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Papers by Ann Crouter
Annals of Tourism Research, 2007
The tourism industry is well known as one where operating managers have had to make sacrifices in... more The tourism industry is well known as one where operating managers have had to make sacrifices in their family and personal lives. This article reviews what is known about the work-family interface in relation to hotel managers in an effort to identify ways to gain a strategic advantage in this competitive sector. By integrating research from several disciplines, this article presents a heuristic framework delineating organizational level inputs to workfamily relationships for tourism managers. It examines organizational-, individual-, and family-level outcomes of the interface, as well as the processes linking these components and moderators thought to impact these relationships. Conclusions focus on innovative practices implemented to address work-family concerns.
Background and Purpose. Realities of rural living make transitioning off welfare challenging, par... more Background and Purpose. Realities of rural living make transitioning off welfare challenging, particularly in light of the work-first orientation of current welfare policy. Consequently, there is a need to expand the literature on rural poverty by assessing rural families' experiences with work, welfare, factors that contribute to successful transitions to the workforce, and impacts on parenting. Research has largely been conducted in urban settings to date, so limited conclusions can be drawn for rural families. The current study addresses this gap by examining these relationships with a large sample of rural families. The research questions were 1) What are the underlying economic well-being patterns; 2) What factors predict group membership; and 3) How are these patterns related to quality in the home environment parents provide for children? Method. We use data from the Family Life Project, a longitudinal study of predominantly low income, nonmetropolitan families in North C...
Journal of Family Psychology, 2015
Mexican-origin parents' work experiences are a di... more Mexican-origin parents' work experiences are a distal extrafamilial context for adolescents' adjustment. This 2-wave multiinformant study examined the prospective mechanisms linking parents' work conditions (i.e., self-direction, work pressure, workplace discrimination) to adolescents' adjustment (i.e., educational expectations, depressive symptoms, risky behavior) across the transition to high school drawing on work socialization and spillover models. We examined the indirect effects of parental work conditions on adolescent adjustment through parents' psychological functioning (i.e., depressive symptoms, role overload) and aspects of the parent-adolescent relationship (i.e., parental solicitation, parent-adolescent conflict), as well as moderation by adolescent gender. Participants were 246 predominantly immigrant, Mexican-origin, 2-parent families who participated in home interviews when adolescents were approximately 13 and 15 years of age. Results supported the positive impact of fathers' occupational self-direction on all 3 aspects of adolescents' adjustment through decreased father-adolescent conflict, after controlling for family socioeconomic status and earner status, and underemployment. Parental work pressure and discrimination were indirectly linked to adolescents' adjustment, with different mechanisms emerging for mothers and fathers. Adolescents' gender moderated the associations between fathers' self-direction and girls' depressive symptoms, and fathers' experiences of discrimination and boys' risk behavior. Results suggest that Mexican-origin mothers' and fathers' perceptions of work conditions have important implications for multiple domains of adolescents' adjustment across the transition to high school. (PsycINFO Database Record
Journal of marriage and the family, 2012
This study examined how the division of household labor changed as a function of marital duration... more This study examined how the division of household labor changed as a function of marital duration and whether within-couple variation in spouses' relative power and availability were linked to within-couple variation in the division of labor. On 4 occasions over 7 years, 188 stably married couples reported on their housework activities using daily diaries. Multilevel models revealed that wives' portions of household responsibilities declined over time, and that changes in spouses' relative income and work hours were linked to changes in housework allocation. Wives with husbands who perceived greater marital control, on average, did proportionally more housework, and for couples with husbands who had highly autonomous jobs, changes in spouses' relative psychological job involvement were linked to changes in housework allocation. Findings highlight the importance of understanding household division of labor as a lifespan phenomenon, the distinction between within- vers...
International Journal of Eating Disorders, 2006
This work describes the developmental course of adolescents&a... more This work describes the developmental course of adolescents' weight concerns and examines links with changes in parent-adolescent relationships for girls and boys. Adolescents and parents in 191 families participated in 3 annual home interviews; adolescents rated their weight concerns and their intimacy and conflict with parents. Parental knowledge was measured based on the match between adolescents' and parents' reports of youth's experiences each day during 7 evening telephone calls. Girls' weight concerns increased from age 11 to 16 and then declined, whereas boys' concerns declined beginning at age 11. Increases in girls' weight concerns were linked to increases in conflict with mothers and fathers and decreases in maternal intimacy and knowledge. At a trend level, declines in boys' weight concerns were associated with declines in father conflict. Mothers and fathers may have unique influences on adolescent weight concerns. Intervention programming should target parent-adolescent relationships.
