Elizabeth G Menaghan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3686348 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth G Menaghan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth G |
| FAMILY NAME | Menaghan |
| SIGNATURE | MENAGHAN E G |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1425 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Longitudinal Research Methods and Family Theories
Work-family challenges for low-income parents and their children
Handbook of Social Psychology
Effects of Low-Wage Employment on Family Well-Being
Assumptions about the processes that link a mother's employment to the development of her child must underlie expectations about how children may fare when their mothers move from welfare dependence into employment. This article explores the idea, mentioned in the research overview by Zaslow and Emig in this journal issue, that the working conditions such as wages, work hours, and task complexity that mothers experience on the job can influence t…
Paternal Absence and Child Behavior: Does a Child's Gender Make a Difference
Frank L. Mott, Lori Kowaleski-Jones, Elizabeth G. Menaghan, Paternal Absence and Child Behavior: Does a Child's Gender Make a Difference?, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 59, No. 1 (Feb., 1997), pp. 103-118
The Intergenerational Costs of Parental Social Stressors: Academic and Social Difficulties in Early Adolescence for Children of Young Mothers
Elizabeth G. Menaghan, Lori Kowaleski-Jones, Frank L. Mott, The Intergenerational Costs of Parental Social Stressors: Academic and Social Difficulties in Early Adolescence for Children of Young Mothers, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 38, No. 1 (Mar., 1997), pp. 72-86
Life-Course Effects of Work and Family Circumstances on Children
How do work and family circumstances shape young children's emotional well-being and behavior? To what extent can parental resources act as buffers against adverse effects? We investigate these questions using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth for a synthetic cohort of 2,342 six- and seven-year-old children born to a national cohort of young women between 1979 and 1984. As suggested by a life-course perspective, both maternal re…
Parents' Jobs and Children's Lives
Parents' Jobs and Children's Lives considers the effects of parental working conditions on children's cognition and social development. It also investigates how parental work affects the home environments that parents create for their children, and how these home environments influence the children directly. The theoretical underpinnings of the book draw from both sociology and economics; in addition, the authors make use of literature derived fr…
Social Sources of Change in Children's Home Environments: The Effects of Parental Occupational Experiences and Family Conditions
This study investigates change in children's home environments as a function of change in parental occupational and family conditions. It uses data from 1986 and I988 mother-child supplements to National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) on 1,403 mothers with children aged 3 through 6 in 1986 to estimate mulivariate regression equations predicting changes in home environments as a function of intervening occupational and family changes. All ana…
Parents' Jobs and Children's Lives
Early Parental Work, Family Social Capital, and Early Childhood Outcomes
This article evaluates the impact of parental working conditions on both a cognitive child outcome and a social one among a national sample of three- to six-year-old children with employed mothers. Current maternal working conditions (i.e., a mother's working conditions at the time of the study) affect verbal facility, but paternal work hours in the early years have significant effects on children's behavior problems. Mother's current occupationa…
Family Social Capital and Children's Behavior Problems
We argue that social capital which inheres in the relationships between parents and children should be associated with internalisation of social norms in children. Changes in parental working conditions and family circumstances should affect children's social adjustment because such factors affect the formation and use of social capital in families. We study variations in children's behavior problems in a sample of 524 6-8 year old children in ma…
Family Systems and Life-Span Development
Determining Children's Home Environments: The Impact of Maternal Characteristics and Current Occupational and Family Conditions
Elizabeth G. Menaghan, Toby L. Parcel, Determining Children's Home Environments: The Impact of Maternal Characteristics and Current Occupational and Family Conditions, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 53, No. 2 (May, 1991), pp. 417-431
The Effects of Maternal Working Conditions and Mastery on Child Behavior Problems: Studying the Intergenerational Transmission of Social Control
We assess the impact of maternal sense of mastery and maternal working conditions on maternal perceptions of children's behavior problems as a means to study the transmission of social control across generations. We use a sample of 521 employed mothers and their four-to six-year-old children from the National Longitudinal Survey's Youth Cohort in 1986. Regarding working conditions, we consider mother's hourly wage, work hours, and job content inc…
Women's Persistence in Undergraduate Majors: The Effects of Gender-Disproportionate Representation
