Understanding Families as Systems

By M. Cox, Blair Paley. 2003

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Education, Social Psychology

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Marital Quality over the Transition to Parenthood as a Predictor of Coparenting (2015, background): “Family systems theory emphasizes the idea that family transitions are important to study, since change in one aspect of the system requires that the entire system must adapt and reorganize (Cox and Paley 2003).”
Does Motherhood Get Easier the Second-Time Around? Examining Parenting Stress and Marital Quality Among Mothers Having Their First or Second Child (2007, background): “This will also help to clarify the impact of each parents' perceived contribution in relation to their actual contribution to household tasks and allow for examination of the family as a system ( Cox & Paley, 2003 )”
Time Investments in Children across Family Structures (2014, background): “Family systems theory argues that spending time with both parents together, provided that time is spent positively, may enhance the system of relationships throughout the family (Cox and Paley 2003; Deal, halverson, and Wampler 1999).”
Parental Psychological Distress, Parent - Child Relationship Qualities, and Child Adjustment: Direct, Mediating, and Reciprocal Pathways (2005, background): “The family systems approach calls for additional family processes that are also implicated in the prediction of child adjustment (Cox & Paley, 2003).”
Maternal Gate Closing and Gate Opening in Postdivorce Families (2008, methodology): “Systems theory (e.g., Cox & Paley 2003; Minuchin, 1974), however, alerts us to the possibility that each party influences the other.”
Adolescent Development from an Agentic Perspective (2003, background): “For example, how well the spouses get along with each other can affect how they treat their children (Cox & Paley, 2003; Sameroff, 1995).”