Ronald M Sabatelli
Biographic Data
| ID | 82436 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ronald M Sabatelli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ronald M |
| FAMILY NAME | Sabatelli |
| SIGNATURE | SABATELLI R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Connecticut |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 180 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Placing the Social Exchange Framework in an Ecological Context
In this article we extend the ecological–exchange framework as a way of understanding cultural, cohort, and socioeconomic variations in how marriage partnerships are structured and experienced. Based on the integration of ecological and contextual perspectives and social exchange theories, this framework highlights both micro‐ and macro‐level factors that interact to shape the trends and trajectories of marriage relationships over time. We use th…
Measurement Invariance of the Differentiation of Family System Scale for Koreans and Americans
The Differentiation in the Family System Scale (DIFS; Anderson & Sabatelli, 1992) is a popular scale used to assess emotional connectedness and separateness within the context of family-of-origin experiences. This current study contributes to the research on family patterns of interaction by assessing the measurement invariance of DIFS for Americans and Koreans. The results indicated that the factor structure and loadings of the DIFS were invaria…
Side-by-side: An evaluation of Connecticut's police and youth interaction model
This study evaluated a community-based intervention program designed to promote positive youth development and to create positive interactions between police and youth in a non-enforcement environment. A pre–post-design was used to compare the results of the program for participating youth and police officers, particularly changes in each group's attitudes toward the other. The results showed that participation in the program improved police offi…
Work-Home Conflict and Domestic Violence: A Test of a Conceptual Model
Exchange and Resource Theories
Special Reviewers
Deconstructing Differentiation: Self Regulation, Interdependent Relating, and Well-Being in Adulthood
Family-of-Origin Experiences and Adjustment in Married Couples
Within this article a model is tested that examines the relationship between married individuals' experiences in their family of origin and patterns of marital adjustment. Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling procedures, making the couple the unit of analysis. This allowed for an exploration of how one partner's family-of-origin experience and the other partner's family-of-origin experience uniquely influence each of the partner'…
Measurement of Financial, Functional, and Psychological Connections in Families: Conceptual Development and Empirical Use of the Multigenerational Interconnectedness Scale
This paper reports conceptual development and empirical use of the Multigenerational Interconnectedness Scale, designed to reflect financial, functional, and psychological connections between adolescents or young adults and their families. Initial data regarding psychometric properties are presented. Analysis of data gathered from a sample of 337 never-married individuals yielded a three-factor structure that corresponded to theoretically derived…
An Intergenerational Examination of Patterns of Individual and Family Adjustment
SUZANNE BARTLE-HARING The Ohio State University RONALD SABATELLI University of Connecticut* Using a multigenerational-systemic model of individual and family development, we propose a model connecting parents' experiences of family of origin, parents' marital adjustment, and parents' psychosocial adjustment to adolescents' experiences of their family of origin. A sample of middle-aged parents and their late-adolescent children were questioned abo…
Conceptual Development and Empirical Use of the Family Intrusiveness Scale
This article reports on the conceptual development and empirical use of the Family Intrusiveness Scale (FIS), an instrument designed to reflect levels of intrusiveness in the family system. The development of the FIS and initial data regarding its psychometric properties are presented. Furthermore, use of this instrument in published studies is reviewed as evidence of the scale's reliability and validity. Finally, consideration is given to the us…
Emotional Reactivity Toward Parents and Interpersonal Competence: Differences Across Gender and Type of Relationship
The Parental Comparison Level Index: A Measure for Assessing Parental Rewards and Costs Relative to Expectations
Rebecca Waldron-Hennessey, Ronald M. Sabatelli, The Parental Comparison Level Index: A Measure for Assessing Parental Rewards and Costs Relative to Expectations, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 59, No. 4 (Nov., 1997), pp. 824-833
Family System Dynamics, Gender, and Psychosocial Maturity in Late Adolescence
The tolerance for individuality, intimacy, and interpersonal differences within the family's relational system were assessed as indicators of family system differentiation. These indicators of differentiation within the parent/adolescent and marital relationships were examined, through adolescent reports, aspredictors ofpsychosocial maturity in a sample of late adolescents. The research also examined gender of adolescent and gender ofparent as in…
