Paul Amato

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Paul Amato is affiliated with the following schools: James Cook University, Pennsylvania State University, University of Nebraska–Lincoln

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According to Wikipedia, Paul Amato is a professor at Pennsylvania State University in the Department of Sociology and Criminology. He is most well known for his research in social science related fields. His research focuses on marital quality, divorce, and other family related issues.

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The Consequences of Divorce for Adults and Children (2000) (2650)
Parental divorce and the well-being of children: a meta-analysis. (1991) (2002)
Research on Divorce: Continuing Trends and New Developments (2010) (1539)
Children of divorce in the 1990s: an update of the Amato and Keith (1991) meta-analysis. (2001) (1241)
Nonresident Fathers and Children's Well-Being: A Meta-Analysis. (1999) (1124)
Scholarship on Fatherhood in the 1990s and Beyond (2000) (1010)
Children's Adjustment to Divorce: Theories, Hypotheses, and Empirical Support. (1993) (830)
The Impact of Family Formation Change on the Cognitive, Social, and Emotional Well-Being of the Next Generation (2005) (757)
Parental Divorce and Adult Well-Being: A Meta-analysis. (1991) (730)
Explaining the Intergenerational Transmission of Divorce (1996) (718)
A Longitudinal Study of Marital Problems and Subsequent Divorce (1997) (667)
Parenting practices, child adjustment, and family diversity. (2002) (600)
Consequences of relationship status and quality for subjective well-being (2005) (556)
The effects of divorce and marital discord on adult children's psychological well-being. (2001) (508)
Parental Divorce, Marital Conflict, and Offspring Well-being during Early Adulthood (1995) (507)
Paternal involvement and children's behavior problems (1999) (494)
Father-Child Relations, Mother-Child Relations, and Offspring Psychological Well-Being in Early Adulthood. (1994) (491)
The Transmission of Marital Instability across Generations: Relationship Skills or Commitment to Marriage? (2001) (490)
Marital Happiness, Marital Duration, and the U-Shaped Curve: Evidence from a Five-Wave Panel Study (2001) (427)
People's Reasons for Divorcing (2003) (406)
Divorce and psychological stress. (1991) (397)
Alone Together: How Marriage in America Is Changing (2007) (392)
Continuity and Change in Marital Quality Between 1980 and 2000 (2003) (376)
Poverty, social support, and parental behavior. (1994) (374)
The long reach of divorce: Divorce and child well‐being across three generations (2005) (354)
Feeling Caught between Parents: Adult Children's Relations with Parents and Subjective Well-Being. (2006) (334)
A Generation at Risk: Growing Up in an Era of Family Upheaval (1997) (330)
Parental Predivorce Relations and Offspring Postdivorce Well‐Being (2001) (326)
Predictors of Divorce Adjustment: Stressors, Resources, and Definitions (2000) (316)
The legacy of parents' marital discord: consequences for children's marital quality. (2001) (304)
Premarital education, marital quality, and marital stability: findings from a large, random household survey. (2006) (302)
Consequences of Parental Divorce and Marital Unhappiness for Adult Well-Being. (1991) (296)
Changes in gender role attitudes and perceived marital quality (1995) (280)
Family Processes in One-Parent, Stepparent, and Intact Families: The Child's Point of View. (1987) (280)
A Comparison of High- and Low-Distress Marriages That End in Divorce (2007) (275)
A Prospective Study of Divorce and Parent-Child Relationships. (1996) (269)
Gender, Social Class, the Life Course, and Adjustment (2003) (267)
Contact with Nonresident Parents, Interparental Conflict, and Children's Behavior (1994) (266)
The Relationship between Cohabitation and Marital Quality and Stability: Change across Cohorts? (2003) (254)
More than money? Men's contributions to their children's lives. (1998) (252)
Estimating the Effects of Parental Divorce and Death With Fixed Effects Models. (2014) (230)
Have Changes in Gender Relations Affected Marital Quality (2000) (218)
Parental Marital Quality, Parental Divorce, and Relations with Parents. (1994) (214)
Is Infidelity a Cause or a Consequence of Poor Marital Quality? (2004) (209)
