Allegra J Midgette
Biographic Data
| ID | 122535 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allegra J Midgette |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allegra J |
| FAMILY NAME | Midgette |
| SIGNATURE | MIDGETTE A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7316-8133 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Caring for me is helping me care less”: A qualitative exploration of parents’ experiences of giving and receiving care
Caregiving is an essential component of family life. However, while much research has explored how parents provide care, limited attention has been given to understanding their experiences in receiving care. Thus, this study investigated how 26 U.S. parents in different-sex relationships (14 mothers, 12 fathers; 61.54% non-Hispanic White, primarily middle class) report experiencing both caregiving and care-receiving, with a focus on potential gen…
Learning to care on one's own: Chinese children's caregivers' reflections on family care
Development and Validation of a Measure of Valuing Family Care Labor With U.S. Samples
Unpaid family care labor, disproportionately completed by women, has been consistently devalued. Research on caregiving has been hindered by the absence of a measure to capture the extent to which individuals value caregiving, inhibiting research on this topic. The purpose of this research was to validate a new two-dimensional measure of valuing family care labor, defined as the belief that care labor is (a) important work and (b) deserves societ…
To help each other and to be together: How children think about care within the family across three cultures
This study investigated how Finnish, Taiwanese, and U.S. children ( N = 66; 6-8 years) conceptualized and experienced care. Thematic analysis revealed that children across cultures associate care with (1) helping others and (2) being together. Culture impacted whether care involved helping the vulnerable, being kind, nice, and helpful, being able to call for help, accompanying others, playing with and letting one play, and respecting personal spa…
It was Gendered Before, so why not Again? US Young Adults' Expectations for Family Labor
In the present work, we investigated how young adults' perceptions of their own family's inequality in the past plays a role in shaping their expectations for future family life. Across 2 studies ( N = 763), we investigated US heterosexual young adults (18-30 years; 65% White; 48.6% women, 47.8% men, and 3.5% non-binary) about their future expectations for household labor as predicted by (a) past parental division, (b) gender ideology, (c) evalua…
Learning and teaching care within the family: Experiential learning reflecting informal teaching
The present study investigated how caregivers in Finland and the US recount learning and teaching care within the family, drawing on a new educational-psychological framework for care. This study applied thematic analysis to seven focus groups in the US and five focus groups in Finland composed of caregivers ( N = 45). The results suggest one main theme for learning, Imperfect Mirroring of Past Parenting and Present Parenting Practice, and two th…
The children don't do enough: Including children in fairness perceptions of housework
ObjectiveThe present study set out to investigate how all the members, including children, of nuclear US families conceptualize a fair division of household labor.BackgroundThe majority of the literature has focused on how couples perceive their family's division of labor. However, for many households, children are also present and potentially involved in the division of household chores. Thus there is a need to investigate how the whole family, …
If it Bothers Someone it’s a Mistake! How Chinese College Students Conceptualize Transgressions
Given that college-attending emerging adults have greater autonomy and thus may be engaging in behaviors they later find problematic, there is a need to investigate how they make sense of transgressions. The present study investigated through six focus groups ( N = 40) how Chinese college students ( M age = 19.6, SD = 1.41, 60% women) made sense of social and moral transgressions (i.e., mistakes) and the strategies they use to self-correct. Mista…
Beyond Equality: A Cross-Cultural Investigation of Young Straight Adults’ Expectations for Future Family Labor
I just don't agree with my parents: Why Chinese adolescents keep secrets
The present study investigated 195 Chinese adolescents' ( Mage = 15.9, SD = 1.46, 56% female) everyday secret-keeping behaviors and their rationale for their behaviors as reported in a two-week daily diary. A total of 860 secrets were reported. Chinese adolescents primarily kept secrets involving personal activities, followed by academic events and events concerning interpersonal relationships and electronic use. Justifications for their secretiv…
How college students in the United States make sense of examples of gender and intersectional microaggressions in classroom settings
