Claire M Kamp Dush
Biographic Data
| ID | 112391 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claire M Kamp Dush |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claire M Kamp |
| FAMILY NAME | Dush |
| SIGNATURE | DUSH C M K |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 464 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Half of the Picture
Demographic estimates of sexually diverse coresidential relationships in the United States have traditionally concentrated on the sex composition of couples or the sexual identity of one partner alongside their relationship status. Using population-based dyadic data from the National Couples’ Health and Time Study, which encompasses U.S. coresidential partnered adults aged 20‒60, we provide national estimates of couples’ sexual identity compositi…
Racial Discrimination and Mental Health among Asian Americans during the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has had devastating health, economic, and social effects on people throughout the American society. At the same time, racism spread alongside the virus. As China was blamed for COVID-19, Asian Americans became targets of prejudice and discrimination. In this study, we document the racism experienced by Asian Americans during the pandemic and explore its link to mental health. Using the National Couples' Health and Time Study…
Measurement opportunities for studying sexual and gender diverse partnerships in population-based surveys
ObjectiveThis article outlines for family scholars and researchers designing surveys or searching for data on sexual and gender-diverse (SGD) families the latest methodological advancements in United States population-based surveys for studying SGD partnerships by reviewing five recently collected, publicly available, population-representative data sets.BackgroundLGBTQIA+ adults and SGD partnerships are an expanding demographic group in the Unite…
Emotional support among partnered sexual minority and heterosexual individuals during the Covid-19 pandemic
Covid-19 Stress and Sexual Identities
The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has disrupted lives and resulted in high levels of stress. Although the evidence at the societal level is clear, there have been no population-based studies of pandemic-based stress focusing on individuals who identify as sexual minorities. Drawing on representative data collected during the pandemic, National Couples' Health and Time Study, the authors find that partnered (cohabiting or married) individuals …
Best-Laid Plans”
Most youth desire to marry, and often around a certain age, but many individuals marry earlier or later than originally desired. Off-time marriage could have consequences for subsequent relationship stability and mental health. Whereas barriers to marriage goals in the short term have been studied extensively, predictors of meeting marital timing expectations over the life course are less well understood. This study examined possible barriers, in…
Advancing Research and Measurement on Fathering and Children’s Development
Fathers are more than social accidents. Research has demonstrated that fathers matter to children’s development. Despite noted progress, challenges remain on how best to conceptualize and assess fathering and father–child relationships. The current monograph is the result of an SRCD-sponsored meeting of fatherhood scholars brought together to discuss these challenges and make recommendations for best practices for incorporating fathers in studies…
What Are Men Doing while Women Perform Extra Unpaid Labor? Leisure and Specialization at the Transitions to Parenthood
Doing Gender Online
Anticipating the "Ball and Chain"? Reciprocal Associations Between Marital Expectations and Delinquency
Marriage has been identified as a mechanism that may explain decreased delinquency among young adults, but whereas marriage is increasingly delayed, crime continues to decrease across the transition to adulthood. Most adolescents and young adults expect to marry one day, and these expectations may suppress delinquency. Conversely, increased delinquency may also predict decreased marital expectations. Longitudinal data from the National Longitudin…
New Parents' Psychological Adjustment and Trajectories of Early Parental Involvement
Trajectories of parental involvement time (engagement and child care) across 3, 6, and 9 months postpartum and associations with parents' own and their partners' psychological adjustment (dysphoria, anxiety, and empathic personal distress) were examined using a sample of dual-earner couples experiencing first-time parenthood (N = 182 couples). Using time diary measures that captured intensive parenting moments, hierarchical linear modeling analys…
The Production of Inequality
Using longitudinal time diary and survey data from a community sample of dual-earner couples across the transition to parenthood, the authors examined change in divisions of paid and unpaid work and assessed the accuracy of survey data for time use measurement. Mothers, according to the time diaries, shouldered the majority of child care and did not decrease their paid work hours. Furthermore, the gender gap was not present prebirth but emerged p…
Expectant Fathers’ Intuitive Parenting
This study examined expectant fathers’ intuitive parenting behavior and its correlates and associations with fathers’ postpartum positive engagement. One hundred eighty‐two expectant couples completed the Prenatal Lausanne Trilogue Play in the third trimester of pregnancy. Coders rated expectant fathers’ and mothers’ intuitive parenting behavior during this procedure. Expectant parents also completed surveys regarding their psychological and demo…
