SAES-422 Multistate Research Activity Accomplishments Report

Status: Approved

Basic Information

Participants

Sandy Bailey-Montana State University; Brenda Bryant-University of California-Davis; Bob DelCampo-New Mexico State University; Diane DelCampo-New Mexico State University; Gary Kiger-Utah State University; Pam Riley-Utah State University; Cindy Schmiege-University of Idaho; Sue Traver-University of Idaho; Anisa Zvonkovic-Oregon State University; Advisors: Anna-Mae Kobbe-CSREES Liaison; Linda Fox-Washington State University (Administrative Advisor); Graduate Research Assistants: Sailaja Chadaram-University of Idaho; Heather Davis-Utah State University; Krista Lynn Preheim-Utah State University.

Chair: Anisa Zvonkovic (OR)
Secretary: Pam Riley (UT)
Chair Elect: Cindy Schmiege (ID)

October 18, 2002

Meeting called to order at 9 am, introductions were made and the minutes of the last meeting approved as amended.

Station Reports
California. Developed literature review of childhood and adolescent developmental factors linked to development of vocational identity for W-167 monograph. Brenda recommends use of the Internet to locate follow-up participants for longitudinal study (Online Detective).

Idaho. Currently collecting both quantitative and qualitative data on women in rural poverty; about one-fourth finished. Sue Traver will e-mail the committee a model to of what it requires of a community to nurture a child.

Montana. Data collection (mail surveys) on post divorce parenting of people who participated in parenting classes completed. Now helping to evaluate Northwest Parenting program and sharing information with Extension agents. Sandy distributed Weaving Together Family and Work document she wrote for MSU Extension Service.

New Mexico. Collected questionnaire data from employees of NMSU physical plant.

Oregon. Analyzing personal interview data collected on women who travel frequently for work (flight attendants, high tech consultants and employees of nonprofit aid and adoption organizations). Primarily looking at occupational lives at this point- finding these women have very strong work identities, optimal levels of travel, and interesting gender differences. Rich text suggests book potential. Brenda will look into extension specialists at Davis participating once Anisa sends her the information. Sue and Cindy will invite Anisa to make a presentation at All College of Agriculture and Science Conference at Idaho.

Utah. Data collection presently in process (80 of 100 couples have been surveyed). Pam will forward article describing their drop-off/pick-up procedure she and Gary published in The Rural Sociologist. Pam is retiring in July 2003 and Gary has been named Dean. The plan is for USU to have new participants in place by the next meeting.

Administrative Advisor Report
Dissemination: Linda Fox stated that the Station reports reflect a lot of synergy attesting to the importance of working as a group to share expertise. She recommends our group consider attending the Galaxy II Conference 21-25 September 2003 in Salt Lake. This constitutes the meeting of 4 Cooperative Extension professional associations together and our work would fit well.

Progress report format: Reporting system is now all electronic and on the NIMSS web site. Linda shared the ?Format for Multistate Research Activity Accomplishments Report? she must submit. We should keep this in mind as we do our individual reports. We should focus on including impacts of our work. An example would be Anisa?s ?tip sheet? for use by employers. Anna-Mae pointed out it is useful to show how our findings are being used by others (e.g., for training, etc). Reports must be submitted 60 days after this meeting. If stations desire to revise Progress reports submitted at this meeting, send revised version to Linda electronically as soon as possible and no later than 1 November. Chair next year should send a reminder about formatting to folks before next meeting.

Third-year review of Multistate Research Projects: In March of 2003 the Regional Coordination and Implementation Committee (RCIC), a subcommittee of Western Regional Director?s group will conduct an 3rd year evaluation of our project. Linda distributed Appendix I, showing components of the review to prepare us.

CSREES Report
Anna-Mae Kobbe reported she has a new appointment as Director of Family Consumer Science & Nutrition in CSREES so our Liaison will likely change in a couple of months.

She had several suggestions for us:
1. She is currently working on partnering with Health and Human Services- perhaps there might be funding streams available associated with TANIF, or other sources, for some of us.

