Although much has been learned from cross-sectional research on marriage, an
understanding of how marriages develop, succeed, and fail is best achieved with …

Is “family adaptive strategy” a useful concept? Does use of this concept link actions of
individual families with macro-level social change? This chapter examines the concept of …

Scholars argue that gender culture, understood as a set of beliefs, norms, and social
expectations defining masculinities and femininities, plays an important role in shaping …

We invite you to join us for this book's journey through the exciting field of community
psychology! As a team of authors, we each came to community psychology because it …

We propose a model of family conflict and coercion that links economic stress in family life to
adolescent symptoms of internalizing and externalizing emotions and behaviors. The 180 …

Four replicable findings have emerged regarding the relation between income and
subjective well-being (SWB): 1. There are large correlations between the wealth of nations …

We propose a family process model that links economic stress in family life to prosocial and
problematic adolescent adjustment. Employing a sample of 205 seventh‐grade boys aged …

Why does housework remain" women's work"? Some scholars argue that economic
dependency comples wives to exchange unpaid labor for a share of the husband's income …

Systems theory is the basic theoretical model underlying most contemporary family therapy.
In this accessible introduction, the author traces how systems theory gave rise to family …

This book documents the experiences of rural Iowa families, who lived through the" farm
crisis" years of the 1980s, in a fashion that might help families of the future cope more …