Department of Sociology & Crime, Law and Justice
Department of Sociology & Crime, Law and Justice
211 Oswald Tower
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-865-2527
Fax: 814-863-7216
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Alan Booth
Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Human Development, and Demography
513 Oswald Tower |
EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of Nebraska-Lincoln
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Divorce, changes in marital quality, and alterations in parent-child relations
Hormones and family processes
PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
Editor of the Journal of Marriage and the Family from 1986 to 1991
President of the Midwest Sociological Society in 1990
Chair of the American Sociological Association Family Section in 1991
Pennsylvania State University Faculty Scholar Award for Outstanding Achievement 1995
Chair of the National Council on Family Relations Research and Theory Section from 1996-1997
Program chair for the National Council on Family national meeting in 2002
Recipient of the American Sociological Association Family Section Distinguished Career Award in 2002.
He is principal investigator of two major research projects. The first, Marital Instability Over the Life Course, is a longitudinal study of more than 2,000 married persons and their offspring funded by the National Institute on Aging. Commencing in 1980. The focus of study has been on factors that influence and are influenced by divorce, changes in marital quality, and alterations in parent-child relations. The second,. Hormones, Family Relations, and Child Development, is a longitudinal study of 400 families with children funded by the W. T. Grant Foundation. The focus of the study is the inter-relationships between hormones and family processes.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Booth, A. & Amato, P. 2001. Parental pre-divorce relations and offspring post-divorce well-being. Journal of Marriage and Family, 63, 197-212.
Amato, P. & Booth, A. 2001. The legacy of parents’ marital discord: consequences for children’s marital quality, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 627-638.
Myers, S., & Booth, A. 2002. Forerunners of Change in Nontraditional Gender Ideology. Social Psychology Quarterly.
Booth, A., Carver, K., & Granger, D. 2002 Biosocial perspectives on the family. Journal of Marriage and the Family.
Booth, A., Johnson, D., & Granger, D. 1999. Testosterone and men’s depression: The role of social behavior. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 40, 130-140.
Johnson, D., & A. Booth. 1998. Is marital quality a product of the dyadic environment or individual factors? Panel evidence from individuals in successive marriages. Social Forces, 76, 883-904.
Amato, P., & A. Booth. 1997. Generation at Risk: Growing Up in an Era of Family Upheaval. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press.
Brown, S., & A. Booth. 1996. Cohabitation versus marriage: A comparison of relationship quality. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 58, 668-678.
Booth, A., D. Johnson, A. Branaman, & A. Sica. 1995. Belief and behavior: Does religion matter in today's marriage. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 57,661-671.
Booth, A. & D. R. Johnson. 1994. Declining health and marital quality. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 56,218-223.
Booth, A., & J. Dabbs. 1993. Testosterone and Men's Marriages. Social Forces, 72,463-477.
Booth, A., J. Edwards & D. Johnson. 1991. Social integration and divorce. Social Forces, 70, 207-224.