Shira Offer
Biographic Data
| ID | 106297 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shira Offer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shira |
| FAMILY NAME | Offer |
| SIGNATURE | OFFER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bar-Ilan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2200-1616 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 614 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Which Fathers Are Sensitive to Maternal Gate Closing? Exploring How Gender Role Attitudes Moderate the Link Between Fathers' Perceptions of Gate Closing and Childcare Involvement
Previous research suggests that maternal gate closing discourages fathers from taking an active role in childcare. Focusing on the father's perspective, this study contributes to the literature on father childcare involvement by demonstrating how fathers' gender role attitudes relate to their experiences of maternal gate closing. Using a sample of employed fathers of children aged 0–6 in the United States drawn from the AmeriSpeak Panel ( N = 1,4…
The gears in network dynamics: The alter-trajectory approach
Egocentric networks are dynamic. Prior research has typically measured change in broad network characteristics or simply in membership turnover but given relatively little attention to the history of alter-ego relationships. Using rich information about alters over three waves in the UCNets study, we develop a novel approach that delineates a “trajectory” over time for each of the alters in the network and then uses all these observed trajectorie…
Boundary management preferences from a gender and cross-cultural perspective
Going-With-The-Flow' or 'Getting-Things-Done: A Folk Model of Intensive Parenting Among Middle-Class Parents
Research on intensive parenting norms still lacks a systematic framework to account for the ways these translate into everyday childcare practices and underlying logics and ideals. Based on in-depth interviews with 42 middle-class Israeli parents, we delineate a folk model of intensive parenting associated with ideals of self-fulfillment. The model comprises two parenting approaches, each differentiated into practices, logics, and cultural discou…
Single by chance or by choice? The social meanings of singlehood and narratives of choice among unpartnered adults in Israel
Researchers have proposed various explanations for the increase in singlehood in post-industrialized countries, but the questions of how singles interpret their singlehood and what social meanings they attribute to it have received less attention. Using data collected through in-depth interviews with singles from various backgrounds in Israel, this study examined whether singlehood was considered the result of individual choice or constraints. Fi…
Masculinity ideologies, sensitivity to masculinity threats, and fathers’ involvement in housework and childcare among U.S. employed fathers
How new is "New"? Who gets added in a panel study of personal networks
Negative Social Ties: Prevalence and Consequences
Recent decades have seen a surge of interest in negative ties and the negative aspects of social relationships. Researchers in different fields have studied negative ties and their consequences for various individual outcomes, including health and well-being, social status in schools and other organizations, and job performance and satisfaction, but they have mainly done so in disconnect. The result is a dearth of theoretization, manifested in a …
The 'New Father' Between Ideals and Practices: New Masculinity Ideology, Gender Role Attitudes, and Fathers' Involvement in Childcare
Current research demonstrates a gap between widely shared ideals of new fatherhood and men's limited participation in childcare. Previous studies treat gender attitudes primarily in terms of work and family roles. In contrast, this study centers on perceptions of masculinity as a broader cultural-ideological construct. Specifically, it focuses on 'new masculinity ideology,' a previously unexplored masculinity perspective associated with values su…
That's How Family Is: We Take, Give, and Give Back': Low-Income Mothers' (In)ability to Rely on Kin at the Intersection of Familism and Individualism
This study examines the relational dynamics of low-income mothers’ involvement in kin networks at the intersection of familism and individualism. Drawing on in-depth interviews in Israel, it identifies four patterns. Two consist of high involvement and good relationships, with one based on generalized and the other on balanced reciprocity. These patterns characterized the few mothers who had more resourceful networks and a stable source of income…
Who is dropped and why? Methodological and substantive accounts for network loss
They Drive Me Crazy: Difficult Social Ties and Subjective Well-Being
Using egocentric network data from the University of California Social Networks Study (1,136 respondents; 11,536 alters), this study examines how difficult ties-an unexplored form of social negativity-are associated with well-being. Findings show that well-being is affected by the quality of the relationship rather than its presence in the network. Having a nondifficult partner is associated with lower loneliness compared to having no partner, bu…