Life-span adjustment of children to their parents' divorce. (1994) (209)
A Quantitative Assessment of Lareau’s Qualitative Conclusions About Class, Race, and Parenting (2011) (187)
Changes in nonresident father-child contact from 1976 to 2002. (2009) (186)
Divorce in Europe and the United States: Commonalities and differences across nations (2010) (185)
Patterns of nonresident father contact (2010) (178)
Personality and social network involvement as predictors of helping behavior in everyday life (1990) (177)
Nonresident Father Involvement and Adolescent Well-Being: Father Effects or Child Effects? (2007) (171)
Parental Divorce, Marital Conflict and Children's Behavior Problems: A Comparison of Adopted and Biological Children (2008) (168)
Reconciling Divergent Perspectives: Judith Wallerstein, Quantitative Family Research, and Children of Divorce (2003) (157)
THE CONSEQUENCES OF DIVORCE FOR ADULTS AND CHILDREN: AN UPDATE (2014) (156)
The Consequences of Divorce for Attitudes Toward Divorce and Gender Roles (1991) (151)
RURAL POVERTY, URBAN POVERTY, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING (1992) (150)
Does the unemployment rate affect the divorce rate? An analysis of state data 1960–2005 (2011) (145)
Economic hardship in the family of origin and children's psychological well-being in adulthood (2005) (143)
Do Attitudes Toward Divorce Affect Marital Quality? (1999) (142)
Precursors of Young Women's Family Formation Pathways. (2008) (141)
Relationship Quality in Interethnic Marriages and Cohabitations (2008) (135)
Reconsidering the "Good Divorce" (2011) (134)
Urban-rural differences in helping friends and family members (1993) (133)
Marital conflict, the parent–child relationship and child self-esteem. (1986) (131)
Parent-adolescent involvement : The relative influence of parent gender and residence (2006) (129)
Why Stay Married? Rewards, Barriers, and Marital Stability (2003) (117)
Tension between institutional and individual views of marriage (2004) (115)
Parental Divorce and Attitudes toward Marriage and Family Life. (1988) (110)
Is Marital Quality Declining? The Evidence from Two Generations (1997) (107)
Parents' Marital Violence (1998) (106)
A taxonomy of helping: A multidimensional scaling analysis. (1980) (104)
The Effects of Divorce on Fathers and Children: Nonresidential Fathers and Stepfathers. (2004) (103)
Of Human Bonding: Parent-Child Relations across the Life Course (1991) (100)
PARENTAL ABSENCE DURING CHILDHOOD AND DEPRESSION IN LATER LIFE (1991) (99)
Separation from a Parent during Childhood and Adult Socioeconomic Attainment (1991) (96)
Parents' Discord and Divorce, Parent-Child Relationships and Subjective Well-Being in Early Adulthood: Is Feeling Close to Two Parents Always Better than Feeling Close to One? (2007) (96)
Family processes and the competence of adolescents and primary school children (1988) (95)
Children of divorced parents as young adults. (1999) (95)
Family Resources and the Development of Child Competence. (1986) (86)
Dimensions of the Family Environment as Perceived by Children: A Multidimensional Scaling Analysis. (1990) (86)
Helping between Parents and Young Adult Offspring: The Role of Parental Marital Quality, Divorce, and Remarriage. (1995) (85)
Wives’ Employment and Spouses’ Marital Happiness (2006) (84)
Children in Australian families: The growth of competence (1987) (83)
Decreasing Nonmarital Births and Strengthening Marriage to Reduce Poverty (2007) (82)
Does social and economic disadvantage moderate the effects of relationship education on unwed couples? An analysis of data from the 15‐month Building Strong Families evaluation. (2014) (74)
An exploratory study of people's reasons for delaying or avoiding helpseeking. (1985) (72)
Parental gender role nontraditionalism and offspring outcomes (1994) (66)
Interviewing children about their families: A note on data quality. (1987) (65)
The Timing of Cohabitation and Engagement: Impact on First and Second Marriages. (2010) (65)
Long-Term Implications of Parental Divorce for Adult Self-Concept (1988) (64)
Single-parent households and children's educational achievement: A state-level analysis. (2015) (63)
Parents’ Marital Distress, Divorce, and Remarriage: Links With Daughters’ Early Family Formation Transitions (2011) (62)
The Piers-Harris Children's Self Concept Scale: An Evaluation of Its Use on an Australian Population. Institute of Family Studies Working Paper No. 6. (1984) (62)
