Shelley M Macdermid Wadsworth
Biographic Data
| ID | 129560 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shelley M Macdermid Wadsworth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shelley M Macdermid |
| FAMILY NAME | Wadsworth |
| SIGNATURE | WADSWORTH S M M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Purdue University West Lafayette |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5443-2760 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 338 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
The name game: Evolving terminology in work-family/work-life research
The year 2024 marked the 25th anniversary of the creation of the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-family Research, which presented a good opportunity to consider the current state of our field. We conducted a Delphi study to pursue answers to the following questions: (a) What do scholars mean when they say that they are ‘work-family’ researchers? How do researchers envision ‘work-family’ research now and into the future? A total …
Studies of resilience and family resilience within families experiencing homelessness/housing instability: A systematic review
Community members as design partners: Codesign workshops of the families tackling tough times together program
Long-term trajectories of depressive symptoms by military affiliation
A larger percentage of those who served were in the "increasing" trajectory characterized by concerningly high depressive symptoms by midlife, underscoring the need for continued screening in depressive symptoms throughout the life course. Associations between family structure and gender on depressive symptoms support calls for conceptualizing family structure as a social determinant of health and continued investment in women's health
A Preliminary Analysis of Psychiatric Service Dog Placements and Sleep Patterns of Partners of Veterans With PTSD
Partners of veterans diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are at risk of a variety of challenges, and it is unknown whether psychiatric service dogs are disruptive to their sleep or provide similar benefits that are seen in the limited literature on veterans. As part of a larger clinical trial examining the efficacy of psychiatric service dogs for veterans with PTSD and their families, this study focused on sleep patterns of vetera…
Military service and sociodemographic determinants of depressive symptom trajectories
PTSD service dogs foster resilience among veterans and military families
Emerging Ideas. Families Together: Supporting family resilience during the Covid ‐19 pandemic
Grit but Not Help-Seeking Was Associated with Food Insecurity among Low Income, At-Risk Rural Veterans
Rural veterans have poorer health, use healthcare services less often than their urban counterparts, and have more prevalent food insecurity than average U.S. households. Food insecurity and resource use may be influenced by modifiable psychological attributes such as grit and help-seeking behaviors, which may be improved through interventions. Grit and help-seeking have not been previously evaluated among rural veterans. Thus, this cross-section…
Relationship maintenance among military couples
A burgeoning body of research on the relationship maintenance of military couples over the past two decades suggests the time is right to organize, assimilate, and critique the literature. We conducted a systematic review informed by the integrative model of relationship maintenance that considered issues of intersectionality. Our literature search identified 81 relevant journal articles representing 62 unique samples. With respect to theory, 59.…
Comparing VA and Non-VA Medical Centers: Informing Veteran Health Care Choice at the Mission Act Watershed
This study compared clinical quality and patient experience in US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and non-VA hospitals. One hospital was identified for each full-service VA hospital (n = 125 pairs). Hospitals were compared on four Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) clinical indicators: Influenza immunization (IMM-2), Patient Safety Indicator 04 (PSI 04), Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI), Methicillin-resistant…
Focus Forward Fellowship: Evaluation of a program for women student service members and veterans
Military couples' experiences in the aftermath of a cancelled deployment
Deployment requires considerable preparation for military families and changes to these plans may create notable stress. The current study leveraged data from a sample of military couples who experienced the cancellation of an overseas deployment to learn more about their experiences as they adjusted to this change. Guided by family stress and anticipatory stress perspectives, we analyzed qualitative data from 28 service members and their signifi…
Youth’s Sibling Relationships Across the Course of a Parent’s Military Deployment: Trajectories and Implications
The present exploratory study explored the trajectories and implications of at-home (military unaffiliated) parents’ perceptions of youth’s sibling relationships across the course of a parent’s military deployment. Participants included 109 families with at least two siblings (older sibling and younger siblings age: M = 10.85, SD = 3.92 and M = 7.89, SD = 3.58, respectively) and one parent serving in the National Guard. Data were collected via in…
