Faculty Partner Research | Center for Families

October 6, 2024

Fertility Desires and Contraceptive Transition

Christie Sennot

Fertility desires are fundamental to understanding contraceptive use, yet the relationship between the two remains unclear and is the subject of much debate in demography.

October 5, 2024

3 Deadly Health Hazards Of An Unhappy Marriage—By A Psychologist

Rosie Shrout

Marriage is meant to be a lifelong commitment, but when it turns into a cycle of resentment and unresolved conflicts, it can have devastating effects on your health. Even relationships that start with love and hope can become harmful if...

October 5, 2024

Sibling and best friend conflict resolution strategies among Mexican-origin youth

Kimberly Updegraff

Sibling relationships evolve into a more egalitarian relationship dynamic resembling friendships during adolescence, potentially facilitating the transfer of interpersonal skills across relationships.

October 5, 2024

Network Analysis to Visualize Qualitative Results: Example From a Qualitative Content Analysis of The National Child Abuse Hotline

Laura Schwab-Reese

Data visualization, such as figures created through network analysis, may be one way to present more complete information from qualitative analysis. Segments of qualitatively coded data can be treated as objects in network analysis, thus creating visual representations of the...

September 30, 2024

Daily sibling interactions among latino children in middle childhood: An examination of familism values and sibling roles

Kimberly Updegraff

Siblings are children’s most frequent daily companions in middle childhood and these relationships are theorized to be dynamic in nature but are rarely studied in a way that captures their day-to-day variation.

September 29, 2024

Divergence and Convergence across Presumed and Actual Stereotypes

Trenton Mize

Stereotypes are foundational to social life, with warmth and competence key to views of social groups. Sometheoretical and empirical work on stereotypes focuses on personal “first-order” beliefs about social groups.

September 20, 2024

What Is the Effect of an Inferred Mental Illness Label on Stigma? Theoretical and Empirical Challenges

Trenton Mize

One of the strengths of vignette-based experimental research is that it captures the mental illness labeling process in the way it often occurs—inference without full information.

September 17, 2024

Personality profiles of women in relationships involving men with pathological personality features

Susan South

Relationships involving people with personality disorders are known to be distressing to partners. There is a relative dearth of research, however, into the personalities of their partners. The current study examines the personality profiles of women in relationships with men...

September 17, 2024

Emotional Labor, Worker Solidarity, and Safety Concerns Among Police and Nurses

Elizabeth Hoffman

To understand the connections among emotional labor, solidarity, and safety, this study interviewed 19 police officers and 20 nurses. Data analysis with words as the unit of analysis engaged both deductive and inductive processes.

September 14, 2024

How Collection of Racial Demographics Highlights or Hides Participants’ Multiraciality: An Illustrative Example and Warning for Social Scientists

Annabelle Atkin

Social scientists frequently rely on a single item to assess a participant's race, but this common practice can be misleading by obscuring the number of Multiracial participants in one’s sample.

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