Jaclyn S Wong
Biographic Data
| ID | 142864 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jaclyn S Wong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jaclyn S |
| FAMILY NAME | Wong |
| SIGNATURE | WONG J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Carolina |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9793-2389 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 93 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Cognitive housework and Parents' relationship satisfaction
ObjectiveThis study examines the association between the division of cognitive housework and parents' relationship satisfaction.BackgroundEquity theory suggests that factors which either objectively (i.e., equal sharing) or subjectively (i.e., feeling appreciated) enhance partners' feelings of mutual benefit lead to greater relationship satisfaction. From an equity perspective, cognitive labor may be especially consequential for relationship sati…
What to Do with “Other, Describe
Measuring social categories and phenomena in survey questionnaires is complicated in a dynamic and diverse society. The use of “other, describe”–style open-ended text boxes can address this issue, but researchers rarely use these data because they lack guidance on how to code open-text information and manage small samples for analyses. The authors offer a roadmap to key decisions regarding the use of “other, describe” answer options and data duri…
The Myth of Mutuality: Decision-Making, Marital Power, and the Persistence of Gender Inequality
Invisible power-the ability to resist changing one's behavior because of an unspoken consensus that the status quo is natural or inevitable-upholds gender inequality in different-gender marriages. Yet the 'consensus' that Aafke Komter documented more than 30 years ago-one in which both men and women endorsed male primacy and believed it natural for women to enjoy housework and men to pursue professional ambition-has weakened among the college-edu…
Interpersonal Discrimination and Relationship Quality among Married Mid-Life and Older Black Adults
Theories of minority stress contagion suggest that the consequences of racial discrimination may extend beyond the individual to impact close others. We empirically test direct and spillover associations between racialized stress and marital support and strain among mid-life and older Black spouses. We use actor-partner interdependence models to analyze dyadic data from 280 different-sex, married Black couples from the 2014 and 2016 Health and Re…
Equal Partners?: How Dual-Professional Couples Make Career, Relationship, and Family Decisions
Many young professionals seek egalitarian partnerships in which both partners work for pay and share unpaid housework and childcare. Yet working couples' realities often deviate from this ideal, with women trading off employment for family care. Will contemporary young adults repeat this pattern, or will they come closer to achieving equality in work and family? Equal Partners? seeks to explore this question. Drawing on six years of interviews wi…
Relationship Quality Change Among Partnered Older Adults During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Resilience describes many partnered older adults' experiences during the first year of the pandemic, suggesting that they were able to protect their partnerships during this public health crisis
Elder Mistreatment Methods and Measures in Round 3 of the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project
The NSHAP Round 3 EMM provides scholars an opportunity to study older Americans' mistreatment experiences, particularly as they relate to their physical and mental health, their social networks and personal relationships, and their broader social contexts
Couple Analysis in the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project
Researchers can use data from either round to conduct cross-sectional dyadic analyses to examine issues faced by older couples. A common strategy for couple analysis is the actor-partner interdependence model. With 2 rounds of couple-level data, researchers may consider using cross-lagged models in their research
Aspiring Dual-Professional Couples' Career Launch Plans and Childbearing Timing
Previous research details women's career launch and childbearing timing strategies without fully theorizing how such work-family plans may be developed alongside men. Overlooking men's role in this process obscures how women's partners can shape their work-family experiences. This study examines how young dual-professional couples plan two careers while timing childbearing. Interviews with 40 partners from 21 mostly White different-sex couples re…
Social Networks in Later Life: Similarities and Differences between Sexual-Minority and Heterosexual Older Adults
Community-based research suggests that lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) older adults are more socially isolated than their heterosexual counterparts. However, little is known about how social networks in late adulthood differ between LGB and heterosexual people at the population level. Using data from the 2015-2016 National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project ( n = 3,929), the authors compare the size, frequency of contact, composition, divers…
