Stephen M Gavazzi
Biographic Data
| ID | 85388 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen M Gavazzi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen M |
| FAMILY NAME | Gavazzi |
| SIGNATURE | GAVAZZI S M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7416-9779 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 89 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Family science, land‐grant universities, and the daunting legacy of the land‐grab institution
This paper wrestles with the nexus of settler colonialism, the expropriation of Indigenous lands to establish the United States land‐grant system, and the field of Family Science. Family Science programs are embedded within the power structures of the universities to which they belong; certain characteristics of these academic units—especially their emphasis on engagement and professional credentialing—theoretically could produce an idiosyncratic…
Addressing campus–community relationships using the three corners marriage model
Campus–community partnerships are essential to the field of family science. Like many other academic units in the applied social sciences, family science departments connect with communities to train students and engage in outreach, fulfilling the mission of many institutions, particularly land‐grant universities. Establishing, nurturing, maintaining, monitoring, and improving these partnerships benefits academia, the scholarly institution in que…
Emerging Ideas: The near invisibility of Native Americans and their families within the flagship journals of family science
College Student Persistence: A Focus on Relationships With Parents
The purpose of this study was to investigate persistence to degree in a nationally representative sample of college students. The sample included first-generation and/or underrepresented minority students who had ever been enrolled in a 4-year degree program, and specifically focused on relationships with parents to examine if relationship quality had any impact on persistence to degree using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) 1997 …
Reckoning with the Original Sin of Land-Grant Universities: Remaining Land-Grant Fierce While Insisting on Contrition and Repentance
Reckoning with the Original Sin of Land-Grant Universities:Remaining Land-Grant Fierce While Insisting on Contrition and Repentance Stephen M. Gavazzi (bio) when e. gordon gee and i wrote Land-Grant Universities for the Future: Higher Education for the Public Good (2018), we were determined to explore the strengths and weaknesses of land-grant universities while simultaneously examining the changing threats they faced as twenty-first-century inst…
Family Systems Thinking as a Guide for Theory Integration: Conceptual Overlaps of Differentiation, Attachment, Parenting Style, and Identity Development in Families With Adolescents
There is both the necessity and the capacity for unification across the discipline of family science. This article offers another step toward a comprehensive, integrated body of theory and research shared across our discipline. Specifically, we address how family systems thinking has been reflected in attachment, parenting, and adolescent identity literature, and we present bidimensional models and integrated spectrums emphasizing how levels of d…
Mental Health and Disrupted Family Processes in the Lives of Court-Involved African American and Caucasian Youth Being Raised by Grandparents
Using data generated from the Global Risk Assessment Device, mental health and disrupted family processes were examined in a sample of 166 court-involved youth being raised by grandparents. Race and gender mean differences were found with regard to both mental health symptoms and disrupted family processes. Specifically, Caucasian male adolescents reported higher mental health symptoms and disrupted family processes than African American males. A…
Juvenile Delinquency and Teenage Pregnancy: A Comparison of Ecological Risk Profiles Among Midwestern White and Black Female Juvenile Offenders
The authors examined ecological risk factors associated with teen pregnancy with a sample of 1,190 court-involved female juvenile offenders between 11 and 18 years of age. Data were obtained from five Midwestern juvenile county courts using a recently developed youth risk assessment instrument called the global risk assessment device (GRAD). In line with past research on teen pregnancy, the authors found that young African American female offende…
Measuring Family Caregiver Perceptions of Support in Caring for Children and Youth With Mental Health Concerns
This correlational study assessed how families of children with mental illness perceived the levels of support they received from informal and formal resource providers and the associations between perceived support and child outcomes. Adult caregivers ( N = 904) of youth receiving public mental health care services were administered the Family Caregiver Perceptions of Support Scale developed by the authors to assess family caregiver perceptions …
A qualitative examination of a state-wide initiative to empower families containing children and adolescents with behavioral health care needs
Compelling Family Processes
This article introduces the idea of family process research and asserts that the study of family processes is an indispensable component of any effort to conceptualize and measure family life. Within this article the family process approach is defined through the use of several domains that categorize core constructs. Further, several key assumptions are identified that form the foundation this family process approach. A related objective of this…
The Impact of Gender and Family Processes on Mental Health and Substance Use Issues in a Sample of Court-Involved Female and Male Adolescents
Combining Paper-and-Pencil Questionnaires and Projective Techniques to Measure Family Distance Regulation and Interpersonal Relatedness: An Incremental Validation Study
This paper explores incremental and convergent validity through the combined use of a self-report paper-pencil instrument (known as the Family Intrusiveness Scale) and the Rorschach projective method. Both methodologies were employed to assess family processes vis-à-vis distance regulation and interpersonal relatedness. Evidence supporting the use of this mixed-method strategy was generated in the significant associations found between family int…