Testing the social exclusivity of marriage thesis in the context of high familism: Do social involvement and support vary by marital status in Israel
Studies have suggested that in individualistic societies, marriage constitutes an exclusive institution associated with reduced social involvement. This article tests this claim in a society that has experienced increased individualisation but has nevertheless remained highly familial. Analyses based on data from the Israel Social Survey show that married respondents were less involved with friends but more involved with family than their single …
Difficult People: Who Is Perceived to Be Demanding in Personal Networks and Why Are They There
Why do people maintain ties with individuals whom they find difficult? Standard network theories imply that such alters are avoided or dropped. Drawing on a survey of over 1,100 diverse respondents who described over 12,000 relationships, we examined which among those ties respondents nominated as a person whom they "sometimes find demanding or difficult." Those so listed composed about 15 percent of all alters in the network. After holding ego a…
Free Time and Emotional Well-Being: Do Dual-Earner Mothers and Fathers Differ
Previous research suggests that there are important gender disparities in the experience of leisure, but the issue of how mothers and fathers experience free time emotionally remains overlooked. The present study addressed this lacuna using the Experience Sampling Method and survey data from the 500 Family Study. Results showed that mothers and fathers spent the same amount of time on leisure activities. However, mothers had slightly less pure fr…
The Costs of Thinking About Work and Family: Mental Labor, Work–Family Spillover, and Gender Inequality Among Parents in Dual‐Earner Families
One of the aspects unaccounted for in previous assessments of employed parents ‘distribution of time is the mental dimension of tasks and demands. This aspect, referred to as mental labor, is conceptualized as the planning, organization, and management of everyday activities. Using the experience sampling method, a unique form of time diary, and survey data from the 500 Family Study (N = 402 mothers with 16,451 signals and 291 fathers with 11,322…
Time with children and employed parents' emotional well-being
Family Time Activities and Adolescents' Emotional Well-being
The literature is divided on the issue of what matters for adolescents' well-being, with one approach focusing on quality and the other on routine family time. Using the experience sampling method, a unique form of time diary, and survey data drawn from the 500 Family Study (N =237 adolescents with 8,122 observations), this study examined the association between family time and adolescents' emotional well-being as a function of the type of activi…
Barriers to social support among low‐income mothers
Purpose The literature on personal networks suggests that individuals who have a limited ability to contribute to their network run the risk of being socially excluded and are often denied assistance. The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which poor health and adverse life‐events constitute barriers to support from personal networks among low‐income mothers in the USA. Design/methodology/approach Using survey data from the Welfare…
The burden of reciprocity: Processes of exclusion and withdrawal from personal networks among low-income families
Reciprocity has been traditionally treated in sociological and anthropological theory as a force of integration that keeps network members tied together through a complex web of obligations and interdependencies. This article suggests that in the context of poverty it can be a burden and source of relational stress that leads to the demise of social relationships. It is argued that poverty can make it difficult for individuals to maintain relatio…
If You Sit and Cry No One Will Help You: Understanding Perceptions of Worthiness and Social Support Relations among Low-Income Women under a Neoliberal Discourse
Drawing on Wax's concept of “condition reciprocity,” this study draws on data from 35 in-depth interviews to examine how low-income women in Israel frame their reliance on personal networks for survival. Findings reveal that women used a similar rationale focusing on productivity with respect to their interpersonal relations. Consistent with the neoliberal principle of market citizenship, most women perceived themselves as worthy of support from …
Individual and Familial Determinants of Married Arab Israeli Women's Labor Force Participation: Trends of Change and Stability
Although the Arab population in Israel has undergone important economic and social changes in the past decades, the labor force participation of Arab women, particularly married women, has remained limited. This study uses census data to learn about the individual and familial factors associated with the entry into paid work of married Arab women and examines the extent to which these factors have changed over time. A major advantage is that the …
