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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Individualization of extended family bonds? An analysis of youth narratives from three Dutch generations46
Maintaining whiteness in a superdiverse context: White German parents' racial–ethnic socialization41
Parenting during the second year of COVID‐19: Positive and negative parental experiences in the U.S.A.37
Chinese adolescents' depression, anxiety, and family mutuality before and afterCOVID‐19 lockdowns: Longitudinal cross‐lagged relations29
Reflective functioning and emotion socialization behaviors in caregivers of preschoolers29
Communicatively constructing resilience: Exploring family resilience in the experience of hereditary cancer27
Awareness and equity of behavioral sacrifice and same‐sex relationship quality: Heterosexist discrimination as a distal predictor27
Dynamic harmony: Unveiling therapeutic attunement in emotionally focused couples therapy via machine learning26
Being a parent, but not: A grounded theory of home‐based care22
Gender inclusion and family science: Perspectives of undergraduate males on family science22
Actor–partner effects of perfectionism on marital satisfaction: Self‐disclosure as an interpersonal mechanism21
COVID ‐19 and the extended family: Insights from emerging adult experiences20
Examining actor–partner effects between social dominance, relationship power, sexism, and marital quality20
Parental microprotections: Testing measurement equivalence in Black, Latinx, and White families18
Work–family conflict and depression among Chinese working women18
Interparental conflict predicts developmental trajectories of maternal sensitivity across early childhood18
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Family experiences of ambiguous loss during COVID‐1917
Navigating the past and present: Links among family‐of‐origin adversity, secure attachment behaviors, and marital satisfaction16
The Internet as a social institution: Rethinking concepts for family scholarship16
Evaluation of the online TOGETHER relationship and financial education program for couples16
Parents' marital satisfaction, self‐compassion, and harsh discipline in China: A dyadic analysis15
Intergenerationally tied relocation and care circulation: Motivations, struggles, and future arrangements15
Parent–child gender effect in the associations among problematic internet use, parent–adolescent conflict, and academic engagement15
Examining fairness in machine learning applied to support families: A case study of preventive services14
Resilient self‐efficacy and transformative growth of poor single mothers and their children: Higher education14
Parental support influencing the timing of repeat pregnancy for adolescent mothers14
Father involvement among Chinese fathers in four geolocations: Exploring cultural nuances and similarities14
Parenting during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Insecure or unresolved attachment representation is a risk factor for harmful parenting behavior14
Latinx sexual minority youth's identity development and experiences with preparation for bias13
Happy parents, happy kids: Marital happiness, parenting styles, and children's behavioral outcomes in Chinese societies13
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Troubled waters: Barriers to preparation for bias conversations across racially/ethnically diverse families13
Dyadic relationship of adult attachment patterns and interpersonal schemas in marital adjustment: Actor–partner effect model13
Exploring low‐income, Black fathers' strengths and barriers to positive change using qualitative methods13
Internalized stigma and caregiver burden among parents of young adults with substance use disorders13
Learning to care on one's own: Chinese children's caregivers' reflections on family care13
Parents' coping behaviors and mental health during the COVID‐19 pandemic12
“I was a soccer mom—high or not”: The intersecting roles of parenting and recovery12
Translating discovery science: White fathers' racial socialization practices with their biological Black biracial sons12
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Boundaries in online couples therapy: “Can anything exist without boundaries?”12
Validation of the Chinese Family Strength Measure ( CFSM ) Among Hong Kong Families with Young Children11
Developing intercultural competence among students in family science: The importance of service learning experiences11
Pandemic parenting: Parental emotions and preschoolers—adjustment during the COVID ‐19 pandemic11
Distress tolerance, family cohesion and adaptability, and posttraumatic stress symptoms among combat veterans and their parents11
The Walsh Family Resilience Questionnaire: Validity evidence from Portugal11
Marital adjustment and children's early learning behaviors: The mediating role of maternal involvement and parenting11
