Mary J Levitt
Biographic Data
| ID | 298118 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary J Levitt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary J |
| FAMILY NAME | Levitt |
| SIGNATURE | LEVITT M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida International University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 174 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Cross-sex versus same-sex experience and relationship satisfaction: Addressing diverse social networks among Orthodox Jews
Romantic experiences in adolescence often predict relationship stability and marital status in adulthood. Religious practice and belief also have been linked to increased marital satisfaction and overall wellbeing. However, certain religions limit cross-sex interaction in areas of education, social and romantic relationships. Although gender segregation has been studied in educational and occupational contexts, no previous research has addressed …
Parental Absence, Academic Competence, and Expectations in Latino Immigrant Youth
Academic outcomes as a function of parental absence were examined among 268 newly immigrant Latino youth from Argentina, Colombia, and Cuba. Participants experienced parental absence as a result of divorce, parental death, and serial migration. Students who experienced parental absence reported lower achievement expectations. Parental death, prolonged parental absence, and serial migration negatively affected the academic competence and expectati…
Intergenerational Relations with In‐Laws in the Context of the Social Convoy: Theoretical and Practical Implications
Intergenerational relations among in‐laws are involuntary ties emerging as a consequence of marriage. As such, these relations provide a window through which the dynamics involved in restructuring social networks following life transitions may be observed. A questionnaire, based on the social convoy model, was given to an ethnically diverse sample of adults with living in‐laws (N = 170), married 2–15 years. About half of the respondents included …
Social Relations in Childhood and Adolescence: The Convoy Model Perspective
Research on the development of social relations has been largely fragmented along role-specific lines and dominated conceptually by attachment theory. The Convoy Model is presented as an alternative to traditional approaches that fail to capture the complexity of social relationships across time and context. Research based on the model converges with that of other investigators to indicate that children benefit from the presence of multiple relat…
Patterns of Social Support in the Middle Childhood to Early Adolescent Transition: Implications for Adjustment
Children's social networks often include close family members, extended family members, and friends, but little is known about interindividual differences in the patterning of support from these sources. In this study, we used person‐oriented analyses to differentiate patterns of support for children undergoing the transition to adolescence. Social network and adjustment data were collected for an ethnically diverse sample of 691 fourth‐ and sixt…
Immigration Stress, Social Support, and Adjustment in the First Postmigration Year: An Intergenerational Analysis
In this study of 429 newly immigrant children (ages 7–8 years) and their parents, we addressed generational variation in the stresses related to immigration. We also assessed whether child and parent psychological adjustment varied as a function of high versus low levels of stress and social support. Finally, we examined the comparability of effects across participants from different countries. Participants originated in Argentina, Colombia, Cuba…
Intrinsic and extrinsic religiosity in preadolescence and adolescence: Effect on psychological adjustment
The aim of the current study was to assess the influence of intrinsic and extrinsic religiosity (Allport & Ross, 1967 Allport GW Ross JM 1967 Personal religious orientation and prejudice Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 5 432 443 [Google Scholar]) in a sample of preadolescents and adolescents. Participants for the study were 694 African-American, European-American, and Hispanic-American students in grades 6 and 8. Students were inter…
Social Relations and the Life Course
The Social Ecology of Early Childhood: Preschool Social Support Networks and Social Acceptance
The Social Ecology of Early Childhood: Preschool Social Support Networks and Social Acceptance
The focus of this study was on the social networks of preschool children and on the interface between network characteristics and the child's acceptance by peers and teachers. Fifty‐six children and their mothers were interviewed about the child's social support network. Social acceptance measures included peer sociometric ratings and teacher ratings of child preference and relationship quality. Frequency of contact with mother‐nominated child ne…
Troublesome Relationships: A Part of Human Experience
In a study of troublesome relationships, 343 university students and employees were surveyed. Issues addressed were the frequency, nature and precursors of negative relationship experiences. Over half of the respondents (55.7%) reported a very troublesome relationship within the previous 5 years. These were most often close relationships that deteriorated markedly as a result of the experience. Negative relationship involvement was related to ins…
Social support and relationship change after childbirth: An expectancy model
Much has been written about social support, but little is known about the processes that promote continuity or discontinuity in supportive relationships. A proposed model of relationship processes (Levitt, 1991) specifies that changes in the quality of close relationships are likely to occur when expectations for social support are tested and disconfirmed. Relationships are particularly vulnerable to change after major life events, such as childb…
Citation impact, rejection rates, and journal value
Citation impact, rejection rates, and journal value
Convoys of social support in childhood and early adolescence: Structure and function
