The aim of this chapter is to specify the characteristics and processes of parent-child
relationships that sustain the centrality of the family amid the extensive changes of�…

We were fortunate to have started our research careers about the same time as the study of
stepfamilies was “discovered” as a valid topic for social and behavioral scientists. We also�…

The authors employed a daily diary method to assess daily frequencies of interparental and
parent–adolescent conflict over a 2-week period and their implications for emotional distress�…

In this study, the authors examined whether concurrent associations between adolescent
outcomes and disagreements with mothers, fathers, and best friends vary as a function of�…

This study examined changes in adolescents' perceived relationship quality with mothers
and fathers from middle school to high school, gender differences, and associated mental�…

The present study includes externalizing problems, internalizing problems, mother-
adolescent relationship quality, and father-adolescent relationship quality in the same�…

This study examined whether a transactional interpersonal life stress model helps to explain
the continuity in depression over time in girls. Youth (86 girls, 81 boys; M age= 12.41, SD�…

Adolescence is often thought of as a period during which the quality of parent–child
interactions can be relatively stressed and conflictual. There are individual differences in this�…

Research investigating the risk factors for delinquency has found that single-parent
households are more criminogenic than two-parent households. Using data (N= 4,626) from�…

MEASUREMENT AND MODEL BUILDING 591 on money. Human capital is the source of
nonmaterial resources such as knowledge and skills. Social capital is a less transparent�…