Showing papers in "Journal of Marriage and Family in 1993"
TL;DR: Family Theories and Methods Emerging During the 1980s: Communication Theory and the Family (M.R. Ritchie).
Abstract: Overview: Family Theories and Methods (W.J. Doherty et al.). Metatheory and Family Studies (D.M. Klein, J.A. Jurich). The Emergence of Family Theories and Methods: The History of Family Theory (B.N. Adams, S.K. Steinmetz). Comparative Methods in Family Research (G.R. Lee, L. Haas). Family Theories and Methods Emerging During 1918-1929: Symbolic Interactionism and Family Studies (R. LaRossa, D.C. Reitzes). Qualitative Family Research (P.C. Rosenblatt, L.R. Fischer). Family Theories and Methods Emerging During 1930-1945: Quantitative Measurement in Family Research (K.S. Wampler, C.F. Halverston, Jr.). Family Theories and Methods Emerging During 1946-1960: Family Development Theory (R.H. Rodgers, J.M. White). Family Theories and Methods Emerging During 1960-1980: Systems Theories (G.G. Whitechurch, L. Constantine). Family Theories and Methods Emerging During the 1980s: Communication Theory and the Family (M.A. Fitzpatrick, L.D. Ritchie). 17 additional articles. Index.
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TL;DR: In this article, a comparison of cinq perspectives prenant en compte l'adaptation des enfants au divorce is presented, referenting a l'absence du parent qui n'obtient pas la garde de l'enfant, l' adaptation au parent qui obtient la gardé, le conflit entre parents, les questions economiques and le stress que genere le changement de vie.
Abstract: Comparaison de cinq perspectives prenant en compte l'adaptation des enfants au divorce. Ces perspectives se referent a l'absence du parent qui n'obtient pas la garde de l'enfant, l'adaptation au parent qui obtient la garde, le conflit entre parents, les questions economiques et le stress que genere le changement de vie.
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TL;DR: Stacey and Cowan as mentioned in this paper argued that families have lost functions power and authority that familism as a cultural value has diminished and that people have become less willing to invest time money and energy in family life turning instead to investments in themselves.
Abstract: Contrary to the view of some academics that the family in America is not declining but just changing the thesis of this article is that family decline since 1960 has been extraordinarily steep and its social consequences serious especially for children. Drawing mainly on U.S. Census data family trends of the past three decades are reviewed. The evidence for family decline is appraised in three areas: demographic institutional and cultural. It is argued that families have lost functions power and authority that familism as a cultural value has diminished and that people have become less willing to invest time money and energy in family life turning instead to investments in themselves. Comments by Norval D. Glenn Judith Stacey and Philip A. Cowan and a reply by Popenoe are included (pp. 542-55). (EXCERPT)
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse relations between parents and their petits-enfants in relation social, familial, and conjugale, in three cases: legal, illegal, and frequent.
Abstract: Analyse des relations des grands-parents avec leurs petits-enfants dans trois cas precis : lorsque les petits-enfants vivent legalement avec leurs grands-parents ; lorsqu'ils vivent illegalement avec eux ; lorsqu'ils ne vivent pas avec eux mais entretiennent des relations frequentes avec leurs grands-enfants. Consequences du soin apporte par les grands-parents a leurs petits-enfants sur les relations sociales, familiales et conjugales de ces grands-parents
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors assessed the incidence and risk factors of unwanted sexual activity initiated by peers for a sample of 1,149 adolescent females and found that over one-third reported that they had been forced to have sexual intercourse; the remaining two-thirds reported unwanted touching.
Abstract: The present investigation assesses the incidence and risk factors of unwanted sexual activity initiated by peers for a sample of 1,149 adolescent females. Twenty percent of the sample reported some type of unwanted sexual contact in the past year. Of this group, over one-third reported that they had been forced to have sexual intercourse; the remaining two-thirds reported unwanted touching. Boyfriends were the most commonly re
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TL;DR: A quantitative analysis of both original research and previous studies on the causes and consequences of divorce, considering the period from the onset of estrangement to four years after the divorce was granted, is presented in this article.
Abstract: A quantitative analysis of both original research and previous studies on the causes and consequences of divorce, considering the period from the onset of estrangement to four years after the divorce was granted. Compares genders and races, and couples who remained intact. Annotation copyright Book
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TL;DR: In this paper, the notion of travail familial was proposed, i.e., the relation entre division du travisail familial and qualite des relations conjugales.