Revisiting the Gender Gap in Time-Use Patterns: Multitasking and Well-Being among Mothers and Fathers in Dual-Earner Families
This study suggests that multitasking constitutes an important source of gender inequality, which can help explain previous findings that mothers feel more burdened and stressed than do fathers even when they have relatively similar workloads. Using data from the 500 Family Study, including surveys and the Experience Sampling Method, the study examines activities parents simultaneously engage in and how they feel when multitasking. We find that m…
Agency-Based Support: A â Last-Resortâ Strategy for Low-Income Families
Objectives. Agency-based support, defined as material assistance received from charities and private social service agencies, can constitute an important source of help for low-income families. This study examines the socioeconomic determinants of agency-based support and seeks to reveal whether it constitutes an alternative source of support for families whose personal networks can provide only limited assistance. Methods. Multivariate analyses …
Learning to negotiate network relations: Social Support Among Working Mothers Living in Poverty
This study promotes our understanding of the complex and dynamic role that social support networks play in the everyday life of working mothers living in poverty, by focusing on the processes of negotiation involved in the creation, maintenance and mobilization of social ties. It is based on semi-structured interviews with 12 Israeli-Jewish working mothers who participated in an economic empowerment workshop. Findings indicate that the participan…
Revisiting the Gender Gap in Time-Use Patterns: Multitasking and Well-Being among Mothers and Fathers in Dual-Earner Families
This study suggests that multitasking constitutes an important source of gender inequality, which can help explain previous findings that mothers feel more burdened and stressed than do fathers even when they have relatively similar workloads. Using data from the 500 Family Study, including surveys and the Experience Sampling Method, the study examines activities parents simultaneously engage in and how they feel when multitasking. We find that m…
The contribution of social support to the material well-being of low-income families
We hypothesize that the social support available from low-income networks serves primarily a coping function, rather than a leverage function. Social support and its relationship to material well-being is assessed in a sample of 632 former and current welfare recipients. Respondents report higher levels of perceived emotional, instrumental, and informational support than perceived financial support, and received financial aid is particularly unco…
Difficult People: Who Is Perceived to Be Demanding in Personal Networks and Why Are They There
Why do people maintain ties with individuals whom they find difficult? Standard network theories imply that such alters are avoided or dropped. Drawing on a survey of over 1,100 diverse respondents who described over 12,000 relationships, we examined which among those ties respondents nominated as a person whom they "sometimes find demanding or difficult." Those so listed composed about 15 percent of all alters in the network. After holding ego a…
The burden of reciprocity: Processes of exclusion and withdrawal from personal networks among low-income families
Reciprocity has been traditionally treated in sociological and anthropological theory as a force of integration that keeps network members tied together through a complex web of obligations and interdependencies. This article suggests that in the context of poverty it can be a burden and source of relational stress that leads to the demise of social relationships. It is argued that poverty can make it difficult for individuals to maintain relatio…
Negative Social Ties: Prevalence and Consequences
Recent decades have seen a surge of interest in negative ties and the negative aspects of social relationships. Researchers in different fields have studied negative ties and their consequences for various individual outcomes, including health and well-being, social status in schools and other organizations, and job performance and satisfaction, but they have mainly done so in disconnect. The result is a dearth of theoretization, manifested in a …
The Costs of Thinking About Work and Family: Mental Labor, Work–Family Spillover, and Gender Inequality Among Parents in Dual‐Earner Families
One of the aspects unaccounted for in previous assessments of employed parents ‘distribution of time is the mental dimension of tasks and demands. This aspect, referred to as mental labor, is conceptualized as the planning, organization, and management of everyday activities. Using the experience sampling method, a unique form of time diary, and survey data from the 500 Family Study (N = 402 mothers with 16,451 signals and 291 fathers with 11,322…
