Abstract Bowen Family Systems Theory's central construct, differentiation of self (DoS), is
one of the most recognized constructs to systemic researchers and psychology …

This article reviews several conceptual, operational, and analytical issues related to survey
approaches to the assessment of family functioning. First, a multidimensional …

Psychological resilience has become a popular concept. Owing to that popularity, the word
resilience has taken on myriad and often overlapping meanings. To be a useful framework …

The phenomenon popularly referred to as helicopter parenting refers to an overinvolvement
of parents in their children's lives. This concept has typically been used to describe parents …

Abstract “Being a family” is a vitally important collective enterprise central to many
consumption experiences and replete with new challenges in contemporary society. We …

This study presents a comprehensive 4-factor model of autonomy in middle and late
adolescence. Partially overlapping sets of scales on adolescent individuation and family …

Our analysis, grounded in a social constructionist perspective, explores the theoretical and
political complexities facing researchers and policymakers as they attempt to conceptualize …

The study tested several propositions about an important construct in Bowen's theory of
differentiation of self, using an Israeli sample of university students to examine relationships …

This book explores the development of a new path of transition between adolescence and
adulthood in recent generations. Whereas traditionally the transition into adulthood was …

Gender, generations, and lineage; faith, hope, and justice; gifts, duties, and debts; affection,
responsibility, and generativity; values, secrets, and objectives; transmissions and …