Survey Approaches to the Assessment of Family Functioning: Conceptual, Operational, and Analytical Issues
This article reviews several conceptual, operational, and analytical issues related to survey approaches to of family functioning. First, a multidimensional conceptualization of family functioning that is embedded within a family systems framework is presented. Second, operational issues pertaining to of family functioning when conceived of as a complex and multidimensional construct are discussed. Lastly, measurement strategies and analytical ap…
Measurement Issues in the Assessment of the Experiences of Parenthood
The widespread and dramatic changes in structural characteristics of contemporary American families have encouraged social scientists to rethink the family as a social form, debate characteristics and qualities of functional families, and work to dispel myths and monolithic view of contemporary life (e.g., Bernardes, 1993; Cheal, 1993; David, 1993). Yet, in spite of all attention given to complexity and diversity found within families, relatively…
Family Differentiation, Peer Differentiation, and Adolescent Adjustment in a Clinical Sample
This is a study of the relationships among family system dynamics, peer network characteristics and adolescent personal adjustment. Specific characteristics of both the family system and the peer network are thought to have a significant impact on the adolescent's ability to master certain developmental tasks and therefore contribute to the adolescent's ongoing growth and development. Apart from the separate influences of these factors, the study…
Family Variables: Conceptualization, Measurement, and Use
PART ONE: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES Capturing Family Variables - Anastasios C Marcos and Thomas W Draper Capturing the Complexity of Family Systems - Andrea Larsen and David H Olson Integrating Family Theory, Family Scores and Family Analysis The Logic of Measurement in Family Research - Donald C Ransom et al PART TWO: MEASUREMENT APPLICATIONS Types of Marital Interaction - Brent C Miller and David H Olson Using Cluster Analysis of the IMC Cluster Analys…
Family System Dynamics, the Individuation Process, and Psychosocial Development
Measures of family system patterns of interaction and the individuation process were examined as mediators of psychosocial development in a sample of college students. Included is an initial exploration into the construction and development of self-report, paper-and-pencil instruments designed to measure the two exceedingly complex constructs of differentiation and individuation. Indicators of family conflict, parental intrusiveness, and psycholo…
A Model of Parenting Style, Adolescent Individuation and Adolescent Self-Esteem: Preliminary Findings
A hierarchical model of adolescent personal adjustment is presented, which suggests that family system-level relationships affect individuation levels of off-spring, which in turn affect personal adjustment. This model was tested using perceived parenting style as the first tier variable, ani inidicator of individluation as the second tier variable, and self-esteem as an indicator of personal adjustment. Results gave limited support to the model …
Measurement Issues in Marital Research: A Review and Critique of Contemporary Survey Instruments
Sabin examines the self-report measures used to assess various constructs of concern to marital research with specific attention to selected indicators of marital satisfaction marital adjustment and marital quality. Indicators of marital intimacy and marital complaints are also reviewed. Attention is also directed to the measures of concepts linked more directly to marital stability including measures of commitment relationship alternatives and p…
Differentiation and Individuation as Mediators of Identity and Intimacy in Adolescence
The primary objective of this paper is to examine the interdependence of individual and family development as these relate to the coemergence of a mature sense of identity and the capacity for intimacy during adolescence. In focusing on these issues, the paper expands on the concepts of individuation and system differentiation thus placing adolescent development in the context of a life-long dialectic involving issues of family and individual sep…
A social relations analysis of nonverbal communication accuracy in married couples
This paper presents a reanalysis of a study (Sabatelli, Buck, & Drever, 1982) that related nonverbal communication accuracy in married couples to marital complaints, using the social relations model developed by Kenny and his colleagues The social relations model allows for the analysis of the communication process in a new and more complete way where, for the first time, the relative contributions of sender, receiver, and unique relationship eff…
Locus of Control, Locus of Control Differences, and Quality of Relationship in Married Dyads
This study represents a replication and extension of the work focusing on the relationship between spouses' locus of control expectancies and their level of marital complaints. In the present study, spouses' locus of control orientations were examined with reference to their own and their partners' marital complaints. It was predicted that internality would be positively correlated with one's own marital satisfaction and the satisfaction experien…
