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The Periodical of Family Psychology ® (JFP) is the premier family unit research journal. Family psychology is a circuitous field, equally it includes systems perspectives on the multiple influences on relationships, developmental perspectives on how relationships are formed and sustained over fourth dimension, cultural perspectives on how lodge and traditions affect relationships, the intersection of individual differences and social relationships, and practice components in how to bear upon real and meaningful changes in couple, parent, and family unit relationships.

JFP addresses societal challenges faced by families today. Important societal challenges facing families today — adventure for divorce in vulnerable families, couple and marital satisfaction in military families, child-raising challenges and positive outcomes in immigrant families, take a chance and resilience in families who adopt, and relationship transitions in diverse couples and families (eastward.g., in terms of race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, and disability) — are examples of topics addressed in JFP .

JFP publishes important studies on what makes couple and family relationships work. JFP consistently publishes strong empirical studies on what keeps couples together, what makes for stiff parent–kid relationships, and the subtle nuances in predicting healthy relationships over time.

JFP is a leader in publishing reports that utilize cutting-edge, sophisticated approaches to research design and data analysis. Player–partner modeling, bootstrapping, use of phantom data, mixed methods, qualitative inquiry, structural equation modeling with moderators and mediators — these are only a few of the sophisticated approaches commonly used in JFP reports. Shut to half of the highly cited works in JFP are longitudinal studies.

JFP imparts cognition near effective therapy and prevention programs relevant to couples and families. JFP provides an excellent outlet for high-quality studies that test the effects of family- or couple-based therapy or prevention programs. Especially important are reports that include couple or family unit characteristics every bit potential mediators and moderators of plan effects.

Contact the editor if you accept questions about whether your topic is suitable for JFP .

Disclaimer: APA and the editors of the Journal of Family Psychology assume no responsibility for statements and opinions advanced by the authors of its articles.

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McCauley, S. M., & Christiansen, Thousand. H. (2019). Language learning as language employ: A cross-linguistic model of kid language development. Psychological Review, 126(1), 1–51. https://doi.org/ten.1037/rev0000126

Authored book

Dark-brown, L. South. (2018). Feminist therapy (2nd ed.). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000092-000

Chapter in an edited book

Balsam, K. F., Martell, C. R., Jones. K. P., & Safren, Due south. A. (2019). Affirmative cognitive beliefs therapy with sexual and gender minority people. In Grand. Y. Iwamasa & P. A. Hays (Eds.), Culturally responsive cognitive beliefs therapy: Do and supervision (2nd ed., pp. 287–314). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/x.1037/0000119-012

Data gear up citation

Alegria, G., Jackson, J. Southward., Kessler, R. C., & Takeuchi, D. (2016). Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiology Surveys (CPES), 2001–2003 [Data prepare]. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Enquiry. https://doi.org/ten.3886/ICPSR20240.v8

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Viechtbauer, Due west. (2010). Conducting meta-analyses in R with the metafor package.Journal of Statistical Software, 36(iii), 1–48. https://www.jstatsoft.org/v36/i03/

Wickham, H. et al., (2019). Welcome to the tidyverse. Journal of Open Source Software, 4(43), 1686, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.01686

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Editorial Board

Editor

Arin Chiliad. Connell, PhD
Instance Western Reserve University, Usa

Associate editors

Brian R. West. Baucom, PhD
Academy of Utah, U.s.a.

David J. Bridgett, PhD
Northern Illinois Academy, Us

Susan Due south. Chuang, PhD
University of Guelph, Canada

Katherine B. Ehrlich, PhD
University of Georgia, U.s.

Rachel H. Farr, PhD
University of Kentucky, United States

Chrystyna D. Kouros, PhD
Southern Methodist University, United States

Justin A. Lavner, PhD
University of Georgia, U.s.

Amy M. Nuttall, PhD
Michigan State University, Usa

Erica Margaret Woodin, PhD
University of Victoria, Canada

Consulting editors

Sam H. Allen, PhD
University of Maryland, United States

Hoda Badr, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine, U.s.a.

Jason K. Baker, PhD
California State University, Fullerton, United States

Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg, PhD
Leiden Academy, Netherlands

Melissa A. Barnett, PhD
University of Arizona, U.s.

