Mark A Fine
Biographic Data
| ID | 77917 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark A Fine |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark A |
| FAMILY NAME | Fine |
| SIGNATURE | FINE M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1938-3526 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 83 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 992 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 83 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
Announcing Family Transitions: A Dedicated Outlet Examining the Complexity of Contemporary Family Structures and Changes
Distinctions between Scientific Misconduct and Bias in Social Science: Avoidable versus Unavoidable Deviations from Best Practices in Research
In this comment, I respond to outgoing Editor Schumm's editorial. I share areas of agreement, describe areas of disagreement, and draw some conclusions regarding differences between deliberate scientific misconduct and bias
Ethnic variations in mothers’ and children’s positive and negative emotional expressions toward each other
This study examined whether ethnicity moderated trajectories of mothers’ and children’s positive and negative emotional expressions, as well as within‐time and lagged associations between these variables. European American and Mexican American mothers’ and children’s emotional expressions toward each other were observed when children were aged 15, 25, and 37 months. Children’s positivity increased at identical rates and maternal positivity predic…
Within‐couple configuration of gender‐related attitudes and its association with marital satisfaction in Chinese marriage: A dyadic, pattern‐analytic approach
Objective This study seeks to understand the ways in which spouses’ gender‐related attitudes are configured within couples and how such configurations are linked to marital satisfaction in Chinese marriage. Method Latent profile analysis was conducted using dyadic data from a nationwide large sample of Chinese couples from the China Family Panel Studies ( N = 7,257 couples; M years of marriage = 28.36, SD = 12.84; M age for wives = 52.38, SD = 12…
Moving Into a New Era: Opportunities and Prospects for JFTR
Chinese adult children's perceived parents' satisfaction with adult children's marriage, in-law relationship quality, and adult children's marital satisfaction
Based on three annual waves of data obtained from 265 Chinese couples during the early years of marriage and using an actor-partner interdependence mediation model with latent difference scores, this study examined the associations among adult children's perceived parents' satisfaction with their (i.e., adult children's) marriage, in-law relationship quality, and adult children's marital satisfaction. Results indicated that husbands' and wives' p…
Introduction to the Special Issue: Theorizing Families
The Central Roles of Race and Racism in Reframing Family Systems Theory: A Consideration of Choice and Time
This article explores the central roles in family research and practice of race and racism in the reframing of family systems theory (FST) when applied to Black and/or African American families. Specifically, we discuss how current concepts of FST allow for an understanding of racial and ethnic socialization in the parent–child familial subsystem. We then theorize the potential reframing of FST to better accommodate race, ethnicity, and racism, a…
Sexual Satisfaction and Marital Satisfaction During the Early Years of Chinese Marriage: A Three-Wave, Cross-Lagged, Actor–Partner Interdependence Model
Sexuality is an integral component of many intimate relationships, and research has consistently demonstrated a positive association between sexual and marital satisfaction. However, the temporal dynamics of this association remain controversial and understudied with rigorous longitudinal dyadic approaches, and empirical efforts examining this association in non-Western samples remain sparse. Based on three annual waves of data from 268 Chinese c…
Sexual Minority Stress and Same‐Sex Relationship Well‐being: A Meta‐analysis of Research Prior to the U.S. Nationwide Legalization of Same‐Sex Marriage
Meta‐analytic methods were used to analyze 179 effect sizes retrieved from 32 research reports on the implications that sexual minority stress may have for same‐sex relationship well‐being. Sexual minority stress (aggregated across different types of stress) is moderately and negatively associated with same‐sex relationship well‐being (aggregated across different dimensions of relationship well‐being). Internalized homophobia is significantly and…
Children and Divorce
This entry provides an updated review of how children experience and respond to parental divorce. Scholars, particularly E. Mavis Hetherington and Joan Wallerstein, have reached quite different conclusions regarding how children adjust to divorce, and the entry begins with an attempt by Emery to reconcile the conflicting claims that scholars have reached. The entry provides new information on directions that divorce research has taken, including …
