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ADDRESS: 283 EML Hall, NDSU Fargo ND 58105
TELEPHONE: (701) 231-8268 Dr.Jim Deal, Head
James E. Deal, Ph.D., Professor and Head
Ph.D., 1987, Child & Family Development, University of Georgia; Minor, Social PsychologyM.S., 1984, Child & Family Development, University of Georgia
B.S., 1982, Sociology, Georgia Southern College (Magna Cum Laude)
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2004 - present; Professor and Head, Department of Child Development and Family Science, North Dakota State University
1996 - 2004: Associate Professor & Chair, Department of Child Development and Family Science, North Dakota State University
1993 - 1996: Assistant Professor & Chair, Department of Child Development and Family Science, North Dakota State University
1990 - 1993: Assistant Professor, Division of Family Studies, University of Arizona
- 1987 - 1990: Post-Doctoral Fellow, NIMH Multi-Site Training Program on Family Process and Psychopathology.
- 1989 - 1990: Center for Family Research, George Washington University.
- 1987 - 1989: Department of Psychology, University of Virginia
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Quantitaitve Research Methods
Personality Development in Children
COURSES CURRENTLY TAUGHT
CDFS 320 - Prenatal, Infant and Toddler Development
CDFS 403 - Introduction to Research Methods in Child Development and Family Science
PUBLICATIONS
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Deal, J.E., Halverson, C.F., Martin, R., Victor, J. & Baker, S. (2007). The Invetory of Children's Individual Differences: Development and validation of a short version. Journal of Personality Assessment, 89, 162-166.
Deal, J.E., Halverson, C.F., Havill, V., & Martin, R. (2005). Temperament factors as longitudinal predictors of young adult personality. Merrill Palmer Quarterly, 51, 315-334.
Halverson, C.F., Havill, V., Deal, J.E., Baker, S., Victor, J., Pavlopoulos, V., Besevegis, E., & Wen, L. (2003). Personality structure as derived from parental ratings of free descriptions of children: The Inventory of Child Individual Differences. Journal of Personality, 71, 995 - 1026.
DeHaan, L., Hawley, D., & Deal, J.E. (2002). Operationalizing family resilience: A methodological strategy. American Journal of Family Therapy, 30, 275 ˆ 291.
Deal, J.E., Stanley Hagan, M., Bass, B., Hetherington, M., & Clingempeel, G. Marital Interaction in dyadic and triadic contexts: continuities and discontinuities. (1999). Family Process, 38, 105 - 115.
Deal, J.E., Halverson, C.F., & Wampler, K.S. (1999). Parental similarity on childrearing orientations: Effects of stereotype similarity. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 16, 87 - 102.Sanders, G., Myers-Bowman, K., & Deal, J.E. (1999). Sexuality, Sex and the Internet: Findings and Solutions for Families, Family Life Educators, and Policy Makers. Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 91, 112 - 115.
Deal, J.E., Stanley Hagan, M., Bass, B., Hetherington, M., & Clingempeel, G.(1999). Marital Interaction in Dyadic and Triadic Contexts: Continuities and Discontinuities. . Family Process, 38, 105 - 115.
Deal, J.E., Halverson, C.F., & Wampler, K.S. (1999). Parental similarity on childrearing orientations: Effects of stereotype similarity. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 16, 87 - 102.
Deal, J.E., Bosch, G., Sanders, G., & Klenow, D. (1998). Children of Divorce: A program evaluation. North Dakota Journal of Human Services, 2, 3 - 8.
Deal, J.E., Wampler, K.S., & Halverson, C.F. (1998). Children's school behavior and performance: Relations to marital and familial characteristics. Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal, 26, 281 - 302.
Deal, J.E. (1996). Marital conflict and differential treatment of siblings. Family Process, 35, 333 - 346.
Deal, J.E. (1995). Utilizing data from multiple family members: A within-family approach. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 57, 1109 - 1121.
Deal, J.E., & Anderson, E.R. (1995). Reporting and interpreting results in family research. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 57, 1040 - 1048.
