Family Relations

Papers
(The median citation count of Family Relations is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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Interparental conflict predicts developmental trajectories of maternal sensitivity across early childhood54
Parents' marital satisfaction, self‐compassion, and harsh discipline in China: A dyadic analysis48
Intergenerationally tied relocation and care circulation: Motivations, struggles, and future arrangements42
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Interactions between mental illness recovery processes in the family30
Father involvement among Chinese fathers in four geolocations: Exploring cultural nuances and similarities29
Dynamic harmony: Unveiling therapeutic attunement in emotionally focused couples therapy via machine learning28
Examining fairness in machine learning applied to support families: A case study of preventive services27
Communicatively constructing resilience: Exploring family resilience in the experience of hereditary cancer25
White Fathers' Concerns for Their Biological Black and White Biracial Sons25
Family experiences of ambiguous loss during COVID‐1924
Gender inclusion and family science: Perspectives of undergraduate males on family science23
Parenting during the second year of COVID‐19: Positive and negative parental experiences in the U.S.A.23
Reflective functioning and emotion socialization behaviors in caregivers of preschoolers23
Being a parent, but not: A grounded theory of home‐based care21
Parental microprotections: Testing measurement equivalence in Black, Latinx, and White families20
Parent–child gender effect in the associations among problematic internet use, parent–adolescent conflict, and academic engagement19
Chinese adolescents' depression, anxiety, and family mutuality before and afterCOVID‐19 lockdowns: Longitudinal cross‐lagged relations17
“I don't have much of a choice”: Low‐income single mothers' COVID‐19 school and care decisions17
Maintaining whiteness in a superdiverse context: White German parents' racial–ethnic socialization16
Actor–partner effects of perfectionism on marital satisfaction: Self‐disclosure as an interpersonal mechanism16
Individualization of extended family bonds? An analysis of youth narratives from three Dutch generations16
The Internet as a social institution: Rethinking concepts for family scholarship15
COVID‐19 pandemic stresses and relationships in college students15
Awareness and equity of behavioral sacrifice and same‐sex relationship quality: Heterosexist discrimination as a distal predictor15
Parenting during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Insecure or unresolved attachment representation is a risk factor for harmful parenting behavior14
Parental support influencing the timing of repeat pregnancy for adolescent mothers14
Examining actor–partner effects between social dominance, relationship power, sexism, and marital quality14
Distress tolerance, family cohesion and adaptability, and posttraumatic stress symptoms among combat veterans and their parents14
Resilient self‐efficacy and transformative growth of poor single mothers and their children: Higher education14
Learning to care on one's own: Chinese children's caregivers' reflections on family care14
“I was a soccer mom—high or not”: The intersecting roles of parenting and recovery13
Translating discovery science: White fathers' racial socialization practices with their biological Black biracial sons13
Internalized stigma and caregiver burden among parents of young adults with substance use disorders13
Parents' coping behaviors and mental health during the COVID‐19 pandemic13
The Walsh Family Resilience Questionnaire: Validity evidence from Portugal13
Developing intercultural competence among students in family science: The importance of service learning experiences12
Dyadic relationship of adult attachment patterns and interpersonal schemas in marital adjustment: Actor–partner effect model12
Troubled waters: Barriers to preparation for bias conversations across racially/ethnically diverse families12
The mother domain: Mediated model of maternal gatekeepers and depressed fathers among newlyweds with children12
Effective coparenting in stepfamilies: Empirical evidence of what works12
Uniting two disciplines: An innovative partnership between family science and social work12
Marital adjustment and children's early learning behaviors: The mediating role of maternal involvement and parenting12
Relationships Among Parental Self‐Efficacy, Home Learning Activities, and Child Skills12
Gathering around the table: Negotiating family mealtime patterns among Latino families11
Boundaries in online couples therapy: “Can anything exist without boundaries?”11
Hope inLow‐IncomeFamilies—A Study of Family Hardiness in Singapore11
Happy parents, happy kids: Marital happiness, parenting styles, and children's behavioral outcomes in Chinese societies11
