Heather M Helms
Biographic Data
| ID | 173395 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heather M Helms |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heather M |
| FAMILY NAME | Helms |
| SIGNATURE | HELMS H M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 214 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Mexican Immigrant Couples’ Marital Quality and Coparenting Satisfaction: The Role of Spouses’ Incongruence in Familism Values
With a sample of 120 Mexican immigrant couples, this study tested an estimated actor-partner interdependence model (APIM) to examine the associations between spouses' perceptions of marital quality (i.e., marital warmth and marital negativity), spousal incongruence in familism values, and spouses' coparenting satisfaction. The model simultaneously explored the moderating effects of spouses' incongruence in familism values to ascertain the extent …
Examining the linkages between marital quality and anxiety: A meta‐analytic review
This study examines the associations between marital quality and anxiety using meta‐analytic techniques. A total of k = 151 effects published between the years 2000 and 2019 were analyzed. It was hypothesized that better overall marital quality would be associated with less anxiety. Results showed significant associations between marital quality and anxiety in such a way that higher overall marital quality was associated with lower anxiety. Post …
Examining Patterns of Mexican Immigrant Spouses’ Contextual Pressures and Links with Marital Satisfaction and Negativity
Previous research examined links from economic and cultural adaptation pressures to marital satisfaction and marital behavior. Results generally suggested a negative association between these sources of pressure and marital outcomes. However, the extant research is lacking given its inattention to the extent to which husbands and wives experience varying patterns of interrelated pressures and the differential links between patterns of economic an…
Mexican-origin husbands’ work contexts and spouses’ marital quality
Relative to other men, Latino immigrant men are disproportionately likely to experience challenging working conditions, including too many or too few hours, discrimination, and job (in)security. Previous research suggests that work contexts (particularly husbands') may affect interactions between family members, which in turn, spill over into family functioning. The present study examined the patterning of 118 Mexican husbands' self-reported work…
Understanding the Researcher Identity Development of Counselor Education and Supervision Doctoral Students
Counselor education and supervision (CES) doctoral students play an important role in contributing to knowledge in the counseling profession. CES doctoral students were interviewed to explore their researcher identity, a unique self-concept that possibly includes research self-efficacy and interest. Issues critical to facilitating researcher identity development included confidence, the researcher voice, faculty support, and opportunities for res…
Examining Predictors of Mexican American Adolescents' Coping Typologies: Maternal and Paternal Behaviors and Adolescent Gender
This study used latent profile analysis to develop coping typologies of 340, 14- to16-year-old Mexican American adolescents ( M = 14.46, SD = 0.69). Three typologies were identified: (a) opposition coping (adolescents who tended to use anger and venting emotions), (b) support-seeking coping (adolescents who relied on seeking support), and (c) escape and opposition coping (adolescents who relied on anger, venting, substance-use coping, behavioral …
Mexican Immigrant Wives' Acculturative Stress and Spouses' Marital Quality: The Role of Wives’ Marriage Work With Husbands and Close Friends
With a sample of 120 Mexican-origin couples, we examined the extent to which wives' marriage work (i.e., discussions about marital concerns) with husband and marriage work with friend moderated associations between wives' acculturative stress and spouses' marital satisfaction and marital negativity. Results from a series of multiple regression analyses showed that wives' marriage work with husbands (a) served to protect husbands' marital quality …
Intensive Mothering Beliefs Among Full-Time Employed Mothers of Infants
This study examined the degree to which 205 full-time employed mothers of infants endorsed intensive mothering beliefs (IMB), the stability of IMB, and contextual correlates of IMB. Results suggested that full-time employed mothers in this study did not endorse IMB, on average, but that endorsement varied for specific domains of IMB for the total sample and by mothers' education. Global IMB scores did not change from 4 to 16 months postpartum, wi…
Spouses' Gender Role Attitudes, Wives' Employment Status, and Mexican-Origin Husbands' Marital Satisfaction
Informed by Peplau's theory of roles, this study examined the complex interplay between spouses' gender role attitudes and wives' employment status as a predictor of Mexican-origin husbands' marital satisfaction. Dissonance between spouses' gender role attitudes toward marital roles and wives' employment status within couples was hypothesized to be inversely related to husbands' marital satisfaction. Data were gathered during in-home interviews w…