Relations Between Fathers' and Mothers' Infant Engagement Patterns in Dual-Earner Families and Toddler Competence
This study examined the trajectories of time new fathers and mothers in dual-earner families ( N = 178) reported spending in developmentally appropriate positive engagement activities over the first 9 months of their child's life on both work and nonworkdays. We also explored how paternal and maternal engagement patterns in infancy were associated with children's later social-emotional competence during toddlerhood ( M = 25 months). Using latent …
Indicators of Adolescent Depression and Relationship Progression in Emerging Adulthood
Adolescent depression may be associated with future relationship problems that have long-term consequences given the developmental importance and health benefits of forming committed unions in emerging adulthood. The authors examined associations between emotional and behavioral indicators of adolescent depression (depressive symptoms, alcohol problems, and suicidal ideation) and romantic relationship and union formation and dissolution in emergi…
Time in Parenting Activities in Dual‐Earner Families at the Transition to Parenthood
Time parenting was compared for new mothers and fathers in a sample of 182 dual‐earner families. Parenting domains included positive engagement, responsibility, routine child care, and accessibility. Time diaries captured parents' time use over a 24‐hour workday and nonworkday when infants were age 3 and 9 months. Parents were highly involved with their infants. Mothers were more involved than fathers in positive engagement and routine child care…
Casual Sexual Relationships and Mental Health in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood
Casual sexual relationships are relatively common in emerging adulthood. Yet the mental health implications of engaging in these relationships are unclear; past research has found negative associations, positive associations, or no association with mental health. In addition, little research has accounted for mental health status prior to entering casual sexual relationships. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (N…
Chaos as a social determinant of child health
Marital and Cohabitation Dissolution and Parental Depressive Symptoms in Fragile Families
The consequences of divorce are pronounced for parents of young children, and cohabitation dissolution is increasing in this population and has important implications. The mental health consequences of union dissolution were examined, by union type and parental gender, using the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (n= 1,998 for mothers and 1,764 for fathers). Overall, cohabitation and marital dissolution were both associated with increased…
New Parents' Facebook Use at the Transition to Parenthood
New parents' Facebook use was examined from a social capital perspective. Surveys regarding Facebook use and parenting satisfaction, parenting self‐efficacy, and parenting stress were completed by 154 mothers and 150 fathers as part of a larger study of dual‐earner, Midwestern U.S. couples making the transition to parenthood. Results indicated that mothers used Facebook more than fathers, and that mothers perceived an increase in use over the tra…
Trajectories of Marital Conflict Across the Life Course
Using typologies outlined by Gottman and Fitzpatrick as well as institutional and companionate models of marriage, the authors conducted a latent class analysis of marital conflict trajectories using 20 years of data from the Marital Instability Over the Life Course study. Respondents were in one of three groups: high, medium (around the mean), or low conflict. Several factors predicted conflict trajectory group membership; respondents who believ…
Breaking up is hard to do
This study examined the impact of unmarried relationship break-up on psychological distress and life satisfaction using a within-subjects design. Among unmarried 18- to 35-year olds (N = 1295), 36.5% had one or more break-ups over a 20-month period. Experiencing a break-up was associated with an increase in psychological distress and a decline in life satisfaction (from pre- to postdissolution). In addition, several characteristics of the relatio…
The mental health of mothers in and after violent and controlling unions
Marital Happiness and Psychological Well‐Being Across the Life Course
Using data from six waves of the Study of Marital Instability over the Life Course ( N = 1,998), we conducted a latent class analysis to test for distinct marital happiness trajectories. We found three distinct marital happiness trajectories: low, middle, and high happiness. Initial levels of life happiness were strongly associated with membership in the marital happiness trajectories and with various demographic and attitude‐related control vari…
Special Reviewers
Consequences of relationship status and quality for subjective well-being
This study examined the links among relationship status, relationship happiness, and a latent measure of subjective well-being. Using the study of Marital Instability over the Life Course, we found that married individuals reported the highest level of subjective well-being, followed (in order) by individuals in cohabiting relationships, steady dating relationships, casual dating relationships, and individuals who dated infrequently or not at all…
The Production of Inequality
