Evin Winkelman Richardson
Biographic Data
| ID | 322073 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Evin Winkelman Richardson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Evin Winkelman |
| FAMILY NAME | Richardson |
| SIGNATURE | RICHARDSON E W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Georgia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9377-3456 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1936 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Adverse Childhood Experiences, Psychosocial Problems, and Relationship Quality in Romantic Couples
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have long-term negative effects, including on relationship outcomes, well into adulthood. In line with the Couple Adaptation to Traumatic Stress Model and the theory of resilience and relational load, routine relationship maintenance skills were identified as an interpersonal resource mediating the association between psychosocial problems and couple relationship quality. Data from 212 opposite sex romantic co…
Trajectories of Change Following Relationship Education for Couples Raising Children With Disabilities
Couples raising children with disabilities face unique and ongoing stressors that challenge their capacity to parent effectively and threaten the health of their couple and coparenting relationship. This may be especially true among couples receiving child welfare services. Guided by the vulnerability–stress–adaptation model, the current study explores whether and how participation in a couple relationship education (CRE) program, ELEVATE , may p…
Connections count
Protocol for the pragmatic evaluation of the Department of the Air Force’s Personal Financial Readiness Program
Federal policy mandates that United States military members receive numerous financial trainings across their career to improve their financial literacy and equip them to make informed financial decisions that, ultimately, promote positive individual and family well-being. Connected to this mandate, systematic evaluation efforts of the Department of the Air Force's Personal Financial Readiness program were initiated to identify program outcomes a…
Dyadic Reports of Interparental Relationship Quality and Intentions to Continue Fostering Among Coupled Foster Caregivers
The United States is in a foster care crisis with nearly 400,000 children in need of care and not enough foster homes to fill this need. Therefore, recruiting and retaining high‐quality foster care homes is essential for the placement stability and well‐being of some of our society's most vulnerable children. For foster caregivers in a couple relationship, the health of the couple and coparenting relationship may play a major role in their well‐b…
Changes in Relationship Skills and Parenting Stress Among Vulnerable Couples Participating in Couple Relationship Education Before Versus During the Covid ‐19 Pandemic
The COVID‐19 pandemic marked sudden changes for many parenting couples that heightened levels of parenting stress. A strong couple relationship can serve as a protective buffer against parenting stress, especially during acute stress resulting from the COVID‐19 pandemic. Couple relationship education (CRE) teaches couple relationship skills (CRS) that can promote positive couple functioning and, in turn, lower levels of parenting stress. Guided b…
The Associations Between Trait Mindfulness, Relationship Efficacy and Interparental Relationship Quality for Couples Receiving Support Services
Guided by the vulnerability–stress–adaptation (VSA) model, the current study examines the associations between trait mindfulness, relationship efficacy, couple relationship quality and co‐parenting support for couples receiving support services (e.g., home visitation services and financial benefits). Using data collected from 415 heterosexual couples parenting at least one child under the age of 18 and receiving government benefits, we conducted …
Foster caregivers' depressive symptoms and parenting stress
Is unit cohesion a double-edged sword? A moderated mediation model of combat exposure, work stressors, and marital satisfaction
Guided by the stress process perspective, this study examined if combat exposure was indirectly associated with marital satisfaction through work performance stress. Additionally, we tested whether unit cohesion served as a moderator of this indirect effect. Data were drawn from 1,122 married Soldiers who participated in the All-Army Study component of the Army STARRS study, a probabilistic sample of Army Soldiers. Indicative of stress proliferat…
Non-relative foster caregivers' changes in mindfulness and couple relationship skills following relationship education
Foster caregivers experience many challenges related to fostering which, for those in a committed couple relationship, may impact the health of that relationship. Recent efforts have been made to provide couple relationship education (CRE) to foster caregivers to provide them with the knowledge and skills to develop and maintain a healthy relationship with their partner amidst the challenges of fostering. Further, recent studies have begun to exa…
Validating the Couple Relationship Skills Inventory
The association between financial distress, conflict management, and co-parenting support for couples receiving child welfare
