Exploring Culturally Based Intrafamilial Stressors among Latino Adolescents
Despite the profound impact that intrafamilial stressors, including parent–adolescent acculturation discrepancies, may have on Latino adolescent behavioral and mental health outcomes, this line of research remains underdeveloped. The purpose of this study is to obtain rich descriptions from Latino adolescents of the most salient intrafamilial stressors. The authors employ focus group methodology with a grounded theory approach. A total of 25 focus groups were conducted with 170 Latino adolescents in the Northeast and Southwest United States. Findings indicate that Latino adolescents experience significant stressors relat...
Source: Family Relations - November 4, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: David Cordova, Amanda Ciofu, Richard Cervantes Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Characteristics of Individual Associated with Involvement in Different Types of Marriage Preparation Interventions
Recent research has shed light broadly on the individual, couple, and contextual characteristics of audiences that are predictive of their involvement in marriage preparation. This research investigates the individual personality characteristics and emotional readiness factors associated with the selection of specific types of marriage preparation interventions. Operating from an ecosystemic‐developmental perspective and the Five‐Factor model of personality, this study assessed eight individual personality and emotional health characteristics (anxiety, depression, extroversion, flexibility, kindness, maturity, organiza...
Source: Family Relations - November 4, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Stephen F. Duncan, Jeffry H. Larson, Shelece McAllister Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Predictors of Change in Relationship Satisfaction during the Transition to Parenthood
This study investigated the role of underexplored individual and contextual risk factors through interactive and additive models. Participating couples (N = 228) completed questionnaires during pregnancy and at 6 and 30 months postpartum. The authors used bootstrapped Bayesian information criterion analyses to select significant and reliable predictors of change in relationship satisfaction within three predefined sets of factors representing components of the vulnerability‐stress‐adaptation model. Anxiety and depression symptoms during pregnancy, shorter length of the relationship, and lower levels of constructive...
Source: Family Relations - November 4, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tea Trillingsgaard, Katherine J. W. Baucom, Richard E. Heyman Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
An Actor‐Partner Model of Relationship Effort and Marital Quality
Several studies demonstrate a strong, positive association between relationship effort, which may be defined as one's attitude and behavior toward improving a romantic relationship, and relationship quality. Relationship self‐regulation scholars have argued that effort is dyadic, where one partner's effort influences the other partner's perceptions of relationship quality and vice versa. Yet studies addressing actor‐partner effects for relationship effort are lacking. The authors address this issue by using actor‐partner interdependence models and data from 795 first married couples in the Relationship Evaluation Sur...
Source: Family Relations - November 4, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kevin Shafer, Todd M. Jensen, Jeffry H. Larson Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
The Fatherhood Experience of Divorced Custodial Fathers in Israel
Abstract
This qualitative study examines the fatherhood experience of 20 divorced men who are raising children on their own. The findings were gathered from semistructured in‐depth interviews. The interviewees' depictions revealed a process of making place for oneself in a multiparticipant arena facing social systems, the mother of the children, and the children themselves. The main findings concern the circumstances of single fatherhood: a constraint and a choice stemming from the mother's incapacity, the nature of the relationships created between mother and children and between father and mother, and the burden and pl...
Source: Family Relations - November 4, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Orna Cohen, Ricky Finzi‐Dottan, Gali Tangir‐Dotan Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
