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Patricia Pendry

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Assistant Professor

Areas of Emphasis

Family Functioning (e.g., Interparental Discord, Parenting), Psychophysiological Processes (e.g., HPA axis activity, sleep), Socioemotional Development in Infancy and Early Childhood, Social Policy

 

Current Project:
Family Life and Stress Study

The primary goal of this study is to better understand how exposure to interparental conflict in infancy and early childhood is associated with child maladjustment in socioemotional and behavioral domains, with an emphasis on discovering a physiological pathway by which interparental conflict leads to child maladjustment.

 

Education

• Ph.D. Human Development and Social Policy (2007)
  Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 
• B.Phil. Psychology, Summa cum Laude (2000)
  Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 

 

Peer Reviewed Publications

Pendry, P. & Adam, E.K. (2007). Associations between Parents’ Marital Functioning, Maternal Parenting Quality, Maternal Emotion and Child Cortisol Levels. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 31 (3), 218–231. (article)

Adam, E.K., Snell, E.K. & Pendry, P. (2007). Children’s Weekday and Weekend Sleep Behaviors: Associations with Child and Family Characteristics, Children’s Schedules, and Parenting. Special Issue on Sleep in the Journal of Family Psychology, 21 (1), 4–19. (article)

 

Grants

Selected Scholarly Presentations

Pendry, P. (2007, November). Effects of Child-Related Interparental Conflict at 9 months of age on Cognitive Ability and Socioemotional Functioning in Toddlerhood in a Nationally Representative Sample of Infants (ECLS-B). Roundtable paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Council on Family Relations, Pittsburg, PA
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Adam, E.K., Snell, E.K. & Pendry, P. (2007, March). Factors Associated with Hours of Sleep, Bedtimes and Waketimes in a Nationally Representative Sample of Children and Adolescents. Paper to be presented at the symposium “Carpe Noctem : Family Functioning and the Sleep of Infants, Children, and Adolescents” at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA Tampa, FL.

Pendry, P.* & Adam**, E.K. (2005, April). Associations between Marital Discord, Parenting and Children’s Stress Physiology: The role of parent gender and child age. Paper presented in the symposium "Marital discord and child development: Developmental and transactional perspectives on the role of basic regulatory processes" at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, GA. (* Organizer of Symposium, ** Presenter)

Snell, E. K. & Pendry, P. (2005, August). Longitudinal Patterns of Fathering in Married and Non-Married Populations. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association (APA), Washington, DC.

Pendry, P. & Snell, E. K. (2004, April). A Typology of Fathering: Emerging Patterns of Father Involvement in Married and Non-Married Populations. Paper presented at the bi-annual meeting of the Society for Research in Human Development, Park City, UT.

Pendry, P., & Adam, E. K. (2003, April). Hush-a-bye hormones: Parent behavior, parent emotional and marital functioning, and child cortisol. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa, FL.