Joe F Pittman
Biographic Data
| ID | 82286 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joe F Pittman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joe F |
| FAMILY NAME | Pittman |
| SIGNATURE | PITTMAN J F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Auburn University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 202 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Identity Styles Moderate the Role of Insecure Attachment Dimensions on Internalizing Behaviors
The present study examined how identity styles and romantic attachment dimensions predict internalizing problems among 456 college students. Results indicated that the diffuse-avoidant identity style was positively associated with depressive symptoms, whereas the normative identity style was negatively related to generalized anxiety. Anxious attachment was positively related to both internalizing problems, and avoidant attachment was related posi…
Connections Among Identity, Attachment, and Psychological Dating Aggression During Adolescence
The collective influence of identity styles and romantic attachment insecurity on psychological dating aggression was examined for 1,975 adolescents living in a southern state in the United States. Informational identity style related negatively to psychological dating aggression, but anxious romantic attachment related positively to this behavior. Diffuse-avoidant identity style and using psychological dating aggression were associated positivel…
Erikson and the Relational Context of Identity: Strengthening Connections With Attachment Theory
In our contribution to this special issue devoted to reflections on Erik Erikson’s theorizing in Identity Youth and Crisis, 50 years later, we present the value of integrating attachment theory with Erikson’s conceptualization of identity development within a dynamic relational context. We attend closely to how internal working models of self and other link with identity development across time and relationships. We describe how attachment securi…
Young Adolescents' Shared Leisure Activities With Close Friends and Dating Partners: Associations with Supportive Communication and Relationship Satisfaction
Shared leisure activities with close friends and dating partners offer early adolescents a context to develop satisfying relationships. Participants in the current study were 1,696 early adolescents, aged 11–15. Using the Core and Balance Model of Family Leisure Functioning as the conceptual framework, results indicated that supportive communication within close peer relationships matter for young adolescents' satisfaction within these relationsh…
Engagement in Risky Sexual Behavior: Adolescents’ Perceptions of Self and the Parent–Child Relationship Matter
The current study examined associations among parenting practices, adolescents' self-esteem and dating identity exploration, and adolescents' sexual behaviors. Participants were 680 African American and European American sexually experienced adolescents attending public high schools in the southeast. Results indicated that risky sexual behavior was associated positively with parental psychological control, and negatively with self-esteem and dati…
Attachment Orientations: A Boon to Family Theory and Research
The Role of Identity Styles and Academic Possible Selves on Academic Outcomes for High School Students
The authors examined linkages among identity styles, academic possible selves, and grades for 1,137 public high school students across a southern state in the United States. The measurement model revealed a positive association for the informational style and a negative association for the diffuse style with academic possible selves. There were positive associations for the informational style, normative style, and academic possible selves with g…
Attachment, Identity, and Intimacy: Parallels Between Bowlby's and Erikson's Paradigms
The theories of John Bowlby and Erik Erikson reveal parallels that, together, offer opportunities to examine attachment-linked working models (secure base representations) as contexts of identity formation. Although the theories are grounded in fundamentally different assumptions, each offers concepts that can enrich the application of the other. One's attachment history serves as a foundation for identity formation. We argue that identity format…
Associations between dimensions of security in romantic relationships and interpersonal competence among dating and non-dating high school adolescents
The current study investigated the association between dimensions of security in romantic relationships, anxiety and avoidance, and general interpersonal competence among two groups of high school-aged adolescents: one currently in a dating relationship (daters) and one not currently involved (non-daters). Our findings show that daters were less anxious, less avoidant, and more competent than non-daters. A moderate negative association was found …
Does Family Structure Matter? A Domain-Specific Examination of Identity Exploration and Commitment
This exploratory study examines identity exploration and commitment in different domains and how family structure (original/alternative), gender, and age affect these processes in a convenience sample of 388 college students. Results reveal that participants from alternative family structures explore more in the political and gender role domains than do participants from original families. Furthermore, women explore more in the occupational and f…
