Lois Wladis Hoffman Collegiate Professor of Psychology.
About
Dr. Volling is the Lois Wladis Hoffman Collegiate Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on the social and emotional development of infants and toddlers, parent-child interaction, and the role of family relationships in facilitating children’s social and emotional development. She has conducted extensive research on the role of fathers for infant and child development and continues to work with international collaborators, students, and post-doctoral fellows to advance research in father-child relationships. She is also the Principal Investigator of the Family Transitions Study (FTS), a longitudinal investigation examing changes in family functioning and the firstborn’s adjustment after the birth of a second child, which has received funding from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the Fetzer Foundation.
Dr. Volling will be accepting graduate students for Fall 2022. She is particularly interested in taking students with interests in fathering and family relationships in the period of early childhood. Prospective students are advised to read some of the publications below in order to learn more about recent research being conducted in the Child Development and Family Relationships lab at the University of Michigan.
Recent Publications:
Monographs:
The SRCD Monograph of the International Working Group on the Advancement of Research and Measurement on Fathering and Children's Development
Volling, B. L. & Cabrera, N. J. (2019). Advancing research and measurement on fathering and children’s development. Monographs of the Society for Research on Child Development, Vol. 84 (1). https://doi.org/10.1111/mono.12404
The SRCD Monograph summarizing initial findings from the Family Transitions Study which examined change in children's adjustment after the birth of a baby sibling
Volling, B. L., Gonzalez, R., Oh, W., Song, J-H., Yu, T., Rosenberg, L., Kuo, P. X. Thomason, E., Beyers-Carlson, E., Safyer, P., & Stevenson, M. (2017). Developmental trajectories of children’s adjustment across the transition to siblinghood: Pre-birth predictors and sibling outcomes at one year. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 82(3), Serial No. 326.https://doi.org/10.1111/mono.12307
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles:
Kuo, P.X., Saini, E.J., Tengelitsch. E., & Volling, B.L. (2019). Is one secure attachment enough? Infant cortisol reactivity and the security of infant-mother and infant-father attachments at the end of the first year. Attachment and Human Development. Special issue on father-child attachment, 21, 426-444. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2019.1582595
Olson, S. L., Ip, K., Beyers-Carlson, E., Gonzalez, R., & Volling, B. L. (2019). Development of externalizing symptoms in toddlers: The critical role of older siblings. Journal of Family Psychology, 34, 165-174. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/fam0000581
Stevenson, M. M., Volling, B. L., & Gonzalez, R. (2019). An examination of father vulnerability and coercive family process after the birth of a sibling: A spillover cascade model. Development and Psychopatholology. 31, 573-586. doi:10.1017/S095457941800010X https://doi.org/10.1017/S095457941800010X.
Volling, B. L., Yu, T., Gonzalez, R., Tengelitsch, E., & Stevenson, M. (2019). Maternal and paternal trajectories of depressive symptoms predict family risks and children’s emotional and behavioral problems after the birth of a sibling. Development and Psychopathology, 31, 1307-1324. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579418000743
Volling, B. L., Stevenson, M. M., Safyer, P., Gonzalez, R., & Lee, J. Y. (2019). Chapter IV: In search of the father-infant activation relationship: A person-centered approach. In B. L. Volling and N. J. Cabrera (Eds). Advancing research and measurement on fathering and children’s development. Monographs of the Society for Research on Child Development, 84, 50-63. https://doi.org/10.1111/mono.12404
Child Development and Family Relationships (CDFR) Lab: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/volling-lab/
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