{"title":"Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on young adults experiencing dual family life after high-conflict divorce","authors":"Inge Pasteels","doi":"10.20377/jfr-720","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20377/jfr-720","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: This paper describes the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the family lives of young adults whose parents had been through a high-conflict divorce and the extent to which these 18-to-30-year-olds believed the COVID-19 measures accommodated for their family situation. \u0000Background: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on family lives has been described in recent literature but no attention has been paid to young adults experiencing parental conflict due to a divorce transition impasse. \u0000Method: Data from 24 in-depth interviews were collected in the Belgian province of Limburg using a semi-structured interview guide with open questions and analysed via Nvivo. \u0000Results: Frequency of contact with parents decreased, contact with parents living abroad became nearly impossible. Different interpretations of and approaches to the rules led to frustration and quarrelling in families. The quality of the relationship with parents changed, often in a negative way. Respondents indicated that to their opinion due consideration had not been given to the situation of young adults with divorced parents. \u0000Conclusion: In order to adequately develop COVID-19 rules that are tailored to a wide range of families, with attention to the most vulnerable ones, we recommend that policy makers define a family by using a “feeling family paradigm” rather than defining a family in terms of a household and that they include a multi-actor and multi-disciplinary perspective in the decision-making processes.","PeriodicalId":44669,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrifte Fur Familienforschung-Journal of Family Research","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83274708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Family lives during the COVID-19 pandemic in European Societies: Introduction to the Special Issue","authors":"Ulrike Zartler, Katarzyna Suwada, M. Kreyenfeld","doi":"10.20377/jfr-808","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20377/jfr-808","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: This chapter introduces the reader to the Special Issue \"Family Lives during the COVID-19 Pandemic in European Societies\". \u0000Background: This Special Issue analyses how families, parents, and children have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, and how they have been coping with its related challenges in different societal contexts. \u0000Method: The studies collected in this Special Issue are based on qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods approaches and data that have been gathered during 2020 in a range of European countries. It covers the first lockdown period, the reopening phases, and the months thereafter. \u0000Results: The 20 contributions of this Special Issue show that families shouldered large responsibilities during the pandemic. While the pandemic did not lead to radical shifts in gendered care patterns, mothers and fathers experienced the pandemic differently, with mothers reporting higher levels of stress. Moreover, there was great heterogeneity in how different types of families and children were affected by the pandemic. Single parents and parents and children in low-income households were most strongly affected in their social and economic wellbeing. Social and economic distress are strongly interwoven, and the developments during the pandemic aggravated existing social disparities. \u0000Conclusion: This Special Issue underlines the importance of the family for the functioning of societies during times of crisis. It also shows that policy makers often adopted a too narrow view of what constitutes a family and did not adequately address family diversity in their decision making. This Special Issue furthermore emphasized that there is a danger that the pandemic will increase disparities between families. Thus, parents and their children need adequate support measures that are tailored to their needs, and that are designed to alleviate these social, economic and educational disparities.","PeriodicalId":44669,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrifte Fur Familienforschung-Journal of Family Research","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90325999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Work-family conflict and partners' agreement on fertility preferences among dual-earner couples: Does women's employment status matter?","authors":"Beth A. Latshaw, Deniz Yucel","doi":"10.20377/jfr-689","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20377/jfr-689","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: This study tests the effects of work-family conflict, in both directions, on partners' agreement on fertility preferences among dual-earner couples, as well as whether this relationship varies by women's employment status. \u0000Background: Few studies have examined the relationship between work-family conflict and fertility preferences. Given the high percentages of women working part-time in Germany, it is important to investigate the role working women’s employment status plays to further understand this relationship. \u0000Method: Using data from 716 dual-earner couples in Wave 10 of the German Family Panel (pairfam), we use dyadic data analysis to test whether work-family conflict impacts one’s own (\"actor effects\") and/or one’s partner’s (\"partner effects\") reports of agreement on fertility preferences. We also run multi-group analyses to compare whether these effects vary in \"full-time dual-earner\" versus \"modernized male breadwinner\" couples. \u0000Results: There are significant actor effects for family-to-work conflict in both types of couples, and for work-to-family conflict in modernized male breadwinner couples only. Partner effects for family-to-work conflict exist only among modernized male breadwinner couples. While there are no gender differences in actor or partner effects, results suggest differences in the partner effect (for family-to-work conflict only) between these two couple types. \u0000Conclusion: These findings indicate that work-family conflict is associated with greater partner disagreement on fertility preferences and highlight the differential impact incompatible work and family responsibilities have on fertility decisions when