Parenting During Childhood Predicts Relationship Satisfaction in Young Adulthood: A Prospective Longitudinal Perspective
Using three waves of data drawn from the National Survey of Families and Households (n = 438 young adult children) we examined the process by which parental warmth and harsh parenting during childhood influences children's romantic relationship satisfaction in young adulthood. Harsh parenting was directly associated with children's relationship satisfaction, independently and in conjunction with parental warmth, whereas parental warmth was indire…
Mexican-Origin Couples in the Early Years of Parenthood: Marital Well-Being in Ecological Context
In this article, we draw from Huston's (2000) 3-level model of marriage to provide an informed and integrative template for organizing current knowledge and guiding future inquiry into the study of marital well-being among a rapidly growing segment of the United States' population: low-income, Mexican-origin couples in the early years of parenthood. More specifically, we advocate for a dyadic approach that attends to elements of the macroenvironm…
Defining Moments: The Golden Anniversary of Counselor Education and Supervision
St Century Marriage in America
Counselor Education and Supervision: Our Voice, Vitality, and Vision
Relational support from friends and wives' family relationships: The role of husbands' interference
Informed by Marks's three corners model, this study explored the moderating role of husbands' relational interference in the link between relational support from close friends and wives' marital and family relationship quality. Using data from 52 wives rearing school-aged children, results from a hierarchical regression analysis suggested that husbands' interference moderates the association between support from close friends and both wives' mari…
Mothers' and Fathers' Perceptions of Change and Continuity in Their Relationships With Young Adult Sons and Daughters
Guided by contemporary feminist revisions of individual theories on adolescent development, interviews with 142 parent dyads were conducted to better understand the variation in mothers' and fathers' perceptions of changes and continuities in their relationships with their firstborn young adult sons and daughters. A between-families content analysis of parents' responses revealed that the most salient issues were firstborns' independence, contact…
Marital Quality and Personal Well-Being: A Meta-Analysis
This study examines the association between marital quality and personal well-being using meta-analytic techniques. Effects from 93 studies were analyzed. The average weighted effect size r was .37 for cross-sectional and .25 for longitudinal effects. Results indicate that several variables moderate the association between marital quality and personal well-being, including gender, participants' marital duration, source of measurement, data collec…
Spouses' gender-typed attributes and their links with marital quality: A pattern analytic approach
Using data from interviews with 194 midlife couples, we: (i) identified a typology of couple groups based on spouses' gender-typed attributes; (ii) described couple groups in terms of individual, contextual, and attitudinal characteristics; and (iii) linked couple groups with emotional, cognitive, and behavioral qualities of marriage across 3 years. Four couple types that differed in spouses' instrumental and expressive attributes were identified…
Who's the Boss? Patterns of Perceived Control in Adolescents' Friendships
Marital Quality and Spouses' Marriage Work With Close Friends and Each Other
Through in-home interviews with 142 married couples, we explored how husbands' and wives' marriage work with close friends and one another was linked to their perceptions of marital quality. Results showed that husbands engaged in more marriage work with their wives than with close friends, whereas wives engaged in similar levels of marriage work with their close friends and husbands. For wives, marriage work with their spouses was found to moder…
Marital Quality and Personal Well-Being: A Meta-Analysis
This study examines the association between marital quality and personal well-being using meta-analytic techniques. Effects from 93 studies were analyzed. The average weighted effect size r was .37 for cross-sectional and .25 for longitudinal effects. Results indicate that several variables moderate the association between marital quality and personal well-being, including gender, participants' marital duration, source of measurement, data collec…
Marital Quality and Spouses' Marriage Work With Close Friends and Each Other
Through in-home interviews with 142 married couples, we explored how husbands' and wives' marriage work with close friends and one another was linked to their perceptions of marital quality. Results showed that husbands engaged in more marriage work with their wives than with close friends, whereas wives engaged in similar levels of marriage work with their close friends and husbands. For wives, marriage work with their spouses was found to moder…