Latinx sexual minority youth's identity development and experiences with preparation for bias11
Understanding marital stability through work–family experiences in proximal and distal contexts: Comparing United States and Japan10
Associations among parent technology use, locus of control, and child problem behaviors10
Exploring low‐income, Black fathers' strengths and barriers to positive change using qualitative methods10
Mothers' recollections of parenting by their own mothers and fathers and maternal and infant outcomes10
The role of contextual factors in associations between parents' emotion socialization and children's mental health10
Perceived Changes in Family Life During COVID‐19: The Role of Family Size10
Wor(l)ds struggle against wor(l)ds: Public discourse around children's removal from families in Lithuania10
Partner strain and support associations with affective reactions to daily stressors10
Enhancing parental skills through artificial intelligence‐based conversational agents: The PAT Initiative10
Work‐from‐home arrangements and work–family conflict during the COVID‐19 pandemic9
Constellations of family closeness and adolescent friendship quality9
“It's in the family circle”: Communication promoting Indigenous family resilience9
Interparental relationships, attachment orientations, and Arab adolescents' consumption of sexually explicit materials9
“They don't trust me”: Service providers reflections of father‐centric treatment and engagement9
COVID‐19 and the relationships and involvement of nonresident fathers9
Parental depressive symptoms and child psychopathology: Effects of parenting‐specific emotion regulation and emotion socialization9
Patterns of indulgent parenting and adolescents' psychological development9
Young adults' financial advice‐seeking behavior: The roles of parental financial socialization9
Shifting toward intensive parenting culture? A comparative analysis of top mommy blogs and dad blogs9
COVID‐19–related stressors, family functioning and mental health in Canada: Test of indirect effects9
Parental mindfulness and externalizing problems in Chinese adolescents: Parenting anxiety and negative parenting as mechanisms8
Parental breakup and children's outcomes in the United States8
Longitudinal effects of pandemic stressors and dyadic coping on relationship satisfaction during the COVID‐19 pandemic8
Longitudinal trajectories of adult sibling relationship quality and psychological well‐being: The effect of childhood maltreatment8
Grandmothers who raise working parents' children: Influences on grandchildren, behavior management styles, and educational needs8
Father involvement during early childhood: A systematic review of qualitative studies8
Translating Discovery Science. Improving self‐efficacy in grandparents raising grandchildren: Results from a strengths‐based education intervention8
Lessons from the field: Developing and piloting a CRE program for couples with chronic illnesses8
Emerging ideas. Filial piety, substance use, adverse childhood experiences, and parental support: An intergenerational perspective8
Correction to The effect of fathers' involvement and supportive coparenting partnership on Taiwanese new mothers' postpartum adjustment8
The lived experience of stress for parents in the context of COVID‐19–related disruption8
Leaning to the disadvantaged or pursuing maximum utility? The allocation of intergenerational relationship resources in Chinese families with multiple children8
Coparenting and mindful parenting partially mediate the relationship between mothers' stress and parental burnout8
Ways parental health and stress shape the parenting of preteens in the rural Ozark Mountains7
Children's living arrangements and labor market outcomes of divorced mothers in Wisconsin7
A psychometric analysis of the Relationship Attribution Measure–Online Behavior7
Perceived parenting styles and adolescents' problematic internet use: Examining the parent–child same‐sex matching effect7
Factor structure of the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale among caregivers in Southeastern Europe7
A focus on fathers with intellectual disabilities and child protection7
Beyond collectivism and individualism: Chinese international students' perceptions of contemporary child‐centered parenting7
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Parent and adolescent perspectives on family problems during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Implications for family resilience7
Love Notes: A quasi‐experimental comparison of formats and a 3‐month follow‐up7
Family–Friendship Linkages in Youths With Autism Spectrum Disorder7
Nonstandard work schedules and positive parenting: Evidence from China7
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Association between maternal closeness with parents and mother–toddler relationship quality7
