. This cross…
Court-Related Predictors of Parental Cooperation and Conflict After Divorce
A sample of 237 divorced parents were surveyed to test a model predicting parental cooperation and conflict. The predictor variables included participation in a divorce education program, participation in divorce mediation, child custody arrangement (sole versus joint legal), and means of terminating the marital relationship (dissolution versus divorce). Socioeconomic status and gender were statistically controlled in this study. Ordinary least s…
Families across Time
The Psychosocial Well-Being of Black and White Mothers Following Marital Dissolution
This study proposed that African American cultural, social, and economic experiences would positively influence the psychosocial adjustment to marital dissolution of Black mothers as compared to White mothers. The study sample consisted of 235 Black and 662 White divorced or separated mothers from the National Survey of Families and Households. The mothers were not remarried and reported having at least one or more biological or adopted children,…
Modeling the Effects of Expressed Emotion, Psychiatric Symptomology, and Marital Quality Levels on Male and Female Verbal Aggression
Previous research has linked expressed emotion (EE) levels and psychiatric symptomology, whereas other empirical efforts have examined the relationship between EE and marital relationship variables. Still other research has linked psychological conditions with acts of aggression, and the impact of marital issues within this domain of inquiry also has been explored. The study presented here examined the combined effects of EE, marital quality, and…
Fathers' Participation in a Divorce Education Program
It was the purpose of this study to explore, in depth, the effects of a divorce psychoeducational program in Ohio with nonresi-dential fathers in terms of gaining more information regarding: (a) how fathers constructed the knowledge from the program, (b) whether the program addressed special adjustment needs of non-residential fathers, and (c) whether the fathers had any specific suggestions on how to improve the program. Naturalistic research me…
Test of Family of Origin Structural Models of Male Verbal and Physical Aggression
Using a convenience sample of 152 married or cohabiting couples, this study tested different theoretical models of male aggression toward a female intimate that addressed the relation between physical and verbal aggression variables and family of origin violence, psychological symptoms, and marital satisfaction. Results of covariance structural analysis procedures provided general support for the proposed models. Results indicated that physical v…
The Role of Childhood Attachment Factors in Predicting Male Violence Toward Female Intimates
Social Networks and Support
Using data from the National Survey of Families and Households (1988), this study examines cultural variations in social networks and support. The responses of African American (n=2,391), Asian (n=127), Caucasian (n=9,403), and Hispanic (n= 1,004) adults were compared, controlling for education. Multivariate analysis of covariance and logistic analysis indicated few cultural differences. However, the three ethnic minority groups were more likely …
An africentric rites of passage program for adolescent males
Application of Attachment Theory to Male Violence Toward Female Intimates
Nonresidential Father Involvement
Using data from the National Survey of Families and Households, this study compared the level of involvement of nonresi- dential fathers as a hnction of marital status: divorced/single parent, separated, remanied, and never manied. MANCOVA analysis, with SES as the covariate, indicated that separated and divorced fathers communicated with and visited their children more often than did remarried or never married fathers. Also, separated and never …
Influences on the Quality of the Stepmother-Adolescent Relationship
his study'identified the extent to which selected des- criptors of relationship formation were related to the quality of the slepmother-adolescent relationship as perceived by both the step- mother and the adolescent stepchild. The reputational sample con- sisted of 50 stepfamilies who completed questionnaires in thcir homes. Correlational analysis indicated four significant predictors of relationship quality: the adolescent's perception of famil…
Utilization of the Brief Symptom Inventory to Discriminate between Violent and Nonviolent Male Relationship Partners
This study reports on the use of the Brief Symptom Inventory, a shortened version of the Symptom Check List-90-Revised, to measure psychopathological symptoms that predict male domestic violence. A sample of 152 men and their partners reported on the severity of violent behavior present in their relationship. Discriminant analysis indicated variation in men's violent status as a function of psychopathological symptoms. Violent men evidenced highe…
The Relationship Between Marriage and Psychological Well-being