Exploring Marital Expectations
Marital comparison levels, i.e. the outcomes that a person realistically expects and feels are deserved from a relationship, are often assumed (in the social exchange framework) to be involved in the evaluation of marital outcomes. The present study examines factors influencing such expectations in a sample of 301 married individuals. Expectation levels positively co-vary with the importance attributed to them. In addition, relational commitment …
Differentiation and Individuation as Mediators of Identity and Intimacy in Adolescence
The primary objective of this paper is to examine the interdependence of individual and family development as these relate to the coemergence of a mature sense of identity and the capacity for intimacy during adolescence. In focusing on these issues, the paper expands on the concepts of individuation and system differentiation thus placing adolescent development in the context of a life-long dialectic involving issues of family and individual sep…
Relational Interdependence and Commitment in Marriage
This research was designed to examine, from a social exchange perspective, the interaction between several indicators of relational interdependence and relational commitment in married individuals. It was hypothesized that a high level of interdependence-as indicated by high levels of outcomes (or satisfaction) derived from a relationship, equity experienced within a relationship, and the presence of strong barriers to the dissolution of the rela…
The Marital Comparison Level Index: A Measure for Assessing Outcomes Relative to Expectations
This paper presents the rationalefor and initialfindings concerning the development of the Marital Comparison Level Index. The necessity for the development of a new method for assessing the perception of marital relationships is predicated on the multitude of criticisms aimed specifically at the dependent measures used in the marital adjustment-satisfaction research. The MCLI is based upon the interpersonal processes highlighted by social exchan…
Family System Dynamics, the Individuation Process, and Psychosocial Development
Measures of family system patterns of interaction and the individuation process were examined as mediators of psychosocial development in a sample of college students. Included is an initial exploration into the construction and development of self-report, paper-and-pencil instruments designed to measure the two exceedingly complex constructs of differentiation and individuation. Indicators of family conflict, parental intrusiveness, and psycholo…
Family-of-Origin Experiences and Adjustment in Married Couples
Within this article a model is tested that examines the relationship between married individuals' experiences in their family of origin and patterns of marital adjustment. Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling procedures, making the couple the unit of analysis. This allowed for an exploration of how one partner's family-of-origin experience and the other partner's family-of-origin experience uniquely influence each of the partner'…
Family Differentiation, Peer Differentiation, and Adolescent Adjustment in a Clinical Sample
This is a study of the relationships among family system dynamics, peer network characteristics and adolescent personal adjustment. Specific characteristics of both the family system and the peer network are thought to have a significant impact on the adolescent's ability to master certain developmental tasks and therefore contribute to the adolescent's ongoing growth and development. Apart from the separate influences of these factors, the study…
Survey Approaches to the Assessment of Family Functioning: Conceptual, Operational, and Analytical Issues
This article reviews several conceptual, operational, and analytical issues related to survey approaches to of family functioning. First, a multidimensional conceptualization of family functioning that is embedded within a family systems framework is presented. Second, operational issues pertaining to of family functioning when conceived of as a complex and multidimensional construct are discussed. Lastly, measurement strategies and analytical ap…
A Model of Parenting Style, Adolescent Individuation and Adolescent Self-Esteem: Preliminary Findings
A hierarchical model of adolescent personal adjustment is presented, which suggests that family system-level relationships affect individuation levels of off-spring, which in turn affect personal adjustment. This model was tested using perceived parenting style as the first tier variable, ani inidicator of individluation as the second tier variable, and self-esteem as an indicator of personal adjustment. Results gave limited support to the model …
Deconstructing Differentiation: Self Regulation, Interdependent Relating, and Well-Being in Adulthood
An Intergenerational Examination of Patterns of Individual and Family Adjustment
