Submissions from 2025
I Do, and I Will: Effectual Religiosity May Strengthen the Triad Chord of Commitment for Women of Faith, Tamara M. Chamberlain, Loren Marks, David C. Dollahite, Ashley LeBaron-Black, Elizabeth Kay Madsen, and Christina N. Cooper
How Nonreligious Parents Approach the (Non)Religious Socialization of Their Children, Heather H. Kelley, Loren D. Marks, David C. Dollahite, and Ty B. Aller
The Power of Humor in Strong African American Marriages: Laughing, Lifting, and Loving, Loren Marks, Danielle H. Cannon, Antonius D. Skipper, Tehya A. Vassar, and David C. Dollahite
Husband as Head?: Diverse Perspectives on Gendered Marital Hierarchy From Highly Religious Wives and Husbands, Jolyn C. Schraedel, Loren D. Marks, Andrew H. Rose, David C. Dollahite, Jeffrey P. Dew, and Adam A. Rogers
Husband as Head?: Diverse Perspectives on Gendered Marital Hierarchy From Highly Religious Wives and Husbands, Jolyn C. Schraedel, Loren D. Marks, Andrew H. Rose, David C. Dollahite, Jeffrey P. Dew, and Adam A. Rogers
Insights on Self-Perceptions, Coping, and Racism from Wives, Husbands, and Youth in Strong, Religious African American Families, Antonius D. Skipper, Justin J. Hendricks, Tehya A. Vassar, Loren D. Marks, David C. Dollahite, T. J. Moore, Danielle H. Cannon, and Heather H. Kelley
How Serving Others in Families and Faith Communities Strengthens African American Marriages, Antonius D. Skipper, Loren D. Marks, Tehya A. Vassar, Dani H. Cannon, David C. Dollahite, and Justin J. Hendricks
Sources of Influence in Marriage and Parenting for Interfaith Couples, William D. Stanford, Justin J. Hendricks, Ted G. Futris, Loren D. Marks, and David C. Dollahite
Positive Psychology in Strong Black Marriages: Optimism, Humility, Agency, Growth, and Faith, Tehya A. Vassar, Loren D. Marks, Danielle H. Cannon, Antonius D. Skipper, Justin J. Hendricks, and David C. Dollahite
Submissions from 2024
Personal and Relational Processes of Repentance in Religious Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Families, Justin J. Hendricks, David C. Dollahite, Loren D. Marks, and Julianna Herbst
Does Leaving Faith Mean Leaving Family? Longitudinal Associations Between Religious Identification and Parent-Child Relationships Across Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood, Justin J. Hendricks, Sam A. Hardy, Emily M. Taylor, and David C. Dollahite
Integrity and Fidelity in Highly Religious Marriages, Chelom E. Leavitt, Justin J. Hendricks, Rebecca W. Clarke, Loren D. Marks, David C. Dollahite, and Andrew H. Rose
How Do Religious Women Cope with Marital Conflict and Hardship? Article 2, Elizabeth M. Lyman, Loren D. Marks, David C. Dollahite, Chelom E. Leavitt, Tamara M. Chamberlain, and Christina N. Cooper
Submissions from 2023
The Hidden Power of “Thank You”: Exploring Aspects, Expressions, and the Influence of Gratitude in Religious Families, Joe M. Chelladurai, Loren D. Marks, David C. Dollahite, Heather H. Kelley, and David B. Allsop
A Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Audit of the American Families of Faith Project: Exploring Lifespan Spiritual Development in Religiously and Racially Diverse Families, David C. Dollahite, Justin J. Hendricks, and Loren D. Marks
Changes in Home-Centered Religious Practices and Relational Wellbeing following the Initial Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic, David C. Dollahite, Heather H. Kelley, Spencer James, and Loren D. Marks
Perspectives on Lifespan Religious and Spiritual Development from Scholars across the Lifespan, Megan Gale, Justin J. Hendricks, David C. Dollahite, and Loren D. Marks