Development and Validation of the Cognitive Bandwidth Inventory for Dual‐Career Couples11
Relationships Among Parental Self‐Efficacy, Home Learning Activities, and Child Skills11
Understanding marital stability through work–family experiences in proximal and distal contexts: Comparing United States and Japan10
Patterns of indulgent parenting and adolescents' psychological development10
Partner strain and support associations with affective reactions to daily stressors10
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Parental depressive symptoms and child psychopathology: Effects of parenting‐specific emotion regulation and emotion socialization10
Work‐from‐home arrangements and work–family conflict during the COVID‐19 pandemic10
Associations among parent technology use, locus of control, and child problem behaviors10
The role of contextual factors in associations between parents' emotion socialization and children's mental health10
Mental health in parents of very preterm infants at 12 months: Influential variables and profiles10
Mothers' recollections of parenting by their own mothers and fathers and maternal and infant outcomes10
Understanding revenge cognitions among Jewish women survivors of intimate partner violence in Canada9
Father involvement during early childhood: A systematic review of qualitative studies9
Shifting toward intensive parenting culture? A comparative analysis of top mommy blogs and dad blogs9
Dimensions of harsh parenting and Chinese adolescents' internalizing problems: Roles of emotion regulation and neuroticism9
Wor(l)ds struggle against wor(l)ds: Public discourse around children's removal from families in Lithuania9
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
Fathering, family meals, and child health and well‐being: A life course perspective9
Enhancing parental skills through artificial intelligence‐based conversational agents: The PAT Initiative9
Parental mindfulness and externalizing problems in Chinese adolescents: Parenting anxiety and negative parenting as mechanisms9
Quality time in early childhood: Eliciting young children's perspectives9
Emerging ideas. Filial piety, substance use, adverse childhood experiences, and parental support: An intergenerational perspective8
Grandmothers who raise working parents' children: Influences on grandchildren, behavior management styles, and educational needs8
Translating Discovery Science. Improving self‐efficacy in grandparents raising grandchildren: Results from a strengths‐based education intervention8
Coparenting and mindful parenting partially mediate the relationship between mothers' stress and parental burnout8
Longitudinal trajectories of adult sibling relationship quality and psychological well‐being: The effect of childhood maltreatment8
Beyond collectivism and individualism: Chinese international students' perceptions of contemporary child‐centered parenting8
The lived experience of stress for parents in the context of COVID‐19–related disruption8
Parental incarceration, youth mental health, and resilience: Relationships at home and beyond8
“I teach her at home”: Home learning environments amid resource constraints8
Lessons from the field: Developing and piloting a CRE program for couples with chronic illnesses8
Correction to The effect of fathers' involvement and supportive coparenting partnership on Taiwanese new mothers' postpartum adjustment8
Children's living arrangements and labor market outcomes of divorced mothers in Wisconsin8
Longitudinal effects of pandemic stressors and dyadic coping on relationship satisfaction during the COVID‐19 pandemic8
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Partnership trajectories toward childlessness in China7
Gender differences in marital and military predictors of service member career satisfaction7
Love Notes: A quasi‐experimental comparison of formats and a 3‐month follow‐up7
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A psychometric analysis of the Relationship Attribution Measure–Online Behavior7
Actor–partner effects of coping strategies on emotional exhaustion in dual‐earner couples7
Parent and adolescent perspectives on family problems during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Implications for family resilience7
Translating Discovery Science. Fostering relationships: Service provider perspectives on community building among veteran families7
Guilt and compensation: The interplay between maternal emotions and parent–child relationships in migrant families7
Nonstandard work schedules and positive parenting: Evidence from China7
Adult children in complex families: How do relationships affect relationships?7
A focus on fathers with intellectual disabilities and child protection7
Family–Friendship Linkages in Youths With Autism Spectrum Disorder7
Association between maternal closeness with parents and mother–toddler relationship quality7
