HDFS, Research, & Theories
Boundaries
Influences on Family Dynamics
Changes in Families & Generational Processes
Mate Selection
100

This includes a combination of hunches, collected facts, ideas, and accumulations of the ways we think things work, which essentially explains how or why something happens.

What is a Theory?
100

These show where we end and another person begins.

What are boundaries?

100

This is the ability to make others do what we want.

What is power?

100

According to most cultures, these are the world's most valuable resources.

What are children?

100

This type of marital union tends to empower the couple more so than the family.

What is love-based?

200

This is the field in which HDFS has its beginnings

What is Home Economics?

200

This kind of person with boundary problems will not accept help from others, even when they need it.

Who are avoidants?

200

This is the application of power.

What is control?

200

This is the process of transmitting patterns of interactions and beliefs to the next generation.

What is generational transmission?

200

This is the most common type of marital union in the world.

What is family-involved?

300

This is the term for a phenomenon that researchers are interested in measuring.

What is a construct?

300

This kind of person with boundary problems takes on burdens God did not intend for them to take on

Who are compliants?

300

This concept includes the thoughts, feelings, desires, intentions, and actions that contribute to the important aspects of individuality.

What is personality?

300

This is when two or more individuals in a family become unusually close.

What is an alliance?

300

This practice involves living together before (or outside) of marriage but is not considered an alternative to marriage.

What is cohabitation?

400

This theory suggests people attempt to maximize interests while minimizing costs.

What is social exchange theory?

400

This type of person with boundary problems has a somewhat “checked out” or “suck it up” attitude when others need help from them.

Who are nonresponsives?

400

From the OCEAN acronym for personality markers, this is the willingness to seek new experiences.

What is openness? 

400

These are used to help individuals identify and measure intergenerational characteristics of families.

What are genograms?

400

High levels of commitment, passion, and intimacy are all part of what type of love according to Sternberg?

What is consummate love?

500

This theory centers on the struggle we all have to survive and compete for resources.

What is conflict theory?

500

This type of person with boundary problems disregards other people’s boundaries, either in an aggressive or manipulative manner.

Who are controllers?

500

From the OCEAN acronym for personality markers, this is the organization in daily life.

What is conscientiousness?

500

This concept involves preparing in advance for major changes within a family.

What is anticipatory socialization?

500

Family-involved mate selection involves or is NOT related to this set of geo-political values.

What is Western?