Applied Developmental Science, 2009
... Racism and African American adolescent development . In CV Willie , PP Rieker , BM Kramer , &... more ... Racism and African American adolescent development . In CV Willie , PP Rieker , BM Kramer , & BS Brown (Eds.), Mental health, racism, and sexism (pp. ... Adolescence , 34 , 493 – 501 . [PubMed], [Web of Science ®], [CSA] View all references; Phinney, Cantu, & Kurtz, 199737. ...
Social Development, 2002
The goal of this study was to compare developmental changes in adolescents' relationship experien... more The goal of this study was to compare developmental changes in adolescents' relationship experiences with their siblings versus with their best friends and to determine whether individual differences in adolescents' sibling experiences were associated with differences in friendship experiences. Participants included 179 firstbornsecondborn adolescent sibling pairs (N = 358). At the onset of the study, firstborns averaged 15 years of age, and secondborns, 12.5 years of age. Siblings were interviewed individually about their relationship experiences during home interviews each year for three consecutive years. Analyses focused on two relationship dimensions: emotional intimacy and control. Adolescents reported more intimacy with friends than with siblings and more control with siblings than with friends. In the face of these overall patterns, developmental changes in both firstborns' and secondborns' reports of intimacy differed across relationships, with sibling intimacy increasing and friendship intimacy decreasing; declines were evident in these two relationships in the case of control. Associations between sibling and friendship experiences were more apparent for control than for intimacy and for secondborns as compared to firstborns. Discussion focuses on the conditions underlying connections between adolescents' interpersonal relationship experiences.
Social Development, 2000
We compared the extent of parents' differential treatment (PDT) and girls' and boys' perceptions ... more We compared the extent of parents' differential treatment (PDT) and girls' and boys' perceptions of parents' fairness in middle childhood and adolescence as a function of the gender constellation of the sibling dyad. Further, we examined links between PDT in three domains, parental warmth, parents' temporal involvement, and the allocation of household tasks, and both siblings' self esteem and positivity in the sibling relationship. Participants were mothers, fathers and both first-and secondborn siblings from 385 families. To collect information on siblings' family experiences and wellbeing, family members were interviewed individually in their homes. During the subsequent 2-3 weeks, 7 evening telephone interviews also were conducted; these focused on siblings' daily activities. Analyses revealed different patterns of PDT for siblings as a function of age and gender constellation, stronger links with self esteem and sibling positivity for perceptions of fairness than for PDT, and different patterns of association with self esteem and sibling relations across domains of PDT. We emphasize the importance of studying the processes through which PDT experiences have implications for siblings.
Social Development, 2007
Although commonly cited as explanations for patterns of sibling similarity and difference, observ... more Although commonly cited as explanations for patterns of sibling similarity and difference, observational learning and sibling deidentification processes have rarely been examined directly. Using a person-oriented approach, we identified patterns in adolescents' perceptions of sibling influences and connected these patterns to sibling similarities and differences and sibling relationship qualities. Participants included two adolescent-age siblings (firstborn age M = 16.39, second-born age M = 13.78) from 171 maritally intact families. Two-stage cluster analyses revealed three sibling influence profiles: modeling, deidentification, and non-reference. Analyses revealed differences in the correlations between firstborn and second-born siblings' personal qualities across the three groups and differences in the sibling relationship qualities of younger siblings who reported modeling vs. those who reported deidentifying from their older siblings. Discussion focuses on refining the study of sibling influence processes.
Social Development, 2007
Similarities and differences in adolescent siblings' free time activities were investigated. Firs... more Similarities and differences in adolescent siblings' free time activities were investigated. Firstborns and second-borns from 181 predominantly White, working, and middle-class families reported on their time use and sibling relationships. Their parents reported on their socioeconomic status and neighborhood characteristics. Cluster analysis identified three groups of sibling dyads: Cluster 1 differentiated in leisure and time with friends, Cluster 2 differentiated in instrumental activities and time alone, and Cluster 3 did not differentiate in time use. Multinomial logistic regressions revealed that the longitudinal links between sibling relationship qualities and cluster membership were moderated by firstborns' sex. Findings highlight the importance of person-oriented analytic strategies for understanding sibling similarities and differences and of within-family variability in youth's time use.
