J N Edwards
Biographic Data
| ID | 2026 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J N Edwards |
| GIVEN NAMES | J N |
| FAMILY NAME | Edwards |
| SIGNATURE | EDWARDS J N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Tech |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4903-2826 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 64 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 730 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 64 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
Physical Violence Between Siblings A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis
This study develops and tests a theoretical model to explain sibling violence based on the feminist, conflict, and social learning theoretical perspectives and research in psychology and sociology. A multivariate analysis of data from 651 young adults generally supports hypotheses from all three theoretical perspectives. Males with brothers have significantly higher levels of sibling violence than the other three types of sibling pairs. As predic…
An Integrated Theoretical Model of Sibling Violence and Abuse
Gender Differences in the Psychological Well-Being of Married Men and Women: An Asian Case
Using a wide variety of measures of psychological well-being obtained from a representative sample of married men and women in Bangkok, Thailand, we examine gender differences in psychological well-being. We find that, in Bangkok, as in the United States, married men generally enjoy a higher level of psychological well-being than do married women. We find no support for role strain theory, but we do find support for role enhancement theory. We fi…
Changing Families: An Ethnographic Approach to Divorce and Separation
Recent decades have seen spectacular increases in the levels of divorce and separation across the Western world. This important development is having a radical impact on the conduct and nature of family relationships. This book offers an original investigation of these critical transformations through an ethnographic analysis of post-divorce family life in Britain and provides insightful answers to vexing questions, such as:- What cultural values…
Chronic stress and psychological well-being: Evidence from Thailand on household crowding
Household Crowding and its Consequences
Why people feel crowded: An examination of objective and subjective crowding
Physical Wife Abuse in a Non-Western Society: An Integrated Theoretical Approach
Kristi L. Hoffman, David H. Demo, John N. Edwards, Physical Wife Abuse in a Non-Western Society: An Integrated Theoretical Approach, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 56, No. 1 (Feb., 1994), pp. 131-146
Housing, stress, and physical well-being: Evidence from Thailand
Gender and Health: Some Asian Evidence
In Thailand, like the U.S., women's higher rates of illness and health service use imply that they are "sicker." But, as in the U.S., females live longer than males. Based on a large representative sample of Bangkokians, we find that married women report more sickness, are more likely to utilize health services and, according to self-reports, have poorer health. Western literature suggests five prominent explanations for gender differences in hea…
Household Crowding and Family Relations in Bangkok
Cities in developing countries are growing ever larger and more dense, fostering congested household environments. Using data from Bangkok, this paper examines the effect of household crowding on multiple measures of family relations, looking at the possible ''social costs.'' The data show that objective household crowding does increase marital instability and arguments, and parent-child tensions. Subjective household crowding affects not only th…
Household crowding and reproductive behavior
Ethological studies suggest that animal populations that live in crowded conditions display a number of behaviors that tend to limit the size of the population, such as aberrant forms of sexual behavior, small litter sizes, a higher incidence of spontaneous abortion, ineffectual maternal care, and even cannibalism of their young. Studies of household crowding in North America cities have produced only modest and selective evidence that crowding h…
Female Employment and Marital Instability: Evidence from Thailand
John N. Edwards, Theodore D. Fuller, Sairudee Vorakitphokatorn, Santhat Sermsri, Female Employment and Marital Instability: Evidence from Thailand, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 54, No. 1 (Feb., 1992), pp. 59-68
Starting Over: Why Remarriages Are More Unstable
Using interview data from a national sample of married persons, the extent to which people in remarriages have attributes that adversely influence marital quality and stability is examined. Five models linking remarriage-induced attributes to an increased probability of a decline in marital quality and divorce are evaluated. Persons in remarriages are more likely to be poorly integrated with parents and in-laws, willing to leave the marriage, be …
New Conceptions: Biosocial Innovations and the Family
Social Integration and Divorce
Using panel data from a national survey of married persons, the role of social integration in stabilizing marriage is explored. The analysis indicates that social integration does not appear to have a strong uniform negative effect on divorce, as others have proposed. Of the three forms of integration considered (communicative, functional, and normative), we find only two that relate to divorce in a substantive manner. Mechanisms by which integra…
Emptying the Nest and Parental Well-Being: An Analysis of National Panel Data
Panel data from a national random sample are used to investigate the effects of children leaving home on parental well-being. The is associated with significant improvements in marital happiness for all parents, regardless of parent's or children's characteristics. Overall life satisfaction improves significantly only under two conditions: when there is frequent contact with nonresident children or when there were young teens in the 1983 househol…
The Family Realm: A Future Paradigm or Failed Nostalgia
