Tamara D Afifi
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3770478 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Tamara D Afifi |
| NOMBRES | Tamara D |
| APELLIDO | Afifi |
| FIRMA | AFIFI T D |
| AFILIACIONES | Department of Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7831-2432 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 269 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
‘There’s going to be uncertainty our whole life’
Explicit acceptance, gentle challenge
This study explored the role of (dis)confirmation in family mental health conversations. One hundred sixteen parent-young adult child dyads from Black, Latinx, Asian, white, and multiethnic-racial families in the United States participated in a Zoom conversation about mental health. These conversations were analyzed using a phronetic iterative approach. The findings expand upon the concepts of acceptance and challenge to introduce further nuance …
“Baba, you’re not gonna live forever … . we need these stories”
The current study integrates communicated narrative sense-making (CNSM) theory with the ecological systems model to investigate intergenerational family storytelling (IGFS) in Palestinian families. Amidst historical and ongoing persecution, members of the Palestinian diaspora are tasked with making sense of their cultural and familial experiences. This study aims to understand how IGFS affects members’ meanings, values, and beliefs related to the…
Individuals' perceptions of reciprocal relationship maintenance in their marriage and its impact on communal orientation, relational load, and ability to flourish
This study investigates individuals' perceptions of reciprocal relationship maintenance in their marriage over time during the Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19). Using a Qualtrics Panel, married individuals (N = 3,601) completed online surveys at four time points during the initial 3 months of the pandemic. Both the between- and within-person effects were consistent with the theory of resilience and relational load. On average, married individuals …
Resilience as a predictor for why some marital relationships flourished and others struggled during the initial months of Covid-19
Using the theory of resilience and relational load, this study examined how married individuals’ baseline communal orientation (CO) and relational load (RL) at the beginning of the pandemic predicted their stress, conflict, mental health, and flourishing during quarantine. Using a Qualtrics Panel, married individuals (N = 3,601) completed four online surveys from April to June 2020. Results revealed the initial levels of CO brought to quarantine …
Resilience in Interracial–Interethnic Relationships in the United States
Using the theory of resilience and relational load as a framework, this study examined whether a stress reduction or a stress-buffering model best explained risk and resilience in interracial–interethnic relationships in the United States when managing stigma from one’s social network. Eight hundred and sixteen Black and Latinx individuals in heterosexual relationships with a white, non-Latinx partner completed the survey. The stress reduction mo…
Communicating allyship according to college students with deferred action for childhood arrivals
Given the stress that college students with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) experience and their minoritized status, some colleges have offered allyship training that informs campus personnel of the unique experiences of DACA and DACA-ineligible students. Although such trainings are promising, limited research has explored what actions communicate allyship to undocumented college students, including those with DACA. We conducted sem…
Discovering One’s Undocumented Immigration Status through Family Disclosures
Many undocumented youths who come to the United States as children are unaware of their status until family disclosure; this likely has identity implications for youth. Through 40 semi-structured interviews with deferred action for childhood arrivals (DACA) college students, we explored how youth discovered their undocumented status, the type of information that was discussed during family disclosures, and how these youth perceived their identity…
The Extended Theoretical Model of Communal Coping
Most of the research on communal coping (CC) has assumed and found that it can enhance health, as well as strengthen entire communities, under stressful circumstances. Nevertheless, recent research has questioned the seemingly inherent benefits of CC. This article rectifies these discrepancies in the literature in a new, extended theoretical model of CC that crosses interpersonal, family, health, organizational, intercultural, and small group com…
Testing the theory of resilience and relational load in dual career families
This study examined whether relationship maintenance buffers the stress of balancing work and family. Sixty-two dual-earning couples and their adolescents completed surveys at the beginning and end of the week, recorded their stress throughout the week, and collected saliva on two consecutive days in the middle of the week. When mothers and fathers received more maintenance from each other and adolescents received more maintenance from their pare…
The Strong Black Woman Collective Theory
The “strong Black woman” is a controlling image that pressures Black women to maintain a façade of strength. The Strong Black Woman Collective Theory (Davis, 2015) posits that Black women reappropriate the image and regulate strength in each other to promote solidarity within the group and confront external hostilities collectively. This study tests the theory by examining how 52 Black women’s friendship groups communicate support about a racial …