Social Development, 2003
We review research on the family's role in gender development during childhood and adolescence. O... more We review research on the family's role in gender development during childhood and adolescence. Our discussion highlights children's dyadic family relationship experiences with their parents and siblings; additionally, we describe ways in which the larger system of family relationships, including gendered dynamics in the marriage and the differential family experiences of sisters versus brothers may have implications for gender development. We also emphasize the significance of contextual factors-ranging from situational demands and affordances to forces emanating from the larger social ecology-in family gender socialization. We conclude that family experiences may have a more important impact on gender development than has previously been believed, and we highlight directions for future study. These include: (1) applying more complex models of parent socialization and family dynamics to the study of the family's role in gender development; (2) expanding on research directed at the socialization of sex differences to study how family dynamics are linked to individual differences in girls' and boys' gendered qualities and behaviors; and (3) further exploring how contextual factors exert an impact on gender socialization in the family.
Psychology of Women Quarterly, 1992
The primary aim of this investigation was to examine the extent to which the meanings women attac... more The primary aim of this investigation was to examine the extent to which the meanings women attach to their provider-role responsibilities are differentially related to their psychological well-being and family relationships and to the division of labor in the home. The sample included 43 dualearner and 50 singleearner families. In home interviews, wives reported on role overload, depression, satisfaction with the marriage, and attitudes regarding women's and men's roles. Their children completed two measures assessing daily hassles and their relationship with their mother. Reports of daily involvement in household work were o b tained from wives and husbands during four telephone interviews. Discriminant function analyses indicated that aspects of women's psychological well-being and marital and parent-child relationships and of the division of labor discriminated women in four different provider groups: maidsecondary providers, ambivalent coproviders, coproviders, and homemakers. Wives who were ambivalent about their provider responsibilities tended to report higher levels of depression and overload and significantly lower marital satisfaction. Wives who saw their employment
New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2001
Early research on working mothers suggested that girls took on more housework when their mothers ... more Early research on working mothers suggested that girls took on more housework when their mothers were employed outside the home. This chapter takes an updated look at this issue by asking whether daughters take on more housework when their mothers report stressful occupational conditions and by making withinfamily comparisons of sons' versus daughters' involvement in housework.
Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1996
... Eccles, JS, and Midgley, C. (1990). Changes in academic motivation and self-perception during... more ... Eccles, JS, and Midgley, C. (1990). Changes in academic motivation and self-perception during early adolescence. ... Hill, JP, and Lynch, ME (1983). The intensification of gender-related role expectations during early adolescence. ... The Father: His Role in Child Development. ...
Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1978
This article reports the first results of the three-year longitudinal study of the social maps of... more This article reports the first results of the three-year longitudinal study of the social maps of children beginning the transition to adolescence. This exploratory study is guided by Bronfenbrenner's conception of the ecology of human development, stressing the importance of a phenomenological orientation to development in the context of ecological transitions. The study focuses on characteristics of children's social networks (the web of relationships in which the individual is involved) as a function of neighborhood type, socioeconomic status, and level of physical maturation. The social heterogeneity of the social network (e.g., the relative salience of peers versus adults) is a primary concern. The child's and parent's perceptions of the network, of the people available to help the child, and the child's friends are compared within the context of ecological, socioeconomic, and maturational factors. The results (for 111 sixth-grade children from three contrasting neighborhood schools) shed some light on age segregation and the overall heterogeneity of the social environments of children facing the transition to adolescence. They provide a context and a baseline for the longitudinal study.
Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2007
Page 1. J Youth Adolescence (2007) 36:391401 DOI 10.1007/s10964-006-9161-3 ORIGINAL PAPER Implic... more Page 1. J Youth Adolescence (2007) 36:391401 DOI 10.1007/s10964-006-9161-3 ORIGINAL PAPER Implications of Out-of-School Activities for School Engagement in African American Adolescents Aryn M. Dotterer · Susan M. McHale · Ann C. Crouter ...
Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2008
This study examined dimensions of mothers’ and fathers’ involvement in adolescents’ romantic rela... more This study examined dimensions of mothers’ and fathers’ involvement in adolescents’ romantic relationships when offspring were age 17. Using cluster analysis, parents from 105 White, working and middle class families were classified as positively involved, negatively involved, or autonomy-oriented with respect to their adolescents’ romantic relationships. Patterns of parental involvement were generally not associated with parent–offspring relationship quality at about
Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2007
This study examined older siblings’ influence on their younger brothers and sisters by assessing ... more This study examined older siblings’ influence on their younger brothers and sisters by assessing the connections between youth's perceptions of sibling influence and sibling similarities in four domains: Risky behavior, peer competence, sports interests, and art interests. Participants included two adolescent-age siblings (firstborn age M=17.34; second-born age M=14.77) from 191 maritally intact families. Analyses revealed that second-borns’ perceptions of influence
Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2000
This study examined the nature and correlates of different patterns of perceived control in adole... more This study examined the nature and correlates of different patterns of perceived control in adolescents' relationships with their best friends. Participants included firstborn adolescents (M = 14.94 years), their younger siblings (M = 12.44 years) and both their mothers and fathers in 163 families as well as a best friend of each adolescent (M = 15 years). Data were collected from family members during home visits regarding adolescents' family relationships, friendships, and psychosocial adjustment; time use data were gathered during a series of 7 nightly phone interviews. Information was obtained from best friends during a brief phone interview. We developed a typology of 3 different patterns of perceived friendship control based on the combination of adolescents' and their best friends' ratings of relational control. Patterns of control in adolescents' friendships were associated with the distribution of control in both parents' marriages and adolescents' sibling relationships. Further analyses, designed to test developmental predictions, revealed connections between friendship control and other qualities of adolescents' friendships (i.e., intimacy, conflict, perspective-taking).
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 2006
Using data from interviews with 194 midlife couples, we: (i) identified a typology of couple grou... more Using data from interviews with 194 midlife couples, we: (i) identified a typology of couple groups based on spouses' gender-typed attributes; (ii) described couple groups in terms of individual, contextual, and attitudinal characteristics; and (iii) linked couple groups with emotional, cognitive, and behavioral qualities of marriage across 3 years. Four couple types that differed in spouses' instrumental and expressive attributes were identified and replicated via cluster analysis. Gender-typed wives/extreme gender-typed-husband couples
Annals of Tourism Research, 2007
The tourism industry is well known as one where operating managers have had to make sacrifices in... more The tourism industry is well known as one where operating managers have had to make sacrifices in their family and personal lives. This article reviews what is known about the work-family interface in relation to hotel managers in an effort to identify ways to gain a strategic advantage in this competitive sector. By integrating research from several disciplines, this article presents a heuristic framework delineating organizational level inputs to workfamily relationships for tourism managers. It examines organizational-, individual-, and family-level outcomes of the interface, as well as the processes linking these components and moderators thought to impact these relationships. Conclusions focus on innovative practices implemented to address work-family concerns.
Background and Purpose. Realities of rural living make transitioning off welfare challenging, par... more Background and Purpose. Realities of rural living make transitioning off welfare challenging, particularly in light of the work-first orientation of current welfare policy. Consequently, there is a need to expand the literature on rural poverty by assessing rural families' experiences with work, welfare, factors that contribute to successful transitions to the workforce, and impacts on parenting. Research has largely been conducted in urban settings to date, so limited conclusions can be drawn for rural families. The current study addresses this gap by examining these relationships with a large sample of rural families. The research questions were 1) What are the underlying economic well-being patterns; 2) What factors predict group membership; and 3) How are these patterns related to quality in the home environment parents provide for children? Method. We use data from the Family Life Project, a longitudinal study of predominantly low income, nonmetropolitan families in North C...
