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Faculty
-- Social-Personality Program Area
Monica
L. Rodriguez, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Office: Social Sciences 315
Phone: (518) 442-4794
Fax: (518) 442-4867
EMail: monica@albany.edu
Research Lab: Social-Personality
Development
Curriculum
Vitae (pdf) |
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Research Areas of Interest
My research focuses on the nature and development of self-regulatory processes
involving the delay of immediate rewards for the sake of more desired long-term
outcomes. Much of this research has sought to identify relevant individual
and contextual factors influencing self-regulation, from toddlerhood to adolescence,
and its role in preventing social maladjustment in children at clinical and
demographic risk. We have examined prospectively the role of self-regulation
in forecasting socio-emotional outcomes and academic competencies in different
populations from elementary school years to early adolescence. Likewise, my
colleagues and I have investigated relevant maternal, individual, and contextual
factors involved in the early development of self-regulatory skills (from infancy
to preschool age), as well as the socio-emotional mechanisms that enable older
youth to pursue long-term goals and to respond adaptively to challenge and
adversity. Currently we are conducting a large-scale project on prevention
of child maltreatment in collaboration with the Office for Children and Family
Services in New York State and the Human Services Center at the School of Social
Welfare at SUNY Albany. In this multi-level, longitudinal study, we are evaluating
the effects of a home visitation program (a randomized-trial) at a broad level,
on the incidence of maternal child maltreatment, as well as at a microanalytic
level, focusing on maternal behaviors and self-regulatory processes in mother-child
interaction in a population of mothers at risk for child maltreatment during
pregnancy. Specific areas of interest follow.
 Early
Social and Personality Development
Self-Regulatory
Processes
Field
Studies in Populations at Risk
Education
Ph.D., 1985, Social Psychology,
State University of New York at Stony Brook
M. A., 1984, Psychology, State University of New
York at Stony Brook
B. A., 1978, Clinical Psychology License, Universidad
Catolica de Chile |
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