Sacrifice, commitment, and marital quality in the early years of Chinese marriage: An actor-partner interdependence moderation model
Using the actor-partner interdependence moderation model, this study provides a first look at the associations among sacrifice, commitment, and marital quality during the early years of marriage based on two annual waves of data obtained from Chinese couples. We found that both husbands' and wives' perceived cost of sacrifice (HSC and WSC, respectively) rather than frequency of sacrifice was negatively associated with the concurrent levels of the…
Identity Transformation During the Transition to Parenthood Among Same‐Sex Couples: An Ecological, Stress‐Strategy‐Adaptation Perspective
This article reviews the current research on the potential stressors associated with identity transformation experienced by same-sex couples during the transition to parenthood and the coping strategies they employ. By integrating disparate findings into an ecological, stress-strategy-adaptation framework, we demonstrate that the identity transformation experiences among same-sex couples during the transition to parenthood (a) involve various ada…
A re-investigating of the religious orientation-moral reasoning relationship: A relational developmental systems perspective
This study re-investigates the relationship between religious orientation and Kohlberg’s moral reasoning among students at a midwestern (USA) university. Multiple regression analyses revealed that quest-oriented religiosity was significantly positively related to principled moral reasoning, as consistently found in previous studies, while intrinsic religious orientation showed no relation to principled moral reasoning. We discuss our findings thr…
An Empirical Examination of Youths' Perceptions of Spirituality as an Internal Developmental Asset During Adolescence
This mixed method study explores youths' perceived conceptions of spirituality and tests whether spirituality is an additional internal developmental asset (IDA). Spirituality was assessed using an open-ended question asking youth to define spirituality followed by a closed-ended item gauging the extent to which their definition reflected their own spirituality. Using grounded theory to assess youths' qualitative responses resulted in the creatio…
The Role of Privacy in Families Created Through Assisted Reproductive Technology: Examining Existing Literature Using Communication Privacy Management Theory
The number of families created through the use of assisted reproductive technology (ART) has grown throughout the past decade. Families created through ART face many unique communication challenges both within the immediate family and with others outside the family, such as issues with privacy and disclosure. Whether parents choose to disclose genetic information to the child, to other immediate family members, or to others outside the family are…
Mother–Infant Interactions in Early Head Start: A Person-Oriented Within-Ethnic Group Approach
SYNOPSIS Objective . This article identifies patterns of mothering in low-income families from three ethnic groups and explores whether those patterns yield similar associations with child outcomes. Design . A person-centered within-group approach was used to examine observed patterns of mothering among European American (n = 740), African American (n = 604), and Mexican American (n = 322) low-income mothers and their 1-year-olds who were partici…
Patterns of Maternal Directiveness by Ethnicity Among Early Head Start Research Participants
SYNOPSIS Objective . Using the Early Head Start dataset, this study examined change over time in European American, African American, and Mexican American mothers' directiveness during play with their young children and associations between these patterns and their children's engagement with and negativity toward them. The influences of maternal positive and negative regard were also investigated. Design . Mother–child dyads (938 European America…
The Marriage-Go-Around: The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today - by Andrew J. Cherlin
The Marriage-Go-Around: The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today . Andrew J. Cherlin . New York : Alfred A. Knopf . 271 pp. ISBN 9780307266897 . $25.95 cloth . The Marriage-Go-Around is a thoughtful and integrative book written by one of the most respected and accomplished scholars on marriage in the world. The book is thoughtful in that Cherlin provides both breadth and depth in his wide-ranging description of marriage and family li…
Correlates and Consequences of Spanking and Verbal Punishment for Low-Income White, African American, and Mexican American Toddlers
This study examined the prevalence, predictors, and outcomes of spanking and verbal punishment in 2,573 low-income White, African American, and Mexican American toddlers at ages 1, 2, and 3. Both spanking and verbal punishment varied by maternal race/ethnicity. Child fussiness at age 1 predicted spanking and verbal punishment at all 3 ages. Cross-lagged path analyses indicated that spanking (but not verbal punishment) at age 1 predicted child agg…
