Family sciencePub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.1080/19424620.2015.1082045
C. Gosnell, Shelly L. Gable
{"title":"Providing partner support in good times and bad: Providers’ outcomes","authors":"C. Gosnell, Shelly L. Gable","doi":"10.1080/19424620.2015.1082045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19424620.2015.1082045","url":null,"abstract":"Past work has often examined outcomes associated with receiving support for the support recipient, but less work has focused on the impact that providing support has on the support provider. In this study, we examined the impact of providing responsive support (i.e. support that communicates understanding, validation, and caring) on the support provider. In a 10-day daily experience study, 78 romantic partners (39 couples) reported once a day on their responses to their partners’ positive and negative event disclosures. Specifically, participants reported on whether their partner talked about an event and the intended responsiveness of their response, and completed several daily personal and relationship well-being measures (relationship satisfaction, life satisfaction, vitality, and anxiety). Analyses revealed that providing responsive support for positive event disclosures was associated with benefits for the support provider, including higher daily relationship and life satisfaction, and vitality. In contrast, providing responsive support for negative event disclosures was associated with lower levels of daily well-being (less relationship satisfaction, greater anxiety). However, being someone who typically provides responsive support for negative events was still optimal over the course of the study. Results are discussed in terms of the immediate and longer-term differences between being responsive to positive event disclosures (i.e. capitalization) and negative event disclosures (i.e. traditional social support).","PeriodicalId":89367,"journal":{"name":"Family science","volume":"6 1","pages":"150 - 159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19424620.2015.1082045","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60319686","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}
Family sciencePub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.1080/19424620.2015.1082012
C. Finkenauer, Asuman Buyukcan-Tetik
{"title":"To know you is to feel intimate with you: Felt knowledge is rooted in disclosure, solicitation, and intimacy","authors":"C. Finkenauer, Asuman Buyukcan-Tetik","doi":"10.1080/19424620.2015.1082012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19424620.2015.1082012","url":null,"abstract":"People desire and need to know their relationship partner, and evidence shows that they feel that they know their partner. How does this feeling of knowing one’s partner develop? In this study, we examined three behavioral sources of felt knowledge: partner-disclosure, self-disclosure, and information solicitation. We predicted that the three sources not only contribute to felt knowledge, but also to feelings of intimacy. Felt knowledge and intimacy should be initiated when close partners communicate personally relevant information to the other. They should thereby be mutually transformative: the more people feel they know their partner, the more they should feel intimate with the partner, and the more they feel intimate with the partner, the more they should feel they know their partner. Findings from a five-wave longitudinal study among married couples, revealed good support for model predictions: (1) behavioral sources of knowledge promoted felt knowledge, which, in turn, increased feelings of intimacy, and (2) sources of knowledge promoted feelings of intimacy, which, in turn, increased felt knowledge. These results highlight the subjective and inherently relational nature of felt knowledge and intimacy: although people feel they know their partner, this knowledge is not exclusively fuelled by partner input. Rather, people’s own behavior, their own disclosure and solicitation, contribute to felt knowledge, which plays a crucial role in maintaining close relationships.","PeriodicalId":89367,"journal":{"name":"Family science","volume":"6 1","pages":"109 - 118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19424620.2015.1082012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60319785","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}
Family sciencePub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.1080/19424620.2015.1082340
Evrim Altintas
{"title":"Educational differences in fathers’ time with children in two parent families: Time diary evidence from the United States","authors":"Evrim Altintas","doi":"10.1080/19424620.2015.1082340","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19424620.2015.1082340","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines educational differences in fathers’ time spent in primary and secondary childcare activities using the American Time Use Survey (2003–2013). Compared to fathers with lower educational attainment, well-educated fathers spend more engaged time with their children, where a child is the main center of attention. Although highly educated fathers are not more accessible to their children than fathers with less education, they spend more time in developmental childcare activities associated with positive outcomes for children. The effect of fathers’ education on time spent in routine childcare is completely explained by spouse’s education, whereas father’s time in managerial or developmental childcare activities is hardly affected. Overall, the results indicate distinct fathering practices by educational attainment, some of which are explained by spouse’s education.","PeriodicalId":89367,"journal":{"name":"Family science","volume":"6 1","pages":"293 - 301"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19424620.2015.1082340","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60320013","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}
Family sciencePub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.1080/19424620.2015.1075894
B. Figueiredo, A. Conde
