C W O''Neal
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 41803 |
|---|---|
| NOME | C W O''Neal |
| PRENOMES | C W |
| SOBRENOME | O''Neal |
| ASSINATURA | NEAL C W O |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Georgia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3869-2394 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 66 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 88 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 66 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Military Couples' Patterns of Family Work
Although research documents the demands of military life and the influence these demands can have on family life, little is known about military couples' patterns of family work and how these patterns are associated with their relational functioning. Grounded in the vulnerability stress adaptation model, this study addressed this gap by using a latent profile analysis with dyadic data from 228 United States military couples to identify groupings …
The Social‐Ecological Model of Military Family Financial Well‐Being
The social‐ecological model of military family financial well‐being was developed to delineate and depict individual‐, family‐, community‐, military‐ and societal‐level factors that jointly shape these families' financial well‐being. Theoretical frameworks that ground efforts to enhance families' financial well‐being remain underdeveloped but are crucial for informing the work of researchers, helping professionals, and policymakers. To be effecti…
Connections count
Investigating Voices Centered in Veteran Family Research
When studying family systems and phenomena occurring within the family, a multi-informant approach allows researchers to capture nuanced accounts of family dynamics from multiple perspectives. However, no investigation has examined whether this recommendation is routinely implemented when studying veteran families. This scoping review aimed to identify which “voices” (i.e., person or entity providing data or information on behalf of the veteran a…
Service Members’ Couple Finances
Service members may be at an elevated risk for financial anxiety due to the additional financial stressors of military life (e.g., moving costs, additional childcare costs) which may adversely impact their romantic relationships. Elements of couple finances, including shared financial decision-making and agreement on spending with partners, are generally associated with more positive outcomes for couples, and may attenuate the negative consequenc…
Protocol for the pragmatic evaluation of the Department of the Air Force’s Personal Financial Readiness Program
Federal policy mandates that United States military members receive numerous financial trainings across their career to improve their financial literacy and equip them to make informed financial decisions that, ultimately, promote positive individual and family well-being. Connected to this mandate, systematic evaluation efforts of the Department of the Air Force's Personal Financial Readiness program were initiated to identify program outcomes a…
Asynchronous mental health interventions
Asynchronous mental health interventions, studied for nearly three decades, have faced skepticism despite recent technological advances and increased adoption due to the COVID‐19 pandemic. This article reviews research on asynchronous interventions, focusing on conceptualization, effectiveness, and implementation. Asynchronous intervention is defined based on communication purpose, medium, type, and engagement. Research on effectiveness and poten…
Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Effectiveness of a Military Cultural Competence Intervention for Helping Professionals
Military-connected individuals and families regularly seek services from community-based providers. Thus, helping professionals (e.g., therapists, social workers) need a working knowledge of military culture to develop rapport, tailor services, and effectively treat military-connected clients. This study examines the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effectiveness of the REACH for Military Cultural Competence mobile application, a conti…
Family adversities and substance use
Psychopathological Symptoms and Resilience Processes among Korean Adolescents in the Context of Neighborhood Disadvantage
Translating discovery science
Mental health profiles of depressive symptoms and personal well‐being among active‐duty military families
Although some research has examined the mental health of individual family members in military families, additional research is needed that considers mental health among multiple members of the family system simultaneously and that characterizes subsets of families with distinct patterns. Mental health patterns of depressive symptoms and well‐being in and among families were identified using latent profile analysis with a community sample of 236 …
Military‐Connected Adolescents' Coping Strategies and Psychological Well‐Being
Military‐connected adolescents face unique challenges associated with military life, and some coping strategies are more beneficial to their well‐being than others. It is important to understand their use of various coping strategies in connection with their psychological well‐being and if there are family circumstances in which these coping strategies are more or less effective for enhancing psychological well‐being. Two hundred sixty‐six Army f…