We Do Babies! The Trials, Tribulations, and Triumphs of Pregnancy and Parenting in the Academy
The most awkward moment at that faculty meeting occurred when a certain senior colleague in the department replied, Well, when my wife was pregnant, she gave birth during spring break and didn't miss a day of class. Despite backstage reassurances that these were unrealistic expectations, those who were pregnant experienced an unspoken pressure that failure to minimize the interference of impending parenthood on their careers threatened public imp…
Children and Divorce
The issue of how children are affected by parental divorce has arguably evoked as much controversy as has any other topic in the social sciences. The controversy reflects the importance and timeliness of the topic – in the beginning of the twenty‐first century, Census Bureau data indicate that at least 50 to 60 percent of children in the United States will spend some period of time before they reach 18 in a home in which divorce has occurred (Har…
The divorce decree, communication, and the structuration of coparenting relationships in stepfamilies
Using Giddens's (1984) structuration theory, this study explored the communicative processes surrounding the divorce decree in coparenting relationships in stepfamilies. Participants included 21 adults who were coparenting children in stepfamilies who completed diary entries of all interactions with coparents over a 2-week period, and who completed follow-up interviews. Results revealed two structures of signification with respect to the divorce …
Maternal Intrusiveness, Maternal Warmth, and Mother–Toddler Relationship Outcomes: Variations Across Low‐Income Ethnic and Acculturation Groups
The present study investigated the extent to which maternal intrusiveness and warmth during play, observed in 579 European American, 412 African American, and 110 more and 131 less acculturated Mexican American low‐income families when children were approximately 15 months old, predicted 3 dimensions of the mother–toddler relationship 10 months later. Intrusiveness predicted increases in later child negativity in all 4 groups. Among African Ameri…
Examining Ethnic Identity among Mexican-Origin Adolescents Living in the United States
This study used structural equation modeling to test a model of ethnic identity development among 513 Mexican-origin adolescents living in the United States. The model examined the influence of ecological factors, familial ethnic socialization, and autonomy on adolescents’ ethnic identity achievement. Findings indicated that lower percentages ofMexican-origin individuals attending adolescents’schools and fewer members of adolescents’ immediate fa…
Reinvestigating Remarriage: Another Decade of Progress
The body of stepfamily research published this decade exceeded the entire output of the previous 90 years of the century. The complexity and quality of the scholarly work in this decade improved as well-better samples were obtained, methods were more sensitive to stepfamily complexity, longitudinal designs were more frequently employed, and other important methodological gains were made. Unfortunately, many unknowns regarding remarriages and step…
Examining Ethnic Identity among Mexican-Origin Adolescents Living in the United States
This study used structural equation modeling to test a model of ethnic identity development among 513 Mexican-origin adolescents living in the United States. The model examined the influence of ecological factors, familial ethnic socialization, and autonomy on adolescents’ ethnic identity achievement. Findings indicated that lower percentages ofMexican-origin individuals attending adolescents’schools and fewer members of adolescents’ immediate fa…
Ethnic Identity and Self-Esteem of Latino Adolescents: Distinctions Among The Latino Populations
This article reviews 21 empirical studies in which the relationship between self-esteem and ethnic identity among Latino adolescents was examined. This analysis indicates that for some conceptualizations of ethnic identity there has been a positive relationship between ethnic identity and self-esteem, whereas with other conceptualizations the relationships between ethnic identity and self-esteemhave been inconsistent. The methodological limitatio…
Maternal Intrusiveness, Maternal Warmth, and Mother–Toddler Relationship Outcomes: Variations Across Low‐Income Ethnic and Acculturation Groups
The present study investigated the extent to which maternal intrusiveness and warmth during play, observed in 579 European American, 412 African American, and 110 more and 131 less acculturated Mexican American low‐income families when children were approximately 15 months old, predicted 3 dimensions of the mother–toddler relationship 10 months later. Intrusiveness predicted increases in later child negativity in all 4 groups. Among African Ameri…
Methodological Implications of Grouping Latino Adolescents into One Collective Ethnic Group