Abstract: Cette analyse s'inscrit dans le cadre de l'etude de l'impact du travail familial des maris et des epouses sur leur bien-etre personnel et conjugal. Afin de mieux comprendre la relation entre division du travail familial et qualite des relations conjugales, cet article propose d'etendre la notion de travail familial, dans lequel l'A. inclut le travail emotionnel a cote du travail constitue par les tâches menageres et le soin apporte aux enfants
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TL;DR: In this article, two measures of housework are created: the allocation of tasks and allocation of household management, and data from a survey of 359 married, full-time employed women tested the extend to which the two dimensions predict perception of fairness and conflict.
Abstract: The conceptualization and measurement of household allocation is critically discussed, and the suggestion that the measures need to be more theoritically based is made. Using the definition of housework as caring for family members, for the home, and for transactional matters, the distinction between task accomplishment and household management is integrated into the definition. Two measures of housework are created : the allocation of tasks and the allocation of household management. Using hierarchical regression models, data from a survey of 359 married, full-time employed women tested the extend to which the two dimensions predict perception of fairness and conflict.
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TL;DR: A Cognitive Theory of Jealousy: Self and Society, Salovey & Rothman as discussed by the authors, and the Motive for the Arousal of romantic envy: Its Cultural Origin, Hupka.
Abstract: I. Jealous and Envious Thoughts and Feelings 1. The Emotional Experiences of Envy and Jealousy, Parrott 2. The Organization of Jealousy Knowledge: Romantic Jealousy as a Blended Emotion, Sharpsteen 3. A Cognitive Theory of Jealousy, Mathes 4. Envy and the Sense of Injustice, Smith II. The Experience of Jealousy in Close Relationships 5. Psychosocial Aspects of Jealousy: A Transactional Model, Bringle 6. Developmental Correlates of Jealousy, Clanton & Kosins 7. Jealousy in Close Relationships: An Exchange Theoretical Perspective, Buunk 8. Modes of Response to Jealousy-Envoking Situations, Bryson III. Family, Systems, and Culture in Jealousy and Envy 9. Jealousy: Its Conceptualization, Measurement, and Integration with Family Stress Theory, Hansen 10. Self, Relationship, Friends, and Family: Some Applications of Systems Perspectives to Romantic Jealousy, White 11. The Motive for the Arousal of Romantic Jealousy: Its Cultural Origin, Hupka 12. Envy and Jealousy: Self and Society, Salovey & Rothman
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TL;DR: In this paper, the AA report on a 40-year study of 169 college men and their wives examined marital satisfaction prospectively and retrospectively and found that marital satisfaction followed a weak curvilinear pattern with the lowest point of marriage at approximately 20 years.
Abstract: The AA. report on a 40-year study of 169 college men and their wives. They examined marital satisfaction prospectively and retrospectively. When examined retrospectively, marital satisfaction followed a weak curvilinear pattern with the lowest point of marriage at approximately 20 years. When studied prospectively, the U-curve disappeared and marital satisfaction remained relatively stable, particularly in the middle and later years. The difference between the spouses came only in their assesment of the difficulty of solving disagreements, which seemed for the wives to become more difficult over time. These patterns of marital satisfaction held true whether studied according to number of years married, age of each partner, or stage of the family life cycle.
TL;DR: This paper examined the extent to which cohabitation resembles marriage by comparing patterns of partner choice in the formation of married and cohabiting couples and found that choices of a co-habitation partner give greater weight than choices of marriage partner to achieved characteristics (such as education) which can reflect a short-term ability to contribute to the relationship.
Abstract: This paper examines the extent to which cohabitation resembles marriage by comparing patterns of partner choice in the formation of married and cohabiting couples....On the assumption that cohabitations are not informal marriages but relationships formed by a looser bond we use exchange theory to predict differences in partner choice. Since cohabitations are less permanent than marriages we hypothesize that choices of a cohabitation partner give greater weight than choices of a marriage partner to achieved characteristics (such as education) which can reflect a short-term ability to contribute to the relationship. In turn we expect that choices of a cohabitation partner give less weight to ascribed characteristics (such as age race and religion) that reflect long-term considerations. That study hypothesis is tested using propensities to marry and to cohabit calculated from the [U.S.] National Survey of Families and Households. (EXCERPT)
TL;DR: Etude des pratiques educatives des meres divorcees afin de verifier l'hypothese selon laquelle les difficultes sont plus grandes dans la famille monoparentale as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Etude des pratiques educatives des meres divorcees afin de verifier l'hypothese selon laquelle les difficultes sont plus grandes dans la famille monoparentale (problemes psychologiques du parent seul et pratiques educatives inefficaces) . l'A. montre en effet que le stress, l'assistance et le comportement antisocial caracterisent l'etat psychique et les pratiques educatives des meres seules.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated work-family connections and economic success among women and men small business owners and found that there is considerable gender similarity in the processes through which business and individual characteristics affect personal earnings.