When University Researchers Connect with Policy: A Framework for Whether, When, and How to Engage
Universities are renowned for their tradition of producing research that benefits millions of people. When it comes to policymaking, university research is considered more trustworthy than other sources, yet it simultaneously is widely perceived as playing too small a role in public policy decisions. In this article, we consider the engagement of university‐based researchers with policymakers and the policy process. As a guide for researchers, we…
Examining Multiple Rhythms of Military and Veteran Family Life
This review considers existing literature about military and veteran families' deployment‐related experiences in relation to three separate, yet related, temporal rhythms. First, we consider military family functioning within a short‐term rhythm focused on dynamic family interactions (e.g., communicative exchanges) that occur daily. Next, we consider medium‐term rhythms characterized by more temporal stability. Examples of such rhythms include es…
Changes in Parenting and Youth Adjustment Across the Military Deployment Cycle
This study examined how changes in at-home parents' mental health and parenting practices related to changes in their children's adjustment throughout the course of a service members' military deployment. Participants included at-home parents from 114 National Guard families who were interviewed at four different occasions across the deployment cycle. The results revealed changes across the deployment cycle among the following three indicators: p…
Identity and Poverty: Defining a Sense of Self among Urban Adolescents
Capturing Complexities in Work and Family Theory and Research
Work and Family Research and Theory: Review and Analysis From an Ecological Perspective
This invited review examines major trends and developments in the work and family field from an ecological perspective. We examine how research has developed over the past several decades with attention to the ways in which dominant theories and empirical findings, couched in specific historical and social eras, have moved the field forward and addressed important questions, while also raising many more. We first examine theoretical paradigms and…
Emotion expression, avoidance and psychological health during reintegration: A dyadic analysis of actor and partner associations within a sample of military couples
We evaluated the extent to which military service members' and their significant others' coping strategies (i.e., individual use of emotion expression and avoidance) were independently associated with their own-and each other's-psychological health during reintegration using an actor-partner interdependence model. We simultaneously evaluated actor associations (e.g., associations between service members' own coping and psychological health) and p…
I Just Can't Fit It in! Implications of the Fit Between Work and Family on Health-Promoting Behaviors
Individuals working long hours and/or experiencing work-related stress, including work-family conflict, are less likely to engage in health-promoting behaviors. Grounded in a life course perspective and guided by the conceptualization of life course fit, this study examined appraisals of fit between work and family roles and engagement in health-promoting behaviors, specifically physical activity and family meals, using a sample of parents ( n = …
The Impact of Deployment on Parental, Family and Child Adjustment in Military Families
Accumulation of Risk and Promotive Factors Among Young Children in US Military Families
In the families of the new cohort of war veterans now entering the civilian population in the United States are over two million young children (Cozza, Haskins & Lerner, 2013; Institute of Medicine, 2013). Several noteworthy studies have shown that children exposed to separation from a parent due to combat‐related deployment are at elevated risk for a variety of negative consequences (Lester & Flake, 2013). Cozza et al. (2013) argue that existing…
Evaluation of a Multimedia Intervention for Children and Families Facing Multiple Military Deployments
Multiple Roles and the Self: A Theory of Role Balance
The literature on multiple roles and identities tends either to ignore strategies of role-system organization altogether or to assume that all people organize a salience hierarchy, through which they assign more importance to some roles and selves than to others. Drawing on our reading of William James and George Herbert Mead, we argue that the way people organize their roles and identities is an empirical issue, not an established fact, and that…
Parental monitoring and perceptions of children's school performance and conduct in dual- and single-earner families
L'etude a pour but de montrer que le controle parental peut constituer une explication des problemes scolaires (performance et conduites) des garcons dont la mere travaille