Is unit cohesion a double-edged sword? A moderated mediation model of combat exposure, work stressors, and marital satisfaction
Guided by the stress process perspective, this study examined if combat exposure was indirectly associated with marital satisfaction through work performance stress. Additionally, we tested whether unit cohesion served as a moderator of this indirect effect. Data were drawn from 1,122 married Soldiers who participated in the All-Army Study component of the Army STARRS study, a probabilistic sample of Army Soldiers. Indicative of stress proliferat…
Military adolescents' experiences of change and discontinuity
Use of food distribution resources among military families with young children since the Covid-19 pandemic
Objective: The present study examined military families’ use of food distribution resources and military (e.g. rank) and non-military (e.g. race/ethnicity) characteristics associated with using food distribution resources. Design: Secondary data analyses from a cross-sectional survey in the first 6 months of 2021. Setting: A national sample of eligible families completed an online survey. Participants: 8326 enlisted military families with an acti…
Adolescent difficulties during parental deployment and anxiety
Approximately 60% of deployed service members leave behind immediate family members, and although military families tend to be adaptive and resilient, evidence suggests that deployments are challenging and difficulties can arise during transitions and family separation, especially for adolescents. Grounded in the family attachment network model and the ABC‐X model of family stress, the current study utilized a sample of 204 military families with…
Life transition events and depressive symptom trajectories during young adulthood
Because sequential patterns of multiple transition events (i.e., college graduation, full-time employment, marriage, and parenthood) are associated with turning points in depressive symptom trajectories during young adulthood, the present study used a sample of 446 White adolescents (52.3% females; 15.58 years old, on average) over 18 years (1992 to 2010) to (a) identify distinct longitudinal joint processes between these sequential patterns of l…
How work‐related guilt informs parenting and adolescent psychological distress in military families
A novel element of comprehensive program evaluation
Military couples’ childhood experiences and romantic relationship satisfaction
Although accepting influence (i.e., being open to the influence of others) is considered important for couple relationships, there is a lack of empirical research on the association between accepting influence and relationship satisfaction. Moreover, research has not examined what family experiences may precede one's ability to accept influence in later romantic relationships, although life course theory and the vulnerability stress adaptation mo…
Midlife financial strain and later‐life health and wellbeing of husbands and wives
This study investigates (a) heterogeneous trajectories of couple intimacy over the mid‐later years (average ages of 40–65) and (b) how these intimacy classes are differentially associated with spouses’ midlife financial strain as well as their later‐life health and wellbeing outcomes. The sample was comprised of white couples in long‐term marriages from the rural Mid‐west who experienced the economic downturn of the farm crisis in late 1980s. Cou…
Post-High School Military Enlistment and Long-Term Well-Being
Longitudinal data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health were used to evaluate the impact of post-high school military enlistment during emerging adulthood. Comparisons were made between matched samples of emerging adults who enlisted in the military ( n = 576) and their civilian counterparts ( n = 576) on well-being over a decade later. Well-being was broadly conceptualized to reflect socioeconomic well-being, physica…
Case management in community mental health centers
Patterns of Co-occurring Developmental Failures in Adolescence
9,107; mean age = 15.5 years; Female = 52.9 per cent) were used to identify classes of early socioeconomic adversity and conjoint trajectory groups of co-occurring developmental problems. Profiles of social antecedents, genetic endowments (polygenic scores), and physical health outcomes in young adulthood were compared across identified four conjoint trajectory risk groups (overall high-risk, overall low-risk, BMI-risk or obesity, low education-r…
Patterning of midlife marital trajectories in enduring marriages in a dyadic context
The current study, using prospective data over 25 years (1991-2015; N = 245 couples), investigates life course dyadic patterns of positive and negative marital trajectories (i.e., marital strength and strain, respectively) in middle-aged husbands and wives and an array of physical and mental health outcomes associated with these patterns. Spousal warmth, spouse's constructive conflict resolution, and couple's joint participation were used as indi…
Economic hardship, positive affect, and marital processes over middle years