SUZANNE BARTLE-HARING The Ohio State University RONALD SABATELLI University of Connecticut* Using a multigenerational-systemic model of individual and family development, we propose a model connecting parents' experiences of family of origin, parents' marital adjustment, and parents' psychosocial adjustment to adolescents' experiences of their family of origin. A sample of middle-aged parents and their late-adolescent children were questioned abo…
Family System Dynamics, Gender, and Psychosocial Maturity in Late Adolescence
The tolerance for individuality, intimacy, and interpersonal differences within the family's relational system were assessed as indicators of family system differentiation. These indicators of differentiation within the parent/adolescent and marital relationships were examined, through adolescent reports, aspredictors ofpsychosocial maturity in a sample of late adolescents. The research also examined gender of adolescent and gender ofparent as in…
Measurement Issues in the Assessment of the Experiences of Parenthood
The widespread and dramatic changes in structural characteristics of contemporary American families have encouraged social scientists to rethink the family as a social form, debate characteristics and qualities of functional families, and work to dispel myths and monolithic view of contemporary life (e.g., Bernardes, 1993; Cheal, 1993; David, 1993). Yet, in spite of all attention given to complexity and diversity found within families, relatively…
Placing the Social Exchange Framework in an Ecological Context
In this article we extend the ecological–exchange framework as a way of understanding cultural, cohort, and socioeconomic variations in how marriage partnerships are structured and experienced. Based on the integration of ecological and contextual perspectives and social exchange theories, this framework highlights both micro‐ and macro‐level factors that interact to shape the trends and trajectories of marriage relationships over time. We use th…
Exploring Marital Expectations
Marital comparison levels, i.e. the outcomes that a person realistically expects and feels are deserved from a relationship, are often assumed (in the social exchange framework) to be involved in the evaluation of marital outcomes. The present study examines factors influencing such expectations in a sample of 301 married individuals. Expectation levels positively co-vary with the importance attributed to them. In addition, relational commitment …
Conceptual Development and Empirical Use of the Family Intrusiveness Scale
This article reports on the conceptual development and empirical use of the Family Intrusiveness Scale (FIS), an instrument designed to reflect levels of intrusiveness in the family system. The development of the FIS and initial data regarding its psychometric properties are presented. Furthermore, use of this instrument in published studies is reviewed as evidence of the scale's reliability and validity. Finally, consideration is given to the us…
Locus of control, interpersonal trust, and nonverbal communication accuracy
Nonverbal communication accuracy in married couples: Relationship with marital complaints
Nonverbal communication abilities were examined as mediators of martial complaints for a sample of 48 recently married couples. Based on social penetration theory, we predicted that couples cohabiting longer would be better at decoding their partners' nonverbal expressions than couples cohabiting a shorter time, that individuals married to accurate nonverbal communicators would evidence fewer martial complaints, and that individuals with fewer ma…
Side-by-side: An evaluation of Connecticut's police and youth interaction model
This study evaluated a community-based intervention program designed to promote positive youth development and to create positive interactions between police and youth in a non-enforcement environment. A pre–post-design was used to compare the results of the program for participating youth and police officers, particularly changes in each group's attitudes toward the other. The results showed that participation in the program improved police offi…
Work-Home Conflict and Domestic Violence: A Test of a Conceptual Model
Emotional Reactivity Toward Parents and Interpersonal Competence: Differences Across Gender and Type of Relationship
Nonverbal communication accuracy in married couples: Relationship with marital complaints
Nonverbal communication abilities were examined as mediators of martial complaints for a sample of 48 recently married couples. Based on social penetration theory, we predicted that couples cohabiting longer would be better at decoding their partners' nonverbal expressions than couples cohabiting a shorter time, that individuals married to accurate nonverbal communicators would evidence fewer martial complaints, and that individuals with fewer ma…
Cognitive style and relationship quality in married dyads
Recently, cognitive personality researchers have begun to explore the social and interpersonal relevance of cognitive individual difference variables. Embedded in these examinations, however, is a methodological issue that bears importantly on our understanding of the role of these cognitive orientations in social relations. Specifically, personality studies have typically employed experimentally created dyads which, by limiting the representativ…
Locus of control, interpersonal trust, and nonverbal communication accuracy