This study examined the methodological appropriateness of categorizing Latinos as a homogenous population when assessing ethnic identity, self-esteem, emotional autonomy, and familial ethnic socialization. Reliability coefficients of Phinney’s Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure (MEIM), Rosenberg’s Self-Esteem Scale (SES), Steinberg and Silverberg’s Emotional Autonomy Measure, and Umaña-Taylor’s Familial Ethnic Socialization Measure (FESM) were co…
The relation between gender and negative attitudes toward gay men and lesbians: Do gender role attitudes mediate this relation
Consistency in Perceptions of the Step-Parent Role among Step-Parents, Parents and Stepchildren
The purposes of this study were to determine the degree of consistency in stepfamily members' perceptions of the step-parent role, to examine the relation between the degree of consistency in role perceptions and adjustment in stepfamilies, and to determine the extent to which clarity pertaining to the step-parent role was related to adjustment. Step-parents, parents and stepchildren from 40 stepfamilies completed a series of self-report question…
The Development and Validation of an Instrument to Assess an Optimal Afrocentric World View
An optimal Afrocentric belief system is characterized by a holistic, nonmaterialistic, and communal orientation in persons. An instrument to assess one's degree of adherence to an abstraction of this world view, the Belief Systems Analysis Scale (BSAS), was developed and psychometrically evaluated. To assess the instrument's construct validity, college students (66 females and 29 males) were administered the BSAS, the Dogmatism Scale, the Social …
Reflections on determining authorship credit and authorship order on faculty-student collaborations
Explores the process of determining authorship credit and authorship order on collaborative publications with students.The article presents hypothetical cases that describe relevant ethical issues, highlights ethical principles that could provide assistance in addressing these dilemmas, and makes recommendations to faculty who collaborate with students on scholarly projects.It is proposed that authorship credit and order decisions should be based…
Sexual Minority Stress and Same‐Sex Relationship Well‐being: A Meta‐analysis of Research Prior to the U.S. Nationwide Legalization of Same‐Sex Marriage
Meta‐analytic methods were used to analyze 179 effect sizes retrieved from 32 research reports on the implications that sexual minority stress may have for same‐sex relationship well‐being. Sexual minority stress (aggregated across different types of stress) is moderately and negatively associated with same‐sex relationship well‐being (aggregated across different dimensions of relationship well‐being). Internalized homophobia is significantly and…
Stepparents' Affinity-Seeking and Affinity-Maintaining Strategies With Stepchildren
The purposes of this study were to examine the strategies that stepparents use to develop and maintain affinity with stepchildren and the effects that these strategies have on the development of stepparent-stepchild relationships. Data were collected via interviews with members of 17 stepfamilies in which there was at least one stepchild between the ages of 10 and 19 living in the household. Stepparent-stepchild relationships are characterized by…
The divorce decree, communication, and the structuration of coparenting relationships in stepfamilies
Using Giddens's (1984) structuration theory, this study explored the communicative processes surrounding the divorce decree in coparenting relationships in stepfamilies. Participants included 21 adults who were coparenting children in stepfamilies who completed diary entries of all interactions with coparents over a 2-week period, and who completed follow-up interviews. Results revealed two structures of signification with respect to the divorce …
The Relation Between Family Structure and Young Adolescents' Appraisals of Family Climate and Parenting Behavior
Young adolescents (mean age = 11.99 years) who lived with both biological parents (BP), a single divorced mother (DM), a single divorced father (DF), a mother and stepfather (SF), a father and a stepmother (SM), or a multiply divorced parent (MD) ( ns = 681, 78, 21, 146, 36, and 55, respectively) appraised dimensions of family climate (supervision, warmth, conflict, and order) and dimensions of parenting (permissive, authoritatian, and authoritat…
Long-term effects of divorce on parent–child relationships
Relationships at Ohio State University.To those parents experiencing divorce and to the group itself, I express my gratitude.In addi tion, there are several individuals to whom I would like to give my deepest appreciation.Dr. Andrew Schwebel and Dr
A Study of Perceptions of the Stepparent Role
This study was designed to test whether there is a lack of social consensus about how stepparents should and will act as parents, and whether individuals in society perceive stepparent roles as similar to or different from the roles of biological and adoptive parents. Two-hundred and forty introductory psychology students were randomly assigned to complete one of three versions (biological parent, adoptive parent, and stepparent) of the Family Ro…