Is It Still Possible to Collect Nationally Representative Marriage Data in the United States? A Case Study From the CREATE Project7
Childrearing in stepfamilies: Empirical answers about “what works”6
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Rural–urban migration, family arrangement, and children's welfare: Evidence from China's rural areas6
How families respond to the collateral consequences of incarceration and prisoner reentry6
A multidimensional measure of father involvement following parental separation6
Adult children in complex families: How do relationships affect relationships?6
Addressing caregiver needs of brain injury survivors through telehealth: A pilot qualitative study6
On–Off Relationship Instability and Distress Over Time in Same‐ and Different‐Sex Relationships6
Early exposure to adverse childhood experiences and delinquent peer association among youth6
“Stop going in my room”: A grounded theory study of conflict among stepsiblings6
Being a parent, emotional stability, and adjustment disorder symptoms in the face of COVID‐196
“You are mum and then they are mum”: Negotiating roles, relationships, and contact in out‐of‐home care6
Emotional regulation and aggression in children: The regulatory role of Turkish mothers' emotion socialization reactions6
PROMIS Pediatric Psychological Stress Measure: Validity for immigrant Latino youth6
Who is ready? A peer support screening measure for parents of children with disabilities6
Actor–partner effects of coping strategies on emotional exhaustion in dual‐earner couples6
Parent communication about sexual and relationship violence: Promoting healthy relationships or reinforcing gender stereotypes?6
Views about cooperative marriage among sexual minority and heterosexual Chinese international students6
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Many distressed couples seek community‐based relationship education but don't benefit from it6
Exploring father–adolescent closeness: A random forest approach6
Empathy and sibling relationship dynamics of women in emerging adulthood: Mixed‐method research6
Partnership trajectories toward childlessness in China6
Guilt and compensation: The interplay between maternal emotions and parent–child relationships in migrant families6
Translating Discovery Science. Fostering relationships: Service provider perspectives on community building among veteran families6
Gender differences in marital and military predictors of service member career satisfaction6
Young adults' retrospective reports of family cohesion, parental differential treatment, and sibling relationships5
Predictors of children's emotion regulation outcomes during COVID‐19: Role of conflict within the family5
The attachment adaptation process model: Developing attachment security after experiencing addiction in the family5
#Morethanavisitor: Experiences of COVID‐19 visitor restrictions in Canadian long‐term care facilities5
Parental acceptance of lesbian, gay, and bisexual children in Taiwan: Towards relationship‐based practice5
A qualitative exploration of parents and their children's uses and gratifications of ChatGPT5
Leisure time and parenting in Europe: a more difficult equation for mothers?5
Lessons from the Field. Caregivers supporting marginalized people receiving social service support from street outreach workers5
Health‐related lifestyle of Spanish informal caregivers: Results from two national health surveys5
Social networks and help‐seeking among Korean immigrant intimate partner violence survivors5
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Dyadic and emotional adjustment in infertile couples5
Why am I always lonely? The lasting impact of childhood harsh parental discipline on adolescents' loneliness5
Lessons from the field: Isn't it just common sense? Naïve realism as a barrier to learning5
Coparenting relationship, parenting self‐efficacy, and child adjustment in Chinese mother–grandmother coparenting families: Grandmother role difference5
Online media experiences of caregiving fathers: A study of leave‐taking fathers in South Korea5
A scoping review: Group‐based parenting programs for racially and ethnically diverse parents of preschoolers5
Relations of religious affiliation group norms, human capital, and autonomy to Israeli men's participation in household duties5
Acceptability and feasibility of an intervention for Alaska Native and American Indian couples5
Child emotional problems: Associations with maternal distress and parenting practices5
Value preferences of spouses and division of domestic labor in the family: A dyadic study5
Early childhood income instability, food insecurity, and adolescents' behavioral health5
Emerging professionals practicing family science: Reflections of peer educators delivering relationship education5
Validation of the Family Fear of Deportation Scale for youth5
Examining the effectiveness of a family‐focused training to prevent youth suicide5
