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Overview

Rand D. Conger is affiliated with the University of California, Davis, in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with particular attention to clinical psychology and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their scholarly contributions include work on personality traits, cognitive abilities, and child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development. These topics are reflected across their published research and collaborations.

Key recent papers by Rand D. Conger include:

  • Dynamic associations among socioeconomic status (SES), parenting investments, and conscientiousness across time and generations, 2021, Developmental Psychology
  • Population Frequencies of the Triallelic 5HTTLPR in Six Ethnically Diverse Samples from North America, Southeast Asia, and Africa, 2020, UNC Libraries

Conger has collaborated with several other researchers in their field, including Monica J. Martin, April S. Masarik, Brett C. Haberstick, Andrew Smolen, and Redford B. Williams. These collaborations represent a range of research interests aligned with the topics Conger explores.

The venues frequently publishing their work include Developmental Psychology and UNC Libraries, indicating an engagement with both peer-reviewed journals and academic repositories.

Best Publications

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

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

  • Socioeconomic Status, Family Processes, and Individual Development.

    Rand D. Conger;Katherine J. Conger;Monica J. Martin

  • 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

  • An Interactionist Perspective on the Socioeconomic Context of Human Development

    Rand D. Conger;M. Brent Donnellan

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

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

  • Economic pressure in African American families: a replication and extension of the family stress model.

    Rand D. Conger;Lora Ebert Wallace;Yumei Sun;Ronald L. Simons

  • Resilience in Midwestern Families: Selected Findings from the First Decade of a Prospective, Longitudinal Study

    Rand D. Conger;Katherine J. Conger

  • 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

  • Stress and child development: a review of the Family Stress Model

    April S Masarik;Rand D Conger

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

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

  • Factorial Invariance Within Longitudinal Structural Equation Models: Measuring the Same Construct Across Time

    Keith F. Widaman;Emilio Ferrer;Rand D. Conger

  • Family economic stress and adjustment of early adolescent girls.

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

  • Couple resilience to economic pressure.

    Rand D. Conger;Martha A. Rueter;Glen H. Elder

  • Competence in early adult romantic relationships: A developmental perspective on family influences.

    Rand D. Conger;Ming Cui;Chalandra M. Bryant;Glen H. Elder

  • Children of the Land: Adversity and Success in Rural America

    Glen H. Elder;Rand D. Conger

  • Family interaction in abusive, neglectful, and normal families.

    Robert L. Burgess;Rand D. Conger

  • Intergenerational transmission of harsh parenting.

    Ronald L. Simons;Leslie B Whitbeck;Rand D. Conger;Wu Chyi-In

  • The Influence of Neighborhood Disadvantage, Collective Socialization, and Parenting on African American Children's Affiliation with Deviant Peers

    Gene H Brody;Xiaojia Xiaojia Ge;Rand Conger;Frederick X Gibbons

Frequent Co-Authors

Ronald L. Simons
Ronald L. Simons University of Georgia
Glen H. Elder
Glen H. Elder University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Frederick O. Lorenz
Frederick O. Lorenz Iowa State University
M. Brent Donnellan
M. Brent Donnellan Michigan State University
Keith F. Widaman
Keith F. Widaman University of California, Riverside
Richard W. Robins
Richard W. Robins University of California, Davis
Xiaojia Ge
Xiaojia Ge University of Minnesota
Laura V. Scaramella
Laura V. Scaramella University of Arizona
Les B. Whitbeck
Les B. Whitbeck University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Kandauda A. S. Wickrama
Kandauda A. S. Wickrama University of Georgia

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