“We Have Hope”: An Exploration of Hope in Highly Religious Families, Heather H. Kelley, Justin J. Hendricks, Joe M. Chelladurai, Loren D. Marks, and David C. Dollahite
Exploring Influences of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Family Communication: Negative, Positive, or Both?, Loren D. Marks, David C. Dollahite, Heather H. Kelley, Elisabeth R. Kimball, and Spencer James
Submissions from 2022
Exploring personal and relational motivations and processes of forgiveness in religious families, David C. Dollahite, Justin J. Hendricks, Joe M. Chelladurai, Loren D. Marks, Heather H. Kelley, and Andrew H. Rose
Strengths and Strategies in Interfaith Marriages, David C. Dollahite; Hannah K, Shoaf; Justin J. Hendricks; Loren D. Marks; Heather H. Kelly; and Sandra Gomez Ward
Changes in Spiritual Practices and Relational Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Heather H. Kelley, David C. Dollahite, Spencer James, and Loren D. Marks
Change in Financial Stress and Relational Wellbeing During COVID-19: Exacerbating and Alleviating Influences, Heather H. Kelley, Yoon Lee, Ashley LeBaron-Black, David C. Dollahite, Spencer James, Loren D. Marks, and Tyler Hall
Perceptions of Nonreligious Parents, Heather H. Kelley, Loren D. Marks, and David C. Dollahite
Family Dinners and Family Relationships following the Initial Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Loren D. Marks, Heather H. Kelley, David C. Dollahite, Elisabeth R. Kimball, and Spencer James
Submissions from 2021
Perspectives from Highly Religious Families on Boundaries and Rules About Sex, David B. Allsop, Chelom E. Leavitt, Rebecca W. Clarke, Shayla M. Driggs, Joanna B. Gurr, Loren D. Marks, and David C. Dollahite
How sexuality and religion intersect in highly religious families: implications for clinicians, Rebecca W. Clarke, Chelom E. Leavitt, David B. Allsop, Loren D. Marks, and David C. Dollahite
Introduction to the Special Issue on Couples, Families, and Finance, Melissa A. Curran, Ashley B. LeBaron, Xiaomin Li, and Casey J. Totenhagen
Finances, Depressive Symptoms, Destructive Conflict, and Coparenting Among Lower-Income, Unmarried Couples: A Two-Wave, Cross-Lagged Analysis, Melissa A. Curran, Xiaomin Li, Melissa Barnett, Olena Kopstynska, Alexa B. Chandler, and Ashley B. LeBaron
Perceived Helpfulness of Four Different Types of Marriage Preparation Interventions, Stephen F. Duncan, Geniel R. Childs, and Jeffrey H. Larson
Helping families toward the goal of self-support: Montana's EDUFAIM program, Stephen F. Duncan, Tim Dunnagan, Suzanne Christopher, and Lynn Paul
The Power of Three: A Latent Class Analysis of the Three Parent–Child Relationships in Stepfamilies and Their Influence on Emerging Adult Outcomes, Braquel R. Egginton, Erin K. Holmes, Spencer C. James, and Alan J. Hawkins
Hope levels across adolescence and the transition to high school: Associations with school stress and achievement, Ashley M. Fraser, Crystal I. Bryce, Brittany L. Alexander, and Richard A. Fabes
The role of hope in college retention, Ashley M. Fraser, Crystal I. Bryce, Richard A. Fabes, and Brittany L. Alexander
A Person-centered Approach to Violence Exposure in Postwar Colombian Youth: Demographic Covariates and Positive Youth Development Outcomes, Ashley M. Fraser, Larissa M. Gaias, Ana Maria Melendez Guevara, and Sarah Lindstrom Johnson
Violence Exposure, Aggressive Cognitions & Externalizing Behaviors among Colombian Youth: The Moderating Role of Community Belongingness, Ashley M. Fraser, Ana M. Melendez Guevara, Larissa M. Gaias, and Sarah L. Johnson
