Journal of Family Theory & Review

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Family Theory & Review 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Academic socialization model: Understanding Chinese children's academic self‐concept and the role of academic achievement79
A theoretical integration of work–family studies with the transactional model of stress55
Grief experiences in parents of adult children with serious mental illness50
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The return of race science and why it matters for family science32
A conceptual model of family well‐being: Bridging constructs, fields, and practice applications31
Systems intelligence and families30
Intersectional blackness matters: Why family science should care about the College Board's A.P. African American Studies course controversy26
Currere and legacy in the context of family business: Towards a new theory of intergenerational learning. By SamuelChen: Routledge. 2023. pp. 170. £96.00 ($128.00) (hardback). ISBN: 9781003363824
Engaging in literature review, synthesis, and meta‐analysis: A few considerations for family scholars23
Black men's intimate partner violence victimization and help‐seeking experiences: Integrating and applying intersectionality and hegemonic masculinity20
Post‐traumatic stress symptoms and parenting in military families: A systematic integrative review19
Expanding the concept of parent involvement to special education: Considerations for inclusivity18
Types, dimensions, and limitations18
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Purpose: A potential catalyst and anchor for optimal work–family balance and well‐being17
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Figuring out how to participate in the system: Using reflexive feminist autoethnography to explore intersectional experiences in the professional and political spheres of academia15
Self of the parent: An expanded social cognitive perspective on parent–child sexual communication15
A reproductive justice analysis of Black motherwork15
The secret history of home economics: How trailblazing women harnessed the power of home and changed the way we live. DanielleDreilinger. 2021. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. 348 pp.ISBN:15
A scoping review of research on well‐being across diverse family structures: Rethinking approaches for understanding contemporary families13
To be young, conscious and Black: The cumulative witnessing of racial violence for Black youth and families13
Sharing a home, but not a family: The unspoken stories of cohabiting with divorced partners and their children13
Romantic relationships and attitudes in Asian emerging adults: Review and critique13
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The stability of singlehood: Limitations of the relationship status paradigm and a new theoretical framework for reimagining singlehood12
JFTR's venues and voices for family theorizing and critical review12
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Living single in late life among African Americans12
Why is traditional polygamy unjust? Implications for egalitarian nonmonogamy11
How sociocultural contexts may shape the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on couples' relationships10
This unique and precious opportunity: A conversation among feminist administrators about reclaiming the transformative potential of post‐pandemic higher education9
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Transformative learning to politicized collective identity: How cisgender parents and caregivers of transgender and gender diverse youth become change makers for TGD justice9
Using critical family theorizing and intersectional feminist praxis to navigate reflexive conversations on race and power in academic settings8
Imagining LatinX intimacies: Connecting queer stories, spaces, and sexualities, Edward A.ChamberlainLondon, UK: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers/Rowman & Littlefield International, 28
The double ABCM model of marital satisfaction8
Continuing the scholarly chapter: The unexpected benefits of engaging with book reviews8
Women at the margins: Experiences with spousal incarceration inIndia8
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Parental lying to children: A systematic review7
Erratum to “Queering family trees: Race, reproductive justice, and lesbian motherhood by Patton‐Imani, Sandra”7
Clarifying relationship instability: Exploring the vital role of change in commitment7
Applying the family stress model to parental acculturative stress and Latinx youth adjustment: A review of the literature7
Testimonio as a methodology in the study of sexual and intimate partner violence6
Toward an integrative framework of intergenerational coparenting within family systems: A scoping review6
Racial discrimination and romantic relationship dynamics among Black Americans: A systematic review6
Intentional allyship at the intersection: Moving the human sciences forward6
Hurry up and wait: Developmental anxiety during the transition to adulthood6
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Genetic moderation of the effects of family‐focused interventions (GxI interaction): A systematic review6
Single and flourishing: Transcending the deficit narratives of single life6
Don't skip class: A new conceptual model for examining classism among adolescents and families6
Not a single meaning: Definition and evolution of singlehood in France and the United States6
Qualitative genogram analysis: A methodology for theorizing family dynamics5
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The Minority Family Stress Model (MFSM): Reconceptualizing minority stress within family systems5
The procreative identities of men in same‐sex relationships choosing surrogacy: A new theoretical understanding4
Progress and gaps: A systematic review of the family demographics and family subsystems represented in top family science journals 2008–20184
Attachment resilience in practice: The essential role of family keyworkers4
The rise of the childless single in South Korea4
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Studying stepfamilies, surfacing secrets: A reflection on the private motivations behind efforts to humanize family complexity4
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The importance of romantic relationships in preventing suicide4
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The family keyworker as a critical element for attachment resilience in the face of adversity4
Mixing races, maintaining racism? Considering the connection between interracial families, social distance, and racial inequality4