Journal of Family Psychology, 2015
Mexican-origin parents' work experiences are a di... more Mexican-origin parents' work experiences are a distal extrafamilial context for adolescents' adjustment. This 2-wave multiinformant study examined the prospective mechanisms linking parents' work conditions (i.e., self-direction, work pressure, workplace discrimination) to adolescents' adjustment (i.e., educational expectations, depressive symptoms, risky behavior) across the transition to high school drawing on work socialization and spillover models. We examined the indirect effects of parental work conditions on adolescent adjustment through parents' psychological functioning (i.e., depressive symptoms, role overload) and aspects of the parent-adolescent relationship (i.e., parental solicitation, parent-adolescent conflict), as well as moderation by adolescent gender. Participants were 246 predominantly immigrant, Mexican-origin, 2-parent families who participated in home interviews when adolescents were approximately 13 and 15 years of age. Results supported the positive impact of fathers' occupational self-direction on all 3 aspects of adolescents' adjustment through decreased father-adolescent conflict, after controlling for family socioeconomic status and earner status, and underemployment. Parental work pressure and discrimination were indirectly linked to adolescents' adjustment, with different mechanisms emerging for mothers and fathers. Adolescents' gender moderated the associations between fathers' self-direction and girls' depressive symptoms, and fathers' experiences of discrimination and boys' risk behavior. Results suggest that Mexican-origin mothers' and fathers' perceptions of work conditions have important implications for multiple domains of adolescents' adjustment across the transition to high school. (PsycINFO Database Record
Journal of marriage and the family, 2012
This study examined how the division of household labor changed as a function of marital duration... more This study examined how the division of household labor changed as a function of marital duration and whether within-couple variation in spouses' relative power and availability were linked to within-couple variation in the division of labor. On 4 occasions over 7 years, 188 stably married couples reported on their housework activities using daily diaries. Multilevel models revealed that wives' portions of household responsibilities declined over time, and that changes in spouses' relative income and work hours were linked to changes in housework allocation. Wives with husbands who perceived greater marital control, on average, did proportionally more housework, and for couples with husbands who had highly autonomous jobs, changes in spouses' relative psychological job involvement were linked to changes in housework allocation. Findings highlight the importance of understanding household division of labor as a lifespan phenomenon, the distinction between within- vers...
International Journal of Eating Disorders, 2006
This work describes the developmental course of adolescents&a... more This work describes the developmental course of adolescents' weight concerns and examines links with changes in parent-adolescent relationships for girls and boys. Adolescents and parents in 191 families participated in 3 annual home interviews; adolescents rated their weight concerns and their intimacy and conflict with parents. Parental knowledge was measured based on the match between adolescents' and parents' reports of youth's experiences each day during 7 evening telephone calls. Girls' weight concerns increased from age 11 to 16 and then declined, whereas boys' concerns declined beginning at age 11. Increases in girls' weight concerns were linked to increases in conflict with mothers and fathers and decreases in maternal intimacy and knowledge. At a trend level, declines in boys' weight concerns were associated with declines in father conflict. Mothers and fathers may have unique influences on adolescent weight concerns. Intervention programming should target parent-adolescent relationships.
Applied Developmental Science, 2009
... Racism and African American adolescent development . In CV Willie , PP Rieker , BM Kramer , &... more ... Racism and African American adolescent development . In CV Willie , PP Rieker , BM Kramer , & BS Brown (Eds.), Mental health, racism, and sexism (pp. ... Adolescence , 34 , 493 – 501 . [PubMed], [Web of Science ®], [CSA] View all references; Phinney, Cantu, & Kurtz, 199737. ...
Social Development, 2002
The goal of this study was to compare developmental changes in adolescents' relationship experien... more The goal of this study was to compare developmental changes in adolescents' relationship experiences with their siblings versus with their best friends and to determine whether individual differences in adolescents' sibling experiences were associated with differences in friendship experiences. Participants included 179 firstbornsecondborn adolescent sibling pairs (N = 358). At the onset of the study, firstborns averaged 15 years of age, and secondborns, 12.5 years of age. Siblings were interviewed individually about their relationship experiences during home interviews each year for three consecutive years. Analyses focused on two relationship dimensions: emotional intimacy and control. Adolescents reported more intimacy with friends than with siblings and more control with siblings than with friends. In the face of these overall patterns, developmental changes in both firstborns' and secondborns' reports of intimacy differed across relationships, with sibling intimacy increasing and friendship intimacy decreasing; declines were evident in these two relationships in the case of control. Associations between sibling and friendship experiences were more apparent for control than for intimacy and for secondborns as compared to firstborns. Discussion focuses on the conditions underlying connections between adolescents' interpersonal relationship experiences.