Strategic performance of Black queer motherwork5
Leveraging natural language processing to deepen understanding of parent–child interaction processes and language development5
Holding together after disaster: The role of social skills in strengthening family cohesion and resilience5
Financial strain, the transference of stigma, and residential instability: A qualitative analysis of the long‐term effects of parental incarceration5
Pathways from economic hardship to couple conflict by socioeconomic status during COVID‐19 in Korea5
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Exploring how adolescent boys' and girls' internalizing and externalizing behaviors impact parental self‐efficacy: A vignette study5
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Mental health in emerging adulthood: Anti‐mattering mediates the effects of attachment to mothers and fathers4
“What makes me uncertain?” Czech mothers' experiences of parenting 13‐ to 17‐month‐old toddlers4
Immigration‐related stress, depression, and positive parenting among undocumented Central American immigrant mothers4
“Cardiotoxic” and “cardioprotective” partner support for patient activation and distress: Are two better than one?4
The division of housework and re‐partnering in Europe: Is there a West/East divide?4
“My children,” “my grandchildren”: Navigating intergenerational ambivalence in grandparent childcare arrangements in Hong Kong4
A sociocultural perspective on AI assistive technology for older adults' social connectedness: A scoping review4
Outsourcing domestic work: A double‐edged sword for marital relations among dual‐earner couples4
Does caregiving make a difference? Health penalty and family caregivers during the pandemic in China4
Well‐being of grandparent kinship caregivers: An umbrella review4
Challenges and coping of children in large Jewish Ultra‐Orthodox families during the COVID‐19 pandemic4
Young adults' perceptions of morality‐based messages from parents about sex: An exploratory study4
Japanese version of the Equity Sensitivity Inventory Adapted for Married Couples4
Screen use: Its association with caregiver mental health, parenting, and children's ADHD symptoms4
Is helicopter parenting related to college students’ mental health? A typological and cross‐cultural approach4
“The interpersonal is political”: Understanding the sociological ambivalence created in parent and adult offspring cohabiting relationships4
Emerging Ideas. Transnational family dynamics during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A scoping review4
Divorced parents' perceived benefits and risks of dating and sharing of dating information4
Paternal child‐focused reflective functioning, parental sense of competence, and parental emotions recognition4
Experiences of siblings of people with intellectual disabilities: Multiregional perspectives4
“Listen to me!” The role of family supervision and parental phubbing in youth cyberbullying4
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Siblings' and parents' outlook for the prospective care for a family member with PIMD4
Impacts of the Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program: Pilot study with married couples in China4
Perceptions of adolescents' racial discrimination experiences, racial identity, and depressive symptoms among Black American fathers4
Protective and risk factors associated with involved fatherhood in a traditional culture4
Parent and adolescent perceptions of parent–child developmental relationships: The role of family routines4
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Community members as design partners: Codesign workshops of the families tackling tough times together program4
Relationship between parental self‐efficacy and parent–child relationships: Moderating roles of problem behaviors and autism stigma4
Perceived sense of closeness and belonging for relative versus nonrelative adoptive families4
Effects of developmental relationships on the well‐being of youth in high‐stress families4
Sex and sexual orientation in the effects of coping strategies on relationship satisfaction3
Cultural meaning of education and parents' involvement in education: Perspectives of immigrant Latinos3
Reciprocal longitudinal relations between child routines and parenting3
The future between difficulties and resources: Exploring parents' perspective on young adults with multiple sclerosis3
Black fathers' personal histories, worldviews, and fathering behaviors3
Parenting, self‐regulation, and sibling relationship dynamics in early childhood3
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We get by with family: Maternal partnership transitions and extended kin coresidence3
When Facebook plays matchmaker: Interactions within an online community dedicated to surrogacy and egg donation3
COVID‐19 stress, marital conflict, social capital, and parenting of preschoolers3
