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76
Citations
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World Ranking
1708
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1997 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1973 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Ross D. Parke is affiliated with the University of California, Riverside in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Social Sciences, with notable focus on subfields such as Demography, Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, and Clinical Psychology.

Their research topics cover several areas including:

  • Family Dynamics and Relationships
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
  • Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
  • Migration, Health and Trauma

Recent publications by Ross D. Parke include the following papers:

  • Themes and Theories Revisited: Perspectives on Processes in Family-Peer Relationships, 2021, Children
  • Transnational fathers: New theoretical and conceptual challenges, 2020, Journal of Family Theory & Review
  • Social Development, 2020, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology
  • Mattering Scale, 2020, PsycTESTS Dataset

Frequent co-authors associated with Ross D. Parke include:

  • Jeffrey T. Cookston
  • Gary W. Ladd
  • Clorinda E. Vélez
  • Sanford L. Braver
  • William V. Fabricius

The venues where their work is published with some regularity are:

  • Children
  • Journal of Family Theory & Review
  • Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology
  • PsycTESTS Dataset

Throughout their career, Ross D. Parke has received recognition in the form of fellowships, including:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), awarded in 1997
  • Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), awarded in 1973

Best Publications

  • Socialization in the Family: Ethnic and Ecological Perspectives

    Ross D. Parke;Raymond Buriel

  • Child Psychology: A Contemporary Viewpoint

    E. Mavis Hetherington;Ross D. Parke

  • Fathers and families.

    Ross D. Parke;Jeffrey T. Cookston

  • Family-Peer Relationships: Modes of Linkage.

    Ross D. Parke;Gary W. Ladd

  • Bridging the gap: parent-child play interaction and peer interactive competence.

    Kevin MacDonald;Ross D. Parke

  • Family-peer connections: the roles of emotional expressiveness within the family and children's understanding of emotions.

    Jude Cassidy;Ross D. Parke;Laura Butkovsky;Julia M. Braungart

  • Child Abuse: An Interdisciplinary Analysis

    Candace W. Collmer;Ross D. Parke

  • Linkages between Children's Social and Academic Competence: A Longitudinal Analysis.

    Mara Welsh;Ross D Parke;Keith Widaman;Robin O'Neil

  • Economic Stress, Parenting, and Child Adjustment in Mexican American and European American Families

    Ross D. Parke;Scott Coltrane;Sharon Duffy;Raymond Buriel

  • Development in the Family

    Ross D. Parke

  • Self-expressiveness within the family context: psychometric support for a new measure

    Amy G. Halberstadt;Jude Cassidy;Cynthia A. Stifter;Ross D. Parke

  • Attachment and representations of peer relationships

    Jude Cassidy;Steven J. Kirsh;Krista L. Scolton;Ross D. Parke

  • Duration and Developmental Timing of Poverty and Children's Cognitive and Social Development from Birth Through Third Grade.

    Virginia Allhusen;Jay Belsky;Cathryn Booth-LaForce;Robert Bradley

  • Reciprocal Negative Affect in Parent-Child Interactions and Children's Peer Competency.

    James L. Carson;Ross D. Parke

  • Imitation of live and televised models by children one to three years of age.

    Robert B. McCall;Ross D. Parke;Robert D. Kavanaugh

  • Paternal involvement in infancy: The role of maternal and paternal attitudes.

    Ashley H. Beitel;Ross D. Parke

  • The role of family emotional expressiveness in the development of children's social competence

    Lisa Ann Boyum;Ross D. Parke

  • Father Involvement: A Developmental Psychological Perspective

    Ross D. Parke

  • Familial contribution to peer competence among young children: The role of interactive and affective processes

    Ross D. Parke;Jude Cassidy;Virginia M. Burks;James L. Carson

  • Effects of movie violence on aggression in a field setting as a function of group dominance and cohesion.

    Leyens J-P;Leoncio Camino;Ross D. Parke;Leonard Berkowitz

  • Duration and Developmental Timing of Poverty and Children's Cognitive and Social Development From Birth Through Third Grade National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Early Child Care Research Network

    Jay Belsky;Cathryn Booth-LaForce;Robert Bradley;Celia A. Brownell

Frequent Co-Authors

Jay Belsky
Jay Belsky University of California, Davis
Robert C. Pianta
Robert C. Pianta University of Virginia
Sarah L. Friedman
Sarah L. Friedman George Washington University
Susan J. Spieker
Susan J. Spieker University of Washington
Sanford L. Braver
Sanford L. Braver Arizona State University
Margaret Tresch Owen
Margaret Tresch Owen The University of Texas at Dallas
Jude Cassidy
Jude Cassidy University of Maryland, College Park
Keith F. Widaman
Keith F. Widaman University of California, Riverside
K. Alison Clarke-Stewart
K. Alison Clarke-Stewart University of California, Irvine
Margaret Burchinal
Margaret Burchinal University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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