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Overview

Marilyn Coleman is affiliated with the University of Missouri in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of social sciences, with a focus on family dynamics and related sociological topics. Their research spans over 31 published works, primarily in the social sciences domain.

Their work is concentrated in several subfields, including sociology and political science, demography, social psychology, clinical psychology, and health. This multidisciplinary approach reflects a broad engagement with complex social and psychological aspects of family life.

Key research topics addressed by Marilyn Coleman include:

  • Family Dynamics and Relationships
  • Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Family Support in Illness
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Reproductive Health and Technologies

The scientist has regularly published in several academic journals, with frequent contributions to:

  • Family Relations
  • Journal of Family Issues
  • Journal of Interpersonal Violence
  • Journal of Divorce & Remarriage
  • LGBTQ+ Family An Interdisciplinary Journal

Among recent publications are:

  • "A Dyadic Analysis of Emotion Regulation as a Moderator of Associations Between Marital Conflict and Marital Satisfaction Among First-married and Remarried Couples," 2020, Journal of Family Issues
  • "Families Are Socially Constructed: Pragmatic Implications for Researchers," 2020, Journal of Family Issues
  • "Effective stepparenting: Empirical evidence of what works," 2021, Family Relations
  • "Marital Conflict and Health: The Moderating Roles of Emotion Regulation and Marriage Order," 2021, Journal of Divorce & Remarriage
  • "Effective parenting in stepfamilies: Empirical evidence of what works," 2022, Family Relations

Marilyn Coleman has collaborated with multiple frequent co-authors, including:

  • Lawrence H. Ganong
  • Caroline Sanner
  • Steven Berkley
  • Wendy Middlemiss
  • Joseph G. Grzywacz

Best Publications

  • Reinvestigating Remarriage: Another Decade of Progress

    Marilyn Coleman;Lawrence Ganong;Mark Fine

  • Military Families Under Stress: Implications for Family Life Education†

    Amy Reinkober Drummet;Marilyn Coleman;Susan Cable

  • Remarriage and stepfamily research in the 1980s: increased interest in an old family form.

    Marilyn Coleman;Lawrence H. Ganong

  • Remarried Family Relationships

    Patricia L. Papernow;Lawrence H. Ganong;Marilyn Coleman

  • The effects of remarriage on children: a review of the empirical literature.

    Lawrence H. Ganong;Marilyn Coleman

  • Multiple Segment Factorial Vignette Designs

    Lawrence H. Ganong;Marilyn Coleman

  • Stepparents' Affinity-Seeking and Affinity-Maintaining Strategies With Stepchildren

    Lawrence Ganong;Marilyn Coleman;Mark Fine;Patricia Martin

  • Consistency in Perceptions of the Step-Parent Role among Step-Parents, Parents and Stepchildren

    Mark A. Fine;Marilyn Coleman;Lawrence H. Ganong

  • Patterns of Stepchild-Stepparent Relationship Development.

    Lawrence H. Ganong;Marilyn Coleman;Tyler B. Jamison

  • When you're not the Brady Bunch: Identifying perceived conflicts and resolution strategies in stepfamilies

    Marilyn Coleman;Mark A. Fine;Lawrence H. Ganong;Kimberly J. M. Downs

  • Changing Families, Changing Responsibilities: Family Obligations Following Divorce and Remarriage

    Marilyn Coleman;Lawrence Ganong

  • How Society Views Stepfamilies

    Lawrence H. Ganong;Marilyn Coleman

  • A mothering but not a mother role: A grounded theory study of the nonresidential stepmother role

    Shannon E. Weaver;Marilyn Coleman

  • Communication Technology and Postdivorce Coparenting

    Lawrence H. Ganong;Marilyn Coleman;Richard Feistman;Tyler B. Jamison

  • Caught in the middle: Mothers in stepfamilies

    Shannon E. Weaver;Marilyn Coleman

  • Postdivorce Coparenting Typologies and Children's Adjustment

    Jonathon J. Beckmeyer;Marilyn Coleman;Lawrence H. Ganong

  • The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Divorced Mothers' Experiences with Coparenting.

    Melinda Stafford Markham;Marilyn Coleman

  • African American and European American College Students' Expectations for Self and for Future Partners.

    Lawrence H. Ganong;Marilyn Coleman;Aaron Thompson;Chanel Goodwin-Watkins

  • The content of mother stereotypes

    Lawrence H. Ganong;Marilyn Coleman

  • Obligations to Stepparents Acquired in Later Life: Relationship Quality and Acuity of Needs

    Lawrence Ganong;Marilyn Coleman

  • Remarried family relationships.

    Lawrence H. Ganong;Marilyn Coleman Ganong

Frequent Co-Authors

Lawrence H. Ganong
Lawrence H. Ganong University of Missouri
Mark A. Fine
Mark A. Fine University of North Carolina at Greensboro

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