UCLA Marriage & Family Project Goals & Description

The UCLA Marriage and Family Project is a 13 year longitudinal research study of how marriages evolve and deteriorate, how families form and change, and how relationships in families contribute to the social and behavioral development of young children. The current phase of the project involves having couples come in to the lab with their children and their oldest child's best friend to participate in a series of interviews, marital interactions, parent-child interactions, peer and sibling interactions, and child emotion regulation tasks.

OPPORTUNITIES

Psych 196
Psych 99 (SRP)
Honors Thesis
Psychology Research Opportunities Program (PROPS)
Other similar research programs

GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Preparing for lab sessions
Library research, photocopying, filing
Data management in Remark and SPSS
Occasional child care (of child participants)
Videotaping of lab sessions (many of the families come to lab sessions on the weekends or evenings and research assistants will be required to commit to 2 weekend days per month
Attending a weekly meeting with graduate students, a post-doctoral fellow, and Dr. Bradbury to discuss ongoing research in the lab
Possibly learn a coding system (a variety of adult and child tasks at this point)
Possibly train to become a child interviewer (on an as-needed basis)
3 quarter commitment, 8 hours/week

CODING RESPONSIBILITIES

Learning a variety of coding systems (depending on what is being coded at the time)
Possibly developing a coding system
Attending a weekly coding meetings
Complete coding assignments as assigned

PREVIOUS RESEARCH ASSISTANTS

Previous research assistants in our lab have been awarded various scholarships & research grants, including the Psi Chi Summer Research Grant and the McNair Undergraduate Research Scholarship.

If interested, please complete the online application.