This study examined the relationship between marriage and psychological well-being using a sample from the National Survey of Families and Households panel data. Eight different marital status groups were identified and used to test two competing perspectives explaining the relationship between marriage and individual psychological well-being (protection vs. selection). Findings confirmed the strong effects of marital status on psychological well…
The Impact of Parental Support, Behavioral Control, and Psychological Control on the Academic Achievement and Self-Esteem of African American and European American Adolescents
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between adolescent functioning (i.e., self-esteem and academic achievement) and parental support, behavioral control, and psychological control in European American and African American adolescents. Hierarchical regression analyses indicated that supportive behaviors of African American mothers toward their adolescent children positively predicted both self-esteem and academic achievement…
Perpetration of Gay and Lesbian Partner Violence
Social Networks and Support
Using data from the National Survey of Families and Households (1988), this study examines cultural variations in social networks and support. The responses of African American (n=2,391), Asian (n=127), Caucasian (n=9,403), and Hispanic (n= 1,004) adults were compared, controlling for education. Multivariate analysis of covariance and logistic analysis indicated few cultural differences. However, the three ethnic minority groups were more likely …
Relationship of testosterone to men's family functioning at mid‐life
Sociobiological theory suggests that aggression coupled with altruism is highly adaptive for males in all social systems, including the family, whereas sex‐role convergence theory indicates that lower levels of aggression are most adaptive for men, particularly at mid‐life. The purpose of this study was to determine the role that testosterone, as a proxy for aggression, plays as an adaptive mechanism in the lives of middle‐aged males. The sample …
Athlete Aggression on the Rink and off the Ice
Because male athletes have exhibited aggressive tendencies in a variety of settings, they may be at risk for using violence both within and beyond their sports involvement. Five former college/professional hockey players were interviewed to determine their perspectives on the nature of aggression and violence in sports competition as well as in social relationships.The informants were asked aboutathletes'violence and aggression toward teammates, …
Adolescent Sexual Behavior
Application of Attachment Theory to Male Violence Toward Female Intimates
The Consequences of Adolescent Parenthood on Men's Depression, Parental Satisfaction, and Fertility in Adulthood
Adolescent fathers who drop out of school to enter the labor force jeopardize their educations, subsequent occupations, and their life-time earning potentials, as well as enter adult roles for which they may not be emotionally prepared. This life event during their adolescence puts them at high risk for economic problems and stress related to accelerated role development: Using a sample from a national study, it was hypothesized that men who fath…
Correlates of Dysfunctional Parenting Attitudes among Low-Income Adolescent Mothers
Various scholars have speculated that adolescent mothers are at risk for negative parenting. It was therefore the purpose of this study to assess dysfunctional attitudes of adolescent mothers through a secondary analysis of a subsample of 157 participants from a large-scale, ongoing longitudinal study. Belsky 's process model of parenting was used as a framework to assess the adolescent mothers' parental attitudes at I year postpartum. Two sets o…
The Role of Childhood Attachment Factors in Predicting Male Violence Toward Female Intimates
Toward a Biopsychosocial Model of Domestic Violence
This study aimed to develop a biopsychosocial model of male domestic violence through an examination of 102 married men. The participants were interviewed and their blood serum was analyzed for testosterone and prolactin levels as well as for illicit drug use. There were 34 subjects identified as violent males with a mean age of 34.76 and married for an average of 8.15 years. A Tobit analysis of male violence toward a female intimate using the bi…
Welfare Receipt Among Black and White Adolescent Mothers
Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth were analyzed to determine whether the impact of adolescent childbearing on women's subsequent contact with the welfare system differed for Black and White women. Results of a path analysis indicate that there were distinctive differences between young Black and White women in the way early childbearing influences welfare receipt over an 8-year period. These differences are not fully apparent un…
The Legacy of Welfare
The current study explores the impact of parental welfare history on individuals' current use of welfare by decomposing intergenerational differences using techniques traditionally employed in the race and sex wage discrimination literature. This research extends Rank and Cheng's examination of welfare across generations by including various attitudinal, cultural, and community factors. Empirical testing of the the oretical explanations of welfar…