Identity as a Moderator of Intervention-Related Change: Identity Style and Adolescents' Responses to Relationships Education
We propose that interventions targeting youth should consider the effects of identity formation on outcomes. In this study, data from 935 high school students address the potential moderating effects of identity style (high vs. low informational, normative, diffuse orientations) on intervention-related change in faulty relationship beliefs, future orientation, perceived interpersonal communication skills, salience of future marital and parental r…
The Prevalence of Marital Transitions in Military Families
Department of Defense (DoD) surveys were examined to develop a demographic profile of military families affected by divorce and remarriage. It appears that a substantial portion of military personnel have experienced divorce, are in remarriages, and have nonresidential children, particularly given the young average age of military personnel. Compared to the U.S. population, service members marry, divorce, and remarry earlier. Divorced and remarri…
Sex of Spouse Abuse Offender and Directionality of Abuse as Predictors of Personal Distress, Interpersonal Functioning, and Perceptions of Family Climate
Identity Processes in Poor Adolescents: Exploring the Linkages Between Economic Disadvantage and the Primary Task of Adolescence
Despite an abundance of literature on the topic of adolescent identity formation, little is known about the relationship between socioeconomic status and identity processes, particularly potential effects of poverty on identity formation. Three correlates of poverty-derogatory self-relevant information (in the form of social stigma, marginalization, and disparate treatment), limitations in opportunity structure, and excessive stress-are hypothesi…
Stress and Performance Standards: A Dynamic Approach to Time Spent in Housework
Daily logs collected over a 10-week period from a small, nonrepresentative sample of young, childless married couples were examined. Housework was conceptualized as a daily decision predicated upon personal standards, social rhythms, and stress variables that shape the perception of need for housework. Findings indicate that home-based stress, stress from outside the home, and standards are independent, additive predictors of housework time. In a…
Satisfaction With Performance of Housework: The Roles of Time Spent, Quality Assessment, and Stress
Where previous research on satisfaction with housework has examined satisfaction with relative allocations, this study examined spouses' satisfaction with their own performance. The authors found that satisfaction was a function of time spent, quality of outcomes, stress originating both at home and away, and approval by spouses for performance. Time spent and quality of outcomes were related in a complex fashion to satisfaction with own performa…
Adolescent Prosocial Values and Self-Efficacy in Relation to Delinquency, Risky Sexual Behavior, and Drug Use
The present study examined relations of prosocial values and three measures of self-efficacy as predictors of delinquency, risky sex, and drug use in a sample of 2,146 racially diverse adolescents. It also explored moderating effects on the relations between self-efficacy and values on the three problem behaviors. Adolescents with strong prosocial values and self-efficacy reported fewer problem behaviors. Implications for program development and …
Revisiting the Identity Control Theory Approach: A Rejoinder
Adams (1997), Berzonksy (1997), and Grotevant (1997) provided disceming comnentary on the strengths of using a control theory approach to guide research on identity development. They highlighted critical issues and provided suggestions for expanding the identity control theory model. Our response to these comments focuses on the overarching meta-model; the origination and nature of identity standards; thefit of the control theory model with exist…
Toward a Microprocess Perspective on Adolescent Identity Development: An Identity Control Theory Approach
An abundance of research has been conducted on identityformation during adolescence, however, very little is bwwn about the processes that actually drive identity development. Furthermore, limited attention has been paid to the active influence of relationships with parents and peers on identity. Recentl, control theory has-been recognized as a useful framewor*from which to examine the microprocesses involved in identityformation. The purpose of …
Stress as a Driver of the Allocation of Housework
This study examines the allocation of housework dynamically. Over 10 weeks, a small sample of young married couples used daily logs to report housework time in 6 tasks and the levels of stress they experienced at home and in other role settings. Stress was hypothesized to drive time allocations by spilling over from one setting to another or by crossing over from one spouse to the other. Results supported the hypothesis. For both spouses, less ho…
The Effects of Work History and Timing of Marriage on the Division of Household Labor: A Life-Course Perspective
Joe F. Pittman, David Blanchard, The Effects of Work History and Timing of Marriage on the Division of Household Labor: A Life-Course Perspective, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 58, No. 1 (Feb., 1996), pp. 78-90
Adolescents on the Move: Adjustment to Family Relocation