Changes in Marriage Associated with the Transition to Parenthood: Individual Differences as a Function of Sex-Role Attitudes and Changes in the Division of Household Labor
first 2 1/2 years of marriage. In addition, the degree of congruity between spouses' sex-role attitudes and the division of labor was used to explain differences between couples' reports of love and marital conflict. The sample included 98 couples, 29 who became parents during the first year of marriage and 23 during the second year. All groups of husbands and wives experienced declines in their feelings of love, marital satisfaction, and the fre…
Vacation and Family Functioning
Role Balance Among White Married Couples
We generate models predicting wives' and husbands' feelings of overall balance across roles. Drawing on fine-grained data about marital lifestyles and time use, we find few predictors that are the same for both partners. Both report greater role balance when their level of parental attachment to children is higher and when their marital satisfaction is greater, but gendered time use gives rise to important differences. Wives report greater balanc…
Work and Family Research and Theory: Review and Analysis From an Ecological Perspective
This invited review examines major trends and developments in the work and family field from an ecological perspective. We examine how research has developed over the past several decades with attention to the ways in which dominant theories and empirical findings, couched in specific historical and social eras, have moved the field forward and addressed important questions, while also raising many more. We first examine theoretical paradigms and…
Military Families: Extreme Work and Extreme “Work-Family
While the U.S. military might at first glance appear to be a model of rigidity rather than flexibility, there are strong incentives to address the work-family concerns of service members and their families. From a work-family perspective, military service generates substantial structural, energy, psychological, and behavioral tensions with family life. Although the U.S. military had already implemented extensive programs, policies, and practices …
Family Cohesion in the Lives of Mexican American and European American Parents
This study investigated similarities and differences in relations between stress and parenting behaviors for 509 Mexican American and European American fathers and mothers in Southern California. Our model posited that family cohesion mediates the relation between stressors and parenting behavior, and we found that family cohesion strongly mediated most of the relations between stress and parenting behaviors. Important ethnic and gender differenc…
Family Risk and Resilience in the Context of War and Terrorism
War and terrorism are exerting increasing force on world affairs, with growing implications for families and the scholars who study them. In this review, I consider the implications of mass violence for families, with particular emphasis on families with members serving in the U.S. military and families around the world who live where mass violence occurs. Mass violence poses significant threats to mental health and family functioning, but indivi…
A Within-Industry Comparison of Employed Mothers' Experiences in Small and Large Workplaces
This research focuses on links between mothers' perceptions of their parenting practices, their parenting values, and their children's behavior and the work conditions they experience in small and large workplaces. We explored both direct and indirect (via work-family tension) relationships. We found significant relationships between work conditions and parenting, and significant differences between small and large workplaces, even when backgroun…
It doesn't always add up: Examining Dual-Earner Couples' Decision to Off-Shift
Grounded in social exchange theory and symbolic interactionism, this study examines the decision-making processes, as well as perceived costs and benefits to Canadian dual-earner couples working complementary shifts to manage work and care responsibilities. Qualitative data from 12 dyads and one individual were used to explore the meanings and priorities that couples attached to costs and rewards of an off-shifting arrangement. For most couples, …
Organizational Size and Work-Family Issues
Although the number of small businesses has grown significantly, and the majority of American workers are employed by smaller companies, very little attention has been given to conducting research studies about work-family issues in these companies. This article presents information about other business studies that have focused on organizational size, and it highlights several research traditions that can be used to develop future studies of com…
Perceptions of Family Differentiation, Individuation, and Self-Esteem among Korean Adolescents
Young-Ju Chun, Shelley M. MacDermid, Perceptions of Family Differentiation, Individuation, and Self-Esteem among Korean Adolescents, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 59, No. 2 (May, 1997), pp. 451-462
Romantic Relationships Following Wartime Deployment
