Intimate Family Research Articles

South Asian Young Adults and Gender Roles: Expectations, Expressions, and Intimate Partner Violence Prevention.

The goals of the researchers who conducted this study were to explore South Asian young adults' (N = 30) perceptions of gender roles and intimate partner violence (IPV) prevention in South Asian communities in the United States. Three distinct themes (a) gender role socialization and expectations, (b) gender role expression/negotiation within own intimate relationship, family, and own community, and (c) IPV prevention were identified. Important implications include how socialization and acculturation processes, immigration, and other factors influence South Asian young adults' perceptions of IPV in the community.

Predictors of Full Recovery in Patients with Early-Stage Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders

Introduction: In the last 20 years, there has been an increase in research on self-stigma among persons with severe mental illness. Objectives: The main objective of the study is to find the predictors of full recovery in patients with early-stage schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Material and methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in Wah medical college / POF hospital Wah Cantt during 2021-2022. Data was collected with the permission of ethical committee of hospital. At the time of analysis, 57 patients with early-stage psychosis had enrolled. Early-stage was defined as the duration of adequate antipsychotic treatment of more than 4 weeks but less than or equal to 2 years. We restricted analysis to individuals diagnosed as having SSD (schizophrenia [SZ] and schizophreniform disorder [SZFD]) and PNOS. Results: Data were collected from 34 patients. Mean age of the patients was 28.4 ± 8.5 years. There were 8 (39.0) males and 26 (61.0) female patients. 2.37% patients were unemployed. There were 28 (94.9) patients with family history of diseases. A comparison of the demographic and clinical characteristics of subjects being followed up versus those that had dropped out revealed no significant differences, with the exception of education and intensity of suicidal ideation. Practical implication: This study will help us to find the predictors of full recovery in patients with early-stage schizophrenia. Conclusion: It is concluded that significant predictors for full recovery were duration of untreated psychosis (DUP), family intimacy and physical activity. We observed similar or better results on remission, recovery, and relapse rates compared to other previous studies. Keywords: Early, Relapse, Compared, Recovery, DUP, Physical, Significant

The Role of the Justice Sector Stakeholders in Curbing the Menace of Sexual and Gender Based Crisis in Nigeria

Purpose: This paper examines the role of justice sector stakeholders in Nigeria in curbing the menace of sexual and gender based crisis in Nigeria. Gender-based violence (GBV), is one of the oppressive forms of gender inequality posing a fundamental barrier to the equal participation of women and men in social, economic, and political spheres. Acts of gender-based violence affect the lives, health and wellbeing of millions of women, girls, boys and men worldwide. Gender-based violence takes place in all societies and all cultures. It includes female genital mutilation, female infanticide, child marriage, physical abuse, sexual harassment, mental or economic harm inflicted on a person because of socially ascribed power imbalances between males and females. Lack of access to justice institutions and mechanisms contribute to culture of impunity for violence and abuse. Girls and women may also experience gender-based violence when they are deprived of nutrition and education. Gender based crimes are grossly under-reported, especially when it is against the male folks and within a family setting or close affinity environment. While it is widely believed that women are much more likely than men to be killed by their intimate partners or family members, as a result of GBV, the nature of deaths when it involves men (excessive brutality, mutilation of diseased body, poisoning) is beginning to cast aspersion on that assumption.
 Methodology: The doctrinal research was used in carrying out this research. Both secondary and primary sourced materials such as textbooks, journals, internets, case laws etc. were used.
 Findings: Finding revealed that the gaps in criminal law and procedure, gender stereotypes, victim blaming, non-conviction of the aggressor and inadequate/inappropriate responses of the criminal justice institutions and professionals to GBV lead to secondary victimization as well as the likelihood of use of self-help.
 Recommendation: To address these, advocacy message should be directed to the perpetrators. Religious leaders, traditional rules, lawyers, media houses, Civil Society Organisation among others are enjoined to take proactive measures in addressing this menace.