Toward a Theory of Gendered Projectivity and Linked Lives in the Transition to Adulthood
Entering a cohabiting union, getting married, and/or having children are all considered defining features of the transition to adulthood. Life course research has shown that contemporary youth are taking longer to achieve these traditional milestones and are showing increased variability in completing these transitions. To better theorize this heterogeneity, this article draws on theories of purposive action to conceptualize agency in family form…
Better Together? Interracial Relationships and Depressive Symptoms
Previous research shows that married and cohabiting individuals are happier and enjoy greater levels of psychological well-being than single individuals. However, most of this research relies on data from intraracial-mostly white-couples, and less is known about the emotional health outcomes of individuals in interracial partnerships. This study uses fixed-effects regression to examine depressive symptoms among those transitioning into intraracia…
Functional Status, Cognition, and Social Relationships in Dyadic Perspective
Findings support a gendered dyadic relationship between health and social life and highlight women's caregiver role and better connection with family and friends. There are also differences between experiencing cognitive and physical limitations in couples. Finally, mild health impairment sometimes shows stronger effects on social relationships than severe impairment, suggesting adaptation to health transition
Competing Desires: How Young Adult Couples Negotiate Moving for Career Opportunities
Family migration often disadvantages women's careers. Yet, we know little about the decision-making processes that lead to such outcomes. To address this gap, I conducted a longitudinal interview study of 21 heterosexual young adult couples who were deciding whether to move for early career opportunities. Analyzing 118 interviews, I detail how partners negotiate their desired work and family arrangements given structural and cultural constraints.…
Gender and the returns to attractiveness
Marriage, Social Networks, and Health at Older Ages
Missing Data in Wave 2 of NSHAP: Prevalence, Predictors, and Recommended Treatment
Multiple imputation is recommended to handle unit- and item-level missingness and can be readily and flexibly conducted with multiple imputation by chained equations, inverse probability weighting, and in some instances, full-information maximum-likelihood methods
Gender and the returns to attractiveness
Missing Data in Wave 2 of NSHAP: Prevalence, Predictors, and Recommended Treatment
Multiple imputation is recommended to handle unit- and item-level missingness and can be readily and flexibly conducted with multiple imputation by chained equations, inverse probability weighting, and in some instances, full-information maximum-likelihood methods
Better Together? Interracial Relationships and Depressive Symptoms
Previous research shows that married and cohabiting individuals are happier and enjoy greater levels of psychological well-being than single individuals. However, most of this research relies on data from intraracial-mostly white-couples, and less is known about the emotional health outcomes of individuals in interracial partnerships. This study uses fixed-effects regression to examine depressive symptoms among those transitioning into intraracia…
Toward a Theory of Gendered Projectivity and Linked Lives in the Transition to Adulthood
Entering a cohabiting union, getting married, and/or having children are all considered defining features of the transition to adulthood. Life course research has shown that contemporary youth are taking longer to achieve these traditional milestones and are showing increased variability in completing these transitions. To better theorize this heterogeneity, this article draws on theories of purposive action to conceptualize agency in family form…
Functional Status, Cognition, and Social Relationships in Dyadic Perspective
Findings support a gendered dyadic relationship between health and social life and highlight women's caregiver role and better connection with family and friends. There are also differences between experiencing cognitive and physical limitations in couples. Finally, mild health impairment sometimes shows stronger effects on social relationships than severe impairment, suggesting adaptation to health transition
Competing Desires: How Young Adult Couples Negotiate Moving for Career Opportunities
Family migration often disadvantages women's careers. Yet, we know little about the decision-making processes that lead to such outcomes. To address this gap, I conducted a longitudinal interview study of 21 heterosexual young adult couples who were deciding whether to move for early career opportunities. Analyzing 118 interviews, I detail how partners negotiate their desired work and family arrangements given structural and cultural constraints.…
Social Networks in Later Life: Similarities and Differences between Sexual-Minority and Heterosexual Older Adults
