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.