Social Development, 2000
We compared the extent of parents' differential treatment (PDT) and girls' and boys' perceptions ... more We compared the extent of parents' differential treatment (PDT) and girls' and boys' perceptions of parents' fairness in middle childhood and adolescence as a function of the gender constellation of the sibling dyad. Further, we examined links between PDT in three domains, parental warmth, parents' temporal involvement, and the allocation of household tasks, and both siblings' self esteem and positivity in the sibling relationship. Participants were mothers, fathers and both first-and secondborn siblings from 385 families. To collect information on siblings' family experiences and wellbeing, family members were interviewed individually in their homes. During the subsequent 2-3 weeks, 7 evening telephone interviews also were conducted; these focused on siblings' daily activities. Analyses revealed different patterns of PDT for siblings as a function of age and gender constellation, stronger links with self esteem and sibling positivity for perceptions of fairness than for PDT, and different patterns of association with self esteem and sibling relations across domains of PDT. We emphasize the importance of studying the processes through which PDT experiences have implications for siblings.
Social Development, 2007
Although commonly cited as explanations for patterns of sibling similarity and difference, observ... more Although commonly cited as explanations for patterns of sibling similarity and difference, observational learning and sibling deidentification processes have rarely been examined directly. Using a person-oriented approach, we identified patterns in adolescents' perceptions of sibling influences and connected these patterns to sibling similarities and differences and sibling relationship qualities. Participants included two adolescent-age siblings (firstborn age M = 16.39, second-born age M = 13.78) from 171 maritally intact families. Two-stage cluster analyses revealed three sibling influence profiles: modeling, deidentification, and non-reference. Analyses revealed differences in the correlations between firstborn and second-born siblings' personal qualities across the three groups and differences in the sibling relationship qualities of younger siblings who reported modeling vs. those who reported deidentifying from their older siblings. Discussion focuses on refining the study of sibling influence processes.
Social Development, 2007
Similarities and differences in adolescent siblings' free time activities were investigated. Firs... more Similarities and differences in adolescent siblings' free time activities were investigated. Firstborns and second-borns from 181 predominantly White, working, and middle-class families reported on their time use and sibling relationships. Their parents reported on their socioeconomic status and neighborhood characteristics. Cluster analysis identified three groups of sibling dyads: Cluster 1 differentiated in leisure and time with friends, Cluster 2 differentiated in instrumental activities and time alone, and Cluster 3 did not differentiate in time use. Multinomial logistic regressions revealed that the longitudinal links between sibling relationship qualities and cluster membership were moderated by firstborns' sex. Findings highlight the importance of person-oriented analytic strategies for understanding sibling similarities and differences and of within-family variability in youth's time use.
Social Development, 2003
We review research on the family's role in gender development during childhood and adolescence. O... more We review research on the family's role in gender development during childhood and adolescence. Our discussion highlights children's dyadic family relationship experiences with their parents and siblings; additionally, we describe ways in which the larger system of family relationships, including gendered dynamics in the marriage and the differential family experiences of sisters versus brothers may have implications for gender development. We also emphasize the significance of contextual factors-ranging from situational demands and affordances to forces emanating from the larger social ecology-in family gender socialization. We conclude that family experiences may have a more important impact on gender development than has previously been believed, and we highlight directions for future study. These include: (1) applying more complex models of parent socialization and family dynamics to the study of the family's role in gender development; (2) expanding on research directed at the socialization of sex differences to study how family dynamics are linked to individual differences in girls' and boys' gendered qualities and behaviors; and (3) further exploring how contextual factors exert an impact on gender socialization in the family.
Psychology of Women Quarterly, 1992
The primary aim of this investigation was to examine the extent to which the meanings women attac... more The primary aim of this investigation was to examine the extent to which the meanings women attach to their provider-role responsibilities are differentially related to their psychological well-being and family relationships and to the division of labor in the home. The sample included 43 dualearner and 50 singleearner families. In home interviews, wives reported on role overload, depression, satisfaction with the marriage, and attitudes regarding women's and men's roles. Their children completed two measures assessing daily hassles and their relationship with their mother. Reports of daily involvement in household work were o b tained from wives and husbands during four telephone interviews. Discriminant function analyses indicated that aspects of women's psychological well-being and marital and parent-child relationships and of the division of labor discriminated women in four different provider groups: maidsecondary providers, ambivalent coproviders, coproviders, and homemakers. Wives who were ambivalent about their provider responsibilities tended to report higher levels of depression and overload and significantly lower marital satisfaction. Wives who saw their employment
New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2001
Early research on working mothers suggested that girls took on more housework when their mothers ... more Early research on working mothers suggested that girls took on more housework when their mothers were employed outside the home. This chapter takes an updated look at this issue by asking whether daughters take on more housework when their mothers report stressful occupational conditions and by making withinfamily comparisons of sons' versus daughters' involvement in housework.
Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1996
... Eccles, JS, and Midgley, C. (1990). Changes in academic motivation and self-perception during... more ... Eccles, JS, and Midgley, C. (1990). Changes in academic motivation and self-perception during early adolescence. ... Hill, JP, and Lynch, ME (1983). The intensification of gender-related role expectations during early adolescence. ... The Father: His Role in Child Development. ...
Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1978
This article reports the first results of the three-year longitudinal study of the social maps of... more This article reports the first results of the three-year longitudinal study of the social maps of children beginning the transition to adolescence. This exploratory study is guided by Bronfenbrenner's conception of the ecology of human development, stressing the importance of a phenomenological orientation to development in the context of ecological transitions. The study focuses on characteristics of children's social networks (the web of relationships in which the individual is involved) as a function of neighborhood type, socioeconomic status, and level of physical maturation. The social heterogeneity of the social network (e.g., the relative salience of peers versus adults) is a primary concern. The child's and parent's perceptions of the network, of the people available to help the child, and the child's friends are compared within the context of ecological, socioeconomic, and maturational factors. The results (for 111 sixth-grade children from three contrasting neighborhood schools) shed some light on age segregation and the overall heterogeneity of the social environments of children facing the transition to adolescence. They provide a context and a baseline for the longitudinal study.
Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2007
Page 1. J Youth Adolescence (2007) 36:391401 DOI 10.1007/s10964-006-9161-3 ORIGINAL PAPER Implic... more Page 1. J Youth Adolescence (2007) 36:391401 DOI 10.1007/s10964-006-9161-3 ORIGINAL PAPER Implications of Out-of-School Activities for School Engagement in African American Adolescents Aryn M. Dotterer · Susan M. McHale · Ann C. Crouter ...
Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2008
This study examined dimensions of mothers’ and fathers’ involvement in adolescents’ romantic rela... more This study examined dimensions of mothers’ and fathers’ involvement in adolescents’ romantic relationships when offspring were age 17. Using cluster analysis, parents from 105 White, working and middle class families were classified as positively involved, negatively involved, or autonomy-oriented with respect to their adolescents’ romantic relationships. Patterns of parental involvement were generally not associated with parent–offspring relationship quality at about
Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2007
This study examined older siblings’ influence on their younger brothers and sisters by assessing ... more This study examined older siblings’ influence on their younger brothers and sisters by assessing the connections between youth's perceptions of sibling influence and sibling similarities in four domains: Risky behavior, peer competence, sports interests, and art interests. Participants included two adolescent-age siblings (firstborn age M=17.34; second-born age M=14.77) from 191 maritally intact families. Analyses revealed that second-borns’ perceptions of influence
Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2000
This study examined the nature and correlates of different patterns of perceived control in adole... more This study examined the nature and correlates of different patterns of perceived control in adolescents' relationships with their best friends. Participants included firstborn adolescents (M = 14.94 years), their younger siblings (M = 12.44 years) and both their mothers and fathers in 163 families as well as a best friend of each adolescent (M = 15 years). Data were collected from family members during home visits regarding adolescents' family relationships, friendships, and psychosocial adjustment; time use data were gathered during a series of 7 nightly phone interviews. Information was obtained from best friends during a brief phone interview. We developed a typology of 3 different patterns of perceived friendship control based on the combination of adolescents' and their best friends' ratings of relational control. Patterns of control in adolescents' friendships were associated with the distribution of control in both parents' marriages and adolescents' sibling relationships. Further analyses, designed to test developmental predictions, revealed connections between friendship control and other qualities of adolescents' friendships (i.e., intimacy, conflict, perspective-taking).
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 2006
Using data from interviews with 194 midlife couples, we: (i) identified a typology of couple grou... more Using data from interviews with 194 midlife couples, we: (i) identified a typology of couple groups based on spouses' gender-typed attributes; (ii) described couple groups in terms of individual, contextual, and attitudinal characteristics; and (iii) linked couple groups with emotional, cognitive, and behavioral qualities of marriage across 3 years. Four couple types that differed in spouses' instrumental and expressive attributes were identified and replicated via cluster analysis. Gender-typed wives/extreme gender-typed-husband couples