Views about cooperative marriage among sexual minority and heterosexual Chinese international students7
Addressing caregiver needs of brain injury survivors through telehealth: A pilot qualitative study7
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 Europe6
Dyadic expectations of cooperation and support in the transition to parenthood6
Emotional regulation and aggression in children: The regulatory role of Turkish mothers' emotion socialization reactions6
Young adults' retrospective reports of family cohesion, parental differential treatment, and sibling relationships6
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Who is ready? A peer support screening measure for parents of children with disabilities6
Early exposure to adverse childhood experiences and delinquent peer association among youth6
Exploring father–adolescent closeness: A random forest approach6
Rural–urban migration, family arrangement, and children's welfare: Evidence from China's rural areas6
Acceptability and feasibility of an intervention for Alaska Native and American Indian couples6
Being a parent, emotional stability, and adjustment disorder symptoms in the face of COVID‐196
Ways parental health and stress shape the parenting of preteens in the rural Ozark Mountains6
Parental sensitivity, child cognitive competence, and child socioemotional competence: Long‐term cascade and transactional effects6
Dyadic and emotional adjustment in infertile couples6
Many distressed couples seek community‐based relationship education but don't benefit from it6
Marital status on women's experiences in VSLA in Fort Portal, Uganda6
Exploring how adolescent boys' and girls' internalizing and externalizing behaviors impact parental self‐efficacy: A vignette study6
A multidimensional measure of father involvement following parental separation6
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Value preferences of spouses and division of domestic labor in the family: A dyadic study5
Lessons from the Field. Caregivers supporting marginalized people receiving social service support from street outreach workers5
Lessons from the field: Isn't it just common sense? Naïve realism as a barrier to learning5
Impacts of the Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program: Pilot study with married couples in China5
Japanese version of the Equity Sensitivity Inventory Adapted for Married Couples5
Emerging professionals practicing family science: Reflections of peer educators delivering relationship education5
Leveraging natural language processing to deepen understanding of parent–child interaction processes and language development5
Coparenting relationship, parenting self‐efficacy, and child adjustment in Chinese mother–grandmother coparenting families: Grandmother role difference5
Social networks and help‐seeking among Korean immigrant intimate partner violence survivors5
A qualitative exploration of parents and their children's uses and gratifications of ChatGPT5
Strategic performance of Black queer motherwork5
Holding together after disaster: The role of social skills in strengthening family cohesion and resilience5
Pathways from economic hardship to couple conflict by socioeconomic status during COVID‐19 in Korea5
Relations of religious affiliation group norms, human capital, and autonomy to Israeli men's participation in household duties5
Examining the effectiveness of a family‐focused training to prevent youth suicide5
Validation of the Family Fear of Deportation Scale for youth5
A sociocultural perspective on AI assistive technology for older adults' social connectedness: A scoping review5
The attachment adaptation process model: Developing attachment security after experiencing addiction in the family5
Taiwanese intimate partners' gender determines latent profiles of gender role attitudes and perceived equity5
Why am I always lonely? The lasting impact of childhood harsh parental discipline on adolescents' loneliness5
#Morethanavisitor: Experiences of COVID‐19 visitor restrictions in Canadian long‐term care facilities5
“Listen to me!” The role of family supervision and parental phubbing in youth cyberbullying5
A scoping review: Group‐based parenting programs for racially and ethnically diverse parents of preschoolers5
Early childhood income instability, food insecurity, and adolescents' behavioral health5
Contemporary parenting norms and coparenting coordination: Exploring narratives of parents of adolescents5
Child emotional problems: Associations with maternal distress and parenting practices5
Siblings' and parents' outlook for the prospective care for a family member with PIMD5
Financial strain, the transference of stigma, and residential instability: A qualitative analysis of the long‐term effects of parental incarceration5
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Online media experiences of caregiving fathers: A study of leave‐taking fathers in South Korea5
