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Stability and Change in Family‐of‐Origin Recollections Over the First Four Years of Parenthood
Author(s) -
LEWIS JERRY M.,
OWEN MARGARET TRESCH
Publication year - 1995
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.1545-5300.1995.00455.x
Subject(s) - closeness , psychology , developmental psychology , depression (economics) , demography , clinical psychology , sociology , mathematical analysis , mathematics , economics , macroeconomics
This article, one of several from a longitudinal family study, examines stability and change in family‐of‐origin recollections. Family‐of‐origin data were collected by means of a questionnaire from both husbands and wives prior to the birth of their first child and 4½ years later. The questionnaire probed the subjects’ recollections of their relationships with their mothers and fathers and of their parents’ marital relationships. With median correlations for the women and men of .70 and .72, family‐of‐origin recollections appear relatively stable over this 4½‐year period. One exception to the relative stability was that women recalled their fathers and the closeness of their parent's marriage less positively after 4 years of parenthood. These changes in women's recollections were related to contemporaneous experiences with husbands’ depression and qualities of the husband's parenting.