The Ethiopian community in Israel: Segregation and the creation of a racial cleavage
This study examines the processes that led to the creation of a segregated Ethiopian community in Israel and its implications for the development of a racially-based stratification system. Interviews with thirty Ethiopian immigrants reveal that ethnic ties played an important role in creating a segregated ethnic community. Many families were pushed to the neighbourhood by co-ethnic realtors or were influenced by relatives and friends who had alre…
Family Time Activities and Adolescents' Emotional Well-being
The literature is divided on the issue of what matters for adolescents' well-being, with one approach focusing on quality and the other on routine family time. Using the experience sampling method, a unique form of time diary, and survey data drawn from the 500 Family Study (N =237 adolescents with 8,122 observations), this study examined the association between family time and adolescents' emotional well-being as a function of the type of activi…
The Socio‐economic Integration of the Ethiopian Community in Israel
Using data from the 1995 Israeli Census of Population, this study examines the demographic, human capital, and labour force characteristics of the Ethiopian community in Israel and its determinants of employment. The results provide strong evidence for the overall disadvantaged socio‐economic status of the Ethiopian community and reveal substantial gaps in educational and occupational attainment between Ethiopian Israelis and members of other eth…
The 'New Father' Between Ideals and Practices: New Masculinity Ideology, Gender Role Attitudes, and Fathers' Involvement in Childcare
Current research demonstrates a gap between widely shared ideals of new fatherhood and men's limited participation in childcare. Previous studies treat gender attitudes primarily in terms of work and family roles. In contrast, this study centers on perceptions of masculinity as a broader cultural-ideological construct. Specifically, it focuses on 'new masculinity ideology,' a previously unexplored masculinity perspective associated with values su…
Learning to negotiate network relations: Social Support Among Working Mothers Living in Poverty
This study promotes our understanding of the complex and dynamic role that social support networks play in the everyday life of working mothers living in poverty, by focusing on the processes of negotiation involved in the creation, maintenance and mobilization of social ties. It is based on semi-structured interviews with 12 Israeli-Jewish working mothers who participated in an economic empowerment workshop. Findings indicate that the participan…
They Drive Me Crazy: Difficult Social Ties and Subjective Well-Being
Using egocentric network data from the University of California Social Networks Study (1,136 respondents; 11,536 alters), this study examines how difficult ties-an unexplored form of social negativity-are associated with well-being. Findings show that well-being is affected by the quality of the relationship rather than its presence in the network. Having a nondifficult partner is associated with lower loneliness compared to having no partner, bu…
If You Sit and Cry No One Will Help You: Understanding Perceptions of Worthiness and Social Support Relations among Low-Income Women under a Neoliberal Discourse
Drawing on Wax's concept of “condition reciprocity,” this study draws on data from 35 in-depth interviews to examine how low-income women in Israel frame their reliance on personal networks for survival. Findings reveal that women used a similar rationale focusing on productivity with respect to their interpersonal relations. Consistent with the neoliberal principle of market citizenship, most women perceived themselves as worthy of support from …
Free Time and Emotional Well-Being: Do Dual-Earner Mothers and Fathers Differ
Previous research suggests that there are important gender disparities in the experience of leisure, but the issue of how mothers and fathers experience free time emotionally remains overlooked. The present study addressed this lacuna using the Experience Sampling Method and survey data from the 500 Family Study. Results showed that mothers and fathers spent the same amount of time on leisure activities. However, mothers had slightly less pure fr…
Time with children and employed parents' emotional well-being
How new is "New"? Who gets added in a panel study of personal networks
Barriers to social support among low‐income mothers
Purpose The literature on personal networks suggests that individuals who have a limited ability to contribute to their network run the risk of being socially excluded and are often denied assistance. The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which poor health and adverse life‐events constitute barriers to support from personal networks among low‐income mothers in the USA. Design/methodology/approach Using survey data from the Welfare…
Single by chance or by choice? The social meanings of singlehood and narratives of choice among unpartnered adults in Israel
