Research Interests:

• Relationships between marital and parent-child interaction patterns
  
• Assessment and treatment of family and child problems
  
• Psychology of religion and applications to family life

Lists of studies located for "Religion in families 1999-2009:  A relational spirituality framework"

Dr. Mahoney, in collaboration with Dr. Kenneth I. Pargament, was recently awarded a $1.2 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation to fund the first in-depth, long-term study of the part religion plays in couples' transition to parenthood. Dr. Al DeMaris from Sociology is also a co-investigator. Click here to go to the BGSU Monitor article: Spiritual DNA? BGSU researchers seek sacred building block to family life