{"title":"First- and second-time parents’ couple relationship: from pregnancy to second year postpartum","authors":"B. Figueiredo, A. Conde","doi":"10.1080/19424620.2015.1075894","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19424620.2015.1075894","url":null,"abstract":"First- and second-time parents’ couple relationships were studied from early pregnancy to the second year postpartum. The Relationship Questionnaire (RQ) was administered to Portuguese couples (N = 82), first- or second-time parents, at the first, second and third pregnancy trimester, childbirth, 3 and 18 months postpartum. Adverse changes in positive and negative partner relationship dimensions were reported from early pregnancy to the second year postpartum by all participants; in the same way by mothers and fathers and by first- and second-time parents. Second-time parents reported a worse couple relationship (lower RQ-positive scores) than first-time parents, but only during pregnancy. Results from the present study suggest a decline in partner relationship quality during the transition to parenthood both in mothers and fathers, as well as in first- and second-time parents.","PeriodicalId":89367,"journal":{"name":"Family science","volume":"6 1","pages":"346 - 355"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19424620.2015.1075894","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60318646","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}
Family sciencePub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.1080/19424620.2015.1081900
S. Donato, M. Parise
{"title":"Introduction to special section on the bright side of the couple relationship: Pro-relationship processes in response to positive and negative events","authors":"S. Donato, M. Parise","doi":"10.1080/19424620.2015.1081900","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19424620.2015.1081900","url":null,"abstract":"Partners in couple relationships inevitably encounter positive and negative events in their everyday lives: the ways they respond to such events have relevant effects on their personal and relational well-being. Within partners’ responses to positive and negative events, this special section focuses on partners’ pro-relationship processes regarded as those processes aimed at promoting partners’ relational well-being. Such a focus responds to recent calls to examine the ‘bright side’ of the couple relationship to come to a more complete understanding of how relationships resist to adversities as well as how they strive and flourish. In this special section, we equated the ‘bright side’ of the couple relationship not just with the positive (vs. negative) events couples might face, and not even with the inherent quality of the process responding to such events (positive vs. negative processes), but with the pro-relationship effects that each process might have in the specific context examined. In this special section of Family Science, nine articles analyze innovative aspects of processes traditionally studied in the close relationship literature (i.e. communication, disclosure, support, commitment, and conflict) as well as the role of newer individual processes (i.e. savoring and self-forgiveness) examined in their effects on the couple relationship. Findings are discussed in terms of the understanding of pro-relationship processes in response to positive and negative events as well as in terms of the implications for couple relationship interventions.","PeriodicalId":89367,"journal":{"name":"Family science","volume":"44 1","pages":"94 - 98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19424620.2015.1081900","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60318928","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}
Family sciencePub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.1080/19424620.2015.1081003
J. Mohanty
{"title":"Adoption disclosure and behavioral adjustment of domestic adoptees in India","authors":"J. Mohanty","doi":"10.1080/19424620.2015.1081003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19424620.2015.1081003","url":null,"abstract":"The current study examined the relationship between adoption disclosure and adoptive family adjustment (i.e. children’s problem behaviors and the parent–child relationship) among 55 Indian domestic adoptive parents. The results showed that informing the child of the adoption was not significantly related to problem behaviors or to parent–child relationship. Multiple regression analysis indicated that importance of social disclosure, stronger parent–child relationship, and self-esteem of adoptive parents significantly predicted fewer behavioral problems in children. Post-adoption support should be provided to adoptive families in the form of parental training on issues related to adoption, child development, and how to properly disclose the adoption details to the child.","PeriodicalId":89367,"journal":{"name":"Family science","volume":"6 1","pages":"68 - 76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19424620.2015.1081003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60319284","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}
Family sciencePub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.1080/19424620.2015.1082348
J. Baxter
{"title":"Children’s time with fathers and mothers over the pre-school years: A longitudinal time-use study of couple families in Australia","authors":"J. Baxter","doi":"10.1080/19424620.2015.1082348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19424620.2015.1082348","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores fathering over children’s early years, using longitudinal time-use data for children at ages 0–1, 2–3 and 4–5 years. These Australian data provide information about children’s total and solo time with fathers and mothers on weekdays and weekends. This unique large-scale dataset allows analyses of changes in children’s time with fathers as they grow and with contextual changes such as increases in parental work hours. Taking account of mothers’ return to work, which may mean changes to fathers’ roles, is especially relevant at these ages. Descriptive and multivariate analyses confirm that time with fathers and mothers vary with parents’ work hours, with longitudinal models showing that changes in parental work hours are reflected in changes in children’s time with parents. Children’s time with fathers and mothers are also explored according to a range of other child, parental and family characteristics.","PeriodicalId":89367,"journal":{"name":"Family science","volume":"11 1","pages":"302 - 317"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19424620.2015.1082348","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60320017","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}
