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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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A theoretical integration of work–family studies with the transactional model of stress111
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Academic socialization model: Understanding Chinese children's academic self‐concept and the role of academic achievement46
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: 9781003363839
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Intersectional blackness matters: Why family science should care about the College Board's A.P. African American Studies course controversy38
Black men's intimate partner violence victimization and help‐seeking experiences: Integrating and applying intersectionality and hegemonic masculinity34
Expanding the concept of parent involvement to special education: Considerations for inclusivity32
The return of race science and why it matters for family science30
Systems intelligence and families28
Types, dimensions, and limitations27
Post‐traumatic stress symptoms and parenting in military families: A systematic integrative review23
A conceptual model of family well‐being: Bridging constructs, fields, and practice applications23
Exploring Therapist's Worldview in a Family Therapy Theory Course: A Four‐Corners Learning Activity23
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Engaging in literature review, synthesis, and meta‐analysis: A few considerations for family scholars22
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:21
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Sharing a home, but not a family: The unspoken stories of cohabiting with divorced partners and their children19
Figuring out how to participate in the system: Using reflexive feminist autoethnography to explore intersectional experiences in the professional and political spheres of academia19
Intergenerational Trauma in Refugee Families: A Scoping Review of Contextual and Systemic Perspectives18
Self of the parent: An expanded social cognitive perspective on parent–child sexual communication17
To be young, conscious and Black: The cumulative witnessing of racial violence for Black youth and families17
A reproductive justice analysis of Black motherwork16
Black Maternal Health Disparities, Structural Racism, and Black Family Stability: An Intersectionality Approach to Theorizing and Critical Praxis16
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Romantic relationships and attitudes in Asian emerging adults: Review and critique15
Purpose: A potential catalyst and anchor for optimal work–family balance and well‐being15
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JFTR's venues and voices for family theorizing and critical review13
Living single in late life among African Americans13
Grandmothering While Black: A Twenty‐First‐Century Story of Love, Coercion, and Survival. By Lashawnda L.Pittman. University of California Press, Oakland, California, 2023. 336 pp. $92.04 (hardcover).13
The stability of singlehood: Limitations of the relationship status paradigm and a new theoretical framework for reimagining singlehood12
Fathers Are Frightened but May Not Know It: Considering Masculinity and Attachment When Working With Fathers in Family Therapy12
Examining equifinality and multifinality using outcome‐partitioned person‐centered analyses: A proof‐of‐concept with youth developmental assets and health12
Why is traditional polygamy unjust? Implications for egalitarian nonmonogamy11
Transformative learning to politicized collective identity: How cisgender parents and caregivers of transgender and gender diverse youth become change makers for TGD justice10
This unique and precious opportunity: A conversation among feminist administrators about reclaiming the transformative potential of post‐pandemic higher education10
How sociocultural contexts may shape the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on couples' relationships10
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Clarifying relationship instability: Exploring the vital role of change in commitment9
Women at the margins: Experiences with spousal incarceration inIndia9
Using critical family theorizing and intersectional feminist praxis to navigate reflexive conversations on race and power in academic settings9
Continuing the scholarly chapter: The unexpected benefits of engaging with book reviews9
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Erratum to “Queering family trees: Race, reproductive justice, and lesbian motherhood by Patton‐Imani, Sandra”8
Parental lying to children: A systematic review8
Intentional allyship at the intersection: Moving the human sciences forward8
Applying the family stress model to parental acculturative stress and Latinx youth adjustment: A review of the literature8
Don't skip class: A new conceptual model for examining classism among adolescents and families7
Testimonio as a methodology in the study of sexual and intimate partner violence7
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Genetic moderation of the effects of family‐focused interventions (GxI interaction): A systematic review6
Toward an integrative framework of intergenerational coparenting within family systems: A scoping review6
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Measures of Relationship Power Dynamics in Romantic Relationships6
Not a single meaning: Definition and evolution of singlehood in France and the United States6
Racial discrimination and romantic relationship dynamics among Black Americans: A systematic review6
Hurry up and wait: Developmental anxiety during the transition to adulthood6
Single and flourishing: Transcending the deficit narratives of single life6
The procreative identities of men in same‐sex relationships choosing surrogacy: A new theoretical understanding5
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Studying stepfamilies, surfacing secrets: A reflection on the private motivations behind efforts to humanize family complexity5
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Qualitative genogram analysis: A methodology for theorizing family dynamics5
Attachment resilience in practice: The essential role of family keyworkers5
Progress and gaps: A systematic review of the family demographics and family subsystems represented in top family science journals 2008–20185
The Minority Family Stress Model (MFSM): Reconceptualizing minority stress within family systems5
Does stress promote or inhibit romantic partner support? A systematic review of competing hypotheses4
The importance of romantic relationships in preventing suicide4
Mid‐range theories about families: A primer and introduction to the special issue4
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Using group‐based trajectory modeling to test theoretically driven hypotheses about relationship development4
Family science, land‐grant universities, and the daunting legacy of the land‐grab institution4
The family keyworker as a critical element for attachment resilience in the face of adversity4
Analyzing mental health among Black immigrant families through intersectionality4
Fatherhood in the context of preterm birth: A narrative review of contemporary research evidence4
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Same‐sex marriage in Asia: Understanding intra‐regional differences in development4
The influence of parental substance use on adolescent substance use: A systematic review of moderators4
