Lynn K White

Biographic Data

ID3633005
NAMELynn K White
GIVEN NAMESLynn K
FAMILY NAMEWhite
SIGNATUREWHITE L K
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Nebraska–Lincoln
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS30
TOTAL CITATIONS623
AUTHOR COUNT30
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
H-INDEX16

  • Age and Religiosity: Evidence from a Three-Wave Panel Analysis

    Amy Argue, David Read Johnson et al.ARTICLEJournal for the Scientific Study…1999Cited by: 60

    Using pooled time series with random and fixed effects regression models, we examine the effect of age, period, and family life course events on a measure of religious influence on daily life in a panel of 1,339 adults interviewed three times between 1980 and 1992. The results show a significant, non-linear increase in religiosity with age, with the greatest increase occurring between ages 18 and 30. We also found a significant decline in religio…

  • Satisfaction with Parenting: The Role of Marital Happiness, Family Structure, and Parents' Gender

    Stacy J Rogers, Lynn White et al.ARTICLEJournal of Marriage and the Family1998Cited by: 31

    Using data from a nationally representative panel of parents interviewed in 1988 and 1992, we report a model of parenting satisfaction, with particular attention to marital happiness, family structure, and parents' gender. Cross-sectional analyses show that parenting satisfaction is significantly higher for married parents with high marital quality, for those who are parenting their own biological children, and for mothers. Panel analyses reveal …

  • Strong Support but Uneasy Relationships: Coresidence and Adult Children's Relationships with Their Parents

    Lynn White, Lynn K White et al.ARTICLEJournal of Marriage and the Family1997Cited by: 39References: 2

    Using data on a sample of 435 young adults who were interviewed in 1992 and their parents who were interviewed in 1988, we examine the effects of coresidence on multiple dimensions of parentchild solidarity. Results show that coresident young adults give, receive, and perceive more support from their parents than nonresident children, but that they report significantly, albeit modestly, lower affective relationships with their parents. The effect…

  • When the Brady Bunch Grows Up: Step/Half- and Fullsibling Relationships in Adulthood

    Lynn White, Lynn K White et al.ARTICLEJournal of Marriage and the Family1992Cited by: 24

  • Ties among Adult Siblings

    Lynn White, Lynn K White et al.ARTICLESocial Forces1992Cited by: 31

    We use a National Survey of Families and Households sample of 7,730 adults with siblings to test a model of perceived and actual social support among adult siblings. Despite low levels of actual exchange, nearly 30% of the sample would call on a sibling first in an emergency. Social support among siblings was higher for those with living sisters and for those without adult children, but African Americans and respondents with lower education and f…

  • Brave New Families: Stories of Domestic Upheaval in Late Twentieth Century America

    Lynn White, Lynn K WhiteREVIEWJournal of Marriage and the Family1991

  • Divorce Over the Life Course: The Role of Marital Happiness

    Open AccessLynn White, Lynn K White et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family Issues1991Cited by: 28References: 16

    Using a national panel of married individuals interviewed in 1980 and 1988, this study explores the apparent anomaly that marital happiness and divorce are both lower in longer marriages. We find that marital happiness has a stronger effect on divorce at longer durations than at shorter durations. Exploration of the interactions between barriers and alternatives to marriage dissolution and marital happiness suggests that this interaction arises b…

  • Determinants of Divorce: A Review of Research in the Eighties

    Lynn White, Lynn K WhiteARTICLEJournal of Marriage and the Family1990

    Lynn K. White, Determinants of Divorce: A Review of Research in the Eighties, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 52, No. 4, Family Research in the 1980s: The Decade in Review (Nov., 1990), pp. 904-912

  • Essentials of Sociology

    David B Brinkerhoff, Lynn K White et al.BOOKEssentials of sociology1989

    This is a core text that presents a balanced, unbiased treatment of the essential concepts for introductory sociology. All the perspectives are given equal treatment. This text has always been respected for its admirable author team, scholarship and brevity. This edition will have a new emphasis on the process of doing sociology and integrating material across chapters to show the intersection of concepts. This new feature, entitled Intersections…

  • Evaluating Faculty for Promotion and Tenure

    Lynn White, Lynn K White et al.ARTICLETeaching Sociology1989

    This book provides practical recommendations for implementing an effective faculty evaluation system. It details eight characteristics of effective systems, including policies and procedures that are clearly articulated in writing, compatibility of the system with current institutional goals, and others

  • Gender Differences in Awareness of Aging Among Married Adults Ages 20 to 60

    Open AccessLynn White, Lynn K WhiteARTICLESociological Quarterly1988References: 17

    Using national data from 1,508 married men and women between the ages of 20 and 60, this article addresses the question of how men and women differ in their perception of aging and whether their senses of aging are affected differently by life course, socioeconomic status, or quality of life. Results show more similarities than differences in the ways in which men and women come to perceive themselves as aging. Those differences that exist appear…

  • The Family-Building Process: Childbearing Choices by Parity

    Lynn White, Lynn K White et al.ARTICLEJournal of Marriage and the Family1987Cited by: 3

