MARC Record from marc_columbia

LEADER: 03921mam a2200421 a 4500
001 1495914
005 20220602045735.0
008 931214t19941994nyua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 93046394
020 $a0465016626 :$c$26.00 ($36.75 Can.)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm29564956
035 $9AJD7583CU
035 $a(NNC)1495914
035 $a1495914
040 $aDLC$cDLC
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aHQ799.15$b.L37 1994
082 00 $a306.874$220
100 1 $aLarson, Reed,$d1950-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83166730
245 10 $aDivergent realities :$bthe emotional lives of mothers, fathers, and adolescents /$cReed Larson and Maryse H. Richards.
260 $aNew York :$bBasicBooks,$c[1994], ©1994.
300 $ax, 333 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 299-326) and index.
505 0 $a1. The Family: A Brew of Emotions -- 2. Fathers: Cycles of Work and Leisure -- 3. Mothers: Interweaving Work and Relationships -- 4. Adolescents: Lives of Emotional Flux -- 5. Fathers and Mothers: Marriage in the Trenches -- 6. Mothers and Adolescents: Love and Conflict -- 7. Adolescents and Fathers: Fun and Avoidance -- 8. Troubled Families: Separate Realities -- 9. Healthy Families: Toward Convergent Realities.
520 $aFamily dysfunction has been blamed on many causes - the absence of fathers, mothers working outside the home, lack of money or social supports. But, argue the authors of this original and provocative book, it is often presence rather than absence that lies at the heart of troubled families. In fact, they show that it is common for family members to be in the same room and yet be oblivious to each other's thoughts and feelings.
520 8 $aFamily life breaks down because members experience the same event in different ways and are unable to bridge the gap. How can adolescents and well-meaning parents be so out of touch? What are the daily sources of conflict between husbands and wives? What windows of opportunity does contemporary life provide for family members to talk with and appreciate each other?
520 8 $aTo answer these questions, the authors used the unique Experience Sampling Method. Fathers, mothers, and adolescents carried electronic pagers for a week and provided reports on their activities and emotions at random times when signaled by the researchers.
520 8 $aAlready employed to great effect in studying individuals (the method served as the basis for Larson and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's book Being Adolescent and the latter's Flow), this is the first time this technique has been used to uncover the dynamics of family life.
520 8 $aThe result is an unprecedented study revealing the hour-by-hour emotional realities lived by families in middle America: the daily clash between fathers, who experience their family life as a refuge, and working mothers, who arrive home each evening to a six o'clock "crash"; between the world of young adolescents, whose emotions can be perilously out of check, and their parents, whose lives focus on emotional equilibrium.
520 8 $aThe authors demonstrate that these and many other divergent realities provide a breeding ground for dysfunctional family processes, and they discuss creative ways for families to surmount the emotional hazards of everyday life.
650 0 $aParent and teenager$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108908
650 0 $aAdolescent psychology$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100649
650 0 $aFamilies$zUnited States$xPsychological aspects.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008120190
700 1 $aRichards, Maryse Heather,$d1956-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87106124
852 00 $bswx$hHQ799.15$i.L37 1994