Helping behavior in urban and rural environments: Field studies based on a taxonomic organization of helping episodes. (1983) (59)
Life-Course Pathways and the Psychosocial Adjustment of Young Adult Women. (2011) (59)
An investigation of planned helping behavior (1985) (58)
The Postdivorce Family: Children, Parenting, and Society (1999) (57)
Factors associated with positive relationships between stepfathers and adolescent stepchildren. (2014) (56)
The well-being of children with gay and lesbian parents. (2012) (55)
Dimensions of helping behaviour (1983) (48)
Divorce, approaches to learning, and children's academic achievement: a longitudinal analysis of mediated and moderated effects. (2014) (47)
Are Government‐Supported Healthy Marriage Initiatives Affecting Family Demographics? A State‐Level Analysis (2013) (47)
Parent-Child Relationships in Stepfather Families and Adolescent Adjustment: A Latent Class Analysis. (2016) (47)
The Intergenerational Transmission of Union Instability in Early Adulthood. (2017) (46)
Families Count: Marital Discord, Divorce, and Children's Well-Being: Results from a 20-Year Longitudinal Study of Two Generations (2006) (46)
Families in an Era of Increasing Inequality (2015) (44)
Psychological Distress and the Recall of Childhood Family Characteristics. (1991) (43)
Divorce, Residential Change, and Stress (1993) (40)
Transformative Processes in Marriage: Some Thoughts From a Sociologist (2007) (39)
The Impact of Divorce on Men and Women in India and The United States (1994) (38)
Child and Adolescent Competence in Intact, One-Parent, and Step-Families: An Australian Study. (1987) (35)
The perceived dimensions of help-seeking episodes (1985) (34)
Stepfather-Adolescent Relationship Quality During the First Year of Transitioning to a Stepfamily. (2015) (34)
Minority College Aspirations, Expectations and Applications under the Texas Top 10% Law (2008) (34)
The New Vegetarians: Promoting Health and Protecting Life (2013) (33)
Widows and divorcees with dependent children: Material, personal, family, and social well-being. (1987) (31)
The "Child of Divorce" as a Person Prototype: Bias in the Recall of Information about Children in Divorced Families (1991) (30)
An Unstudied Region of Helping: An Extension of the Pearce-Amato Cognitive Taxonomy (1982) (26)
Family Structure, Family Process, and Family Ideology. (1993) (25)
The Effects of Urbanization on Interpersonal Behavior (1983) (25)
The Postdivorce Society: How Divorce is Shaping the Family and other Forms of Social Organization (1999) (25)
Historical Trends in Divorce in the United States (2005) (24)
Who cares for children in public places? naturalistic observation of male and female caretakers (1989) (24)
Marriage, cohabitation and mental health (2014) (23)
The New Vegetarians (1989) (21)
Strengthening marriage is an appropriate social policy goal (2007) (20)
The Marriage‐Go‐Round: The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today ‐ by Andrew J. Cherlin (2010) (19)
Single-parent households and mortality among children and youth. (2017) (18)
Parental self-esteem and behavior problems in children: Similarities between mothers and fathers (1993) (18)
EXTENDED SINGLE-PARENT HOUSEHOLDS AND CHILDREN'S BEHAVIOR (1993) (17)
Urban-Rural Differences in Helping: Behavior in Australia and the United States (1981) (17)
Changes in Spousal Relationships over the Marital Life Course (2018) (16)
4. Institutional, Companionate, and Individualistic Marriage: A Social Psychological Perspective on Marital Change (2009) (16)
Emotional Arousal and Helping Behavior in a Real-Life Emergency1 (1986) (16)
Responsibility attribution and helping behaviour in the Ash Wednesday bushfires (1984) (15)
Affiliative Behavior in Diverse Environments: A Consideration of Pleasantness, Information Rate, and the Arousal-Eliciting Quality of Settings (1983) (15)
The helpfulness of urbanites and small town dwellers: A test between two broad theoretical positions (1983) (15)
Families in an era of increasing inequality : diverging destinies (2015) (15)
Nonresident Father Involvement and Adolescent Well-Being (2005) (14)
City Size, Sidewalk Density, and Friendliness toward Strangers (1980) (13)
Children's Reactions to Parental Separation and Divorce: The Views of Children and Custodial Mothers (1987) (13)
