Bonnie Barber
Professor
Ph.D., Developmental Psychology
blbarber@ag.arizona.edu
Scholarly Interests and Activities
Selected Publications
Curriculum Vitae
[MAILING ADDRESS]
PO Box 210033
Tucson, AZ 85721-0033
[CAMPUS ADDRESS]
Family and Consumer Sciences Bldg.
1110 East South Campus Drive Tucson, AZ 85721-0033
Phone: (520) 621-1075 Fax: (520) 621-3401
Email: blbarber@ag.arizona.edu
Scholarly Interests and Activities
My research program focuses on adolescent and young adult development with a primary emphasis on the role of life transitions in influencing individual development and adjustment. Within this research area, I focus on a few broad questions: What accounts for individual differences in adolescents' and young adults' interests, positive and risky activity involvement, psychological adjustment, school performance, and educational, vocational, and interpersonal life choices and plans? How do adolescent experiences at school, home, work, and with peers and partners relate to young adult life paths? Over the last 17 years, my colleagues and I have been conducting the Michigan Study of Adolescent Life Transitions (MSALT - a nine-wave longitudinal study of 2,200 adolescents from sixth grade through young adulthood). Based primarily on MSALT data, I have several paths of related research: 1) Young adult life transitions and psychological well-being, 2) socialization influences on identity development, 3) adolescent development in divorced families; 4) development/evaluation of a preventive intervention program for divorced mothers and their adolescents; and 5) temporal rhythms in adolescent moods.
Barber, B. L., Eccles, J. S, & Stone, M. R. (forthcoming). Whatever happened to the Jock, the Brain, and the Princess? Young adult pathways linked to adolescent activity involvement and social identity. Journal of Adolescent Research.
Raymore, L. A., Barber, B. L., & Eccles, J. S. (forthcoming). Leaving home, attending college, partnership and parenthood: The role of life transition events in leisure pattern stability from adolescence to young adulthood. Journal of Youth and Adolescence.
Barber, B. L., Jacobson, K. C., Miller, K. E., & Petersen, A. C. (1998). Ups and downs: Daily cycles of adolescent moods. New Directions for Child Development, 82. R. W. Larson and A. C. Crouter (Eds.) Temporal rhythms in adolescence: Clocks, calendars, and the coordination of daily life (pp. 23-36). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Barber, B. L. (1995). Preventive intervention with adolescents and divorced mothers: A conceptual framework for program design and evaluation. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 16, 481-503.
Barber, B. L., & Eccles, J. S. (1992). Long-term influence of divorce and single parenting on adolescent family- and work-related values, behaviors, and aspirations. Psychological Bulletin, 111, 108-126.
FSHD Graduate Program Details
The McClelland Institute
Michigan Study of Adolescent Life Transition
Family Studies and Human Development Division