Little is known about social networks in childhood, and even less is known about the networks of ethnically diverse children. Interviews were conducted with 333 African-American, Anglo/European-American, and Hispanic-American public school children in Grades 1-2, 4-5, and 8-9. The research was based on the social convoy model (R. L. Kahn & T. C. Antonucci, 1980), in which social networks are viewed as dynamic hierarchic structures affording the p…
Intergenerational Support, Relationship Quality, and Well-Being: A Bicultural Analysis
Exchanges of intergenerational support were assessed in a bicultural (Anglo/European-American and Latin American) sample of young-adult women, their mothers, and their maternal grandmothers. The goals of the study were (a) to describe the extent of supportive intergenerational exchange, with a particular focus on the balance of exchange across generations, (b) to evaluate the association of support with intergenerational relationship quality, and…
Social network relationships as sources of maternal support and well-being
Reciprocity of exchange in toddler sharing behavior
Contingent feedback, familiarization, and infant affect: How a stranger becomes a friend
Convoys of social support in childhood and early adolescence: Structure and function
Little is known about social networks in childhood, and even less is known about the networks of ethnically diverse children. Interviews were conducted with 333 African-American, Anglo/European-American, and Hispanic-American public school children in Grades 1-2, 4-5, and 8-9. The research was based on the social convoy model (R. L. Kahn & T. C. Antonucci, 1980), in which social networks are viewed as dynamic hierarchic structures affording the p…
Immigration Stress, Social Support, and Adjustment in the First Postmigration Year: An Intergenerational Analysis
In this study of 429 newly immigrant children (ages 7–8 years) and their parents, we addressed generational variation in the stresses related to immigration. We also assessed whether child and parent psychological adjustment varied as a function of high versus low levels of stress and social support. Finally, we examined the comparability of effects across participants from different countries. Participants originated in Argentina, Colombia, Cuba…
Social network relationships as sources of maternal support and well-being
Patterns of Social Support in the Middle Childhood to Early Adolescent Transition: Implications for Adjustment
Children's social networks often include close family members, extended family members, and friends, but little is known about interindividual differences in the patterning of support from these sources. In this study, we used person‐oriented analyses to differentiate patterns of support for children undergoing the transition to adolescence. Social network and adjustment data were collected for an ethnically diverse sample of 691 fourth‐ and sixt…
Intergenerational Support, Relationship Quality, and Well-Being: A Bicultural Analysis
Exchanges of intergenerational support were assessed in a bicultural (Anglo/European-American and Latin American) sample of young-adult women, their mothers, and their maternal grandmothers. The goals of the study were (a) to describe the extent of supportive intergenerational exchange, with a particular focus on the balance of exchange across generations, (b) to evaluate the association of support with intergenerational relationship quality, and…
Reciprocity of exchange in toddler sharing behavior
Troublesome Relationships: A Part of Human Experience
In a study of troublesome relationships, 343 university students and employees were surveyed. Issues addressed were the frequency, nature and precursors of negative relationship experiences. Over half of the respondents (55.7%) reported a very troublesome relationship within the previous 5 years. These were most often close relationships that deteriorated markedly as a result of the experience. Negative relationship involvement was related to ins…
Intergenerational Relations with In‐Laws in the Context of the Social Convoy: Theoretical and Practical Implications
Intergenerational relations among in‐laws are involuntary ties emerging as a consequence of marriage. As such, these relations provide a window through which the dynamics involved in restructuring social networks following life transitions may be observed. A questionnaire, based on the social convoy model, was given to an ethnically diverse sample of adults with living in‐laws (N = 170), married 2–15 years. About half of the respondents included …
Parental Absence, Academic Competence, and Expectations in Latino Immigrant Youth
Academic outcomes as a function of parental absence were examined among 268 newly immigrant Latino youth from Argentina, Colombia, and Cuba. Participants experienced parental absence as a result of divorce, parental death, and serial migration. Students who experienced parental absence reported lower achievement expectations. Parental death, prolonged parental absence, and serial migration negatively affected the academic competence and expectati…
The Social Ecology of Early Childhood: Preschool Social Support Networks and Social Acceptance
The focus of this study was on the social networks of preschool children and on the interface between network characteristics and the child's acceptance by peers and teachers. Fifty‐six children and their mothers were interviewed about the child's social support network. Social acceptance measures included peer sociometric ratings and teacher ratings of child preference and relationship quality. Frequency of contact with mother‐nominated child ne…
Contingent feedback, familiarization, and infant affect: How a stranger becomes a friend
Contingent feedback, familiarization, and infant affect: How a stranger becomes a friend
Reciprocity of exchange in toddler sharing behavior
Social network relationships as sources of maternal support and well-being
Intergenerational Support, Relationship Quality, and Well-Being: A Bicultural Analysis
Exchanges of intergenerational support were assessed in a bicultural (Anglo/European-American and Latin American) sample of young-adult women, their mothers, and their maternal grandmothers. The goals of the study were (a) to describe the extent of supportive intergenerational exchange, with a particular focus on the balance of exchange across generations, (b) to evaluate the association of support with intergenerational relationship quality, and…
Social support and relationship change after childbirth: An expectancy model
