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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Family Studies 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
What is emotional closeness between grandparents and their adolescent grandchildren? A systematic review	22
Children in dual-residence arrangements: a literature review	20
Adolescents’ individual resilience and its association with security threats, anxiety and family resilience	20
Women’s work–life balance strategies in academia	13
Staying with the conflict – parenting work and the social organization of post-divorce conflict	13
Understanding the parental experiences of raising deaf children in Ghana	13
Psychometric properties of the CESD, STAI-T, and PSS among parents of children with mental illness	11
Trends in parental self-efficacy between 1999 and 2014	11
Do parents want death to be included in their children’s education?	11
A qualitative exploration of Black women’s familial socialization on controlling images of Black womanhood and the internalization of respectability politics	10
Representations of parenting and the neo-liberal discourse: parents’ and professionals’ views on child-rearing practices in Italy	9
Transnational parenting in settled families: social class, migration experiences and child rearing among Polish migrants in Germany	9
Can dimensions of parenting style contribute to self-compassion among South African adolescents?	9
Fathers stepping up? A cross-national comparison of fathers’ domestic labour and parents’ satisfaction with the division of domestic labour during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
A systematic review of the literature on transnational caregiving: immigrant adult children to ageing parents in home country	8
The implications of high-conflict divorce on adult–children: Five factors related to well-being	8
Mothers as teachers to their children: lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Discovered, made visible, constructed, and left out: LGBT+ parenting in the Italian sociological debate	8
Conflict resolution styles as predictors of marital adjustment and marital satisfaction: an actor–partner interdependence model	8
Parent and child perceptions of indulgent parenting and female emerging adults’ depressive symptoms	8
Does women's educational advantage mean a more egalitarian distribution of gender roles? Evidence from dual-earner couples in Spain	8
Two families joined by a child: the role of direct contact in fostering relationships between birth and carer families in permanent care	7
Parents’ perspectives on home-based character education activities	7
Parents’ and children’s perception of self-efficacy and parental support are related to children’s physical activity: a cross-sectional study of parent–child dyads	7
A meta-analysis examining the relationship between parents’ sexual orientation and children's developmental outcomes	7

‘Dads kind of get forgotten’: the mental health support needs of fathers raising a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder	7
Who works nonstandard schedules voluntarily?: The role of having children	7
Supervisory and co-worker support on the work-life balance of working women in the banking sector: a developing country perspective	7
The intergenerational transmission of psychological well-being – evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP)	7
Childcare in Lithuania and Belarus: how gendered is parenting in Eastern European countries?	6
The French version of the coparenting inventory for parents and adolescents (CI-PA): psychometric properties and a cluster analytic approach	6
Relational turning points in the parent and LGBTQ child coming out process	6
Responsiveness and control in marital and parental communication: exploring interdependent relationships across family subsystems	6
Adult (step) parent-child relationships in complex families: a latent profile analysis	6
Sibling relationship dynamics relate to young adults' empathic responding	6
Sharing the load: housework, joint decision-making, and marital quality in Japan	6
Gender role attitude, communication quality, and marital satisfaction among Korean adults	6
Validation and short-form development of Conflict and Problem-solving Strategy Scales	6
Post-separation fatherhood narratives in Germany and Sweden: between caring and protective masculinities	6
Parenting, loneliness, and stress in Chinese international students: do parents still matter from thousands of miles away?	5
Experiences and needs of social support among Thai adolescent fathers: a qualitative study	5
Parenting in a pandemic: a qualitative exploration of parents ’ experiences of supporting their children during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Displaying intergenerational solidarity on TikTok during the COVID-19 pandemic: understanding the implications in the grandparent-grandchild relationship	5
Coparenting and parenting stress of middle-class mothers during the first year: bidirectional and unidirectional effects	5
Parenting, autonomy and academic achievement in the adolescence	5
The relationship between nuclear family emotional system and adult health: mediating and moderating role of general self-efficacy	5
