Department of psychology

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Manfred van Dulmen , Ph.D.

Education: Ph.D., University of Minnesota (2001)

Research Interests

Antecedents and consequences of competence and psychopathology during adolescence and young adulthood. Current research projects focus on (a) the role of adolescent/young adult romantic relationships, (b) contextual influences on antisocial behavior and suicide, (c) successful transitions into young adulthood, and (d) advancing best practices in research methodology and statistics.

Lab site: Adolescent Developmental Psychopathology Lab

Courses Frequently Taught

• Laboratory Experience in Psychological Research: Social/Clinical (undergraduate)
• Sex and Romance in the 21st Century (undergraduate)
• Quantitative Statistical Analysis I (graduate)
• Quantitative Statistical Analysis II (graduate)
• Analysis of Change and Development (graduate)
  

Recent Publications

* denotes graduate student author

Collins, W. A. & van Dulmen, M. H. M. (2006). Friendships and romantic relationships in emerging adulthood. In J. J. Arnett & J. Tanner (Ed.), Emerging adult in America: Coming of age in the 21st Century. Washington, DC: APA.

Ong, A. D., & van Dulmen, M. H. M. (2006). Handbook of Methods in Positive Psychology. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

van Dulmen, M. H. M., Belliston, L. M., Flannery, D. J., & Singer, M. (2008). Confirmatory factor analysis of the recent exposure to violence scale across three samples from middle childhood through adolescence. Children & Schools, 30, 93 - 102.

van Dulmen, M. H. M., Goncy*, E. A. Haydon*, K. C., Collins, W. A. (2008). Distinctiveness of adolescent and emerging adulthood romantic relationship features in predicting externalizing behavior problems. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 37, 336 - 345

Karazsia*, B. T., & van Dulmen, M. H. M. (2008). Regression models for count data: Illustrations using longitudinal predictions of childhood injury. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 33, 1076 - 1084

van Dulmen, M. H. M., Goncy*, E., Vest, A., & Flannery, D. J. (2009). Group based trajectory modeling of externalizing behavior problems from childhood through adulthood: Exploring discrepancies in the empirical findings. In J. Savage (Ed.), The development of persistent criminality. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Karazsia*, B. T., & van Dulmen, M. H. M. (in press). Assessing injuries with proxies:  Implications for concurrent relations and behavioral antecedents of pediatric injuries. Journal of Pediatric Psychology.

Flannery, D. J., van Dulmen, M. H. M., & Mata*, A. D. (in press). Developmental trajectories of exposure to violence. In M. J. Delisi & K. Beaver (Eds.) The life-course of antisocial behavior: Aggression to delinquency to crime. Boston, MA: Jones & Bartlett.

Goncy*, E. A., & van Dulmen, M. H. M. (in press). Fathers do make a difference: Parental influences on adolescent alcohol use. Fathering.

Goncy*, E. A., Roley, M., & van Dulmen, M. H. M. (in press). Strategies for retaining participants in longitudinal research with economically disadvantaged and ethically diverse samples. In D. L. Steiner & S. Sidani (Eds.), When research studies go off the rails: Solutions and prevention strategies. Guilford Press.