Using longitudinal time diary and survey data from a community sample of dual-earner couples across the transition to parenthood, the authors examined change in divisions of paid and unpaid work and assessed the accuracy of survey data for time use measurement. Mothers, according to the time diaries, shouldered the majority of child care and did not decrease their paid work hours. Furthermore, the gender gap was not present prebirth but emerged p…
The Relationship Between Cohabitation and Marital Quality and Stability
The relationship between premarital cohabitation and marital dysfunction was examined with a total sample of 1,425 spouses in two U.S. marriage cohorts: those married between 1964 and 1980 (when cohabitation was less common) and those married between 1981 and 1997 (when cohabitation was more common). Spouses in both cohorts who cohabited prior to marriage reported poorer marital quality and greater marital instability. When selection factors for …
What Are Men Doing while Women Perform Extra Unpaid Labor? Leisure and Specialization at the Transitions to Parenthood
Chaos as a social determinant of child health
Trajectories of Marital Conflict Across the Life Course
Using typologies outlined by Gottman and Fitzpatrick as well as institutional and companionate models of marriage, the authors conducted a latent class analysis of marital conflict trajectories using 20 years of data from the Marital Instability Over the Life Course study. Respondents were in one of three groups: high, medium (around the mean), or low conflict. Several factors predicted conflict trajectory group membership; respondents who believ…
Marital and Cohabitation Dissolution and Parental Depressive Symptoms in Fragile Families
The consequences of divorce are pronounced for parents of young children, and cohabitation dissolution is increasing in this population and has important implications. The mental health consequences of union dissolution were examined, by union type and parental gender, using the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (n= 1,998 for mothers and 1,764 for fathers). Overall, cohabitation and marital dissolution were both associated with increased…
Covid-19 Stress and Sexual Identities
The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has disrupted lives and resulted in high levels of stress. Although the evidence at the societal level is clear, there have been no population-based studies of pandemic-based stress focusing on individuals who identify as sexual minorities. Drawing on representative data collected during the pandemic, National Couples' Health and Time Study, the authors find that partnered (cohabiting or married) individuals …
Measurement opportunities for studying sexual and gender diverse partnerships in population-based surveys
ObjectiveThis article outlines for family scholars and researchers designing surveys or searching for data on sexual and gender-diverse (SGD) families the latest methodological advancements in United States population-based surveys for studying SGD partnerships by reviewing five recently collected, publicly available, population-representative data sets.BackgroundLGBTQIA+ adults and SGD partnerships are an expanding demographic group in the Unite…
Casual Sexual Relationships and Mental Health in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood
Casual sexual relationships are relatively common in emerging adulthood. Yet the mental health implications of engaging in these relationships are unclear; past research has found negative associations, positive associations, or no association with mental health. In addition, little research has accounted for mental health status prior to entering casual sexual relationships. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (N…
Doing Gender Online
Indicators of Adolescent Depression and Relationship Progression in Emerging Adulthood
Adolescent depression may be associated with future relationship problems that have long-term consequences given the developmental importance and health benefits of forming committed unions in emerging adulthood. The authors examined associations between emotional and behavioral indicators of adolescent depression (depressive symptoms, alcohol problems, and suicidal ideation) and romantic relationship and union formation and dissolution in emergi…
Anticipating the "Ball and Chain"? Reciprocal Associations Between Marital Expectations and Delinquency
Marriage has been identified as a mechanism that may explain decreased delinquency among young adults, but whereas marriage is increasingly delayed, crime continues to decrease across the transition to adulthood. Most adolescents and young adults expect to marry one day, and these expectations may suppress delinquency. Conversely, increased delinquency may also predict decreased marital expectations. Longitudinal data from the National Longitudin…
Relations Between Fathers' and Mothers' Infant Engagement Patterns in Dual-Earner Families and Toddler Competence
This study examined the trajectories of time new fathers and mothers in dual-earner families ( N = 178) reported spending in developmentally appropriate positive engagement activities over the first 9 months of their child's life on both work and nonworkdays. We also explored how paternal and maternal engagement patterns in infancy were associated with children's later social-emotional competence during toddlerhood ( M = 25 months). Using latent …
New Parents' Psychological Adjustment and Trajectories of Early Parental Involvement
Trajectories of parental involvement time (engagement and child care) across 3, 6, and 9 months postpartum and associations with parents' own and their partners' psychological adjustment (dysphoria, anxiety, and empathic personal distress) were examined using a sample of dual-earner couples experiencing first-time parenthood (N = 182 couples). Using time diary measures that captured intensive parenting moments, hierarchical linear modeling analys…
