Center for Families

Harnessing the power of faculty, staff, students, alumni, and friends to improve our quality of life.

January 12, 2024

A Research Agenda for Tourism and Wellbeing, Chapter 4 – Healthy hotels: contribution of employee wellness programs

Xinran Lehto

Society is moving from technology-driven orientation to a wellbeing orientation for consumers and employees.

January 12, 2024

COFO Holds 26th Family Impact Seminar at Indiana Statehouse

Legislators and policymakers heard research about Reducing Poverty and Producing Prosperity in Indiana.

January 12, 2024

CFF welcomes Cordelia Running as a faculty partner!

Cordelia Running joins CFF as an Associate Professor of Nutrition Science. Research interests include ingestive behavior and population nutrition, and metabolism and obesity.

January 11, 2024

The cortisol awakening response in a 3 month clinical trial of service dogs for veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder

Leanne Nieforth, A.J. Schwichtenberg

Recent literature suggests that service dogs may be a valuable complementary intervention option for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among military veterans due to the potential influence on stress response dysregulation.

January 11, 2024

Serving Military and Veteran Families: Theories, Research, and Application

Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth

This book introduces readers to the unique culture of military families, their resilience, and the challenges of military life. It reviews the latest research, theories, policies, and programs to prepare readers for understanding and working with military and veteran

January 10, 2024

A national longitudinal dyadic analysis of spousal education and cognitive decline in the United States

Rosie Shrout

Education plays a significant role in shaping cognitive functioning throughout an individual's life. However, existing research has not adequately explored how the educational attainment of the spouse can impact cognitive functioning over time.

January 9, 2024

Moving beyond dosage and adherence: A protocol for capturing dimensions of active child engagement as a measure of fidelity for social-emotional learning interventions

Rob Duncan, David Purpura

Social-emotional competencies are important for school-readiness and can be supported through social-emotional learning (SEL) interventions in the preschool years.

January 7, 2024

Grounding understanding of the home numeracy environment: Within-group variation in Latine families

David Purpura

The home numeracy environment is an essential construct that helps explain children's numeracy skills. However, this field has been developed mostly focusing on monolingual English-speaking families, and cultural differences that contextualize the home environment have not been considered.

January 5, 2024

In the depths of despair: Lost income and recovery for small businesses during COVID-19

Maria Marshall

This study examined how small business owners sought to keep their businesses operating during the harshest times of the COVID-19 pandemic.

January 3, 2024

CFF welcomes Trenton Mize as a faculty partner!

Trenton Mize joins CFF as an Associate Professor of Sociology. Research interests include Workplace Inequalities; Gender & Sexuality; Quantitative Methodology; Experiments; Social Psychology.