Annotated Bibliography

Carley Moore
Amy Smith
English 1102- N
2 April 2013
Annotated Bibliography
O’Donnell, Lolita. “Trauma spectrum Disorders: Emerging Perspectives on the Impact on Military and Veteran Families.” Journal of Loss and Trauma 16.3 (2011); 284- 290. Psychology and Behavioral Science Collection. Web. 21 Mar. 2013. O’Donnell is a member of the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health. She addressed this article after she attended the Second Annual Trauma Spectrum Disorders Conference. Her intended audience is the families who suffer from war related distress and psychologists. This article can easily be compared to “Prenatal Representations of Family in Parents and Coparental Interactions as Predictors of Triadic Interactions during Infancy,” because it discusses the relativeness between separation of parents and children and family togetherness and happiness. The article discusses the affect that war has on military and veteran families during deployment, homecoming, and reintegration. This is relevant to my topic because it discusses the relationships of family members and their interactions between each other. As my research topic is based off of all the outside resources that can positively or negatively affect families, this article gives an example of how an outside factor can shape the strength of a family. Houston, Brian. “Family Communication across the Military Deployment Experience: Child and Spouse Report of Communication Frequency and Quality and Associated Emotions, Behaviors, and Reactions.” Journal of Loss and Trauma 18.2 (2013); 103-119. Psychology and Behavioral Science Collection. Web. 2 Apr. 2013.
Brian belongs in the Department of Communication at the University of Missouri. His intended audience is psychologists, service member, and their families. This article is almost directly related to “Trauma spectrum Disorders: Emerging Perspectives on the Impact on Military and Veteran Families,” because it’s dealing with the same groups of people. Both articles are dissecting the stresses and depressions deployed families may enter during, before, or after war deployment. Brian’s article discusses the development of children who grow up in a military family and the mixed emotions that flow within that family. Child development with a deployed parent was related to more child emotional reactions and behavioral problems versus a child with two present parents. This source is relevant for my research because it helps connect the affect military has on family bonds even more so. It also provides even more proof of outside influences taking away the togetherness of families. Pfefferbaum, Betty. “Children of National Guard Troops Deployed in the Global War on Terrorism.” Journal of Loss and Trauma 16.4 (2011); 291-305. Psychology and Behavioral Science Collection. Web. 1 Apr. 2013. Betty works at the University of Oklahoma’s Health Science Center. His audience is military families and psychologists. This article directly relates to “Family Communication across the Military Deployment Experience: Child and Spouse Report of Communication Frequency and Quality and Associated Emotions, Behaviors, and Reactions” and “Trauma spectrum Disorders: Emerging Perspectives on the Impact on Military and Veteran Families.” All three of these articles are dealing with the saddened military families who have to find a way to cope with the loss of their loved ones during deployment. They all address the emotions, depressions, and stress that the family members go through before, during, and after deployment. Children of deployed servers experienced emotional and behavioral issues during the deployment of their fathers relative to pre- and post-deployment. According to Betty the children’s worry and uncertainty, may give rise to ambiguous loss associated with deployment in military families. This article is relevant to my topic because it helps define a sharp line of how much the military affects families. Also it provides more evidence that outside influences do shape family relationships.
Holtzman, Rochelle. “The Role of Family Conflict in the Relation between Exposure to Community Violence and Depressive Symptoms.” Journal of community Psychology 40.2 (2012); 264-275. Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection. Web. 14 Mar. 2013.
Holtzman is a doctor at St. Louis Children’s Hospital. He wrote this article for psychiatrists, psychologists, doctors, and families. This article can kind of relate to O’Donnell’s article in a way that they both deal with depression of family members and then those stronger members having to step up and support them. In this article Holtzman discusses the different work environments and how they can affect family statuses. Family conflict was found to have a significant relevance with the relation between exposure to community violence and depressive symptoms. In Holtzman article he explains how being exposed to violence, therefore suffering from depression affects family relationships. This correlates to my overall research topic because its describing an outside influence negatively effecting the togetherness of families. This article shows the influence of the content of one’s local culture becoming a focal issue for our society’s families.

Saxby, Darby. “Television as a Social or Solo Activity: Understanding Families’ Everyday
Television Viewing Patterns.” Communication Researchers Report 28.2 (2011); 180- 189. Psychology of Communication. Web. 15 Mar. 2013.
Darby Saxby, a part of the Department of Psychology at the University of Southern California, studies family interactions and social influences. This article was intended for psychologists, mass media majors, and families who may struggle balancing television and family bonding. This article can be compared to “The Effects of Parental Education and Family Income on Parent- Child Relationships,” because the author is taking a complete outside source from society that affects the relationship statuses of families, just as Darby’s article does. Both of the journals focus on concrete material for happiness versus family closeness and bonding for happiness. The article discusses the different preferences between parents and their children when watching television. After the experiment was conducted, it was found that parents prefer to watch TV as a social activity and kids prefer to watch it as a solo activity. This article is relevant to my research because it assesses the influence social media has on family interactions. This will contribute to my research by providing an example of how contributors outside of home are the things that actually shape families.