Chinese adult children's perceived parents' satisfaction with adult children's marriage, in-law relationship quality, and adult children's marital satisfaction
Based on three annual waves of data obtained from 265 Chinese couples during the early years of marriage and using an actor-partner interdependence mediation model with latent difference scores, this study examined the associations among adult children's perceived parents' satisfaction with their (i.e., adult children's) marriage, in-law relationship quality, and adult children's marital satisfaction. Results indicated that husbands' and wives' p…
The Central Roles of Race and Racism in Reframing Family Systems Theory: A Consideration of Choice and Time
This article explores the central roles in family research and practice of race and racism in the reframing of family systems theory (FST) when applied to Black and/or African American families. Specifically, we discuss how current concepts of FST allow for an understanding of racial and ethnic socialization in the parent–child familial subsystem. We then theorize the potential reframing of FST to better accommodate race, ethnicity, and racism, a…
Cognitive Correlates of Satisfaction for Mothers and Stepfathers in Stepfather Families
Sexual Satisfaction and Marital Satisfaction During the Early Years of Chinese Marriage: A Three-Wave, Cross-Lagged, Actor–Partner Interdependence Model
Sexuality is an integral component of many intimate relationships, and research has consistently demonstrated a positive association between sexual and marital satisfaction. However, the temporal dynamics of this association remain controversial and understudied with rigorous longitudinal dyadic approaches, and empirical efforts examining this association in non-Western samples remain sparse. Based on three annual waves of data from 268 Chinese c…
Predicting Relationship Status and Satisfaction after Six Months among Dating Couples
This study used the investment model to predict relationship status and satisfaction among a sample of heterosexual dating couples. Both partners of 42 couples completed measures of commitment, relationship satisfaction, alternative quality (i.e., perceptions of how easy it would be to do better in another relationship than in the present one), and relationship duration at Time 1. Six months later, measures of relationship status and satisfaction…
The Adjustment of Adolescents in Stepfather and Stepmother Families
The article presents a study that assessed the relations between adolescent adjustment in stepfamilies, and both family context and process variables. The process variables assessed were those commonly identified as being related to child and adolescent outcomes. Because adolescent adjustment is likely to be multiply-determined, three layers of processes were considered: intrapersonal i.e., self-mastery; parent-child inter-personal--authoritative…
Parenting Cognitions in Stepfamilies: Differences between Parents and Stepparents and Relations to Parenting Satisfaction
This study examined the parenting cognitions of both spouses of married couples recruited from the Stepfamily Association of America. Spouses in 115 of these couples were fathers/stepmothers of a 5-15-year-old target child and 100 were mothers/stepfathers of such a target child. Participants completed measures of cognitions (perceptions, assumptions and standards) related to their control and warmth parenting behaviors, as well as parenting satis…
Economic Distress, Social Integration, and Family Satisfaction
This study examines relationships between economic distress and family satisfaction and the effects of social integration on these relationships. The sample includes 1,561 married respondents between the ages of 18 and 65 who were interviewed as part of the 1983 and 1986 General Social Surveys. Results indicate that the income components of economic distress are related to family satisfaction while the employment components are not. Economic dist…
Patterns of Maternal Directiveness by Ethnicity Among Early Head Start Research Participants
SYNOPSIS Objective . Using the Early Head Start dataset, this study examined change over time in European American, African American, and Mexican American mothers' directiveness during play with their young children and associations between these patterns and their children's engagement with and negativity toward them. The influences of maternal positive and negative regard were also investigated. Design . Mother–child dyads (938 European America…
Family Law in the New Millennium: For Whose Families
In this article, the authors review changes in family law over the past 30 years in the following areas: marriage, divorce, child custody, remarriage and stepfamilies, unwed fathers, third-party visitation, nontraditional partnerships, assisted reproduction, and adoption. The authors also discuss the role that the social sciences have had in the family law revolution. Finally, the authors speculate about future changes in family law and the role …
Long-term effects of divorce on parent–child relationships