‘Pa-uli na’: Filipino familial intimacy and entreaties to returning interprovincial migrants

ABSTRACT This article explores how family intimacy and traditional values interplay in the return of rural interprovincial migrants in the Philippines, in response to entreaties made by family members. Specifically, it looks at how Filipino behavioural patterns for social acceptance underlie interprovincial migrants’ decision to return. Jacqui Gabb’s concept of family intimacy and Virginia Miralao’s discourse on Filipino family and traditional values provide a theoretical framework to further understand the complexities of family practices and interprovincial migration in the country. Ethnographic narratives and observations were collected to highlight family intimacy and the cultural foundation of ‘pa-uli na’ entreaties. By unravelling the different forms of entreaties and patterns of the decision to return, this article conceptualizes family as an affective space of intimacy that constitutes the socio-cultural context for the analysis.

Necropolítica del himen naturalista: virginidad, excedentes de vida y poder soberano en Santa (1903), El hijo del Estado (1884) y El himen en México (1885)

Sexual practices disassociated from the intimate family milieu and its reproductive futures were considered a betrayal against collective national wealth in fin-de-siècle Mexican Naturalism. One of the best-known scenes of the punishment for delitos de incontinencia (sexual incontinency) appears in Santa (1903), a representative urban novel by Federico Gamboa. Santa was perhaps the most widely read fiction about prostitution in early twentieth-century Latin America. At the same time, it had a moralistic agenda that combined medico-legal and religious discourse to stigmatize premarital sex. The novel was not only a literary rendition of sex trafficking in modern Mexico City, it was also a portrayal of the defamation endured by plebeian pregnant women, whose loss of virginity outside marriage left them exposed to sexual exploitation. With an emphasis on the scene of Santa’s miscarriage, this article analyzes the interruption of gestation as a punishment of a sovereign male narrator against the young woman’s premarital sex with her lover, the soldier Marcelino Beltrán. Likewise, I contextualize the novelist’s fixation with virginity and the hymen through a dialogue with a series of texts on obstetrics and legal medicine, which includes the medical treatise El hímen en México (1885) [The Hymen in Mexico] by the pharmacist Francisco A. Flores and the novel El hijo del Estado (1884) [The Son of the State] by Hilarión Frías y Soto.

Effect of Teach-back and Douyin platform short video health education in women receiving infertility treatment.

To evaluate the effect of intervention by Teach-back and Douyin platform short video health education on stigma, reproductive quality of life, family intimacy and family adaptability in women receiving infertility treatment. This study is a quasi-experimental study. The intervention period is 6 weeks, and the study was implemented between January 2022 and August 2022. A total of 80 women (40 in the control group and 40 in the observation group) receiving infertility treatment were included in the study. The control group was given routine health education intervention, and the observation group was given Teach-back and Douyin platform short video health education on the basis of routine health education. The Chinese version of the Infertility Stigma Scale, the Infertility Quality of Life Questionnaire and the Family Intimacy and Adaptability Scale were used to evaluate the effects before and after the intervention. After the intervention, the total score of stigma in the observation group was significantly lower and lower than that of the control group (P < 0.05) and the total score of reproductive quality of life in the observation group was significantly higher than that of the control group (P < 0.05). The dissatisfaction score of family intimacy in the observation group was significantly lower than that of the control group (P < 0.05), and the dissatisfaction score of family adaptability in the observation group was significantly lower than that of the control group (P < 0.05). Teach-back and Douyin platform short video health education can reduce the stigma in women receiving infertility treatment and improve their reproductive quality of life, family intimacy and family adaptability.

Comparison of marital conflict model based on selfdifferentiation and familism with the mediating role of intimacy and emotional maturity in traditional and modern families

