Interpersonal Systems (families, groups, couples)
« Le revenu familial, un concept vague et insidieux : analyse critique et historique des relations économiques familiales »
Hélène Belleau & Raphaëlle Proulx
Revue international Enfances, Familles, Générations, No15, 2011, p.78-109
Résumé
Les relations économiques entre parents et enfants et entre conjoints se sont radicalement... more
Résumé
Les relations économiques entre parents et enfants et entre conjoints se sont radicalement transformées au cours du dernier siècle. Les changements économiques (urbanisation, crises financières, guerres, etc.) mais aussi certaines lois et mesures sociales ont influencé grandement les liens d’interdépendances au sein des ménages au point d’en inverser parfois le sens des flux monétaires. En nous attardant spécifiquement au contexte québécois, cette réflexion tente de dégager les principaux points tournant de cette évolution en posant un regard sur les liens entre les jeunes et leurs parents et entre ces derniers et sur les enjeux sociaux qu’elle suscite.
Mots clés : Revenu familial, argent, couple, gestion, politiques sociales Abstract
Economic relationships between parents and children and between spouses have changed radically over the past century. Economic changes (urbanization, financial crises, wars, etc.), plus a number of laws and social measures, have significantly affected the links of mutual dependence within households to the point where the direction of the monetary flows have been inverted. Focussing specifically on the Quebec context, the article will attempt to identify the linchpins of these changes by looking at the links between young people and their parents and between the latter and the social issues they raise.
Keywords: Family income, money, the couple, management, social policies
Loving Couples for a Modern Nation: A New Family Model in Late-Nineteenth-Century Japan
english and more complete version of a former paper in french
This paper will examine the debates surrounding the couple and conjugal love which took place in the periodical Jogaku... more This paper will examine the debates surrounding the couple and conjugal love which took place in the periodical Jogaku Zasshi (The Woman’s Magazine) throughout the last third of the nineteenth century. Run by Iwamoto Yoshiharu (1863-1942), this magazine appears to have been the place of reflection on the specificities of Western love, the poor nature of the pre-modern types of love and the need to transpose this particular kind of love – the only one befitting a civilised nation – to Japan. At stake here was the establishment of an ideal model for the modern couple. Iwamoto was not seeking a revolution. Yet in fighting for a new family model based on equality between husband and wife, he laid the groundwork for the changes that Japan would undergo throughout the entire twentieth century. His modernity competed with the modernity of the editors of the first Civil Code, over which it would triumph a century later.
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Intimacy, sexual desire and differentiation in couplehood: A theoretical and methodological review
Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 263-280, May-June 2012.
Co-Authors: Isabel narciso & Rosa Ferreira Novo
The scientific community underlines that one of the main challenges for couples is the effect of time on sexual... more The scientific community underlines that one of the main challenges for couples is the effect of time on sexual desire. Some studies suggest that although some dimensions associated with intimacy tend to increase during the relationship, sexual desire and the related constructs tend to decrease. Some researchers have recently suggested that couples’ relationships with high degrees of sharing and fusion might be particularly detrimental for the sustenance of sexual desire. However, the authors found no empirical or theoretical studies that investigate the relations between intimacy and desire. Recovering the concept of differentiation as a possible influencing variable between intimacy and desire, this article develops reflections on this theme, which is of paramount relevance for the couple viability.
Experiences and Guideline in Running and Open Couples Psychotherapy Group (1980)
Written with Sue Pottle
Interpersonal Attachment Predicts Identification With Groups
by Judi Walsh
Crisp, R., Farrow, C., Rosenthal, H., Walsh, J., Blissett, J. & Penn, N. (2009). Interpersonal attachment predicts identification with groups. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45(1), 115-122.
Pop, I.Gh., Popoviciu, S.A., Popoviciu, I. (2010) Transdisciplinary approach on knowledge production in family as community of practice, Problems of Education in the 21st century, 21, 141-152
This paper presents a new perspective on family as a possible community of practice using a transdisciplinary approach... more This paper presents a new perspective on family as a possible community of practice using a transdisciplinary approach and the search window methodology with top-down and bottom up levels of knowledge. In a family as community of practice communication is facilitated by a flexible accessible structure (mutual engagement) between parents to children (top-down perspective) and children to parents (bottom-up perspective). In this mutual inform-action process parents through the mechanism of authority and collaborative relationships encourage learning as a central aspect of children identity shaped by family participation. The children, through the mechanism of apprenticeship learn through sharing information and experiences. This process of mutual engagement leads to a shared understanding (joint enterprise) and new resources (shared repertoire) which are the building blocks of a community of practice.
Attachment orientations and depression: A longitudinal study of new parents.
by Jamie Kohn
Rholes, W. S., Simpson, J. A., Kohn, J. L., Wilson, C. L., Martin, A. M., III, Tran, S., & Kashy, D. A. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100(4), Apr 2011, 567-586. doi: 10.1037/a0022802
In this longitudinal study, we followed a large sample of first-time parents (both partners) across the first 2 years... more In this longitudinal study, we followed a large sample of first-time parents (both partners) across the first 2 years of the transition to parenthood. Guided by attachment theory (Bowlby, 1969), we tested several predictions about how attachment anxiety and avoidance are related to the incidence, maintenance, increase, and decline of depressive symptoms in both sexes across the first 2 years of the transition. We found that (a) the association between attachment anxiety and depressive symptoms was moderated by factors related to the marital and/or romantic relationship; (b) the association between avoidance and depressive symptoms was moderated by factors related to family responsibilities; (c) styles of caregiving provided by romantic partners affected depressive symptoms differently among anxious and avoidant persons; and (d) in certain predictable situations, depressive symptoms persisted at higher levels or increased to higher levels in anxious or avoidant persons across the 2-year transition period. Important implications of these results are discussed.
The lion’s share. An experimental analysis of polygamy in Northern Nigeria.
Co-authored with Bereket Kebede, Marcela Tarazona-Gomez and Arjan Verschoor
Keywords: Polygyny, Polygamy, Experiment, Household, Nigeria
Report No. : 10-27
Date : 2010.12
Using samples of polygamous and non-polygamous households from villages in rural areas south of Kano, Northern Nigeria... more Using samples of polygamous and non-polygamous households from villages in rural areas south of Kano, Northern Nigeria we test basic theories of household behaviour. Husbands and wives play two variants of a voluntary contributions game in which endowments are private knowledge, but contributions are public. In one variant, the common pool is split equally. In the other treatment the husband allocates the pool (and wives are forewarned of this). Most partners keep back at least half of their endowment from the common pool, but we find no evidence that polygynous households are less efficient than their monogamous counterparts. We also reject a strong form of Bergstrom’s model of polygyny in which all wives receive an equal allocation. In our case, senior wives often receive more from their husbands, no matter what their contribution. Thus the return to contributions is higher for senior wives compared to their junior counterparts. When they control the allocation, polygynous men receive a higher payoff than their monogamous counterparts. We speculate on the implications of this pattern of investment and reward for the sustainability of polygynous institutions.
