Nicole C. Wanago, Karen L. Alexander, J. Mitchell Vaterlaus, Hayley Ries Somerfled, Cynthia L. Miller, Kyle L. Roberson
{"title":"A critical science qualitative case study: Historical insights and future directions","authors":"Nicole C. Wanago, Karen L. Alexander, J. Mitchell Vaterlaus, Hayley Ries Somerfled, Cynthia L. Miller, Kyle L. Roberson","doi":"10.1111/fcsr.70001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fcsr.70001","url":null,"abstract":"<p><i>Home Economics: A Definition</i> (1979) was written by Marjorie Brown and Beatrice Paolucci to provide conceptual clarity to the profession. Their work resulted in an inaugural mission statement and three conceptual frameworks to guide thinking and practice, known as the Critical Science Approach (CSA). After 43 years, what the CSA means for the profession remains unclear. This qualitative study used a case study design to learn from scholars' historical and present experiences to explore the role of CSA in the profession. The results identify challenges and opportunities as the profession defines the CSA, enhances accessibility, and explores future directions.</p>","PeriodicalId":46383,"journal":{"name":"Family & Consumer Sciences Research Journal","volume":"53 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/fcsr.70001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143475531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Twyla D. Hough, Christy Rogers, Cynthia L. Miller, Karen L. Alexander
{"title":"Career and education planning among young black women: Implications for FCS educators","authors":"Twyla D. Hough, Christy Rogers, Cynthia L. Miller, Karen L. Alexander","doi":"10.1111/fcsr.70004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fcsr.70004","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This qualitative study investigated how young Black women experience career and education planning (CEP). Eight women from West Texas completed a career exploration and decision-making learning experiences scale and participated in semi-structured interviews. Findings from the data provided a contextualized understanding of CEP, indicating that career exploration and decision-making learning experiences, work-based learning, and social agents positively influence CEP. These findings provide an awareness of CEP experiences that can inform how family and consumer sciences educators and practitioners support CEP in a way that helps individuals from marginalized communities circumvent career-related disadvantages encountered during the transition from adolescence into adulthood.</p>","PeriodicalId":46383,"journal":{"name":"Family & Consumer Sciences Research Journal","volume":"53 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143475532","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":"Panel of Reviewers for 2024","authors":"Mari Borr","doi":"10.1111/fcsr.70007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fcsr.70007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46383,"journal":{"name":"Family & Consumer Sciences Research Journal","volume":"53 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143475526","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":"Class dismissed: When colleges ignore inequality and students pay the price By Jack, A. A., Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2024. pp. 293. ISBN: 9780691237466 (hdk) and ISBN 9780691237473 (ebk)","authors":"Sharon A. DeVaney","doi":"10.1111/fcsr.70009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fcsr.70009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46383,"journal":{"name":"Family & Consumer Sciences Research Journal","volume":"53 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143475596","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":"Beyond the hanger: Investigation of consumers' sustainable disposal behavior of clothing items","authors":"Fatema Tuj Jahura, Amrut Sadachar","doi":"10.1111/fcsr.70011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fcsr.70011","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study investigated the personal and situational factors that influence consumers' sustainable clothing disposal behavior using the theory of interpersonal behavior. Data were collected via an online survey of 293 U.S. participants and analyzed using regression techniques. The results supported five of the six hypotheses, indicating that both attitudes toward environmentally friendly clothing and positive affect toward sustainable disposal behavior are significant predictors of disposal intentions. However, perceived social pressure was not found to have a significant impact. Furthermore, perceived convenience, sustainable disposal intentions, and established recycling habits were identified as key predictors of actual sustainable clothing disposal behavior.</p>","PeriodicalId":46383,"journal":{"name":"Family & Consumer Sciences Research Journal","volume":"53 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143475597","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":"Articles published in the Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal in 2024","authors":"Mari Borr","doi":"10.1111/fcsr.70008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fcsr.70008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46383,"journal":{"name":"Family & Consumer Sciences Research Journal","volume":"53 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143475525","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}
