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Rand D Conger - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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linking community context to quality of parenting a study of Rural Families
Rural Sociology, 2010Co-Authors: Ronald L Simons, Rand D Conger, Christine Johnson, Frederick O LorenzAbstract:Virtually all past studies of the effect of community context on Families and children have focused on large metropolitan communities. Using a sample of divorced women living in small, Midwestern communities, the present study tests a model of the processes whereby community structure influences parenting practices. Results obtained through structural equation modeling supported the hypotheses. High concentrations of disadvantaged people within a community were indirectly related to parenting through community social disorganization. Community social disorganization had a direct effect on quality of parenting, as well as indirect effects through negative events, access to social support, and depressed mood. The various methodological and theoretical implications of these findings are considered. Language: en
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Interaction Style, Problem‐solving Behavior, and Family Problem‐solving Effectiveness
Child Development, 1995Co-Authors: Martha A. Rueter, Rand D CongerAbstract:We proposed that an individual's characteristic style of interaction will predict his or her problem-solving behavior and family problem-solving effectiveness. We test this hypothesis for mothers, fathers, and adolescent boys and girls (M age = 12.7 years) in 431 Rural Families using both warm and hostile interaction styles. One set of videotape coders observed a general family discussion and measured interaction style. A year later, another, independent set of coders observed a family problem-solving task. Family members reported family problem-solving effectiveness immediately following the problem-solving task. The results indicated that a hostile interaction style directly predicted destructive problem-solving behavior and indirectly predicted family problem-solving effectiveness. A warm interaction style related directly to constructive problem-solving behavior and indirectly to family problem-solving effectiveness.
Martha A. Rueter - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Interaction Style, Problem‐solving Behavior, and Family Problem‐solving Effectiveness
Child Development, 1995Co-Authors: Martha A. Rueter, Rand D CongerAbstract:We proposed that an individual's characteristic style of interaction will predict his or her problem-solving behavior and family problem-solving effectiveness. We test this hypothesis for mothers, fathers, and adolescent boys and girls (M age = 12.7 years) in 431 Rural Families using both warm and hostile interaction styles. One set of videotape coders observed a general family discussion and measured interaction style. A year later, another, independent set of coders observed a family problem-solving task. Family members reported family problem-solving effectiveness immediately following the problem-solving task. The results indicated that a hostile interaction style directly predicted destructive problem-solving behavior and indirectly predicted family problem-solving effectiveness. A warm interaction style related directly to constructive problem-solving behavior and indirectly to family problem-solving effectiveness.
Jeffrey B Wilson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The relationship between E. coli indicator bacteria in well-water and gastrointestinal illnesses in Rural Families
Canadian Journal of Public Health, 1999Co-Authors: Parminder S. Raina, Franklin L. Pollari, Dean A J Barry, Gary F. Teare, Michael J. Goss, Jeffrey B WilsonAbstract:OBJECTIVES: To determine the relationship between consumption of E. coli contaminated well-water and gastrointestinal illness in Rural Families. METHODS: One hundred and eighty-one Families with well-water as a drinking source participated in a one-year follow-up study. Water was tested for E. coli bacteria and health outcomes were monitored for house-hold members. RESULTS: E. coli in well-water was significantly associated with gastrointestinal illness in family members, however the relationship was modified by the distance from the septic tank to the well. E. coli had an odds ratio of 2.16 [95% CI 1.04, 4.42] if the septic tank was greater than 20 metres from the well and 0.46 [95% CI 0.07, 2.95] if the septic tank was within 20 metres. CONCLUSIONS: Consumption of contaminated well-water is associated with gastrointestinal illness. E. coli can be a useful marker for detecting wells that pose a potential public health problem in Rural areas.
Frances C. Lawrence - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Earned Income Tax Credit: An Incentive to Rural Employment
Rural Families and Work, 2011Co-Authors: Sheila Mammen, Frances C. Lawrence, Jaerim LeeAbstract:This chapter describes the federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) enacted in 1975 to help offset Social Security taxes for low-income Families with children. The EITC was also meant to provide those taxpayers with an increased incentive to work. The tax credit provides significant benefits to low-income working Families and the communities in which they live. Eligibility for the EITC is discussed in relation to Rural Families. Past research on EITC is reviewed and framed within the behavioral life-cycle theory. The inclusion of self-control, mental accounting, and life-cycle saving is discussed. Findings from the Rural Families Speak (RFS) project are included.
