Research and News from the Center for Families at Purdue University

September 11, 2023

Young adults’ perceptions of morality-based messages from parents about sex: An exploratory study

Rosie Shrout

The goal of this study was to explore the messages young adults received from their parents about sexual morality. Research on parent–child communication about sexuality has shown that parents are likely to convey moral messages about sex, however, little is...

September 10, 2023

Visual-orthographic skills predict the covariance of Chinese word reading and arithmetic calculation

David Purpura

This study provides evidence connecting two aspects of visual-orthographic skills (orthographic awareness and delayed copying) to the common variance shared by Chinese word reading and arithmetic calculation, as well as in identifying positional knowledge of numbers as a potential mediator...

September 7, 2023

The how many and give-N tasks: Conceptually distinct measures of the cardinality principle

David Purpura

In the current study we investigated performance on the how many and give-N tasks. We first investigated the relative performance of three-to-five-year-old children on these tasks. Replicating prior work, we found that children performed worse on give-N compared to how...

September 5, 2023

WFRN Invites Finalists of the Kanter Award to present at Sept 8 Virtual Conference Series

Work and Family Researchers Network has invited the 2023 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award finalists to discuss their research as part of their Virtual Conference Series on September 8.

September 2, 2023

A ‘million word gap’ for children who aren’t read to at home

David Purpura

With students returning to school, one topic is especially timely to discuss: the incredible value of children reading at home. Young children whose parents read them five books a day enter kindergarten having heard about 1.4 million more words than...

September 1, 2023

Family-based and external discrimination experienced by multiracial individuals: Links to internalizing symptoms and familial support

Annabelle Atkin

Multiracial individuals are exposed to many forms of interpersonal racial discrimination, including general discrimination against their monoracial groups and discrimination against being multiracial. Because their families include members of different racial groups, multiracial people may also be exposed to various...

August 30, 2023

The roles of familial transmission and smoking during pregnancy on executive function skills: A sibling-comparison study

Kristine Marceau

This research examines maternal smoking during pregnancy and risk for poorer executive function in siblings discordant for exposure.

August 29, 2023

The relationship between mother and father racial-ethnic socialization profiles and family cohesion and sociopolitical values among Asian American adolescents

Annabelle Atkin

Although research on racial-ethnic socialization with Asian American families examines academic and psychological outcomes, less is known about whether messages from mothers and fathers are related to their adolescent's Asian American sociopolitical values and family cohesion.

August 26, 2023

The Mental Health Consequences of Sexual Identity Discrepancies

Trent Mize

Sexualities scholars have long been interested in situations in which a person’s sexual identity and behavior are mismatched—e.g., when a gay or lesbian-identified person remains “closeted” and only dates different-gender partners. We argue that this mismatch represents a useful proxy...

August 24, 2023

Nursing, Education faculty collaborate on U.S. Health and Human Services grant to improve graduate nursing education

Karen J. Foli (PI), and Wanju Huang (Co-PI), will collaborate on the project “Advanced Practice NuRses’ Opioid Use Disorder Education Through a Massive, Open, Online Course (APROUD-MOOC).”