Relationships at Ohio State University.To those parents experiencing divorce and to the group itself, I express my gratitude.In addi tion, there are several individuals to whom I would like to give my deepest appreciation.Dr. Andrew Schwebel and Dr
Long-term effects of divorce on parent-child relationships
The Parent-Child Relationship Survey: An Examination of its Psychometric Properties
The psychometric properties of the Father and Mother Scales of the Parent-Child Relationship Survey were examined. 149 undergraduate students in psychology from divorced families and 155 students from continuously intact families completed the instrument which was designed to assess the perceived quality of older children's relationships with their parents. Results suggest that the Father and Mother Scales each assess primarily a unidimensional p…
The Effects of World View on Adaptation to Single Parenthood Among Middle-Class Adult Women
The nature of the relationship between middle-class adult women's world view and their report of the quality of their adjustment to being single mothers was explored. Single mothers and those from two-parent families completed five instruments assessing their world view and emotional adjustment to being mothers. The many statistically significant findings indicated that, although there was considerable person-to-person variation, single mothers w…
Perceptions of Stepparents: Variation in Stereotypes as a Function of Current Family Structure
The present investigation explores whether college students have less positive perceptions of stepparents than they do of biological parents and whether the degree of these stereotypes depends on the current family structure of the raters (intact, single-parent, or stepparent). Ninety students from continuously intact families, 55 from single-parent families, and 30 from stepfamilies rated the typical father, mother, stepfather, and stepmother, a…
Adjustment and Satisfaction of Parents: A Comparison of Intact, Single-Parent, and Stepparent Families
This study compared the relative adjustment and satisfaction of three differing groups of parents. An extensive phone interview assessing a number of dimensions of well being (anxiety, depression, child problems, marital satisfaction, and family satisfaction) was administered to 154 parents from intact families, 28 single parents, and 28 remarried parents. Results indicated that single parents were significantly less satisfied and less well adjus…
An Empirically-Based Assessment of Early Intervention Service Provision and Utilization
The present investigation studied provision of early intervention services for young children. 377 programs in Ohio were interviewed with respect to the number of young handicapped and “at risk” children participating, the types of services provided children and their parents, and budget information. Younger children (0–2 yr.) and those from rural areas were less frequently involved than older children from urban and semiurban areas. While a wide…
Family Stability in Black Families: Values Underlying Three Different Perspectives
Three models the pathology, structural-functional, and emergent have been used to address the issue of stability in black families. It is presently argued that the lack of consensus in their conclusions is due to the impact of differing, underlying, and only implicitly stated, assumptions and values held by the researchers. In support of this thesis, a brief discussion of the role of values and assumptions in social scientific research is followe…
The prevalence of young children “at risk” for later handicapping conditions
The Dynamics of Divorce: A Life Cycle Perspective
Economic Distress, Social Integration, and Family Satisfaction
This study examines relationships between economic distress and family satisfaction and the effects of social integration on these relationships. The sample includes 1,561 married respondents between the ages of 18 and 65 who were interviewed as part of the 1983 and 1986 General Social Surveys. Results indicate that the income components of economic distress are related to family satisfaction while the employment components are not. Economic dist…
Three-Year Test-Retest Reliability of the Borderline Syndrome Index Among Women With Eating Disorders
Three-Year Test-Retest Reliability of the Borderline Syndrome Index Among Women With Eating Disorders
The Development and Validation of an Instrument to Assess an Optimal Afrocentric World View
An optimal Afrocentric belief system is characterized by a holistic, nonmaterialistic, and communal orientation in persons. An instrument to assess one's degree of adherence to an abstraction of this world view, the Belief Systems Analysis Scale (BSAS), was developed and psychometrically evaluated. To assess the instrument's construct validity, college students (66 females and 29 males) were administered the BSAS, the Dogmatism Scale, the Social …
The Relation between Adolescents' Perceptions of their Family Lives and their Adjustment in Stepfather Families
