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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 1999 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Ann S. Masten is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology and social sciences, with a total of 54 publications in psychology and 25 in social sciences. Within these fields, their work concentrates on clinical psychology, general health professions, education, sociology and political science, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

Masten's research topics include resilience and mental health, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, homelessness and social issues, early childhood education and development, family and disability support research, child abuse and trauma, and cognitive abilities and testing.

The following are some recent papers authored by Masten, highlighting the scope and focus of their work:

  • Resilience in Development and Psychopathology: Multisystem Perspectives (2021), Annual Review of Clinical Psychology
  • Multisystem Resilience for Children and Youth in Disaster: Reflections in the Context of COVID-19 (2020), Adversity and Resilience Science
  • Resilience of children in disasters: A multisystem perspective (2020), International Journal of Psychology
  • MULTISYSTEM RESILIENCE: PATHWAYS TO AN INTEGRATED FRAMEWORK (2021), Research in Human Development

Masten has frequently published in several academic venues, particularly:

  • Development and Psychopathology (4 publications)
  • Early Childhood Research Quarterly (2 publications)
  • Child Neuropsychology (2 publications)
  • Child Abuse & Neglect (2 publications)
  • Annual Review of Clinical Psychology (1 publication)

Their notable co-authors include Rebecca Distefano, Stephanie M. Carlson, Alyssa R. Palmer, Fanita A. Tyrell, and Amanda W. Kalstabakken.

In addition to journal articles, Masten has published books with notable academic presses. These include "The Hidden Talents Framework" (2023) published by Cambridge University Press and "Vulnerability and Resilience" (2020) published by Lexington Books.

Ann S. Masten was recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1999.

Best Publications

  • Ordinary magic. Resilience processes in development.

    Ann S. Masten

  • Resilience and development: Contributions from the study of children who overcome adversity

    Ann S. Masten;Karin M. Best;Norman Garmezy

  • The development of competence in favorable and unfavorable environments. Lessons from research on successful children

    Ann S. Masten;J. Douglas Coatsworth

  • Ordinary magic: Resilience processes in development.

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  • The study of stress and competence in children: a building block for developmental psychopathology

    Norman Garmezy;Ann S. Masten;Auke Tellegen

  • Resilience in Development

    Ann S Masten;J. J. Cutuli;Janette E. Herbers;Marie Gabrielle J Reed

  • Resilience definitions, theory, and challenges: interdisciplinary perspectives

    Steven M. Southwick;George A. Bonanno;Ann S. Masten;Catherine Panter-Brick

  • Global Perspectives on Resilience in Children and Youth

    Ann S. Masten

  • Resilience in individual development: Successful adaptation despite risk and adversity: Challenges and prospects

    Ann S. Masten

  • Competence in the context of adversity: pathways to resilience and maladaptation from childhood to late adolescence.

    Ann S. Masten;Jon J. Hubbard;Scott D. Gest;Auke Tellegen

  • Resilience in developing systems: Progress and promise as the fourth wave rises

    Ann S. Masten

  • Risk and protective factors in the development of psychopathology

    Jon Rolf;Ann S. Masten;Dante Cicchetti;Keith H. Nüchterlein

  • A Resilience Framework for Research, Policy, and Practice

    Ann S. Masten;Jenifer L. Powell

  • Competence and Resilience in Development

    Ann S. Masten;Jelena Obradović

  • Ordinary Magic: Resilience in Development

    Ann S. Masten

  • Developmental cascades

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  • Resilience in children threatened by extreme adversity: Frameworks for research, practice, and translational synergy

    Ann S. Masten

  • Developmental cascades: linking academic achievement and externalizing and internalizing symptoms over 20 years.

    Ann S. Masten;Glenn I. Roisman;Jeffrey D. Long;Keith B. Burt

  • Resilience in individual development: Successful adaptation despite risk and adversity.

    Ann S. Masten

  • Risk, Vulnerability, and Protective Factors in Developmental Psychopathology

    Ann S. Masten;Norman Garmezy

  • Child Development in the Context of Disaster, War, and Terrorism: Pathways of Risk and Resilience

    Ann S. Masten;Angela J. Narayan

  • A revised class play method of peer assessment.

    Ann S. Masten;Patricia Morison;David S. Pellegrini

Frequent Co-Authors

Jelena Obradović
Jelena Obradović Stanford University
Auke Tellegen
Auke Tellegen University of Minnesota
Dante Cicchetti
Dante Cicchetti University of Minnesota
Jeffrey D. Long
Jeffrey D. Long University of Iowa
J. Douglas Coatsworth
J. Douglas Coatsworth University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Scott D. Gest
Scott D. Gest University of Virginia
Abigail H. Gewirtz
Abigail H. Gewirtz University of Minnesota
Stephanie M. Carlson
Stephanie M. Carlson University of Minnesota
Philip David Zelazo
Philip David Zelazo University of Minnesota
Robert A. Zucker
Robert A. Zucker University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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