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Research Interests

Alysia Blandon’s research focuses on the interaction across multiple family subsystems (e.g., marital, coparenting, parenting, & sibling relationships) and contextual factors (e.g., race/ethnicity, SES, & gender) that influence children’s emerging self-regulation capabilities and their social and emotional development.  A particular focus is placed on specifying the developmental trajectories of children’s self-regulation across multiple levels including physiological, behavioral, and emotional processes.   The goal is to identify different pathways of development with an emphasis on examining the risk and protective factors that promote prosocial behavior or exacerbate children’s risk for later behavior problems and poor social functioning. 

Recent Publications

Blandon, A. Y., Calkins, S. D., Keane, S. P., & O’Brien, M.  (2008). Individual differences in trajectories of emotion regulation processes: The effects of maternal depressive symptomatology and children’s physiological regulation.  Developmental Psychology, 44, 1110-1123.

Blandon, A. Y., & Volling, B. L.  (2008).   Parental gentle guidance and children’s compliance within the family:  A replication study.  Journal of Family Psychology, 22, 355-366.

Calkins, S. D., Blandon, A. Y., Williford, A. P., & Keane, S. P.  (2007).  Biological, behavioral, and relational levels of resilience in the context of risk for early childhood behavior problems.  Development and Psychopathology, 19, 675-700.

Volling, B. L., Kolak, A. M., & Blandon, A. Y. (in press).  Family subsystems and children’s self-regulation. In S. L. Olson & A. Sameroff (Eds.), Regulatory processes in the development of childhood behavior problems: Biological, behavioral, and social-ecological perspectives. NY: Cambridge University Press.

Volling, B. L., Blandon, A. Y., & Gorvine, B. J.  (2006).  Maternal and paternal gentle guidance and young children’s compliance from a within-family perspective.  Journal of Family Psychology, 20, 514-525.

Volling, B. L., Blandon, A. Y., & Kolak, A. M.  (2006).  Marriage, parenting, and the emergence of early self-regulation in the family system.  Journal of Child and Family Studies, 15, 493-506.

Ajrouch, K. J., Blandon, A. Y., & Antonucci, T. C. (2005).  Social networks among men and women: The effects of age and socioeconomic status.  Journal of Gerontology: Psycholgocial Sciences and Social Sciences, 60B, S311-S317.

Volling, B. L., & Blandon, A. Y. (2005). Positive indicators of sibling relationship quality: The Sibling Inventory of Behavior. In. K. Anderson Moore, & L. H. Lippman (Eds.), What do children need to flourish? Conceptualizing and measuring indicators