This review focuses on broad themes characterizing marital research in the past decade. In
addition to continuing themes, such as a focus on conflict, violence, and impact on physical …

Highlights•Divorce rate in first-marriages has stabilized, but in remarriages it continues to
rise.•Stepfamily stress increases the risk of divorce via depression and marital …

This third edition of Family Communication carefully examines state-of-the art research and
theories of family communication and family relationships. In addition to presenting …

What is the role of an interpersonal communication textbook? Knapp and Vangelisti believe
that part of this role is to “identify several important patterns of communication” as they …

Thirty‐two stepdaughters and 17 stepsons participated in this grounded theory study of
emerging adult stepchildren's perceptions about how relationships with their stepparents …

Abstract The Communicate Bond Belong (CBB) theory is an evolutionary and motivational
explanation of human communication's role in the relational functions of social interaction …

This paper seeks to stimulate additional research on a form of workforce differentiation
specific to family firms: the asymmetric treatment of family versus nonfamily employees …

The current study was conducted to explore the family communication and family system as
the predictors of family satisfaction in adolescents. A Purposive sample comprised of 120 …

This study examines how often adolescents interact with family members and how
adolescents feel when spending time with parents, nonresident parents, stepparents …

Stepfamily scholars have emphasized the importance of including stepchildren in the
analysis and discussion of stepfamily life. This systematic review synthesized recent …