Helms, Heather

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Household income, economic pressure, and depressive mood among unmarried women in midlife: the moderating effects of locus of control, financial instrumental support received from parents, and race 2008 1949 This investigation uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Young Women to replicate studies identifying the associations among household income, economic pressure, and depressive mood in an economically diverse, national sample of white an...
Household income and depressive mood among single women in midlife : a nuanced approach across economic strata 2005 2014 "Using data from the 1999 wave of the National Longitudinal Survey of Young Women (NLS-YW), this study examined the relationship between income and self-reported depressive mood in a national sample of 772 unmarried women aged 45 to 58. ANCOVA was us...
A contextual process model of the associations among family vulnerabilities, life stressors, marital behavior, marital satisfaction, and personal well-being 2006 2859 "The association between marital satisfaction and spouses' personal well-being is well established in the family studies and family psychology literatures. Although models specifying the ways in which contextual variables and life stressors influence...
Implications of intensive mothering beliefs for the well-being of full-time employed mothers of infants: moderating effects of childcare satisfaction and workplace flexibility 2010 6900 Hays (1996) was the first to describe the construct of intensive mothering beliefs, yet little empirical research exists to substantiate its prevalence among contemporary mothers and its implications for their lives. The purpose of this study was to ...
Spillover and crossover effects of Mexican immigrant wives' acculturative stress on spouses' marital satisfaction and marital conflict as moderated by wives' marriage work with husband and close friend 2011 2136 Using data gathered during home interviews with 110 first-generation, Mexican immigrant, legally married and living as married couples recruited via cultural insiders and snowball sampling methods, spillover and crossover links were examined between ...
Spouses' gender role attitudes, wives' employment status, and Mexican-origin husbands' marital satisfaction 2013 3528 Informed by Peplau's (1983) theory of roles, this study examined the complex interplay between spouses' gender role attitudes and wives' employment status as a predictor of Mexican-origin husbands' marital satisfaction. Dissonance between spouses' ge...
Gender-typed attributes and marital satisfaction in Mexican immigrant couples: a latent profile approach 2014 2396 Informed by socio-ecological and dyadic approaches to understanding marriage, the current study examined the patterning of gender-typed attributes in the relationships of 120 Mexican immigrant couples and their links with spouses' reports of marital ...
Mexican immigrant couples’ marital quality and coparenting satisfaction: the role of spouses’ incongruence in familism attitudes 2015 1160 Based on data from a sample of 120 Mexican immigrant couples, this study tested an estimated actor-partner interdependence model (APIM) in which the linkages between spouses’ perceptions of marital quality (i.e., marital warmth and marital negativity...
Childrearing, gender, and well-being in cross-national context 2017 1198 Previous research suggests that raising children is costly to well-being, particularly for women. However, this work is limited by the examination of almost entirely Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD) countries (particula...
Person-centered approaches to modeling trajectories of concurrent substance use across adolescence and adulthood: individual and family background predictors 2017 645 Informed by theoretical approaches that emphasize variation in the developmental pathways of substance use (e.g., Moffit, 1993; Muthén & Muthén, 2000), the current study examined two person-centered approaches to assessing concurrent substance use ac...
Predictors of change in relationship quality among first-time unmarried parents 2010 3339 Change in perceived relationship quality among unmarried first-time parents was examined using a subsample of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study. Mothers (N = 990) and fathers (N = 885) were interviewed at childbirth and one year postpart...