Robin A. Barry, PhD
Academy of Wyoming, United States

Steven R. H. Beach, PhD
University of Georgia, United States

Jay Belsky, PhD
University of California, Davis, United states

Cynthia A. Berg, PhD
Academy of Utah, United States

Maureen M. Black, PhD
University of Maryland School of Medicine, The states

Jordan A. Booker, PhD
University of Missouri, United States

Bekh Bradley-Davino, PhD
Emory Academy, U.s.

Scott R. Braithwaite, PhD
Brigham Young Academy, United states

James H. Bray, PhD
University of Texas at San Antonio, United States

Kirsten Fifty. Buist, PhD
Utrecht University, Netherlands

Belinda Campos, PhD
Academy of California, Irvine, United States

Annmarie Cano, PhD
Wayne State University, United states

Alice S. Carter, PhD
University of Massachusetts Boston, Us

Daniel Ewon Choe, PhD
University of California,  Davis, United States

Victor G. Cicirelli, PhD
Purdue University, U.s.a.

Mari 50. Clements, PhD
Fuller Theological Seminary, Us

Suzannah Thousand. Creech, PhD
The University of Texas at Austin & VA VISN 17 Center of Excellence, United States

Carla Crespo, PhD
University of Lisbon, Portugal

Keith A. Crnic, PhD
Arizona State University, United States

Rick A. Cruz, PhD
Utah Land University, United States

Annamaria Csizmadia, PhD
Academy of Connecticut, United States

E. Mark Cummings, PhD
University of Notre Matriarch, United States

Patrick T. Davies, PhD
University of Rochester, United States

Pamela Due east. Davis-Kean, PhD
Academy of Michigan, United states

Kirby Deater-Deckard, PhD
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, U.s.a.

Catherine Gray Deering, PhD, ABPP
Clayton State University, United States

Tamara Del Vecchio, PhD
St. John's University, United States

Susan Dickstein, PhD
Bradley Hospital/Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Usa

Brian D. Doss, PhD
Academy of Miami, United States

W. Justin Dyer, PhD
Brigham Immature University, United States

Christopher I. Eckhart, PhD
Purdue Academy, United states of america

J. Mark Boil, PhD
New York University, Us

Deborah A. Ellis, PhD
Wayne State University, United states

Catherine C. Epkins, PhD
Texas Tech University, United States

Stephen A. Erath, PhD
Auburn Academy, United States

Robin S. Everhart, PhD
Virginia Republic Academy, United states of america

Eugene W. Farber, PhD
Emory University, United States

Allison Thou. Farrell, PhD
Miami University, U.s.

Mark Feinberg, PhD
Pennsylvania State Academy, United states

Xin Feng, PhD
The Ohio State Academy, Us

Barbara H. Fiese, PhD
The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, The states

Frank J. Floyd, PhD
University of Hawai'i at Manoa, United states

Heather Grand. Foran, PhD
University of Klagenfurt, Austria

Gregory G. Fosco, PhD
Pennsylvania Land University, Us

Karen L. Franck, PhD
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, United States

Steffany J. Fredman, PhD
Pennsylvania State University, Usa

Patti A. Fritz, PhD
Academy of Windsor, Canada

Adam 1000. Galovan, PhD
University of Alberta, Canada

Jody M. Ganiban, PhD
George Washington University, Us

Abigail H. Gewirtz, PhD
University of Minnesota, United States

Tracy R. G. Gladstone, PhD
Wellesley Higher, The states

Abbie E. Goldberg, PhD
Clark University, United States

Cameron Gordon, PhD
Middle Tennessee State University, U.s.a.

Kristina Coop Gordon, PhD
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, United States

Erika L. Grafsky, PhD
Virginia Tech, The states

Harold D. Grotevant, PhD
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, United States

John H. Grych, PhD
Marquette University, United States

Joseph Grzywacz, PhD
Florida State University, U.s.a.

Hanna C. Gustafsson, PhD
Oregon Wellness and Science University, U.s.