Mixing races, maintaining racism? Considering the connection between interracial families, social distance, and racial inequality4
The rise of the childless single in South Korea4
Autism in romantic relationships: A content analysis of challenges and strengths (2013–2024)3
Celebrating JFTR's Stellar Niche3
Marginalized family identity theory: A framework to understand experiences in LGBTQIA+ and diverse family structures3
Parental support is not enough: How parental socialization theories can advance LGBTQ+ youth family research, practice, and health3
LGBTQ+ individuals and family relationships through a life course perspective3
The Application of Intersectionality Theory in Family‐Based Substance Use Prevention for Urban Black Adolescents3
Sexual and gender diversity in families: Theoretical advances in the context of social change3
Pedagogy of the great pandemic of the 21st century: Epistemic implications for individual psychology, family science, and psychotherapies3
X. HeDivorce in China: Institutional constraints and gendered outcomes. New York University Press. 2021, https://doi.org/10.18574/97814798055493
Racism and the mechanisms maintaining racial stratification in Black families3
Addressing campus–community relationships using the three corners marriage model3
A personal and relational model of father identity construction3
Supporting and enhancing attachment resilience is essential for helping high‐risk families: But is the family keyworker the best one for the job?3
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A Bioecological Framework for Supporting Mothers From Pregnancy to Workforce Reintegration3
Sharenting: A systematic review of the empirical literature3
Queering family trees: Race, reproductive justice, and lesbian motherhood by Sandra Patton‐Imani3
Toward a Du Boisian paradigm of family science3
Beyond Acceptance and Rejection: A Caregiving Conceptualization for Understanding Parental Responses to Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Children2
JFTR wants you!2
Seahorse Dads: Theorizing Gender and Parenting Beyond the Binary2
A scoping review of research on polyamory and consensual non‐monogamy: Implications for a more inclusive family science2
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: 97819788222762
Defining and measuring singlehood in family studies2
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Using social exchange theory to examine relationship processes in asexual‐allosexual couples2
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Cultivating theoretical advances in family science: JFTR's innovation continues2
Disrupting neoliberalism in the academy: Normalizing loss and enfranchising student grief2
Bidirectional Intersectional Supervision: Redefining Power and Equity for Black Clinicians2
Three Dimensions of Care and Their Relationships With Caring, Inclusive, and Toxic Masculinity2
Bored of the rings: Methodological and analytic approaches to operationalizing Bronfenbrenner's PPCT model in research practice2
Navigating the theoretical landscape of loneliness research: How interdisciplinary synergy contributes to further conceptualizations2
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It's not the rotten apples!Why family scholars should adopt a structural perspective on racism2
Quantify or Classify? Recommendations for Ambiguous Loss Versus Boundary Ambiguity2
Intergenerational coparenting and child development outcomes: A systematic review2
Human development and family science: A story of disciplinary fragmentation and kinship1
Sex and single women in midlife: Theoretical perspectives, recent findings, and future directions1
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Family theorizing for social justice: A critical praxis1
Applying Hegelian theory to contemporary family science1
FD/FR family: Functional disconnection and reconnection in public safety personnel families1
Adolescent pornography consumption: A symbolic interactionist lens1
Family practice with fathers, social care, and capabilities1
Theorizing Family Rituals: A Family Systems Model1
Family keyworker as a non‐clinical and democratic figure to support hard‐to‐reach families from an attachment perspective1
Understanding Family Dynamics Through a Neurocognitive Lens1
Transfronterizo Families at the San Diego–Tijuana Border: Complicating Theories of Family, Migration, and Mobility1
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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
The Systemic Model of the Brain Disease of Addiction: A Holistic and Comprehensive Theoretical Perspective1
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
Unifying human development and family science: Navigating identity challenges in higher education1
A framework for how homelessness impacts children's attachments to their caregiver1
A systematic review of correlates of stepparent–child relationship quality from children's perspectives: A 10‐year update1
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Having a House but Not a Home: A Critical Reflection on Prioritizing Youth Perspectives and Well‐Being in Research on Family Structural Transitions1
Relationship education and couples experiencing violence: Is something better than nothing?1
An examination of power in a triadic model of parent–child–pediatrician relationships related to early childhood gender development1
Intimate inequalities: Millennials' romantic relationships in contemporary timesCristenDalessandro. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2021. ISBN 978‐19788238911
Family types and family dimensions: The paradigmatic framework and the circumplex model1
Family‐Led Systems Change for Equity in Early Care and Education: A Critical Family Partnership Framework1
Context matters: The global adversity of missing family members1
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Kaleidoscopic perspectives on theorizing singlehood1
It's Still All About Power: Critical Intersectional Family Science Today1
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Becoming adopted: Rebuilding adoptive identity through artifacts1
Connection abstract theory: An exercise in abstract theorizing after Bowlby1
Unveiling motivations and keeping what's sacred: Engaging reflexivity in a research program on diverse romantic relationships1
Parents who migrate without their children: Gendered and psychosocial reconfigurations of parenting in transnational families1
The gendered division of housework in North America: A systematic review from 2014 to 20241
Türkiye's responses to the 2023 earthquakes: An application of family adjustment and adaptation response model1
Critically feminizing family science: Using femme theory to generate novel approaches for the study of families and relationships1
A guide to conducting intersectional phenomenological research in family science1
COVID‐19: Family resilience in a context of vulnerability1
Self‐care rhetoric and institutional culpability: Theorizing the academy and intellectual labor1
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Quantitative criticalism: Guidelines for conducting transformative quantitative family science research1
Ecoexpansive kinship: A model for expanding conceptualizations of family to include companion animals1
Missing pieces: A critical review of research on forced marriage and a call for family scientists to study forced marriage1
Queering singlehood: Examining the intersection of sexuality and relationship status from a queer lens1
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