Family economic hardship (FEH) can negatively impact the quality of marital relationships, and research has shown that increased distress of husbands and wives at least partially mediates this association. Research has shown that FEH not only increases feelings of distress but also depletes individuals' positive feelings. The mediating role of positive affect (PA), however, has received less attention. The current study used data from the Iowa Mi…
Marital strain trajectories over a quarter century and spouses' loneliness
Although research suggests that stressful marital experiences may lead to feelings of loneliness in later life, little is known about the influence of marital strain over an extended period of time on loneliness in later years. Thus, in the present study, drawing from family systems and cognitive theories along with common fate and actor-partner interdependence modeling approaches, we hypothesized a hybrid model comprised of two multilevel pathwa…
Community Social Organization and Military Families
The social organization theory of action and change accounts for transitions families face in community contexts. This perspective aligns with family stress and resilience theories, including the contextual model of family stress. Our discussion focuses on transitions of military families, including the continually changing nature of military family life. The military environment provides an opportunity for understanding family vulnerability and …
Explaining the Association between Early Adversity and Young Adults’ Diabetes Outcomes
The Health Impact of Upward Mobility
Is Working Later in Life Good or Bad for Health? An Investigation of Multiple Health Outcomes
Consistent with social causation and social selection traditions, the findings support bi-directional associations among changes in work status (the level of work), immediate memory, physical disability, and depressive symptoms in later years. Practical implications are discussed
Family of Origin, Race/Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Attainment
Previous research has mainly focused on the persistent direct influence of early life contexts on young adult socioeconomic attainment, and less is known about intraindividual processes that are responsible for this persistent influence. The present study, using genetically informed longitudinal, prospective data from a nationally representative sample (Add Health), attempted to fill this gap by adding three important findings to the literature: …
Couple-Level Stress Proliferation and Husbands' and Wives' Distress During the Life Course
ObjectiveThe present study investigated the factorial structure of the dyadic stress proliferation process in couples in enduring marriages leading to their psychological distress in later years.BackgroundStress proliferation during short and long periods of time has been shown to drive complex stress-distress processes during the life course. This research has largely been limited to individual-level stress proliferation with less research demon…
Life Course Patterns of Concurrent Trajectories of BMI and Affective Symptoms of Rural Mothers
The identification of members of various conjoint risk trajectory groups provides a potentially useful prognostic tool for early preventive intervention efforts, treatment, and policy formation. Such interventions should promote and develop resiliency factors, thereby aiding in the redirection of middle-aged women's adverse risk trajectories
Control Over Work, Positive Self, and Health Among African American Husbands and Wives
Using a sample of 344 dual-earner African American married couples, this study examined the effect of control over work on depressive symptoms and physical health with a dyadic model. The mediating role of personal resources capturing positive self-evaluations (i.e., self-esteem and mastery) was also examined. The association between wives' control over work and wives' physical and mental health was mediated by wives' positive self. Although husb…
Health continuity over mid-later years in enduring marriages
Health problems in midlife have been shown to continue into later adulthood. This continuity may be attributed to social selection and social causation, with longitudinal sequential associations between health problems and economic pressure (EP) over the life course creating mediational effects (health → EP → health). Moreover, in enduring marriages, this potential mediation may operate as a dyadic process over time. Yet this mediational process …
Stress and Resource Pathways Connecting Early Socioeconomic Adversity to Young Adults’ Physical Health Risk
Marital Functioning From Middle to Later Years
Little research has examined continuity and change in marital functioning from the middle to later years. We draw on a life course perspective and examine the influences of cumulative life experiences, personal characteristics, genetic markers, and stressful life events during the mid‐later transition on later‐life marital functioning. Although this theoretical framework is applicable to other types of close relationships and stressful life event…
Aging Together in Enduring Couple Relationships
This article introduces and demonstrates the use of an integrated life course systems perspective to advance the study of the aging processes of couples in enduring relationships. This objective is accomplished by bridging the life course and systems perspectives to conceptualize the couple as a functioning system and to locate couple dynamics within a longitudinal life course context in order to identify multilevel relational mechanisms that exp…
