Research and News from the Center for Families at Purdue University

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.

December 30, 2023

Temporal Dietary Pattern Cluster Membership Varies on Weekdays and Weekends but Both Link to Health

Libby Richards, Heather Eicher-Miller

Energy and dietary quality are known to differ between weekdays and weekend days. Data-driven approaches that incorporate time, amount and duration of dietary intake have previously been used to partition participant daily weekday dietary intake time series to clusters representing...

December 28, 2023

Do Victims and Perpetrators Justify Intimate Partner Violence Even While They See It Happening in Front of Their Eyes?

Ximena Arriaga

When intimate partner violence occurs, both victims and perpetrators may justify the violence. However, efforts to understand justifying violence typically rely on written descriptions of violent acts or are assessed well after the violence has occurred.

December 26, 2023

Feats: A database of semantic features for early produced noun concepts

Arielle Borovsky

Semantic feature production norms have several desirable characteristics that have supported models of representation and processing in adults. However, several key challenges have limited the use of semantic feature norms in studies of early language acquisition.

December 23, 2023

The role of fathers in child development from preconception to postnatal influences: Opportunities for the National Institutes of Health Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) program

Kristine Marceau

A growing body of literature highlights the important role of paternal health and socio-emotional characteristics in child development, from preconception through adolescence.