A social relations model of negative relational disclosures and closeness in families
This study examined the intrapersonal and interpersonal mechanisms underlying family member reports of negative relational disclosures and closeness. Participants included a mother, father, and young adult child from 170 families ( N = 510). Social relations analyses revealed that negative relational disclosures and closeness vary across family relationships as a function of actor and relationship effects. Mothers' reports of negative disclosures…
Untying the Ties That Bind
This study examined the associations among family members' reports of negative relational disclosures and their feelings of being caught. Participants included a mother, father, and young adult child from 170 families. Social relations analyses revealed positive associations between each family member's actor effect for negative disclosures (i.e., each member's individual disposition to perceive receiving negative disclosures across all family re…
Negative disclosures and feeling caught mediate coparental communication and mental health
This study tested parents' negative relational disclosures and young adult children's feelings of being caught between their parents as mediators of coparental communication (i.e., supportive and antagonistic) and mental health in children. Participants included 225 triads from intact and divorced families. Results indicate that the effects of supportive and antagonistic coparental communication on children's adjustment are more robust for mother…
Couple Identity Gaps, the Management of Conflict, and Biological and Self-Reported Stress in Romantic Relationships
This study investigates the role of couple identity gaps in romantic partners' communicative and physiological management of stress during a conflict-inducing discussion task. A total of 118 couples participated in a laboratory study in which they engaged in a conflict-inducing discussion. Perceptions of intra- and extrarelationship couple identity gaps were associated with greater self-reported anxiety and stress for men and greater negativity f…
Physiology and pillow talk
This study investigates the association between individual differences in testosterone and communication after sexual activity. Two hundred and fifty-three young adult participants (78% women, M age = 21 years, 73% White) provided saliva samples (later assayed for testosterone) and subsequently, over a 2-week period, completed an online diary after each time they engaged in sexual activity. Individual differences in testosterone levels were inver…
Testing the Ideology of Openness
A persistent assumption across the psychological literature is that talking and writing about one's stress is inherently more beneficial than avoiding it. This study compared the effects of these stress management strategies on personal and relational health. Two hundred and fifty-one dating individuals focused on a stressor that was a current source of rumination. Writing about one's stressor for 5 consecutive days (without talking about it) dec…
The theory of resilience and relational load
Resilience is one of the most profound constructs across disciplines. Yet, the largely atheoretical nature of the research on resilience continues to make it elusive. A new theory of stress and resilience in close relationships—the theory of resilience and relational load ( TRRL )—is advanced to fill this void in the literature. The theory bridges communicative, perceptual, and physiological aspects of stress within the context of social relation…
Mothers' Impact on Daughters' Cardiovascular Reactivity in a High-Threat Context
Applying Attachment Theory, research on confirmation, the Entropy Model of Uncertainty, and the Biopsychosocial Model of Challenge and Threat, this investigation examined the role of mothers' communication on adolescents' cardiovascular response to threat. An experimental design allowed for the manipulation of maternal response to daughters experiencing a rapidly approaching wildfire in an immersive virtual environment. Results revealed complexit…
Attachment‐related differences in secrecy and rumination in romantic relationships
The study examined attachment‐related predispositions and patterns of cognition and emotion that contribute to different secret‐keeping experiences. Participants ( n = 380) reported on their secret keeping, rumination, attachment anxiety, and attachment avoidance via online questionnaires. Results showed that both anxiety and avoidance were positively associated with keeping a secret from a romantic partner, while only avoidance was associated wi…
Coming Out Again
The present study investigates individuals' experiences coming out to their parents as gay, lesbian, bisexual, and queer (GLBQ) and how these first coming-out experiences may relate to future parent-child communication regarding individuals' sexual orientation. Specifically, this study explores whether some individuals feel the need to come out to their parents a second time, and if so, the reasons for coming out again and the strategies used to …
The relative impacts of uncertainty and mothers' communication on hopelessness among Palestinian refugee youth
The life of adolescent refugees has been described as uncertainty laden. Yet no quantitative data exist to elucidate that experience of uncertainty, investigate its implications in that population, or explore potential moderators. This study applies the Entropy Model of Uncertainty (Hirsh, Mar, & Peterson, 2012) and the stress-buffering hypothesis (for review, see Hegelson, 2003) to examine the experience of uncertainty among adolescent Palestini…