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Advances in Measurement of Global Risk Indicators in Lives of Court-Involved Youth: Brief Evidence for Concurrent Validity
The present study reports data on the concurrent validity for the Global Risk Assessment Device, a measure of global risk indicators for a sample of 37 families of adolescents who participated in a family-based program designed to divert youth out of the justice system. Significant correlations among three domains of risk (family/parenting, substance use, and personality/behavior problems) and other measures generated preliminary evidence for con…
Brief Report on Predictive Validity Evidence of Global Risk Indicators in the Lives of Court-Involved Youth
Previous work has reported the psychometric properties and evidence for concurrent validity of a battery of items measuring global risk indicators in the lives of court-involved adolescents. The present study reports additional data on the predictive validity of this battery in a sample of 224 families of adolescents who were assessed by intake workers in a juvenile court and subsequently referred for services. Analysis yielded significant differ…
Toward Conceptual Development and Empirical Measurement of Global Risk Indicators in the Lives of Court-Involved Youth
This paper reports work related to the conceptual development and empirical use of global risk indicators meant to measure rapidly and reliably potential threats to the overall development and well-being of adolescents in the juvenile justice system. The development of these indicators and initial data regarding their use with court involved samples are presented. Analysis of data gathered from a sample containing 248 families of adolescents who …
Toward Conceptual Development and Empirical Measurement of Global Risk Indicators in the Lives of Court-Involved Youth
This paper reports work related to the conceptual development and empirical use of global risk indicators meant to measure rapidly and reliably potential threats to the overall development and well-being of adolescents in the juvenile justic system. The development of these indicators and initial data regarding their use with court involved samples are presented. Analysis of data gathered from a sample containing 248 families of adolescents who p…
Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Family Emotional Involvement and Criticism Scale: Evidence of the Dimensionality of Expressed Emotion
Using a convenience sample of 152 married couples, the present study tested models that alternately considered family members' perceptions of Expressed Emotion to be a one-, two-, three-, or four-factor construct as measured by the Family Emotional Involvement and Criticism Scale. Results of confirmatory factor analysis procedures indicated that perceptions of Expressed Emotion were best represented by a four-factor model that consisted of involv…
The Dimensionality of Family Differentiation and the Prediction of Adolescent Internalized Distress
The construct of family differentiation describes patterns of distance regulation within families. These patterns reflect the relative degree of individuality and intimacy that characterize a family system. Family differentiation levels are linked to a variety of adolescent adjustment variables. Despite being conceptualized theoretically as a bidimensional construct, family differentiation has typically been presented in past research as a unidim…
Working with the Families of Serious Juvenile Offenders: The Growing Up Fast Parole Program
Modeling the Effects of Expressed Emotion, Psychiatric Symptomology, and Marital Quality Levels on Male and Female Verbal Aggression
Previous research has linked expressed emotion (EE) levels and psychiatric symptomology, whereas other empirical efforts have examined the relationship between EE and marital relationship variables. Still other research has linked psychological conditions with acts of aggression, and the impact of marital issues within this domain of inquiry also has been explored. The study presented here examined the combined effects of EE, marital quality, and…
Measurement of Financial, Functional, and Psychological Connections in Families: Conceptual Development and Empirical Use of the Multigenerational Interconnectedness Scale
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…
Multiple Perspectives on Family Differentiation: Analyses by Multitrait Multimethod Matrix and Triadic Social Relations Models
Suzanne Bartle-Haring, David A. Kenny, Stephen M. Gavazzi, Multiple Perspectives on Family Differentiation: Analyses by Multitrait Multimethod Matrix and Triadic Social Relations Models, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 61, No. 2 (May, 1999), pp. 491-503
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 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…
Toward a Biopsychosocial Model of Domestic Violence
This study aimed to develop a biopsychosocial model of male domestic violence through an examination of 102 married men. The participants were interviewed and their blood serum was analyzed for testosterone and prolactin levels as well as for illicit drug use. There were 34 subjects identified as violent males with a mean age of 34.76 and married for an average of 8.15 years. A Tobit analysis of male violence toward a female intimate using the bi…
Family Systems Thinking as a Guide for Theory Integration: Conceptual Overlaps of Differentiation, Attachment, Parenting Style, and Identity Development in Families With Adolescents
There is both the necessity and the capacity for unification across the discipline of family science. This article offers another step toward a comprehensive, integrated body of theory and research shared across our discipline. Specifically, we address how family systems thinking has been reflected in attachment, parenting, and adolescent identity literature, and we present bidimensional models and integrated spectrums emphasizing how levels of d…
Compelling Family Processes