Women's lack of participation in science and technology careers is foreshadowed by their low participation in these undergraduate majors. Kanter's theory of tokenism suggests that the effects of being in the numerical minority are responsible for women's absence from the science and technology pipeline. This article uses data from a sample of undergraduate women at a large state university to consider the effects of gender-disproportionate enroll…
Work Experiences and Family Interaction Processes: The Long Reach of the Job
Until recently little theoretical or empirical attention has focused on the ways in which socially structured experiences in the workplace affect the interactions that occur within families. This review considers the many levels at which family interaction is currently being studied, presents arguments regarding expected relationships between aspects of workplace experiences and spousal and parent-child interaction, and summarizes the relatively …
Maternal Working Conditions and Children's Verbal Facility: Studying the Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality from Mothers to Young Children
Toby L. Parcel, Elizabeth G. Menaghan, Maternal Working Conditions and Children's Verbal Facility: Studying the Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality from Mothers to Young Children, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 53, No. 2, Special Issue: Social Structure and the Individual (Jun., 1990), pp. 132-147
Parental Employment and Family Life: Research in the 1980s
Elizabeth G. Menaghan, Toby L. Parcel, Parental Employment and Family Life: Research in the 1980s, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 52, No. 4, Family Research in the 1980s: The Decade in Review (Nov., 1990), pp. 1079-1098
Pregnancy Resolution and Family Formation: Understanding Gender Differences in Adolescents' Preferences and Beliefs
This article examines gender differences in adolescents' personal views about pregnancy resolution and family formation as they relate to a vignette describing their involvement in an unplanned pregnancy within the context of an ongoing, stable relationship. We use a sample of 577 White and Black high school students from a metropolitan, midwestern city to contrast males' and females' preferences and beliefs about pregnancy resolution and family …
Role Changes and Psychological Well-Being: Variations in Effects by Gender and Role Repertoire
Role Changes and Psychological Weil-Being: Variations in Effects by Gender and Role Repertoire
This analysis examines the relationship between multiple social roles and psychological well-being by focusing on specific combinations of the normatively expected social roles of spouse, childrearer, and worker in a large representative sample of urban adults. Cross-sectional analyses of current role repertoires and current psychological symptoms are supplemented by consideration of how changes in role repertoires are related to changes in sympt…
Escaping from the Family Realm: Reasons to Resist Claims for Its Uniqueness
Psychological Well-Being Among Parents and Nonparents: The Importance of Normative Expectedness
Recent work on social roles and psychological well-being suggests that parenthood appears to be an exception to the general finding that participation in normatively expectable social roles is associated with higher well-being. This article argues that both parents and non-parents vary among themselves in the normative expectedness of their situations. Using data from a representative community sample of 945 adults aged 22-64 living in the Chicag…
Couples and the male birth control pill: A future alternative in contraceptive selection
Contraceptive decision making is likely to become more complex when male oral contraceptives are marketed and as sex‐role preferences become more egalitarian. A mailed survey of 47 married couples selected from a newspaper “Birth Listing” column in Columbus, Ohio was used to contrast spouses' views, to assess levels of actual and perceived consensus among partners, and to identify predictors of greater stated likelihood of male pill usage. Modest…
The Stress Process
Early Parental Work, Family Social Capital, and Early Childhood Outcomes
This article evaluates the impact of parental working conditions on both a cognitive child outcome and a social one among a national sample of three- to six-year-old children with employed mothers. Current maternal working conditions (i.e., a mother's working conditions at the time of the study) affect verbal facility, but paternal work hours in the early years have significant effects on children's behavior problems. Mother's current occupationa…
Work Experiences and Family Interaction Processes: The Long Reach of the Job
Until recently little theoretical or empirical attention has focused on the ways in which socially structured experiences in the workplace affect the interactions that occur within families. This review considers the many levels at which family interaction is currently being studied, presents arguments regarding expected relationships between aspects of workplace experiences and spousal and parent-child interaction, and summarizes the relatively …
Determining Children's Home Environments: The Impact of Maternal Characteristics and Current Occupational and Family Conditions
Elizabeth G. Menaghan, Toby L. Parcel, Determining Children's Home Environments: The Impact of Maternal Characteristics and Current Occupational and Family Conditions, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 53, No. 2 (May, 1991), pp. 417-431
Family Social Capital and Children's Behavior Problems
We argue that social capital which inheres in the relationships between parents and children should be associated with internalisation of social norms in children. Changes in parental working conditions and family circumstances should affect children's social adjustment because such factors affect the formation and use of social capital in families. We study variations in children's behavior problems in a sample of 524 6-8 year old children in ma…
