Welcome to the WFRN Research Feed!
The Research Feed is intended to make members of the work-family community aware of recent scholarship in academic publications (such as academic journals and books) or items of interest to the academic research community. The Research Feed canvases research journals that commonly publish work-family studies. The feed is presented on the WFRN website and is directed to members’ email accounts.
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What Working Parents Need from Their Managers
Even during a pandemic, managers are expected to lead their teams and drive business results. But there’s a dilemma: They must acknowledge that Covid-19 is putting an enormous strain on people, especially working parents, while also holding them accountable for getting their work done. This means employing two strategies that, on the surface, might seem [Read More…]
July 17, 2023
Sending children to camp: An analysis of decision‐making by family income.
Objectives: This study sought to (a) identify the factors most salient toparents when sending their child to summer camp, (b) examine family members’roles in the camp decision‐making process, and (c) compare both by income andother family contextual factors in a sample of parents with a child whoenrolled and participated in a summer camp experience. Methods: [Read More…]
June 22, 2023
Associations between childhood family‐based nature activities and family relationship quality in emerging adulthood.
Objective: To explore changes in family‐based nature activities (FBNA)across five developmental stages and investigate whether frequency and typeof FBNA across the early life course is associated with greater familyrelationship quality in emerging adulthood. Method: Retrospective survey datawas collected from 451 undergraduate students who primarily identified asAsian American (44.9%) and Latinx (42.7%). Results: Multilevel models showedthat [Read More…]
June 22, 2023
Influence of family factors on service members’ decisions to leave the military.
Background: Service member retention is a crucial aspect in maintainingand advancing the U.S. military and its mission. To increase retention, it isimportant to understand why active duty personnel voluntarily leave whilethey are still highly qualified. For married service members, spouses likelyinfluence the decision to stay or leave military service. Objective: Thecurrent study used data from [Read More…]
June 22, 2023
Grandmothers who raise working parents’ children: Influences on grandchildren, behavior management styles, and educational needs.
Objective: The aim of the study was to examine perspectives on helpingraise grandchildren among Turkish grandmothers who care for working parents’children. Background: Grandparents helping raise their grandchildren hasbecome increasingly common as a means to support women’s employment. InTurkey, the Büyükanne Projesi (Grandma Project) was carried out in 2017 withthe support of the government. This project [Read More…]
June 22, 2023
“I feel erased:” A qualitative analysis of grandparent experiences of parental alienation.
Objective: This study employs the life course perspective to explore thelived experience of grandparents who have no contact with their grandchildrendue to parental alienation (PA). Background: PA represents situations inwhich a child becomes estranged from one parent because of the manipulationof the other parent. The estrangement from the alienated parent leads to andmanifests inter alia [Read More…]
June 22, 2023
Translating Discovery Science. Improving self‐efficacy in grandparents raising grandchildren: Results from a strengths‐based education intervention.
Background: Custodial grandparents often protect against childhood traumaand promote resilience in their grandchildren. In this role, grandparentsface many challenges and may lack confidence in their parenting abilities.Increasing grandparent self‐efficacy may help promote grandfamily resilience.Yet few interventions exist to help grandparents adapt to challenges faced asprimary parenting figures for grandchildren. Objective: The purpose of thisstudy was [Read More…]
June 22, 2023
Emerging Ideas: The near invisibility of Native Americans and their families within the flagship journals of family science.
Objective: To assess the family science literature’s focus on NativeAmericans and their families through articles published in the flagshipjournals of the National Council on Family Relations. Background:Historically, Native Americans and their families have been underrepresentedin the social sciences literature. Scholars have attributed this nearinvisibility to shifting census categories, underrepresentation in samples,and residence in more rural [Read More…]
June 22, 2023
Long‐term trajectories of intergenerational coresidence: Evidence of living arrangements patterns in Chile.
Objective: This study examines long‐term trajectories ofintergenerational coresidence (IC) among a cohort of individuals aged 65 and75 in Chile, focusing on their diversity, prevalence, internal dynamism, andsociodemographic characteristics. Background: IC is comparatively high inLatin America and is related to both family norms and social vulnerabilities.However, empirical evidence on this topic comes mostly from cross‐sectionalstudies using [Read More…]
June 22, 2023
Children’s education and parental support in Jewi Refugee Camp, Ethiopia: Unraveling the challenges.
Objective: In this study, we examined the situation of parents andcaregivers of the refugee children in Jewi refugee camp with the aim ofunderstanding the roles they play in the education of the children.Background: Effective educational interventions benefit from parentalengagement. This may be particularly the case for refugee children, whotypically have had several traumatic experiences during [Read More…]
June 22, 2023
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