Mexican-Origin Couples in the Early Years of Parenthood: Marital Well-Being in Ecological Context
In this article, we draw from Huston's (2000) 3-level model of marriage to provide an informed and integrative template for organizing current knowledge and guiding future inquiry into the study of marital well-being among a rapidly growing segment of the United States' population: low-income, Mexican-origin couples in the early years of parenthood. More specifically, we advocate for a dyadic approach that attends to elements of the macroenvironm…
Understanding the Researcher Identity Development of Counselor Education and Supervision Doctoral Students
Counselor education and supervision (CES) doctoral students play an important role in contributing to knowledge in the counseling profession. CES doctoral students were interviewed to explore their researcher identity, a unique self-concept that possibly includes research self-efficacy and interest. Issues critical to facilitating researcher identity development included confidence, the researcher voice, faculty support, and opportunities for res…
Spouses' gender-typed attributes and their links with marital quality: A pattern analytic approach
Using data from interviews with 194 midlife couples, we: (i) identified a typology of couple groups based on spouses' gender-typed attributes; (ii) described couple groups in terms of individual, contextual, and attitudinal characteristics; and (iii) linked couple groups with emotional, cognitive, and behavioral qualities of marriage across 3 years. Four couple types that differed in spouses' instrumental and expressive attributes were identified…
Who's the Boss? Patterns of Perceived Control in Adolescents' Friendships
Parenting During Childhood Predicts Relationship Satisfaction in Young Adulthood: A Prospective Longitudinal Perspective
Using three waves of data drawn from the National Survey of Families and Households (n = 438 young adult children) we examined the process by which parental warmth and harsh parenting during childhood influences children's romantic relationship satisfaction in young adulthood. Harsh parenting was directly associated with children's relationship satisfaction, independently and in conjunction with parental warmth, whereas parental warmth was indire…
Mothers' and Fathers' Perceptions of Change and Continuity in Their Relationships With Young Adult Sons and Daughters
Guided by contemporary feminist revisions of individual theories on adolescent development, interviews with 142 parent dyads were conducted to better understand the variation in mothers' and fathers' perceptions of changes and continuities in their relationships with their firstborn young adult sons and daughters. A between-families content analysis of parents' responses revealed that the most salient issues were firstborns' independence, contact…
Intensive Mothering Beliefs Among Full-Time Employed Mothers of Infants
This study examined the degree to which 205 full-time employed mothers of infants endorsed intensive mothering beliefs (IMB), the stability of IMB, and contextual correlates of IMB. Results suggested that full-time employed mothers in this study did not endorse IMB, on average, but that endorsement varied for specific domains of IMB for the total sample and by mothers' education. Global IMB scores did not change from 4 to 16 months postpartum, wi…
Spouses' Gender Role Attitudes, Wives' Employment Status, and Mexican-Origin Husbands' Marital Satisfaction
Informed by Peplau's theory of roles, this study examined the complex interplay between spouses' gender role attitudes and wives' employment status as a predictor of Mexican-origin husbands' marital satisfaction. Dissonance between spouses' gender role attitudes toward marital roles and wives' employment status within couples was hypothesized to be inversely related to husbands' marital satisfaction. Data were gathered during in-home interviews w…
Defining Moments: The Golden Anniversary of Counselor Education and Supervision
Relational support from friends and wives' family relationships: The role of husbands' interference
Informed by Marks's three corners model, this study explored the moderating role of husbands' relational interference in the link between relational support from close friends and wives' marital and family relationship quality. Using data from 52 wives rearing school-aged children, results from a hierarchical regression analysis suggested that husbands' interference moderates the association between support from close friends and both wives' mari…
Mexican-origin husbands’ work contexts and spouses’ marital quality
Relative to other men, Latino immigrant men are disproportionately likely to experience challenging working conditions, including too many or too few hours, discrimination, and job (in)security. Previous research suggests that work contexts (particularly husbands') may affect interactions between family members, which in turn, spill over into family functioning. The present study examined the patterning of 118 Mexican husbands' self-reported work…
Mexican Immigrant Wives' Acculturative Stress and Spouses' Marital Quality: The Role of Wives’ Marriage Work With Husbands and Close Friends