This study examines the romantic relationships of reservists following wartime deployment. Members of an Army Reserve unit and their partners participated in seven waves of interviews in the year following the reservists' return from deployment. Qualitative analysis of these 101 interviews from 19 participants revealed four themes: (a) intermittent idealized closeness, (b) transition from independence to interdependence, (c) transition in the pri…
Relationship maintenance among military couples
A burgeoning body of research on the relationship maintenance of military couples over the past two decades suggests the time is right to organize, assimilate, and critique the literature. We conducted a systematic review informed by the integrative model of relationship maintenance that considered issues of intersectionality. Our literature search identified 81 relevant journal articles representing 62 unique samples. With respect to theory, 59.…
I Just Can't Fit It in! Implications of the Fit Between Work and Family on Health-Promoting Behaviors
Individuals working long hours and/or experiencing work-related stress, including work-family conflict, are less likely to engage in health-promoting behaviors. Grounded in a life course perspective and guided by the conceptualization of life course fit, this study examined appraisals of fit between work and family roles and engagement in health-promoting behaviors, specifically physical activity and family meals, using a sample of parents ( n = …
Changes in Parenting and Youth Adjustment Across the Military Deployment Cycle
This study examined how changes in at-home parents' mental health and parenting practices related to changes in their children's adjustment throughout the course of a service members' military deployment. Participants included at-home parents from 114 National Guard families who were interviewed at four different occasions across the deployment cycle. The results revealed changes across the deployment cycle among the following three indicators: p…
Emotion expression, avoidance and psychological health during reintegration: A dyadic analysis of actor and partner associations within a sample of military couples
We evaluated the extent to which military service members' and their significant others' coping strategies (i.e., individual use of emotion expression and avoidance) were independently associated with their own-and each other's-psychological health during reintegration using an actor-partner interdependence model. We simultaneously evaluated actor associations (e.g., associations between service members' own coping and psychological health) and p…
Accumulation of Risk and Promotive Factors Among Young Children in US Military Families
In the families of the new cohort of war veterans now entering the civilian population in the United States are over two million young children (Cozza, Haskins & Lerner, 2013; Institute of Medicine, 2013). Several noteworthy studies have shown that children exposed to separation from a parent due to combat‐related deployment are at elevated risk for a variety of negative consequences (Lester & Flake, 2013). Cozza et al. (2013) argue that existing…
Age, Tenure, Resources for Control, and Organizational Commitment
Objectives. A higher level of organizational commitment for older and more experienced workers has primarily been explained via exchange theory or a cohort effect. We use an agency-structure framework to explain that higher levels of commitment result from feelings of control in the workplace. Methods. We examine this framework using data from a survey of 400 unionized factory workers in the Midwest. Results. The relationship between organization…
Community Contexts: The Perspectives and Adaptations of Working Parents
This article discusses the importance of considering communities to be important social contexts for working families. The Nurturing Families Study gathered data from 357 working parents and their children in Grades 6 to 8 who lived in six different U.S. communities. The study protocols included items that measured parents'subjective assessments of important social contexts, including families' communities of residence. Data were collected about …
Midlife, adolescence, and parental employment in family systems
A Preliminary Analysis of Psychiatric Service Dog Placements and Sleep Patterns of Partners of Veterans With PTSD
Partners of veterans diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are at risk of a variety of challenges, and it is unknown whether psychiatric service dogs are disruptive to their sleep or provide similar benefits that are seen in the limited literature on veterans. As part of a larger clinical trial examining the efficacy of psychiatric service dogs for veterans with PTSD and their families, this study focused on sleep patterns of vetera…
Into the Lion's Den: Methodological Issues for Work-Family Research Inside the Corporation
This article examines some of the methodological issues researchers confromt when conducting research on work-family issues within corporate or business settings. These issues include (1) gaining access and entry, (2) the need for high quality data from multiple sources, and (3) special issues posed by program evaluation research within the work site. This is accomplished by reviewing extant literature on flextime, employer-sponsored child care, …