Changing Family Structure and Youthful Well-Being: Assessing the Future
The vanishing nuclear family constitutes one of the most significant demographic and social transformations in recent history. A voluminous body of theoretical and empirical literature in family studies, proceeding on the assumption that the nuclear family is the optimum child-rearing structure, suggests this change will have dire consequences for the well-being of future generations. The present essay challenges that conclusion, pointing out var…
Social Exchange and Equity Determinants of Relationship Commitment
The present study examines the explanatory power of alternative determinants of relationship commitment derived from the social exchange and equity perspective. We hypothesized that relationship commitment varies directly with relationship outcomes, outcomes relative to the attractiveness of alternatives, relationship satisfaction and duration. We also hypothesized that commitment varies inversely with relationship inequity and that females would…
Working Wives, Working Husbands
Divorce and Marital Instability over the Life Course
This study uses a national sample of married persons under age 55, interviewed in 1980 and again in 1983, to estimate why divorce and marital instability vary by age and duration of marriage. Results indicate that the accumulation of assets substantially reduces the propensity to divorce. We also find that several important correlates of divorce and instability (age at marriage, health, social integration, and income) interact with age and durati…
Children and Marital Happiness: Why the Negative Correlation
This study examines the causal processes that lead to the widely observed negative association between presence of children and marital happiness. Using a nationwide panel of 1535 married individuals, we find support for two primary causal mechanisms. First, the presence of children is associated with differences in marital structure (lower interaction, more dissatisfaction with finances and the division of labor, and more traditionalism of the d…
Dimensions of Marital Quality: Toward Methodological and Conceptual Refinement
The dimensionality of five conceptually distinct components of marital quality was evaluated in a representative national sample of 1845 married people. Confirmatory factor analysis found two dimensions, one consisting of scales of marital happiness and interaction; the other, of marital disagreements, problems, and instability. Further examination of the two dimensions showed that they operate in distinctly different ways over forms of marital s…
Age at Marriage and Marital Instability
Numerous studies show that early marriage increases marital instability; more recent studies show that late marriages also appear to be less stable. This paper examines 3 alternatives: 1) how the effect of marital timing may be mediated by the adequacy of role performance 2) the availability of alternatives to the marital relationship and 3) external pressures on the married pair. Using a 1980 national sample of 1715 married people under age 55 t…
Dimensions of Marital Quality: Toward Methodological and Conceptual Refinement
The dimensionality of five conceptually distinct components of marital quality was evaluated in a representative national sample of 1845 married people. Confirmatory factor analysis found two dimensions, one consisting of scales of marital happiness and interaction; the other, of marital disagreements, problems, and instability. Further examination of the two dimensions showed that they operate in distinctly different ways over forms of marital s…
Measuring Marital Instability
Age at Marriage and Marital Instability
Numerous studies show that early marriage increases marital instability; more recent studies show that late marriages also appear to be less stable. This paper examines 3 alternatives: 1) how the effect of marital timing may be mediated by the adequacy of role performance 2) the availability of alternatives to the marital relationship and 3) external pressures on the married pair. Using a 1980 national sample of 1715 married people under age 55 t…
Starting Over: Why Remarriages Are More Unstable
Using interview data from a national sample of married persons, the extent to which people in remarriages have attributes that adversely influence marital quality and stability is examined. Five models linking remarriage-induced attributes to an increased probability of a decline in marital quality and divorce are evaluated. Persons in remarriages are more likely to be poorly integrated with parents and in-laws, willing to leave the marriage, be …
Women, Outside Employment, and Marital Instability
Interview data from a national sample of 2,034 married persons are used to examine the effect of wives'outside employment on marital instability. In this study, marital instability is defined as including the gamut of activities from thinking about and discussing divorce to actually filing for either separation or divorce. A recursive structural equation model is used to test the extent to which the observed positive relationship between wife's e…
Emptying the Nest and Parental Well-Being: An Analysis of National Panel Data
Panel data from a national random sample are used to investigate the effects of children leaving home on parental well-being. The is associated with significant improvements in marital happiness for all parents, regardless of parent's or children's characteristics. Overall life satisfaction improves significantly only under two conditions: when there is frequent contact with nonresident children or when there were young teens in the 1983 househol…
Children and Marital Happiness: Why the Negative Correlation
This study examines the causal processes that lead to the widely observed negative association between presence of children and marital happiness. Using a nationwide panel of 1535 married individuals, we find support for two primary causal mechanisms. First, the presence of children is associated with differences in marital structure (lower interaction, more dissatisfaction with finances and the division of labor, and more traditionalism of the d…
