Tamara D. Afifi

Overview

Best Publications

• Feeling Caught between Parents: Adult Children's Relations with Parents and Subjective Well-Being.

  Paul R. Amato;Tamara D. Afifi

  605
  Citations

• ‘Feeling Caught’ in Stepfamilies: Managing Boundary Turbulence through Appropriate Communication Privacy Rules

  Tamara D. Afifi

  422
  Citations

• The Revelation Risk Model (RRM): Factors that Predict the Revelation of Secrets and the Strategies Used to Reveal Them

  Tamara Afifi;Keli Steuber

  272
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• The theory of resilience and relational load

  Tamara D. Afifi;Anne F. Merrill;Sharde Davis

  269
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• When is Topic Avoidance Unsatisfying?Examining Moderators of the Association Between Avoidance and Dissatisfaction

  John P. Caughlin;Tamara D. Afifi

  249
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• Toward a Theoretical Model of Communal Coping in Postdivorce Families and Other Naturally Occurring Groups

  Tamara D. Afifi;Susan Hutchinson;Stephanie Krouse

  244
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• The impact of uncertainty and communal coping on mental health following natural disasters.

  Walid A Afifi;Erika D Felix;Tamara D Afifi

  231
  Citations

• "Feeling Caught" as a Mediator of Adolescents' and Young Adults' Avoidance and Satisfaction with Their Parents in Divorced and Non-Divorced Households.

  Tamara D. Afifi;Paul Schrodt

  218
  Citations

• Uncertainty and the Avoidance of the State of One's Family in Stepfamilies, Postdivorce Single‐Parent Families, and First‐Marriage Families

  Tamara D. Afifi;Paul Schrodt

  203
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• Military Wives' Stressful Disclosures to Their Deployed Husbands: The Role of Protective Buffering

  Andrea L. Joseph;Tamara D. Afifi

  199
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• The Chilling Effect in Families and the Pressure to Conceal Secrets

  Tamara D. Afifi;Loreen Olson

  176
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• Inappropriate Parental Divorce Disclosures, the Factors that Prompt them, and their Impact on Parents’ and Adolescents’ Well-Being

  Tamara D. Afifi;Tara McManus;Susan Hutchinson;Birgitta Baker

  162
  Citations

• The Dark Side (and Light Side) of Avoidance and Secrets

  Tamara Afifi;John Patrick Caughlin;Walid Afifi

  153
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• Communication Processes that Predict Young Adults’ Feelings of Being Caught and their Associations with Mental Health and Family Satisfaction

  Paul Schrodt;Tamara D. Afifi

  147
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• Why Can't We Just Talk About It? An Observational Study of Parents' and Adolescents' Conversations About Sex

  Tamara D. Afifi;Andrea Lynn Joseph;Desiree Aldeis

  141
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• The Impact of Parents “Friending” Their Young Adult Child on Facebook on Perceptions of Parental Privacy Invasions and Parent–Child Relationship Quality

  Maggie Kanter;Tamara Afifi;Stephanie Robbins

  116
  Citations

• Avoidance among adolescents in conversations about their parents’ relationship: Applying the Theory of Motivated Information Management

  Walid A. Afifi;Tamara D. Afifi

  114
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• “You Need to Stop Talking about This!”: Verbal Rumination and the Costs of Social Support

  Tamara Afifi;Walid Afifi;Anne F. Merrill;Amanda Denes

  109
  Citations

• Family functioning and posttraumatic growth among parents and youth following wildfire disasters.

  Erika Felix;Tamara Afifi;Maryam Kia-Keating;Laurel Brown

  109
  Citations

• Coming Out Again: Exploring GLBQ Individuals’ Communication with Their Parents After the First Coming Out

  Amanda Denes;Tamara D. Afifi

  98
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• Uncertainty, Information Management, and Disclosure Decisions : Theories and Applications

  Tamara D. Afifi;Walid A. Afifi

  97
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