Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI
website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.
Prof. Dr. Joseph G. Grzywacz
Prof. Dr. Joseph G. Grzywacz
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Editor-in-Chief
College of Health and Human Sciences, San José State University, San José, CA 95192, USA
Interests: work and family; immigrant families; health inequalities
Prof. Dr. José Santiago Álvarez-Muñoz
Prof. Dr. José Santiago Álvarez-Muñoz
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Editorial Board Member
Faculty of Education, Department of Theory and History of Education, University of Murcia, 30100 Murcia, Spain
Interests: family leisure; emotional education; new methodologies; homework; innovative teaching methods; social pedagogy and the family context
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Dr. Shantha Balaswamy
Dr. Shantha Balaswamy
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Editorial Board Member
College of Social Work, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
Interests: domestic violence intervention; older adults
Prof. Dr. John Bartkowski
Prof. Dr. John Bartkowski
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Sociology and Demography, University of Texas at San Antonio, One UTSA Circle, San Antonio, TX 78249-0655, USA
Interests: culture; family; gender; program evaluation; qualitative methodology; religion; social inequality; social welfare social policy
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Dr. J. Maria Bermudez
Dr. J. Maria Bermudez
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Human Development and Family Science, College of Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Interests: family therapy; immigrant and transnational families; family dynamics
Dr. Sampson Lee Blair
Dr. Sampson Lee Blair
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Sociology, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14260-4140, USA
Interests: sociology of the family; child and adolescent development; gender; ethnicity; demography
Dr. Brandon Burr
Dr. Brandon Burr
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences, Utah Valley University, 800 West University Parkway, Orem, UT 84058, USA
Interests: family relationships; romantic relationship development; romantic relationship well-being; relationship education; romantic relationships
Prof. Dr. Cassandra Chaney
Prof. Dr. Cassandra Chaney
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Editorial Board Member
Human Development and Family Science, School of Social Work, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
Interests: couple relationships; family; religion
Dr. Kelly E. Cichy
Dr. Kelly E. Cichy
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Editorial Board Member
School of Lifespan Development & Educational Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44240, USA
Interests: relationships; stress; health; family conflicts; family support exchanges; race in family processes
Prof. Dr. Heidi Cramm
Prof. Dr. Heidi Cramm
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Editorial Board Member
School of Rehabilitation Therapy, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada
Interests: military family; veterans family; public safety personnel family; mental health; trauma; post-traumatic stress
Prof. Dr. Francesca Cuzzocrea
Prof. Dr. Francesca Cuzzocrea
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Health Sciences, University “Magna Graecia” of Catanzaro, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy
Interests: educational psychology; parenting; family; adolescence
Dr. Mellissa Gordon
Dr. Mellissa Gordon
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716-3301, USA
Interests: adolescent development; mental health; social media
Dr. Mª Ángeles Hernández-Prados
Dr. Mª Ángeles Hernández-Prados
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Editorial Board Member
Faculty of Education, Department of Theory and History of Education, University of Murcia, 30100 Murcia, Spain
Interests: education for citizenship and improvement of school coexistence; education in values in the family context; ethical–moral perspective of the information society; relationship between family and schools
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Prof. Dr. Miguel Ángel Mateo-Pérez
Prof. Dr. Miguel Ángel Mateo-Pérez
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Social Work and Social Services, University of Alicante, San Vicente del Raspeig, 03690 Alicante, Spain
Interests: family policies; inequality, poverty, and exclusion affecting families
Prof. Dr. Eva Nowakowski
Prof. Dr. Eva Nowakowski
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Editorial Board Member
School of Social Work, Barry University, 11300 NE 2nd Ave, Miami Shores, FL 33161, USA
Interests: psychedelic assisted therapy; mood disorders; trauma; somatic treatment; movement
Dr. Terry L. Pertuit
Dr. Terry L. Pertuit
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Graduate Education, Leadership, and Counseling, Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648, USA
Interests: family therapy; mental health issues; obsessive-compulsive disorder; LGBTQ+ issues
Prof. Dr. Janki Shankar
Prof. Dr. Janki Shankar
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Editorial Board Member
Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada
Interests: work safety; health and well-being; employment; mental health and disability; family violence
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Dr. C. Joy Stewart
Dr. C. Joy Stewart
Editorial Board Member
School of Social Work, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3550, USA
Interests: child welfare; human trafficking; program evaluation; data science; research methods; life course research
Dr. Pan Wang
Dr. Pan Wang
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Editorial Board Member
Chinese and Asian Studies, The School of Humanities and Languages, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture (ADA), The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Interests: intercultural marriage and migration; gender, love, marriage and family in China; dating, singles studies; Chinese media and communication
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Dr. Zha Blong Xiong
Dr. Zha Blong Xiong
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Family Social Science, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN 55455, USA
Interests: child adjustment in the family context in immigrant and refugee families; community engagement and education; Southeast Asian American families
Prof. Dr. Xiaohe Xu
Prof. Dr. Xiaohe Xu
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Sociology and Demography, University of Texas at San Antonio, One UTSA Circle, San Antonio, TX 78249-0655, USA
Interests: sociology of marriage and the family; comparative family studies; religion, health, and family life; social change; advanced statistical methods
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Dr. Weiguo Zhang
Dr. Weiguo Zhang
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5G 1Z5, Canada
Interests: social demography; sociology of families; aging
Dr. Bharathi Jayanthi Zvara
Dr. Bharathi Jayanthi Zvara
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Editorial Board Member
Department of Maternal and Child Health, Gillings School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Interests: early childhood development; developmental psychology; family