College Students’Media Habits, Concern for Themselves and Others, and Mental Health in the Era of COVID-19, Ashley M. Fraser, Laura A. Stockdale, Crystal I. Bryce, and Brittany L. Alexander
From Shyness to Social Anxiety: Understanding Solitude in the Context of Immigration, Craig H. Hart, Yiyuan Xu, Charissa S.L. Cheah, and You Jung Seo
Perceived Family and Partner Support and the Work-Family Interface: A Meta-analytic Review, Heather H. Kelley, Ashley B. LeBaron, E. Jeffery Hill, and Diana Meter
Exploring Gender Roles in Highly Religious Families, Chelom E. Leavitt, David B. Allsop, Amber A. Price, Loren D. Marks, and David C. Dollahite
Financial behaviors, financial satisfaction, and goal attainment among college-educated young adults: A mediating analysis with latent change scores, Xiaomin Li, Melissa Curran, Joyce Serido, Ashley B. LeBaron, Soyeon Shim, and Nan Zhou
Black Marriages Matter: Wisdom and Advice From Happily Married Black Couples, Antonius D. Skipper, Loren D. Marks, T.J. Moore, and David C. Dollahite
Assessing Perceived Marriage Education Needs and Interests among Latinos in a Select Western Community, Iliana B. Snyder, Stephen F. Duncan, and Jeffrey H. Larson
Examining Criteria for Adulthood Among Young People in Sabah (East Malaysia), Walton Wider, Norazah Mohd Suki, Melanie L. Lott, Larry J. Nelson, Sew Kim Low, and Gertrude Cosmas
Submissions from 2020
Non-Parental Family Members as Brokers of Family Social Capital: Compensatory Time Use in India, Melissa Alcaraz, Ashley Larsen Gibby, and Nancy Luke
Daddy, Mommy, and Money: The Association Between Parental Materialism on Parent–Child Relationship Quality, David B. Allsop, Chen-Yun Wang, Jeffrey P. Dew, Erin K. Holmes, E. Jeffrey Hill, and Chelom E. Leavitt
'We Have Lost Our Lives Already': Loss and Coping among Sri Lankan Women, Alyssa Banford Witting, Betsy Hughes Barrow, Jessica Lambert, Jason Whiting, Rachel Hartshorn, Loren Marks, Thulitha Wickrama, and Seevaguru Thanigaseelan
How Parents Balance Desire for Religious Continuity With Honoring Children’s Religious Agency, Betsy Hughes Barrow, David C. Dollahite, and Loren D. Marks
Establishment of a Reliable Change Index for the GAD-7, Thomas Bischoff, Shayne R. Anderson, Joy Heafner, and Rachel Tambling
Dimensions of hope in adolescence: Relations to academic functioning and well‐being, Crystal I. Bryce, Brittany L. Alexander, Ashley M. Fraser, and Richard A. Fabes
Relationship Context, Body-Esteem, Religiosity, and Sexual Experience: Associations with Well-Being and Relationship Status, Dean M. Busby, Jenae Bluhm, and Nathan D. Leonhardt
The Strengths and Challenges of Contemporary Marriages of Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Dean M. Busby and David C. Dollahite
A kiss is not just a kiss: kissing frequency, sexual quality, attachment, and sexual and relationship satisfaction, Dean M. Busby, Veronica Hanna-Walker, and Chelom E. Leavitt
A closer look at attachment, sexuality, and couple relationships, Dean M. Busby, Veronica Hanna-Walker, and Jeremy B. Yorgason
Measuring the Multidimensional Construct of Pornography: A Long and Short Version of the Pornography Usage Measure, Dean M. Busby, Brian J. Willoughby, Hsin-Yao Chiu, and Joseph A. Olsen
Don’t let a pornography boom disrupt human attachment, Mark Butler, Hal Boyd, and Kailyn Cash
Living well with depression—My personal journey, Mark H. Butler
Adolescents’ Prosocial Behaviors Through a Multidimensional and Multicultural Lens, Gustavo Carlo and Laura M. Padilla-Walker
Text-Map Analysis: An Introduction to the Method and an Examination of Relationship Self-Regulation and Religion, Joe M. Chelladurai, David C. Dollahite, and Loren D. Marks