This article introduces the idea of family process research and asserts that the study of family processes is an indispensable component of any effort to conceptualize and measure family life. Within this article the family process approach is defined through the use of several domains that categorize core constructs. Further, several key assumptions are identified that form the foundation this family process approach. A related objective of this…
Juvenile Delinquency and Teenage Pregnancy: A Comparison of Ecological Risk Profiles Among Midwestern White and Black Female Juvenile Offenders
The authors examined ecological risk factors associated with teen pregnancy with a sample of 1,190 court-involved female juvenile offenders between 11 and 18 years of age. Data were obtained from five Midwestern juvenile county courts using a recently developed youth risk assessment instrument called the global risk assessment device (GRAD). In line with past research on teen pregnancy, the authors found that young African American female offende…
Multiple Perspectives on Family Differentiation: Analyses by Multitrait Multimethod Matrix and Triadic Social Relations Models
Suzanne Bartle-Haring, David A. Kenny, Stephen M. Gavazzi, Multiple Perspectives on Family Differentiation: Analyses by Multitrait Multimethod Matrix and Triadic Social Relations Models, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 61, No. 2 (May, 1999), pp. 491-503
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…
The impact of family and peer differentiation levels on adolescent psychosocial development and problematic behaviors
A qualitative examination of a state-wide initiative to empower families containing children and adolescents with behavioral health care needs
Modeling the Effects of Expressed Emotion, Psychiatric Symptomology, and Marital Quality Levels on Male and Female Verbal Aggression
Previous research has linked expressed emotion (EE) levels and psychiatric symptomology, whereas other empirical efforts have examined the relationship between EE and marital relationship variables. Still other research has linked psychological conditions with acts of aggression, and the impact of marital issues within this domain of inquiry also has been explored. The study presented here examined the combined effects of EE, marital quality, and…
Test of Family of Origin Structural Models of Male Verbal and Physical Aggression
Using a convenience sample of 152 married or cohabiting couples, this study tested different theoretical models of male aggression toward a female intimate that addressed the relation between physical and verbal aggression variables and family of origin violence, psychological symptoms, and marital satisfaction. Results of covariance structural analysis procedures provided general support for the proposed models. Results indicated that physical v…
Multi-Family Psychoeducation Groups For Childhood Mood Disorders: A Program Description And Preliminary Efficacy Data
Psychoeducation: A promising intervention strategy for families of children and adolescents with mood disorders
Working with the Families of Serious Juvenile Offenders: The Growing Up Fast Parole Program
Family science, land‐grant universities, and the daunting legacy of the land‐grab institution
This paper wrestles with the nexus of settler colonialism, the expropriation of Indigenous lands to establish the United States land‐grant system, and the field of Family Science. Family Science programs are embedded within the power structures of the universities to which they belong; certain characteristics of these academic units—especially their emphasis on engagement and professional credentialing—theoretically could produce an idiosyncratic…
Addressing campus–community relationships using the three corners marriage model
Campus–community partnerships are essential to the field of family science. Like many other academic units in the applied social sciences, family science departments connect with communities to train students and engage in outreach, fulfilling the mission of many institutions, particularly land‐grant universities. Establishing, nurturing, maintaining, monitoring, and improving these partnerships benefits academia, the scholarly institution in que…
Measuring Family Caregiver Perceptions of Support in Caring for Children and Youth With Mental Health Concerns
This correlational study assessed how families of children with mental illness perceived the levels of support they received from informal and formal resource providers and the associations between perceived support and child outcomes. Adult caregivers ( N = 904) of youth receiving public mental health care services were administered the Family Caregiver Perceptions of Support Scale developed by the authors to assess family caregiver perceptions …
The Impact of Gender and Family Processes on Mental Health and Substance Use Issues in a Sample of Court-Involved Female and Male Adolescents
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…
Guiding transitional events for children and adolescents through a modern day rite of passage
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…
The impact of family and peer differentiation levels on adolescent psychosocial development and problematic behaviors
Metaphors of Family Systems Theory: Toward New Constructions
This innovative book probes the language of family systems theory, demonstrating how metaphors shape our understanding both of families themselves and of the goals and process of therapy. The author shows how a deeper understanding of standard theoretical metaphors--and the development of alternatives--can help clinicians and students identify hidden assumptions, incorporate perspectives that may otherwise have been overlooked, and forge creative…
Toward a Biopsychosocial Model of Domestic Violence
This study aimed to develop a biopsychosocial model of male domestic violence through an examination of 102 married men. The participants were interviewed and their blood serum was analyzed for testosterone and prolactin levels as well as for illicit drug use. There were 34 subjects identified as violent males with a mean age of 34.76 and married for an average of 8.15 years. A Tobit analysis of male violence toward a female intimate using the bi…
Utilization of the Brief Symptom Inventory to Discriminate between Violent and Nonviolent Male Relationship Partners