Women and racially minoritized college students report frequent experiences of being targets of gender and race-based microaggressions in the classroom context. However, while much research has focused on reports of experiences by targets, less is known about how observers would evaluate and make sense of these microaggressive experiences. Thus the present study used vignettes based on real-life situations to ascertain how 272 college students (7…
White American students’ recognition of racial microaggressions in higher education
Racial microaggressions often occur in U.S. higher education. However, less is known about how White American students reason about their evaluations of racial microaggressions. The current study investigated how 213 White college students (54.46% cisgender women) attending a PWI in the Southeast U.S. in the Fall of 2019 justified their evaluations of the acceptability of racial microaggressions presented in vignettes. Following Social Domain The…
Mother Like Mothers and Work Like Fathers: U.S. Heterosexual College Students’ Assumptions About Who Should Meet Childcare and Housework Demands
Many U.S. women report balancing competing demands for labor within the family and the workplace. Prior research has found that young adult heterosexual U.S. women are still anticipating doing the majority of their future family's childcare and housework, though they hold more progressive gender role attitudes than in the past. The aim of the present study was to investigate the assumptions of 176 heterosexual college students in the U.S. ( M age…
Covid-19 Life Events Spill-Over on Family Functioning and Adolescent Adjustment
We examined US parent and youth perceptions of how life events, both positive and negative, associated with COVID-19 resulted in changes in family and youth functioning. Families ( n = 105, 80% white, 48% male, and 87% mothers) completed surveys during the pandemic (May to July 2020) and 3 years prior (for youth ages M = 10.6, SD = 1.17 and M = 13.6, SD = 1.19) . Declines in youth, though not parent, report of open family communication, parental …
Unpacking young adults' experiences of race- and gender-based microaggressions
To date the majority of the research on microaggressions has focused on the experiences of targets, rather than the perpetrators, of microaggresive behaviors. The present study set out to investigate 278 college students' ( Mage = 19.12, SD = 1.34, 52.52% cisgender women, 74.82% European American) reported types of experience (a) unaware, b) aware, c) observer, d) perpetrator, and e) target) with race- and gender-based microaggressive behaviors a…
Chinese and South Korean children’s moral reasoning regarding the fairness of a gendered household labor distribution
This study explored age-related changes in Chinese and Korean children's fairness judgments and reasoning regarding the gendered division of household labor. The majority of previous research on this issue has focused on adults' experiences and has been conducted in Western countries. Interviews were conducted with 133 children, 65 Chinese and 68 South Korean, ages 9-11 ( N = 48), 12-14 ( N = 43), and 16-18 ( N = 42). Despite country differences …
Chinese and South Korean Families' Conceptualizations of a Fair Household Labor Distribution
ObjectiveThe present study set out to investigate how Chinese and South Korean families conceptualize fairness and a fair division of household labor.BackgroundPrevious cross-cultural research has found that a good portion of women and men find the gendered division of household labor fair. In response, scholars have attempted to discover what factors lead to a greater likelihood of reporting a gendered division fair. However, the majority of the…
Developmental Implications of Children's Early Religious and Spiritual Experiences in Context: A Sociocultural Perspective
Religious and spiritual experiences have implications for many aspects of development across the lifespan, including during early childhood. A focus on religion and spirituality expands beyond a discrete domain of social science (e.g., cognitive development) and involves developmental, social-psychological, affective and emotional phenomena, and personality. This conceptual paper contributes to the literature regarding the understudied role of re…
The Development of Korean Children's and Adolescents' Concepts of Social Convention
Previous research in the United States has revealed that children's and adolescents' understandings of social convention go through a developmental trajectory that includes an early adolescent phase "negating" the importance of convention. This study examined whether this developmental pattern would generalize to children and adolescents from the more traditional East Asian culture of Korea. Specifically, among U.S. samples, children in middle ch…
White American students’ recognition of racial microaggressions in higher education
Racial microaggressions often occur in U.S. higher education. However, less is known about how White American students reason about their evaluations of racial microaggressions. The current study investigated how 213 White college students (54.46% cisgender women) attending a PWI in the Southeast U.S. in the Fall of 2019 justified their evaluations of the acceptability of racial microaggressions presented in vignettes. Following Social Domain The…