Researchers have proposed various explanations for the increase in singlehood in post-industrialized countries, but the questions of how singles interpret their singlehood and what social meanings they attribute to it have received less attention. Using data collected through in-depth interviews with singles from various backgrounds in Israel, this study examined whether singlehood was considered the result of individual choice or constraints. Fi…
Individual and Familial Determinants of Married Arab Israeli Women's Labor Force Participation: Trends of Change and Stability
Although the Arab population in Israel has undergone important economic and social changes in the past decades, the labor force participation of Arab women, particularly married women, has remained limited. This study uses census data to learn about the individual and familial factors associated with the entry into paid work of married Arab women and examines the extent to which these factors have changed over time. A major advantage is that the …
Agency-Based Support: A â Last-Resortâ Strategy for Low-Income Families
Objectives. Agency-based support, defined as material assistance received from charities and private social service agencies, can constitute an important source of help for low-income families. This study examines the socioeconomic determinants of agency-based support and seeks to reveal whether it constitutes an alternative source of support for families whose personal networks can provide only limited assistance. Methods. Multivariate analyses …
Testing the social exclusivity of marriage thesis in the context of high familism: Do social involvement and support vary by marital status in Israel
Studies have suggested that in individualistic societies, marriage constitutes an exclusive institution associated with reduced social involvement. This article tests this claim in a society that has experienced increased individualisation but has nevertheless remained highly familial. Analyses based on data from the Israel Social Survey show that married respondents were less involved with friends but more involved with family than their single …
The gears in network dynamics: The alter-trajectory approach
Egocentric networks are dynamic. Prior research has typically measured change in broad network characteristics or simply in membership turnover but given relatively little attention to the history of alter-ego relationships. Using rich information about alters over three waves in the UCNets study, we develop a novel approach that delineates a “trajectory” over time for each of the alters in the network and then uses all these observed trajectorie…
Going-With-The-Flow' or 'Getting-Things-Done: A Folk Model of Intensive Parenting Among Middle-Class Parents
Research on intensive parenting norms still lacks a systematic framework to account for the ways these translate into everyday childcare practices and underlying logics and ideals. Based on in-depth interviews with 42 middle-class Israeli parents, we delineate a folk model of intensive parenting associated with ideals of self-fulfillment. The model comprises two parenting approaches, each differentiated into practices, logics, and cultural discou…
That's How Family Is: We Take, Give, and Give Back': Low-Income Mothers' (In)ability to Rely on Kin at the Intersection of Familism and Individualism
This study examines the relational dynamics of low-income mothers’ involvement in kin networks at the intersection of familism and individualism. Drawing on in-depth interviews in Israel, it identifies four patterns. Two consist of high involvement and good relationships, with one based on generalized and the other on balanced reciprocity. These patterns characterized the few mothers who had more resourceful networks and a stable source of income…
The Socio‐economic Integration of the Ethiopian Community in Israel
Using data from the 1995 Israeli Census of Population, this study examines the demographic, human capital, and labour force characteristics of the Ethiopian community in Israel and its determinants of employment. The results provide strong evidence for the overall disadvantaged socio‐economic status of the Ethiopian community and reveal substantial gaps in educational and occupational attainment between Ethiopian Israelis and members of other eth…
The contribution of social support to the material well-being of low-income families
We hypothesize that the social support available from low-income networks serves primarily a coping function, rather than a leverage function. Social support and its relationship to material well-being is assessed in a sample of 632 former and current welfare recipients. Respondents report higher levels of perceived emotional, instrumental, and informational support than perceived financial support, and received financial aid is particularly unco…
The Ethiopian community in Israel: Segregation and the creation of a racial cleavage