women work full-time versus part-time.","PeriodicalId":44669,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrifte Fur Familienforschung-Journal of Family Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83059479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Resources of families adapting the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany: A mixed-method study of coping strategies and family and child outcomes","authors":"Alexander Langmeyer, Angelika Guglhör-Rudan, Ursula Winklhofer, Sophia Chabursky, Thorsten Naab, Ulrich Pötter","doi":"10.20377/jfr-708","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20377/jfr-708","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: The aim of the present work is to analyse families’ coping with the COVID-19 pandemic depending on available resources by examining the family as a cohesive system. \u0000Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has affected families in several ways, with many studies reporting a decreased well-being of children and parents. How families cope with the new situation is dependent on family resources and personal resources. \u0000Method: A mixed-method approach combines data from an online survey (N = 11,512) and complementary qualitative interviews. The study was conducted in spring 2020 during the initial COVID-19 lockdown in Germany. The study analyses how familial and individual resources affect the family climate and child well-being. \u0000Results: The study uncovered that although structural conditions, processes within the family, and individual ressources, especially the mothers working situation, are relevant for the COVID-19 experience. Family processes are the essential factor for positive family well-being. However, these processes meet their limits if the pre-existing conditions in the families are unfavorable. Nonetheless, children are also capable of developing their coping strategies. \u0000Conclusion: Future studies should examine families and their available resources as a whole system and include the children’s perspective.","PeriodicalId":44669,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrifte Fur Familienforschung-Journal of Family Research","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91389787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The mental load in separated families","authors":"R. Luthra, Tina Haux","doi":"10.20377/jfr-743","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20377/jfr-743","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: This paper asks how evolving contact and gendered working lives, gendered identities, and conflict and parental relationships influence cognitive labour in separated families. \u0000Background: The fact that the often-invisible work of planning, researching, and executing decisions concerning children and household maintenance is borne by women/mothers, receives growing research attention, yet, the bulk of this research focuses on the gendered division of the mental load in intact families. Given the high prevalence of separated families with high levels of father contact, more work is needed to understand how cognitive labour is divided by parents residing in separate households. \u0000Method: This paper draws on 31 semi-structured interviews of separated parents, including 7 former couples. Interviews were sampled from a nationally representative longitudinal survey, Understanding Society, professionally transcribed and thematically analysed with Nvivo. \u0000Results: Analysing the interviews reveals both continuity and change in the division of the mental load following separation. For some families, gendered identities and working lives continue to justify an unequal division of the mental load, even when children spend large amounts of time solely with fathers. In others, conflict can reduce communication between parents, either increasing fathers cognitive labour through parallel parenting or decreasing it when fathers are excluded from decision-making altogether. Finally, separation can present a turning point where working lives and identities are re-evaluated, and the mental load can be negotiated anew. \u0000Conclusion: We provide new evidence that the mental load remains gendered even among those practicing a relatively \"modern\" family form of shared care post-separation, while highlighting possibilities for variation and change.","PeriodicalId":44669,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrifte Fur Familienforschung-Journal of Family Research","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86045843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Childcare, work or worries? What explains the decline in parents' well-being at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany?","authors":"B. Vicari, Gundula Zoch, Ann-Christin Bächmann","doi":"10.20377/jfr-707","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20377/jfr-707","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: We examine how care arrangements, general and altered working conditions, and worries influenced subjective well-being at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic for working parents in Germany. \u0000Background: Prior research suggests several reasons for declines in subjective well-being, particularly for working mothers. We employ Pearlin's (1989) stress process model to explore the role of parental childcare, altered working conditions and amplified worries of working parents in terms of increased stressors and modified resources to cope with the extraordinary situation. \u0000Method: We use data from two starting cohorts from the National Educational Panel Study and its supplementary COVID-19 web survey from spring 2020 to examine possible heterogeneities in contextual factors for individual-level changes in the well-being of working mothers and fathers. \u0000Results: We confirm a more pronounced decline in well-being for working mothers than fathers. Part-time work and access to emergency care reduce the gender gap in decreased well-being. Conversely, young children in the household and personal worries are associated with lower well-being for both parents. However, we cannot explain the more significant decrease in mothers’ well-being by increased childcare responsibilities or altered working conditions. \u0000Conclusion: A greater decline in well-being indicates a particular burden among working mothers. However, it cannot be linked solely to gendered inequalities in the changes of paid and unpaid work during the first months of the pandemic.","PeriodicalId":44669,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrifte