Landon Hale and David Nelson, School of Family Life “Relational aggression” defines a spectrum of behaviors in which the goal is to manipulate or harm relationships. Common behaviors include gossip, rumors, social exclusion, and threatening to end a relationship. Until relational aggression became a focus of study, males were considered to be aggressive whereas females […]
Pornography Use and Dating Patterns Among Young Adults
Bonnie Young and Brian Willoughby, School of Family Life Introduction Pornography use is known to be disruptive in relationships by creating unrealistic expectations for intimacy and partner image (Daneback, Træen, &Mansson, 2009; Yucel & Gassanov, 2009). This is significant because as emerging adults are searching for potential marriage partners, dating practices may be negatively influenced […]
The Marital Paradigm Study: Wave 2
Brian J Willoughby and Spencer L James, Family Life This project had mentored goals related to student involvement with conducting a research project and collecting data, student independent research projects with data, and general student learning. Below we outline these goals and discuss how each goals was met. Overview of Project Findings We successfully contacted […]
Sleepy meets Grumpy: Daily Sleep Predicting Marital Interactions through Mood
Wesley Godfrey and Jeremy Yorgason, Ph.D., School of Family Life As populations worldwide grow increasingly older, the need to understand associations between daily health behaviors and relational outcomes among the aging population is of great importance. Further, exploring these associations among individuals in a relationship as common, yet as influential, as the marriage relationship is […]
Adult Offenders And The Family Profile II Scale: a Retrospective Assessment of Prisoner And Non-prisoner Families of Origin
Matthew N. I. Oliver and Professor Shirley Klein, Family Sciences Past research on families consistently indicates that parents of delinquents are usually poor managers of income (1), and likely to use excessively lax or excessively strict discipline (2). Although much is known about the families of juvenile delinquents, little research has been done on adult […]
Uniting Men’s Work as Husbands and Fathers: How Men’s Marital Intimacy Influences Their Generative Development
Erin Kramer and Dr. Alan J. Hawkins, Family Sciences I conducted this qualitative analysis to better understand how men care for their wives, how this care influences men’s relationships with their wives, how this care may also influence men’s relationships with their children, and how this care influences men’s personal generative development. My research was […]
Parental Authoritativeness, Social Support and College Adjustment
Sarah Cusworth, Kelly McCoy, Family Sciences College Adjustment A factor analysis (principal component analysis, Varimax rotation method) of the 28 college adjustment questions yielded eight factors. Five of these factors closely related to the five subsections in the adjustment measure. Because the questions hung together in the analysis it was assumed that the questionnaire was […]
From Prison to Home
Rebecca Snyder and Professor Randal Day, School of Family Life Introduction Despite the recent slowing of population rates within the United States prison system, the prison population is at a record high. The vast majority of these 1.4 million incarcerated individuals will be released back into the community, and a significant number of these ex-inmates will […]
Daily Coping Responses of Children Who Have a Sibling with a Disability
Shannon Wright Martino and Dr. Susanne Olsen, School of Family Life A child with a disability may be a unique stressor to all members of the family. For years, researchers have focused on the parents and the child with a disability in the family. However, fewer studies have specifically focused on typically developing siblings of […]
Home and Family Living Analysis: The Family Meal Environment
Leah Schreiner and Professor Shirley Klein, Home and Family Living Family scholar Kerry Daly (2003) explains the need to examine aspects of everyday family activities that he describes as negative spaces. Two of these areas are time and space. The time and the space in which families do their work contribute to, and is the essence […]