This study examined financial distress, conflict management, and co-parenting support among 254 couples receiving child welfare services. Using an actor-partner interdependence model, this study tested the indirect association between couples' financial distress and their perceptions of co-parenting support through the use of positive conflict management strategies. Indirect actor effects were found for both mothers and fathers such that financia…
Foster Caregivers' Parenting Stress as a Moderator of Change in Coparenting Following Relationship Education
Foster caregivers provide care to some of our most vulnerable children and often experience challenges that can interfere with family functioning, including the interparental relationship. Recent efforts have been made to provide couple relationship education (CRE) to foster caregivers to support their interparental relationship and enhance the quality of the foster home. Guided by family systems theory and adult learning theory, and using an act…
When Fathers Are Involved
Father involvement can promote the psychosocial health of family members (i.e., fathers, mothers, and children). However, the association between father involvement and individual members' psychosocial health may depend on the quality of the marital relationship and the perceptions of the reporting family member. Research with multiple reporters from the same family is needed identify how family members perceive the impact of father involvement o…
Foster father identity
Foster fathers, who care for and have a unique opportunity to positively influence the at‐risk children who are placed in their home, may struggle to establish a salient foster father identity due to a lack of societal clarity about their role and conflicting views about their importance within the child welfare system. However, we lack theoretical and empirical knowledge on foster fathering. Thus, a nuanced conceptual understanding of the factor…
Fostering confidence
Although healthy marital and co‐parenting relationships are important characteristics of a high‐quality, two‐parent foster home, little attention has been given to foster caregiver couples' perceptions of their marital and co‐parenting relationships and the contextual factors that influence these perceptions. Guided by the contextual model of family stress and social cognitive theory, the current study explores patterns of foster caregivers' rela…
In my heart forever
Many dedicated foster caregivers form a strong attachment to the children in their care, leaving them emotionally at-risk for when a child is removed from the home (e.g. displacement, reunification). The grief they experience when a child leaves may influence their other relationships (e.g. couple relationship). Survey data were collected from a statewide random sample of foster caregivers. The final sample included foster caregivers who had expe…
Foster mothers' parenting stress and coparenting quality
Ready or not
Parents’ early life stressful experiences, their present well-being, and that of their children
Parents' early life stressful experiences have lifelong consequences, not only for themselves but also for their children. The current study utilized a sample of military families (n = 266) including data from both active-duty and civilian parents and their adolescent children. Hypotheses reflecting principles of persistence, transmission, and proximity as pertaining to parents and their children were examined. The impact of parents' childhood ex…
The Road to Membership
The participation of children and adolescents with disabilities and their families in faith communities may be limited due to the various unique challenges that these families face. This qualitative study examines reports by 9 parents of their family's experiences in becoming members of a faith community while examining the role of family resilience throughout this process. Results indicate that parents who displayed resilient attitudes and behav…
The impact of organizational support on the transfer of learning to practice
The Science of Voice-Production
Foster mothers' parenting stress and coparenting quality
In my heart forever
Many dedicated foster caregivers form a strong attachment to the children in their care, leaving them emotionally at-risk for when a child is removed from the home (e.g. displacement, reunification). The grief they experience when a child leaves may influence their other relationships (e.g. couple relationship). Survey data were collected from a statewide random sample of foster caregivers. The final sample included foster caregivers who had expe…
The association between financial distress, conflict management, and co-parenting support for couples receiving child welfare
This study examined financial distress, conflict management, and co-parenting support among 254 couples receiving child welfare services. Using an actor-partner interdependence model, this study tested the indirect association between couples' financial distress and their perceptions of co-parenting support through the use of positive conflict management strategies. Indirect actor effects were found for both mothers and fathers such that financia…
Fostering confidence
Although healthy marital and co‐parenting relationships are important characteristics of a high‐quality, two‐parent foster home, little attention has been given to foster caregiver couples' perceptions of their marital and co‐parenting relationships and the contextual factors that influence these perceptions. Guided by the contextual model of family stress and social cognitive theory, the current study explores patterns of foster caregivers' rela…