Worried, concerned and untroubled
Using a pattern‐based approach, worry was explored in relation to military youths' developmental and contextual characteristics, and pivotal outcomes (depressive symptoms, self‐efficacy, well‐being, coping styles, academic performance and deployment adjustment). Data were collected from parents and adolescents, age 11 to 18, living in the USA ( n = 273 families). Variations in individual characteristics (age and gender), military family factors (…
Contextualizing the Psychosocial Well‐being of Military Members and Their Partners
Evidence of the impact of communities has been documented for a variety of individual and relational outcomes, including mental and physical health as well as the quality of romantic and parent–child relationships. The military represents a rather unique work context; in that, it is generally considered a lifestyle with a distinct culture and community. Yet, military families are also members of their broader, comprehensive community. Drawing fro…
The Socioeconomic Pathways Leading to Romantic Relationship Outcomes
The present study tests a multilevel comprehensive model incorporating both life course processes and genetic influences leading to young adults' romantic relationship quality using data from 1,560 adolescents over 13 years in the nationally representative Add Health sample. Results provided evidence of a socioeconomic mediating pathway linking early family and community contexts to young adults' romantic relationship quality, and novel evidence …
Is unit cohesion a double-edged sword? A moderated mediation model of combat exposure, work stressors, and marital satisfaction
Guided by the stress process perspective, this study examined if combat exposure was indirectly associated with marital satisfaction through work performance stress. Additionally, we tested whether unit cohesion served as a moderator of this indirect effect. Data were drawn from 1,122 married Soldiers who participated in the All-Army Study component of the Army STARRS study, a probabilistic sample of Army Soldiers. Indicative of stress proliferat…
Adolescent difficulties during parental deployment and anxiety
Approximately 60% of deployed service members leave behind immediate family members, and although military families tend to be adaptive and resilient, evidence suggests that deployments are challenging and difficulties can arise during transitions and family separation, especially for adolescents. Grounded in the family attachment network model and the ABC‐X model of family stress, the current study utilized a sample of 204 military families with…
Stressful family contexts and health in divorced and married mothers
Past research suggests that social, psychological and biological processes underlying common health problems are highly interrelated and may be comonents of a larger biopsychosocial process. This process may be influenced by marital status. The current study investigated a biopsychosocial process involving social, psychological and physcial health problems over the second half of the life course, comparing women who were mothers with different ma…
Midlife Marital and Financial Stress and the Progression of Later-Life Health Problems for Husbands and Wives
Objectives: Locating the family systems theory within the life course stress process perspective, this study investigates how husbands' and wives' marital and financial stress were implicated in their subsequent physical health, psychological distress, and loneliness. Methods: Using prospective data from 254 husbands and wives over 27 years, a path model examined the influence of marital stress and family financial stress during midlife (40-50 ye…
How Early Stressful Life Experiences Combine With Adolescents’ Conjoint Health Risk Trajectories to Influence Cardiometabolic Disease Risk in Young Adulthood
The Contribution of Stressful Marital Interactions to Loneliness and Health across Mid-life and Later Adulthood
Although past research has noted longitudinal, and sometimes bi-directional, associations between marital interactions, loneliness, and physical health, previous work has not identified long-term associations and differential associations over life-course stages (i.e., mid-life and later adulthood). Utilizing a life-course stress process perspective and a sample of 250 couples in enduring marriages over 17 years (2001-2017), a structural equation…
How Midlife Chronic Stress Combines with Stressful Life Events to Influence Later Life Mental and Physical Health for Husbands and Wives in Enduring Marriages
Objectives: To investigate how midlife chronic stress (40-50 years) and subsequent acute stressful events (50-65 years) influence husbands' and wives' later life mental and physical health (65+ years). Methods: Dyadic structural equation modeling was used with prospective data over 25 years from 256 husbands and wives in enduring marriages. Results: For both spouses, midlife chronic stress influenced the occurrence of subsequent acute stressful l…
Marital Functioning From Middle to Later Years
Little research has examined continuity and change in marital functioning from the middle to later years. We draw on a life course perspective and examine the influences of cumulative life experiences, personal characteristics, genetic markers, and stressful life events during the mid‐later transition on later‐life marital functioning. Although this theoretical framework is applicable to other types of close relationships and stressful life event…