“Speak up!”: An Examination of the Language Capacities of Children Displaying Various Forms of Social Withdrawal and Aggression, Brandon N. Clifford, Larry J. Nelson, and Cortney A. Evans
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: The Effect of Listening to Body Positive Music on Implicit and Explicit Body Esteem, Sarah M. Coyne, Emilie J. Davis, Wayne Warburton, Laura Stockdale, Imogen Abba, and Dean M. Busby
The Family Health Scale: Reliability and Validity of a Short- and Long-Form, AliceAnn Crandall, Nomi S. Weiss-Laxer, Eliza Broadbent, Erin K. Holmes, Brianna Michele Magnusson, Lauren Okano, Jerica M. Berge, Michael D. Barnes, Carl Lee Hanson, Blake L. Jones, and Len B. Novilla
Family Implicit Rules, Shame, and Adolescent Prosocial and Antisocial Communication Behaviors, Jeffrey Crane, James M. Harper, Roy A. Bean, and Erin K. Holmes
Ten Years of Marriage and Cohabitation Research in the Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Jeffrey P. Dew
The Longitudinal Associations of Sound Financial Management Behaviors and Marital Quality, Jeffrey P. Dew
A Review of Effectiveness Evidence in the Financial‐Helping Fields, Jeffrey P. Dew, Luke Dean, Stephen F. Duncan, and Sonya Britt-Lutter
Relationship-enhancing Transcendent Religious Experiences Encourage Relational Meaning, Depth, Healing, and Action, David C. Dollahite, Loren D. Marks, Alyssa Banford Witting, Ashley B. LeBaron, Kaity Peal Young, and Joe M. Chelladurai
Understanding Early-Married Men’s Involvement in Marital Interventions, Stephen F. Duncan, Thomas Jack Esplin White, and Spencer L. James
The Emerging Science of Virtue, Blaine J. Flowers, Jason S. Carroll, Nathan D. Leonhardt, and Bradford Cokelet
Children’s mu suppression is sensitive to witnessing others’ social victimization, Ashley M. Fraser, Ryan S. Hampton, Tracy L. Spinrad, Michael Varnum, Chis Blais, Nancy Eisenberg, Diana E. Gal-Szabo, Rebecca H. Berger, Jingyi Xu, and Sonya Xinyue Xia
The Effect of Target’s Power on Prosocial Behavior: A Cross-Cultural Study, Xinyuan Fu, Laura M. Padilla-Walker, Matthew G. Nielson, Mingliang Yuan, and Yu Kou
Implicit and Explicit Childhood Financial Socialization: Protective Factors for Marital Financial Disagreements, Ashley Larsen Gibby, Logan Pettit, E. Jeffrey Hill, Jeremy Yorgason, and Erin Kramer Holmes
What is online porn teaching our children?, Daniel Hilton, Mark Butler, Hal Boyd, Julie Haupt, and Jacob Gossner
Do Responsible Fatherhood Programs Work? A Comprehensive Meta‐Analytic Study, Erin Kramer Holmes, Braquel R. Egginton, Alan J. Hawkins, Nathan L. Robbins, and Kevin Shafer
Do Workplace Characteristics Moderate the Effects of Attitudes on Father Warmth and Engagement?, Erin Kramer Holmes, Richard J. Petts, Clare R. Thomas, Nathan L. Robbins, and Tom Henry
The work-family interface, Erin K. Holmes, Clare R. Thomas, Richard J. Petts, and E. Jeffrey Hill
Social Contact, Time Alone, and Parental Subjective Well-Being: A Focus on Stay-at-Home Fathers Using the American Time Use Survey, Erin K. Holmes, Jocelyn Wikle, Clare R. Thomas, McKell A. Jorgensen, and Braquel R. Egginton
Family Structure and Child Well-Being in a Non-western Context: The Role of Parent–Child Relations and Parental Conflict in South Korea, Jonathan A. Jarvis, Ashley Larsen Gibby, Mikaela J. Dufur, and Shana Pribesh
Uniting and Dividing Influences of Religion on Parent–Child Relationships in Highly Religious Families, Heather Howell Kelley, Loren D. Marks, and David C. Dollahite
