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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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Academic socialization model: Understanding Chinese children's academic self‐concept and the role of academic achievement81
A theoretical integration of work–family studies with the transactional model of stress55
Grief experiences in parents of adult children with serious mental illness51
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The return of race science and why it matters for family science33
Post‐traumatic stress symptoms and parenting in military families: A systematic integrative review32
Types, dimensions, and limitations30
Intersectional blackness matters: Why family science should care about the College Board's A.P. African American Studies course controversy29
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
Expanding the concept of parent involvement to special education: Considerations for inclusivity20
A conceptual model of family well‐being: Bridging constructs, fields, and practice applications19
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Systems intelligence and families19
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Self of the parent: An expanded social cognitive perspective on parent–child sexual communication17
Purpose: A potential catalyst and anchor for optimal work–family balance and well‐being17
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:17
Romantic relationships and attitudes in Asian emerging adults: Review and critique16
A reproductive justice analysis of Black motherwork16
A scoping review of research on well‐being across diverse family structures: Rethinking approaches for understanding contemporary families14
Sharing a home, but not a family: The unspoken stories of cohabiting with divorced partners and their children14
To be young, conscious and Black: The cumulative witnessing of racial violence for Black youth and families13
Living single in late life among African Americans13
Figuring out how to participate in the system: Using reflexive feminist autoethnography to explore intersectional experiences in the professional and political spheres of academia13
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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
Why is traditional polygamy unjust? Implications for egalitarian nonmonogamy11
Examining equifinality and multifinality using outcome‐partitioned person‐centered analyses: A proof‐of‐concept with youth developmental assets and health10
How sociocultural contexts may shape the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on couples' relationships10
Transformative learning to politicized collective identity: How cisgender parents and caregivers of transgender and gender diverse youth become change makers for TGD justice9
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Imagining LatinX intimacies: Connecting queer stories, spaces, and sexualities, Edward A.ChamberlainLondon, UK: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers/Rowman & Littlefield International, 28
This unique and precious opportunity: A conversation among feminist administrators about reclaiming the transformative potential of post‐pandemic higher education8
Using critical family theorizing and intersectional feminist praxis to navigate reflexive conversations on race and power in academic settings8
Women at the margins: Experiences with spousal incarceration inIndia8
Clarifying relationship instability: Exploring the vital role of change in commitment8
Continuing the scholarly chapter: The unexpected benefits of engaging with book reviews8
The double ABCM model of marital satisfaction8
Applying the family stress model to parental acculturative stress and Latinx youth adjustment: A review of the literature8
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 review7
Erratum to “Queering family trees: Race, reproductive justice, and lesbian motherhood by Patton‐Imani, Sandra”7
Parental lying to children: A systematic review7
Intentional allyship at the intersection: Moving the human sciences forward7
Hurry up and wait: Developmental anxiety during the transition to adulthood6
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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
Not a single meaning: Definition and evolution of singlehood in France and the United States6
Don't skip class: A new conceptual model for examining classism among adolescents and families6
Single and flourishing: Transcending the deficit narratives of single life6
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The Minority Family Stress Model (MFSM): Reconceptualizing minority stress within family systems5
Progress and gaps: A systematic review of the family demographics and family subsystems represented in top family science journals 2008–20185
Qualitative genogram analysis: A methodology for theorizing family dynamics5
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The procreative identities of men in same‐sex relationships choosing surrogacy: A new theoretical understanding4
Studying stepfamilies, surfacing secrets: A reflection on the private motivations behind efforts to humanize family complexity4
The influence of parental substance use on adolescent substance use: A systematic review of moderators4
The importance of romantic relationships in preventing suicide4
Analyzing mental health among Black immigrant families through intersectionality4
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Mixing races, maintaining racism? Considering the connection between interracial families, social distance, and racial inequality4
Mid‐range theories about families: A primer and introduction to the special issue4
The family keyworker as a critical element for attachment resilience in the face of adversity4
Attachment resilience in practice: The essential role of family keyworkers4
The rise of the childless single in South Korea4
LGBTQ+ individuals and family relationships through a life course perspective3
Toward a Du Boisian paradigm of family science3
Does stress promote or inhibit romantic partner support? A systematic review of competing hypotheses3