Physical Wife Abuse in a Non-Western Society: An Integrated Theoretical Approach
Kristi L. Hoffman, David H. Demo, John N. Edwards, Physical Wife Abuse in a Non-Western Society: An Integrated Theoretical Approach, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 56, No. 1 (Feb., 1994), pp. 131-146
Familial Behavior as Social Exchange
Current interest in developing conceptual frameworks applicable to the study of the family has produced several identifiable schemata. Some potentially fruitful approaches have been ignored, however. One notable omission is that approach which views familial behavior as social exchange. Assaying the relevance of this framework, we show that many of its basic assumptions and concepts are presently utilized implicitly in analyses of familial behavi…
Divorce and Marital Instability over the Life Course
This study uses a national sample of married persons under age 55, interviewed in 1980 and again in 1983, to estimate why divorce and marital instability vary by age and duration of marriage. Results indicate that the accumulation of assets substantially reduces the propensity to divorce. We also find that several important correlates of divorce and instability (age at marriage, health, social integration, and income) interact with age and durati…
Predicting Divorce and Permanent Separation
Using longitudinal interview data, we examine the predictive ability of a scale designed to predict divorce and permanent separation. We find that high scorers are nine times more likely to divorce than low scorers. Divorce rates for components of the scale indicate that dissolution is a process, becoming more likely as overt actions succeed attitudinal factors. Finally, discriminant analysis is used to test a model predicting the likelihood of i…
Voluntary Associations and the Integration Hypothesis
Chronic stress and psychological well-being: Evidence from Thailand on household crowding
Satisfaction in Intimate Relationships as a Function of Inequality, Inequity, and Outcomes
James W. Michaels, John N. Edwards, Alan C. Acock, Satisfaction in Intimate Relationships as a Function of Inequality, Inequity, and Outcomes, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 47, No. 4 (Dec., 1984), pp. 347-357
Crowding and Family Relations
Housing, stress, and physical well-being: Evidence from Thailand
Sexual Behavior in and out of Marriage: An Assessment of Correlates
An assessment of the demography of two forms of sexual behavior is presented. The effects of 18 variables, pertaining to social background and the marital relationship, on the frequency of marital intercourse and extramarital involvement are evaluated. While the marital variables in general best account for variations in sexual patterns, the most efficacious predictors tend to differ with the type of behavior considered and whether it is the beha…
Social Exchange and Equity Determinants of Relationship Commitment
The present study examines the explanatory power of alternative determinants of relationship commitment derived from the social exchange and equity perspective. We hypothesized that relationship commitment varies directly with relationship outcomes, outcomes relative to the attractiveness of alternatives, relationship satisfaction and duration. We also hypothesized that commitment varies inversely with relationship inequity and that females would…
An Integrated Theoretical Model of Sibling Violence and Abuse
In Pursuit of Pathology: The Effects of Human Crowding
Physical Violence Between Siblings A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis
This study develops and tests a theoretical model to explain sibling violence based on the feminist, conflict, and social learning theoretical perspectives and research in psychology and sociology. A multivariate analysis of data from 651 young adults generally supports hypotheses from all three theoretical perspectives. Males with brothers have significantly higher levels of sibling violence than the other three types of sibling pairs. As predic…
New Conceptions: Biosocial Innovations and the Family
Coming Apart: A Model of the Marital Dissolution Decision
Based on prior theoretical formulations, a social-psychological model of the dissolution decision is advanced. Sequential in character and emphasizing the duality of the marital relationship, the model modifies and refines previous theoretical efforts, and seeks to extend their explanatory power by incorporating various principles of social exchange theory. By specifying the casual linkages between the model's components, a theory of the dissolut…
Gender and Health: Some Asian Evidence
In Thailand, like the U.S., women's higher rates of illness and health service use imply that they are "sicker." But, as in the U.S., females live longer than males. Based on a large representative sample of Bangkokians, we find that married women report more sickness, are more likely to utilize health services and, according to self-reports, have poorer health. Western literature suggests five prominent explanations for gender differences in hea…
Extramarital Sexuality: A Predictive Model of Permissive Attitudes
Voluntary Associations and the Integration Hypothesis
Differential Statuses and Shared Task Performance
The Future of the Family Revisited
Functional losses, increased mobility, declining status ascription, and the ascendency of materialistic values, cited either singly or in concert, are frequently the identified causal agents and results of familial change. A reexamination of these factors suggests, however, that there are severe limitations in employing them as explanations of change. It is contended, moreover, that the current value predicament in American society does not point…
Familial Behavior as Social Exchange
Current interest in developing conceptual frameworks applicable to the study of the family has produced several identifiable schemata. Some potentially fruitful approaches have been ignored, however. One notable omission is that approach which views familial behavior as social exchange. Assaying the relevance of this framework, we show that many of its basic assumptions and concepts are presently utilized implicitly in analyses of familial behavi…