The Marital Comparison Level Index: A Measure for Assessing Outcomes Relative to Expectations
This paper presents the rationalefor and initialfindings concerning the development of the Marital Comparison Level Index. The necessity for the development of a new method for assessing the perception of marital relationships is predicated on the multitude of criticisms aimed specifically at the dependent measures used in the marital adjustment-satisfaction research. The MCLI is based upon the interpersonal processes highlighted by social exchan…
Relational Interdependence and Commitment in Marriage
This research was designed to examine, from a social exchange perspective, the interaction between several indicators of relational interdependence and relational commitment in married individuals. It was hypothesized that a high level of interdependence-as indicated by high levels of outcomes (or satisfaction) derived from a relationship, equity experienced within a relationship, and the presence of strong barriers to the dissolution of the rela…
A social relations analysis of nonverbal communication accuracy in married couples
This paper presents a reanalysis of a study (Sabatelli, Buck, & Drever, 1982) that related nonverbal communication accuracy in married couples to marital complaints, using the social relations model developed by Kenny and his colleagues The social relations model allows for the analysis of the communication process in a new and more complete way where, for the first time, the relative contributions of sender, receiver, and unique relationship eff…
Locus of Control, Locus of Control Differences, and Quality of Relationship in Married Dyads
This study represents a replication and extension of the work focusing on the relationship between spouses' locus of control expectancies and their level of marital complaints. In the present study, spouses' locus of control orientations were examined with reference to their own and their partners' marital complaints. It was predicted that internality would be positively correlated with one's own marital satisfaction and the satisfaction experien…
Exploring Marital Expectations
Marital comparison levels, i.e. the outcomes that a person realistically expects and feels are deserved from a relationship, are often assumed (in the social exchange framework) to be involved in the evaluation of marital outcomes. The present study examines factors influencing such expectations in a sample of 301 married individuals. Expectation levels positively co-vary with the importance attributed to them. In addition, relational commitment …
Measurement Issues in Marital Research: A Review and Critique of Contemporary Survey Instruments
Sabin examines the self-report measures used to assess various constructs of concern to marital research with specific attention to selected indicators of marital satisfaction marital adjustment and marital quality. Indicators of marital intimacy and marital complaints are also reviewed. Attention is also directed to the measures of concepts linked more directly to marital stability including measures of commitment relationship alternatives and p…
Differentiation and Individuation as Mediators of Identity and Intimacy in Adolescence
The primary objective of this paper is to examine the interdependence of individual and family development as these relate to the coemergence of a mature sense of identity and the capacity for intimacy during adolescence. In focusing on these issues, the paper expands on the concepts of individuation and system differentiation thus placing adolescent development in the context of a life-long dialectic involving issues of family and individual sep…
A Model of Parenting Style, Adolescent Individuation and Adolescent Self-Esteem: Preliminary Findings
A hierarchical model of adolescent personal adjustment is presented, which suggests that family system-level relationships affect individuation levels of off-spring, which in turn affect personal adjustment. This model was tested using perceived parenting style as the first tier variable, ani inidicator of individluation as the second tier variable, and self-esteem as an indicator of personal adjustment. Results gave limited support to the model …
Family System Dynamics, the Individuation Process, and Psychosocial Development
Measures of family system patterns of interaction and the individuation process were examined as mediators of psychosocial development in a sample of college students. Included is an initial exploration into the construction and development of self-report, paper-and-pencil instruments designed to measure the two exceedingly complex constructs of differentiation and individuation. Indicators of family conflict, parental intrusiveness, and psycholo…
Family Variables: Conceptualization, Measurement, and Use
PART ONE: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES Capturing Family Variables - Anastasios C Marcos and Thomas W Draper Capturing the Complexity of Family Systems - Andrea Larsen and David H Olson Integrating Family Theory, Family Scores and Family Analysis The Logic of Measurement in Family Research - Donald C Ransom et al PART TWO: MEASUREMENT APPLICATIONS Types of Marital Interaction - Brent C Miller and David H Olson Using Cluster Analysis of the IMC Cluster Analys…