Three forms of post-relocation adjustment: (a) personal, (b) external, and (c) family, are predicted in a sample of 882 highly mobile Air Force adolescents using Hill's ABC-X crisis model, which focuses on objective aspects of a stressor, coping resources, and perceptions of the stressful situation. The three forms of adjustment were interrelated. Perceptions of the stressful situation were most important to external and personal adjustment, alth…
Predicting Parenting Difficulty
Path models on random samples of fathers (N = 159) and mothers (N = 275) in Utah examine direct and indirect relations between parenting difficulty and variables reflecting family stressors, social and personal resources, and background characteristics. Parenting difficulty appears to be significantly affected by the stressful characteristics of the parenting environment. Specifically, for both mothers and fathers, the inconvenience of parenting …
Quality of Family Life, Social Support, and Stress
Predictors of Spousal Support for the Work Commitments of Husbands
Toward a Microprocess Perspective on Adolescent Identity Development: An Identity Control Theory Approach
An abundance of research has been conducted on identityformation during adolescence, however, very little is bwwn about the processes that actually drive identity development. Furthermore, limited attention has been paid to the active influence of relationships with parents and peers on identity. Recentl, control theory has-been recognized as a useful framewor*from which to examine the microprocesses involved in identityformation. The purpose of …
The Effects of Work History and Timing of Marriage on the Division of Household Labor: A Life-Course Perspective
Joe F. Pittman, David Blanchard, The Effects of Work History and Timing of Marriage on the Division of Household Labor: A Life-Course Perspective, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 58, No. 1 (Feb., 1996), pp. 78-90
Attachment, Identity, and Intimacy: Parallels Between Bowlby's and Erikson's Paradigms
The theories of John Bowlby and Erik Erikson reveal parallels that, together, offer opportunities to examine attachment-linked working models (secure base representations) as contexts of identity formation. Although the theories are grounded in fundamentally different assumptions, each offers concepts that can enrich the application of the other. One's attachment history serves as a foundation for identity formation. We argue that identity format…
Stress as a Driver of the Allocation of Housework
This study examines the allocation of housework dynamically. Over 10 weeks, a small sample of young married couples used daily logs to report housework time in 6 tasks and the levels of stress they experienced at home and in other role settings. Stress was hypothesized to drive time allocations by spilling over from one setting to another or by crossing over from one spouse to the other. Results supported the hypothesis. For both spouses, less ho…
Family Contributions to Work Commitment
This study is designed to test an empirical model that hypothesizes linkages between organizational support for family and job commitments of personnel. The data were collected from probability samples of military personnel and analyzed by means of LISREL. The results indicate that the job commitment of these personnel is significantly related to organizational support for families and to the support provided by the immediate family
Adolescent Prosocial Values and Self-Efficacy in Relation to Delinquency, Risky Sexual Behavior, and Drug Use
The present study examined relations of prosocial values and three measures of self-efficacy as predictors of delinquency, risky sex, and drug use in a sample of 2,146 racially diverse adolescents. It also explored moderating effects on the relations between self-efficacy and values on the three problem behaviors. Adolescents with strong prosocial values and self-efficacy reported fewer problem behaviors. Implications for program development and …
Engagement in Risky Sexual Behavior: Adolescents’ Perceptions of Self and the Parent–Child Relationship Matter
The current study examined associations among parenting practices, adolescents' self-esteem and dating identity exploration, and adolescents' sexual behaviors. Participants were 680 African American and European American sexually experienced adolescents attending public high schools in the southeast. Results indicated that risky sexual behavior was associated positively with parental psychological control, and negatively with self-esteem and dati…
Identity Processes in Poor Adolescents: Exploring the Linkages Between Economic Disadvantage and the Primary Task of Adolescence
Despite an abundance of literature on the topic of adolescent identity formation, little is known about the relationship between socioeconomic status and identity processes, particularly potential effects of poverty on identity formation. Three correlates of poverty-derogatory self-relevant information (in the form of social stigma, marginalization, and disparate treatment), limitations in opportunity structure, and excessive stress-are hypothesi…
Quality of Family Life, Social Support, and Stress
Adolescents on the Move: Adjustment to Family Relocation