Organizational and Leadership Status
Sociological research on voluntary associations seldom has dealt with the characteristics of these organizations as emergent properties. Generally associational elements are conceived of as mere configurations of aggregate member qualities. Thus, the status accorded voluntary groups at any given time is thought to be the sum total of member and leader prestige. Although a high correlation exists between organizational rank and leader-member statu…
The Family and Change
Urban Structure: The Social and Spatial Character of Cities
The Family and Change
Correlates of Life Satisfaction: A Re-examination
The relationships between 22 variables and life satisfaction are explored, testing in particular for partial effects and determining the extent to which each predictor makes an independent contribution to explaining perceived satisfaction. Based on data from 274 females and 233 males aged 45 and over, a number of important relationships are noted. Holding socioeconomic status constant, generally observed relationships such as between life satisfa…
Extramarital involvement: Fact and theory∗
While popular and psychoanalytic explanations of extramarital relations abound, no systematic sociological theory of such involvement has been presented to date. A partial theory of extramarital involvement is advanced in this paper. Based on the findings that the probability of involvement is related to socio‐economic status, the intensity of religious devoutness, residential background, premarital experience, the duration of marriage, level of …
Sex and Society
Exchange and Parent-Youth Conflict
Preliminary findings are presented bearing on several hypotheses derived from exchange theory. Postulating a relationship between the breakdown of intrafamilial exchange and parent-youth conflict, support for the general hypothesis is found. No significant reldtionships are found, however, between key structural variables and conflict. Moreover, with the exception of family size and the use of physical punishment, the availability of alternative …
Birth Order and the Conservators of Tradition Hypothesis
The conservators of tradition hypothesis, suggesting that first-born children are more likely to assume traditionally defined roles, is examined with respect to the occupational aspirations held by a sample of 272 college women. Only limited support is found. In fact, among women intending to enter the labor force, the first-born are more likely to aspire to traditionally nonfeminine occupations. A number of variables relating to sibling structur…
Social Participation Patterns among Mobile-Home and Single-Family Dwellers
The central concern of this article is the differences in participation patterns between mobile-home and single-family dwellers residing in contiguous suburban areas. Based on a random sample of 60 mobile-home and 55 single-family dwellers, our findings indicate that when sociodemographic characteristics are controlled, mobile-home residents participate more in some forms of informal activities and less in voluntary associations. Type of residenc…
Measures of Well-Being: An Empirical and Critical Assessment
Three frequently used measures of well-being-the Life Satisfaction scale, the Social Isolation scale and the Willingness to Live scale are evaluated in terms of their empirical similarity. The internal consistency of the social isolation items, it isfound, does not exceed the cross-correlation between the social isolation and life satisfaction items. A group factor analysis confirms the existence of considerable communality among the items of the…
Five Thousand American Families: Patterns of Economic Progress. Vol. 1: An Analysis of the First Five Years of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Vol. 2: Special Studies of the First Five Years of th…
The Social Participation of Minorities: A Critical Examination of Current Theories
DIFFERENCES IN social participation patterns, particularly between blacks and whites, have been repeatedly noted.1 Considerable inconsistency exists, however, in the findings related to these patterns, some studies observing that affiliation and participation are more extensive among blacks and other investigations reporting just the opposite.2 Explanations of minority participation are, as a result, themselves diverse and, more crucially, incons…
Ethnicity and Participation: A Commentary
Crowding and Family Relations
Sexual Behavior in and out of Marriage: An Assessment of Correlates
An assessment of the demography of two forms of sexual behavior is presented. The effects of 18 variables, pertaining to social background and the marital relationship, on the frequency of marital intercourse and extramarital involvement are evaluated. While the marital variables in general best account for variations in sexual patterns, the most efficacious predictors tend to differ with the type of behavior considered and whether it is the beha…
Age and Social Involvement
Crowding and Human Sexual Behavior
Urbanologists and ethologists have strongly asserted that there is a human analogue of the crowding effects found among other animals. Extrapolating from animal behavior, it has been argued that sexual aberrations and deviations result from crowded conditions. Using a sample of urban families residing in conditions that range from compressed to open, crowding is observed to have very selective and modest effects on human sexual behavior—whether i…
Differences in Social Participation: Blacks and Whites
Journal Article Differences in Social Participation: Blacks and Whites Get access Patricia Klobus-Edwards, Patricia Klobus-Edwards Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John N. Edwards, John N. Edwards Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David L. Klemmack David L. Klemmack …
Predictors of Social Participation: Apparent or Real
Reply to Gove and Hughes
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