Background and Aim: Developments caused by changes in society can also be the basis for differences in values, desires and expectations of couples from each other. The aim of this study was to compare the model of marital conflict based on selfdifferentiation and familism with the mediating role of intimacy and emotional maturity in traditional and modern families. Methods: The present study is with an applied purpose and correlation method. The population included all couples living in Tehran, sampling method was available. Out of 1107 people who answered the questionnaire, 590 couples were selected as the research sample. First, the mean and standard deviation of the traditional from modern questionnaire were calculated and based on a standard deviation from the mean, traditional families (35 pairs) and modern families (46 pairs) were separated. Data collection tools included: a researcher-made questionnaire on the separation of traditional and modern families, and questionnaires on marital conflict, self-differentiation, familism, intimacy and emotional maturity. Path analysis and structural equation modeling were used to analyze the data and test the hypothesis, and independent t-test was used to compare the means of the variables. Results: The results showed that this model has a good fit in traditional and modern families. The results showed that this model has a good fit in traditional and modern families, and the goodness of fit index (GOF) in traditional and modern families is 0.83 and 0.56, respectively. Because this value is more than 0.35, as a result, the overall fit of the model was confirmed (P&lt;0.01). Conclusion: It is suggested that the characteristics of modern and traditional families be considered in medical and counseling centers in resolving marital conflict.

Relationship between Family Intimacy and Adaptability and School Refusal behavior: The Chain-mediated Role of Peer Relation and Perceived Teacher Support

Relationship between Family Intimacy and Adaptability and School Refusal behavior: The Chain-mediated Role of Peer Relation and Perceived Teacher Support

Effectiveness of McMaster Model Psychoeducational Training on Family Intimacy in Bipolar Patients

Effectiveness of McMaster Model Psychoeducational Training on Family Intimacy in Bipolar Patients

The Influence of Parent–Child Relationships on Musical Activity in the Family: Findings from a Longitudinal Panel Study

Singing and playing musical instruments is seen as beneficial for parent–child relationships. Using longitudinal data from the German Panel Analysis of Intimate Relationships and Family Dynamics (Pairfam) we investigate the role of specific facets of parent–child relationships as predictors of family musical activity, namely Intimacy, that is, the degree of mutual sharing of thoughts and feelings, Admiration, that is, positive affirmative attitudes, and Prosocial Behavior, that is, showing empathy and consideration for others. Study 1 included responses from a total of N = 1,339 parents (71% mothers) and N = 1,783 children (52% male), and Study 2 differentiates between specific subsamples of parent–child relations. Data were submitted to a series of regression models. Study 1 showed that higher values of Intimacy were associated with greater music activities for both parent and child even when general levels of music activities decreased over time. Study 2 addressed cases in which mothers and fathers independently assessed the same child. The results showed similar patterns of association for both parents and children across studies. In addition, mothers perceived higher levels of family music activities than did fathers. Finally, high levels of Intimacy were associated with increased family music activity against the general trend of decline. Taken together, a strong and consistent pattern of a positive relationship between, on the one hand, mutual parent–child perceptions of trust and confidence, that is, Intimacy, and on the other hand, music activity, was found. These results confirm and extend earlier work to suggest a certain role of the quality of family relationships in pursuing musical activities from childhood to adolescence.

Post-traumatic growth and perceived social support in young adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic

Objectives: Pandemics would certainly have a negative impact on mental health. Positive modifications as well as negative alterations have been documented in earlier viral pandemic according to previous investigations. Teenagers face a variety of challenges during adolescence. Adolescents may become more concerned if this time coincides with other worries. This study aims to investigate the positive changes that occur in a young adolescent’s life after COVID-19 pandemic, and to see how they relate to perceived social support. Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed on adolescents who were randomly selected from high schools in Kerman, Iran 2020 during the COVID-19. the sample size was 108 and for sampling wes used multi-stage random sampling at the end the data was analyzed by Pearson correlation test. Demographic information, the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS) and Posttraumatic Growth Inventory short form (PTGI-SF) were used to collect data. The data were subjected to descriptive and analytical statistical tests (Pearson correlation) using SPSS software version 24. Results: Statistically a positive correlation was found between the PTG total score and young homeschooled adolescents, parents working remotely, income loss and COVID-19 experience. Moreover, during the COVID-19 pandemic, a positive association was found between perceived social support and PTG total scores in young adolescents. There were also substantial positive connections between the MSPSS subscales and the PTGI overall score. Conclusion: Based on the findings, an overall growth in all areas of PTG was observed during the COVID-19 among young adolescents. Perceived social support scores have a positive and significant relationship with COVID-19 effects. In the crises we face throughout life, intimate family members and friends play a significant supporting role in adapting to these situations.