Daniel Gutierrez, PhD
College of William and Mary, United states of america

Stephen N. Haynes, PhD
University of Hawai'i at Manoa, United States

Laurie Heatherington, PhD
Williams College, United States

Craig Due east. Henderson, PhD
Sam Houston State University, United States

Chris Henrich, PhD
Georgia Land University, United States

Richard E. Heyman, PhD
New York University, United States

Ching-Yu Huang, PhD
Keele University, Great britain

Amy Hughes Lansing, PhD
University of Vermont, U.s.a.

Iheoma U. Iruka, PhD
HighScope Educational Research Foundation, United States

Vanessa Kahen Johnson, PhD
Due west Chester Academy, United states

Blake L. Jones, PhD
Brigham Young University, U.s.

Ernest N. Jouriles, PhD
Southern Methodist University, United states of america

Claire M. Kamp Dush, PhD
The Ohio State University, United States

Jeremy B. Kanter, PhD
University of Tennessee, United states

Florence Westward. Kaslow, PhD, ABPP
Kaslow Associates, United states

Nadine J. Kaslow, PhD
Emory University, U.s.a.

Astrida Seja Kaugars, PhD
Marquette University, United States

Anne E. Kazak, PhD
Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, United States

Peggy Due south. Keller, PhD
University of Kentucky, Us

Michelle L. Kelley, PhD
Former Dominion University, United States

Shalonda Kelly, PhD
Rutgers University, U.s.a.

Patricia G. Kerig, PhD
University of Utah, United States

Su Yeong Kim, PhD
University of Texas at Austin, United states of america

Jungmeen Kim-Spoon, PhD
Virginia Tech, United States

Jeffrey B. Kingree, PhD
Clemson Academy, United States

George P. Knight, PhD
Arizona Country University, Us

Kalsea J. Koss, PhD
Princeton University, U.s.a.

Laurie F. Kramer, PhD
Northeastern University, United states of america

Ambika Krishnakumar, PhD
Syracuse University, United States

Patty X. Kuo, PhD
University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Usa

Dorian A. Lamis, PhD, ABPP
Emory University Schoolhouse of Medicine, United States

Erika Lawrence, PhD, LCP
Family unit Establish of Northwestern University, United States

Yunying Le, PhD
The Pennsylvania State University, United States

Thomas Ledermann, PhD
Florida State Academy, Usa

Ronald F. Levant, EdD
The University of Akron, United States

Xuan Li, PhD
New York University Shanghai, China

Michael F. Lorber, PhD
New York Academy, United States

Jessica P. Lougheed, PhD
University of British Columbia, Canada

Rachel One thousand. Lucas-Thompson, PhD
Colorado Land Academy, The states

Erika Lunkenheimer, PhD
Pennsylvania State University, United states

Annette Mahoney, PhD
Bowling Green State University, United States

Gayla Margolin, PhD
University of Southern California, U.s.a.

Howard Markman, PhD
University of Denver, United States

Susan H. McDaniel, PhD
University of Rochester Medical Eye, United States

Susan G. McHale, PhD
Pennsylvania State University, The states

Jim Yard. McNulty, PhD
Florida State University, United States

Roger Mills-Koonce, PhD
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States

Nina Due south. Mounts, PhD
Northern Illinois Academy, United States

Jackie A. Nelson, PhD
The Academy of Texas at Dallas, United States

Tricia K. Neppl, PhD
Iowa Country Academy, United States

William D. Norwood, PhD
University of Houston - Clear Lake, United States

Thomas G. O'Connor, PhD
University of Rochester Medical Heart, United States

Brian G. Ogolsky, PhD
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States

Thou. Daniel O'Leary, PhD
Stony Beck University, The states

Laura M. Padilla-Walker, PhD
Brigham Young Academy, United States

Lauren G. Papp, PhD
University of Wisconsin Madison, The states

Justin Parent, PhD
Florida International University, United States

Charlotte J. Patterson, PhD
Academy of Virginia, Usa

Vicky Phares, PhD
University of South Florida, United States

Lauren Due east. Philbrook, PhD
Colgate University, United States

Alison Pike, PhD
University of Sussex, United Kingdom

Kristina M. Postal service, PhD
University of La Verne, United States

Ronald Prinz, PhD
University of South Carolina, Us

Christine G. Proulx, PhD
University of Missouri, United States

Jae A. Puckett, PhD
Michigan State University, U.s.a.