The impact of uncertainty and communal coping on mental health following natural disasters
Feelings of uncertainty are a central feature of the disaster experience. Surprisingly, though, there is very little systematic quantitative research about the impact of uncertainty on disaster survivors. Moreover, communal coping has increasingly received attention as a potential buffer of the negative effects of stressors but that literature is also limited in its application to disasters. This investigation applies research in the domain of un…
"The "standards for openness hypothesis
This study tests a new standards for openness hypothesis, which argues that the association between avoidance and dissatisfaction will be non-recursive and that the discrepancy between standards for openness and topic avoidance should be associated with rumination (particularly for women), which, in turn, predicts relational dissatisfaction. One hundred dating couples talked about a conflict-inducing topic and completed a follow-up survey one wee…
Divorce Disclosures and Adolescents' Physical and Mental Health and Parental Relationship Quality
Two studies were constructed to examine the associations between custodial parents' negative disclosures about the other parent after a divorce and parent–adolescent relational quality (closeness and satisfaction) and adolescents' physical and mental health. In general, the results suggested that even though negative disclosures about the other parent might be associated with more cohesive relationships between custodial parents and adolescents, …
Feeling Caught' in Stepfamilies
This study used a Communication Privacy Management perspective to examine the communication patterns that foster and ameliorate triangulation in stepfamilies. The qualitative analysis of 90 in-depth interviews with stepchildren, stepparents, and parents from 30 stepfamilies revealed that enmeshed communication boundaries contributed to children feeling caught between their custodial and noncustodial parents and parents and/or stepparents feeling …
Feeling Caught Between Parents
Research on divorce has found that adolescents' feelings of being caught between parents are linked to internalizing problems and weak parent-child relationships. The present study estimates the effects of marital discord, as well as divorce, on young adult offspring's feelings of being caught in the middle (N =632). Children with parents in high-conflict marriages were more likely than other children to feel caught between parents. These feeling…
Uncertainty management and adoptees' ambiguous loss of their birth parents
According to the National Adoption Information Clearing House (2000; http://www.calib.com/naic/statistics.htm) 120,000 children each year are adopted in or into the US. Much has been written about the attachment and adjustment issues adoptees experience, yet there has been no comprehensive study on the loss felt by adoptees as they reach adulthood. This study of 54 adult adoptees extends the literature on uncertainty management and ambiguous loss…
"The "standards for openness hypothesis
This study tests a new standards for openness hypothesis, which argues that the association between avoidance and dissatisfaction will be non-recursive and that the discrepancy between standards for openness and topic avoidance should be associated with rumination (particularly for women), which, in turn, predicts relational dissatisfaction. One hundred dating couples talked about a conflict-inducing topic and completed a follow-up survey one wee…
Avoidance among adolescents in conversations about their parents' relationship
Awareness of the importance of avoidance in parent-child interactions has grown exponentially in the past decade. This investigation applies the Theory of Motivated Information Management (W. Afifi & Weiner, 2004) to better understand adolescents' avoidance in conversations with a parent about the parents' relationship. Because of the known impact of divorce on parent-adolescent conversations, we also compare divorced and nondivorced families on …
The cycle of concealment model
This study tested a cycle of concealment model in families. Confirming the model, a family member's past verbally aggressive reactions to revelations influenced the extent to which the family member was estimated to react negatively to revealing a secret. These factors also attenuated closeness toward family members. In addition, expectations of negative reactions to a revelation and the extent to which those expectations were violated after the …
Verbal Avoidance and Dissatisfaction in Intimate Conflict Situations
The purpose of this study was to more closely examine the association between avoidance and satisfaction during a potentially conflict-inducing conversation with one's dating partner. The results suggest that the way people respond to their own and their partner's conflict avoidance depends upon whether they are male or female. The perception of one's partner's avoidance and one's own avoidance were only dissatisfying for women. Moreover, althoug…
Testing the Ideology of Openness
A persistent assumption across the psychological literature is that talking and writing about one's stress is inherently more beneficial than avoiding it. This study compared the effects of these stress management strategies on personal and relational health. Two hundred and fifty-one dating individuals focused on a stressor that was a current source of rumination. Writing about one's stressor for 5 consecutive days (without talking about it) dec…