Divorced parents' perceived benefits and risks of dating and sharing of dating information5
Regretting mother‐ and fatherhood in Switzerland: Equal parenthood regret but for different reasons5
Leisure time and parenting in Europe: a more difficult equation for mothers?5
Predictors of children's emotion regulation outcomes during COVID‐19: Role of conflict within the family5
Rethinking human– AI “attachment” in family systems: A response to McDaniel et al. (2025)5
Predictors of family resilience during the engagement stage: Evidence from Polish couples4
Did the COVID‐19 pandemic make better parents? A qualitative exploration of parents' experiences during a historic period4
Perceived sense of closeness and belonging for relative versus nonrelative adoptive families4
Artificial Intelligence in Everyday Family Life: Issues, applications, and implications4
The division of housework and re‐partnering in Europe: Is there a West/East divide?4
A scoping review of e‐health interventions for the well‐being of preterm parents: Current evidence and future directions4
Immigration‐related stress, depression, and positive parenting among undocumented Central American immigrant mothers4
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Racially and economically diverse participants' change in couple‐focused mindfulness following participation in couple relationship education4
Gender attitudes, women's intra‐household decision‐making power, and fertility intentions4
Effects of developmental relationships on the well‐being of youth in high‐stress families4
Age at first marriage and divorce risk: Analysis based on social clock theory4
“Do we not matter?!”: A qualitative exploration of vicarious racism stress in married Black Americans4
Relationship between parental self‐efficacy and parent–child relationships: Moderating roles of problem behaviors and autism stigma4
Contextualizing singlehood among young adults: Exploring the meanings and perceived reasons for being single4
When Facebook plays matchmaker: Interactions within an online community dedicated to surrogacy and egg donation4
Lessons from the Field. Development of a group intervention to promote need‐supportive sport parenting4
Mothers' and fathers' mentalization as moderators of the association between marital conflict and children's internalizing and externalizing behaviors4
Parental after‐hours telework and adolescent psychological adjustment: Insights from adolescents' perspective4
Household chaos: Parents' self‐compassion and difficulties of children with and without autism4
Community members as design partners: Codesign workshops of the families tackling tough times together program4
Expanding theoretical perspectives on the associations between relationship satisfaction and suicidal ideation4
Parent and adolescent perceptions of parent–child developmental relationships: The role of family routines4
The role of parent's mental health in shaping perceptions of adolescent mental health experiences after COVID‐194
Outsourcing domestic work: A double‐edged sword for marital relations among dual‐earner couples4
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The role of family of origin in the work experiences of Chilean women micro‐entrepreneurs4
Mental health in emerging adulthood: Anti‐mattering mediates the effects of attachment to mothers and fathers4
Couples counseling in digital society: The case of modern China4
Paternal child‐focused reflective functioning, parental sense of competence, and parental emotions recognition4
“Cardiotoxic” and “cardioprotective” partner support for patient activation and distress: Are two better than one?4
Mothers of children who died by suicide4
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Well‐being of grandparent kinship caregivers: An umbrella review4
The myth of independence: A nature‐based family therapy intensive with emerging adults4
Asian hate during the COVID ‐19 pandemic: The role of racial discrimination in Asian Americans' intimate relationships4
Young adults' perceptions of morality‐based messages from parents about sex: An exploratory study4
Mother–child similarity during observed interactions: Links with mother and child effortful control4
Linking internalizing and externalizing problems to warmth and negativity in observed dyadic parent–offspring communication4
Openly communicate about adoption: The role of parents' attachment and reflective functioning4
Family functioning and racial socialization in transracial adoptive families4
Trajectories of relationship quality and conflict in low‐income parents receiving home visitation services4
Assessing parental family education competency: A multiaspect situational judgment test approach4
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“Like a roller‐coaster ride”: Fathers' perspectives about their role in childcare4