Three forms of post-relocation adjustment: (a) personal, (b) external, and (c) family, are predicted in a sample of 882 highly mobile Air Force adolescents using Hill's ABC-X crisis model, which focuses on objective aspects of a stressor, coping resources, and perceptions of the stressful situation. The three forms of adjustment were interrelated. Perceptions of the stressful situation were most important to external and personal adjustment, alth…
Satisfaction With Performance of Housework: The Roles of Time Spent, Quality Assessment, and Stress
Where previous research on satisfaction with housework has examined satisfaction with relative allocations, this study examined spouses' satisfaction with their own performance. The authors found that satisfaction was a function of time spent, quality of outcomes, stress originating both at home and away, and approval by spouses for performance. Time spent and quality of outcomes were related in a complex fashion to satisfaction with own performa…
Does Family Structure Matter? A Domain-Specific Examination of Identity Exploration and Commitment
This exploratory study examines identity exploration and commitment in different domains and how family structure (original/alternative), gender, and age affect these processes in a convenience sample of 388 college students. Results reveal that participants from alternative family structures explore more in the political and gender role domains than do participants from original families. Furthermore, women explore more in the occupational and f…
Identity as a Moderator of Intervention-Related Change: Identity Style and Adolescents' Responses to Relationships Education
We propose that interventions targeting youth should consider the effects of identity formation on outcomes. In this study, data from 935 high school students address the potential moderating effects of identity style (high vs. low informational, normative, diffuse orientations) on intervention-related change in faulty relationship beliefs, future orientation, perceived interpersonal communication skills, salience of future marital and parental r…
Stress and Performance Standards: A Dynamic Approach to Time Spent in Housework
Daily logs collected over a 10-week period from a small, nonrepresentative sample of young, childless married couples were examined. Housework was conceptualized as a daily decision predicated upon personal standards, social rhythms, and stress variables that shape the perception of need for housework. Findings indicate that home-based stress, stress from outside the home, and standards are independent, additive predictors of housework time. In a…
Revisiting the Identity Control Theory Approach: A Rejoinder
Adams (1997), Berzonksy (1997), and Grotevant (1997) provided disceming comnentary on the strengths of using a control theory approach to guide research on identity development. They highlighted critical issues and provided suggestions for expanding the identity control theory model. Our response to these comments focuses on the overarching meta-model; the origination and nature of identity standards; thefit of the control theory model with exist…
Predictors of Spousal Support for the Work Commitments of Husbands
Associations between dimensions of security in romantic relationships and interpersonal competence among dating and non-dating high school adolescents
The current study investigated the association between dimensions of security in romantic relationships, anxiety and avoidance, and general interpersonal competence among two groups of high school-aged adolescents: one currently in a dating relationship (daters) and one not currently involved (non-daters). Our findings show that daters were less anxious, less avoidant, and more competent than non-daters. A moderate negative association was found …
Marital Cohesion: A Path Model
Marital cohesion is conceptualized as a component of marital adjustment. Seven variables previously related to adjustment (i.e., sex, self-esteem, religiosity, spousal hostility, extrafamilial involvements, self-disclosure anxiety, and comparison level for the marriage) are entered into a path model to predict cohesion. Over 36% of the variance in cohesion is explained by the model, and four of the seven hypothesized direct effects are supported …
Young Adolescents' Shared Leisure Activities With Close Friends and Dating Partners: Associations with Supportive Communication and Relationship Satisfaction
Shared leisure activities with close friends and dating partners offer early adolescents a context to develop satisfying relationships. Participants in the current study were 1,696 early adolescents, aged 11–15. Using the Core and Balance Model of Family Leisure Functioning as the conceptual framework, results indicated that supportive communication within close peer relationships matter for young adolescents' satisfaction within these relationsh…
Predicting Parenting Difficulty
Path models on random samples of fathers (N = 159) and mothers (N = 275) in Utah examine direct and indirect relations between parenting difficulty and variables reflecting family stressors, social and personal resources, and background characteristics. Parenting difficulty appears to be significantly affected by the stressful characteristics of the parenting environment. Specifically, for both mothers and fathers, the inconvenience of parenting …
The father role: An update
Marital Cohesion: A Path Model