Is unit cohesion a double-edged sword? A moderated mediation model of combat exposure, work stressors, and marital satisfaction
Guided by the stress process perspective, this study examined if combat exposure was indirectly associated with marital satisfaction through work performance stress. Additionally, we tested whether unit cohesion served as a moderator of this indirect effect. Data were drawn from 1,122 married Soldiers who participated in the All-Army Study component of the Army STARRS study, a probabilistic sample of Army Soldiers. Indicative of stress proliferat…
Non-relative foster caregivers' changes in mindfulness and couple relationship skills following relationship education
Foster caregivers experience many challenges related to fostering which, for those in a committed couple relationship, may impact the health of that relationship. Recent efforts have been made to provide couple relationship education (CRE) to foster caregivers to provide them with the knowledge and skills to develop and maintain a healthy relationship with their partner amidst the challenges of fostering. Further, recent studies have begun to exa…
Foster father identity
Foster fathers, who care for and have a unique opportunity to positively influence the at‐risk children who are placed in their home, may struggle to establish a salient foster father identity due to a lack of societal clarity about their role and conflicting views about their importance within the child welfare system. However, we lack theoretical and empirical knowledge on foster fathering. Thus, a nuanced conceptual understanding of the factor…
The impact of organizational support on the transfer of learning to practice
The Science of Voice-Production
The Road to Membership
The participation of children and adolescents with disabilities and their families in faith communities may be limited due to the various unique challenges that these families face. This qualitative study examines reports by 9 parents of their family's experiences in becoming members of a faith community while examining the role of family resilience throughout this process. Results indicate that parents who displayed resilient attitudes and behav…
The impact of organizational support on the transfer of learning to practice
Ready or not
Parents’ early life stressful experiences, their present well-being, and that of their children
Parents' early life stressful experiences have lifelong consequences, not only for themselves but also for their children. The current study utilized a sample of military families (n = 266) including data from both active-duty and civilian parents and their adolescent children. Hypotheses reflecting principles of persistence, transmission, and proximity as pertaining to parents and their children were examined. The impact of parents' childhood ex…
Foster mothers' parenting stress and coparenting quality
Fostering confidence
Although healthy marital and co‐parenting relationships are important characteristics of a high‐quality, two‐parent foster home, little attention has been given to foster caregiver couples' perceptions of their marital and co‐parenting relationships and the contextual factors that influence these perceptions. Guided by the contextual model of family stress and social cognitive theory, the current study explores patterns of foster caregivers' rela…
In my heart forever
Many dedicated foster caregivers form a strong attachment to the children in their care, leaving them emotionally at-risk for when a child is removed from the home (e.g. displacement, reunification). The grief they experience when a child leaves may influence their other relationships (e.g. couple relationship). Survey data were collected from a statewide random sample of foster caregivers. The final sample included foster caregivers who had expe…
Foster father identity
Foster fathers, who care for and have a unique opportunity to positively influence the at‐risk children who are placed in their home, may struggle to establish a salient foster father identity due to a lack of societal clarity about their role and conflicting views about their importance within the child welfare system. However, we lack theoretical and empirical knowledge on foster fathering. Thus, a nuanced conceptual understanding of the factor…
When Fathers Are Involved
Father involvement can promote the psychosocial health of family members (i.e., fathers, mothers, and children). However, the association between father involvement and individual members' psychosocial health may depend on the quality of the marital relationship and the perceptions of the reporting family member. Research with multiple reporters from the same family is needed identify how family members perceive the impact of father involvement o…
Validating the Couple Relationship Skills Inventory
The association between financial distress, conflict management, and co-parenting support for couples receiving child welfare
This study examined financial distress, conflict management, and co-parenting support among 254 couples receiving child welfare services. Using an actor-partner interdependence model, this study tested the indirect association between couples' financial distress and their perceptions of co-parenting support through the use of positive conflict management strategies. Indirect actor effects were found for both mothers and fathers such that financia…