Communicating allyship according to college students with deferred action for childhood arrivals
Given the stress that college students with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) experience and their minoritized status, some colleges have offered allyship training that informs campus personnel of the unique experiences of DACA and DACA-ineligible students. Although such trainings are promising, limited research has explored what actions communicate allyship to undocumented college students, including those with DACA. We conducted sem…
A social relations model of negative relational disclosures and closeness in families
This study examined the intrapersonal and interpersonal mechanisms underlying family member reports of negative relational disclosures and closeness. Participants included a mother, father, and young adult child from 170 families ( N = 510). Social relations analyses revealed that negative relational disclosures and closeness vary across family relationships as a function of actor and relationship effects. Mothers' reports of negative disclosures…
Negative disclosures and feeling caught mediate coparental communication and mental health
This study tested parents' negative relational disclosures and young adult children's feelings of being caught between their parents as mediators of coparental communication (i.e., supportive and antagonistic) and mental health in children. Participants included 225 triads from intact and divorced families. Results indicate that the effects of supportive and antagonistic coparental communication on children's adjustment are more robust for mother…
Couple Identity Gaps, the Management of Conflict, and Biological and Self-Reported Stress in Romantic Relationships
This study investigates the role of couple identity gaps in romantic partners' communicative and physiological management of stress during a conflict-inducing discussion task. A total of 118 couples participated in a laboratory study in which they engaged in a conflict-inducing discussion. Perceptions of intra- and extrarelationship couple identity gaps were associated with greater self-reported anxiety and stress for men and greater negativity f…
Physiology and pillow talk
This study investigates the association between individual differences in testosterone and communication after sexual activity. Two hundred and fifty-three young adult participants (78% women, M age = 21 years, 73% White) provided saliva samples (later assayed for testosterone) and subsequently, over a 2-week period, completed an online diary after each time they engaged in sexual activity. Individual differences in testosterone levels were inver…
Untying the Ties That Bind
This study examined the associations among family members' reports of negative relational disclosures and their feelings of being caught. Participants included a mother, father, and young adult child from 170 families. Social relations analyses revealed positive associations between each family member's actor effect for negative disclosures (i.e., each member's individual disposition to perceive receiving negative disclosures across all family re…
Individuals' perceptions of reciprocal relationship maintenance in their marriage and its impact on communal orientation, relational load, and ability to flourish
This study investigates individuals' perceptions of reciprocal relationship maintenance in their marriage over time during the Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19). Using a Qualtrics Panel, married individuals (N = 3,601) completed online surveys at four time points during the initial 3 months of the pandemic. Both the between- and within-person effects were consistent with the theory of resilience and relational load. On average, married individuals …
Uncertainty and the Avoidance of the State of One's Family in Stepfamilies, Postdivorce Single-Parent Families, and First-Marriage Families
The current study tested the applicability of uncertainty management theory (URT; Berger & Calabrese, 1975) to information-regulation efforts in families with comparatively different uncertainty levels. Differences in uncertainty and avoidance for parents within the various family types are also discussed. In general, the findings lend further support for URT (e.g., Brashers, 2001) which suggests that in certain situations, such as that of postdi…
Uncertainty and the Avoidance of the State of One's Family in Stepfamilies, Postdivorce Single-Parent Families, and First-Marriage Families
The current study tested the applicability of uncertainty management theory (URT; Berger & Calabrese, 1975) to information-regulation efforts in families with comparatively different uncertainty levels. Differences in uncertainty and avoidance for parents within the various family types are also discussed. In general, the findings lend further support for URT (e.g., Brashers, 2001) which suggests that in certain situations, such as that of postdi…
Feeling Caught' in Stepfamilies
This study used a Communication Privacy Management perspective to examine the communication patterns that foster and ameliorate triangulation in stepfamilies. The qualitative analysis of 90 in-depth interviews with stepchildren, stepparents, and parents from 30 stepfamilies revealed that enmeshed communication boundaries contributed to children feeling caught between their custodial and noncustodial parents and parents and/or stepparents feeling …
Uncertainty management and adoptees' ambiguous loss of their birth parents