Marital cohesion is conceptualized as a component of marital adjustment. Seven variables previously related to adjustment (i.e., sex, self-esteem, religiosity, spousal hostility, extrafamilial involvements, self-disclosure anxiety, and comparison level for the marriage) are entered into a path model to predict cohesion. Over 36% of the variance in cohesion is explained by the model, and four of the seven hypothesized direct effects are supported …
Development of a Quantitative Measure of a Family from Self-Reports of Family Members
Researchers have known for decades that the study of individuals is not the same as the study of families. However, combining self-report information from three or more family members to form a score that represents a family has presented conceptual and statistical problems. The purpose of this article is to present a strategy for deriving a measure of a family property that (1) is originally obtained from individuals, (2) is different from the s…
Family Contributions to Work Commitment
This study is designed to test an empirical model that hypothesizes linkages between organizational support for family and job commitments of personnel. The data were collected from probability samples of military personnel and analyzed by means of LISREL. The results indicate that the job commitment of these personnel is significantly related to organizational support for families and to the support provided by the immediate family
Quality of Family Life, Social Support, and Stress
Predictors of Spousal Support for the Work Commitments of Husbands
Predicting Parenting Difficulty
Path models on random samples of fathers (N = 159) and mothers (N = 275) in Utah examine direct and indirect relations between parenting difficulty and variables reflecting family stressors, social and personal resources, and background characteristics. Parenting difficulty appears to be significantly affected by the stressful characteristics of the parenting environment. Specifically, for both mothers and fathers, the inconvenience of parenting …
Adolescents on the Move: Adjustment to Family Relocation
Three forms of post-relocation adjustment: (a) personal, (b) external, and (c) family, are predicted in a sample of 882 highly mobile Air Force adolescents using Hill's ABC-X crisis model, which focuses on objective aspects of a stressor, coping resources, and perceptions of the stressful situation. The three forms of adjustment were interrelated. Perceptions of the stressful situation were most important to external and personal adjustment, alth…
Stress as a Driver of the Allocation of Housework
This study examines the allocation of housework dynamically. Over 10 weeks, a small sample of young married couples used daily logs to report housework time in 6 tasks and the levels of stress they experienced at home and in other role settings. Stress was hypothesized to drive time allocations by spilling over from one setting to another or by crossing over from one spouse to the other. Results supported the hypothesis. For both spouses, less ho…
The Effects of Work History and Timing of Marriage on the Division of Household Labor: A Life-Course Perspective
Joe F. Pittman, David Blanchard, The Effects of Work History and Timing of Marriage on the Division of Household Labor: A Life-Course Perspective, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 58, No. 1 (Feb., 1996), pp. 78-90
Revisiting the Identity Control Theory Approach: A Rejoinder
Adams (1997), Berzonksy (1997), and Grotevant (1997) provided disceming comnentary on the strengths of using a control theory approach to guide research on identity development. They highlighted critical issues and provided suggestions for expanding the identity control theory model. Our response to these comments focuses on the overarching meta-model; the origination and nature of identity standards; thefit of the control theory model with exist…
Toward a Microprocess Perspective on Adolescent Identity Development: An Identity Control Theory Approach
An abundance of research has been conducted on identityformation during adolescence, however, very little is bwwn about the processes that actually drive identity development. Furthermore, limited attention has been paid to the active influence of relationships with parents and peers on identity. Recentl, control theory has-been recognized as a useful framewor*from which to examine the microprocesses involved in identityformation. The purpose of …
Satisfaction With Performance of Housework: The Roles of Time Spent, Quality Assessment, and Stress
Where previous research on satisfaction with housework has examined satisfaction with relative allocations, this study examined spouses' satisfaction with their own performance. The authors found that satisfaction was a function of time spent, quality of outcomes, stress originating both at home and away, and approval by spouses for performance. Time spent and quality of outcomes were related in a complex fashion to satisfaction with own performa…
Adolescent Prosocial Values and Self-Efficacy in Relation to Delinquency, Risky Sexual Behavior, and Drug Use
The present study examined relations of prosocial values and three measures of self-efficacy as predictors of delinquency, risky sex, and drug use in a sample of 2,146 racially diverse adolescents. It also explored moderating effects on the relations between self-efficacy and values on the three problem behaviors. Adolescents with strong prosocial values and self-efficacy reported fewer problem behaviors. Implications for program development and …
Stress and Performance Standards: A Dynamic Approach to Time Spent in Housework
