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Arnold J. Sameroff,
Ph.D. Arnold Sameroff is a developmental psychologist with a primary interest in the factors that contribute to mental health and psychopathology. He is engaged in a number of longitudinal projects with infants, school-age children, adolescents, and young adults to examine the effects of family, community, school and peer group on social-emotional and academic success using an ecological model of development. He is examining the transactional relations between child characteristics and parent behavior and belief systems, and between parent characteristics and their ethnic, socioeconomic, and neighborhood backgrounds. Among the samples being studied are infants with physiologic regulatory problems, children with depressed parents, and adolescents living in neighborhoods with few resources to support development. He is exploring the relation of risk and protective factors to issues of vulnerability and resilience. A major question is whether single individual or environmental factors have major consequences for developmental outcomes or whether it is the accumulation of a variety of risks, independent of their specific qualities, that is the determining influence.In 2005, Sameroff received the Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award from the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD). He is currently President-Elect of SRCD.
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