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Item Adoptee information seeking: changes between adolescence and emerging adulthood and the impact of adoption communicative openness.(2009-05) Skinner-Drawz, Brooke AlisonThis dissertation examined changes in information seeking intentions and behaviors between adolescence and emerging adulthood for a group of adoptees who did not have direct contact with birth relatives in adolescence. Associations between information seeking in emerging adulthood and life cycle events typical of emerging adulthood, gender, and Adoption Communicative Openness were also examined. Data from 119 adoptees and their adoptive mothers were used from Waves 2 (1996-2000) and 3 (2005-2008) of the Minnesota-Texas Adoption Research Project (Grotevant & McRoy, 1998). Degree of information seeking between adolescence (Wave 2) and emerging adulthood (Wave 3) increased for the majority of adoptees (62.2%). Approximately 16% of adoptees experienced no change in information seeking and 22% of adoptees experienced a decrease in information seeking. Females were more likely to exhibit a greater increase in information seeking change between Waves 2 and 3 and information seeking at Wave 3 than males. Life cycle events typical of emerging adulthood including living out of adoptive parents' home, being in a committed romantic relationship, and being a parent were not associated with information seeking in emerging adulthood. Number of life cycle events experienced also was not associated with information seeking in emerging adulthood. Adoption Communicative Openness was positively associated with degree of information seeking in emerging adulthood. Results suggest that adoptee information seeking is a dynamic process that takes place over several life stages and that open communication about adoption within the adoptive family supports adoptee information seeking.Item Characteristics of the sibling relationship that predict sibling similarity in adolescent alcohol use: exploring potential shared environmental effects.(2012-05) Samek, Diana R.Using a genetically informative sibling-pair design (N = 613), three studies were conducted to extend knowledge on how siblings influence adolescent alcohol use. Study 1 utilized latent class analysis to determine if patterns of sibling similarity in alcohol use could be detected. The 3-class model was the best fitting for Wave 1, and the 4-class model was the best fitting for Wave 2. Study 2 established the predictive validity of Study 1 by testing characteristics of the sibling relationship (closeness, conflict, communication) at Wave 1 as predictors of sibling similarity in alcohol use patterns at Wave 2. Communication and conflict predicted the 4-class model, but closeness did not. Study 3 utilized Cholesky decomposition in order to decompose the genetic and environmental contributions to the correlation between mom, dad, and sibling involvement in their association with adolescent alcohol use. There were few significant findings, potentially due to power issues. Altogether, this research demonstrates sibling influences on adolescent alcohol use and provides guidelines for future research in my general program of research.Item The dyadic trait fit between adolescent aggression and parent alienation in a process involving family interactions, adoption status, and adolescent externalizing behavior.(2012-05) Koh, Bibiana D.To better understand the small but noteworthy risk for externalizing behaviors for adopted youth, the present study tested a complex family process involving personality and family interactions as an explanation of adopted adolescent adjustment. Goodness of fit theory, person-environment transactional theory, and Family Communication Patterns Theory (FCPT) informed the study. Data from 615 families from the Sibling Interaction and Behavior Study (SIBS; McGue et al., 2007) were used to test study hypotheses using the actor-partner interdependence model (APIM). Personality was assessed using the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (MPQ). Observational data were used to measure family members' individual communicative behavior, operationalized as Conformity- and Conversation-orientations, and adolescent conflict. Overall, findings supported the personality-initiated family process and the study's central hypothesis. Indeed, the dyadic trait fit (DTF) between adolescent aggression and parent alienation had an affect on a family interactive process that explained substantial variance in adolescent externalizing behavior. The direct associations among study constructs explained the most variance (and accounted for the largest increases in variance) in adolescent Conversation, parent Conversation, adolescent conflict, and adolescent externalizing behavior. Moreover, direct associations between adoption status and (a) conflict and (b) externalizing appear to be far more complex than previous research has suggested.Item Dynasting across cultures: A grounded theory of Malaysian Chinese family firms.