Is Working Later in Life Good or Bad for Health? An Investigation of Multiple Health Outcomes
Consistent with social causation and social selection traditions, the findings support bi-directional associations among changes in work status (the level of work), immediate memory, physical disability, and depressive symptoms in later years. Practical implications are discussed
Family of Origin, Race/Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Attainment
Previous research has mainly focused on the persistent direct influence of early life contexts on young adult socioeconomic attainment, and less is known about intraindividual processes that are responsible for this persistent influence. The present study, using genetically informed longitudinal, prospective data from a nationally representative sample (Add Health), attempted to fill this gap by adding three important findings to the literature: …
Control Over Work, Positive Self, and Health Among African American Husbands and Wives
Using a sample of 344 dual-earner African American married couples, this study examined the effect of control over work on depressive symptoms and physical health with a dyadic model. The mediating role of personal resources capturing positive self-evaluations (i.e., self-esteem and mastery) was also examined. The association between wives' control over work and wives' physical and mental health was mediated by wives' positive self. Although husb…
The Socioeconomic Pathways Leading to Romantic Relationship Outcomes
The present study tests a multilevel comprehensive model incorporating both life course processes and genetic influences leading to young adults' romantic relationship quality using data from 1,560 adolescents over 13 years in the nationally representative Add Health sample. Results provided evidence of a socioeconomic mediating pathway linking early family and community contexts to young adults' romantic relationship quality, and novel evidence …
Stress and Resource Pathways Connecting Early Socioeconomic Adversity to Young Adults’ Physical Health Risk
Cumulative Socioeconomic Adversity, Developmental Pathways, and Mental Health Risks During the Early Life Course
The current study examines two developmental risk pathways (an academic/economic pathway and a delinquency/interpersonal pathway) linking cumulative socioeconomic adversity to subsequent depressive symptoms and the interplay between these pathways and depressive symptoms using path analysis with a sample of 14,563 respondents from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health over a 13-year period. Minority youth comprised 49% of …
Worried, concerned and untroubled
Using a pattern‐based approach, worry was explored in relation to military youths' developmental and contextual characteristics, and pivotal outcomes (depressive symptoms, self‐efficacy, well‐being, coping styles, academic performance and deployment adjustment). Data were collected from parents and adolescents, age 11 to 18, living in the USA ( n = 273 families). Variations in individual characteristics (age and gender), military family factors (…
Contextualizing the Psychosocial Well‐being of Military Members and Their Partners
Evidence of the impact of communities has been documented for a variety of individual and relational outcomes, including mental and physical health as well as the quality of romantic and parent–child relationships. The military represents a rather unique work context; in that, it is generally considered a lifestyle with a distinct culture and community. Yet, military families are also members of their broader, comprehensive community. Drawing fro…
The Health Impact of Upward Mobility
Parents’ early life stressful experiences, their present well-being, and that of their children
Parents' early life stressful experiences have lifelong consequences, not only for themselves but also for their children. The current study utilized a sample of military families (n = 266) including data from both active-duty and civilian parents and their adolescent children. Hypotheses reflecting principles of persistence, transmission, and proximity as pertaining to parents and their children were examined. The impact of parents' childhood ex…
Stressful Work Trajectories and Depressive Symptoms in Middle-Aged Couples
Results from the current study indicate that contextual life experiences can have a persistent health influences over the life course
Life Course Patterns of Concurrent Trajectories of BMI and Affective Symptoms of Rural Mothers
The identification of members of various conjoint risk trajectory groups provides a potentially useful prognostic tool for early preventive intervention efforts, treatment, and policy formation. Such interventions should promote and develop resiliency factors, thereby aiding in the redirection of middle-aged women's adverse risk trajectories
Explaining the Association between Early Adversity and Young Adults’ Diabetes Outcomes
Community Social Organization and Military Families
The social organization theory of action and change accounts for transitions families face in community contexts. This perspective aligns with family stress and resilience theories, including the contextual model of family stress. Our discussion focuses on transitions of military families, including the continually changing nature of military family life. The military environment provides an opportunity for understanding family vulnerability and …