The mental health of mothers in and after violent and controlling unions
Emotional support among partnered sexual minority and heterosexual individuals during the Covid-19 pandemic
Expectant Fathers’ Intuitive Parenting
This study examined expectant fathers’ intuitive parenting behavior and its correlates and associations with fathers’ postpartum positive engagement. One hundred eighty‐two expectant couples completed the Prenatal Lausanne Trilogue Play in the third trimester of pregnancy. Coders rated expectant fathers’ and mothers’ intuitive parenting behavior during this procedure. Expectant parents also completed surveys regarding their psychological and demo…
The Relationship Between Cohabitation and Marital Quality and Stability
The relationship between premarital cohabitation and marital dysfunction was examined with a total sample of 1,425 spouses in two U.S. marriage cohorts: those married between 1964 and 1980 (when cohabitation was less common) and those married between 1981 and 1997 (when cohabitation was more common). Spouses in both cohorts who cohabited prior to marriage reported poorer marital quality and greater marital instability. When selection factors for …
Special Reviewers
Consequences of relationship status and quality for subjective well-being
This study examined the links among relationship status, relationship happiness, and a latent measure of subjective well-being. Using the study of Marital Instability over the Life Course, we found that married individuals reported the highest level of subjective well-being, followed (in order) by individuals in cohabiting relationships, steady dating relationships, casual dating relationships, and individuals who dated infrequently or not at all…
Marital Happiness and Psychological Well‐Being Across the Life Course
Using data from six waves of the Study of Marital Instability over the Life Course ( N = 1,998), we conducted a latent class analysis to test for distinct marital happiness trajectories. We found three distinct marital happiness trajectories: low, middle, and high happiness. Initial levels of life happiness were strongly associated with membership in the marital happiness trajectories and with various demographic and attitude‐related control vari…
The mental health of mothers in and after violent and controlling unions
Breaking up is hard to do
This study examined the impact of unmarried relationship break-up on psychological distress and life satisfaction using a within-subjects design. Among unmarried 18- to 35-year olds (N = 1295), 36.5% had one or more break-ups over a 20-month period. Experiencing a break-up was associated with an increase in psychological distress and a decline in life satisfaction (from pre- to postdissolution). In addition, several characteristics of the relatio…
New Parents' Facebook Use at the Transition to Parenthood
New parents' Facebook use was examined from a social capital perspective. Surveys regarding Facebook use and parenting satisfaction, parenting self‐efficacy, and parenting stress were completed by 154 mothers and 150 fathers as part of a larger study of dual‐earner, Midwestern U.S. couples making the transition to parenthood. Results indicated that mothers used Facebook more than fathers, and that mothers perceived an increase in use over the tra…
Trajectories of Marital Conflict Across the Life Course
Using typologies outlined by Gottman and Fitzpatrick as well as institutional and companionate models of marriage, the authors conducted a latent class analysis of marital conflict trajectories using 20 years of data from the Marital Instability Over the Life Course study. Respondents were in one of three groups: high, medium (around the mean), or low conflict. Several factors predicted conflict trajectory group membership; respondents who believ…
Time in Parenting Activities in Dual‐Earner Families at the Transition to Parenthood
Time parenting was compared for new mothers and fathers in a sample of 182 dual‐earner families. Parenting domains included positive engagement, responsibility, routine child care, and accessibility. Time diaries captured parents' time use over a 24‐hour workday and nonworkday when infants were age 3 and 9 months. Parents were highly involved with their infants. Mothers were more involved than fathers in positive engagement and routine child care…
Casual Sexual Relationships and Mental Health in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood
Casual sexual relationships are relatively common in emerging adulthood. Yet the mental health implications of engaging in these relationships are unclear; past research has found negative associations, positive associations, or no association with mental health. In addition, little research has accounted for mental health status prior to entering casual sexual relationships. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (N…
Chaos as a social determinant of child health
Marital and Cohabitation Dissolution and Parental Depressive Symptoms in Fragile Families
The consequences of divorce are pronounced for parents of young children, and cohabitation dissolution is increasing in this population and has important implications. The mental health consequences of union dissolution were examined, by union type and parental gender, using the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (n= 1,998 for mothers and 1,764 for fathers). Overall, cohabitation and marital dissolution were both associated with increased…
Expectant Fathers’ Intuitive Parenting