This study reports on the use of the Brief Symptom Inventory, a shortened version of the Symptom Check List-90-Revised, to measure psychopathological symptoms that predict male domestic violence. A sample of 152 men and their partners reported on the severity of violent behavior present in their relationship. Discriminant analysis indicated variation in men's violent status as a function of psychopathological symptoms. Violent men evidenced highe…
Psychoeducation: A promising intervention strategy for families of children and adolescents with mood disorders
The Understanding Mood Disorders Questionnaire
The Understanding Mood Disorders Questionnaire
This study reports on the development and psychometric properties of the Understanding Mood Disorders Questionnaire, designed to measure family members' attributions about and knowledge of symptoms, course, and treatment of mood disorders
An africentric rites of passage program for adolescent males
Multi-Family Psychoeducation Groups For Childhood Mood Disorders: A Program Description And Preliminary Efficacy Data
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
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…
Multiple Perspectives on Family Differentiation: Analyses by Multitrait Multimethod Matrix and Triadic Social Relations Models
Suzanne Bartle-Haring, David A. Kenny, Stephen M. Gavazzi, Multiple Perspectives on Family Differentiation: Analyses by Multitrait Multimethod Matrix and Triadic Social Relations Models, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 61, No. 2 (May, 1999), pp. 491-503
Test of Family of Origin Structural Models of Male Verbal and Physical Aggression
Using a convenience sample of 152 married or cohabiting couples, this study tested different theoretical models of male aggression toward a female intimate that addressed the relation between physical and verbal aggression variables and family of origin violence, psychological symptoms, and marital satisfaction. Results of covariance structural analysis procedures provided general support for the proposed models. Results indicated that physical v…
Modeling the Effects of Expressed Emotion, Psychiatric Symptomology, and Marital Quality Levels on Male and Female Verbal Aggression
Previous research has linked expressed emotion (EE) levels and psychiatric symptomology, whereas other empirical efforts have examined the relationship between EE and marital relationship variables. Still other research has linked psychological conditions with acts of aggression, and the impact of marital issues within this domain of inquiry also has been explored. The study presented here examined the combined effects of EE, marital quality, and…
Working with the Families of Serious Juvenile Offenders: The Growing Up Fast Parole Program
Advances in Measurement of Global Risk Indicators in Lives of Court-Involved Youth: Brief Evidence for Concurrent Validity
The present study reports data on the concurrent validity for the Global Risk Assessment Device, a measure of global risk indicators for a sample of 37 families of adolescents who participated in a family-based program designed to divert youth out of the justice system. Significant correlations among three domains of risk (family/parenting, substance use, and personality/behavior problems) and other measures generated preliminary evidence for con…
Brief Report on Predictive Validity Evidence of Global Risk Indicators in the Lives of Court-Involved Youth
Previous work has reported the psychometric properties and evidence for concurrent validity of a battery of items measuring global risk indicators in the lives of court-involved adolescents. The present study reports additional data on the predictive validity of this battery in a sample of 224 families of adolescents who were assessed by intake workers in a juvenile court and subsequently referred for services. Analysis yielded significant differ…
Toward Conceptual Development and Empirical Measurement of Global Risk Indicators in the Lives of Court-Involved Youth
This paper reports work related to the conceptual development and empirical use of global risk indicators meant to measure rapidly and reliably potential threats to the overall development and well-being of adolescents in the juvenile justice system. The development of these indicators and initial data regarding their use with court involved samples are presented. Analysis of data gathered from a sample containing 248 families of adolescents who …
Toward Conceptual Development and Empirical Measurement of Global Risk Indicators in the Lives of Court-Involved Youth
This paper reports work related to the conceptual development and empirical use of global risk indicators meant to measure rapidly and reliably potential threats to the overall development and well-being of adolescents in the juvenile justic system. The development of these indicators and initial data regarding their use with court involved samples are presented. Analysis of data gathered from a sample containing 248 families of adolescents who p…
Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Family Emotional Involvement and Criticism Scale: Evidence of the Dimensionality of Expressed Emotion
Using a convenience sample of 152 married couples, the present study tested models that alternately considered family members' perceptions of Expressed Emotion to be a one-, two-, three-, or four-factor construct as measured by the Family Emotional Involvement and Criticism Scale. Results of confirmatory factor analysis procedures indicated that perceptions of Expressed Emotion were best represented by a four-factor model that consisted of involv…
The Dimensionality of Family Differentiation and the Prediction of Adolescent Internalized Distress
The construct of family differentiation describes patterns of distance regulation within families. These patterns reflect the relative degree of individuality and intimacy that characterize a family system. Family differentiation levels are linked to a variety of adolescent adjustment variables. Despite being conceptualized theoretically as a bidimensional construct, family differentiation has typically been presented in past research as a unidim…
Psychology (34 works) · Developmental psychology (20 works) · Social Psychology (19 works) · Clinical Psychology (17 works) · Social Psychology (16 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (15 works) · Clinical Psychology (15 works) · Psychiatry (12 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works)