According to the National Adoption Information Clearing House (2000; http://www.calib.com/naic/statistics.htm) 120,000 children each year are adopted in or into the US. Much has been written about the attachment and adjustment issues adoptees experience, yet there has been no comprehensive study on the loss felt by adoptees as they reach adulthood. This study of 54 adult adoptees extends the literature on uncertainty management and ambiguous loss…
Parents' and Adolescents' Communication with Each Other About Divorce-Related Stressors and Its Impact on Their Ability to Cope Positively with the Divorce
This study examined how custodial parents and adolescents communicate with each other about their divorce-related Stressors and how this communication impacts their own and the other person's ability to cope positively with the divorce. Interactions between 50 parents and adolescents about their divorce Stressors were coded with outside observers using Burgoon and Hale's (1987) Relational Communication Scale. The results revealed that parents' an…
Feeling Caught Between Parents
Research on divorce has found that adolescents' feelings of being caught between parents are linked to internalizing problems and weak parent-child relationships. The present study estimates the effects of marital discord, as well as divorce, on young adult offspring's feelings of being caught in the middle (N =632). Children with parents in high-conflict marriages were more likely than other children to feel caught between parents. These feeling…
Adolescents' Physiological Reactions to Their Parents' Negative Disclosures About the Other Parent in Divorced and Nondivorced Families
The purpose of this study was to determine how adolescents in divorced and nondivorced families respond psychologically and physiologically to their parents' negative disclosures when talking about their parents' relationship. The study also investigated how parents respond to their own disclosures about their relationship with the other parent. In general, the results illustrate the important role that adolescents' feelings of being caught can c…
Avoidance among adolescents in conversations about their parents' relationship
Awareness of the importance of avoidance in parent-child interactions has grown exponentially in the past decade. This investigation applies the Theory of Motivated Information Management (W. Afifi & Weiner, 2004) to better understand adolescents' avoidance in conversations with a parent about the parents' relationship. Because of the known impact of divorce on parent-adolescent conversations, we also compare divorced and nondivorced families on …
Verbal Avoidance and Dissatisfaction in Intimate Conflict Situations
The purpose of this study was to more closely examine the association between avoidance and satisfaction during a potentially conflict-inducing conversation with one's dating partner. The results suggest that the way people respond to their own and their partner's conflict avoidance depends upon whether they are male or female. The perception of one's partner's avoidance and one's own avoidance were only dissatisfying for women. Moreover, althoug…
Divorce Disclosures and Adolescents' Physical and Mental Health and Parental Relationship Quality
Two studies were constructed to examine the associations between custodial parents' negative disclosures about the other parent after a divorce and parent–adolescent relational quality (closeness and satisfaction) and adolescents' physical and mental health. In general, the results suggested that even though negative disclosures about the other parent might be associated with more cohesive relationships between custodial parents and adolescents, …
The cycle of concealment model
This study tested a cycle of concealment model in families. Confirming the model, a family member's past verbally aggressive reactions to revelations influenced the extent to which the family member was estimated to react negatively to revealing a secret. These factors also attenuated closeness toward family members. In addition, expectations of negative reactions to a revelation and the extent to which those expectations were violated after the …
The impact of uncertainty and communal coping on mental health following natural disasters
Feelings of uncertainty are a central feature of the disaster experience. Surprisingly, though, there is very little systematic quantitative research about the impact of uncertainty on disaster survivors. Moreover, communal coping has increasingly received attention as a potential buffer of the negative effects of stressors but that literature is also limited in its application to disasters. This investigation applies research in the domain of un…
"The "standards for openness hypothesis
This study tests a new standards for openness hypothesis, which argues that the association between avoidance and dissatisfaction will be non-recursive and that the discrepancy between standards for openness and topic avoidance should be associated with rumination (particularly for women), which, in turn, predicts relational dissatisfaction. One hundred dating couples talked about a conflict-inducing topic and completed a follow-up survey one wee…
The relative impacts of uncertainty and mothers' communication on hopelessness among Palestinian refugee youth
The life of adolescent refugees has been described as uncertainty laden. Yet no quantitative data exist to elucidate that experience of uncertainty, investigate its implications in that population, or explore potential moderators. This study applies the Entropy Model of Uncertainty (Hirsh, Mar, & Peterson, 2012) and the stress-buffering hypothesis (for review, see Hegelson, 2003) to examine the experience of uncertainty among adolescent Palestini…
