Journal of Family Issues articles from July 1998

Journal of Family Issues archives from July 1998

Family and Asian students' educational performance: a consideration of diversity.
July 1, 1998... Over the past several decades, researchers have noted the success of Asian Americans, relative to other racial and ethnic groups, in both the occupational and educational arenas of society. Indeed, the stereotype of being the model minority...

Factors related to the quality of the home environment and children's achievement.
July 1, 1998... Factors that influence child-rearing practices and their effects on children's development are receiving increased attention. Recent research indicates that individual differences in parenting are multiply determined (Belsky, 1984; Belsky,...

Family structure and patterns of independence giving to adolescents: variations by age, race, and gender of child.
July 1, 1998... The effects of single parenting and stepparenting on children and adolescents have been extensively researched with most studies documenting negative effects across a variety of psychological, social, and economic outcomes (Coleman & Ganong,...

The effects of economic hardship on family relationships among African American, Latino, and Euro-American families.
July 1, 1998... Economic hardship and unemployment have consistently demonstrated detrimental effects on family relationships. These effects include increases in marital tensions and decreases in marital and family satisfaction and family cohesion (Atkinson,...

Egalitarian daters/traditionalist dates.
July 1, 1998... As teachers of courtship/marriage/family classes know, a perennial problem is attempting to convince students that the course materials are applicable to their own lives, The you-must-be-talking-about-someone-else view toward some aspects of...