Test 3 readings from d2l

Question 1

(Lansford, 2009) Parental Divorce and Children’s Adjustment

Answer 1

-small in magnitude and not universal
-conduct problems and father-child relationship outcomes showed the largest effects
-divorce has larger effects on relationships with nonresidential fathers and externalizing behaviors than it does on internalizing problems or academic achievement
-Parental divorce was related to boys’ externalizing
trajectories differently depending on the timing of the divorce. In particular, parental divorce during elementary school was related to an increase in boys’ externalizing behaviors that began in the year of the divorce and persisted for years afterward.
-Links between divorce and children’s adjustment are moderated by several factors, including children’s age at the time of their parental divorce.
-stigmatization has been considered as a
potential moderator of the link between parents’ divorce and children’s adjustment. Divorce would be expected to have more detrimental effects for children in societal contexts in which family forms other than two-parent biological families are stigmatized than it would in societies that are more accepting of diverse family forms.
-Interparental conflict
-Genetic effects-genes and environment
-monozygotic twin has a 250% increase in risk of divorcing if his or her cotwin has divorced. -Furthermore, divorce is more concordant
between monozygotic than dizygotic twins
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Question 2

Sweeney (2010) Remarriage and Stepfamilies: Strategic Sites for Family Scholarship in the 21st century

Answer 2

.-positive association between educational
attainment and remarriage among U.S. women,
whereas education is generally found to have
either no association or a negative association
with ‘‘repartnership’’ more broadly defined
-After a marital dissolution, the transition
to remarriage is associated with improvement
in physical and emotional well-being relative
to remaining single

Question 3

Fiese & Winter (2009) Family Stories and Rituals

Answer 3

-Family stories set an interpretive framework for how members have struggled with, and sometimes resolved, emotionally evocative circumstances.
-Coherence refers to the fluidity or organization
of the story. A coherent narrative is easy to follow; has a relatively clear beginning, middle, and end; and points are dearly convincing.
-Coding for narrative coding scheme: disengaged, conflictual/disruptive, conflictual/contained, cooperative, collaborative
-Routines have a protective quality, serving to buffer individuals from some of the morbidities
associated with chronic health conditions
-supportive and disruptive elements of routine and rituals

Question 4

Soliz et al (2006) Grandparent-grandchild relationships

Answer 4

• quality
• age salience
• culture
• technology
• identity

Question 5

Perry-Jenkins (2004) Jobs, Marriage, and Parenting

Answer 5

• work socialization perspective
• occupational stress
• dual-earner families
• high status dual earners, low stress dual earners, and main secondary provider families

Question 6

McGoldrick & Carter (2003) The Family Life Cycle

Answer 6

• the individual, the family, and cultural

- steps of the family cycle

Question 7

Gelles & Cavenaugh (2005) Violence, Abuse, and Neglect in families and intimate relationships

Answer 7

• only sensational cases have reached public attention
• no definitive data about extent or frequency of these
• factors associated with violence: gender, stress, social characteristics, social isolation
• intergenerational transmission:

Question 8

Palazzolo et al (2010) The Relationship Between Parents’ Verbal Aggression and Young Adult
Children’s Intimate Partner Violence Victimization and Perpetration

Answer 8

-Intimate Relationship violence: “physical, sexual, or psychological harm by a current or former partner or spouse [which] can occur among heterosexual or same-sex couples and does not require sexual intimacy.” IPV includes behaviors
that range from a single occurrence to chronic abuse, with varying levels of severity.
-Verbal aggression: attacking the self-concept of another person (e.g., insults, threats, profanity, yelling, etc.). According to the communication
skills deficiency model (Infante & Wigley; Sabourin,
Infante, & Rudd, 1993), people use verbal aggression and physical aggression when they do not have the skills necessary for dealing with the normal frustrations of interpersonal interactions.
-perceived father verbal aggression did not correlate with any of the three victimization variables for daughters, but was significantly and positively related to two of the three victimization variables for sons (i.e., physical and sexual). The opposite pattern was observed for mothers, where perceived mother verbal aggression was significantly and positively related to all three victimization variables for daughters, but was unrelated to all of the victimization
variables for sons.
-there are some differences in perceived and self-report ratings of parent verbal aggression, with the most pronounced differences in children’s ratings of mother verbal aggression as higher than mother self-report ratings.
-people use verbal aggression and physical
aggression when they do not have the skills necessary for dealing with the normal frustrations of interpersonal interactions, and that parents lacking communication skills might resort to verbal and/or physical aggression to gain compliance from their children when other methods fail.