Family Matters: Decade Review from Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Heather H. Kelly, Ashley B. LeBaron, and E. Jeffery HIll
Associations of mindfulness with adolescent outcomes and sexuality, Chelom E. Leavitt, David B. Allsop, Dean M. Busby, Shayla M. Driggs, Heather M. Johnson, and Matthew T. Saxey
The Sexual Mindfulness Project: An Initial Presentation of the Sexual and Relational Associations of Sexual Mindfulness, Chelom E. Leavitt, Jason B. Whiting, and Alan J. Hawkins
Parent Financial Socialization Scale: Development and preliminary validation, Ashley B. LeBaron, Melissa A. Curran, E. Jeffery Hill, Margaret E. Freeh, Russell B. Toomey, and Katherine E. Speirs
Financial Stressors as Catalysts for Relational Growth: Bonadaptation Among Lower-Income, Unmarried Couples, Ashley B. LeBaron, Melissa A. Curran, Xiomin Li, Jeffrey P. Dew, Trevor K. Sharp, and Melissa A. Barnett
Parental Financial Education During Childhood and Financial Behaviors of Emerging Adults, Ashley B. LeBaron, Erin K. Holmes, Bryce L. Jorgensen, and Roy A. Bean
Financial Socialization: A Decade in Review, Ashley B. LeBaron and Heather H. Kelly
Sanctification or Inhibition? Religious Dualities and Sexual Satisfaction, Nathan D. Leonhardt, Dean M. Busby, Veronica R. Hanna-Walker, and Chelom E. Leavitt
Pursuit of Harmony: Relational and Individual Predictors of Sexual Passion Expression, Nathan D. Leonhardt, Dean M. Busby, and Chanae Valdez
Do You Feel in Control? Sexual Desire, Sexual Passion Expression, and Associations with Perceived Compulsivity to Pornography and Pornography Use Frequency, Nathan D. Leonhardt, Dean M. Busby, and Brian J. Willoughby
‘We want to be married on our own terms’: non-university emerging adults’ marital beliefs and differences between men and women, Nathan D. Leonhardt, Brian J. Willoughby, Jason S. Carroll, Shelby Astle, and Joshua Powner
Romantic Attachment Orientations, Financial Behaviors, and Life Outcomes Among Young Adults: A Mediating Analysis of a College Cohort, Xiaomin Li, Melissa A. Curran, and Ashley B. LeBaron
How Do Parents Teach Their Children About Work? A Qualitative Exploration of Household Chores, Employment, and Entrepreneurial Experiences, Christoffer L. Loderup, Joshua E. Timmons, Elisabeth R. Kimball, E. Jeffrey Hill, Loren D. Marks, and Ashley B. LeBaron
The Real Book of Mormon Musical: Latter-day Saint Family Home Evening as a Weekly Ritual, Loren D. Marks, David C. Dollahite, Trevan G. Hatch, Michael A. Goodman, Tommy M. Phillips, and Heather H. Kelley
We Shall Overcome: The Association Between Family of Origin Adversity, Coming to Terms, and Relationship Quality in African Americans, Kylee Marshall, Alyssa Banford Witting, Jonathan G. Sandberg, and Roy A. Bean
Established Adulthood: A New Conception of Ages 30 to 45, Clare M. Mehta, Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, Carlie G. Palmer, and Larry J. Nelson
Latent Growth in Self-Regulatory Subdimensions in Relation to Adjustment Outcomes in Youth Aged 12–19, Madison K. Memmott-Elison, Kristin L. Moilanen, and Laura M. Padilla-Walker
Shy and still struggling: Examining the relations between subtypes of social withdrawal and well‐being in the 30s, Larry J. Nelson, Nathan A. Jorgensen, and Brandon L. Clifford
Longitudinal Links Between Parents’ Mental Health, Parenting, and Adolescents’ Mental Health: Moderation by Adolescent Sex, Laura M. Padilla-Walker and Hannah B. Apsley
Parent–child Joint Media Engagement in Infancy, Laura M. Padilla-Walker, Sarah M. Coyne, McCall A. Booth, Sarah E. Domoff, Kjersti Summers, Emily Schvaneveldt, and Laura Stockdale