Title:	Emerging Methods in Family Research
Authors:	Susan M. McHale • Paul Amato • Alan Booth
Keywords:	Emerging
Issue Date:	2014
Publisher:	Springer
Description:	Across a range of disciplines, including psychology, sociology, education, political science and medicine, research and theory target families as central to the well-being of their members and to the well-being of the communities and larger societies in which families are embedded. The significance of families for the health of individ- uals and communities demands scholars’ best efforts to illuminate how family roles, relationships and dynamics operate and how they influence family members. This volume is predicated on the idea that advances in research on families will rely on innovations in design, measurement, data collection and data analysis that allow researchers to capture the multi-level complexities of family systems. Methods for studying families are often drawn from research focused on individuals. A theme throughout this volume is whether and to what extent the same kinds of methods can be applied across levels of analysis—from the individual, to the dyad, to larger family groups. In chapters throughout this volume, authors consider whether and how methods from research focused on individuals can be applied, can be modified, and are challenged when family relationships and family influences are the focus of study. The contributions to Emerging Methods in Family Research are based on pa- pers presented at the 20th Annual Penn State Symposium on Family Issues held in October, 2012. This edited volume is the culmination of two days of stimulating presentations and discussions organized around four topics: (1) strategies for quan- titative analysis of variation and change in families, (2) approaches to analyzing families as systems, (3) measuring “the family” and family dynamics, and (4) new directions in the implementation and evaluation of family-focused social policies and preventive interventions.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/52675
ISBN:	978-3-319-01562-0
Appears in Collections:	Population Studies

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