Center for Families

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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

Purdue professor speaks on impact of grief on college students

Heather Servaty-Seib

Students of all ages are experiencing deep grief, from ongoing news events like school shootings and violence impacting them as they get their education. On Monday, Angela Ganote, an anchor for the FOX59 Morning News, spoke with Heather Servaty-Seib, a...

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...

October 4, 2024

“There’s no good, it’s just satisfactory”: perfectionism, performance, and perfectionistic reactivity in NCAA student-athletes

Travis Dorsch

Perfectionistic reactivity is a characteristic style of responding to adversity that elicits a bio-psychosocial response. Those with elevated levels of perfectionistic tendencies are thought to react disproportionately in the face of successes or failures.

October 1, 2024

Two CFF Faculty Partners to receive American Academy of Nursing Fellow Honors

Libby Richards, Vicki Simpson

Purdue announced that two CFF Faculty Partners, Libby Richards and Vicki Simpson, were selected to become American Academy of Nursing Fellow Honors.

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 27, 2024

“We are on the outside but it’s okay”: A grounded theory of cooperation between parents, coaches, and administrators in professional youth soccer academies

Travis Dorsch

Parents need to cooperate with professional organizations to support their children’s development and health. In sports, knowledge on how parents, coaches, and organizations can successfully coordinate their behavior and work together for a common cause is lacking.