Abstract: This study investigates work-family connections and economic success among women and men small business owners. We use what we term gender similarity and gender difference models to frame this investigation. The first model emphasizes the similarities between women and men in the processes through which work outcomes are determined. In contrast, the gender difference model assumes deeply rooted institutional and individual bases of gender difference. Analyses of data from a 3-year panel survey of 99 women and 312 men owners show more support for the gender similarity than the gender difference model. There is considerable gender similarity in the processes through which business and individual characteristics affect personal earnings, although women owners are disadvantaged in some characteristics critical to business success. Family situation has a direct impact on these owners' business success and indirectly affects personal earnings. We uncover vestiges of traditional gender roles consistent with the gender difference model, but primarily in the context of marriage. Thus, children are experienced as an incentive to fulfill the good provider role not only among married men but also by single women. The event history analyses show that these effects persist over time.
TL;DR: Analyse du role joue par l'appartenance raciale dans le bien-etre marital as mentioned in this paper, analyzes du role Joue et al.
Abstract: Analyse du role joue par l'appartenance raciale dans le bien-etre marital. Hypothese que les Noirs americains considerent que leur union est moins harmonieuse que celle des Blancs americains ; de meme les Noires americaines seraient moins satisfaites de leur mariage que les Blanches. La communaute noire americaine se caracterise semble-t-il par un moindre soutien emotionnel et financier entre epoux comparativement a la population blanche
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to build on existing work concerning the timing and the process of leaving home to the different destinations of marriage and independent living in the United States.
Abstract: In this article we use data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to build on existing work concerning the timing and the process of leaving home to the different destinations of marriage and independent living in the United States....We find that among recent cohorts the trend has been towards leaving later particularly so for men. Moreover young people are more likely to leave to independent living and are less likely to leave to marriage....We also find substantial [effects from]...factors such as race and region characteristics of the family of origin the young persons own income resources and contextual variables such as unemployment. In particular we find that short-term changes in characteristics of family background have an important influence on the timing and destination of departures. (EXCERPT)
TL;DR: The authors analyse le discours de 200 enquetes and observe des differences d'attitude selon qu'il s'agit de femmes ou d'hommes de race blanche ou noire and d'origine ethnique variee.
Abstract: Etude du desir de mariage et des differences d'opinion selon la race, l'ethnicite et le genre aux Etats-Unis. L'A. analyse le discours de 200 enquetes et observe des differences d'attitude selon qu'il s'agit de femmes ou d'hommes de race blanche ou noire et d'origine ethnique variee
TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative study of relations familiales des adolescents americains de race blanche and de race noire is presented. Consequences of these types of relations on le developpement psychologique de l'adolescent et sur son avenir (problemes de la jeunesse, notamment la delinquance).
Abstract: Analyse comparative des relations familiales des adolescents americains de race blanche et de race noire. Consequences de ces types de relations familiales et sociales sur le developpement psychologique de l'adolescent et sur son avenir (problemes de la jeunesse, notamment la delinquance).
TL;DR: In this paper, a model was developed regarding direct and indirect effects of socialization and spousal attitudes upon the supportive parenting and harsh discipline of husbands and wives, and the data used to test the model were collected as part of the first two wawes of the Iowa Youth and Families Project, a longitudinal study of 451 two-parent families living in the Midwest.
Abstract: A model was developed regarding direct and indirect effects of socialization and spousal attitudes upon the supportive parenting and harsh discipline of husbands and wives. The data used to test the model were collected as part of the 1st two wawes of the Iowa Youth and Families Project, a longitudinal study of 451 two-parent families living in the Midwest. As hypothesized, quality of parenting received as a child, satisfaction with the parent-child relationship, education, and various parenting beliefs predicted the parenting practices of both mothers and fathers. As expected, wives' parenting beliefs and degree of satisfaction with the child influenced the quality of parenting of their husbands, whereas the reverse was not the case.
TL;DR: Decision de mariage des femmes et race as discussed by the authors : constat selon lequel les femmes americaines de race noire se marient moins than les americainesses de race blanche.
Abstract: Decision de mariage des femmes et race : constat selon lequel les femmes americaines de race noire se marient moins que les americaines de race blanche ; etude de l'attitude et des motivations des femmes envers le mariage, en particulier des femmes noires americaines
TL;DR: The authors compare les pratiques educatives des parents americains d'origine mexicaine envers les adolescents of the premiere, second, and troisieme generation.