    Nationally representative US panel data from 1020 husbands and wives who remained in intact marriages and where the wife was under 40 interviewed in 1980 and 1983 are used to test the implications of exchange theory for fertility decisions. Birth of an additional child is computed by comparing the 1980 report of children the respondent had ever had with the 1983 report. 32% had a child: 53% at 0 parity 22% at the 2nd and 7% at the 3rd. Because co…

  • Divorce and Marital Instability over the Life Course

    Open AccessAlan Booth, David Read Johnson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family Issues1986Cited by: 31References: 13

    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

    Open AccessLynn White, Lynn K White et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family Issues1986Cited by: 35References: 10

    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

    Open AccessDavid Read Johnson, Lynn White et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family Issues1986Cited by: 74References: 15

    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…

  • The Quality and Stability of Remarriages: The Role of Stepchildren

    Lynn White, Lynn K White et al.ARTICLEAmerican Sociological Review1985Cited by: 93References: 4

    This paper separates the effects of remarriage and presence of stepchildren on the stability and satisfaction of second marriages. Using a [U.S.] nationwide probability sample of 1673 married individuals interviewed in 1980 and again in 1983 [the authors] show that the higher divorce rate among remarriages is limited to the most complex form of remarriage: where both spouses have been previously married and there are stepchildren in the household…

  • The Transition to Parenthood and Marital Quality

    Open AccessLynn White, Lynn K White et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family Issues1985Cited by: 25References: 14

    An extensive literature demonstrates a negative correlation between the presence of children and marital quality. Few of these studies are designed to test the reasons for this relationship. Using a national panel study, we examine two possible paths: that people who choose to have children differ from those who do not in ways that affect marital quality, and that having a child changes marital structure and process. The results of the analysis s…

  • Predicting Divorce and Permanent Separation

    Open AccessAlan Booth, David Read Johnson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family Issues1985Cited by: 29References: 5

    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…

  • The Effect of Marital Disruption on Child's Attachment to Parents

    Open AccessLynn White, Lynn K White et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family Issues1985Cited by: 17References: 23

    Using data from a sample of 2135 midwestern college students, this article examines the consequences of marital disruption on child-parent attachment. Among the factors considered in the analysis are death versus divorce, amount of conflict in intact and divorced homes, sex of custodial parent, custodial parent's remarriage, and relationships with stepparents. The results show that disruption does not reduce a child's attachment to the custodial …

  • The Impact of Parental Divorce on Courtship

    Alan Booth, David B Brinkerhoff et al.ARTICLEJournal of Marriage and the Family1984Cited by: 26

    While a limited number of studies focus on the impact of parental divorce on courtship, none examine the conditions surrounding the divorce that may influence children 's attempts to form intimate heterosexual relationships. Drawing on a large sample of college students that includes 365 cases of parental divorce, we examine the impact of the amount of parental conflict during and after divorce, change in the quality of parent-child relations, an…

  • Determinants of Spousal Interaction: Marital Structure or Marital Happiness

    Lynn White, Lynn K WhiteARTICLEJournal of Marriage and the Family1983Cited by: 20

    This paper examines factors associated with marital interaction, particularly work roles, marital structure, and marital happiness. Evidence from a nationwide probability sample of 2034 men and women suggests that heavy work involvement of husbands as well as wives, number of children, and a traditional division of household labor all reduce the proportion of time couples spend in joint activity. The determinants of interaction are found to diffe…

  • A Note on Racial Differences in the Effect of Female Economic Opportunity on Marriage Rates

    Open AccessLynn White, Lynn K WhiteARTICLEDemography1981Cited by: 9References: 5

    The previously observed aggregate relationship between marriage rates and female work opportunities is not found among black Americans. Alternative definitions of family formation which take illegitimacy into consideration are explored and also found to be unrelated to black females’ economic opportunities. Although some of the difference may be attributed to measurement error, the significant disparity between the two populations probably reflec…

  • Children's Work in the Family: Its Significance and Meaning

    Lynn White, Lynn K White et al.ARTICLEJournal of Marriage and the Family1981Cited by: 23

    Using data from a random sample of 790 Nebraska parents, this paper reports on extent of children's involvement in the household division of labor and the meaning of this work for the family. These data indicate that children's chores are an ubiquitous feature of family life. Based on parental report, four rationales for these chores are discussed: developmental, reciprocal obligation, extrinsic, and task learning. The relationships between these…

  • The Sexual Division of Labor: Evidence from Childhood

    Lynn White, Lynn K White et al.ARTICLESocial Forces1981Cited by: 5

    Journal Article The Sexual Division of Labor: Evidence from Childhood Get access Lynn K. White, Lynn K. White University of Nebraska-Lincoln Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David B. Brinkerhoff David B. Brinkerhoff University of Nebraska-Lincoln Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 60, Issue 1, September 1981, Pages 170–181, https://doi.org/10.1093/…

  • Romantic Love as a Basis for Marriage

    John Allen Williams, Lynn White et al.CHAPTERLove and attraction1979