Isaura M. Castillo-Hernández, Hannah K. Wilson, Ewan R. Williams, Alison C. Berg, Ellen M. Evans
{"title":"Exercise benefits and barriers in an extension-delivered diabetes prevention program","authors":"Isaura M. Castillo-Hernández, Hannah K. Wilson, Ewan R. Williams, Alison C. Berg, Ellen M. Evans","doi":"10.1111/fcsr.70000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fcsr.70000","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Limited evidence of determinants of exercise (EX)/physical activity (PA) behavior change exists in the context of Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) implementation. Participants (<i>n</i> = 50, 57.3 ± 12.9 yo, BMI = 35.1 ± 6.2) were assessed for weight status, self-reported EX/PA behavior, and perceived benefits and barriers at baseline and completion of an Extension-delivered DPP. EX/PA behavior improved in response to the intervention, albeit statistically insignificant (<i>p</i> > 0.05). Perceived benefits of EX/PA were (1) enhanced physical performance and (2) reduction in risk of disease, whereas the exertion for EX/PA behaviors was the greatest barrier (all <i>p</i> < 0.05).</p>","PeriodicalId":46383,"journal":{"name":"Family & Consumer Sciences Research Journal","volume":"53 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143466262","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":"Theses and dissertations completed in family and consumer sciences: 2023","authors":"Jacinta D. Hinson, Karen L. Alexander","doi":"10.1111/fcsr.12538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fcsr.12538","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Completion of family and consumer sciences graduate degrees and research has been collected annually and published in the Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal since 1992. Data collection for 2023 began in September 2024 when 528 emails were sent to contacts at 163 U.S. universities and colleges inviting FCS programs to report graduate program degree completions and research production through submission of titles for theses and dissertations. The 46 responding institutions reported 1550 graduate degrees conferred collectively with 241 master's theses, 282 dissertations, and 1027 non-thesis master's degrees completed. This report presents information submitted by these institutions on 232 theses and 256 dissertations organized by 17 subject-matters categories and degree level.</p>","PeriodicalId":46383,"journal":{"name":"Family & Consumer Sciences Research Journal","volume":"53 2","pages":"108-139"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142762751","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 and consumer sciences graduate research productivity in 2023","authors":"Karen L. Alexander, Jacinta D. Hinson","doi":"10.1111/fcsr.12537","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fcsr.12537","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Family and consumer sciences research from graduate theses and dissertations and the resulting degrees have been reported annually in the Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal since 1992. Requests for the 2023 data began in September 2024 when 528 email invitations were sent to contacts at 163 US universities and colleges with family and consumer sciences programs. Forty-six institutions responded with data and reported that 1550 graduate degrees were conferred collectively, with 1027 non-thesis master's degrees, 241 master's theses, and 282 dissertations completed. This review reports graduate degree completion and highlights topical trends of the theses and dissertations completed by reporting programs.</p>","PeriodicalId":46383,"journal":{"name":"Family & Consumer Sciences Research Journal","volume":"53 2","pages":"61-77"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142762564","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}
Gerrit Hummel, Annalena Nützel, Cora Eder, Patrick Thomas Strubich, Nanette Stroebele-Benschop
{"title":"Estimating family shopping behavior: A multi-perspective approach to understanding grocery shopping","authors":"Gerrit Hummel, Annalena Nützel, Cora Eder, Patrick Thomas Strubich, Nanette Stroebele-Benschop","doi":"10.1111/fcsr.12536","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fcsr.12536","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study examines weekly shopping trips of young families using a multi-perspective approach that considers psychological personality traits, situational influences, and socio-demographic factors to explain food purchases. Over a period of 4 weeks, the data of 60 shoppers and their families as well as 217 purchases were recorded using questionnaires and receipts. Analysis showed that personality traits and socio-demographic data are good predictors of food purchases. The study provides insights into the complexity of shopping behavior, shows the need for multi-perspective approaches, and enables the derivation of strategies to optimize healthy shopping behavior for young families.</p>","PeriodicalId":46383,"journal":{"name":"Family & Consumer Sciences Research Journal","volume":"53 2","pages":"88-107"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/fcsr.12536","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142762108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}