Courses Taught
PSYC 0105: Introduction to Psychology
PSYC 0225: Child Development
PSYC 0423: Emotional Development
PSYC 0427: Stress & Coping: Pathways to Risk and Resiliency
Research Interests
My research interests center around the general theme of how family stress affects children's development, with a primary focus on children's emotional development. I am particularly interested in the relationship between children's emotional distress and the development of emotional and behavioral problems. The types of family stressors I have examined include exposure to marital conflict, parent-child negotiations, and children growing up in a household in which one or both parents are depressed. In addition to developing and utilizing multi-method and multi-informant assessment techniques, I am interested in developing intervention programs to reduce the risk of psychopathology in children.
Publications
Compas, B. E., Langrock, A. M., Keller, G., Merchant, M. J., & Copeland, M. E. (in press). -Children Coping With Parental Depression: Processes of Adaptation to Family Stress. In S. -Goodman & I. Gotlib (Eds.), Children of Depressed Parents: Alternative Pathways to Risk for Psychopathology. American Psychological Association.
Crockenberg, S., & Langrock, A. M. (2001). The role of specific emotions in children's responses to interparental conflict: A test of the model. Journal of Family Psychology, 15, 163 - 182.
Crockenberg, S., & Langrock, A. M. (2001). The role of emotion and emotional regulation in children's response to marital conflict. In J.H. Grych & F.D. Fincham (eds.), Child Development and Interparental Conflict (pp. 129 - 157). NY, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Levine, S. C., Huttenlocher, J., Taylor, A., & Langrock, A. M. (1999). Early sex differences in spatial skills. Developmental Psychology, 35, 940-949.
Crockenberg, S., Jackson, S., & Langrock, A. M. (1996). Effects of parenting and gender on children's social competence. In M. Killen (vol. ed.), New directions in child development: -Children's autonomy, social competence, and interactions with adults and other children. (vol.73, pp. 41-56), San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
In preparation
Langrock, A. M., Compas, B. E., Keller, G., & Merchant, M. J. (2001). Coping with the Stress of Parental Depression: Parents' Reports of Children's Coping and Emotional/Behavioral Problems. (Manuscript submitted for publication.)
Langrock, A. M., Compas, B. E., Keller, G., & Merchant, M. J. (2001). Children Coping with Parental Depression: Correspondence between adolescent and parent reports of coping and adjustment. (Manuscript in preparation.)
Langrock, A. M., Compas, B. E., Agocha, V. B., Sherman, M., Grossman, C., & Beckjord, E. (2001). Women coping with breast cancer: Validating a measure of coping and involuntary stress responses. (Manuscript in preparation.)
Glinder, J. G., Compas, B. E., & Langrock, A. M. (2001). Perceived control and adjustment to newly diagnosed breast cancer. (Manuscript in preparation.)
Conference Presentations
Langrock, A. M. & Kaiser, C. (May, 2001). Coping with cancer: Strategies for managing stress. Presentation at the Weekend of Hope Cancer Conference, Stowe, Vermont.
Langrock, A. M., Grossman, C., Compas, B. E., Sherman, M., Pierce, T., & Luecken, L. (March, 2001). Women coping with breast cancer: Validating a measure of coping and involuntary stress responses. Poster presented at the Society for Behavioral Medicine. Seattle, Washington.
Langrock A. M., Compas, B. E., Keller, G., & Merchant, M. J. (April, 2001). Children coping with parental depression: Correspondence between parent and adolescent reports of coping and psychopathology. Poster presented at the Biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Langrock A. M., Compas, B. E., Keller, G., & Merchant, M. J. (June, 2000). Children coping with parental depression. Poster presented at the Society of Prevention Research. Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Langrock, A. M., Stanger, C., Kamon, J., Higgins, S. T., Bickel, W. K., Grabowski, J., Schmitz, J., Amass, L., & Seracini, A. (June, 2000). Does parental depression increase the risk to children of drug dependent parents? Poster presented at the Society of Prevention Research. Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Langrock, A. M., & Crockenberg, S. (April, 1999). The impact of interparental conflict on children: Direct, indirect, and interactive effects. Paper presented at the Biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Langrock, A. M. (April, 1999). Buffering boys from fathers' maritally aggressive behavior: An examination of father-son interactions. Poster presented at the Biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Crockenberg, S., & Langrock, A. M. (July, 1998). Marital conflict as a gendered experience: How patterns of inter-adult behavior and children's specific negative emotions influence behavioral adjustment. Paper presented at the Biennial meeting of the International Society of Behavioral Development. Berne, Switzerland.
Crockenberg, S., & Langrock, A. M. (July, 1998). Buffering children from the potentially negative impact of verbally aggressive marital conflict. Poster presented at the Biennial meeting of the International Society of Behavioral Development. Berne, Switzerland.
Crockenberg, S., Langrock, A. M., & Jackson, S. (March, 1997). Predicting girls' and boys' social competence from mothers' and fathers' conflict behavior. Poster presented at the Biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. Washington, D.C.
Crockenberg, S., Langrock, A. M., & Jackson, S. (July, 1996). Validating a narrative measure of children's social competence with peers. Poster presented at the Biennial meeting of the International Society of Behavioral Development. Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.