Into the Lion's Den: Methodological Issues for Work-Family Research Inside the Corporation
This article examines some of the methodological issues researchers confromt when conducting research on work-family issues within corporate or business settings. These issues include (1) gaining access and entry, (2) the need for high quality data from multiple sources, and (3) special issues posed by program evaluation research within the work site. This is accomplished by reviewing extant literature on flextime, employer-sponsored child care, …
Parental monitoring and perceptions of children's school performance and conduct in dual- and single-earner families
L'etude a pour but de montrer que le controle parental peut constituer une explication des problemes scolaires (performance et conduites) des garcons dont la mere travaille
Changes in Marriage Associated with the Transition to Parenthood: Individual Differences as a Function of Sex-Role Attitudes and Changes in the Division of Household Labor
first 2 1/2 years of marriage. In addition, the degree of congruity between spouses' sex-role attitudes and the division of labor was used to explain differences between couples' reports of love and marital conflict. The sample included 98 couples, 29 who became parents during the first year of marriage and 23 during the second year. All groups of husbands and wives experienced declines in their feelings of love, marital satisfaction, and the fre…
Exploring Family Relationships with Other Social Contexts
Midlife, adolescence, and parental employment in family systems
Multiple Roles and the Self: A Theory of Role Balance
The literature on multiple roles and identities tends either to ignore strategies of role-system organization altogether or to assume that all people organize a salience hierarchy, through which they assign more importance to some roles and selves than to others. Drawing on our reading of William James and George Herbert Mead, we argue that the way people organize their roles and identities is an empirical issue, not an established fact, and that…
Perceptions of Family Differentiation, Individuation, and Self-Esteem among Korean Adolescents
Young-Ju Chun, Shelley M. MacDermid, Perceptions of Family Differentiation, Individuation, and Self-Esteem among Korean Adolescents, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 59, No. 2 (May, 1997), pp. 451-462
A Within-Industry Comparison of Employed Mothers' Experiences in Small and Large Workplaces
This research focuses on links between mothers' perceptions of their parenting practices, their parenting values, and their children's behavior and the work conditions they experience in small and large workplaces. We explored both direct and indirect (via work-family tension) relationships. We found significant relationships between work conditions and parenting, and significant differences between small and large workplaces, even when backgroun…
Integrating Work and Family: Challenges and Choices for a Changing World
Organizational Size and Work-Family Issues
Although the number of small businesses has grown significantly, and the majority of American workers are employed by smaller companies, very little attention has been given to conducting research studies about work-family issues in these companies. This article presents information about other business studies that have focused on organizational size, and it highlights several research traditions that can be used to develop future studies of com…
Transitions to Adulthood in a Changing Economy: No Work, No Family, No Future
Preface How Have Alterations in the Structure of Opportunity Affected Transitions to Adulthood? How Has the Changing Structure of Opportunities Affected Transitions to Adulthood? by Martha S. Hill and W. Jean Yeung Twenty-something: Down and Out in the Other America? by J. Lawrence Aber Alterations in the Opportunity Structure: A Criminological Perspective by John H. Laub Sure, I'd Like to Get Married...Some Day by Lynn White How Do Prior Experie…
Role Balance Among White Married Couples
We generate models predicting wives' and husbands' feelings of overall balance across roles. Drawing on fine-grained data about marital lifestyles and time use, we find few predictors that are the same for both partners. Both report greater role balance when their level of parental attachment to children is higher and when their marital satisfaction is greater, but gendered time use gives rise to important differences. Wives report greater balanc…
Walking the Walk: Insights from Research on Helping Clients Navigate Work and Family
Challenges related to managing multiple life roles, particularly work and family roles, often bring individuals or couples to psychotherapy. While a vast empirical literature exists on issues in managing work and family roles, there is little integration of this research into family therapy practice. The purpose of this article is to offer an initial attempt at such integration by considering the implication of work-family research for clinical i…
An Episodic Process Model of Affective Influences on Performance.
