Patterns of family interaction were compared in the families of 22 children with chronic asthma, 30 children with diabetes mellitus, and six healthy children. The groups were similar in terms of age (range 4-14 years and mean 10.2 years). Peak expiratory flow and signs of allergy were correlated with family interaction in the subjects with asthma. The following significant findings were made. F...

Title of Dissertation: THE INFLUENCE OF DISCREPANCIES IN ADOLESCENT-PARENT PERCEPTIONS OF THE FAMILY ON ADOLESCENT OUTCOMES IN TRANSRACIALLY ADOPTIVE FAMILIES Katie Marie Hrapczynski, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013 Dissertation directed by: Associate Professor Leigh Leslie Department of Family Science Transracial adoption creates a family in which the adoptive parent or parents are of a different r...

Government surveys often accept reports from proxy respondents. For example, the Current Population Survey (CPS), used to measure unemployment, uses proxy information about the employment status of other household members. The Consumer Expenditure Program, which provides the cost weights in the Consumer Price Index, accepts proxy reports about the expenditures of other family members. Because m...

We evaluated whether a brief 3-week family therapy intervention would change patterns of brain activation in response to affection and gaming cues in adolescents from dysfunctional families who met criteria for on-line game addiction. Fifteen adolescents with on-line game addiction and fifteen adolescents without problematic on-line game play and an intact family structure were recruited. Over ...

Sister chromatid cohesion is the basis for the recognition of chromosomal DNA replication products for their bipolar segregation in mitosis. Fundamental to sister chromatid cohesion is the ring-shaped cohesin complex, which is loaded onto chromosomes long before the initiation of DNA replication and is thought to hold replicated sister chromatids together by topological embrace. What happens to...

The main objective of this study was to learn whether emotional autonomy is truly part of a developmental stage for Spanish adolescents and young adults or if it is an indicator of difficult family relationships. Using a longitudinal design, a sample of ninety young people was followed for ten years, from their initial adolescence until their first years of adulthood. At four observation points...

A structured interview measure of suicidal behavior and a questionnaire measure of family psychosocial climate were administered to 43 pre-adolescent psychiatric inpatients and their parents. Results showed that suicidal behavior tended to be associated with greater family conflict and with less family organization, cohesion, and achievement orientation.

People face heterogeneous health shocks and medical spending risks. Using a rich dynamic structural life-cycle model, this paper investigates how these shocks a¤ect the savings behavior of retired single households. Consumers are allowed to respond to health shocks in two different ways: they can directly pay for their health care expenses (self-insure) or they can rely on health insurance cont...

The biological sensitivity to context hypothesis posits that high physiological reactivity (i.e., increases in arousal from baseline) constitutes heightened sensitivity to environmental influences, for better or worse. To test this hypothesis, we examined the interactive effects of family cohesion and heart rate reactivity to a public speaking task on aggressive/rule-breaking and prosocial beha...