Nelson, Candace. “Assessing the Relationship Between Work-Family Conflict and Smoking.”
American Journal of Public Health 102.9 (2012); 1767-1772. American Public Health Association. Web. 1 Apr. 2013.
Candace Nelson is with the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard School of public Health. This article was intended for employed parents, smokers, and psychologists. This article correlates to Zhang’s article because it is relating family distress to materialistic, outside influences. This source relates back to my topic of outside influences touching and forming the strength of family relationships; this article brings yet another cause and effect to the table. According to this article, the amount of time parents spend working affects the parent- child relationship. It also addresses how smoking negatively affects the relationship as well. It is shown that parents who experience both stress at home from work issues and stress at work from personal issues, are more likely to smoke than others. This problem reflects negatively on families and the children that are being raised in that family. The relationship between work-family conflict and smoking is dependent on the total amount of conflict experienced.
Banerjee, Dina. “Employee Benefits and Policies: Do They Make a Difference for Work/ Family Conflict?” Journal of Sociology and Social Wellfare 39.3 (2012); 131-147. Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection. Web. 25 Mar. 2013.
Dina Banerjee, Department Chair of Sociology and Anthropology at Shippensburg State University, wrote an essay intended for her audience of sociologist, psychologists, employers, and employed parents. This source compares to “The Effects of Parental Education and Family Income on Mother-Child Relationships, Father- Child Relationships, and Family Environments,” in similar ways because both are looking at the employed half of parents and how their income and job benefits complete a family’s happiness or not. It is primarily policies pertaining to flexible work time that significantly affect work/family conflict. These effects continue even when suportiveness of the workplace atmosphere and of supervisors and co-workers are controlled. A supportive workplace culture is related to less work/family conflict.

Favez, Nicolas. “Parental Representations of Family in Parents and Coparental Interactions as Predictors of Triadic Interactions during Infancy.” Infant Mental Health Journal 34.1 (2013); 25-33. Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health. Web. 14 Mar. 2013.
Nicolas Favez, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at the university of Geneva, Switzerland, wrote this article for psychologist, parents, and any infant care studier. This article relates to “Trauma spectrum Disorders: Emerging Perspectives on the Impact on Military and Veteran Families,” because it’s dealing with the hardships families are forced to deal with when being separated from one another. This article talks about the role of family interactions and family representations in mother and fathers during pregnancy for postnatal mother-father-infant interactions. It was shown that prenatal interactions were associated and most important predictors of family interactions. This is relevant to my topic because it’s not only providing an example of outside influences on family closeness, but giving the reader a proven way to improve family relationships.

Zhang, Xiao. “The Effects of Parental Education and Family Income on Mother-Child Relationships, Father- Child Relationships, and Family Environments.” Family Process
51.4 (2012); 483-497. Institute of Education. Web. 29 Mar. 2013.
Xiao Zhang, Department Chair of Early Childhood Education at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, wrote this article explaining how different income levels affect parent-child relationships. Her intended audience is psychologists and people interested in the effects wealth has on family bonds. This article is different from “Trauma spectrum Disorders: Emerging Perspectives on the Impact on Military and Veteran Families,” because that article dealt with family separation and this source deals with materialistic effects on family. This source is going to back up my idea of how there is so many outer aspects that effect family relationships.

Chao, Mei-Ru. “Family Interaction Relationship Types and Differences in Parent- Child Interactions.” Social Behavior and Personality 39.7 (2011); 897-914. National Chung Kung University Reports. Web. 1 Apr. 2013.
Chao works in the Institute of Education at the National Cheng Kung University. This article was intended for education majors, psychologists, and people with family interests. This article is not like any other source yet because it analyses different types of family behaviors and relationships, not what cause those interactions. Eight interaction relationship types were examined: empathy, constraint, compromise, acquiescence, conflict, camouflage, and defensiveness. Sons and daughters are proven to show more conflict, compromise, and acquiescence, while mothers showed more empathy. This source helps me work towards completing my final research topic paper because it defines, describes, and provides examples of different types of family relationships and how they work.

Bibliography: O’Donnell, Lolita. “Trauma spectrum Disorders: Emerging Perspectives on the Impact on Military and Veteran Families.” Journal of Loss and Trauma 16.3 (2011); 284- 290. Psychology and Behavioral Science Collection. Web. 21 Mar. 2013. Pfefferbaum, Betty. “Children of National Guard Troops Deployed in the Global War on Terrorism.” Journal of Loss and Trauma 16.4 (2011); 291-305 Behavioral Science Collection. Web. 1 Apr. 2013. Betty works at the University of Oklahoma’s Health Science Center 40.2 (2012); 264-275. Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection. Web. 14 Mar. Saxby, Darby. “Television as a Social or Solo Activity: Understanding Families’ Everyday Television Viewing Patterns.” Communication Researchers Report 28.2 (2011); 180- 189 American Journal of Public Health 102.9 (2012); 1767-1772. American Public Health Association. Web. 1 Apr. 2013. Candace Nelson is with the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard School of public Health Banerjee, Dina. “Employee Benefits and Policies: Do They Make a Difference for Work/ Family Conflict?” Journal of Sociology and Social Wellfare 39.3 (2012); 131-147. Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (2013); 25-33. Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health. Web. 14 Mar. 2013. 51.4 (2012); 483-497. Institute of Education. Web. 29 Mar. 2013. Chao, Mei-Ru. “Family Interaction Relationship Types and Differences in Parent- Child Interactions.” Social Behavior and Personality 39.7 (2011); 897-914. National Chung Kung University Reports. Web. 1 Apr. 2013.