(2010-06) Loy, Teik-Cheok JohnbenThe purpose of this study was to develop a substantive grounded theory of Malaysian Chinese family firms. Using classic grounded theory methodology, this study sought to identify the emergent main concern of the participants as well as the latent pattern underlying their behavior in working to resolve or address the main concern. Through constant comparative analysis of data gathered from interviews, participant observations, informal conversations, and relevant literature, I discovered the emergent main concern for Malaysian Chinese family businesses to be dynasting and the pattern of behavior for resolving that concern to be dynasting across cultures. Malaysian Chinese family businesses are theorized as mainly concerned with dynasting, that is, building, maintaining, and growing the power and resources of the business within the family lineage. In their substantive context, traditional Malaysian Chinese founders and westernized successors are hypothesized to be engaged in basic social structural and psychological processes of dynasting across cultures, where they struggle to transition from traditional Chinese to hybrid cultural and modernized forms of family business from one generation to the next. An analysis of extant literature revealed that the emergent theory contributes to family business theorizing in a novel way, and the study itself addresses the lack of literature on rigorous and scholarly theorizing about family businesses outside Western contexts. Implications of the theory and the study for research and practice are discussed.Item The impact of family and non-family roles on caregiver health over time.(2011-06) Matzek, Amanda E.Using stress process and life course theory, this dissertation investigated pathways of adult child caregivers' family (caregiving, marital, parenting) and non-family (employment) roles and their relation to caregiver psychological and physical health over time. Eight waves of data (1992-2006) from the Health and Retirement Study were analyzed for 1,300 adult child caregivers. Latent class analysis provided strong substantive and statistical evidence for a 4-class model of caregivers' role pathways. The four pathways were (a) Married, Working Caregivers (22.5%), (b) Married, Retired Caregivers with Co-Residing Child (12.5%), (c) Married, Retired Caregivers (30.5%), and (d) Not Married, Retired Caregivers (34.6%). Married, Working Caregivers, who were more likely to be male, White, and younger than most other pathways, had more optimal psychological and subjective physical health, but were more likely to have high blood pressure compared to caregivers in other pathways. Results suggest that (a) adult child caregivers have distinct family and non-family role pathways, (b) caregivers' gender, race/ethnicity, and age predict pathway membership, and (c) caregivers' role pathways are connected to psychological and physical health over time. Future research should explore how adult child caregivers' role pathways structurally differ for male versus female and younger versus older caregivers to further explain the heterogeneity of adult child caregivers' role pathways. Family practitioners may be helpful in identifying practices and policies that help adult child caregivers manage their diverse range of long-term family and non-family roles.Item Interaction, Spring 1997(1997) Department of Family Social ScienceNews about faculty, staff and students in the Department of Family Social Science.Item Interactions, Fall 1996(1996) Department of Family Social ScienceNews about faculty, staff and students in the Department of Family Social Science.Item Interactions, Fall 1997/Winter 1998(1998) Department of Family Social ScienceNews about faculty, staff and students in the Department of Family Social Science.Item Interactions, Fall 2001(2001) Department of Family Social ScienceNews about faculty, staff and students in the Department of Family Social Science.Item Interactions, Fall 2008(2008) Department of Family Social ScienceNews about faculty, staff and students in the Department of Family Social Science.Item Interactions, Fall 2010(2010) Department of Family Social ScienceNews about faculty, staff and students in the Department of Family Social Science.Item Interactions, Fall 2011(2011) Department of Family Social ScienceNews about faculty, staff and students in the Department of Family Social Science.Item Interactions, Spring 1991Department of Family Social Science; Michener, Julie; Department of Family Social ScienceItem Interactions, Spring 1992Department of Family Social Science; Michener, Julie; Department of Family Social ScienceNews about faculty, staff and students in the Department of Family Social Science.Item Interactions, Spring 1993(1993) Department of Family Social ScienceNews about faculty, staff and students in the Department of Family Social Science.Item Interactions, Spring 1994(1994) Department of Family Social ScienceNews about faculty, staff and students in the Department of Family Social Science.Item Interactions, Spring 1995(1995) Department of Family Social ScienceNews about faculty, staff and students in the Department of Family Social Science.Item Interactions, Spring 1996(1996) Department of Family Social ScienceNews about faculty, staff and students in the Department of Family Social Science.Item Interactions, Spring 1997(1997) Department of Family Social ScienceNews about faculty, staff and students in the Department of Family Social Science.Item Interactions, Spring 2000(2000) Department of Family Social ScienceNews about faculty, staff and students in the Department of Family Social Science.