Description |
xi, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Series |
Social institutions and social change |
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Social institutions and social change.
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Contents |
Families in troubled times: the Iowa youth and families project -- Analyzing family stress and adaptation: methods of study -- Rural economic and social trends -- Families under economic pressure -- Survival, loss, and adaptation: a perspective on farm families -- Children in the household economy -- Family origins of personal and social well-being -- Doing worse and feeling worse: psychological consequences of economic hardship -- Economic stress and marital relations -- Economic pressure and harsh parenting -- Resilient and vulnerable adolescents -- Sibling relations during hard times -- Family stress and adaptation: reviewing the evidence |
Summary |
The turbulent decade of the 1980s began with financial calamity in several sectors of the United States economy, from automaking to agriculture. The rural Midwest experienced its worst economic decline since the Depression years. Thousands of farmers lost their operations, and the small rural communities that serve agriculture often changed from prosperous business centers to struggling villages with many empty buildings and boarded-up storefronts along their main streets. Families in Troubled Times examines the plight of several hundred rural families who have lived through these difficult years. The participants in the Iowa Youth and Families Project, the subjects of the present study, include farmers, people from small towns, and those who lost farms and other businesses as a result of the "farm crisis." The book traces the influence of economic hardship on the emotions, behavior, and relationships of parents, children, siblings, husbands, and wives. The results of the study show that although economic stress has a powerful adverse effect on individuals and families, countervailing social influence can help to blunt these negative processes and to assist in the repair of the personal and interpersonal damage they produce |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-292) and indexes |
Subject |
Families -- Iowa -- Psychological aspects.
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Rural families -- Iowa -- Economic conditions.
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Rural families -- Iowa -- Social conditions.
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Social change -- Iowa.
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Stress (Psychology)
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Author |
Elder, Glen H., Jr.
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LC no. |
93038397 |
ISBN |
0202304876 |
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0202304884 |
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