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Sponsered Research

Sponsored Research 2009

Spanish Language Assessments:  A Database of Available Measures and the Development of New Family Marital Process Measures

          Roy Bean:  Family Life                 801-422-2349.  [Faculty Page]  

Real Victory Research Project: Using the Control Model and Cell Phone Technology to Improve Lives of Troubled Youth
Bert Burraston:  Sociology.            801-422-1692. [Faculty Page]

Evaluating and Nurturing Couple Relationships throughout Marriage:  An Expansion of the RELATE Program

          Dean Busby:  Family Life.             801-422-8529. [Faculty Page]

Enactments and Couples' Secure Attachment:  An Empirical Investigation of Enactments as an Effective Change Mechanism in Couple Therapy

          Mark H. Butler:  Family Life.          801-422-8786. [Faculty Page]    

Family Legacies:  The Impact of Divorce on Grandchildren

           Vaughn Call:  Sociology               801-422-4453. [Faculty Page]

Relational Aggression on Television and Psychological Abuse in Relationships

          Sarah Coyne:  Family Life.            801-422-6949. [Faculty Page]

Families and Health Care

          D. Russell Crane:  Family Life.       801-422-5623. [Faculty Page]

The Flourishing Families Project

          Randal D. Day:  Family Life.          801-422-6415. [Faculty Page]
          James Harper:  Family Life.           801-422-3888. [Faculty Page]
          Rick Miller:  Family Life.                801-422-2860. [Faculty Page]
          Laura Walker:  Family Life.            801-422-9053. [Faculty Page]
          Jeremy Yorgason:  Family Life.      801-422-3515. [Facutly Page]

If They Could Change the World: Children, Youth and the Politics of Childhood in American's Civil Rights Movement

          Rebecca de Schweinitz: History.      801-422-1594. [Faculty Page]

The Relation between Child Health and Academic Achievement

          Eric Eide:  Economics.                    801-422-4883. [Faculty Page]

Divorce and Subjective Well-Being

          Lance Erickson:  Sociology.            801-422-1683. [Faculty Page]

Family H.O.P.E:  Helping Families Raising Children with Disabilities and Problem Behaviors

          Tina Dyches:  Counseling and Special Education.  801-422-5045. [Faculty Page]

Human Infant's Perception of Non-human Communication Signals

          Ross Flom:  Psychology.               801-422-1147. [Faculty Page]

A Formative Evaluation of a Curriculum for Utah’s Mandated Divorce Orientation Education Course for Divorcing Parents

          Alan Hawkins:  Family Life.           801-422-7088. [Faculty Page]

Adolescent Conceptions of Morality: Development and Functioning

Individual, Family, and Peer-Level Predictors of Involvement in Inter-School Fights among Samoan Youth

          Sam Hardy:  Psychology.              801-422-7138. [Faculty Page]

Work-Life Harmony:  Global Perspectives

          Jeffry Hill:  Family Life.                 801-422-9091. [Faculty Page]

Understanding the Association between Marriage and Health:  An Examination of Oxytocin as a Mediator of the Cardiovascular Benefits of Emotional Support

          Julian Holt-Lunstad:  Psychology. 801-422-1324. [Faculty Page]

Marital Satisfaction, Error-observation, and the Brain:  Harmful or Beneficial Effects of Spouse Observation?

          Michael Larson:  Psychology.         801-422-6125. [Faculty Page]

Transnational Adoption in Utah County

          Charlie Morgan:  Sociology.           801-422-3652. [Faculty Page]

The Narrative Identity of Youth in Foster Care as a component of Readiness for Independence:  A comparative Study

          Jini Roby:  Social Work.                801-422-5085. [Faculty Page]

Parental & Sibling Adaptation in Families of Children with Chronic Conditions

          Susanne Olsen Roper:  Family Life. 801-422-2058. [Faculty Page]

Children's Event Related Potentials in Response to Intersensory Stimulation With Social and Non-Social Stimulus

An Examination of the Role of Oxycotin in Breastfed and Bottle Fed Infants' Emotional and Psysiological Organization

          Chris Porter:  Family Life.               801-422-5806. [Faculty Page]

Pornography and Marriage

          Joseph Price: Economics.                801-422-5296. [Faculty Page]

Autism, Anxiety and Amygdala:  an fMRI Study of Emotion Learning in Autism and Typical Development

         Mikle South:  Psychology.                801-422-4058. [Faculty Page]

The Impacts of Self-Construals and Masculinity/Femininity:  A Cross-Cultural Comparison of American and Japanese College Students' Attitudes Toward Mental Health Services

         Niwako Yamawaki:  Psychology.        801-422-8053. [Faculty Page]