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Byron EgelandIrving B. Harris Professor Office: 230 Child Development Developmental psychopathology, resilience, child maltreatment, high risk families |
Together with my collaborators, I continue to conduct a longitudinal study of high risk children and their families which began in 1975. (See the Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children research lab.) The assessments, which were detailed and comprehensive, began before the birth of the first child and have continued at regular intervals through age 28. Originally we were interested in predicting good and poor parenting and parent-child relationship outcomes in our high risk sample with a particular interest in understanding the causes and consequences of child maltreatment. The current aims include determining the antecedents and developmental pathways leading to competence and maladaptation in childhood, adolescence and young adulthood. This includes the study of drug and alcohol abuse, depression, conduct disorder, and personality disorders as well as resilience. Of particular interest is the study of continuity of adaptation and maladaption across the period of adolescence and young adulthood and to identify factors related to discontinuity.
Our current goals also include: the study of
parenting in the next generation and the quality of romantic
relationships in young adulthood. Specifically, how does the
quality of parent - infant attachment, peer competence and
developmental adaptation in adolescence including one’s mental
representation of the early attachment relationship influence
quality of romantic relationship in early adulthood. The
findings from this longitudinal study have been used to develop
STEEP, a preventative intervention program for high risk parents
and their infants. (See Harris Center for Infant and Toddler
Development.)
For more on his longitudinal research with
Andrew Collins and
Alan Sroufe, see “Center
for Early Education and Development, Harris Programs”.
Recent publications
Erickson, M. F., & Egeland, B. (2004). Linking theory and research to practice: The Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children and the STEEP program. Clinical Psychologist, 8(1), 5-9.
Carlson, E. A., Sroufe, L. A., & Egeland, B. (2004). The construction of experience: A longitudinal study of representation and behavior. Child Development 75(1), 66-83.
Englund, M.M., Luckner, A.E., Whaley, G., and Egeland, B. (2004). Children’s Achievement in Early Elementary School: Longitudinal Effects of Parental Involvement, Expectations, and Quality of Assistance. Journal of Educational Psychology, 96(4), 723-730.
Roisman, G. I., Aguilar, B., & Egeland, B. (2004). Externalizing behavior in the transition to adulthood: The independent and interactive roles of developmental history and concurrent experiences. Development and Psychopathology, 16, 857-871.
Appleyard, K., Egeland, B., van Dulmen, M. H. M., & Sroufe, L. A. (2005). When more is not better: The role of cumulative risk in child behavior outcomes. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 46, 235-245.
Sroufe, L. A., Egeland, B., Carlson, E., & Collins, W. A. (2005). Placing early attachment experiences in developmental context. In K. E. Grossmann, K. Grossmann, & E. Waters (Eds.), The power of longitudinal attachment research: From infancy and childhood to adulthood. New York: Guilford Publications.
Burt, K. B., van Dulmen, M. H. M., Carlivati, J., Egeland, B., Sroufe, L. A., Forman, D. R., Appleyard, K., & Carlson, E. A. (2005). Mediating links between maternal depression and offspring psychopathology: The importance of independent data. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 46, 490-499.
Lawrence, C.R., Carlson, Egeland, B. (2006). The Impact of Foster Care on the Development of Behavior Problems. Development and Psychopathology, 18, 57-76.
Egeland, B. (in press). Understanding Developmental Process and Mechanisms of Resilience and Psychopathology: Implications for Policy and Practice. In A. Masten (Vol. Ed.), The Minnesota Symposium on Child Psychology: Vol. 33. Multi-Level Dynamics in Developmental Psychopathology: Pathways to the future. Hillside, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates.
Siebenbruner, J., Englund, M., Egeland, B., Hudson, K., Whaley, G. (in press). Developmental Antecedents of Late Adolescence Substance Use Patterns. Development and Psychopathology.
Siebenbruner, J., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Egeland, B. (in press). Sexual Partners and Contraceptive Use: A 16-year Prospective Study Predicting Abstinence and Risk Behavior. Journal of Research on Adolescence.
Bosquet, M. & Egeland, B. (in press). The Development and Maintenance of Anxiety Symptoms from Infancy through Adolescence in a Longitudinal Sample. Development and Psychopathology.