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Expanding the family circle: Local in‐law relationships and their role in supporting foreign spouses3
Trajectories of relationship quality and conflict in low‐income parents receiving home visitation services3
Doing kin work among Ghanaians home and abroad: A paradigm shift toICT3
Mother–child similarity during observed interactions: Links with mother and child effortful control3
Lessons From the Field Psychosocial consequences of the COVID‐19 homestay for preschoolers and their parents3
Family functioning and racial socialization in transracial adoptive families3
International migration, work, and cultural values: A mixed‐method exploration among Latino adolescents in U.S. agriculture3
Determine power and sample size for the simple and mediation Actor–Partner Interdependence Model3
Reconsidering the utility of mean comparisons in evaluative work3
Shouldering the burden: Intensive mothering and autism3
Adaptation process of parents experiencing the coming out of their child3
“Euphoria”: Trans children and experiences of prepubertal social transition3
Emerging Ideas. A brief commentary on human–AI attachment and possible impacts on family dynamics3
Mothers' and fathers' mentalization as moderators of the association between marital conflict and children's internalizing and externalizing behaviors3
From parenting self‐efficacy to child externalizing problems: The role of perceived parent stress and practices3
Artificial Intelligence in Everyday Family Life: Issues, applications, and implications3
Economic hardship trajectories of college‐educated families living in or near poverty: Assessing predictors and outcomes3
Mindfulness protects relationship quality from stress: Roles of trait mindfulness and relationship mindfulness3
Emerging Ideas. Suicidal ideation among partnered U.S. adults by sexual identity3
Contextualizing singlehood among young adults: Exploring the meanings and perceived reasons for being single3
Father–son relationships in Israeli military families from the perspective of adult sons3
Mothers of children who died by suicide3
Investigating moderators of daily marital to parent–child spillover: Individual and family systems approaches3
Profiles of parents' upward and downward comparisons and their associations with parenting3
Lessons from the Field. Continuous Quality Improvement: A multiyear HMRF case study of best practices in outreach program excellence3
Young adults' perceptions of technology use with extended family3
Perceived and observed family functioning in adolescents affected by restrictive eating disorders3
Intergenerational and digital solidarity and psychological well‐being: During and post–COVID‐19 pandemic in Korean families3
Did the COVID‐19 pandemic make better parents? A qualitative exploration of parents' experiences during a historic period3
Integrity and fidelity in highly religious marriages3
Effective parenting in stepfamilies: Empirical evidence of what works3
Experiences of post‐divorce parentification and parental affection: Implications for emerging adults' well‐being3
Lessons from the field. A day in the life of a full‐time parenting educator3
Trajectories of parental burnout in the first year of the COVID‐19 pandemic3
Lessons from the Field. Development of a group intervention to promote need‐supportive sport parenting3
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Linking internalizing and externalizing problems to warmth and negativity in observed dyadic parent–offspring communication3
Intensified parenthood: A qualitative study exploring parents' gendered positions in the care of child‐onset diabetes3
“Privileged adult”: How relationship with parents influences adult's status consumption3
Observed parenting aspects of child compliance in custodial grandfamilies3
Overview of undergraduate degree programs related to human development and family science3
Family promotion of children's healthy lifestyles during theCOVID‐19 pandemic in light of Saudi Vision 20303
Actor and partner effects of coparenting on marital quality: Mediating role of marital attachment3
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The role of parent's mental health in shaping perceptions of adolescent mental health experiences after COVID‐193
Predicting marital financial deception in a national sample: A person‐centered approach3
Asserting children's rights through the digital practices of transnational families3
Family processes and structure: Longitudinal influences on adolescent disruptive and internalizing behaviors3
Hurt, loss, joy, and forgiveness: Foster care–experienced young adults' relationships with their birth parents3
The impact of specific program components on romantic relationship satisfaction2
Divide and conquer: Coparenting and parent involvement in families with young children2
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