Changes in Depression following Divorce: A Panel Study
The relationship between marital status and psychological well-being has been subject to conflicting interpretations. In this paper, panel data are analyzed to assess the impact of changes in marital status on psychological well-being. Data from a large metropolitan Chicago sample are used to examine changes in depressive affect in a group of adults divorced during the four years between interviews, and to compare them with people who have remain…
Parental Employment and Family Life: Research in the 1980s
Elizabeth G. Menaghan, Toby L. Parcel, Parental Employment and Family Life: Research in the 1980s, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 52, No. 4, Family Research in the 1980s: The Decade in Review (Nov., 1990), pp. 1079-1098
Social Sources of Change in Children's Home Environments: The Effects of Parental Occupational Experiences and Family Conditions
This study investigates change in children's home environments as a function of change in parental occupational and family conditions. It uses data from 1986 and I988 mother-child supplements to National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) on 1,403 mothers with children aged 3 through 6 in 1986 to estimate mulivariate regression equations predicting changes in home environments as a function of intervening occupational and family changes. All ana…
Maternal Working Conditions and Children's Verbal Facility: Studying the Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality from Mothers to Young Children
Toby L. Parcel, Elizabeth G. Menaghan, Maternal Working Conditions and Children's Verbal Facility: Studying the Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality from Mothers to Young Children, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 53, No. 2, Special Issue: Social Structure and the Individual (Jun., 1990), pp. 132-147
The Intergenerational Costs of Parental Social Stressors: Academic and Social Difficulties in Early Adolescence for Children of Young Mothers
Elizabeth G. Menaghan, Lori Kowaleski-Jones, Frank L. Mott, The Intergenerational Costs of Parental Social Stressors: Academic and Social Difficulties in Early Adolescence for Children of Young Mothers, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 38, No. 1 (Mar., 1997), pp. 72-86
Coping with Occupational Problems: The Limits of Individual Efforts
This analysis considers the effectiveness of four occupational coping efforts: direct action, optimistic comparisons, selective ignoring, and restricted expectations. Two criteria for effectiveness are considered: reduction in occupational distress, and reduction in later occupational problems. Data are drawn from two waves of interviews with a large metropolitan sample. Effectiveness is assessed net of age, gender, socioeconomic status, type, of…
Measuring Coping Effectiveness: A Panel Analysis of Marital Problems and Coping Efforts
The Effects of Maternal Working Conditions and Mastery on Child Behavior Problems: Studying the Intergenerational Transmission of Social Control
We assess the impact of maternal sense of mastery and maternal working conditions on maternal perceptions of children's behavior problems as a means to study the transmission of social control across generations. We use a sample of 521 employed mothers and their four-to six-year-old children from the National Longitudinal Survey's Youth Cohort in 1986. Regarding working conditions, we consider mother's hourly wage, work hours, and job content inc…
Life-Course Effects of Work and Family Circumstances on Children
How do work and family circumstances shape young children's emotional well-being and behavior? To what extent can parental resources act as buffers against adverse effects? We investigate these questions using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth for a synthetic cohort of 2,342 six- and seven-year-old children born to a national cohort of young women between 1979 and 1984. As suggested by a life-course perspective, both maternal re…
Role Changes and Psychological Well-Being: Variations in Effects by Gender and Role Repertoire
Role Changes and Psychological Weil-Being: Variations in Effects by Gender and Role Repertoire
This analysis examines the relationship between multiple social roles and psychological well-being by focusing on specific combinations of the normatively expected social roles of spouse, childrearer, and worker in a large representative sample of urban adults. Cross-sectional analyses of current role repertoires and current psychological symptoms are supplemented by consideration of how changes in role repertoires are related to changes in sympt…
Depressive Affect and Subsequent Divorce
Evidence for the relationship between marital status and psychological well-being has been largely cross-sectional and subject to multiple interpretations. Estimates of well-being prior to marital termination permit a fuller examination of the impact of psychological well-being on changes in marital status. The present study utilizes data from a large metropolitan Chicago sample to assess the initial life conditions and depressive affect of marri…
Effects of Low-Wage Employment on Family Well-Being
Assumptions about the processes that link a mother's employment to the development of her child must underlie expectations about how children may fare when their mothers move from welfare dependence into employment. This article explores the idea, mentioned in the research overview by Zaslow and Emig in this journal issue, that the working conditions such as wages, work hours, and task complexity that mothers experience on the job can influence t…
