Vonnie C. McLoyd is Professor of Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is interested in the impact of economic disadvantage, work-related transitions, and parental job characteristics on family life and child development, the mediators and moderators of these impacts, and the implications of research on these issues for both practice and policy. McLoyd also has a longstanding interest in how race, ethnicity, and culture shape child socialization and development. She is currently PI for an NIMH-funded project that assesses models linking economic hardship to adolescent mental health through various family-level mediators and tests the replicability of these models across five longitudinal samples. She is also one of several investigators assessing the long-term impact on family functioning and child development of New Hope, a work-based anti-poverty program tested in a random assignment experimental design.

McLoyd, V. C., & Smith, J. (2002). Physical discipline and behavior problems in African American, European American, and Latino children: Emotional support as a moderator. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 64, 40-53.

Ceballo, R., & McLoyd, V. C. (2002). Social support and parenting in poor, dangerous neighborhoods. Child Development, 73, 1310-1321.

Mistry, R., Vandewater, E., Huston, A., & McLoyd, V. C. (2002). Economic well-being and children's social adjustment: The role of family process in an ethnically diverse low-income sample. Child Development, 73, 935-951.

Huston, A., Duncan, G., Granger, R., Bos, H., McLoyd, V.C., Mistry, R., Crosby, D., Magnuson, K., Romich, J., & Ventura, A. (2001). Work-based anti-poverty programs for parents can enhance the school performance and social behavior of children. Child Development, 72, 318-336.

McLoyd, V. C., Cauce, A. M., Takeuchi, D., & Wilson, L. (2000). Marital processes and parental socialization in families of color: A decade review of research. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 62, 1070-1093.

McLoyd, V. C. (1998). Socioeconomic disadvantage and child development. American Psychologist, 53, 185-204.

McLoyd, V. C. (1998). Children in poverty: Development, public policy, and practice. In W. Damon (Series Ed.), I. Sigel, & K. A. Renninger (Eds.), Handbook of child psychology: Vol 4. Child psychology in practice (5th ed., pp. 135-208). New York: Wiley.

McLoyd, V. C., & Steinberg, L. (1998). Studying minority adolescents: Conceptual, methodological, and theoretical issues. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Vonnie C. McLoyd
Department of Psychology
CB# 3270
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3270
215 Davie Hall, CB# 3270
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3270

Tel: 919-962-4134
Fax: 919-962-2537
vcmcloyd@unc.edu