Does Sex Matter? The Role of Sexual and Relationship Satisfaction on Living Apart Together Relationship Transitions

There is limited understanding of how the aspects of sex and relationship quality are related to decisions on whether to move in together, separate or continue dating among living-apart together (LAT) couples. This paper focuses on sexual and relationship satisfaction in understanding LAT relationship transitions into coresidence or separation in Germany. The longitudinal prospective design of the German Panel Analysis of Intimate Relationships and Family Dynamics data (pairfam, waves 1-9) is used. Discrete-time competing risk hazard models on LAT relationship outcomes to coresidence or separation are estimated. The results underline the fact that sexual satisfaction is not related to LAT partners’ decision to move in together; however, higher levels of relationship satisfaction are positively related to the decision of moving in with a partner. The models reveal that low sexual and relationship satisfaction are associated with breaking-up relative to still living apart. This study highlights the importance of considering sexual satisfaction in understanding better the risk of separation from a LAT partner, in addition to the global indicator of relationship satisfaction.

The Research of Cancer Patients’ Attachment with Their Intimate Families

The Research of Cancer Patients’ Attachment with Their Intimate Families

Leisure jobs: Recreating family and social life in Canadian electric utility marketing, 1920–1970

<h2>Abstract</h2> This paper contributes to debates of how technological and cultural change occurs in sociotechnical transitions. I this research I apply concepts from contemporary management theory to a historical case study to make two contributions. The first is to understand historical energy transitions in a new way. The second is to show how marketing and business model innovation theory can be used to examine utility marketing practices and understand how utilities help shape changes in family and social practices. The empirical case study is framed in the context of the seemingly contradictory views about technology and housework in the twentieth century. One view is that the transformation of homes with electric power created more work for mothers as they used their appliances to achieve new standards of cleanliness and devote more time to child care. The other is that it was beyond dispute that clothes dryers saved time and that over the twentieth century, women performed fewer hours of housework and family care. To investigate the issue and more generally technological and cultural change, I examined how electric power utilities in Canada conceptualized the use of domestic customer time during scale up of the grid. The research question asks what values and jobs to be done were marketed by electric utilities during the period, beyond giving homemakers more time to run the house and more money to shop? Utilities initially sought to grow by selling power as capital and labour rationality, mirroring industrial ideals of producing more with fewer resources. As those labour savings were realized, they increasingly sold power as a means to perform the new organizational and emotional jobs of creating a more intimate, happier and child-centred family life and a more entertaining social life. In doing so, they contributed to a redefinition of family and social life, from family-as-labour to family-as-leisure. Future research builds on this historical study in applying jobs to be done, business model innovation and social tableaux frameworks to understand contemporary marketing as it seeks to realize decarbonized power grids, expansion of electricity into mobility and heating markets and changed social practices to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Transgenerational transmission of suffering: State violence, memory, and aspiration for alternative intimate lives in contemporary China

AbstractIn constructing a socialist order, Chinese state‐raised political movements inflicted violence on families. Drawing on anthropological studies of violence, memory, haunting, affect, and transgenerational transmission, along with ethnographic investigation in Shanghai and Hunan, China, I demonstrate that individual experiences of political suffering will not be self‐contained but inevitably be bequeathed to the offspring, shaping both intergenerational relationship and youth knowledge of intimacies. While most anthropologists have explained contemporary Chinese family intimacy through neoliberal cultures, economic privatization, and the one‐child policy, I unravel a political history of affective undercurrents and its potential for generating a desire for nonnormative intimacy among the younger generation. I argue that generational relationships in the postviolence era are tripartite not bipartite; families’ aspirations and reproductive practices respond to an unfulfilled state‐family reciprocity. This tripartite relationship further suggests that desire formation in socialist nuclear families differs from that in Freudian bourgeois families.

Understanding the epidemiology and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on domestic violence and child abuse in Saudi Arabia: A cross-sectional study.