The Psychosocial Well-Being of Black and White Mothers Following Marital Dissolution
This study proposed that African American cultural, social, and economic experiences would positively influence the psychosocial adjustment to marital dissolution of Black mothers as compared to White mothers. The study sample consisted of 235 Black and 662 White divorced or separated mothers from the National Survey of Families and Households. The mothers were not remarried and reported having at least one or more biological or adopted children,…
Mediators of male violence toward female intimates
Family Influences on the Job Satisfaction of Employed Mothers
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between job satisfaction and selected family variables that might constrain or enhance the job satisfaction of employed mothers. Results of stepwise regression indicate that four family variables were more useful in explaining variation in job satisfaction than six background variables that had been expected to influence job satisfaction. Results suggest that job satisfaction could be enha…
The impact of family and peer differentiation levels on adolescent psychosocial development and problematic behaviors
Psychosocial predictors of stress associated with the male midlife transition
Modeling the Effects of Expressed Emotion, Psychiatric Symptomology, and Marital Quality Levels on Male and Female Verbal Aggression
Previous research has linked expressed emotion (EE) levels and psychiatric symptomology, whereas other empirical efforts have examined the relationship between EE and marital relationship variables. Still other research has linked psychological conditions with acts of aggression, and the impact of marital issues within this domain of inquiry also has been explored. The study presented here examined the combined effects of EE, marital quality, and…
Test of Family of Origin Structural Models of Male Verbal and Physical Aggression
Using a convenience sample of 152 married or cohabiting couples, this study tested different theoretical models of male aggression toward a female intimate that addressed the relation between physical and verbal aggression variables and family of origin violence, psychological symptoms, and marital satisfaction. Results of covariance structural analysis procedures provided general support for the proposed models. Results indicated that physical v…
Perceived Adjustment of Parents and Children
The article presents a study examining family structure, race, and gender differences in parent and child adjustment to address the absence of empirical information about the experiences of African-American step-family members. Parental percept of child adjustment were investigated because studies of primarily white families have suggested that. children in stepfamilies may experience more distress. Consequently, given the pattern of generally sm…
Research on Black Adolescents
Understanding of Black adolescence is limited due to the cultural bias inherent in much of the research literature. This bias is reflected in the philosophical approaches, theoretical frameworks, sampling, instrumentation, and data analysis used in the study of Black youth. Only recently have scholars moved toward studying Black adolescents in appropriate cultural context. This essay discusses the legacy of cultural bias and recommends strategies…
Family and Job Influences on Role Satisfaction of Employed Rural Mothers
One hundred fifty rural employed mothers were surveyed to determine family and job predictors of satisfaction with the dual-work role. Findings indicated the saliency of job satisfaction variables in determining role satisfaction among this group of women as opposed to hypothesized reference group support variables and nontraditional value orientation variables. Discussion centered on the importance of employment outside the home to life satisfac…
Use of Repeated-Measures Designs in Family Research
The purpose of this paper is to describe the use of repeated-measures designs in the study of whole families, specifically differences in perception between family members. The discussion addresses the specific advantages and disadvantages of these designs, analysis of variance and multivariate analysis of variance applications, and practical issues of assumptions, multiple comparison, statistical association, unbalanced designs, missing data, an…
Some Suggestions for Teaching about Black Adolescence
The Cycles of Sex
NCFR Filmstrip Awards Competition
Young Girls
Human Sexuality
Marriage and Family Today
Adolescent Pregnancy
In the late 1960's and early 1970's illegitimacy among adolescents became recognized as a serious national, medical and social problem (Osofsky, 1968). It was discovered that the incidence of adolescent out-of-wedlock pregnancies was increasing rapidly. The illegitimacy rate of unmarried girls aged 15-19 years of age was 8 per 1,000 in 1940; 16 per 1,000 in 1960; and 24 per 1,000 in 1971. There was concern that this increase represented a trend t…
