From a systems perspective, this study explored how law enforcement officers balance the work and marriage/family relationship. Specifically, the study examined personal authority in the family system and investigated how it relates to job involvement, intimacy, and marital adjustment. Secondly, personal authority was combined with job involvement, age, number of years married, and number of years in law enforcement in order to determine the effects of these variables on intimacy and intimate relationships/marriage. / Instruments used to collect this information were a demographic data sheet, the Personal Authority Scale of the Personal Authority in Family Systems Questionnaire, Job Involvement Measure, the Emotional Intimacy Scale of the Personal Assessment of Intimacy in Relationships, and Locke-Wallace Marital Adjustment Test. Subjects were career police officers (n = 72) employed by the City of Tallahassee, Florida. / This ex post facto study used path analysis to calculate causal relationships. Hypothesis 1 stated that a causal relationship existed between personal authority, job involvement, and level of intimacy. The data did not support this hypothesis when using the entire sample. However, the a priori model of emotional intimacy was supported in a married/never divorced subsample. / Hypothesis 2 predicted that a negative relationship existed between personal authority and job involvement. This relationship was not supported. / Hypothesis 3 stated there was a causal relationship between personal authority, job involvement, and marital adjustment. There was not support for this hypothesis. / Additional analysis included a significant single order correlation between emotional intimacy and marital adjustment, and found that emotional intimacy and marital adjustment discriminated among groups of married and divorced officers. / Results were examined with respect to method, sample, future research, and implications for marriage therapy. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 52-02, Section: A, page: 0697. / Major Professor: Mary W. Hicks. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1990.

A program of research was conducted to measure the effectiveness of the use of the bug-in-the-ear device in the supervision and training of marriage and family therapy trainees. / A reliable and objective methodology was developed for obtaining behavioral observational measures of therapist behavior. A single subject research design (SSRD) was employed which permitted the experimental analysis of individual therapy-trainee behavior in relation to the bug-in-the-ear intervention. / Baseline data on trainee use of two therapy skills, facilitate and support, were obtained and compared with trainee use of these skills when prompted and reinforced through the bug-in-the-ear device. / Participants in the study were four Ph.D. students in the Interdivisional Program in Marriage and the Family, Department of Home and Family Life, Florida State University. Each trainee worked with four clients from their regular caseload over a two-month period. / The study demonstrated a significant increase in therapy-trainee use of the targeted skills when prompted and reinforced through the bug-in-the-ear intervention. The effect was replicated with additional therapy-trainees across different sets of clients. / This study brought the methodologies of single subject research design and applied behavior analysis to marriage and family therapy training research to investigate the effect of the bug-in-the-ear device in live supervision. / Research results were evaluated in relation to causal inference, practical significance and social validity and discussed with regard to their implication for family therapy training and future research. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-07, Section: A, page: 1977. / Major Professor: Calvin Zongker. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1988.

In the context of Family Systems theory, the purpose of this study was to create a self-report instrument designed to measure a marital couple's potential for triangling a child as a method of reducing or redirecting marital anxiety. The conceptual structure of the Family Triangulation Scale (FTS) includes the processes of scapegoating and parentification as major dimensions of triangulation. / This study was conducted in two phases. Phase I, established the internal consistency for the instrument and generated empirical factor scales for the items. Internal consistency as measured by Cronbach's Alpha was.93 for the total FTS,.90 for the spouse rating of spouse component, and.88 for the spouse rating of self component after 12 items were dropped. Six empirical scales were generated for each component. Descriptions of these scales were made and tentative names were assigned to each. / In Phase II, the revised FTS (88 items) was administered to a group of couples in which one spouse was currently attending an in-residence alcohol treatment program and to a group of couples where neither spouse was in treatment. It was hypothesized the couples experiencing problems with alcohol would be more likely to report attitudes and behaviors connected with triangulation of children. The hypothesis was supported with an F(.001,1,87) = 46 accounting for 52% of the variance explained. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 50-08, Section: A, page: 2665. / Major Professor: Murray Krantz. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1989.

This study compared separation of adult daughters and their mothers during the New Couple Family Life Cycle Stage and Families with Young Children Life Cycle Stage. Family life cycle stage, family of origin, daughter's attitude toward mother, and self-esteem were examined for their predictiveness of mother-daughter separation. The theoretical framework included Family Development Theory, Object Relations Theory, Bowen Theory, and Chodorow's Theory of Gender Identity. / The sample for the New Couple Family Life Cycle Stage included 460 mothers and daughters while the Families with Young Children Family Life Cycle Stage sample included 868 subjects. Mothers and daughters in the two stages responded to a survey containing four instruments and a demographic section. The instruments were the Identity Vis-A-Vis Mother Scale, Family of Origin Scale, Child's Attitude Toward Mother Scale and the Index of Self-Esteem. / The study found no significant differences in relationships for mothers and daughters on the variables of separation, family of origin, child's attitude toward mother, and self-esteem between the New Couple Family Life Cycle Stage and the Families with Young Children Life Cycle Stage. The integration of family life cycle stage, family of origin, child's attitude toward mother, and self-esteem predicted mother-daughter separation. Child's attitude toward mother was the best predictor of mother-daughter separation. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 51-12, Section: A, page: 4288. / Major Professor: Carol Anderson Darling. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1990.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 40-06, Section: A, page: 3564. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1979.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 40-07, Section: A, page: 4262. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1979.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 32-11, Section: A, page: 6572. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1969.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 32-12, Section: A, page: 7106. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1972.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 35-09, Section: A, page: 6261. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1974.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 36-01, Section: A, page: 0564. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1975.