2. Multistate project: Psychology of Saving, may be doing some things of interest to us and vice-versa.
3. We might consider a symposium at the Family and Consumer Sciences 2004 meetings in Nashville.
4. Journal of Extension is a venue for people to consider publishing in.

Linda mentioned ESCOP Social Science Research Committee, meeting in DC in February, might be a group that could use folks more family oriented; she will be going joining this committee and will check on how interested stations might become involved.


Dissemination: Reports of on going projects
Monograph
Vital Engagement: Preparing Our children for Satisfying Employment Tomorrow, has been submitted for review to UC. Davis 4-H Center. This was a joint project with California, Idaho, Montana and Oregon participating. Linda will get mailing list of Western Regional Directors to Brenda for dissemination of the Monograph.

NCFR Symposium
Gary organized a symposium in the Work Family Focus Group section of the NCFR for W-167 members to participate in. The meeting will be held next month in Houston and papers will be presented by Utah, Idaho and Oregon Stations and Diana Del Campo (NM) will be one of the discussants.

Workforce Development Conference
Sandy, Cindy and Anisa submitted a proposal for a session in this conference titled: Both Sides of the Work Family Equation

Dissemination: New Ideas
Galaxy II
RFPs are on the web (www.cnr.usu.edu/galaxy2). Anna-Mae suggests our work might be good for a pre-conference. Since it is in September, we will consider piggy-backing our Multistate Project meeting with Galaxy.

Links with Extension
Agreed to include discussion of how we connect with extension in our work in next report.

Cyfernet
We should update our work on the web through the editor of the Parent/Family section of Cyfernet. The editor is June Mead and she is at Cornell Cooperative Extension (jm62@cornell.edu). We need to put links to our research on and/or add to descriptions of our work and findings. Anna-Mae will contact her and ask her to e-mail us for information (of course you could e-mail her directly).

Archival Format
Brenda distributed a bibliography of cumulative publications of the Multistate group for 2000-2005. To aid Brenda, when writing the annual report use the following categories: Refereed Publications, Chapters in Books, Presentations at Professional Meetings, Theses and Dissertations, General Audience Presentations, Electronic Publications, and Mass Media
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2003 Meeting
Plan A: September 20, the day prior to the Galaxy meeting, Salt Lake City
Plan B: October 24-25, San Francisco (or Davis)

Officers for 2003 were elected: Chair: Cindy Schmiege; Chair Elect: Bob Del Campo (2004); Secretary: Sandy Bailey.

Bob suggested the group recognize out-going project participants, Pam and Gary, for their contributions.

Meeting adjourned at 4:45 pm.

Saturday, October 19

Participants met to discuss plans for the Galaxy II Conference in 2003. Sandy Bailey and Sue Traver are each going to submit a proposal which, together, will include 6 presenters. Part I will be on Children and Part II will be on Family. Also included in Part I will be a presentation describing the W-167 Regional Project and how one goes about joining. Each presenter is sending a 2 sentence description of their presentation to Sandy or Sue to help them write the 240 word description.

Accomplishments

Brenda Bryant (California) reported she completed the literature review of childhood and adolescent developmental factors linked to development of vocational identity for W-167 monograph. Brenda recommends use of the Internet to locate follow-up participants for longitudinal study (Online Detective). Cindy Schmiege and Sue Traver (Idaho) reported they are currently collecting both quantitative and qualitative data on women in rural poverty; about one-fourth finished. They will e-mail the committee a model to of what it requires of a community to nurture a child. Sandra Bailey (Montana) reported she completed data collection (mail surveys) on post divorce parenting of people who participated in parenting classes completed. Now helping to evaluate Northwest Parenting program and sharing information with Extension educators. Sandy distributed Weaving Together Family and Work document she wrote for MSU Extension Service. Bob DelCampo and Diana DelCampo (New Mexico) reported they are preparing to analyze data collected via questionnaire data from employees of NMSU physical plant. Anisa Zvonkovic (Oregon) is analyzing personal interview data collected on women who travel frequently for work (flight attendants, high tech consultants and employees of nonprofit aid and adoption organizations). Primarily looking at occupational lives at this point- finding these women have very strong work identities, optimal levels of travel, and interesting gender differences. The richness of the interview data suggests book potential. Pam Riley and Gary Kiger (Utah) are presently collecting data (80 of 100 couples have been surveyed). Pam will forward article describing their door-to-to survey drop-off/pick-up procedure she and Gary published in The Rural Sociologist. Daphne Stevens worked on the project Spring semester 2002 and completed her dissertation using project data. Krista Lynn Preheim, also a doctoral student, worked on the project in the Fall of 2001 and continues this academic year. She is currently writing her dissertation using project data. During the 2002-03 academic year they added a new master‘s degree student, Heather Davis. Pam is retiring in July 2003 and Gary has been made a Dean, the plan is for Utah State University to have new participants in place by the next meeting.