Covid-19 Life Events Spill-Over on Family Functioning and Adolescent Adjustment
We examined US parent and youth perceptions of how life events, both positive and negative, associated with COVID-19 resulted in changes in family and youth functioning. Families ( n = 105, 80% white, 48% male, and 87% mothers) completed surveys during the pandemic (May to July 2020) and 3 years prior (for youth ages M = 10.6, SD = 1.17 and M = 13.6, SD = 1.19) . Declines in youth, though not parent, report of open family communication, parental …
Chinese and South Korean children’s moral reasoning regarding the fairness of a gendered household labor distribution
This study explored age-related changes in Chinese and Korean children's fairness judgments and reasoning regarding the gendered division of household labor. The majority of previous research on this issue has focused on adults' experiences and has been conducted in Western countries. Interviews were conducted with 133 children, 65 Chinese and 68 South Korean, ages 9-11 ( N = 48), 12-14 ( N = 43), and 16-18 ( N = 42). Despite country differences …
Mother Like Mothers and Work Like Fathers: U.S. Heterosexual College Students’ Assumptions About Who Should Meet Childcare and Housework Demands
Many U.S. women report balancing competing demands for labor within the family and the workplace. Prior research has found that young adult heterosexual U.S. women are still anticipating doing the majority of their future family's childcare and housework, though they hold more progressive gender role attitudes than in the past. The aim of the present study was to investigate the assumptions of 176 heterosexual college students in the U.S. ( M age…
Unpacking young adults' experiences of race- and gender-based microaggressions
To date the majority of the research on microaggressions has focused on the experiences of targets, rather than the perpetrators, of microaggresive behaviors. The present study set out to investigate 278 college students' ( Mage = 19.12, SD = 1.34, 52.52% cisgender women, 74.82% European American) reported types of experience (a) unaware, b) aware, c) observer, d) perpetrator, and e) target) with race- and gender-based microaggressive behaviors a…
How college students in the United States make sense of examples of gender and intersectional microaggressions in classroom settings
Women and racially minoritized college students report frequent experiences of being targets of gender and race-based microaggressions in the classroom context. However, while much research has focused on reports of experiences by targets, less is known about how observers would evaluate and make sense of these microaggressive experiences. Thus the present study used vignettes based on real-life situations to ascertain how 272 college students (7…
Chinese and South Korean Families' Conceptualizations of a Fair Household Labor Distribution
ObjectiveThe present study set out to investigate how Chinese and South Korean families conceptualize fairness and a fair division of household labor.BackgroundPrevious cross-cultural research has found that a good portion of women and men find the gendered division of household labor fair. In response, scholars have attempted to discover what factors lead to a greater likelihood of reporting a gendered division fair. However, the majority of the…
Developmental Implications of Children's Early Religious and Spiritual Experiences in Context: A Sociocultural Perspective
Religious and spiritual experiences have implications for many aspects of development across the lifespan, including during early childhood. A focus on religion and spirituality expands beyond a discrete domain of social science (e.g., cognitive development) and involves developmental, social-psychological, affective and emotional phenomena, and personality. This conceptual paper contributes to the literature regarding the understudied role of re…
Learning and teaching care within the family: Experiential learning reflecting informal teaching
The present study investigated how caregivers in Finland and the US recount learning and teaching care within the family, drawing on a new educational-psychological framework for care. This study applied thematic analysis to seven focus groups in the US and five focus groups in Finland composed of caregivers ( N = 45). The results suggest one main theme for learning, Imperfect Mirroring of Past Parenting and Present Parenting Practice, and two th…
Beyond Equality: A Cross-Cultural Investigation of Young Straight Adults’ Expectations for Future Family Labor
I just don't agree with my parents: Why Chinese adolescents keep secrets
The present study investigated 195 Chinese adolescents' ( Mage = 15.9, SD = 1.46, 56% female) everyday secret-keeping behaviors and their rationale for their behaviors as reported in a two-week daily diary. A total of 860 secrets were reported. Chinese adolescents primarily kept secrets involving personal activities, followed by academic events and events concerning interpersonal relationships and electronic use. Justifications for their secretiv…