This study examines the processes that led to the creation of a segregated Ethiopian community in Israel and its implications for the development of a racially-based stratification system. Interviews with thirty Ethiopian immigrants reveal that ethnic ties played an important role in creating a segregated ethnic community. Many families were pushed to the neighbourhood by co-ethnic realtors or were influenced by relatives and friends who had alre…
Agency-Based Support: A â Last-Resortâ Strategy for Low-Income Families
Objectives. Agency-based support, defined as material assistance received from charities and private social service agencies, can constitute an important source of help for low-income families. This study examines the socioeconomic determinants of agency-based support and seeks to reveal whether it constitutes an alternative source of support for families whose personal networks can provide only limited assistance. Methods. Multivariate analyses …
Learning to negotiate network relations: Social Support Among Working Mothers Living in Poverty
This study promotes our understanding of the complex and dynamic role that social support networks play in the everyday life of working mothers living in poverty, by focusing on the processes of negotiation involved in the creation, maintenance and mobilization of social ties. It is based on semi-structured interviews with 12 Israeli-Jewish working mothers who participated in an economic empowerment workshop. Findings indicate that the participan…
Individual and Familial Determinants of Married Arab Israeli Women's Labor Force Participation: Trends of Change and Stability
Although the Arab population in Israel has undergone important economic and social changes in the past decades, the labor force participation of Arab women, particularly married women, has remained limited. This study uses census data to learn about the individual and familial factors associated with the entry into paid work of married Arab women and examines the extent to which these factors have changed over time. A major advantage is that the …
Revisiting the Gender Gap in Time-Use Patterns: Multitasking and Well-Being among Mothers and Fathers in Dual-Earner Families
This study suggests that multitasking constitutes an important source of gender inequality, which can help explain previous findings that mothers feel more burdened and stressed than do fathers even when they have relatively similar workloads. Using data from the 500 Family Study, including surveys and the Experience Sampling Method, the study examines activities parents simultaneously engage in and how they feel when multitasking. We find that m…
Barriers to social support among low‐income mothers
Purpose The literature on personal networks suggests that individuals who have a limited ability to contribute to their network run the risk of being socially excluded and are often denied assistance. The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which poor health and adverse life‐events constitute barriers to support from personal networks among low‐income mothers in the USA. Design/methodology/approach Using survey data from the Welfare…
The burden of reciprocity: Processes of exclusion and withdrawal from personal networks among low-income families
Reciprocity has been traditionally treated in sociological and anthropological theory as a force of integration that keeps network members tied together through a complex web of obligations and interdependencies. This article suggests that in the context of poverty it can be a burden and source of relational stress that leads to the demise of social relationships. It is argued that poverty can make it difficult for individuals to maintain relatio…
If You Sit and Cry No One Will Help You: Understanding Perceptions of Worthiness and Social Support Relations among Low-Income Women under a Neoliberal Discourse
Drawing on Wax's concept of “condition reciprocity,” this study draws on data from 35 in-depth interviews to examine how low-income women in Israel frame their reliance on personal networks for survival. Findings reveal that women used a similar rationale focusing on productivity with respect to their interpersonal relations. Consistent with the neoliberal principle of market citizenship, most women perceived themselves as worthy of support from …
Family Time Activities and Adolescents' Emotional Well-being
The literature is divided on the issue of what matters for adolescents' well-being, with one approach focusing on quality and the other on routine family time. Using the experience sampling method, a unique form of time diary, and survey data drawn from the 500 Family Study (N =237 adolescents with 8,122 observations), this study examined the association between family time and adolescents' emotional well-being as a function of the type of activi…
The Costs of Thinking About Work and Family: Mental Labor, Work–Family Spillover, and Gender Inequality Among Parents in Dual‐Earner Families
One of the aspects unaccounted for in previous assessments of employed parents ‘distribution of time is the mental dimension of tasks and demands. This aspect, referred to as mental labor, is conceptualized as the planning, organization, and management of everyday activities. Using the experience sampling method, a unique form of time diary, and survey data from the 500 Family Study (N = 402 mothers with 16,451 signals and 291 fathers with 11,322…
