Journal of Undergraduate Research

Rachel Loser and Dr. E. Jeffrey, Hill, Home & Family Life The recent development of the Home & Family Living Analysis (HFL-A) by myself, other students, and faculty of the School of Family Life at Brigham Young University initiated research on the affects of the “home” by administering a home-based scholarly inventory to make visible […]

Nathaniel M. Lambert and Dr. David C. Dollahite ABSTRACT: This study reports results from in-depth interviews with 57 highly religious middle-aged married couples from all the major Abrahamic faiths (Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Mormonism) from New England and Northern California. The study uses grounded theory methods to create themes and a model describing the ways that […]

Sarah Burnham and Professor Spencer Palmer, Family Sciences When I set out to research pioneer stories of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints in Hong Kong, I was rather naive about the amount of work involved. I assumed that it would be a relatively simple matter to gather a base history […]

Mary Heaps and Dr. Catherine Burnham, Home and Family Living Dept My primary goal with this project was to increase awareness of modesty and provide more options for apparel that is both modest and fashionable. My secondary goal was to start up a sewing business, focusing on patternmaking and custom work. I believe I met […]

Caroline Crane and Dr. Ivan Beutler, Home and Family Living Money attitudes may help us better understand potential vulnerabilities of youth in a growing culture of materialism. Today’s American child is immersed in the consumer marketplace to a degree that dwarfs all other historical experience (Schor, 2004). For many teens success revolves around financial status, […]

Rachel J. Berry and Dr. Trevor McKee, Family Sciences With the funds received, I traveled to Russia to collect data. I was there from January through June 1997, teaching English in a kindergarten. One child was videotaped each week for 25 minutes. These videos will be analyzed and results reported in an Honors thesis for […]

Eden Moss and Dr. Brian J. Willoughby, School of Family Life The Marital Paradigm framework [MPF] (Willoughby & Hall, 2013) is a new conceptual model and body of terminology focused on organizing marital attitudes scholarship. Recent scholarship has established that marital attitudes have a strong impact on outcomes. Willoughby and colleagues’ work demonstrates the effect […]

Emily Howard and Drs. Larry Nelson and Sarah Coyne, School of Family Life Anecdotal evidence suggests that ‘gamers’ tend to be socially withdrawn, keeping to themselves and their PlayStations. However, research connecting withdrawal and media use is conflicting and inconclusive, likely because the varying motivations leading to withdrawal are not fully considered1. An approach-avoidance model […]

Alex Jensen and Dr. Jason S. Carroll, School of Family Life In the spring and summer of 2007 the Flourishing Families Project collected data from 500 families in the Seattle area. Each family was given extensive questionnaires and video taped discussing various family topics. Out of these 500 families data was collected on roughly 350 […]