HDFS Faculty Research Projects

(NEW -- Other faculty members' projects in process of being added)

Network Supports and Coping, a 25-Year Longitudinal Study (1982-2007) and Current College-Student Study
Project Webpage

Project within Qualitative Research Network (further details and project webpage forthcoming)

Work, Family, and Travel is a new, four-year nationwide project funded by the National Institutes of Health. This project examines the family and work lives of people whose jobs require them to travel away from home frequently. Individual workers and their family members who participate will share their voices and perspectives on how they balance personal lives and obligations with demanding occupations
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Children's Well-Being on the South Plains

Federally funded study of childcare in Mexican-American families (2001-2004, from the Department of Health and Human Services). The purpose of this longitudinal and cross-sectional study of parents with infants and toddlers (up to 4 years) was twofold. First, it was designed to examine the type and quality of the non-parental childcare used by Mexican-American parents. The second purpose was to explore the normative social and emotional development of these children and the parenting strategies to which they were exposed.

Federally funded study, Drinking from Ages 13-21 in College and Non-College Youth, 2003-2004