Research Area of Specialization: Family Development

David Almeida
Daily stress processes; adult development; family factors in mental health; work and family linkages; fatherhood; statistical techniques for measuring change.
Chalandra Bryant
Marital and premarital relationships, particularly among African American couples; the role social networks play in influencing partners' satisfaction with and commitment to their significant others.
Robert Burgess
The evolution, development, and maintenance of violence in families and its continuity across generations.
Douglas Coatsworth
Prevention research and theory; design and evaluation of family-based interventions to promote development and to prevent mental health and behavioral problems in children and adolescents; resilience.
Ann Crouter
Interrelationships of parents' employment situations, family processes, and children's and adolescent's social development; gender socialization in middle childhood and adolescence.
David Eggebeen
Social demography of children; intergenerational support over the lifecourse; fatherhood.
Kathryn Hynes
Child and family policy topics including welfare reform, child care, after-school programs, and maternity leave; parents' work-family strategies; social and economic contexts influencing the transition to fatherhood.
Rukmalie Jayakody
The impacts of poverty and social policies on families and children: welfare reform and barriers to self-sufficiency; family structure and child outcomes; living arrangements and family transitions.
Eva Lefkowitz
Parent-child communication, from adolescence through adulthood; emotional displays between family members; differences between self-report and observed behaviors.
Susan McHale
Family relationships and family roles (particularly gender roles) in childhood and adolescence; differential socialization of siblings.