To help each other and to be together: How children think about care within the family across three cultures
This study investigated how Finnish, Taiwanese, and U.S. children ( N = 66; 6-8 years) conceptualized and experienced care. Thematic analysis revealed that children across cultures associate care with (1) helping others and (2) being together. Culture impacted whether care involved helping the vulnerable, being kind, nice, and helpful, being able to call for help, accompanying others, playing with and letting one play, and respecting personal spa…
The Development of Korean Children's and Adolescents' Concepts of Social Convention
Previous research in the United States has revealed that children's and adolescents' understandings of social convention go through a developmental trajectory that includes an early adolescent phase "negating" the importance of convention. This study examined whether this developmental pattern would generalize to children and adolescents from the more traditional East Asian culture of Korea. Specifically, among U.S. samples, children in middle ch…
Developmental Implications of Children's Early Religious and Spiritual Experiences in Context: A Sociocultural Perspective
Religious and spiritual experiences have implications for many aspects of development across the lifespan, including during early childhood. A focus on religion and spirituality expands beyond a discrete domain of social science (e.g., cognitive development) and involves developmental, social-psychological, affective and emotional phenomena, and personality. This conceptual paper contributes to the literature regarding the understudied role of re…
Chinese and South Korean children’s moral reasoning regarding the fairness of a gendered household labor distribution
This study explored age-related changes in Chinese and Korean children's fairness judgments and reasoning regarding the gendered division of household labor. The majority of previous research on this issue has focused on adults' experiences and has been conducted in Western countries. Interviews were conducted with 133 children, 65 Chinese and 68 South Korean, ages 9-11 ( N = 48), 12-14 ( N = 43), and 16-18 ( N = 42). Despite country differences …
Chinese and South Korean Families' Conceptualizations of a Fair Household Labor Distribution
ObjectiveThe present study set out to investigate how Chinese and South Korean families conceptualize fairness and a fair division of household labor.BackgroundPrevious cross-cultural research has found that a good portion of women and men find the gendered division of household labor fair. In response, scholars have attempted to discover what factors lead to a greater likelihood of reporting a gendered division fair. However, the majority of the…
Mother Like Mothers and Work Like Fathers: U.S. Heterosexual College Students’ Assumptions About Who Should Meet Childcare and Housework Demands
Many U.S. women report balancing competing demands for labor within the family and the workplace. Prior research has found that young adult heterosexual U.S. women are still anticipating doing the majority of their future family's childcare and housework, though they hold more progressive gender role attitudes than in the past. The aim of the present study was to investigate the assumptions of 176 heterosexual college students in the U.S. ( M age…
Covid-19 Life Events Spill-Over on Family Functioning and Adolescent Adjustment
We examined US parent and youth perceptions of how life events, both positive and negative, associated with COVID-19 resulted in changes in family and youth functioning. Families ( n = 105, 80% white, 48% male, and 87% mothers) completed surveys during the pandemic (May to July 2020) and 3 years prior (for youth ages M = 10.6, SD = 1.17 and M = 13.6, SD = 1.19) . Declines in youth, though not parent, report of open family communication, parental …
Unpacking young adults' experiences of race- and gender-based microaggressions
To date the majority of the research on microaggressions has focused on the experiences of targets, rather than the perpetrators, of microaggresive behaviors. The present study set out to investigate 278 college students' ( Mage = 19.12, SD = 1.34, 52.52% cisgender women, 74.82% European American) reported types of experience (a) unaware, b) aware, c) observer, d) perpetrator, and e) target) with race- and gender-based microaggressive behaviors a…
White American students’ recognition of racial microaggressions in higher education
Racial microaggressions often occur in U.S. higher education. However, less is known about how White American students reason about their evaluations of racial microaggressions. The current study investigated how 213 White college students (54.46% cisgender women) attending a PWI in the Southeast U.S. in the Fall of 2019 justified their evaluations of the acceptability of racial microaggressions presented in vignettes. Following Social Domain The…
If it Bothers Someone it’s a Mistake! How Chinese College Students Conceptualize Transgressions
