Brenda L Volling
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BIO
Dr. Volling is the Lois Wladis Hoffman Collegiate Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on the social and emotional development of infants and toddlers, parent-child interaction, and the role of family relationships in facilitating children’s social and emotional development. She has conducted extensive research on the role of fathers for infant and child development and continues to work with international collaborators, students, and post-doctoral fellows to advance research in father-child relationships. She is also the Principal Investigator of the Family Transitions Study (FTS), a longitudinal investigation examing changes in family functioning and the firstborn’s adjustment after the birth of a second child, which has received funding from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the Fetzer Foundation.
- Lin Tan, Lauren R Bader, Brenda L Volling, Richard D Gonzalez. 2026. Children's emotion understanding and attachment security to mothers and fathers across the transition to siblinghood. Journal of Family Psychology
- Brenda L Volling, Emma E. A. Beyers-Carlson, Lin Tan, Lauren Rosenberg, Richard D Gonzalez. 2026. You need to take turns! Sibling sharing and the emergence of conscience in early childhood. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 43(1):375-402.
- Myriam Al Bcherraoui, Brenda L Volling, Lin Tan, Richard D Gonzalez. 2026. Attachment network, interparental conflict, and older siblings? behavior predicting toddler behavior problems. Journal of Family Psychology
- Lin Tan, Lauren R Bader, Brenda L Volling, Richard D Gonzalez. 2026. Children's emotion understanding and attachment security to mothers and fathers across the transition to siblinghood. Journal of Family Psychology
- Brenda L Volling, Nina Howe, Laurie Kramer. 2025. Sibling relationships across childhood and adolescence: Recommendations for parents and health care practitioners. APA handbook of pediatric psychology, developmental-behavioral pediatrics, and developmental science: Developmental science and developmental origins of risk and resilience in childhood and adolescence :267-287.
- Park, Yanghyun, Brenda L Volling, Maguire-Jack, Kathryn, Park, Yangjin. 2025. The role of depression in the relationship between psychological intimate partner violence and mothers' and fathers' spanking: An actor-partner interdependence mediation model. Men & Masculinities 26(2):241-253.
- Audrey-Ann Deneault, Julia S. Feldman, Alp Aytuglu, Lilly C. Bendel-Stenzel, Eric L. Olofson, Reed Donithen, Sarah J. Schoppe-Sullivan, Brenda L Volling. 2025. Best Practices for Recruiting and Retaining Fathers in Parenting Research: Insights from Fathering Researchers. Parenting
- Brenda L Volling, Natasha J. Cabrera. 2025. Loving, Laughing, and Learning: How Father-Child Relationships Contribute to Children's Development in Early Childhood. Annual Reviews 7
- Brenda L Volling, Marc H. Bornstein. 2025. Not Just Father Involvement! Contemporary Perspectives on Fathering and Father-Child Relationships. Parenting 25(4):353-366.
- Joyce Y. Lee, Shawna Jo Lee, Olivia D. Chang, Analia F. Albuja, Muzi Lin, Brenda L Volling. 2024. Low-income fathers are emotionally resilient: A qualitative exploration of paternal emotions across early parenting. Infant Mental Health Journal 45(6):645-669.