Emerging Ideas. Transnational family dynamics during the COVID ‐19 pandemic: A scoping review4
Challenges and coping of children in large Jewish Ultra‐Orthodox families during the COVID‐19 pandemic4
A coparent intervention to prevent prenatal stress and depression symptoms in families with lower incomes4
Does caregiving make a difference? Health penalty and family caregivers during the pandemic in China4
Screen use: Its association with caregiver mental health, parenting, and children's ADHD symptoms4
I walk in the way of my ancestors: American Indian/Alaska Native reunification with tribe4
“What makes me uncertain?” Czech mothers' experiences of parenting 13‐ to 17‐month‐old toddlers4
Is helicopter parenting related to college students’ mental health? A typological and cross‐cultural approach4
Overview of undergraduate degree programs related to human development and family science4
Hurt, loss, joy, and forgiveness: Foster care–experienced young adults' relationships with their birth parents3
Association between war‐related stress and caregiver burden among adult children caring for aging parents3
Psychometric properties of the Coparenting Relationship Scale in Chinese parents3
Chinese Young Adults' Filial Piety, Contact and Support for Their Grandparents, and Ageism3
Role of work‐to‐family spillover, generative concern, and gender on subjective well‐being in full‐time working adults3
Cultural meaning of education and parents' involvement in education: Perspectives of immigrant Latinos3
Intergenerational coparenting relationship patterns and grandparents' psychological well‐being: Evidence from the China Family Panel Studies3
Experiences of post‐divorce parentification and parental affection: Implications for emerging adults' well‐being3
Trajectories of parental burnout in the first year of the COVID ‐19 pandemic3
Father–son relationships in Israeli military families from the perspective of adult sons3
Through good and bad times: Perceived responsiveness in Malaysian relationship quality and satisfaction3
Reconsidering the utility of mean comparisons in evaluative work3
Integrity and fidelity in highly religious marriages3
Chinese parents' education anxiety, parenting, and problem behaviors in preschool children: Child competence as moderator3
Correction to Culturally responsive modifications to Gottman's Seven Principles Program for Arab American Adults: A feasibility study3
Gender Division of Unpaid Work and Relationship Satisfaction: COVID‐19 as an Engine of Family Reshuffling in Italy3
Child–parent relationship during the Wuhan COVID‐19 lockdown: Role of changes in preschool children's daily routines3
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“Families getting separated feels bad”: Latinx children's perceptions of the immigration climate and socialization process3
Connecting generations: The roles of age, time perception, and Facebook in family communication3
Navigating couple and larger systems dynamics: Healthcare workers’ COVID ‐19 experiences in Turkey3
Expanding the family circle: Local in‐law relationships and their role in supporting foreign spouses3
Intergenerational and digital solidarity and psychological well‐being: During and post– COVID ‐19 pandemic in Korean families3
Lessons from the Field. Continuous Quality Improvement: A multiyear HMRF case study of best practices in outreach program excellence3
Parenting, self‐regulation, and sibling relationship dynamics in early childhood3
From parenting self‐efficacy to child externalizing problems: The role of perceived parent stress and practices3
Examining the impact of divorce law reform on divorce processes and parenting arrangements in Illinois3
Adaptation process of parents experiencing the coming out of their child3
From business to legacy: The strategic role of Family Offices in family life3
Children's education and parental support in Jewi Refugee Camp, Ethiopia: Unraveling the challenges3
Actor–spouse interdependence of marital satisfaction on coparenting in longitudinal relationship: The mediating role of self‐compassion3
Beyond “the talk”: Parent–adolescent sexual socialization in a culture that silences discourse about adolescent sexuality3
Dual trajectories of supportive coparenting and father involvement: Parental predictors and influences3
We get by with family: Maternal partnership transitions and extended kin coresidence3
Asserting children's rights through the digital practices of transnational families3
Emerging Ideas. Suicidal ideation among partnered U.S. adults by sexual identity3
Impacts of healthy marriage and relationship education with integrated economic stability services3
Sex and sexual orientation in the effects of coping strategies on relationship satisfaction3
Emerging Ideas. A brief commentary on human–AI attachment and possible impacts on family dynamics3
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