Given that college-attending emerging adults have greater autonomy and thus may be engaging in behaviors they later find problematic, there is a need to investigate how they make sense of transgressions. The present study investigated through six focus groups ( N = 40) how Chinese college students ( M age = 19.6, SD = 1.41, 60% women) made sense of social and moral transgressions (i.e., mistakes) and the strategies they use to self-correct. Mista…
Beyond Equality: A Cross-Cultural Investigation of Young Straight Adults’ Expectations for Future Family Labor
I just don't agree with my parents: Why Chinese adolescents keep secrets
The present study investigated 195 Chinese adolescents' ( Mage = 15.9, SD = 1.46, 56% female) everyday secret-keeping behaviors and their rationale for their behaviors as reported in a two-week daily diary. A total of 860 secrets were reported. Chinese adolescents primarily kept secrets involving personal activities, followed by academic events and events concerning interpersonal relationships and electronic use. Justifications for their secretiv…
How college students in the United States make sense of examples of gender and intersectional microaggressions in classroom settings
Women and racially minoritized college students report frequent experiences of being targets of gender and race-based microaggressions in the classroom context. However, while much research has focused on reports of experiences by targets, less is known about how observers would evaluate and make sense of these microaggressive experiences. Thus the present study used vignettes based on real-life situations to ascertain how 272 college students (7…
Learning and teaching care within the family: Experiential learning reflecting informal teaching
The present study investigated how caregivers in Finland and the US recount learning and teaching care within the family, drawing on a new educational-psychological framework for care. This study applied thematic analysis to seven focus groups in the US and five focus groups in Finland composed of caregivers ( N = 45). The results suggest one main theme for learning, Imperfect Mirroring of Past Parenting and Present Parenting Practice, and two th…
The children don't do enough: Including children in fairness perceptions of housework
ObjectiveThe present study set out to investigate how all the members, including children, of nuclear US families conceptualize a fair division of household labor.BackgroundThe majority of the literature has focused on how couples perceive their family's division of labor. However, for many households, children are also present and potentially involved in the division of household chores. Thus there is a need to investigate how the whole family, …
Learning to care on one's own: Chinese children's caregivers' reflections on family care
Development and Validation of a Measure of Valuing Family Care Labor With U.S. Samples
Unpaid family care labor, disproportionately completed by women, has been consistently devalued. Research on caregiving has been hindered by the absence of a measure to capture the extent to which individuals value caregiving, inhibiting research on this topic. The purpose of this research was to validate a new two-dimensional measure of valuing family care labor, defined as the belief that care labor is (a) important work and (b) deserves societ…
To help each other and to be together: How children think about care within the family across three cultures
This study investigated how Finnish, Taiwanese, and U.S. children ( N = 66; 6-8 years) conceptualized and experienced care. Thematic analysis revealed that children across cultures associate care with (1) helping others and (2) being together. Culture impacted whether care involved helping the vulnerable, being kind, nice, and helpful, being able to call for help, accompanying others, playing with and letting one play, and respecting personal spa…
It was Gendered Before, so why not Again? US Young Adults' Expectations for Family Labor
In the present work, we investigated how young adults' perceptions of their own family's inequality in the past plays a role in shaping their expectations for future family life. Across 2 studies ( N = 763), we investigated US heterosexual young adults (18-30 years; 65% White; 48.6% women, 47.8% men, and 3.5% non-binary) about their future expectations for household labor as predicted by (a) past parental division, (b) gender ideology, (c) evalua…
Caring for me is helping me care less”: A qualitative exploration of parents’ experiences of giving and receiving care
Caregiving is an essential component of family life. However, while much research has explored how parents provide care, limited attention has been given to understanding their experiences in receiving care. Thus, this study investigated how 26 U.S. parents in different-sex relationships (14 mothers, 12 fathers; 61.54% non-Hispanic White, primarily middle class) report experiencing both caregiving and care-receiving, with a focus on potential gen…
Psychology (16 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Developmental psychology (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (8 works) · Qualitative research (5 works) · Thematic analysis (5 works) · Demographic economics (4 works) · Economics (4 works)