Community-based research suggests that lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) older adults are more socially isolated than their heterosexual counterparts. However, little is known about how social networks in late adulthood differ between LGB and heterosexual people at the population level. Using data from the 2015-2016 National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project ( n = 3,929), the authors compare the size, frequency of contact, composition, divers…
Marriage, Social Networks, and Health at Older Ages
The Myth of Mutuality: Decision-Making, Marital Power, and the Persistence of Gender Inequality
Invisible power-the ability to resist changing one's behavior because of an unspoken consensus that the status quo is natural or inevitable-upholds gender inequality in different-gender marriages. Yet the 'consensus' that Aafke Komter documented more than 30 years ago-one in which both men and women endorsed male primacy and believed it natural for women to enjoy housework and men to pursue professional ambition-has weakened among the college-edu…
Cognitive housework and Parents' relationship satisfaction
ObjectiveThis study examines the association between the division of cognitive housework and parents' relationship satisfaction.BackgroundEquity theory suggests that factors which either objectively (i.e., equal sharing) or subjectively (i.e., feeling appreciated) enhance partners' feelings of mutual benefit lead to greater relationship satisfaction. From an equity perspective, cognitive labor may be especially consequential for relationship sati…
What to Do with “Other, Describe
Measuring social categories and phenomena in survey questionnaires is complicated in a dynamic and diverse society. The use of “other, describe”–style open-ended text boxes can address this issue, but researchers rarely use these data because they lack guidance on how to code open-text information and manage small samples for analyses. The authors offer a roadmap to key decisions regarding the use of “other, describe” answer options and data duri…
Relationship Quality Change Among Partnered Older Adults During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Resilience describes many partnered older adults' experiences during the first year of the pandemic, suggesting that they were able to protect their partnerships during this public health crisis
Couple Analysis in the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project
Researchers can use data from either round to conduct cross-sectional dyadic analyses to examine issues faced by older couples. A common strategy for couple analysis is the actor-partner interdependence model. With 2 rounds of couple-level data, researchers may consider using cross-lagged models in their research
Aspiring Dual-Professional Couples' Career Launch Plans and Childbearing Timing
Previous research details women's career launch and childbearing timing strategies without fully theorizing how such work-family plans may be developed alongside men. Overlooking men's role in this process obscures how women's partners can shape their work-family experiences. This study examines how young dual-professional couples plan two careers while timing childbearing. Interviews with 40 partners from 21 mostly White different-sex couples re…
Missing Data in Wave 2 of NSHAP: Prevalence, Predictors, and Recommended Treatment
Multiple imputation is recommended to handle unit- and item-level missingness and can be readily and flexibly conducted with multiple imputation by chained equations, inverse probability weighting, and in some instances, full-information maximum-likelihood methods
Marriage, Social Networks, and Health at Older Ages
Gender and the returns to attractiveness
Functional Status, Cognition, and Social Relationships in Dyadic Perspective
Findings support a gendered dyadic relationship between health and social life and highlight women's caregiver role and better connection with family and friends. There are also differences between experiencing cognitive and physical limitations in couples. Finally, mild health impairment sometimes shows stronger effects on social relationships than severe impairment, suggesting adaptation to health transition
Competing Desires: How Young Adult Couples Negotiate Moving for Career Opportunities
Family migration often disadvantages women's careers. Yet, we know little about the decision-making processes that lead to such outcomes. To address this gap, I conducted a longitudinal interview study of 21 heterosexual young adult couples who were deciding whether to move for early career opportunities. Analyzing 118 interviews, I detail how partners negotiate their desired work and family arrangements given structural and cultural constraints.…
Toward a Theory of Gendered Projectivity and Linked Lives in the Transition to Adulthood
Entering a cohabiting union, getting married, and/or having children are all considered defining features of the transition to adulthood. Life course research has shown that contemporary youth are taking longer to achieve these traditional milestones and are showing increased variability in completing these transitions. To better theorize this heterogeneity, this article draws on theories of purposive action to conceptualize agency in family form…
Better Together? Interracial Relationships and Depressive Symptoms