Individual Coping Efforts and Family Studies: Conceptual and Methodological Issues
No abstract available for this article
Paternal Absence and Child Behavior: Does a Child's Gender Make a Difference
Frank L. Mott, Lori Kowaleski-Jones, Elizabeth G. Menaghan, Paternal Absence and Child Behavior: Does a Child's Gender Make a Difference?, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 59, No. 1 (Feb., 1997), pp. 103-118
Psychological Well-Being Among Parents and Nonparents: The Importance of Normative Expectedness
Recent work on social roles and psychological well-being suggests that parenthood appears to be an exception to the general finding that participation in normatively expectable social roles is associated with higher well-being. This article argues that both parents and non-parents vary among themselves in the normative expectedness of their situations. Using data from a representative community sample of 945 adults aged 22-64 living in the Chicag…
Marital Stress and Family Transitions: A Panel Analysis
Pregnancy Resolution and Family Formation: Understanding Gender Differences in Adolescents' Preferences and Beliefs
This article examines gender differences in adolescents' personal views about pregnancy resolution and family formation as they relate to a vignette describing their involvement in an unplanned pregnancy within the context of an ongoing, stable relationship. We use a sample of 577 White and Black high school students from a metropolitan, midwestern city to contrast males' and females' preferences and beliefs about pregnancy resolution and family …
Couples and the male birth control pill: A future alternative in contraceptive selection
Contraceptive decision making is likely to become more complex when male oral contraceptives are marketed and as sex‐role preferences become more egalitarian. A mailed survey of 47 married couples selected from a newspaper “Birth Listing” column in Columbus, Ohio was used to contrast spouses' views, to assess levels of actual and perceived consensus among partners, and to identify predictors of greater stated likelihood of male pill usage. Modest…
Escaping from the Family Realm: Reasons to Resist Claims for Its Uniqueness
Seeking help for parental concerns in the middle years
This study focuses on a single problem--parents' concerns about their late adolescent and adult children--and traces the decision to seek assistance from the parental concerns which prompt it to the relief which may follow it. The extent of parents' concerns about their 16- to 35-year-old children was strongest when the family was in the midst of launching and the oldest child was 21 to 25. While parents reporting more concerns were more likely t…
Ourselves and Our Children: A Book by and for Parents
All Our Children: The American Family under Pressure
The Stress Process
Measuring Coping Effectiveness: A Panel Analysis of Marital Problems and Coping Efforts
Individual Coping Efforts and Family Studies: Conceptual and Methodological Issues
No abstract available for this article
Marital Stress and Family Transitions: A Panel Analysis
Coping with Parental Problems: Panel Assessments of Effectiveness
Four parental coping efforts-punitive disciplinary efforts, optimistic comparisons, selective ignoring, and resignation-are examined for their effectiveness in reducing parental distress and difficulties. Data are drawn from two sets of interviews with a large metropolitan population; effectiveness is assessed net of gender, socioeconomic status, ongoing marital problems, age and number of children, and initial level of difficulty. For both behav…
Coping with Occupational Problems: The Limits of Individual Efforts
This analysis considers the effectiveness of four occupational coping efforts: direct action, optimistic comparisons, selective ignoring, and restricted expectations. Two criteria for effectiveness are considered: reduction in occupational distress, and reduction in later occupational problems. Data are drawn from two waves of interviews with a large metropolitan sample. Effectiveness is assessed net of age, gender, socioeconomic status, type, of…
Depressive Affect and Subsequent Divorce
Evidence for the relationship between marital status and psychological well-being has been largely cross-sectional and subject to multiple interpretations. Estimates of well-being prior to marital termination permit a fuller examination of the impact of psychological well-being on changes in marital status. The present study utilizes data from a large metropolitan Chicago sample to assess the initial life conditions and depressive affect of marri…
Current Controversies in Marriage and Family
PART ONE: PREMARITAL RELATIONS Mode of Date Selection Premarital Sex Selection of Marital Partner PART TWO: MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE Importance of the Family Marital Sex Roles Divorce PART THREE: PARENTHOOD Pressure for Parenthood Abortion PART FOUR: NONTRADITIONAL FAMILY FORMS Cohabitation Alternatives to Monogamy Marriage Contracts Homosexuality and the Family PART FIVE: MIDDLE AND OLD AGE Care of the Elderly Family Responsibility and Medical Ethic…
The Impact of World Recession on Children: A Study Prepared for Unicef
Changes in Depression following Divorce: A Panel Study
