| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | The Influence of Parent Education and Family Income on Child Achievement: The Indirect Role of Parental Expectations and the Home Environment. | Journal of Family Psychology | 2005 | 1,547 |
| 2 | Testing the ruler with item response theory: Increasing precision of measurement for relationship satisfaction with the Couples Satisfaction Index. | Journal of Family Psychology | 2007 | 1,184 |
| 3 | Children of divorce in the 1990s: An update of the Amato and Keith (1991) meta-analysis. | Journal of Family Psychology | 2001 | 863 |
| 4 | Parental meta-emotion philosophy and the emotional life of families: Theoretical models and preliminary data. | Journal of Family Psychology | 1996 | 856 |
| 5 | Harsh Parenting in Relation to Child Emotion Regulation and Aggression. | Journal of Family Psychology | 2003 | 651 |
| 6 | The co-occurrence of spouse and physical child abuse: A review and appraisal. | Journal of Family Psychology | 1998 | 640 |
| 7 | Spanking and child outcomes: Old controversies and new meta-analyses. | Journal of Family Psychology | 2016 | 579 |
| 8 | A multivariate hierarchical model for studying psychological change within married couples. | Journal of Family Psychology | 1995 | 484 |
| 9 | Triple P-Positive Parenting Program as a public health approach to strengthening parenting. | Journal of Family Psychology | 2008 | 462 |
| 10 | A review of 50 years of research on naturally occurring family routines and rituals: Cause for celebration? | Journal of Family Psychology | 2002 | 455 |
| 11 | Discipline responses: Influences of parents' socioeconomic status, ethnicity, beliefs about parenting, stress, and cognitive-emotional processes. | Journal of Family Psychology | 2000 | 447 |
| 12 | Relationship between child sleep disturbances and maternal sleep, mood, and parenting stress: A pilot study. | Journal of Family Psychology | 2007 | 415 |
| 13 | Rethinking how family researchers model infrequent outcomes: A tutorial on count regression and zero-inflated models. | Journal of Family Psychology | 2007 | 412 |
| 14 | Estimating the number of American children living in partner-violent families. | Journal of Family Psychology | 2006 | 408 |
| 15 | Coparenting: A link between marital conflict and parenting in two-parent families. | Journal of Family Psychology | 2001 | 406 |
| 16 | Detecting, measuring, and testing dyadic patterns in the actor–partner interdependence model. | Journal of Family Psychology | 2010 | 399 |
| 17 | The Interpersonal Process Model of Intimacy in Marriage: A Daily-Diary and Multilevel Modeling Approach. | Journal of Family Psychology | 2005 | 385 |
| 18 | An overview of the Virginia Longitudinal Study of Divorce and Remarriage with a focus on early adolescence. | Journal of Family Psychology | 1993 | 370 |
| 19 | Parental warmth, control, and indulgence and their relations to adjustment in Chinese children: A longitudinal study. | Journal of Family Psychology | 2000 | 359 |
| 20 | Multisystemic Treatment: A Meta-Analysis of Outcome Studies. | Journal of Family Psychology | 2004 | 358 |
| 21 | Religion in the home in the 1980s and 1990s: A meta-analytic review and conceptual analysis of links between religion, marriage, and parenting. | Journal of Family Psychology | 2001 | 355 |
| 22 | Using Diary Methods to Study Marital and Family Processes. | Journal of Family Psychology | 2005 | 351 |
| 23 | A psychometric study of the McMaster Family Assessment Device in psychiatric, medical, and nonclinical samples. | Journal of Family Psychology | 1990 | 346 |
| 24 | Children of divorce in the 1990s: An update of the Amato and Keith (1991) meta-analysis. | Journal of Family Psychology | 2001 | 339 |
| 25 | The relative risk and timing of divorce in families of children with an autism spectrum disorder. | Journal of Family Psychology | 2010 | 336 |
| 26 | Marital satisfaction across the transition to parenthood. | Journal of Family Psychology | 2008 | 332 |
| 27 | Establishing family foundations: Intervention effects on coparenting, parent/infant well-being, and parent-child relations. | Journal of Family Psychology | 2008 | 329 |
| 28 | A theory of marital dissolution and stability. | Journal of Family Psychology | 1993 | 317 |
| 29 | Understanding infidelity: Correlates in a national random sample. | Journal of Family Psychology | 2001 | 317 |
| 30 | The relation of family functioning to violence among inner-city minority youths. | Journal of Family Psychology | 1996 | 316 |
| 31 | A meta-analytic review of the influence of pediatric cancer on parent and family functioning. | Journal of Family Psychology | 2007 | 306 |
| 32 | Changes in relationship satisfaction across the transition to parenthood: A meta-analysis. | Journal of Family Psychology | 2009 | 305 |
| 33 | Efficacy of brief strategic family therapy in modifying Hispanic adolescent behavior problems and substance use. | Journal of Family Psychology | 2003 | 300 |
| 34 | The baby and the marriage: Identifying factors that buffer against decline in marital satisfaction after the first baby arrives. | Journal of Family Psychology | 2000 | 299 |
| 35 | Sleep timing and quantity in ecological and family context: A nationally representative time-diary study. | Journal of Family Psychology | 2007 | 298 |
| 36 | Parenting stress among dual-earner mothers and fathers: Are there gender differences? | Journal of Family Psychology | 1996 | 292 |
| 37 | Maternal sensitivity to infant distress and nondistress as predictors of infant-mother attachment security. | Journal of Family Psychology | 2006 | 292 |
| 38 | The relationship between heart rate reactivity, emotionally aggressive behavior, and general violence in batterers. | Journal of Family Psychology | 1995 | 291 |
| 39 | Designing, Testing, and Interpreting Interactions and Moderator Effects in Family Research. | Journal of Family Psychology | 2005 | 286 |
| 40 | Family stress and parental responses to children’s negative emotions: Tests of the spillover, crossover, and compensatory hypotheses. | Journal of Family Psychology | 2009 | 284 |
| 41 | A new look at marital quality: Can spouses feel positive and negative about their marriage? | Journal of Family Psychology | 1997 | 283 |
| 42 | The impact of domestic violence on the maternal-child relationship and preschool-age children's functioning. | Journal of Family Psychology | 2003 | 282 |
| 43 | Depressive Symptoms and Marital Satisfaction: Within-Subject Associations and the Moderating Effects of Gender and Neuroticism. | Journal of Family Psychology | 2003 | 280 |
| 44 | How a couple views their past predicts their future: Predicting divorce from an oral history interview. | Journal of Family Psychology | 1992 | 279 |
| 45 | Assessing the links between interparental conflict and child adjustment: The conflicts and problem-solving scales. | Journal of Family Psychology | 1996 | 279 |
| 46 | Cluster Analysis in Family Psychology Research. | Journal of Family Psychology | 2005 | 279 |
| 47 | Long-term effects of parental divorce on parent-child relationships, adjustment, and achievement in young adulthood. | Journal of Family Psychology | 1993 | 274 |
| 48 | Effects of daily stress at work on mothers' interactions with preschoolers. | Journal of Family Psychology | 1997 | 273 |
| 49 | Global marital satisfaction versus marital adjustment: An empirical comparison of three measures. | Journal of Family Psychology | 1994 | 267 |
| 50 | Marriage and the spiritual realm: The role of proximal and distal religious constructs in marital functioning. | Journal of Family Psychology | 1999 | 267 |