Queering family trees: Race, reproductive justice, and lesbian motherhood by Sandra Patton‐Imani3
Family science, land‐grant universities, and the daunting legacy of the land‐grab institution3
Using group‐based trajectory modeling to test theoretically driven hypotheses about relationship development3
Addressing campus–community relationships using the three corners marriage model3
Parental support is not enough: How parental socialization theories can advance LGBTQ+ youth family research, practice, and health3
A personal and relational model of father identity construction3
Fatherhood in the context of preterm birth: A narrative review of contemporary research evidence3
Same‐sex marriage in Asia: Understanding intra‐regional differences in development3
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The seed: Infertility is a feminist issue. AlexandraKimball. Coach House Books. Ontario, Canada, 2019. $14.95. Paperback. 135 pp. ISBN: 15524538552
X. HeDivorce in China: Institutional constraints and gendered outcomes. New York University Press. 2021, https://doi.org/10.18574/97814798055492
Using social exchange theory to examine relationship processes in asexual‐allosexual couples2
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Pedagogy of the great pandemic of the 21st century: Epistemic implications for individual psychology, family science, and psychotherapies2
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Racism and the mechanisms maintaining racial stratification in Black families2
Disrupting neoliberalism in the academy: Normalizing loss and enfranchising student grief2
Autism in romantic relationships: A content analysis of challenges and strengths (2013–2024)2
Cultivating theoretical advances in family science: JFTR's innovation continues2
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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
Sharenting: A systematic review of the empirical literature2
Supporting and enhancing attachment resilience is essential for helping high‐risk families: But is the family keyworker the best one for the job?2
Bored of the rings: Methodological and analytic approaches to operationalizing Bronfenbrenner's PPCT model in research practice2
Celebrating JFTR's Stellar Niche2
Navigating the theoretical landscape of loneliness research: How interdisciplinary synergy contributes to further conceptualizations2
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A scoping review of research on polyamory and consensual non‐monogamy: Implications for a more inclusive family science2
Sexual and gender diversity in families: Theoretical advances in the context of social change2
Parents who migrate without their children: Gendered and psychosocial reconfigurations of parenting in transnational families1
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
FD/FR family: Functional disconnection and reconnection in public safety personnel families1
Context matters: The global adversity of missing family members1
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Kaleidoscopic perspectives on theorizing singlehood1
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Family theorizing for social justice: A critical praxis1
Quantitative criticalism: Guidelines for conducting transformative quantitative family science research1
Self‐care rhetoric and institutional culpability: Theorizing the academy and intellectual labor1
Adolescent pornography consumption: A symbolic interactionist lens1
Applying Hegelian theory to contemporary family science1
A systematic review of correlates of stepparent–child relationship quality from children's perspectives: A 10‐year update1
A systematic review of research on immigrant parenting of young children in the 21st century (2000–2020)1
The Bronfenbrenner primer: A guide to develecology, Lawrence G.SheltonNew York, NY: Routledge, 2019, pp. 164, $27.96 (paperback)1
An examination of power in a triadic model of parent–child–pediatrician relationships related to early childhood gender development1
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Connection abstract theory: An exercise in abstract theorizing after Bowlby1
Human development and family science: A story of disciplinary fragmentation and kinship1
COVID‐19: Family resilience in a context of vulnerability1
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Queering singlehood: Examining the intersection of sexuality and relationship status from a queer lens1
Becoming adopted: Rebuilding adoptive identity through artifacts1
Parental consideration of children's experiences: A critical review of parenting constructs1
Intergenerational coparenting and child development outcomes: A systematic review1
A framework for how homelessness impacts children's attachments to their caregiver1
Defining and measuring singlehood in family studies1
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Intimate inequalities: Millennials' romantic relationships in contemporary timesCristenDalessandro. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2021. ISBN 978‐19788238911
Critically feminizing family science: Using femme theory to generate novel approaches for the study of families and relationships1
The gendered division of housework in North America: A systematic review from 2014 to 20241
Family keyworker as a non‐clinical and democratic figure to support hard‐to‐reach families from an attachment 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
Ecoexpansive kinship: A model for expanding conceptualizations of family to include companion animals1
A guide to conducting intersectional phenomenological research in family science1
Unifying human development and family science: Navigating identity challenges in higher education1
Missing pieces: A critical review of research on forced marriage and a call for family scientists to study forced marriage1
Sex and single women in midlife: Theoretical perspectives, recent findings, and future directions1
Unveiling motivations and keeping what's sacred: Engaging reflexivity in a research program on diverse romantic relationships1
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