Evaluation report of early intervention program in situation of child-to-parent abuse: parents and children as participants	5
Resistance of women victims of domestic violence in dual-career family: a case from Indonesian society	5
Childhood relationships with parents and attachment as predictors of resilience in young adults	5
The impact of parental and individual factors on school refusal: a multiple-mediation model	4
Attachment parenting among middle-class couples in Spain: gendered principles and labor divisions	4
Adolescents’ internalization of moral values: the role of paternal and maternal promotion of volitional functioning	4
Parent–child interactions as predictors of coparenting: A longitudinal study of family subsystems	4
Complex but ordinary: intercultural negotiations among mixed families in Australia	4
Blood thicker than water? Emotional closeness between older parents and adult children in stepfamilies	4
Adapted fathering for new times: refugee men's narratives on caring for home and children	4
Re-defining stigmatization: intersectional stigma of single mothers in Thailand	4
The potential origins and consequences of Chinese youths’ faith in love: filial piety, implicit theories of romantic relationships, and intimacy	4
A meta-synthesis of care and support for older adults in Africa	4
Parents as partners in education during COVID-19-related school closures in England: challenges and opportunities identified by parents with Pakistani and Bangladeshi heritage	4
Stigma, resistance and hope: the experiences of parents of young transgender adults	4
Feasibility and acceptability of an online acceptance and commitment therapy group for parents caring for a child with cerebral palsy	4
How a child's gender mediates maternal care and expectations in the fatigue experiences of adolescents with sickle cell disease	4
Latino gay men’s disclosure of sexual identity to their fathers: a systematic review	4
Measuring maternal gatekeeping: a Rasch analysis of the Parental Regulation Inventory	3
COVID-19’s silver linings: exploring the impacts of work–family enrichment for married working mothers during and after the COVID-19 partial lockdown in Ghana	3
Chinese parental academic socialization prior to college entrance examination: insights from urban and rural areas	3
Too educated to be married? An investigation into the relationship between education and marriage in China	3
Like parent, like child? The intergenerational transmission of subjective well-being in Hungary	3
Mothers’ parenting stress in Chinese immigrant families: the role of fathers’ involvement and social support	3
Family Foundations To promote parent mental health and family functioning during the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia: A mixed methods evaluation	3
‘We want to be married on our own terms’: non-university emerging adults’ marital beliefs and differences between men and women	3
Stigma and widow remarriage: experiences of Malaysian Tamil women	3
Beyond bath bombs: partner’s response to postpartum depression	3
Prevalence and factors associated with intimate partner violence and related injuries in India: evidence from National Family Health Survey-4	3

Parenting stress and life satisfaction in families of children with disabilities: the mediating effect of social support in three Arab speaking countries	3
Digital and traditional communication with kin: displacement or reinforcement?	3
Young people’s discursive constructions of fatherhood in South Africa	3
Physical custody arrangements and fathers’ post-separation well-being	3
Academic achievement and professional aspirations: between the impacts of family, self-efficacy and school counselling	3
Diaspora grand-mothering in Nigeria	3
Don’t blame the kids: mothers’ satisfaction with different life domains after union dissolution	2
Fertility cultures and childbearing desire after the Two-Child Policy: evidence from southwest China	2
‘Ordinary’ and ‘diverse’ families. A case study of family discourses by Finnish early childhood education and care administrators	2
Negotiating power and relationship throughout marital life: narratives of middle-aged women from Turkey	2
‘The balance in our relationship has changed’: everyday family living, couplehood and digital spaces in informal spousal care	2
Does Facebook ‘threaten’ romantic relationships? Online surveillance and couple visibility behaviours in romantic jealousy and couple relationship quality in a sample of Italian women	2
Estimating the prevalence of children living with a stepparent in New Zealand using linked administrative, census, and survey data	2
The role of gender ideology, intensive parenting, educational resources, and psychological well-being for parent-child reading frequency	2
Who’s caring for whom? Disabled Indigenous carers experiences of Australia’s infrastructures of social protection	2
Family Counselling Service professionals’ attitudes towards same-sex parenting: a qualitative research in Northeast Italy	2
‘The children, the family, the household, and myself, these made the quarantine up for me, and I was really happy with it’ – positive evaluations of the first COVID-19 lockdown among middle-class Hung	2