Fur Familienforschung-Journal of Family Research","volume":"60 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84159547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Family- Work Conflicts and Defensive Mechanisms in Infertile and Fertile Working Women","authors":"Fatemeh Shahamat Dehsorkh, Elham Najar Shahri","doi":"10.52547/jfr.17.3.455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52547/jfr.17.3.455","url":null,"abstract":"1/8/ 1400 Abstract According to the academic literature, infertility is a feeling of helplessness that affects the general Psychological health in women. Psychoanalytic theories believe that infertility is a defensive response to ambivalent feelings about maternity and individual goals. This research aims to investigate the discriminating power of work family conflicts questionnaire and Defensive Styles Questionnaire (DSQ) in infertile and fertile women. Discriminant function analysis result showed that 67.7% of samples can be differentiated according these two variables (Wilks’ Lambda= 0.85, X 2 = 10.14, p<0.05). Results showed that infertile women, compared to fertile ones have more conflicts and more defensive mechanisms. According to psychoanalytic theories these results can be explained as psychological suppression of fertility. Intolerance of ambivalence and conflict between career goals and desires for parenthood has a psychological suppressing impact in fertility.","PeriodicalId":44669,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrifte Fur Familienforschung-Journal of Family Research","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73526457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Non-Contractual Indebtedness due to the Transmission of Coronavirus in Couples’ Relationships","authors":"hasan Shah Malek pour, Hasan Shahmalekpour","doi":"10.52547/jfr.17.3.423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52547/jfr.17.3.423","url":null,"abstract":"16/8/ 1400 Abstract COVID-19 has greatly affected the social life in the present era and its dangerous consequences on people’s lives have been a serious social concern. One of the most important characteristic of this disease is that it is highly contagious. Obviously in families, which the couples are at the center, living in the same house and having many direct and indirect contacts, the possibility of transmission of this disease is high if one member contracts Despite the medical aspects of this issue, there are also important legal aspects. This article specifically seeks the answer to the question that whether the disease carrier is liable if they transmit the disease to their partner. For example, if the receiver dies, is it possible to hold the carrier respon-sible? Jurisprudence and legal studies show that if the carrier knows that they are carrying the virus, in some situations it constitutes a deliberate crime which can be punished but if the carrier does not know about it, it is not accepted that they are liable for compensation.","PeriodicalId":44669,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrifte Fur Familienforschung-Journal of Family Research","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88050789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Iraj Mokhtarnai, A. Zadeh Mohammadi, L. Panaghi, M. Cheraghi
{"title":"Major Conflicts of Adolescents With Parents During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Iran","authors":"Iraj Mokhtarnai, A. Zadeh Mohammadi, L. Panaghi, M. Cheraghi","doi":"10.52547/jfr.17.3.385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52547/jfr.17.3.385","url":null,"abstract":"13/6/ 1400 Abstract This study aims to identify the major conflicts of parent-adolescent relationships during the COVID-19 pandemic. The sample consisted of 1590 adolescents livi-ng in Tehran who virtually answered the Revised Parent-Adolescent Conflict Checklist about at least one of these issues. Media use (phones, internet, gaming, and computer use) was the major conflict between parents and adolescents in 13 conflict domains, and 50% of adolescents argued with their parents about these issues at least once or several times per day during the COVID 19 Pandemic. Also, the areas of \"parental behavior,\" \"disciplinary issues,\" and \"educational issues\" were other major dimensions of parent-adolescent conflict, respectively. In general, the present study examined 13 conflict dimensions of parent-adolescent and the role of age and gender differences in these dimensions. Due to the high frequency of daily conflicts in parent-adolescent relationships in the Covid- 19 pandemic and the risk factor of parent-adolescent conflicts in the area of media use in the occurrence of psychological harms such as Internet dependence in adolescents should be considered.","PeriodicalId":44669,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrifte Fur Familienforschung-Journal of Family Research","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90654855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mousa Choupani, maryam fafehizade, Faramarz Asanjarani, Alberto Mario de Castro Correa
{"title":"Existential Phenomena in Men's Marital Infidelity","authors":"Mousa Choupani, maryam fafehizade, Faramarz Asanjarani, Alberto Mario de Castro Correa","doi":"10.52547/jfr.17.3.483","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52547/jfr.17.3.483","url":null,"abstract":"5/7/ 1400 Abstract Explaining the cause of tendency to marital infidelity, especially among people with religious backgrounds, merely focu-sing on elements such as emotional-sexual dissatisfaction or marital conflict, is a sort of superficial. The purpose of this study is to analyze the phenomena in men's identification of six sub-themes (escape from contemplation & pause, escape from destiny, struggle with existential loneliness, hollow and desire-oriented love, value transformation and escape from existential emptiness) and a major theme (of existential alienation). Revealing these factors not only increases information and awareness about the how cues of marital infidelity is formed and intensified from an existential point of view, but also showed that increasing one's awareness toward one's nature and leads to reducing alienation from its dimensions; these issues are things that can reduce a one's desire to the experience of marital infidelity.","PeriodicalId":44669,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrifte Fur Familienforschung-Journal of Family Research","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88065539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}