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Patrick S. Malone, Research Scientist, Center for Child and Family Policy  

Office Phone: +1 919 613 9301
Email Address: malone.ps@gmail.com

Areas of Expertise

    Education:
    Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1993
    B.S., Duke University, 1988

    Research Description: Malone’s current research interests include methodology for testing hypotheses of mediation, the measurement of change, and the etiology and prevention of adolescent health risk behaviors. His doctorate is in social psychology with a strong minor in research methods and statistics, and he has continued to pursue training in methodology, with an emphasis on structural equation modeling, longitudinal methods, and strategies for dealing with missing data. Most of Malone’s work is in modeling the predictors, onset, development, and consequences of adolescent risk behaviors, especially violence and substance use and abuse.

    Malone's current research interests also include the development and nature of ethnic identity, and the psychological impact of perceived discrimination. Long-standing interests also include the development of identity more generally, the nature and implications of different levels of self-esteem, cognitive and motivational processes of attribution and self-perception, and the nature of academic giftedness and creative processing.

    His primary role at the Center is with the Fast Track program. Fast Track is a multisite intervention project aimed at reducing adolescent conduct disorder via a long-term, multifaceted intervention; Malone is a statistician with the project's Data Center. In addition, Malone works as statistician with the Child Development Project, a multisite, longitudinal investigation of child and adolescent development, with a particular emphasis on the development of problem behaviors.

    His training is in social psychology, with a focus on attribution processes, person perception, and self-perception. More recently, he was affiliated with Project RAPP (Reaching Adolescents, Parents, and Peers), an intervention program aimed at reducing adolescent involvement in violence, substance use, and early and unprotected sex among a population of urban minority adolescents.

    Representative Publications   (More Publications)

    1. Dodge, K.A., Malone, P.S., Lansford, J.E., Miller-Johnson, S., Petit, G.S., & Bates, J.E.. "Toward a dynamic developmental model of the role of parents and peers in early onset substance use." Families count: Effects on child and adolescent development. Ed. A. Clarke-Stewart & J. Dunn Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006: 104-134. [catalogue.asp]
    2. Lansford, J.E., Malone, P.S., Stevens, K.I., Dodge, K.A., Bates, J.E., & Petit, G.S.. "Developmental trajectories of externalizing and internalizing behaviors: Factors underlying resilience in physically abused children." Development and Psychopathology 18.1 (2006): 35-55.  [abs]
    3. Lansford, J.E., Malone, P.S., Castellino, D.R., Dodge, K.A., Petit, G.S., & Bates, J.E.. "Trajectories of internalizing, externalizing, and grades for children who have and have not experienced their parents' divorce or separation." Journal of Family Psychology 20 (2006): 292-301.  [abs]
    4. Lansford, J.E., Chang, L., Dodge, K.A., Malone, P.S., Oburu, P., Palmérus, K., Bacchini, D., Pastorelli, C., Bombi, A.S., Zelli, A., Tapanya, S., Chaudhary, N., Deater-Deckard, K., Manke, B., & Quinn, N.. "Physical discipline and children's adjustment: Cultural normativeness as a moderator." Child Development 76 (2005): 1234-1246.  [abs]
    5. Schulting, A.B., Malone, P.S., & Dodge, K.A.. "The effect of school-based kindergarten transition policies and practices on child academic outcomes." Developmental Psychology 41 (2005): 860-871.  [abs]
    6. Malone, P.S., Lansford, J.E., Castellino, D.R., Berlin, L.J., Dodge, K.A., Bates, J.E., & Pettit, G.S.. "Divorce and child behavior problems: Applying latent change score models to life event data." Structural Equation Modeling 11 (2004): 401-423.  [abs]
    7. Miller-Johnson, S., Winn, D.-M.C., Coie, J.D., Malone, P.S., & Lochman, J.. "Risk factors for adolescent pregnancy reports among African American males." Journal of Research on Adolescence 14 (2004): 471-496.  [abs]
    8. Rabiner, D.L., Malone, P.S., & The Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group. "The impact of tutoring on early reading achievement for children with and without attention problems." Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology 32 (2004): 273-284.  [abs]
    9. Rabiner, D.L., Murray, D.W., Schmid, L., & Malone, P.S.. "An exploration of the relationship between ethnicity, attention problems, and academic achievement." School Psychology Review 33 (2004): 498-509.  [abs]

    Curriculum Vitae

    Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

    • Darren Woodlief  
    • Jill Lubansky  

    Patrick S. Malone