Impacts

  1. Twenty-two County Extension Educators in Montana received research information and ideas to present programming on balancing work and family in their counties with the potential to reach families across the state. Bailey, S. J. "Balancing Work and Family." Workshop presented at the MSU Extension Family and Consumer Science Agent Update, Bozeman, MT, May, 2001.
  2. Nineteen city and county employees in eastern Montana gained information on work and family spillover, plus practical ideas on how to manage spillover. Bailey, S. J. "Spilling Over: Family to Work and Work to Family." Workshop presented to the Fallon County City/County employees.
  3. Extension educators and other course facilitators in Montana will use this information to make any necessary changes to their class. They have documentation that parents taking the course assists them in the parenting process following divorce. Bailey, S. J. (June, 2002). An Evaluation of the Washington "Children Cope with Divorce" Class. Unpublished technical report to Chelan/Douglas County Extension.
  4. The Extension educators and other course facilitators in Montana will use this information to make any necessary changes to their class. They have documentation that parents taking the course assists them in the parenting process following divorce. Bailey, S. J. (September, 2002). An Evaluation of the Montana "Co-Parenting Through Divorce?" Class. Unpublished technical report to Cascade County Extension.

Publications

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS:

Bailey, S. J. & Zvonkovic, A. M. (in press). Parenting from a distance: Parents? perceptions of social and institutional support. Journal of Divorce and Remarriage.

Bryant, B., Raskauskas, J., Schmiege, C., Zvonkovic, A., Peters, C., & Bailey, S. Vital engagement: Preparing our children for satisfying employment ?tomorrow? (monograph under review). Davis, CA: University of Southern California.

Del Campo, Robert, Diana Del Campo and Daisey Gorman. (2002). Employee Assistance Programs. The Annals of the American PsychotherapyAssociation. 15-18.

Riley, P. J. & Kiger, G. 2002. Increasing Survey Response: The drop off/pickup technique. The Rural Sociologist 22 (1):6-9.

Stevens, D., Kiger, G., & Riley, P. J. (2001). Working hard and hardly working: Domestic labor and marital satisfaction among dual earner couples. Journal of Marriage and Family. 63:514-526.

Stevens, D., Kiger, G. & Riley, P. J. 2002. Coming Unglued: The Work-Family Interface and Family Cohesion. Social Behavior and Personality 30 (3):289-302.

BOOK CHAPTERS:

Zvonkovic, A.M., Manoogian, M. & McGraw, L. A. (2001). The ebb and flow of family life: How families experience being together and apart. In K. Daly (Ed.) Minding the Time in Family Experience: Emerging perspectives and issues. New York: JAI Press.


OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Bailey, S. J. (2002). Work and Family: Balancing and Weaving. (MT200211 HR). Bozeman, MT: MSU Extension Publications

THESIS AND DISSERTATIONS:

Stevens, D.P. (2002). Family Cohesion in Dual-Earner Couples: The effects of work factors, and work-family spillover, and the division of domestic labor. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Utah State University, Logan, UT.

PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS:

Bryant, B. K. (2001, April). Peer conflict resolution: Links to family
security and depression. Poster presented at the Biennial Meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Humble, A. M., & Zvonkovic, A. M. (2002, February). Job-Related Travel: Work Conditions and Work/Family Spillover. Paper presented at the Persons, Processes, and Places: Research on Families, Workplaces, and Communities Conference, San Francisco, CA

Kiger, G., Preheim, K. L., Stevens, D. P. & Riley, P. J. (2002, November). Family Factors, Work Characteristics, and Perceived Control: Gender and marital satisfaction. Paper presented at the National Council for Family Relations, Houston, TX.

Peters, C. L., & Zvonkovic, A. M. (2002, November). The Process of Doing Feminist Research and Providing Feedback to Companies. Poster showcase presentation at NCFR conferencfe.

Preheim, K. L., Riley, P. J., & Kiger, G. (2001, March). Out of the Shadows: Satisfaction with emotion work & differences in marital satisfaction. Paper presented at the meetings of Pacific Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA.

Preheim, K. L. & Stevens, D. P. (February, 2002). Family-to-Work Spillover among Dual-Earner Men and Women: The Effects of Crossover and Domestic Labor Arrangements. Paper presented at the Intermountain Paper and Poster Symposium, USU, Logan, UT.

Preheim, K. L., Riley, P. J. & Kiger, G. (March, 2002). Balancing Work and Family: Impacts on job satisfaction for dual-earner couples. Paper presented at the Persons, Processes, and Places: Research on Families, Workplaces and Communities (Business and Professional Women?s Foundation, The Center for Families at Purdue University, and the Alfred P.Sloan Foundation) Conference, San Francisco, CA.

Schmiege, C., & Traver, S. (2002), November) It Just Sort of Happened. Paper presented at the symposium "Gender and control in work and family life" at the National Council on Family Relations. Houston, Texas.

Stevens, D. P. & Preheim, K. L. (2002, April). Emotion-Work Performance in Dual Earner Couples: What makes men and women tick? Paper presented at the Utah Council of Family Relations, Ogden, UT.

Stevens, D., Kiger, G. & Riley, P. J. (2002, February). Work-Family Conflict Among Dual-Earner Couples: The effects of job factors on family cohesion. Paper presented at the Persons, Processes, and Places: Research on Families, Workplaces and Communities Conference, San Francisco, CA.

Zvonkovic, A. M., Peters, C. L. (2002, February). Women Who Travel for Work: Identity, Control, and Occupational Context. Paper presented at the Persons, Processes, and Places: Research on Families, Workplaces, and Communities Conference, San Francisco, CA.

Zvonkovic, A. M., & Peters, C. L. (2002, November). Gender, control, and work-related travel. Paper presentated as part of the symposium on Gender and control in work and family life, (W-167 regional symposium), NCFR conference.


ELECTRONIC MEDIA

Ad Hoc Technical Committee (2001). Making work "work" for parents and
children. Website:
http://www.cyfernet.org/parent/workandfamily/more1.html

Ad Hoc Technical Committee (2001). Coordinating Marriage with Employment.
Website: http://www.cyfernet.org/parent/workandfamily/more2.html


MASS MEDIA

Bryant, B. & Singleton, R. (2001). Fathers and Discipline? DANR Radio Program in California. (Also translated into Spanish for dissemination to Spanish speaking Californians).

Del Campo, R. (2002, October 3). Keeping the Balancing between work and family. KTSM-TV Newschannel 9 (NBC affialite in El Paso, Texas). Dr. Bob segment.
presented on the 5 PM news October 3, 2002.

Del Campo, R. (2002, October 11). Keeping the Balance between work and family. KTSM-TV Newschannel 9 (NBC affiliate in El Paso, Texas). Dr. Bob segment presented on the morning show, Daybreak.

Del Campo, R. (2002, September). Balancing work and family life. Radio spot and news release for the NM Cooperative Extension Service, (done by Robert Del Campo) aired and released to newspapers statewide.

DelCampo, R. (2002, October 3). Keeping the Balancing between work and family. KTSM-TV Newschannel 9 (NBC affialite in El Paso, Texas). Dr. Bob segment.
presented on the 5 PM news

Kiger, G. (2002, May). First for Women Magazine. Telephone interview with a reporter/writer.
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