The relationship between marital status and psychological well-being has been subject to conflicting interpretations. In this paper, panel data are analyzed to assess the impact of changes in marital status on psychological well-being. Data from a large metropolitan Chicago sample are used to examine changes in depressive affect in a group of adults divorced during the four years between interviews, and to compare them with people who have remain…
Couples and the male birth control pill: A future alternative in contraceptive selection
Contraceptive decision making is likely to become more complex when male oral contraceptives are marketed and as sex‐role preferences become more egalitarian. A mailed survey of 47 married couples selected from a newspaper “Birth Listing” column in Columbus, Ohio was used to contrast spouses' views, to assess levels of actual and perceived consensus among partners, and to identify predictors of greater stated likelihood of male pill usage. Modest…
Role Changes and Psychological Well-Being: Variations in Effects by Gender and Role Repertoire
Role Changes and Psychological Weil-Being: Variations in Effects by Gender and Role Repertoire
This analysis examines the relationship between multiple social roles and psychological well-being by focusing on specific combinations of the normatively expected social roles of spouse, childrearer, and worker in a large representative sample of urban adults. Cross-sectional analyses of current role repertoires and current psychological symptoms are supplemented by consideration of how changes in role repertoires are related to changes in sympt…
Escaping from the Family Realm: Reasons to Resist Claims for Its Uniqueness
Psychological Well-Being Among Parents and Nonparents: The Importance of Normative Expectedness
Recent work on social roles and psychological well-being suggests that parenthood appears to be an exception to the general finding that participation in normatively expectable social roles is associated with higher well-being. This article argues that both parents and non-parents vary among themselves in the normative expectedness of their situations. Using data from a representative community sample of 945 adults aged 22-64 living in the Chicag…
Maternal Working Conditions and Children's Verbal Facility: Studying the Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality from Mothers to Young Children
Toby L. Parcel, Elizabeth G. Menaghan, Maternal Working Conditions and Children's Verbal Facility: Studying the Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality from Mothers to Young Children, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 53, No. 2, Special Issue: Social Structure and the Individual (Jun., 1990), pp. 132-147
Parental Employment and Family Life: Research in the 1980s
Elizabeth G. Menaghan, Toby L. Parcel, Parental Employment and Family Life: Research in the 1980s, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 52, No. 4, Family Research in the 1980s: The Decade in Review (Nov., 1990), pp. 1079-1098
Pregnancy Resolution and Family Formation: Understanding Gender Differences in Adolescents' Preferences and Beliefs
This article examines gender differences in adolescents' personal views about pregnancy resolution and family formation as they relate to a vignette describing their involvement in an unplanned pregnancy within the context of an ongoing, stable relationship. We use a sample of 577 White and Black high school students from a metropolitan, midwestern city to contrast males' and females' preferences and beliefs about pregnancy resolution and family …
Determining Children's Home Environments: The Impact of Maternal Characteristics and Current Occupational and Family Conditions
Elizabeth G. Menaghan, Toby L. Parcel, Determining Children's Home Environments: The Impact of Maternal Characteristics and Current Occupational and Family Conditions, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 53, No. 2 (May, 1991), pp. 417-431
The Effects of Maternal Working Conditions and Mastery on Child Behavior Problems: Studying the Intergenerational Transmission of Social Control
We assess the impact of maternal sense of mastery and maternal working conditions on maternal perceptions of children's behavior problems as a means to study the transmission of social control across generations. We use a sample of 521 employed mothers and their four-to six-year-old children from the National Longitudinal Survey's Youth Cohort in 1986. Regarding working conditions, we consider mother's hourly wage, work hours, and job content inc…
Women's Persistence in Undergraduate Majors: The Effects of Gender-Disproportionate Representation
Women's lack of participation in science and technology careers is foreshadowed by their low participation in these undergraduate majors. Kanter's theory of tokenism suggests that the effects of being in the numerical minority are responsible for women's absence from the science and technology pipeline. This article uses data from a sample of undergraduate women at a large state university to consider the effects of gender-disproportionate enroll…
Work Experiences and Family Interaction Processes: The Long Reach of the Job
Until recently little theoretical or empirical attention has focused on the ways in which socially structured experiences in the workplace affect the interactions that occur within families. This review considers the many levels at which family interaction is currently being studied, presents arguments regarding expected relationships between aspects of workplace experiences and spousal and parent-child interaction, and summarizes the relatively …
Psychology (36 works) · Developmental psychology (26 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (14 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (12 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Clinical Psychology (8 works)