The Importance of Parents' Community Connections for Adolescent Well‐being
Drawing from the Social Organization Theory of Action and Change ( SOAC ), this analysis of 223 military families, including active duty ( AD ) military and civilian partners, examines how parents' sense of community and community engagement (two elements of community connections) are associated with their own resilient coping, and ultimately with important outcomes capturing their adolescent offspring's individual well‐being (depression, anxiety…
Resilient family processes, personal reintegration, and subjective well-being outcomes for military personnel and their family members
Deployment affects not just the service members, but also their family members back home. Accordingly, this study examined how resilient family processes during a deployment (i.e., frequency of communication and household management) were related to the personal reintegration of each family member (i.e., how well each family member begins to "feel like oneself again" after a deployment), as well as several indicators of subjective well-being. Dra…
Adverse work experiences and marital outcomes in middle years
This study assesses the decade-long influence of adverse work experiences on husbands' and wives' problem-solving behaviors and marital quality through self-esteem using structural equation modeling with a sample of 308 dual-earning couples. Analyses controlled for earlier marital quality, allowing for assessment of the residual change in marital quality over 10 years. Adverse work experiences directly affected marital quality and indirectly affe…
Identifying diverse life transition patterns from adolescence to young adulthood
Person–Work Mismatch, Retirement Context, and the Progression of Depressive Symptoms Over Mid-Later Years
Objectives: This study investigates how person-work mismatch (PWM) and subsequent pre-retirement work circumstances lead to poor mental health in later years for husbands and wives in enduring marriages. Methods: Data from 224 dual-earner couples in enduring marriages who participated over 27 years (1991-2015) in their middle to their later years were used to test the conceptual model. Results: PWM was related to depressive symptoms in middle yea…
Economic hardship, positive affect, and marital processes over middle years
Family economic hardship (FEH) can negatively impact the quality of marital relationships, and research has shown that increased distress of husbands and wives at least partially mediates this association. Research has shown that FEH not only increases feelings of distress but also depletes individuals' positive feelings. The mediating role of positive affect (PA), however, has received less attention. The current study used data from the Iowa Mi…
Sibling relationships in older adulthood
4.58) on average. Participants provided self-report data about their relationships and well-being. Results showed that older adults reported high levels of sibling warmth and low levels of sibling conflict and parental favoritism. Sister-sister pairs had warmer sibling relationships than other gender-compositions. Sibling conflict and parental favoritism were positively associated with symptoms of depression, anxiety, hostility, and loneliness. S…
Toward a Framework for Military Family Life Education
Grounded in multiple ways of thinking about families, we propose a beginning framework for developing and implementing military family life education. We first situate this work within the context of established family life education frameworks. Then, we discuss features of military culture, including its contexts and demands on families, to highlight the realities of life as a military family and underscore available strengths that family life e…
Aging Together in Enduring Couple Relationships
This article introduces and demonstrates the use of an integrated life course systems perspective to advance the study of the aging processes of couples in enduring relationships. This objective is accomplished by bridging the life course and systems perspectives to conceptualize the couple as a functioning system and to locate couple dynamics within a longitudinal life course context in order to identify multilevel relational mechanisms that exp…
How Midlife Chronic Stress Combines with Stressful Life Events to Influence Later Life Mental and Physical Health for Husbands and Wives in Enduring Marriages
Objectives: To investigate how midlife chronic stress (40-50 years) and subsequent acute stressful events (50-65 years) influence husbands' and wives' later life mental and physical health (65+ years). Methods: Dyadic structural equation modeling was used with prospective data over 25 years from 256 husbands and wives in enduring marriages. Results: For both spouses, midlife chronic stress influenced the occurrence of subsequent acute stressful l…
Psychology (59 obras) · Developmental psychology (44 obras) · Clinical Psychology (33 obras) · Medicine (31 obras) · Psychiatry (29 obras) · Social Psychology (29 obras) · Health disparities and outcomes (22 obras) · Clinical Psychology (20 obras) · Sociology (18 obras) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (17 obras)