With a sample of 120 Mexican-origin couples, we examined the extent to which wives' marriage work (i.e., discussions about marital concerns) with husband and marriage work with friend moderated associations between wives' acculturative stress and spouses' marital satisfaction and marital negativity. Results from a series of multiple regression analyses showed that wives' marriage work with husbands (a) served to protect husbands' marital quality …
Mexican Immigrant Couples’ Marital Quality and Coparenting Satisfaction: The Role of Spouses’ Incongruence in Familism Values
With a sample of 120 Mexican immigrant couples, this study tested an estimated actor-partner interdependence model (APIM) to examine the associations between spouses' perceptions of marital quality (i.e., marital warmth and marital negativity), spousal incongruence in familism values, and spouses' coparenting satisfaction. The model simultaneously explored the moderating effects of spouses' incongruence in familism values to ascertain the extent …
Marital Quality and Spouses' Marriage Work With Close Friends and Each Other
Through in-home interviews with 142 married couples, we explored how husbands' and wives' marriage work with close friends and one another was linked to their perceptions of marital quality. Results showed that husbands engaged in more marriage work with their wives than with close friends, whereas wives engaged in similar levels of marriage work with their close friends and husbands. For wives, marriage work with their spouses was found to moder…
Who's the Boss? Patterns of Perceived Control in Adolescents' Friendships
Spouses' gender-typed attributes and their links with marital quality: A pattern analytic approach
Using data from interviews with 194 midlife couples, we: (i) identified a typology of couple groups based on spouses' gender-typed attributes; (ii) described couple groups in terms of individual, contextual, and attitudinal characteristics; and (iii) linked couple groups with emotional, cognitive, and behavioral qualities of marriage across 3 years. Four couple types that differed in spouses' instrumental and expressive attributes were identified…
Marital Quality and Personal Well-Being: A Meta-Analysis
This study examines the association between marital quality and personal well-being using meta-analytic techniques. Effects from 93 studies were analyzed. The average weighted effect size r was .37 for cross-sectional and .25 for longitudinal effects. Results indicate that several variables moderate the association between marital quality and personal well-being, including gender, participants' marital duration, source of measurement, data collec…
Mothers' and Fathers' Perceptions of Change and Continuity in Their Relationships With Young Adult Sons and Daughters
Guided by contemporary feminist revisions of individual theories on adolescent development, interviews with 142 parent dyads were conducted to better understand the variation in mothers' and fathers' perceptions of changes and continuities in their relationships with their firstborn young adult sons and daughters. A between-families content analysis of parents' responses revealed that the most salient issues were firstborns' independence, contact…
Counselor Education and Supervision: Our Voice, Vitality, and Vision
Relational support from friends and wives' family relationships: The role of husbands' interference
Informed by Marks's three corners model, this study explored the moderating role of husbands' relational interference in the link between relational support from close friends and wives' marital and family relationship quality. Using data from 52 wives rearing school-aged children, results from a hierarchical regression analysis suggested that husbands' interference moderates the association between support from close friends and both wives' mari…
Defining Moments: The Golden Anniversary of Counselor Education and Supervision
St Century Marriage in America
Mexican-Origin Couples in the Early Years of Parenthood: Marital Well-Being in Ecological Context
In this article, we draw from Huston's (2000) 3-level model of marriage to provide an informed and integrative template for organizing current knowledge and guiding future inquiry into the study of marital well-being among a rapidly growing segment of the United States' population: low-income, Mexican-origin couples in the early years of parenthood. More specifically, we advocate for a dyadic approach that attends to elements of the macroenvironm…
Parenting During Childhood Predicts Relationship Satisfaction in Young Adulthood: A Prospective Longitudinal Perspective
Using three waves of data drawn from the National Survey of Families and Households (n = 438 young adult children) we examined the process by which parental warmth and harsh parenting during childhood influences children's romantic relationship satisfaction in young adulthood. Harsh parenting was directly associated with children's relationship satisfaction, independently and in conjunction with parental warmth, whereas parental warmth was indire…
Spouses' Gender Role Attitudes, Wives' Employment Status, and Mexican-Origin Husbands' Marital Satisfaction