This study examined expectant fathers’ intuitive parenting behavior and its correlates and associations with fathers’ postpartum positive engagement. One hundred eighty‐two expectant couples completed the Prenatal Lausanne Trilogue Play in the third trimester of pregnancy. Coders rated expectant fathers’ and mothers’ intuitive parenting behavior during this procedure. Expectant parents also completed surveys regarding their psychological and demo…
Relations Between Fathers' and Mothers' Infant Engagement Patterns in Dual-Earner Families and Toddler Competence
This study examined the trajectories of time new fathers and mothers in dual-earner families ( N = 178) reported spending in developmentally appropriate positive engagement activities over the first 9 months of their child's life on both work and nonworkdays. We also explored how paternal and maternal engagement patterns in infancy were associated with children's later social-emotional competence during toddlerhood ( M = 25 months). Using latent …
Indicators of Adolescent Depression and Relationship Progression in Emerging Adulthood
Adolescent depression may be associated with future relationship problems that have long-term consequences given the developmental importance and health benefits of forming committed unions in emerging adulthood. The authors examined associations between emotional and behavioral indicators of adolescent depression (depressive symptoms, alcohol problems, and suicidal ideation) and romantic relationship and union formation and dissolution in emergi…
The Production of Inequality
Using longitudinal time diary and survey data from a community sample of dual-earner couples across the transition to parenthood, the authors examined change in divisions of paid and unpaid work and assessed the accuracy of survey data for time use measurement. Mothers, according to the time diaries, shouldered the majority of child care and did not decrease their paid work hours. Furthermore, the gender gap was not present prebirth but emerged p…
Doing Gender Online
Anticipating the "Ball and Chain"? Reciprocal Associations Between Marital Expectations and Delinquency
Marriage has been identified as a mechanism that may explain decreased delinquency among young adults, but whereas marriage is increasingly delayed, crime continues to decrease across the transition to adulthood. Most adolescents and young adults expect to marry one day, and these expectations may suppress delinquency. Conversely, increased delinquency may also predict decreased marital expectations. Longitudinal data from the National Longitudin…
New Parents' Psychological Adjustment and Trajectories of Early Parental Involvement
Trajectories of parental involvement time (engagement and child care) across 3, 6, and 9 months postpartum and associations with parents' own and their partners' psychological adjustment (dysphoria, anxiety, and empathic personal distress) were examined using a sample of dual-earner couples experiencing first-time parenthood (N = 182 couples). Using time diary measures that captured intensive parenting moments, hierarchical linear modeling analys…
What Are Men Doing while Women Perform Extra Unpaid Labor? Leisure and Specialization at the Transitions to Parenthood
Advancing Research and Measurement on Fathering and Children’s Development
Fathers are more than social accidents. Research has demonstrated that fathers matter to children’s development. Despite noted progress, challenges remain on how best to conceptualize and assess fathering and father–child relationships. The current monograph is the result of an SRCD-sponsored meeting of fatherhood scholars brought together to discuss these challenges and make recommendations for best practices for incorporating fathers in studies…
Best-Laid Plans”
Most youth desire to marry, and often around a certain age, but many individuals marry earlier or later than originally desired. Off-time marriage could have consequences for subsequent relationship stability and mental health. Whereas barriers to marriage goals in the short term have been studied extensively, predictors of meeting marital timing expectations over the life course are less well understood. This study examined possible barriers, in…
Covid-19 Stress and Sexual Identities
The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has disrupted lives and resulted in high levels of stress. Although the evidence at the societal level is clear, there have been no population-based studies of pandemic-based stress focusing on individuals who identify as sexual minorities. Drawing on representative data collected during the pandemic, National Couples' Health and Time Study, the authors find that partnered (cohabiting or married) individuals …
Emotional support among partnered sexual minority and heterosexual individuals during the Covid-19 pandemic
Racial Discrimination and Mental Health among Asian Americans during the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has had devastating health, economic, and social effects on people throughout the American society. At the same time, racism spread alongside the virus. As China was blamed for COVID-19, Asian Americans became targets of prejudice and discrimination. In this study, we document the racism experienced by Asian Americans during the pandemic and explore its link to mental health. Using the National Couples' Health and Time Study…
Psychology (25 works) · Developmental psychology (20 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (14 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Psychiatry (11 works) · Demography (10 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (8 works)