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Susanne Olsen Roper, Associate Professor

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Research

  • Families of children with chronic conditions and disabilities
  • Parenting and children's social development

Education

  • PHD Child & Family Development University of Georgia 1992
  • MS Home Economics Education; Minor, Child Development and Family Relations Brigham Young University 1981
  • BS Home Economics Education Brigham Young University 1975

Professional Affiliations

  • Marriage, Family and Human Development 1
  • Family Studies Center 2

Publications

  • ROPER, S. F., & Jackson, J. B. (2007). The ambiguities of out-of-home care: Children with severe or profound disabilities. Family Relations.
  • Nelson, L. J., Hart, C. H., Wu, B., Yang, C., & OLSEN S. F. (2006). Relations between Chinese mothers' parenting practices and social withdrawal in early childhood. International Journal of Behavioral Development.
  • Porter, C. L., Hart, C. H., Yang, C., Robinson, C. C., OLSEN, S. F., Zeng, Q., Olsen, J.A., & Jin, S. (2005). A comparative study of child temperament and parenting in Beijing, China and the western United States. International Journal of Behavioral Development.
  • Yang, C., Hart, C.H., Nelson, D. A., Porter, C. L., OLSEN, S. F., & Robinson, C. C. (2004). Fathering in a Beijing, Chinese Sample: Associations with boys' and girls' negative emotionality and aggression. Conceptualizing and measuring father involvement.
  • Russell, A., Hart, C.H., Robinson, C.C., OLSEN, S.F. (2003). Children's sociable and aggressive behavior with peers: A comparison of the US and Australia, and contributions of temperament and parenting styles. International Journal of Behavioral Development.
  • Marshall, E.S., OLSEN, S.F., Mandleco, B.L., Dyches, T.T., Allred, K.W., & Sansom, N. (2003). This is a spiritual experience: Perspectives of Latter-day Saint families living with a child with disabilities. Qualitative Health Research.
  • Cox, A.H., Marshall, E.S., Mandleco, B., OLSEN, S.F. (2003). Coping responses to daily life stressors of children who have a sibling with a disability. Journal of Family Nursing.
  • Mandleco, B., OLSEN S.F., Dyches, T.T., & Marshall, E.S. (2003). The relationship between family and sibling functioning in families raising a child with a disability. Journal of Family Nursing.
  • Wu, P., Robinson, C. C., Yang, C., Hart, C. H., OLSEN, S. F., Porter, C. L., Jin, S., Wo, J., & Wu, X. (2002). Similarities and differences in mothers' parenting of preschoolers in China and the United States. International Journal of Behavioral Development,.
  • Holman, T. B., Linford, S. T., Brooks, K. R., OLSEN, S. F., Rhoades, C. J., & Carroll, J. S. (2001). Putting it all together. Premarital prediction of marital quality or breakup.
  • Chipman, S., OLSEN, S. F., Klein, S. R., Hart, C. H., & Robinson, C. C. (2000). Differences in retrospective perceptions of parenting of male and female inmates and non-inmates.. Family Relations.
  • OLSEN, S. F., Marshall, E. S., Mandleco, B. L.., Allred, K. W., & Sansom, N. (1999). Family support, personal control, communication, and hardiness in families with children with disabilities. Journal of Family Nursing.
  • OLSEN, S. F., Martin, P., & Halverson, C. F. (1999). Personality, marital relationships, and parenting in two generations of mothers. International Journal of Behavioral Development.
  • OLSEN, S. F., Marshall, E. S., Chipman, S., Bingham, J., Buchanan, M., & Mandleco, B. L. (1999). Daily stressors and coping of siblings of children with special needs. Through the eyes of the child: Revisioning children as active agents of family life.
  • Hart, C.H., Nelson, D., Robinson, C. C., OLSEN, S. F., & McNeilly-Choque, M. K. (1998). Overt and relational aggression in Russian nursery-school-age children: Parenting style and marital linkages. Developmental Psychology.
  • Mandleco, B. L., Robinson, C. C., Marshall, E. S., & McNeilly-Choque, M. K. (1998). Social skills and peer relationships of siblings of children with disabilities: Parental and family linkages. Children's peer relations: Current issues and future directions.
  • Hart, C. H., OLSEN, S. F., Robinson, C. C., & Mandleco, B. L. (1997). The development of social and communicative competence in childhood: Review and a model of personal, familial, and extrafamilial processes.. Communications Yearbook.
  • Robinson, C.C., Mandleco, B., OLSEN, S. F., & Hart, C. H. (1995). Authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive parenting practices: Development of a new measure. Psychological Reports.
  • Martin, P., Johson, M. A., Poon, L. W., Clayton, G. M., & OLSEN, S.F. (1994). Group or individual testing: Does it make a difference?. Educational Gerontology.

Awards

  • Doctoral Research Fellowship Kappa Omicron Nu Honor Society 1993
  • Karl G. Maeser Excellence in Teaching Award Brigham Young University 2008

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