Informed by Peplau's theory of roles, this study examined the complex interplay between spouses' gender role attitudes and wives' employment status as a predictor of Mexican-origin husbands' marital satisfaction. Dissonance between spouses' gender role attitudes toward marital roles and wives' employment status within couples was hypothesized to be inversely related to husbands' marital satisfaction. Data were gathered during in-home interviews w…
Mexican Immigrant Wives' Acculturative Stress and Spouses' Marital Quality: The Role of Wives’ Marriage Work With Husbands and Close Friends
With a sample of 120 Mexican-origin couples, we examined the extent to which wives' marriage work (i.e., discussions about marital concerns) with husband and marriage work with friend moderated associations between wives' acculturative stress and spouses' marital satisfaction and marital negativity. Results from a series of multiple regression analyses showed that wives' marriage work with husbands (a) served to protect husbands' marital quality …
Intensive Mothering Beliefs Among Full-Time Employed Mothers of Infants
This study examined the degree to which 205 full-time employed mothers of infants endorsed intensive mothering beliefs (IMB), the stability of IMB, and contextual correlates of IMB. Results suggested that full-time employed mothers in this study did not endorse IMB, on average, but that endorsement varied for specific domains of IMB for the total sample and by mothers' education. Global IMB scores did not change from 4 to 16 months postpartum, wi…
Understanding the Researcher Identity Development of Counselor Education and Supervision Doctoral Students
Counselor education and supervision (CES) doctoral students play an important role in contributing to knowledge in the counseling profession. CES doctoral students were interviewed to explore their researcher identity, a unique self-concept that possibly includes research self-efficacy and interest. Issues critical to facilitating researcher identity development included confidence, the researcher voice, faculty support, and opportunities for res…
Examining Predictors of Mexican American Adolescents' Coping Typologies: Maternal and Paternal Behaviors and Adolescent Gender
This study used latent profile analysis to develop coping typologies of 340, 14- to16-year-old Mexican American adolescents ( M = 14.46, SD = 0.69). Three typologies were identified: (a) opposition coping (adolescents who tended to use anger and venting emotions), (b) support-seeking coping (adolescents who relied on seeking support), and (c) escape and opposition coping (adolescents who relied on anger, venting, substance-use coping, behavioral …
Mexican-origin husbands’ work contexts and spouses’ marital quality
Relative to other men, Latino immigrant men are disproportionately likely to experience challenging working conditions, including too many or too few hours, discrimination, and job (in)security. Previous research suggests that work contexts (particularly husbands') may affect interactions between family members, which in turn, spill over into family functioning. The present study examined the patterning of 118 Mexican husbands' self-reported work…
Examining Patterns of Mexican Immigrant Spouses’ Contextual Pressures and Links with Marital Satisfaction and Negativity
Previous research examined links from economic and cultural adaptation pressures to marital satisfaction and marital behavior. Results generally suggested a negative association between these sources of pressure and marital outcomes. However, the extant research is lacking given its inattention to the extent to which husbands and wives experience varying patterns of interrelated pressures and the differential links between patterns of economic an…
Examining the linkages between marital quality and anxiety: A meta‐analytic review
This study examines the associations between marital quality and anxiety using meta‐analytic techniques. A total of k = 151 effects published between the years 2000 and 2019 were analyzed. It was hypothesized that better overall marital quality would be associated with less anxiety. Results showed significant associations between marital quality and anxiety in such a way that higher overall marital quality was associated with lower anxiety. Post …
Mexican Immigrant Couples’ Marital Quality and Coparenting Satisfaction: The Role of Spouses’ Incongruence in Familism Values
With a sample of 120 Mexican immigrant couples, this study tested an estimated actor-partner interdependence model (APIM) to examine the associations between spouses' perceptions of marital quality (i.e., marital warmth and marital negativity), spousal incongruence in familism values, and spouses' coparenting satisfaction. The model simultaneously explored the moderating effects of spouses' incongruence in familism values to ascertain the extent …
Psychology (19 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Developmental psychology (11 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (10 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (10 works) · Population (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Demography (7 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (6 works)