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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.
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