Ambiguous loss: A focus on immigrant families, postincarceration family life, addiction and families, and military families.

2022 ◽  
pp. 187-218
Author(s):  
Catherine Solheim ◽  
Anne Williams-Wengerd ◽  
Christine Kodman-Jones ◽  
Kyle Burke ◽  
Camille St. James ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Military Families ◽  
Immigrant Families ◽  
Ambiguous Loss

Analysis of Ambiguous Loss and the Family Life Cycle

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura A. Scudellari ◽  
Bethany A. Pecora-Sanefski ◽  
Andrew Muschel ◽  
Jane R. Piesman ◽  
Thomas P. Demaria
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Ambiguous Loss ◽  
Family Life Cycle ◽  
The Family

scholarly journals MILITARY FAMILY RESEARCH: METHODOLOGICAL LESSONS LEARNED, OFTEN THE HARD WAY. UPDATED, WITH A EULOGY TO DR. BRUCE BELL

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter Schumm
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Military Families ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Military Family ◽  
Good News ◽  
Detailed Knowledge ◽  
Family Research ◽  
Sample Characteristics ◽  
Family Privacy

Some of the advantages and the pitfalls of planning and conducting military family research are discussed.  Family theory remains critical to research on military families but needs to be combined with detailed knowledge of the issues faced by military families.  The military’s concerns about family privacy can lead to tensions with the researcher’s need to define population and sample characteristics, as well as to obtain high response rates through systematic follow-up of potential survey respondents.  Researchers may find an easier path to publication for research that sounds like “good news”, while research that seems like “bad news” may be suppressed, disguised, or managed in a variety of ways.  Because of the complexities of military life and military family life it may be very useful to bring military personnel or veterans into your research group when developing and testing theories about military family life.   

scholarly journals Technical Brokering of Immigrant Adolescents in Switzerland: A Developmental-Acculturative Perspective

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lara Aumann ◽  
Peter F. Titzmann
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Cultural Adaptation ◽  
Immigrant Families ◽  
Female Adolescents ◽  
Unrelated Family ◽  
Immigrant Adolescents ◽  
Host Culture ◽  
German Immigrant ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Culture Brokering

AbstractIn the present digital age, intrafamilial dynamics and adolescents’ support of their parents in media use (technical brokering, Katz, 2010) are increasing in attention. However, the significance of migration-specific processes in adolescents’ technical brokering is less understood. In immigrant families, adolescents’ technical brokering may help families in adapting to the host culture and in keeping contact with friends and family abroad. This study investigated differences in the level of technical brokering between German immigrant and native Swiss adolescents and tested whether migration-unrelated (family life) or migration-related (i.e., culture brokering, Tse, 1995) factors are better predictors of interindividual differences in technical brokering in high SES immigrant families. The sample comprised 301 adolescents in Switzerland: 136 German immigrant adolescents (average age = 15.3, 65% female) and 165 native Swiss adolescents (average age = 15.9, 61% female). Adolescents stated the frequency of technical brokering tasks as well as culture brokering and migration-related processes. The results revealed that German immigrant adolescents provided technical brokering more frequently than native Swiss adolescents. Hierarchical regressions confirmed that technical brokering in German immigrant families is best explained by adolescents’ supporting their family in mastering the transition to a new country, as predictors pertaining to culture brokering, and host culture orientation explained most of the variance. This interpretation received further support by an interaction effect showing that technical brokering is particularly frequent when adolescents act as a culture broker in families with substantial socio-cultural adaptation difficulties. This study complements an often deficit-oriented view on immigrant youth with a view of their active and constructive role in immigrant family processes.

Self-Reported Marital Quality of Military Families Living Off-Post in a Midwestern Community

1986 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 391-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter R. Schumm ◽  
Phyllis M. Hammond
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Marital Quality ◽  
Military Families ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Military Couples ◽  
Military Student ◽  
The Military

Military, student, and other wives from a sample of 212 wives and both spouses from a sample of 79 couples from the Midwest are compared on a variety of self-report measures of marital quality. While few significant differences were found among the three groups, those that were significant favored the military couples. In these samples, the strengths of military families appeared sufficient to offset the stresses peculiar to their family life. The results suggest that not all military families can be fairly characterized as problematic or dysfunctional.

Military Families Under Stress: Implications for Family Life Education*

2003 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Reinkober Drummet ◽  
Marilyn Coleman ◽  
Susan Cable
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Military Families ◽  
Family Life Education ◽  
Life Education
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