Benson, M., & Deal, J.E. (1995). Bridging the individual and the family. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 57, 561 - 566. (Order of authorship is alphabetical.)
Deal, J.E., Wampler, C.F., & Halverson, C.F. (1992). The importance of similarity in the marital relationship. Family Process, 31, 369 - 382.
Deal, J.E., Hagan. M., & Anderson, E. (1992). The marital relationship in remarried families. In E.M. Hetherington & G. Clingempeel, in collaboration with E.Anderson, J.Deal, M.Hagan, A.Hollier, & M.Lindner (Eds.), Coping With Marital Transitions: A Family Systems Perspective. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 57 (2-3, serial no. 227).
Hetherington, E., Clingempeel, G., in collaboration with Anderson, A., Deal, J., Hagan, M., Hollier, A., & Lindner, M. (Eds.). (1992). Coping With Marital Transitions: A Family Systems Perspective. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 57 (2-3, serial no. 227).
Deal, J.E., Halverson, C.F., & Wampler, K.S. (1989). Parental greement on child-rearing orientations: Relations to parental, marital, family, and child characteristics. Child Development, 60, 1025-1034.
Skeen, P., Paguio, P., Robinson, B., & Deal, J.E. (1988). Mothers working outside of the home: Attitudes of fathers and mothers in three cultures. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 3,389-398. (Reprinted in E. Goldsmith (ed.), Work and family: Research, theory, and applications. Beverly Hills: Sage.
Deal, J.E. (1988). Similarity in mate selection and courtship progress: The use of self- and other- perceptions. Family Science Review, 1, 211-223. Paguio, L., Robinson, B., Skeen, P., & Deal, J.E. (1987). Relationship between fathers' and mothers' socialization practices and children's locus of control in Brazil, the Philippines, and the United States. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 148, 303-313.
Deal, J.E., & Wampler, K.S. (1986). Dating violence: The primacy of previous experience. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 3, 457-471.
INVITED BOOK CHAPTERS
Deal, J.E., Halverson, C.F., & Havill, V. Personality and family process. (2005). Pp. 291-292 in Bengtson, V., Accock, A., Allen, K., & Dilworth-Anderson, P., Soucebook of family theory and research.
DeHaan, L.G., & Deal, J.E. (2001). Hidden faces of poverty: Effects of economic hardship on rural children and adolescents. In R. Moore (Ed.), The Hidden America: Social Problems in Rural America in the Twenty-first century. (pp. 42-56). London: Associated University Press 2001
EXTERNAL FUNDINGHalverson, C.F., & Deal, J.E. (in press). Temperamental Change, Parenting, and the Family Context. In T. Wachs & Dolph Kohnstamm (Eds.), Temperament in context. (pp. 61-79). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Wampler, K.S., Halverson, C.F., & Deal, J.E. (1996). Risk and resiliency in nonclinical young children: The Georgia Longitudinal Study. In E.M. Hetherington & E.Blechman (Eds.), Stress, coping and resiliency in children and the family (pp. 135-154). Hillsdale NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Deal, J.E., Halverson, C.F., & Wampler, K.S. (1994). Sibling similarity as an individual differences variable: Within family measures of shared environment. In E.M. Hetherington, D. Reiss, & R. Plomin, Separate social worlds of siblings: The impact of nonshared environment on development (pp. 205-218). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
RESEARCH GRANTS
Halverson, C.F., Martin, R., Havill, V. Deal, J.E., & Victor, J. Dimensions of Personality in Parental Natural Language. National Institutes of Health, January, 1999 - December, 2004; $1,662,884.00.
CONTRACTS
Deal, J. E., & Hemberger, K. Parents as Teachers Program. North Dakota Pathfinders, October, 1999 - September 2005; $1,156,390.
Deal, J.E., & Hemberger, K. Infant/Toddler Intensive Training. North Dakota Department of Human Services/Bush Foundation, July, 1999 - February, 2000; $34,341.
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