Niyantri Ravindran, PhD
Texas Tech University, United States

Keith D. Renshaw, PhD
George Mason Academy, United States

Rena L. Repetti, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles, The states

Shelley A. Riggs, PhD
University of North Texas, United States

Michelle M. Robbins, PhD
Georgia Gwinnett College, The states

Theodore F. Robles, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles, United States

Natalie O. Rosen, PhD
Dalhousie University, Canada

Lorelei Simpson Rowe, PhD
Allegheny Health Network, United States

Amanda Roy, PhD
University of Illinois at Chicago, United States

Keith Sanford, PhD
Baylor University, U.s.a.

Darby Saxbe PhD
Academy of Southern California, United States

Steven 50. Sayers, PhD
University of Pennsylvania & CMC VA Medical Eye (Philadelphia), United States

Dominik Schoebi, PhD
University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Thomas J. Schofield, PhD
World Federation of Hemophilia, Canada

Sarah J. Schoppe-Sullivan, PhD
Ohio Land University, U.s.a.

Julie A. Schumacher, PhD
University of Mississippi Medical Eye, United States

Ryan B. Seedall, PhD
Utah State University, United states

Katherine Shelton, PhD
Cardiff Academy, Great britain

Tamara G. Sher, PhD
The Family Institute at Northwestern University, United states

Richard Slatcher, PhD
Wayne State Academy, The states

Amy Thousand. Smith Slep, PhD
New York University, Usa

Scott M. Stanley, PhD
Academy of Denver, United States

Sunita Mahtani Stewart, PhD, ABPP
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Us

Melissa Sturge-Apple, PhD
University of Rochester, United States

Chang Su-Russell, PhD
Illinois Country University, United States

Kieran T. Sullivan, PhD
Santa Clara University, Us

Casey T. Taft, PhD
National Center for PTSD, VA Boston Healthcare Organization, & Boston University School of Medicine, United states of america

Douglas M. Teti, PhD
Pennsylvania State University, United States

Martie P. Thompson, PhD
Clemson Academy, U.s.

Erin B. Tone, PhD
Georgia State University, The states

Casey J. Totenhagen, PhD
Academy of Alabama, Usa

Christopher Trentacosta, PhD
Wayne State University, The states

Kimberly Updegraff, PhD
Arizona State University, Usa

Shu-wen Wang, PhD
Haverford College, United States

Deborah P. Welsh, PhD
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, United States

Marker A. Whisman, PhD
Academy of Colorado, Boulder, The states

Daniel J. Whitaker, PhD
Georgia Land University, Usa

Deborah Whitley, PhD
Georgia State University, United states of america

Sarah W. Whitton, PhD
University of Cincinnati, United States

Hannah C. Williamson, PhD
University of Texas at Austin, Usa

Marcia A. Winter, PhD
Virginia Commonwealth University, United states

Shu Xu, PhD
New York University, United States

Jia Julia Yan, PhD
Utah Country University, United States

Na Zhang, PhD
Academy of Connecticut, Us

Paula D. Zeanah, PhD
Picard Center for Kid Development and Lifelong Learning, United States

Nan Zhou, PhD
Beijing Normal University, Red china

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Special Problems

  • Advances in Methods and Measurement in Family unit Psychology

    Special issue of APA's Journal of Family Psychology, Vol. 31, No. 8, December 2017. The articles highlight contempo advances in methods and measurement and as well shed light on the complexity of family psychology.

  • On New Shores

    Special event of APA's Journal of Family Psychology, Vol. 23, No. 3, June 2009. The manufactures focus on the psychosocial adaptation of immigrant families, parenting practices and their implications for child outcomes, and the importance of parent–adolescent relationships for adolescent mental health.

  • Carpe Noctem

    Special issue of APA's Journal of Family Psychology, Vol. 21, No. 1, March 2007. Includes articles about sleep timing and quality; racial/indigenous differences; role of slumber disruptions in emotional security and academic achievement; beliefs development; marital relationship in the 1st year of life; family stress and insomnia; and other effects of sleep disturbances on family dynamics.

