2014 FCS Research Journal Award Recipients

Presentations at the AAFCS Annual Conference (June, 2015)

FCSRJ Emerging Scholar Award and Best Paper: Family Studies/Human Development

Title: Financial Wellness and Relationship Satisfaction: Does Communication Mediate?
Authors: Melissa Wilmarth (Presenter), Robert B. Nielsen, and Ted G. Futris
Issue: Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal, 43(2), pages 131-144

FCSRJ Outstanding Paper Award and Best Paper: Personal Finance and Consumer Economics

Title: Do Saving Rules Influence Self-employed Households' Participation in Tax-Deferred Retirement Plans?
Authors: Hyrum L. Smith and Tim Griesdorn (Presenter)
Issue: Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal, 43(1), pages 47-60

FCSRJ Best Paper: Apparel, Texiles, and Merchandising

Title: Understanding Consumer Recycling Behavior: Combining the Theories of Planned Behavior and the Norm Activation Model
Authors: Jooyhung Park (Presenter) and Sejin Ha
Issue: Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal, 42(3), pages 278-291.

FCSRJ Best Paper: Foods and Nutrition

Title: Influence of Body Satisfaction, BMI and Diet Quality on Healthy Eating Attitudes among College Students
Authors: Michela Fyler, Julie Schumacher (Presenter), Jennifer Banning, and Hae Jin Gam
Issue: Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal, 42(3), pages 330-340

FCSRJ Best Paper: Housing

Title: Community Land Trust Homeowners; Past and Present Housing Experiences
Authors: Kimberly Skobba and Andrew T. Carswell (Presenter).
Issue: Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal Volume 43 (Issue 1), September, 4-17.

FCSRJ Best Paper: Professional Issues

Title: Getting and Staying in the Mainstream: African American Women's Contribution to the Human Sciences
Authors: Vanessa Prier Jackson and Julia R. Miller (Presenter)
Issue: Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal, 43(1), pages 78-92