In this article, the authors present a model linking immediate affective experiences to within-person performance. First, the authors define a time structure for performance (the performance episode) that is commensurate with the dynamic nature of affect. Next, the authors examine the core cognitive and regulatory processes that determine performance for 1 person during any particular episode. Third, the authors describe how various emotions and …
Community Contexts: The Perspectives and Adaptations of Working Parents
This article discusses the importance of considering communities to be important social contexts for working families. The Nurturing Families Study gathered data from 357 working parents and their children in Grades 6 to 8 who lived in six different U.S. communities. The study protocols included items that measured parents'subjective assessments of important social contexts, including families' communities of residence. Data were collected about …
Ambiguous absence, ambiguous presence: A qualitative study of military reserve families in wartime.
The "Global War on Terrorism" has resulted in reservists being deployed at an ever-increasing rate. However, because reservists and their families are unaccustomed to deployments, many families may experience boundary ambiguity, a state in which family members are uncertain in their perception about who is in or out of the family and who is performing which roles and tasks within the family. This qualitative description study examined boundary am…
Family Cohesion in the Lives of Mexican American and European American Parents
This study investigated similarities and differences in relations between stress and parenting behaviors for 509 Mexican American and European American fathers and mothers in Southern California. Our model posited that family cohesion mediates the relation between stressors and parenting behavior, and we found that family cohesion strongly mediated most of the relations between stress and parenting behaviors. Important ethnic and gender differenc…
Vacation and Family Functioning
Age, Tenure, Resources for Control, and Organizational Commitment
Objectives. A higher level of organizational commitment for older and more experienced workers has primarily been explained via exchange theory or a cohort effect. We use an agency-structure framework to explain that higher levels of commitment result from feelings of control in the workplace. Methods. We examine this framework using data from a survey of 400 unionized factory workers in the Midwest. Results. The relationship between organization…
Ethnic Variations in the Connection Between Work-Induced Family Separation and Turnover Intent
Using conservation of resources theory, this study examines the role of resources in the relationship between work-induced family separation and workers’ intentions to leave their employment and how these relationships vary across ethnic groups. Analyses of a large representative sample of military members reveal that family separation is significantly related to intent to leave the military and that this relationship is partially mediated by res…
Family Risk and Resilience in the Context of War and Terrorism
War and terrorism are exerting increasing force on world affairs, with growing implications for families and the scholars who study them. In this review, I consider the implications of mass violence for families, with particular emphasis on families with members serving in the U.S. military and families around the world who live where mass violence occurs. Mass violence poses significant threats to mental health and family functioning, but indivi…
Military Families: Extreme Work and Extreme “Work-Family
While the U.S. military might at first glance appear to be a model of rigidity rather than flexibility, there are strong incentives to address the work-family concerns of service members and their families. From a work-family perspective, military service generates substantial structural, energy, psychological, and behavioral tensions with family life. Although the U.S. military had already implemented extensive programs, policies, and practices …
It doesn't always add up: Examining Dual-Earner Couples' Decision to Off-Shift
Grounded in social exchange theory and symbolic interactionism, this study examines the decision-making processes, as well as perceived costs and benefits to Canadian dual-earner couples working complementary shifts to manage work and care responsibilities. Qualitative data from 12 dyads and one individual were used to explore the meanings and priorities that couples attached to costs and rewards of an off-shifting arrangement. For most couples, …
Work adjustment after combat deployment: Reservist repatriation
A longitudinal, qualitative study was conducted with United States (US) Army reservists to explore the concerns and obstacles in the process of returning to the civilian workforce following a combat deployment. A person–environment fit perspective is used to explain the adjustment process and obstacles encountered by the returning reservists. Seven waves of interviews over a 12-month period were conducted. These interviews resulted in the develop…
Romantic Relationships Following Wartime Deployment
This study examines the romantic relationships of reservists following wartime deployment. Members of an Army Reserve unit and their partners participated in seven waves of interviews in the year following the reservists' return from deployment. Qualitative analysis of these 101 interviews from 19 participants revealed four themes: (a) intermittent idealized closeness, (b) transition from independence to interdependence, (c) transition in the pri…
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