Adolescent Sexuality and Teenage Pregnancy
Inventory of Marriage and Family Literature, Volume IV
NCFR Filmstrip Awards Competition
Divorce Mediation
Methods and Issues in Social Research
Adolescents' Knowledge of Childbearing
The study reported here is a preliminary one describing one phase of an Adolescent Pregnancy Project being conducted at the University of Georgia. Based on a sample of 1200 high school youth who participated in a state wide study this analysis focuses on their understanding of the consequences of child bearing during adolescence in terms of the health of the mother and the child and in terms of its impact on their family life. (authors)
Adolescent discipline
Use of Repeated-Measures Designs in Family Research
The purpose of this paper is to describe the use of repeated-measures designs in the study of whole families, specifically differences in perception between family members. The discussion addresses the specific advantages and disadvantages of these designs, analysis of variance and multivariate analysis of variance applications, and practical issues of assumptions, multiple comparison, statistical association, unbalanced designs, missing data, an…
Marital Cohesion
Marital cohesion is conceptualized as a component of marital adjustment. Seven variables previously related to adjustment (i.e., sex, self-esteem, religiosity, spousal hostility, extrafamilial involvements, self-disclosure anxiety, and comparison level for the marriage) are entered into a path model to predict cohesion. Over 36% of the variance in cohesion is explained by the model, and four of the seven hypothesized direct effects are supported …
Social and Psychological Discriminants of Adolescent Suicide
Data from forty-six adolescent suicide attempters and their mothers, and a comparison group of 46 non-suicidal adolescents and their mothers, were analyzed to identify sex and age differences in adolescent suicidal behavior. In general, discriminant analyses indicated that variables descriptive of intra-familial attachments were more predictive of younger adolescent suicidal behavior whereas variables descriptive of attachments outside the family…
Family and Job Influences on Role Satisfaction of Employed Rural Mothers
One hundred fifty rural employed mothers were surveyed to determine family and job predictors of satisfaction with the dual-work role. Findings indicated the saliency of job satisfaction variables in determining role satisfaction among this group of women as opposed to hypothesized reference group support variables and nontraditional value orientation variables. Discussion centered on the importance of employment outside the home to life satisfac…
Predictors of Life Satisfaction among Rural and Urban Employed Mothers
Connor M. Walters, Patrick C. McKenry, Predictors of Life Satisfaction among Rural and Urban Employed Mothers: A Research Note, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 47, No. 4 (Nov., 1985), pp. 1067-1071
Family Influences on the Job Satisfaction of Employed Mothers
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between job satisfaction and selected family variables that might constrain or enhance the job satisfaction of employed mothers. Results of stepwise regression indicate that four family variables were more useful in explaining variation in job satisfaction than six background variables that had been expected to influence job satisfaction. Results suggest that job satisfaction could be enha…
Coping with victimization
Adolescent Sexual Behavior
Research on Black Adolescents
Understanding of Black adolescence is limited due to the cultural bias inherent in much of the research literature. This bias is reflected in the philosophical approaches, theoretical frameworks, sampling, instrumentation, and data analysis used in the study of Black youth. Only recently have scholars moved toward studying Black adolescents in appropriate cultural context. This essay discusses the legacy of cultural bias and recommends strategies…
Relationship of testosterone to men's family functioning at mid‐life
Sociobiological theory suggests that aggression coupled with altruism is highly adaptive for males in all social systems, including the family, whereas sex‐role convergence theory indicates that lower levels of aggression are most adaptive for men, particularly at mid‐life. The purpose of this study was to determine the role that testosterone, as a proxy for aggression, plays as an adaptive mechanism in the lives of middle‐aged males. The sample …
Psychosocial predictors of stress associated with the male midlife transition
Psychology (69 works) · Developmental psychology (47 works) · Sociology (27 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (25 works) · Social Psychology (25 works) · Clinical Psychology (23 works) · Clinical Psychology (19 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (17 works) · Medicine (16 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (15 works)