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The Earned Income Tax Credit and Rural Families: Differences Between Non-participants and Participants
Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2010Co-Authors: Sheila Mammen, Frances C. Lawrence, Peter St. Marie, Ann A. Berry, Suzann E. KnightAbstract:Earned Income Tax Credit, EITC non-participants, EITC participants, Low-income Rural Families,
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Rural Mothers’ Use of Formal Programs and Informal Social Supports to Meet Family Food Needs: A Mixed Methods Study
Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2008Co-Authors: Josephine A Swanson, Christine M Olson, Emily O. Miller, Frances C. LawrenceAbstract:Much of the research on low-income Families, welfare, and self-sufficiency has focused on urban populations. Further, many of the studies on informal or social support available to and accessed by low-income Families addressed needs such as childcare, transportation, money, or housing and did not focus on food issues. This paper focuses on how formal government food assistance programs and informal supports are utilized by Rural low-income Families as they work to meet their food needs. Drawing on interviews from the multi-state “Rural Families Speak” project, we examine food security in relation to the use of formal and informal supports. Additional analyses address how mothers view and describe their use of support to meet food needs.
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Use of the Earned Income Tax Credit by Rural Working Families
2006Co-Authors: Sheila Mammen, Frances C. LawrenceAbstract:The Federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) provides cash-strapped and credit-constrained Rural working Families the opportunity to increase their purchasing power. Qualitative and quantitative methods were used to analyze data from a sample of 237 Rural working mothers who participated in a multi-state study. Two-thirds of those eligible claimed the EITC. The Rural Families used the EITC to pay bills and loans, improve access to transportation, purchase various consumer durables and non-durables, establish savings and build assets, engage in leisure activities, and make human capital investments.
Richard Spoth - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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preparing for the drug free years session specific effects of a universal parent training intervention with Rural Families
Journal of Drug Education, 2001Co-Authors: Rick Kosterman, David J Hawkins, Kevin P Haggerty, Richard Spoth, Cleve RedmondAbstract:Like their urban counterparts, adolescents from Rural areas are at risk for health and behavior problems, including alcohol and other drug use. This study tested the effects on parenting practices of specific sessions of a parent-training intervention, Preparing for the Drug Free Years, designed to prevent adolescent substance abuse and other problem behaviors. Two hundred and nine Rural Families were randomly assigned to an intervention or a wait-list control condition. Analyses of covariance comparing adjusted posttest scores revealed that parents in the intervention condition reported significant improvements in parenting behaviors targeted by specific intervention sessions when compared with controls. Effects were most pronounced among mothers. No significant effects were found for nontargeted parenting behaviors, and targeted behaviors were most improved among parents attending relevant program sessions. These results strengthen the internal validity of the study and increase the plausibility that reported improvements were due to the intervention.
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engaging Families in longitudinal preventive intervention research discrete time survival analysis of socioeconomic and social emotional risk factors
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1999Co-Authors: Richard Spoth, Catherine Goldberg, Cleve RedmondAbstract:: This study examined whether family risk factors predicted attrition in a prevention research project that incorporated procedures to increase retention in assessment and intervention activities. Analyses used data from 667 Rural Families collected over 4 waves and consisted of (a) young adolescent and parent reports of internalizing and externalizing problems, (b) observer ratings of distress in parent-child interactions, and (c) family socioeconomic status (SES). Analyses failed to identify any risk factors as significant predictors of intervention participation. Only SES was found to be significant as a predictor of assessment attrition. This SES result appeared to reflect an association between lower educational attainment and an increased likelihood of attrition.
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analyzing data from experimental studies a latent variable structural equation modeling approach
Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1998Co-Authors: Daniel W Russell, Richard Spoth, Jeffrey H Kahn, Elizabeth M AltmaierAbstract:This article illustrates the use of structural equation modeling (SEM) procedures with latent variables to analyze data from experimental studies. These procedures allow the researcher to remove the biasing effects of random and correlated measurement error on the outcomes of the experiment and to examine processes that may account for changes in the outcome variables that are observed. Analyses of data from a Project Family study, an experimental intervention project with Rural Families that strives to improve parenting skills, are presented to illustrate the use of these modeling procedures. Issues that arise in applying SEM procedures, such as sample size and distributional characteristics of the measures, are discussed.
