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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award, American Sociological Association
  • 1988 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Glen H. Elder is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research is situated primarily within the Social Sciences, with significant contributions to Sociology and Political Science, Gender Studies, Social Psychology, Economics and Econometrics, and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. The main topics addressed in their work include Youth Education and Societal Dynamics, Mentoring and Academic Development, Defense, Military, and Policy Studies, Rural Development and Sustainability, Work-Family Balance Challenges, Gender Roles and Identity Studies, and Religion, Society, and Development.

Their recent publications reflect a focus on longitudinal and societal processes impacting individuals over the life course. Among notable papers are:

  • "Studying social change in human lives: a conversation" (2023), published in Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
  • "The Influence of Work Control Trajectories on Men's Mental and Physical Health During the Middle Years: Mediational Role of Personal Control" (2021), UNC Libraries
  • "Social, Behavioral, and Genetic Linkages from Adolescence Into Adulthood" (2020), UNC Libraries
  • "Informal Mentors and Education: Complementary or Compensatory Resources?" (2020), UNC Libraries
  • "Serving God and Country? Religious Involvement and Military Service Among Young Adult Men" (2020), UNC Libraries

Elder frequently publishes in the UNC Libraries venue and has also contributed to Longitudinal and Life Course Studies and Social Science History.

Collaborations are a component of Elder's professional activity, with recurring coauthors including:

  • Janel E. Benson
  • Richard A. Settersten
  • K. A. S. Wickrama
  • Lance D. Erickson
  • Naomi J. Spence

Their research intersects multiple disciplinary subfields and topical areas, highlighting the dynamics of youth education, mentoring relationships, military service, and the social factors influencing identity and societal roles.

Throughout their career, Glen H. Elder has been recognized with awards such as the W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award from the American Sociological Association in 2016. In 1988, they were named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Children of the Great Depression

    Glen H. Elder

  • The life course as developmental theory.

    Glen H. Elder

  • The Emergence and Development of Life Course Theory

    Glen H. Elder;Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson;Robert Crosnoe

  • Time, human agency, and social change: perspectives on the life course

    Glen H. Elder

  • Economic Stress, Coercive Family Process, and Developmental Problems of Adolescents

    Rand D. Conger;Xiaojia Ge;Glen H. Elder;Frederick O. Lorenz

  • A family process model of economic hardship and adjustment of early adolescent boys.

    Rand D. Conger;Katherine J. Conger;Glen H. Elder;Frederick O. Lorenz

  • The Life Course and Human Development.

    Glen H. Elder;Michael J. Shanahan

  • Families in Troubled Times: Adapting to Change in Rural America

    Rand D. Conger;Glen H. Elder Jr.;Frederick O. Lorenz;Ronald L. Simons

  • The Life-Course and Human Development: An Ecological Perspective

    Glen H. Elder;Richard C. Rockwell

  • Children Of The Great Depression: 25th Anniversary Edition

    Glen H. Elder

  • Moving away from the World: Life-Course Patterns of Shy Children.

    Avshalom Caspi;Glen H. Elder;Daryl J. Bem

  • Families in Troubled Times: Adapting to Change in Rural America. Social Institutions and Social Change.

    Rand D. Conger;Glen H. Elder

  • Linking economic hardship to marital quality and instability.

    Rand D. Conger;Glen H. Elder;Frederick O. Lorenz;Katherine J. Conger

  • Trajectories of Stressful Life Events and Depressive Symptoms during Adolescence.

    Xiaojia Ge;Frederick O. Lorenz;Rand D. Conger;Glen H. Elder

  • Age Differentiation and the Life Course

    Glen H. Elder

  • Intergenerational Bonding in School: The Behavioral and Contextual Correlates of Student-Teacher Relationships.

    Robert Crosnoe;Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson;Glen H. Elder

  • Moving Against the World: Life-Course Patterns of Explosive Children

    Avshalom Caspi;Glen H. Elder;Daryl J. Bem

  • Students' Attachment and Academic Engagement: The Role of Race and Ethnicity.

    Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson;Robert Crosnoe;Glen H. Elder

  • Pubertal transition, stressful life events, and the emergence of gender differences in adolescent depressive symptoms.

    Xiaojia Ge;Rand D. Conger;Glen H. Elder

  • Linking family hardship to children's lives.

    Glen H. Elder;Tri Van Nguyen;Avshalom Caspi

  • Children of the Great Depression: Social Change in Life Experience (25th Anniversary Edition)

    Stephen B. Plank;Glen H. Elder

Frequent Co-Authors

Rand D. Conger
Rand D. Conger University of California, Davis
Frederick O. Lorenz
Frederick O. Lorenz Iowa State University
Ronald L. Simons
Ronald L. Simons University of Georgia
Robert Crosnoe
Robert Crosnoe The University of Texas at Austin
Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson
Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson Washington State University
Avshalom Caspi
Avshalom Caspi Duke University
Kandauda A. S. Wickrama
Kandauda A. S. Wickrama University of Georgia
Xiaojia Ge
Xiaojia Ge University of Minnesota
Les B. Whitbeck
Les B. Whitbeck University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Linda K. George
Linda K. George Duke University

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