Daily logs collected over a 10-week period from a small, nonrepresentative sample of young, childless married couples were examined. Housework was conceptualized as a daily decision predicated upon personal standards, social rhythms, and stress variables that shape the perception of need for housework. Findings indicate that home-based stress, stress from outside the home, and standards are independent, additive predictors of housework time. In a…
Identity Processes in Poor Adolescents: Exploring the Linkages Between Economic Disadvantage and the Primary Task of Adolescence
Despite an abundance of literature on the topic of adolescent identity formation, little is known about the relationship between socioeconomic status and identity processes, particularly potential effects of poverty on identity formation. Three correlates of poverty-derogatory self-relevant information (in the form of social stigma, marginalization, and disparate treatment), limitations in opportunity structure, and excessive stress-are hypothesi…
Sex of Spouse Abuse Offender and Directionality of Abuse as Predictors of Personal Distress, Interpersonal Functioning, and Perceptions of Family Climate
The Prevalence of Marital Transitions in Military Families
Department of Defense (DoD) surveys were examined to develop a demographic profile of military families affected by divorce and remarriage. It appears that a substantial portion of military personnel have experienced divorce, are in remarriages, and have nonresidential children, particularly given the young average age of military personnel. Compared to the U.S. population, service members marry, divorce, and remarry earlier. Divorced and remarri…
Identity as a Moderator of Intervention-Related Change: Identity Style and Adolescents' Responses to Relationships Education
We propose that interventions targeting youth should consider the effects of identity formation on outcomes. In this study, data from 935 high school students address the potential moderating effects of identity style (high vs. low informational, normative, diffuse orientations) on intervention-related change in faulty relationship beliefs, future orientation, perceived interpersonal communication skills, salience of future marital and parental r…
Does Family Structure Matter? A Domain-Specific Examination of Identity Exploration and Commitment
This exploratory study examines identity exploration and commitment in different domains and how family structure (original/alternative), gender, and age affect these processes in a convenience sample of 388 college students. Results reveal that participants from alternative family structures explore more in the political and gender role domains than do participants from original families. Furthermore, women explore more in the occupational and f…
The Role of Identity Styles and Academic Possible Selves on Academic Outcomes for High School Students
The authors examined linkages among identity styles, academic possible selves, and grades for 1,137 public high school students across a southern state in the United States. The measurement model revealed a positive association for the informational style and a negative association for the diffuse style with academic possible selves. There were positive associations for the informational style, normative style, and academic possible selves with g…
Attachment, Identity, and Intimacy: Parallels Between Bowlby's and Erikson's Paradigms
The theories of John Bowlby and Erik Erikson reveal parallels that, together, offer opportunities to examine attachment-linked working models (secure base representations) as contexts of identity formation. Although the theories are grounded in fundamentally different assumptions, each offers concepts that can enrich the application of the other. One's attachment history serves as a foundation for identity formation. We argue that identity format…
Associations between dimensions of security in romantic relationships and interpersonal competence among dating and non-dating high school adolescents
The current study investigated the association between dimensions of security in romantic relationships, anxiety and avoidance, and general interpersonal competence among two groups of high school-aged adolescents: one currently in a dating relationship (daters) and one not currently involved (non-daters). Our findings show that daters were less anxious, less avoidant, and more competent than non-daters. A moderate negative association was found …
Attachment Orientations: A Boon to Family Theory and Research
Young Adolescents' Shared Leisure Activities With Close Friends and Dating Partners: Associations with Supportive Communication and Relationship Satisfaction
Shared leisure activities with close friends and dating partners offer early adolescents a context to develop satisfying relationships. Participants in the current study were 1,696 early adolescents, aged 11–15. Using the Core and Balance Model of Family Leisure Functioning as the conceptual framework, results indicated that supportive communication within close peer relationships matter for young adolescents' satisfaction within these relationsh…
Psychology (26 works) · Social Psychology (24 works) · Developmental psychology (19 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (14 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Identity, Memory, and Therapy (9 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works)