  • Sibling Relationship Contributions to Individual and Family Well-Being

    Special issue of APA's Periodical of Family Psychology, Vol. 19, No. four, December 2005. Articles talk over bug in sibling relationships, including problem behavior; interactions with playmates and teachers; office of familism; links with individual adjustment; maternal perception of sibling negativity; transition to siblinghood; parental differential treatment; adjustment; adolescent substance utilise; carry problems; delinquency grooming; risk to siblings in abusing families; aligning to chronic disability; and antisocial behavior.

  • Methodology in Family unit Scientific discipline

    Special issue of APA's Journal of Family Psychology, Vol. 19, No. 1, March 2005. Articles discuss methodological challenges and opportunities in family and couple inquiry, including upshot, cost-effectiveness, qualitative, and narrative inquiry; video-recall procedures, multilevel methods, diary methods, and cluster analysis; and moderator effects, the actor–partner interdependence model, survival analysis, and ethical issues.

Open Science

Transparency and Openness Promotion

APA endorses the Transparency and Openness Promotion (Meridian) Guidelines by a community working group in conjunction with the Center for Open Science (Nosek et al. 2015). The TOP Guidelines cover eight fundamental aspects of enquiry planning and reporting that tin can exist followed by journals and authors at iii levels of compliance.

For example:

  • Level 1: Disclosure—The article must disclose whether or not the materials are available.
  • Level 2: Requirement—The article must share materials when legally and ethically permitted (or disclose the legal and/or ethical restriction when not permitted).
  • Level 3: Verification—A third party must verify that the standard is met.

As of July one, 2021, empirical research, including meta-analyses, submitted to the Periodical of Family Psychology must, at a minimum, meet Level ane (Disclosure) for all viii aspects of research planning and reporting. Authors should include a subsection in their methods description titled "Transparency and Openness." This subsection should detail the efforts the authors have made to comply with the Transparency and Openness Promotion (Pinnacle) guidelines.

The listing below summarizes the minimal TOP requirements of the journal. Delight refer to the Center for Open Science TOP guidelines for details, and contact the editor (Arin M. Connell, PhD) with any further questions. APA recommends sharing data, materials, and code via trusted repositories (e.thou., APA's repository on the Open Science Framework (OSF)), and we encourage investigators to preregister their studies and analysis plans prior to conducting the research. There are many available preregistration forms (east.g., the APA Preregistration for Quantitative Inquiry in Psychology template, ClininalTrials.gov, or other preregistration templates bachelor via OSF). Completed preregistration forms should be posted on a publicly accessible registry system (e.g., OSF, ClinicalTrials.gov, or other trial registries in the WHO Registry Network).

A list of participating journals is also bachelor from APA.

The following listing presents the eight key aspects of research planning and reporting, the Acme level required past theJournal of Family Psychology, and a brief description of the journal's policy.

  • Citation: Level 1, Disclosure—All data, program code, and other methods developed by others should be appropriately cited in the text and listed in the References section.
  • Data Transparency: Level 1, Disclosure—Article states whether the raw and/or candy data on which study conclusions are based are available and, if then, where to access them.
  • Analytic Methods (Lawmaking) Transparency: Level one, Disclosure—Article states whether calculator code or syntax needed to reproduce analyses in an article is available and, if so, where to admission it.
  • Inquiry Materials Transparency: Level 1, Disclosure—Article states whether materials described in the Method section are available and, if so, where to access them.
  • Pattern and Assay Transparency (Reporting Standards): Level 1, Disclosure—The journal encourages the use of Consort reporting standards for randomized clinical trials and encourages the use of APA Fashion Periodical Article Reporting Standards (JARS-Quant, JARS-Qual, and/or MARS).
  • Report Preregistration: Level 1, Disclosure—Article states whether the written report pattern and (if applicable) hypotheses of any of the work reported was preregistered and, if so, where to access information technology. Authors may submit a masked copy via stable link or supplemental material or may provide a link after acceptance.
  • Analysis Program Preregistration: Level 1, Disclosure—Article states whether any of the work reported preregistered an analysis plan and, if and then, where to access it. Authors may submit a masked re-create via stable link or supplemental material or may provide a link after acceptance.

Other open scientific discipline initiatives

  • Open Science badges: Not offered
  • Public significance statements: Non offered
  • Writer contribution statements using CRediT: Not required
  • Registered Reports: Not published
  • Replications: Published

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