Much has been written about social support, but little is known about the processes that promote continuity or discontinuity in supportive relationships. A proposed model of relationship processes (Levitt, 1991) specifies that changes in the quality of close relationships are likely to occur when expectations for social support are tested and disconfirmed. Relationships are particularly vulnerable to change after major life events, such as childb…
Citation impact, rejection rates, and journal value
Citation impact, rejection rates, and journal value
Convoys of social support in childhood and early adolescence: Structure and function
Little is known about social networks in childhood, and even less is known about the networks of ethnically diverse children. Interviews were conducted with 333 African-American, Anglo/European-American, and Hispanic-American public school children in Grades 1-2, 4-5, and 8-9. The research was based on the social convoy model (R. L. Kahn & T. C. Antonucci, 1980), in which social networks are viewed as dynamic hierarchic structures affording the p…
Troublesome Relationships: A Part of Human Experience
In a study of troublesome relationships, 343 university students and employees were surveyed. Issues addressed were the frequency, nature and precursors of negative relationship experiences. Over half of the respondents (55.7%) reported a very troublesome relationship within the previous 5 years. These were most often close relationships that deteriorated markedly as a result of the experience. Negative relationship involvement was related to ins…
The Social Ecology of Early Childhood: Preschool Social Support Networks and Social Acceptance
The Social Ecology of Early Childhood: Preschool Social Support Networks and Social Acceptance
The focus of this study was on the social networks of preschool children and on the interface between network characteristics and the child's acceptance by peers and teachers. Fifty‐six children and their mothers were interviewed about the child's social support network. Social acceptance measures included peer sociometric ratings and teacher ratings of child preference and relationship quality. Frequency of contact with mother‐nominated child ne…
Intrinsic and extrinsic religiosity in preadolescence and adolescence: Effect on psychological adjustment
The aim of the current study was to assess the influence of intrinsic and extrinsic religiosity (Allport & Ross, 1967 Allport GW Ross JM 1967 Personal religious orientation and prejudice Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 5 432 443 [Google Scholar]) in a sample of preadolescents and adolescents. Participants for the study were 694 African-American, European-American, and Hispanic-American students in grades 6 and 8. Students were inter…
Social Relations and the Life Course
Social Relations in Childhood and Adolescence: The Convoy Model Perspective
Research on the development of social relations has been largely fragmented along role-specific lines and dominated conceptually by attachment theory. The Convoy Model is presented as an alternative to traditional approaches that fail to capture the complexity of social relationships across time and context. Research based on the model converges with that of other investigators to indicate that children benefit from the presence of multiple relat…
Patterns of Social Support in the Middle Childhood to Early Adolescent Transition: Implications for Adjustment
Children's social networks often include close family members, extended family members, and friends, but little is known about interindividual differences in the patterning of support from these sources. In this study, we used person‐oriented analyses to differentiate patterns of support for children undergoing the transition to adolescence. Social network and adjustment data were collected for an ethnically diverse sample of 691 fourth‐ and sixt…
Immigration Stress, Social Support, and Adjustment in the First Postmigration Year: An Intergenerational Analysis
In this study of 429 newly immigrant children (ages 7–8 years) and their parents, we addressed generational variation in the stresses related to immigration. We also assessed whether child and parent psychological adjustment varied as a function of high versus low levels of stress and social support. Finally, we examined the comparability of effects across participants from different countries. Participants originated in Argentina, Colombia, Cuba…
Intergenerational Relations with In‐Laws in the Context of the Social Convoy: Theoretical and Practical Implications
Intergenerational relations among in‐laws are involuntary ties emerging as a consequence of marriage. As such, these relations provide a window through which the dynamics involved in restructuring social networks following life transitions may be observed. A questionnaire, based on the social convoy model, was given to an ethnically diverse sample of adults with living in‐laws (N = 170), married 2–15 years. About half of the respondents included …
Parental Absence, Academic Competence, and Expectations in Latino Immigrant Youth
Academic outcomes as a function of parental absence were examined among 268 newly immigrant Latino youth from Argentina, Colombia, and Cuba. Participants experienced parental absence as a result of divorce, parental death, and serial migration. Students who experienced parental absence reported lower achievement expectations. Parental death, prolonged parental absence, and serial migration negatively affected the academic competence and expectati…
Cross-sex versus same-sex experience and relationship satisfaction: Addressing diverse social networks among Orthodox Jews
Romantic experiences in adolescence often predict relationship stability and marital status in adulthood. Religious practice and belief also have been linked to increased marital satisfaction and overall wellbeing. However, certain religions limit cross-sex interaction in areas of education, social and romantic relationships. Although gender segregation has been studied in educational and occupational contexts, no previous research has addressed …
Psychology (19 works) · Developmental psychology (15 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (9 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (8 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Social support (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Geography (4 works)