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The California Family Health Project: VII. Summary and Integration of Findings
Author(s) -
FISHER LAWRENCE,
RANSOM DONALD C.,
TERRY HOWARD E.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
family process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.011
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1545-5300
pISSN - 0014-7370
DOI - 10.1111/j.1545-5300.1993.00069.x
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , psychology , family health , domain (mathematical analysis) , sample (material) , developmental psychology , medicine , computer science , mathematical analysis , chemistry , nursing , mathematics , chromatography , artificial intelligence
In a series of reports, we have observed the relationships between four domains of family life (World View, Emotion Management, Structure/Organization, Problem Solving), and the health of husbands and wives in a community‐based sample of 225 families. In this final article of the series, we provide an overview and summary of the results, by gender, including the structure and patterning of variables both within each family domain and among all four family domains analyzed together. In addition, we review the associations between each family domain and adult health (unidomain analyses), and among all four family domains taken together and adult health (multidomain analyses). Prominent differences in family and health relationships based on gender are described from the perspective of socially and culturally supported sex‐role expectations and behavior. The results support the use of a multidimensional family assessment framework in health research that can lead to the further development of empirically based models of family process.