Family Influences on Family Size Preferences

Family influences on pediatric asthma.

OBJECTIVE To describe pathways by which families may influence the onset and course of a child's asthma. METHODS We critically reviewed published articles and book chapters to identify research findings and integrated conceptualizations that demonstrate how families affect pediatric asthma. RESULTS Family emotional characteristics, asthma management behaviors, and physiological factors acco...

Family Size Preferences in a College Student Sample

Results: Women reported deciding how many children they ideally wanted at a younger age than men, being more committed to that number, and having given it more careful thought. Women also wanted to have their first child at a younger age than men, although men wanted marginally more offspring overall. Participants who used birth control wanted fewer children than those who did not. There were f...

Preferences over location-scale family

birth order, family size, neurosis

in an attempt to investigate the relationship of birth rank and family size with the incidence of neurosis in an iranian culture, case notes of 1029 schizophrenic patients as (497 males and 532 females) referred to psychiatric clinic for insured workers were studied. the incidence of neurasis appeared to be significantly more frequent among the first-half position of birth  rders in the familie...

Environmental Influences: Family Systems Theory