Family sciencePub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.1080/19424620.2015.1082051
V. Rouyer, Marie Huet-Gueye, Amandine Baude, Yoan Mieyaa
{"title":"Presentation of the French adaptation of the Parenting Alliance Inventory: Issues in defining and measuring coparenting","authors":"V. Rouyer, Marie Huet-Gueye, Amandine Baude, Yoan Mieyaa","doi":"10.1080/19424620.2015.1082051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19424620.2015.1082051","url":null,"abstract":"The Parenting Alliance Inventory (PAI) is a 20-item questionnaire designed to assess parental alliance as defined by Weissman and Cohen’s theory of parenting alliance. This article aims to describe the first steps in factor structure and construct validation of the French version. A total of 202 French cohabiting parents completed this questionnaire, with the Dyadic Adjustment Scale (a measure of marital satisfaction) and the Parental Stress Index. The results of French families differed from those of American families on the number of factors: first, four factors rather than the original two-factor solution more meaningfully described the French data; and second, only 17 items distributed into these four subscales. Then, these subscales correlated with measures of dyadic adjustment and Parental Stress Index. These findings support the construct validity of the French version of questionnaire, but lead to a discussion of issues in defining and measuring coparenting.","PeriodicalId":89367,"journal":{"name":"Family science","volume":"6 1","pages":"194 - 200"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19424620.2015.1082051","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60320055","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}
Family sciencePub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.1080/19424620.2015.1056917
I. Baetens, T. Andrews, L. Claes, G. Martin
{"title":"The association between family functioning and NSSI in adolescence: The mediating role of depressive symptoms","authors":"I. Baetens, T. Andrews, L. Claes, G. Martin","doi":"10.1080/19424620.2015.1056917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19424620.2015.1056917","url":null,"abstract":"Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) refers to socially unacceptable behavior causing intentional and direct injury to one’s own body tissue without conscious suicidal intent. Recent literature has highlighted the importance of examining the interaction between intrapersonal (e.g. coping, psychopathology) and interpersonal risk factors (e.g. psychopathology in family, family abuse, parenting), for enhancing our understanding of NSSI. The present study adds to this by investigating the association between NSSI, adolescent depressive feelings, and perceived family functioning. A sample of 358 adolescents was assessed by means of self-report measures for (1) NSSI behavior (NSSI-AT), (2) depressive symptoms (CDI-NL), and (3) perceived family functioning (FAD-NL). The prevalence rate of NSSI was 14.29%. Data suggest that general dysfunction of the family as a whole, poor affective involvement, and excessive behavioral control uniquely distinguished between adolescents engaging in NSSI and adolescents not engaging in NSSI. The association between family functioning and NSSI was partially mediated by depressive symptoms. The implications of the findings for further research, prevention, and intervention of NSSI are discussed.","PeriodicalId":89367,"journal":{"name":"Family science","volume":"6 1","pages":"330 - 337"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19424620.2015.1056917","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60318714","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}
Family sciencePub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.1080/19424620.2015.1081007
A. Hu, K. Anderson, Richard M. Lee
{"title":"Let’s talk about race and ethnicity: Cultural socialization, parenting quality, and ethnic identity development","authors":"A. Hu, K. Anderson, Richard M. Lee","doi":"10.1080/19424620.2015.1081007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19424620.2015.1081007","url":null,"abstract":"Parental cultural socialization and general parenting quality are important predictors of ethnic identity (EI) development in adolescents. However, recent research on transracial adoptive families suggests parents and adolescents may have differing perceptions of parental cultural socialization efforts. This study examines differences in mother and adolescent reports of cultural socialization – both racial and ethnic socialization – and the extent to which mother and adolescent reports relate to EI development (clarity, pride, and engagement), after accounting for general parenting quality, in a US sample of 120 internationally adopted Korean American adolescents. This study also examines whether mother reports of cultural socialization moderate the relationship between adolescent reports of cultural socialization and EI development. Results indicate that mothers and adolescents disagree on levels of racial and ethnic socialization, and mother and adolescent reports of ethnic socialization independently related to EI-Clarity, -Pride, and -Engagement. Mother report of racial socialization was also negatively related to EI-Pride. Finally, mother report of ethnic socialization significantly moderated the relationship between adolescent report of ethnic socialization and EI-Clarity.","PeriodicalId":89367,"journal":{"name":"Family science","volume":"6 1","pages":"87 - 93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19424620.2015.1081007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60319195","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}