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the impact of a pandemic on the lives of vulnerable members of the community who have experienced or are 'at risk' of experiencing intimate family violence and child abuse in Saudi Arabia. By reviewing the experience in Saudi Arabia in the context of the international literature, the study explores similarities and differences in the impact of the pandemic on family violence. The study investigated the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on family violence and child abuse in Saudi Arabia by conducting a comparative analysis of the prevalence of cases, types of abuse, and geographical location of those experiencing violence between the years 2019 and 2020. Data were obtained from the Family Violence Reporting Center 1919 in Saudi Arabia. The study found that the risk of family violence and child abuse increased during the COVID-19 pandemic in Saudi Arabia, similar to findings in other countries. Conversely, there was a decrease in the number of reports due to factors associated with COVID-19. The study highlighted the importance of ensuring that existing policies and services are sufficient to ensure the risks arising from the impact of COVID-19 responses and minimize the negative consequences.

Representation of Inner Family Communication Film, Semiotic Analysis John Fiske

This study aims to determine the representation of family communication in the film "Nanti Kita Cerita Tentang Hari Ini" through John Fiske's semiotic analysis. This research is based on the development of film in Indonesia, which is a form of mass media that has a function to convey information or messages. Effective family communication is essential to maintaining intimate family relationships. Therefore, communication between husband and wife, communication between children and their parents needs to be built effectively in building good harmony in the family. Likewise, the family communication that occurred in the film “Nanti Kita Cerita Tentang Hari Ini”. The researcher uses this type of research using qualitative descriptive, then using John Fiske's semiotic analysis into three levels, namely the level of reality, the level of representation, and the level of ideology. The research results obtained are from 30 scenes there is 1 scene that contains and represents family communication in the NKCTHI film. From the 12 scenes, there are 5 general categories of family communication in this film, namely openness, empathy, support, positive attitude and equality or similarity.

Intimate Partner and Family Violence Among Women Tertiary Students in Australia: Prevalence and Cross-Cultural Differences.

Most prior research on violence among tertiary students has been restricted to dating and sexual violence and neglected cross-cultural variation. To provide more comprehensive and intersectional understandings, this study examined the prevalence and cultural differences in intimate partner and family violence among women tertiary students in Australia. Data were collected from 1,845 women studying at post-secondary institutions and weighted by age and country of birth to reflect the population composition. Eighty-seven percent (86.7%) of participants reported having experienced violence (physical, sexual, psychological, and/or financial) from an intimate partner and/or family member during adulthood. Students who identified as Anglo were more likely to report victimization by intimate partners, while those who identified as non-Anglo and multicultural were more likely to report victimization by family members. The findings highlight the need for tertiary education institutions to prioritize preventing and responding to intimate partner and family violence in their culturally diverse student bodies.

(Dis)Affect, Photography, Place

Migrants are connected for a variety of reasons (Leurs and Prabhakar 2018, p. 247), and in a myriad of ways (Cabalquinto 2018; Özdemir, Mutluer, and Özyürek 2019; Gencel Bek and Prieto-Blanco 2020). Drawing from a larger project of ethnographic nature (Prieto-Blanco 2016b), this paper argues that photographic practices advance socialization in transnational families, and that each practice activates certain relational affordances to support bonding and familial intimacy. This also serves to offer an alternative reading of phatic communication (Malinowski 1923) as an emotion‐based process. Finally, the paper proposes to understand (digital) photography as a medium of (inter)action and experience for transnational families.

The Longitudinal Effect of Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry Traits on Relationship Satisfaction

This research estimates how changes in admiration and rivalry narcissistic traits correlate with changes in relationship satisfaction over time. Longitudinal analyses based on data from the Panel Analysis of Intimate Relationships and Family Dynamics (pairfam) studies were used to investigate this question. Findings show associations between heightening rivalry narcissistic traits and decreased levels of relationship satisfaction among men and women, and between heightening admiration narcissistic traits and decreased levels of relationship satisfaction among men. When the two aspects were estimated together, accounting for collinearity, heightening admiration narcissistic traits were not associated with changes in relationship satisfaction among men, while, among women, they correlated with increased levels of relationship satisfaction. These findings advance previous propositions in recent literature and shed light on gender differences in this regard.