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Patricia Pendry Annenberg Hall Room 104 2120 Campus Drive Evanston, IL 60208-0001 Cell: (847) 208-4090

Biography

Succecssfully defended dissertation in Human Development and Social Policy, with a concentration in Child Development and Social Policy. Will earn degree in December 2007.

Curriculum Vitae

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Awards/Honors

2006 - Dissertation Year Fellowship, Northwestern University

2005 - Graduate Fellowship, Northwestern University

2004 - Recipient of the Institute for Policy Research Graduate Fellowship

2002 - Spencer Research Training Grant, Spencer Foundation

2001 - Human Development and Social Policy Graduate Fellowship

Research/Scholarship
Education

Year		Degree		Institution
2007		PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol Human Development and Social Policy		Northwestern University
2000		Bachelor of Philosophy, Summa Cum Laude		Northwestern University

Dissertation

Year	Title
2007	Antecedents, Consequences and Pathways of Associations between Interparental Discord and Child Development in Infancy, Childhood and Adolescence: An Examination of Negative Emotionality, Child Cognitive and Socioemotional Functioning and HPA –axis activit

Selected Publications

Pendry, P. & Adam, E.K. (May, 2007). Associations between Parents’ Marital Functioning, Maternal Parenting Quality, Maternal Emotion and Child Cortisol Levels. International Journal of Behavioral Development.
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Adam, E.K., Snell, E.K. & Pendry, P. (January, 2007). Children’s Weekday and Weekend Sleep Behaviors: Associations with Child and Family Characteristics, Children’s Schedules, and Parenting. . Special issue of Journal of Family Psychology.
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Selected Presentations

Adam, E.K., Snell, E.K. & Pendry, P. (March, 2007). Factors Associated with Hours of Sleep, Bedtimes and Waketimes in a Nationally Representative Sample of Children and Adolescents. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of SRCD in the symposium "Carpe Noctem" : Family Functioning and the Sleep of Infants, Children, and Adolescents. Boston, MA.. .

Emily K. Snell & Patricia Pendry (August, 2005). A Typology of Father Involvement: Longitudinal Patterns of Fathering in Married and Non-Married Populations. Paper presented at annual meeting of the American Psychological Association. Washington, DC . .

Patricia Pendry & Emma K. Adam (April, 2005). Associations between Marital Discord, Parenting and Children’s Stress Physiology: The role of parent gender and child age. Paper presented in the symposium "Developmental and transactional perspectives on the role of basic regulatory processes" at SRCD. Atlanta, GA. .

Patricia Pendry (November, 2004). Hormones under Siege? Associations between Marital Functioning, Parenting Quality, Parent Emotion and Cortisol Levels in Kindergarten-aged Children. Paper presented at the colloquia series at the program for Human Development and Social Policy. Evanston, IL. .

Patricia Pendry & Emily K. Snell (April, 2004). A Typology of Fathering: Emerging Patterns of Fathering in Married and Non-Married Populations. Paper presented at the bi-annual meeting of the Society for Research in Human Development. Park City, UT. .

Pendry, P. & Snell, E. K. (April, 2004). A Typology of Fathering: Emerging Patterns of Father Involvement in Married and Non-Married Populations. Poster presented at the annual research fair of the program on Human Development and Social Policy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. . .

Patricia Pendry & Emma K. Adam (April, 2003). Hush-a Bye Hormones: Parent behavior, parent emotional and marital functioning, and child cortisol. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa, FL.. .

Patricia Pendry & Emma K. Adam (April, 2003). Parenting quality, parent emotion, interparental relationship functioning and child cortisol. Poster presented at the annual research fair of the program on Human Development and Social Policy. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL .

Symposia and Workshops

Year		Description
2005		Pendry, P. (Chair) & Adam, E.K. (2005). Chair of the Symposium on Marital Discord and Child Development: Developmental and Transactional Perspectives on the Role of Basic Regulatory Processes at the bi-annual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD). Paper presentation: Associations between Marital Discord, Parenting and Children’s Stress Physiology: The role of parent gender and child age.
2004		ECLS-B Database Training Seminar, US Department of Education, National Institute for Education Statistics (NCES), Washington, D.C., January, 2004.
2004		Graduate Teaching Certificate Program, Searle Teaching Center , Northwestern University , Evanston, IL , 2004-present.
2002		Attachment ABC Coding Workshop by Dr. Alan Sroufe, University of Minnesota, Institute of Child Development, Minneapolis, MN, July 2002.

Research Interests

My research examines the dynamics of couple and family relationships and their influence on the cognitive, social, emotional, and physiological development of infants, children and adolescents. I am particularly interested in the effects of interparental conflict on child stress system functioning (i.e., cortisol levels) and its role in mediating effects of conflict on child functioning and development. I am also interested in policies, programs and interventions aimed at improving couple relationship functioning and their implications for child and family wellbeing.

Teaching/Advising
Courses

HDPS 351

Inter-parental Discord & Child Development Inter-parental Discord & Child Development

Committees (PhD)

Start		End		Name		Position		Description
				Dr. Emma Adam		Chair
				Dr. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale		Member
				Dr. Greg Duncan		Member
				Dr. Emily Durbin		Member