Analyzing mental health among Black immigrant families through intersectionality4
Mid‐range theories about families: A primer and introduction to the special issue3
Toward a Du Boisian paradigm of family science3
Same‐sex marriage in Asia: Understanding intra‐regional differences in development3
Addressing campus–community relationships using the three corners marriage model3
The influence of parental substance use on adolescent substance use: A systematic review of moderators3
Fatherhood in the context of preterm birth: A narrative review of contemporary research evidence3
LGBTQ+ individuals and family relationships through a life course perspective3
A personal and relational model of father identity construction3
Family science, land‐grant universities, and the daunting legacy of the land‐grab institution3
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Using group‐based trajectory modeling to test theoretically driven hypotheses about relationship development3
Queering family trees: Race, reproductive justice, and lesbian motherhood by Sandra Patton‐Imani3
Does stress promote or inhibit romantic partner support? A systematic review of competing hypotheses3
It's not the rotten apples!Why family scholars should adopt a structural perspective on racism2
Marginalized family identity theory: A framework to understand experiences in LGBTQIA+ and diverse family structures2
Autism in romantic relationships: A content analysis of challenges and strengths (2013–2024)2
The seed: Infertility is a feminist issue. AlexandraKimball. Coach House Books. Ontario, Canada, 2019. $14.95. Paperback. 135 pp. ISBN: 15524538552
Sharenting: A systematic review of the empirical literature2
Bored of the rings: Methodological and analytic approaches to operationalizing Bronfenbrenner's PPCT model in research practice2
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Using social exchange theory to examine relationship processes in asexual‐allosexual couples2
JFTR wants you!2
Pedagogy of the great pandemic of the 21st century: Epistemic implications for individual psychology, family science, and psychotherapies2
Racism and the mechanisms maintaining racial stratification in Black families2
Parental support is not enough: How parental socialization theories can advance LGBTQ+ youth family research, practice, and health2
Celebrating JFTR's Stellar Niche2
Cultivating theoretical advances in family science: JFTR's innovation continues2
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Navigating the theoretical landscape of loneliness research: How interdisciplinary synergy contributes to further conceptualizations2
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Supporting and enhancing attachment resilience is essential for helping high‐risk families: But is the family keyworker the best one for the job?2
X. HeDivorce in China: Institutional constraints and gendered outcomes. New York University Press. 2021, https://doi.org/10.18574/97814798055492
Sexual and gender diversity in families: Theoretical advances in the context of social change2
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Kaleidoscopic perspectives on theorizing singlehood1
COVID‐19: Family resilience in a context of vulnerability1
The Bronfenbrenner primer: A guide to develecology, Lawrence G.SheltonNew York, NY: Routledge, 2019, pp. 164, $27.96 (paperback)1
Unifying human development and family science: Navigating identity challenges in higher education1
Parental consideration of children's experiences: A critical review of parenting constructs1
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A systematic review of research on immigrant parenting of young children in the 21st century (2000–2020)1
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A framework for how homelessness impacts children's attachments to their caregiver1
Intergenerational coparenting and child development outcomes: A systematic review1
A scoping review of research on polyamory and consensual non‐monogamy: Implications for a more inclusive family science1
A guide to conducting intersectional phenomenological research in family science1
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Family theorizing for social justice: A critical praxis1
Connection abstract theory: An exercise in abstract theorizing after Bowlby1
Queering singlehood: Examining the intersection of sexuality and relationship status from a queer lens1
Missing pieces: A critical review of research on forced marriage and a call for family scientists to study forced marriage1
Adolescent pornography consumption: A symbolic interactionist lens1
Intimate inequalities: Millennials' romantic relationships in contemporary timesCristenDalessandro. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2021. ISBN 978‐19788238911
Michael J. Rosenfeld. 2022. The Rainbow After the Storm: Marriage Equality and Social Change in the US. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. $27.95. Paperback. 319 pp. ISBN: 9780197600443.1
Human development and family science: A story of disciplinary fragmentation and kinship1
Unveiling motivations and keeping what's sacred: Engaging reflexivity in a research program on diverse romantic relationships1
Defining and measuring singlehood in family studies1
Quantitative criticalism: Guidelines for conducting transformative quantitative family science research1
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The gendered division of housework in North America: A systematic review from 2014 to 20241
Sex and single women in midlife: Theoretical perspectives, recent findings, and future directions1
Ecoexpansive kinship: A model for expanding conceptualizations of family to include companion animals1
Self‐care rhetoric and institutional culpability: Theorizing the academy and intellectual labor1
Becoming adopted: Rebuilding adoptive identity through artifacts1
Family keyworker as a non‐clinical and democratic figure to support hard‐to‐reach families from an attachment perspective1
Parents who migrate without their children: Gendered and psychosocial reconfigurations of parenting in transnational families1
A systematic review of correlates of stepparent–child relationship quality from children's perspectives: A 10‐year update1
Embracing age: How Catholic nuns became models of aging well. By Anna I.Corwin. 2021. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 2021. pp. 202. $32.95 (paperback). ISBN: 97819788222761
Disrupting neoliberalism in the academy: Normalizing loss and enfranchising student grief1
Applying Hegelian theory to contemporary family science1
FD/FR family: Functional disconnection and reconnection in public safety personnel families1
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