Eric Dearing

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Campion Hall
Room 201B

617.552.1477

EDUCATION

Postdoctoral Fellow in Biological and Developmental Psychiatry, Judge Baker Children's Center, Harvard Medical School
2001 Ph.D. in Psychology, University of New Hampshire
1998 MA in Psychology, University of New Hampshire
1994 BA in Psychology, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

EXPERTISE/INTERESTS

Child development within impoverished and dangerous contexts
Parenting and parent-child relationships
Self-regulatory processes

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Dearing, E., Berry, D., Mazlow, M. (in press). Poverty and early child development. K. McCartney & D. Phillips (Eds.), The handbook of early childhood development. Blackwell Publishing.

Dearing, E., McCartney, K., & Taylor, B. A. (in press). Within-child associations between family income and externalizing and internalizing problems. Developmental Psychology.

Dearing, E. (2004). The developmental implications of restrictive and supportive parenting across neighborhoods and ethnicities: Exceptions are the rule. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 25, 555-575.

Dearing, E., McCartney, K., Weiss, H. B., Kreider, H., & Simpkins, S. (2004). The promotive effects of family educational involvement for low-income children's literacy. Journal of School Psychology, 42, 445-460.

Dearing, E., Taylor, B. A., & McCartney, K. (2004). The implications of family income dynamics for women's depressive symptoms during the first three years following childbirth. American Journal of Public Health, 94, 1372-1377.

Dearing, E., McCartney, K., & Taylor, B. A. (2001). Change in family income-to-needs matters more for children with less. Child Development, 72, 1779-1793.

Dearing, E., McCartney, K., Marshall, N. L., & Warner, R. M. (2001). Parental reports of children's sleep and wakefulness: Longitudinal associations with cognitive and language outcomes. Infant Behavior and Development, 24, 151-170.

Simpkins, S., Weiss, H. B., Kreider, H., McCartney, K., & Dearing, E. (in press). The moderating effect of parent-child relationship qualities on the relations between parent educational involvement and child achievement. Parenting: Science and Practice.

Taylor, B., Dearing, E., & McCartney, K. (2004). Incomes and outcomes in early childhood. Journal of Human Resources, 39, 980-1007.

Weiss, H. B., Dearing, E., McCartney, K., Kreider, H., Mayer, E., & Simpkins, S. (2005). Family educational involvement: Who can afford it and what does it afford? In C. R. Cooper, C. Garcia Coll, T. Bartko, H. Davis, & C. Chatman (Eds.), Developmental pathways through middle childhood: Rethinking context and diversity as resources, (pp. 17-39). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Weiss, H. B., Mayer, E., Vaughan, P., Kreider, H., Dearing, E., Hencke, R., & Pinto, K. (2003). Making it work: Low-income working mothers' involvement in their children's education. American Educational Research Journal, 40, 879-901.