This study assessed the relation between adolescents 'perceptions offamily life and their adjustment in stepfather families. Adolescents and biological mothers from 117 stepfather families were interviewed as a part of the National Survey of Children. Data gathered included a number of measures of adolescent adjustment (from both adolescent and maternal reports) and adolescents'perceptions offamily life. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses,…
Black Teenage Mothers: Pregnancy and Child Rearing from Their Perspective
Black Teenage Mothers: Pregnancy and Child Rearing from Their Perspective. Constance Willard Williams. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1991. 208 pp. $24.95. This book describes the results of an ethnographic, interview study of 30 black teenage mothers in the Boston area. The author's primary goal was to understand the meaning of births to black adolescent mothers in the context of their cultural and personal circumstances. The book successfully …
Cognitive Correlates of Satisfaction for Mothers and Stepfathers in Stepfather Families
A Study of Perceptions of the Stepparent Role
This study was designed to test whether there is a lack of social consensus about how stepparents should and will act as parents, and whether individuals in society perceive stepparent roles as similar to or different from the roles of biological and adoptive parents. Two-hundred and forty introductory psychology students were randomly assigned to complete one of three versions (biological parent, adoptive parent, and stepparent) of the Family Ro…
Premarital Relationship Adjustment and its Relation to Religiosity and Sexual Involvement
The relations among relationship adjustment, sexual involvement, and religiosity were investigated among 249 college students involved in heterosexual dating relationships. Scores from the Gladding-Lewis-Adkins Religiosity Scale and the Heterosexual Behavior Inventory (assessing religiosity and sexual involvement in the relationship) were entered into a multiple regression analysis to determine their effect on relationship adjustment (measured by…
Stepparent Stress: A Cognitive Perspective
This paper reviews the literature on parenting stresses facing stepparents. After describing the unique stressors stepparents encounter and reviewing finding that suggest that they experience slightly lower levels of overall adjustment than do parents in intact families, the role cognitions play in causing stepparent stress is examine. A number of different types of cognitions, generated from societal, familial, and individual sources, affect the…
Post-Divorce Adjustment of Black and White Single Parents
This study addressed the post-divorce adjustment of black and white single parents. It improved upon previous studies by assessing the adjustment of nationally-representative samples of black and white divorced parents, by focusing exclusively on divorced single parents, and by assessing adjustment in several life domains. The National Survey of Families and Households was used, with 486 white divorced parents and 126 black divorced parents in th…
On the distinction between two tests as measures of the same construct and as interchangeable
Comments on the debate between E. R. Harcum (see record 1989-31713-001) and W. Branch (see record 1990-13759-001) regarding the assumption that 2 tests measure the same construct because they correlate moderately highly with each other. Although 2 highly correlated measures do assess the same underlying construct, they may not be interchangeable due to their respective psychometric properties
Perceived Adjustment of Parents and Children: Variations by Family Structure, Race, and Gender
The article presents a study examining family structure, race, and gender differences in parent and child adjustment to address the absence of empirical information about the experiences of African-American step-family members. Parental percept of child adjustment were investigated because studies of primarily white families have suggested that. children in stepfamilies may experience more distress. Consequently, given the pattern of generally sm…
Studying Interpersonal Interaction
This volume presents a comprehensive, critical examination of current research methods used to study human social behavior as it occurs in interpersonal settings such as families, acquaintanceships, friendships, and romantic partnerships. Multidisciplinary in approach, the book's chapters are written by leading figures in communication, social psychology, sociology, and family studies who explore the methodological choices a researcher must make …
The Adjustment of Adolescents in Stepfather and Stepmother Families
The article presents a study that assessed the relations between adolescent adjustment in stepfamilies, and both family context and process variables. The process variables assessed were those commonly identified as being related to child and adolescent outcomes. Because adolescent adjustment is likely to be multiply-determined, three layers of processes were considered: intrapersonal i.e., self-mastery; parent-child inter-personal--authoritative…
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