Abstract: Cette etude compare les pratiques educatives des parents americains d'origine mexicaine envers les adolescents de la premiere, seconde et troisieme generation. L'etude met en evidence l'influence de la generation et des facteurs socio-culturels sur le style d'education des parents envers les adolescents. Les pratiques educatives varient ainsi en fonction du milieu socio-culturel et comportent des differences intergenerationnelles
TL;DR: This article examined three data sets and found that many of these assumptions about custodial fathers are simply not true and argued that current child support policies should be re-examined to ensure that they follow the same principles when the custodial parent is the father as when the Custodial Parent is the mother.
Abstract: Men are increasingly receiving custody of their children, and single-father families with children are increasing at a faster rate than even single-mother families. Howewer, many observers still believe that there are few custodial fathers. Indeed, there are number of myths concerning custodial fathers. We examine three data sets and determine that many of these assumptions about custodial fathers are simply not true. We argue that current child support policies should be re-examined to ensure that they follow the same principles when the custodial parent is the father as when the custodial parent is the mother.
TL;DR: Structure familiale et relations familiales et sociales : etude des formes et de la logique des relations sociales et familiales mises en oeuvre (famille etendue) selon le type de structure familiale (family traditionnelle ou non, a deux parents, familles incompletes) as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Structure familiale et relations familiales et sociales : etude des formes et de la logique des relations sociales et familiales mises en oeuvre (famille etendue) selon le type de structure familiale (famille traditionnelle ou non, a deux parents, familles incompletes). Analyse de la caracteristique des relations parent-enfant, des relations de parente et des relations amicales dans ces differents cadres familiaux
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse les relations entre division du travail familial and satisfaction conjugale des femmes mariees, and conclude that les epouse exercant une activite professionnellle a temps plein percoivent un moindre soutien de la part de leur mari lorsque la division du Travail domestique est inegale.
Abstract: Cette etude analyse les relations entre division du travail familial et satisfaction conjugale des femmes mariees. Les resultats de cette etude realisee aupres de 287 femmes mariees montrent que les epouses exercant une activite professionnellle a temps plein percoivent un moindre soutien de la part de leur mari lorsque la division du travail domestique est inegale
TL;DR: The role of cohabitation in the legitimation of premarital conceptions is considered using data on a sample of 920 women from the [U.S.] National Survey of Families and Households as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The role of cohabitation in the legitimation of premarital conceptions is considered using data on a sample of 920 women from the [U.S.] National Survey of Families and Households....Cohabitation does not appear to be a substitute for marriage....Findings indicate that cohabitation is part of the legitimation process and that it influences white womens and black womens marital behavior differently. This is a revised version of a paper originally presented at the 1992 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America. (EXCERPT)
TL;DR: This article found that the more adaptability, the better the outcomes for girls, but not for other family members, consistent with Beavers' theory, and found that cohesion has a direct linear relationship to positive outcomes.
Abstract: First, the AA. review theoritical controversies and methodological issues centering around tests of Olson's circumplex model, Beaver's system theory, and social support theory. Then, they derive hypotheses about the effects of cohesion and adaptability on family members' psychological functioning, behavior, and perceptions of family relationships. The dependent variables are depression, anxiety, identity diffusion, individuation, self-esteem, deviance, school misconduct, grades, marital agreement, and parent-child communication. Instead of a curvilinear effect, they find that cohesion has a direct linear relationship to positive outcomes, a finding consistent with social support theory. Consistent with Beavers' theory, they find that the more adaptability, the better the outcomes for girls, but not for other family members.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare le travail de la femme au foyer au travisail remunere, i.e., travisaine domestique, plus routinier and moins gratifiant that le travisainere, diminue l'autonomie et le controle individuels.
Abstract: Rester a la maison est encore l'activite principale de beaucoup de femmes a un moment donne de leur vie. L'article compare le travail de la femme au foyer au travail remunere. Il montre que le travail domestique non remunere, plus routinier et moins gratifiant que le travail remunere, diminue l'autonomie et le controle individuels
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of mate availability mens and womens levels of socioeconomic status and employment level of public assistance population size and region on several aspects of family formation and family structure among African Americans were investigated.
Abstract: Census and vital statistics data for U.S. metropolitan areas in 1980 were analyzed to investigate the effects of mate availability mens and womens levels of socioeconomic status and employment level of public assistance population size and region on several aspects of family formation and family structure among African Americans. As predicted by theory mate availability as measured by the sex ratio had a positive effect on marriage prevalence for women and a negative effect on marriage prevalence for men....Mens socioeconomic status had positive effects on mens and womens marriage prevalence the prevalence of husband-wife families the percentage of children residing in husband-wife families and the percentage of marital births. Womens socioeconomic status and level of public assistance had negative effects on these variables. We conclude that mate availability mens socioeconomic status womens status and economic independence are important determinants of African American family formation and family structure. (EXCERPT)