Family Differentiation, Peer Differentiation, and Adolescent Adjustment in a Clinical Sample
This is a study of the relationships among family system dynamics, peer network characteristics and adolescent personal adjustment. Specific characteristics of both the family system and the peer network are thought to have a significant impact on the adolescent's ability to master certain developmental tasks and therefore contribute to the adolescent's ongoing growth and development. Apart from the separate influences of these factors, the study…
Survey Approaches to the Assessment of Family Functioning: Conceptual, Operational, and Analytical Issues
This article reviews several conceptual, operational, and analytical issues related to survey approaches to of family functioning. First, a multidimensional conceptualization of family functioning that is embedded within a family systems framework is presented. Second, operational issues pertaining to of family functioning when conceived of as a complex and multidimensional construct are discussed. Lastly, measurement strategies and analytical ap…
Measurement Issues in the Assessment of the Experiences of Parenthood
The widespread and dramatic changes in structural characteristics of contemporary American families have encouraged social scientists to rethink the family as a social form, debate characteristics and qualities of functional families, and work to dispel myths and monolithic view of contemporary life (e.g., Bernardes, 1993; Cheal, 1993; David, 1993). Yet, in spite of all attention given to complexity and diversity found within families, relatively…
Family System Dynamics, Gender, and Psychosocial Maturity in Late Adolescence
The tolerance for individuality, intimacy, and interpersonal differences within the family's relational system were assessed as indicators of family system differentiation. These indicators of differentiation within the parent/adolescent and marital relationships were examined, through adolescent reports, aspredictors ofpsychosocial maturity in a sample of late adolescents. The research also examined gender of adolescent and gender ofparent as in…
Emotional Reactivity Toward Parents and Interpersonal Competence: Differences Across Gender and Type of Relationship
The Parental Comparison Level Index: A Measure for Assessing Parental Rewards and Costs Relative to Expectations
Rebecca Waldron-Hennessey, Ronald M. Sabatelli, The Parental Comparison Level Index: A Measure for Assessing Parental Rewards and Costs Relative to Expectations, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 59, No. 4 (Nov., 1997), pp. 824-833
An Intergenerational Examination of Patterns of Individual and Family Adjustment
SUZANNE BARTLE-HARING The Ohio State University RONALD SABATELLI University of Connecticut* Using a multigenerational-systemic model of individual and family development, we propose a model connecting parents' experiences of family of origin, parents' marital adjustment, and parents' psychosocial adjustment to adolescents' experiences of their family of origin. A sample of middle-aged parents and their late-adolescent children were questioned abo…
Conceptual Development and Empirical Use of the Family Intrusiveness Scale
This article reports on the conceptual development and empirical use of the Family Intrusiveness Scale (FIS), an instrument designed to reflect levels of intrusiveness in the family system. The development of the FIS and initial data regarding its psychometric properties are presented. Furthermore, use of this instrument in published studies is reviewed as evidence of the scale's reliability and validity. Finally, consideration is given to the us…
Measurement of Financial, Functional, and Psychological Connections in Families: Conceptual Development and Empirical Use of the Multigenerational Interconnectedness Scale
This paper reports conceptual development and empirical use of the Multigenerational Interconnectedness Scale, designed to reflect financial, functional, and psychological connections between adolescents or young adults and their families. Initial data regarding psychometric properties are presented. Analysis of data gathered from a sample of 337 never-married individuals yielded a three-factor structure that corresponded to theoretically derived…
Deconstructing Differentiation: Self Regulation, Interdependent Relating, and Well-Being in Adulthood
Family-of-Origin Experiences and Adjustment in Married Couples
Within this article a model is tested that examines the relationship between married individuals' experiences in their family of origin and patterns of marital adjustment. Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling procedures, making the couple the unit of analysis. This allowed for an exploration of how one partner's family-of-origin experience and the other partner's family-of-origin experience uniquely influence each of the partner'…
Special Reviewers
Psychology (29 works) · Social Psychology (25 works) · Developmental psychology (20 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (19 works) · Social Psychology (19 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (12 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Interpersonal communication (7 works)