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Exploring the Relationship between Assets and Family Stress among Low-Income Families
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Rothwell, David W.; Han, Chang-Keun – Family Relations, 2010
The "hard times" resulting from the 2008 Great Recession represent an opportunity to re-examine the theoretical framework for how families use economic resources to manage stress. M. Sherraden's (1991) theory of assets and H. I. McCubbin and J. Patterson's (1983) family adjustment and adaptation response model informed this study of how assets…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Public Policy, Low Income Groups, Family Environment
Female Anxiety and Male Depression: Links between Economic Strain and Psychological Aggression in Argentinean Couples
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Falconier, Mariana K. – Family Relations, 2010
A dyadic model of economic strain was applied to the study of anxiety and depression as mediating mechanisms in the economic strain-psychological aggression relation. Data came from self-report questionnaires completed by 143 Argentinean clinical couples. Structural equation modeling analysis indicated that anxiety and depression increased for…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Academic Achievement, Psychology, Depression (Psychology)
Financial Stress, Parental Depressive Symptoms, Parenting Practices, and Children's Externalizing Problem Behaviors: Underlying Processes
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Lee, Chih-Yuan Steven; Lee, Jaerim; August, Gerald J. – Family Relations, 2011
This study examined the relationships among financial stress encountered by families, parents' social support, parental depressive symptoms, parenting practices, and children's externalizing problem behaviors to advance our understanding of the processes by which family financial stress is associated with children's problem behaviors. We also…
Descriptors: Family Income, Structural Equation Models, Parenting Styles, Child Rearing
Coparental Identity and Mothers' Cooperation in Coparental Relationships
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Markham, Melinda S.; Ganong, Lawrence H.; Coleman, Marilyn – Family Relations, 2007
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relations between divorced mothers' (N= 196) coparental role identity and their perceptions of how cooperatively they coparent. Data were gathered by questionnaires mailed to mothers who had participated in a court-mandated divorce education program. Using structural equation modeling, it was…
Descriptors: Social Influences, Cooperation, Mothers, Structural Equation Models