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L. Alan Sroufe is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas primarily within psychology and social sciences, with notable contributions to psychology including social psychology, clinical psychology, and safety research.

Their work focuses on several key topics within developmental and social psychology. These include:

  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Child Welfare and Adoption

L. Alan Sroufe has published research mainly in the journal Attachment & Human Development. This includes the following recent papers:

  • Then and now: the legacy and future of attachment research (2021) in Attachment & Human Development
  • Principles of development: the case of dependency (2020) in Attachment & Human Development

Their research addresses topics related to attachment theory and developmental principles, with a particular emphasis on dependency and the dynamics of early relationships.

Throughout their career, Sroufe has contributed to understanding the psychosocial and emotional development of children and adolescents, especially in contexts involving child welfare and adoption. These areas link closely to their focus on attachment and relational processes.

Best Publications

  • Attachment as an Organizational Construct

    L. Alan Sroufe;Everett Waters

  • Emotional Development: The Organization of Emotional Life in the Early Years

    L. Alan Sroufe

  • Attachment and development: a prospective, longitudinal study from birth to adulthood.

    L. Alan Sroufe

  • The Domain of Developmental Psychopathology.

    L. Alan Sroufe;Michael Rutter

  • Continuity of Adaptation in the Second Year: The Relationship Between Quality of Attachment and Later Competence

    Leah Matas;Richard A. Arend;L. Alan Sroufe

  • Resilience as process

    Byron R. Egeland;Elizabeth Carlson;L. Alan Sroufe

  • When More Is Not Better: The Role of Cumulative Risk in Child Behavior Outcomes.

    Karen Appleyard;Byron Egeland;Manfred H.M. van Dulmen;L. Alan Sroufe

  • Social Competence as a Developmental Construct

    Everett Waters;L.Alan Sroufe

  • The Coherence of Individual Development: Early Care, Attachment, and Subsequent Developmental Issues.

    L. Alan Sroufe

  • Attachment, positive affect, and competence in the peer group: two studies in construct validation.

    E Waters;J Wippman;L A Sroufe

  • Developmental psychopathology: concepts and challenges.

    M Rutter;L A Sroufe

  • Psychopathology as an outcome of development

    L. Alan Sroufe

  • Development and the fragmented self: Longitudinal study of dissociative symptomatology in a nonclinical sample

    John R. Ogawa;L. Alan Sroufe;Nancy S. Weinfield;Elizabeth A. Carlson

  • Attachment and early maltreatment

    Byron Egeland;L. Alan Sroufe

  • Implications of attachment theory for developmental psychopathology

    L. Alan Sroufe;Elizabeth A. Carlson;Alissa K. Levy;Byron Egeland

  • Attachment from Infancy to Early Adulthood in a High-Risk Sample: Continuity, Discontinuity, and Their Correlates

    Nancy S. Weinfield;L. Alan Sroufe;Byron Egeland

  • Family-Peer Relationships: Modes of Linkage.

    Ross D. Parke;Gary W. Ladd

  • A prospective longitudinal study of high school dropouts: Examining multiple predictors across development.

    Shane R. Jimerson;Byron Egeland;L. Alan Sroufe;Betty Carlson

  • Individual differences in infant-mother attachment at twelve and eighteen months: stability and change in families under stress.

    Brian E. Vaughn;Byron R. Egeland;L. Alan Sroufe;Everett Waters

  • The role of infant-caregiver attachment in development

    L. Alan Sroufe

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth A. Carlson
Elizabeth A. Carlson University of Minnesota
Byron Egeland
Byron Egeland University of Minnesota
Everett Waters
Everett Waters Stony Brook University
W. Andrew Collins
W. Andrew Collins University of Minnesota
Dante Cicchetti
Dante Cicchetti University of Minnesota
Shmuel Shulman
Shmuel Shulman Bar-Ilan University
Shane R. Jimerson
Shane R. Jimerson University of California, Santa Barbara
Glenn I. Roisman
Glenn I. Roisman University of Minnesota
Robert N. Emde
Robert N. Emde University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Manfred H. M. van Dulmen
Manfred H. M. van Dulmen Kent State University

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