Coming Out Again
The present study investigates individuals' experiences coming out to their parents as gay, lesbian, bisexual, and queer (GLBQ) and how these first coming-out experiences may relate to future parent-child communication regarding individuals' sexual orientation. Specifically, this study explores whether some individuals feel the need to come out to their parents a second time, and if so, the reasons for coming out again and the strategies used to …
Attachment‐related differences in secrecy and rumination in romantic relationships
The study examined attachment‐related predispositions and patterns of cognition and emotion that contribute to different secret‐keeping experiences. Participants ( n = 380) reported on their secret keeping, rumination, attachment anxiety, and attachment avoidance via online questionnaires. Results showed that both anxiety and avoidance were positively associated with keeping a secret from a romantic partner, while only avoidance was associated wi…
The theory of resilience and relational load
Resilience is one of the most profound constructs across disciplines. Yet, the largely atheoretical nature of the research on resilience continues to make it elusive. A new theory of stress and resilience in close relationships—the theory of resilience and relational load ( TRRL )—is advanced to fill this void in the literature. The theory bridges communicative, perceptual, and physiological aspects of stress within the context of social relation…
Mothers' Impact on Daughters' Cardiovascular Reactivity in a High-Threat Context
Applying Attachment Theory, research on confirmation, the Entropy Model of Uncertainty, and the Biopsychosocial Model of Challenge and Threat, this investigation examined the role of mothers' communication on adolescents' cardiovascular response to threat. An experimental design allowed for the manipulation of maternal response to daughters experiencing a rapidly approaching wildfire in an immersive virtual environment. Results revealed complexit…
Couple Identity Gaps, the Management of Conflict, and Biological and Self-Reported Stress in Romantic Relationships
This study investigates the role of couple identity gaps in romantic partners' communicative and physiological management of stress during a conflict-inducing discussion task. A total of 118 couples participated in a laboratory study in which they engaged in a conflict-inducing discussion. Perceptions of intra- and extrarelationship couple identity gaps were associated with greater self-reported anxiety and stress for men and greater negativity f…
Physiology and pillow talk
This study investigates the association between individual differences in testosterone and communication after sexual activity. Two hundred and fifty-three young adult participants (78% women, M age = 21 years, 73% White) provided saliva samples (later assayed for testosterone) and subsequently, over a 2-week period, completed an online diary after each time they engaged in sexual activity. Individual differences in testosterone levels were inver…
Testing the Ideology of Openness
A persistent assumption across the psychological literature is that talking and writing about one's stress is inherently more beneficial than avoiding it. This study compared the effects of these stress management strategies on personal and relational health. Two hundred and fifty-one dating individuals focused on a stressor that was a current source of rumination. Writing about one's stressor for 5 consecutive days (without talking about it) dec…
A social relations model of negative relational disclosures and closeness in families
This study examined the intrapersonal and interpersonal mechanisms underlying family member reports of negative relational disclosures and closeness. Participants included a mother, father, and young adult child from 170 families ( N = 510). Social relations analyses revealed that negative relational disclosures and closeness vary across family relationships as a function of actor and relationship effects. Mothers' reports of negative disclosures…
Untying the Ties That Bind
This study examined the associations among family members' reports of negative relational disclosures and their feelings of being caught. Participants included a mother, father, and young adult child from 170 families. Social relations analyses revealed positive associations between each family member's actor effect for negative disclosures (i.e., each member's individual disposition to perceive receiving negative disclosures across all family re…
Negative disclosures and feeling caught mediate coparental communication and mental health
This study tested parents' negative relational disclosures and young adult children's feelings of being caught between their parents as mediators of coparental communication (i.e., supportive and antagonistic) and mental health in children. Participants included 225 triads from intact and divorced families. Results indicate that the effects of supportive and antagonistic coparental communication on children's adjustment are more robust for mother…
The Strong Black Woman Collective Theory
The “strong Black woman” is a controlling image that pressures Black women to maintain a façade of strength. The Strong Black Woman Collective Theory (Davis, 2015) posits that Black women reappropriate the image and regulate strength in each other to promote solidarity within the group and confront external hostilities collectively. This study tests the theory by examining how 52 Black women’s friendship groups communicate support about a racial …
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