Nancy Ellen Darling is an American psychologist. She is the William and Jeannette Smith Chair of psychology at Oberlin College, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Adolescence, and founder of 1step2life.
Nancy Darling | |
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| Academic background | |
| Education | BS, 1981, MS, 1987, PhD, developmental psychology, 1990, Cornell University |
| Thesis | Control beliefs during early adolescence: a comparison of the niche formation and socialization models of development (1990) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Oberlin College Bard College Penn State University Dickinson College |
| Website | nancydarling |
Early life and education
editDarling is of German ancestry; her maternal grandparents arrived in the United States between World War I and World War II.[1] She earned her Bachelor of Science degree, Master's degree, and PhD from Cornell University.[2] Upon completing her doctoral degree, she joined the faculty of psychology at Temple University for her post-doc fellowship until 1993.[3]
Career
editDarling joined the faculty at Dickinson College following her post-doc fellowship for two years before accepting a position at Penn State University (PSU).[3] While at PSU, she collaborated with Linda Caldwell to develop the "Structure of Adolescent Leisure" project, which allowed undergraduates to enter multi-disciplinary field research.[4] Darling later authored a study published in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence which concluded that young boys were more vulnerable when it comes to dating.[5] She left PSU in 2000 to accept an associate professor position with Bard College's psychology faculty.[3] During her short tenure at Bard, she co-published Theory, measurement, and methods in the study of family influences on adolescent smoking with Patricio Cumsille through the Addiction journal.[6] She also continued her focus on teenagers and lying and conducted a study which found that 98 percent of teenagers have lied to their parents.[7]
In 2005, Darling transferred to Oberlin College in Ohio to accept an associate professor position in their psychology department.[3] While serving in this role, she was also appointed the newest editor-in-chief of the Journal of Adolescence.[8] In 2019, Darling and her research team received a $20,000 grant towards moving the web-based app 1step2life, which helps adolescents manage chronic pain, for purchase through the iTunes App Store.[9]
References
edit- ^ "It Takes A New Village". Ohio: Elyria Chronicle Telegram. May 8, 2014. Retrieved August 11, 2020 – via newspaperarchive.com.
- ^ "Nancy Darling". oberlin.edu. Retrieved August 7, 2020.
- ^ a b c d "Nancy Darling CV". yumpu.com. Retrieved August 25, 2020.
- ^ "Faculty honored for collaborative instructional, curricular innovation". psu.edu. 1997. Retrieved August 26, 2020.
- ^ Irwin, Dana (December 8, 1999). "Study shows dating stressful for males". collegian.psu.edu. Retrieved August 26, 2020.
- ^ Darling, Nancy; Cumsille, Patricio (May 2003). "Theory, measurement, and methods in the study of family influences on adolescent smoking". Addiction. 98 (1): 21–36. doi:10.1046/j.1360-0443.98.s1.3.x. PMID 12752360. Retrieved August 26, 2020.
- ^ Chang, JuJu (February 12, 2008). "Why Do Kids Lie?". abcnews.go.com. Retrieved August 26, 2020.
- ^ "From the President" (PDF). earaonline.org. May 2015. Retrieved August 26, 2020.
- ^ Ulrich, Erin (March 13, 2019). "Psychology Students Develop Technology to Help Adolescents Manage Chronic Pain". oberlin.edu. Retrieved August 26, 2020.
External links
edit- Nancy Darling publications indexed by Google Scholar