Foster Caregivers' Parenting Stress as a Moderator of Change in Coparenting Following Relationship Education
Foster caregivers provide care to some of our most vulnerable children and often experience challenges that can interfere with family functioning, including the interparental relationship. Recent efforts have been made to provide couple relationship education (CRE) to foster caregivers to support their interparental relationship and enhance the quality of the foster home. Guided by family systems theory and adult learning theory, and using an act…
Non-relative foster caregivers' changes in mindfulness and couple relationship skills following relationship education
Foster caregivers experience many challenges related to fostering which, for those in a committed couple relationship, may impact the health of that relationship. Recent efforts have been made to provide couple relationship education (CRE) to foster caregivers to provide them with the knowledge and skills to develop and maintain a healthy relationship with their partner amidst the challenges of fostering. Further, recent studies have begun to exa…
Foster caregivers' depressive symptoms and parenting stress
Is unit cohesion a double-edged sword? A moderated mediation model of combat exposure, work stressors, and marital satisfaction
Guided by the stress process perspective, this study examined if combat exposure was indirectly associated with marital satisfaction through work performance stress. Additionally, we tested whether unit cohesion served as a moderator of this indirect effect. Data were drawn from 1,122 married Soldiers who participated in the All-Army Study component of the Army STARRS study, a probabilistic sample of Army Soldiers. Indicative of stress proliferat…
Protocol for the pragmatic evaluation of the Department of the Air Force’s Personal Financial Readiness Program
Federal policy mandates that United States military members receive numerous financial trainings across their career to improve their financial literacy and equip them to make informed financial decisions that, ultimately, promote positive individual and family well-being. Connected to this mandate, systematic evaluation efforts of the Department of the Air Force's Personal Financial Readiness program were initiated to identify program outcomes a…
Dyadic Reports of Interparental Relationship Quality and Intentions to Continue Fostering Among Coupled Foster Caregivers
The United States is in a foster care crisis with nearly 400,000 children in need of care and not enough foster homes to fill this need. Therefore, recruiting and retaining high‐quality foster care homes is essential for the placement stability and well‐being of some of our society's most vulnerable children. For foster caregivers in a couple relationship, the health of the couple and coparenting relationship may play a major role in their well‐b…
Changes in Relationship Skills and Parenting Stress Among Vulnerable Couples Participating in Couple Relationship Education Before Versus During the Covid ‐19 Pandemic
The COVID‐19 pandemic marked sudden changes for many parenting couples that heightened levels of parenting stress. A strong couple relationship can serve as a protective buffer against parenting stress, especially during acute stress resulting from the COVID‐19 pandemic. Couple relationship education (CRE) teaches couple relationship skills (CRS) that can promote positive couple functioning and, in turn, lower levels of parenting stress. Guided b…
The Associations Between Trait Mindfulness, Relationship Efficacy and Interparental Relationship Quality for Couples Receiving Support Services
Guided by the vulnerability–stress–adaptation (VSA) model, the current study examines the associations between trait mindfulness, relationship efficacy, couple relationship quality and co‐parenting support for couples receiving support services (e.g., home visitation services and financial benefits). Using data collected from 415 heterosexual couples parenting at least one child under the age of 18 and receiving government benefits, we conducted …
Adverse Childhood Experiences, Psychosocial Problems, and Relationship Quality in Romantic Couples
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have long-term negative effects, including on relationship outcomes, well into adulthood. In line with the Couple Adaptation to Traumatic Stress Model and the theory of resilience and relational load, routine relationship maintenance skills were identified as an interpersonal resource mediating the association between psychosocial problems and couple relationship quality. Data from 212 opposite sex romantic co…
Trajectories of Change Following Relationship Education for Couples Raising Children With Disabilities
Couples raising children with disabilities face unique and ongoing stressors that challenge their capacity to parent effectively and threaten the health of their couple and coparenting relationship. This may be especially true among couples receiving child welfare services. Guided by the vulnerability–stress–adaptation model, the current study explores whether and how participation in a couple relationship education (CRE) program, ELEVATE , may p…
Connections count
Psychology (19 works) · Developmental psychology (15 works) · Clinical Psychology (14 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (10 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (8 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works)