Time with children and employed parents' emotional well-being
Free Time and Emotional Well-Being: Do Dual-Earner Mothers and Fathers Differ
Previous research suggests that there are important gender disparities in the experience of leisure, but the issue of how mothers and fathers experience free time emotionally remains overlooked. The present study addressed this lacuna using the Experience Sampling Method and survey data from the 500 Family Study. Results showed that mothers and fathers spent the same amount of time on leisure activities. However, mothers had slightly less pure fr…
Difficult People: Who Is Perceived to Be Demanding in Personal Networks and Why Are They There
Why do people maintain ties with individuals whom they find difficult? Standard network theories imply that such alters are avoided or dropped. Drawing on a survey of over 1,100 diverse respondents who described over 12,000 relationships, we examined which among those ties respondents nominated as a person whom they "sometimes find demanding or difficult." Those so listed composed about 15 percent of all alters in the network. After holding ego a…
Testing the social exclusivity of marriage thesis in the context of high familism: Do social involvement and support vary by marital status in Israel
Studies have suggested that in individualistic societies, marriage constitutes an exclusive institution associated with reduced social involvement. This article tests this claim in a society that has experienced increased individualisation but has nevertheless remained highly familial. Analyses based on data from the Israel Social Survey show that married respondents were less involved with friends but more involved with family than their single …
Who is dropped and why? Methodological and substantive accounts for network loss
They Drive Me Crazy: Difficult Social Ties and Subjective Well-Being
Using egocentric network data from the University of California Social Networks Study (1,136 respondents; 11,536 alters), this study examines how difficult ties-an unexplored form of social negativity-are associated with well-being. Findings show that well-being is affected by the quality of the relationship rather than its presence in the network. Having a nondifficult partner is associated with lower loneliness compared to having no partner, bu…
Negative Social Ties: Prevalence and Consequences
Recent decades have seen a surge of interest in negative ties and the negative aspects of social relationships. Researchers in different fields have studied negative ties and their consequences for various individual outcomes, including health and well-being, social status in schools and other organizations, and job performance and satisfaction, but they have mainly done so in disconnect. The result is a dearth of theoretization, manifested in a …
The 'New Father' Between Ideals and Practices: New Masculinity Ideology, Gender Role Attitudes, and Fathers' Involvement in Childcare
Current research demonstrates a gap between widely shared ideals of new fatherhood and men's limited participation in childcare. Previous studies treat gender attitudes primarily in terms of work and family roles. In contrast, this study centers on perceptions of masculinity as a broader cultural-ideological construct. Specifically, it focuses on 'new masculinity ideology,' a previously unexplored masculinity perspective associated with values su…
That's How Family Is: We Take, Give, and Give Back': Low-Income Mothers' (In)ability to Rely on Kin at the Intersection of Familism and Individualism
This study examines the relational dynamics of low-income mothers’ involvement in kin networks at the intersection of familism and individualism. Drawing on in-depth interviews in Israel, it identifies four patterns. Two consist of high involvement and good relationships, with one based on generalized and the other on balanced reciprocity. These patterns characterized the few mothers who had more resourceful networks and a stable source of income…
Masculinity ideologies, sensitivity to masculinity threats, and fathers’ involvement in housework and childcare among U.S. employed fathers
How new is "New"? Who gets added in a panel study of personal networks
Single by chance or by choice? The social meanings of singlehood and narratives of choice among unpartnered adults in Israel
Researchers have proposed various explanations for the increase in singlehood in post-industrialized countries, but the questions of how singles interpret their singlehood and what social meanings they attribute to it have received less attention. Using data collected through in-depth interviews with singles from various backgrounds in Israel, this study examined whether singlehood was considered the result of individual choice or constraints. Fi…
Boundary management preferences from a gender and cross-cultural perspective
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