Parenting through Family Transitions (2004) (13)
Nonresident Father Involvement With Children and Divorced Women's Likelihood of Remarriage. (2014) (12)
Juror‐defendant similarity and the assessment of guilt in politically motivated crimes (1979) (12)
Children Becoming Independent: An Investigation Of Children's Performance Of Practical Life‐Skills (1986) (11)
Self-Esteem and the Reproduction of Social Class. (2013) (11)
Divorce in Social and Historical Context: Changing Scientific Perspectives on Children and Marital Dissolution (2004) (9)
Children and Divorce in World Perspective (2013) (9)
Maternal Employment: Effects on Children’s Family Relationships and Development’ (1987) (9)
Studying Marriage and Commitment With Survey Data (2006) (8)
The Child's Eye View of Family Life: A Report to Respondents in a Study Conducted in Victoria in Late 1982 and Early 1983. (1985) (8)
The impact of the built environment on prosocial and affiliative behaviour: A field study of the townsville city mall (1981) (7)
A Comparison of Divorce Risk Models in China and the United States1 (2011) (7)
Images of Australian Families (1992) (6)
‘Alone Together’ Marriages and ‘Living Apart Together’ Relationships (2013) (6)
Tradition, Commitment, and Individualism in American Marriages (2014) (6)
Marriage at the Crossroads: Institutional, Companionate, and Individualistic Marriages (2012) (6)
The effects of environmental complexity and pleasantness on prosocial behaviour: A field study (1981) (5)
Growing up Healthy: The Ecology of Child Well-Being@@@A Generation at Risk: Growing up in an Era of Family Upheaval@@@Healthy Children: Enhancing Children's Wellness (1999) (5)
The Origins of Modern Vegetarianism (1989) (4)
Romantic Relationships in Emerging Adulthood: Relationship Sequences and Trajectories: Women's Family Formation Pathways in Emerging Adulthood (2010) (4)
Approaches to Measuring Families (2014) (4)
Implications for Children, Adults, and Society (2008) (4)
Recent Changes in Family Structure: Implications for Children, Adults, and Society (2009) (3)
Effects of reducing student anxiety in a statistics course (1981) (3)
Unhinged: Love, Marriage, and the Continuing War over Family Values (2012) (2)
Children and Divorce: What We Know and What We Need to Know (2004) (2)
The Vegetarian Lifestyle (1989) (2)
2. Stability and Change in Marital Quality (2007) (2)
A Generation at Risk (1997) (1)
Divorce Among African Americans 3 Previous Research on Divorce among African Americans (2012) (1)
Parental alcohol use: effects on African American and White adults (2000) (1)
From Ants to Civilization (2013) (1)
The Perceived Seriousness of Personal Problems: A Comparative Study of Telephone Counselors and Community Members (1985) (1)
Appendix 2: Tables (2007) (1)
5. Changing Gender Relations in Marriage (2007) (1)
Factors Associated with Positive Relationships between Stepfathers and Adolescents (2013) (1)
Book Reviews -- Mother-Headed Families and Why They Have Increased by Ailsa Burns and Cath Scott (1995) (0)
Steven Nock’s enduring legacy as a marriage and family scholar (2010) (0)
Book Reviews -- How Divorce Affects Offspring: A Research Approach by Michael R. Stevenson and Kathryn N. Black (1995) (0)
Vegetarianism and Intimate Relationships (1989) (0)
4. Who Benefited from the Rise of Dual-Earner Marriage— and Who Did Not? (2007) (0)
1. The Continuing Transformation of Marriage in America (2007) (0)
7. How Our Most Important Relationships Are Changing (2007) (0)
Editorial Office: Human Development and Family Studies (2016) (0)
Appendix 1: Study Methodology (2007) (0)
Why Do People Become Vegetarians (1989) (0)
ISSUES IN MEASURING THE EFFECTS OF DIVORCE ON CHILDREN (2013) (0)
Parenta l Se l f-Esteem and Behavior Prob lems in Children : S imi lar i t ies Between Mothers and Fathers I (0)
Relations with Family, Friends, and Acquaintances (1989) (0)
8. Implications for Theory, Future Research, and Social Policy (2007) (0)
6. Social Integration, Religion, and Attitudes toward Lifelong Marriage (2007) (0)
The Transition to Vegetarianism (1989) (0)
Implications of Vegetarianism for Personal Weil-Being (1989) (0)
Note from the editor (2010) (0)
Relative Risks: What Is the Family Doing to Our Cllildren? (2016) (0)
3. Rising Individualism and Demographic Change (2007) (0)

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