Siblings of children diagnosed with cancer: being faced with a moral dilemma	2
Resiliency perspectives among older siblings of children with significant disabilities	2
Longitudinal profiles of marital satisfaction and their consequences among Korean couples	2
Becoming a birth mother in the context of a planned same-sex family: ‘As amazing as it is, it’s kind of a tough road to navigate’	2
‘She’s Like Family’: transnational Filipino families, voluntary kin and the circulation of care	2
The utility of the Positive Parenting Program (Triple P) for refugee background parents	2
Maternal control and children’s internalizing and externalizing symptoms in the context of neighbourhood safety: moderating and mediating models	2
Intergenerational transmission of trauma: unpacking the effects of parental adverse childhood experiences	2
Raising teenage children in disadvantaged neighbourhoods: the experiences and challenges of immigrant mothers in Sweden	2
Exploring the lived experience of parental infidelity	2
Unemployment and domestic work in Spain: did the 2007 economic crisis affect gender equality in the household?	2
Being a child in the family: young children describe themselves and their parents	2
A time to be silent and a time to speak: intergenerational family narrative and father loss before birth	2
Factors affecting the length of unpaid parental leave in Spain	2
The relative effects of physical and verbal discipline and gender variations on adolescents’ bonds to parents: a case of urban China	1
Meeting online and family-related outcomes: evidence from three German cohorts	1
Caring masculinities? Teenage fathers in South Africa	1
Exploring the caring of fathers in low-income, rural communities in South Africa	1
More dedicated, more loyal : young men redefining fathering roles and expectations	1
Perceptions of parents of youth with disabilities toward school-based parent engagement	1
Family formation trends and patterns of women's work trajectories in South Korea: determinants and cohort differences	1
Singlehood and childlessness: an age-period-cohort analysis of changing attitudes toward family in Taiwan (2005-2020)	1
Transgenerational discourses of gender among Polish psychotherapists: An exploratory study	1
Family influence on refugee youth education and employment aspirations and choices	1
Patterns of adolescent–parent conflicts over schoolwork in Chinese families	1
Age composition of young children and parental well-being in Japan	1
Copious relationships: transnational marriages and intimacy among Moroccan couples in Italy	1
Risk factors for materialistic attitudes and values of teenagers – role of parents and peers	1
‘Your fatty bum is really ugly!’ Gender, fat-shaming, and beauty-related tensions in contemporary Taiwanese families	1
Coparenting and parental involvement in education: the mediating role of motivational beliefs	1
Supporting family identity: the processes that influence belonging and boundaries in an LGBTQ playgroup	1
Child sexual abuse prevention – the strategies of protective mothers and fathers: a systematic review	1
Attitudes towards multi-child families and their relationship with fertility preferences and other characteristics	1
Single by chance or by choice? The social meanings of singlehood and narratives of choice among unpartnered adults in Israel	1
Regretting parenthood in a family friendly, ‘gender equal’ society: accounts from Swedish online forums	1
Satisfaction with work–family roles and the relationship with working parents’ life satisfaction: a cross-disciplinary perspective	1
Can a man also be afraid? Partner communication, anxiety and hope in parents of premature infants	1
Does what the man studies affect what he does at home? Field of education and gender division of housework and childcare in Norway, Austria and Poland	1
‘Undoing gender’ or selection effects?: fathers’ uptake of leave and involvement in housework and childcare in South Korea	1
Relational long-term breastfeeding	1
Lineage difference in grandmothers’ childcare help and mothers’ parenting stress in urban China	1
‘Never time to do anything well’: mothers’ reported constraints during a pandemic	1
‘We also need to exist somehow’ – families negotiating everyday ethics during Covid-19 in Denmark	1
Financial and non-financial private transfers from close ones: beyond family and kinship	1
The relationship between education, agency, and socialization goals in a sample of mothers of preschoolers	1
Health and psychological distress implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for single mothers in Israel	1
‘Are we falling apart?’: manufacturing familyhood through transnationalism	1
Making meaning by sacrifice – self and relationship commitment in Finnish spouses and partners of people with mental illness	1
Accepting social support in single-parent families in Belgium	1
Disentangling the link between having one child and partnership trajectories: a mixed-methods life-course research	1
‘Addictive’ for children and ‘helpful’ to parents: electronic devices as a non-human actor in family relations	1