Most studies on self-esteem among black and white Americans include samples of elementary school and high school students. In the present study, data on 298 black and whi[...]

An individual cannot touch, smell, taste, hear, or see self-esteem. The self is not a "natural" phenomenon and is thus not accessible to the same kinds of scientific inqu[...]

This research challenges the traditional conception of adolescence as a time of stress and instability in self-concept. Using multiple measures of self-concept with a lon[...]

Using the first (1987-1988) and second (1992-1994) waves of the National Survey of Families and Households, this study examines the concurrent and longitudinal influences[...]

This paper describes and discusses diversity among lesbian and gay families along central dimensions of social stratification: gender, sexual orientation, generation, age[...]

Self-esteem is postulated to be a function of social class in accordance with four theoretical principles-reflected appraisals, self-perception, social comparison, and ps[...]

Research conducted in the past decade on families with young chidren concentrated on 5 broad topics: (a) the transition to parenthood,' (b) the importance of maternal sen[...]

Few studies have examined the distribution of housework across family types. Using a nationally representative sample, this paper examines the division of household labor[...]

This study investigated a middle-grades mathematics homework intervention designed to increase family involvement in homework. The participants were 74 sixth-grade studen[...]

A middle-grades homework intervention was investigated to determine if variations in prompting families to be involved with mathematics homework would influence their lev[...]

Previous research, especially that of Gecas and Schwalbe (1986), relating adolescent self- esteem to parental support, control, and participation is extended in the prese[...]

This article examines the influence of family structure and family relation- ships on adolescent well-being. Using a subsample (N = 850) of data collected in the National[...]

I am pleased to announce that the publication of Volume 72 of Journal of Marriage and Family (JMF) ushers in some exciting changes, new resources, and the renewal of a ri[...]

Volume 70, number 1, is the first issue of Journal of Marriage and Family (JMF) produced by the editorial office at The University of North Carolina-Greensboro. Most of t[...]

With the acceleration of the divorce rate from the mid- 1960s to the early 1980s, the number of nontraditional families (such as single-parent families and reconstituted [...]

A review of the literature indicates that (a) very little attention has been devoted to measurement problems plaguing the study of self-esteem and (b) few studies employ [...]

Profound structural changes in American marriage and family life over the past three decades have transformed "traditional" living arrangements for children and stimulate[...]

The current study uses survey data from a representative sample of 619 husbands residing in Bangkok, Thailand, to assess their use of physical force against their wives. [...]

How racial identity influences self-esteem and psychological well-being among African Americans remains unresolved due to unexplained inconsistencies in theoretical predi[...]

In his integrative review in this issue of JMF, Amato accomplishes an important task by providing sorely needed theoretical focus for research on children of divorce. He [...]

Integrating their insights from more than a decade of research on single-parent families, McLanahan and Sandefur rekindle the debate concerning the consequences for child[...]

The central question of this book, captured succinctly in its clever title, is whether American families are disappearing due to singlehood, childlessness, and divorce ("[...]

Marks's explicit purpose in this book is to present an inductive, exploratory theory of marital dynamics. Analyzing rich biographical data obtained through interviews wit[...]

Although theoretical attention has been devoted to the situational variability of the self-concept, empirical investigations continue to rely on one-shot methodologies. S[...]

This study examines the determinants of personal self-esteem, racial self-esteem, and personal efficacy in a 1980 national sample of black Americans. The findings show th[...]