Editorial featured in Journal of Marriage and Family Volume 72, Issue 5.

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[...]

Objective: Completing a college degree is associated with success in employment, financial earnings, and life satisfaction. Mental health difficulties, including attentio[...]

The family stress model of romantic relationships (FSM; Conger et al., 1999) is a well-established tool for examining individual and relationship processes linking econom[...]

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is commonly considered a disorder thataffects children and adolescents; however, follow-up studies of those diagnosed with[...]

Most of what is known about attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and family functioning has been derived from studies that used children with ADHD as the start[...]

Parent and teacher ratings of the two attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptom dimensions (i.e., inattention, hyperactivity-impulsivity) have been found to[...]

The article presents a study that assessed the relations between adolescent adjustment in stepfamilies, and both family context and process variables. The process variabl[...]

Objective: To examine college adjustment in students reporting an ADHD diagnosis and the effect of medication treatment on students' adjustment. Method: 1,648 first-semes[...]

Adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) were compared with a control group on a comprehensive assessment battery. More ADHD teenagers had opposit[...]

A group of 83 adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) were subdivided into those with ADHD alone (n = 27) and those with ADHD and oppositional de[...]

Adolescents' emotional reactivity in family, close friendships, and romantic relationships was examined in a community-based sample of 416 two-parent families. Six waves [...]

Parents' child-rearing behaviors have been identified as major sources of influence on the self-esteem of adolescents from Western societies and Chinese adolescents in Ho[...]

This study examined the association between youths' triangulation in marital conflict and three aspects of their peer relations in 416 families during early adolescence. [...]

High school students reported separately on mothers and fathers' responsiveness and demandingness and their own academic achievement and engagement, involvement in proble[...]

"The purpose of this study was to examine Black adoptive families' characteristics and the relations between child risk, social cognitions, and adoption outcomes. Partici[...]

This study examined the developmental significance of mothers' adult attachment representations assessed prenatally with the Adult Attachment Interview in relation to obs[...]

Advance care planning (ACP) is a cornerstone of self-determination for the type of care provided at the end of life. Despite many national efforts to improve American adu[...]

Affect representations during infancy have been associated with internalizing behaviors among children. However, few studies have examined the role of parenting practices[...]

The current study aimed to identify parents' profiles of racial and emotion socialization practices, to determine if these profiles vary as a function of family income an[...]

The reality of gun violence impacts many economically disadvantaged cities across America and disproportionately impacts young Black men. This thesis uses a qualitative a[...]

The development of information communication technology (ICT) has dramatically influenced the way people communicate, socialize, and work. In the past fifteen years, the [...]

This paper examined the relation of early environmental adversity associated with poverty to child resting or basal level of cortisol in a prospective longitudinal sample[...]

The goal of this study is to explore the relationship between a parent-child acculturation gap and both depression and self-esteem in adolescent children of Mexican immig[...]

Despite continuing efforts to achieve a major and lasting arms control agreement, the existence of large numbers of nuclear weapons is perceived by many as constituting a[...]