The authors review and critique three self‐report measures of parent‐adolescent attachment
and three self‐report measures of parent‐adolescent separation‐individuation. Relevant …

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 …

Bowen's theory (1978) of differentiation is the personality variable most critical to mature
development and the attainment of psychological health. The study of psychological …

Some past conceptualizations in family research have synthesized the constructs of family
cohesion and enmeshment by placing enmeshment at the high extreme end of cohesion. In …

This study examined underlying similarities between the Personal Authority in the Family
System Questionnaire (PAFS; Bray, Williamson, & Malone, 1984a) and the Differentiation of …

This report outlines efforts to develop a self-report measure that assesses family
differentiation. Differentiation is conceptualized as a family-level variable involving …

Although the need to develop objective assessment tools in different cultures is well‐
recognized, there is a severe lack of objective measures about emotional functioning in the …

This chapter addresses the concept of consumer economic socialization as it has developed
in the literature. Specifically, it covers the context in which the following have been studied …

This study investigated linear aspects of family cohesion using a cohort sequential design.
Adolescents (N= 4,677) were surveyed and followed in three cohorts from 6th to 10th grade …

In this investigation, we tested a theory that suggests that the level of parent-adolescent
conflict is, in large part, determined by family context. According to this theory, a family …