Previous research shows that married and cohabiting individuals are happier and enjoy greater levels of psychological well-being than single individuals. However, most of this research relies on data from intraracial-mostly white-couples, and less is known about the emotional health outcomes of individuals in interracial partnerships. This study uses fixed-effects regression to examine depressive symptoms among those transitioning into intraracia…
Social Networks in Later Life: Similarities and Differences between Sexual-Minority and Heterosexual Older Adults
Community-based research suggests that lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) older adults are more socially isolated than their heterosexual counterparts. However, little is known about how social networks in late adulthood differ between LGB and heterosexual people at the population level. Using data from the 2015-2016 National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project ( n = 3,929), the authors compare the size, frequency of contact, composition, divers…
Elder Mistreatment Methods and Measures in Round 3 of the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project
The NSHAP Round 3 EMM provides scholars an opportunity to study older Americans' mistreatment experiences, particularly as they relate to their physical and mental health, their social networks and personal relationships, and their broader social contexts
Couple Analysis in the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project
Researchers can use data from either round to conduct cross-sectional dyadic analyses to examine issues faced by older couples. A common strategy for couple analysis is the actor-partner interdependence model. With 2 rounds of couple-level data, researchers may consider using cross-lagged models in their research
Aspiring Dual-Professional Couples' Career Launch Plans and Childbearing Timing
Previous research details women's career launch and childbearing timing strategies without fully theorizing how such work-family plans may be developed alongside men. Overlooking men's role in this process obscures how women's partners can shape their work-family experiences. This study examines how young dual-professional couples plan two careers while timing childbearing. Interviews with 40 partners from 21 mostly White different-sex couples re…
Relationship Quality Change Among Partnered Older Adults During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Resilience describes many partnered older adults' experiences during the first year of the pandemic, suggesting that they were able to protect their partnerships during this public health crisis
Equal Partners?: How Dual-Professional Couples Make Career, Relationship, and Family Decisions
Many young professionals seek egalitarian partnerships in which both partners work for pay and share unpaid housework and childcare. Yet working couples' realities often deviate from this ideal, with women trading off employment for family care. Will contemporary young adults repeat this pattern, or will they come closer to achieving equality in work and family? Equal Partners? seeks to explore this question. Drawing on six years of interviews wi…
What to Do with “Other, Describe
Measuring social categories and phenomena in survey questionnaires is complicated in a dynamic and diverse society. The use of “other, describe”–style open-ended text boxes can address this issue, but researchers rarely use these data because they lack guidance on how to code open-text information and manage small samples for analyses. The authors offer a roadmap to key decisions regarding the use of “other, describe” answer options and data duri…
The Myth of Mutuality: Decision-Making, Marital Power, and the Persistence of Gender Inequality
Invisible power-the ability to resist changing one's behavior because of an unspoken consensus that the status quo is natural or inevitable-upholds gender inequality in different-gender marriages. Yet the 'consensus' that Aafke Komter documented more than 30 years ago-one in which both men and women endorsed male primacy and believed it natural for women to enjoy housework and men to pursue professional ambition-has weakened among the college-edu…
Interpersonal Discrimination and Relationship Quality among Married Mid-Life and Older Black Adults
Theories of minority stress contagion suggest that the consequences of racial discrimination may extend beyond the individual to impact close others. We empirically test direct and spillover associations between racialized stress and marital support and strain among mid-life and older Black spouses. We use actor-partner interdependence models to analyze dyadic data from 280 different-sex, married Black couples from the 2014 and 2016 Health and Re…
Cognitive housework and Parents' relationship satisfaction
ObjectiveThis study examines the association between the division of cognitive housework and parents' relationship satisfaction.BackgroundEquity theory suggests that factors which either objectively (i.e., equal sharing) or subjectively (i.e., feeling appreciated) enhance partners' feelings of mutual benefit lead to greater relationship satisfaction. From an equity perspective, cognitive labor may be especially consequential for relationship sati…
Psychology (15 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (8 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works)