Nancy Hazen’s current research primarily examines how parenting and family relationships affect the development of young children’s emotional and social competence. This longitudinal research focuses especially on the role of fathers in the family system, addressing issues such as how fathers function as attachment figures, how fathers and mothers function as a co-parenting system, and how fathers and mothers jointly, as well as separately, affect their children’s development. A secondary focus of her research is preschool peer relationships. She uses observational methods to investigate developmental and gender differences in young children’s communication skills and peer exclusion.
Select Publications
Fanger, S. M., Frankel, L. A., & Hazen, N. (2012). Peer exclusion in preschool children’s play: Naturalistic observations in a playground setting. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 58(2), 224-254.
Sasaki, T., Hazen, N., and Swann, W. B. (2010). The supermom trap: Involved dads foster marital satisfaction but erode mom’s self-esteem. Personal Relationships, 17, 71-79.
Hazen, N., McFarland, L., Jacobvitz, D., & Boyd-Soisson, E. (2010). Fathers’ frightening behaviors and sensitivity with infants: Relations with fathers’ attachment representations, father-infant attachment, and children’s later outcomes. Early Child Development and Care, 180, 51-69.
Curran, M., Hazen, N., & Mann, T. (2009). Husbands’ and wives’ expectations of parenthood and representations of the parents’ marriage as predictors of coparenting across the transition to parenthood. Parenting: Science and Practice, 9, 101–122
Curran, M., Hazen, N., Jacobvitz, D. and Sasaki, T. (2006). How representations of the parental marriage predict marital emotional attunement during the transition to parenthood. Journal of Family Psychology, 20, 477-484
Courses Recently Taught
Undergraduate
HDF 351 – Infant Development
HDF 345 – Peer Relationships
HDF 313 & HDF 113L – Child Development & Child Development Laboratory
Graduate
HDF 395.1 – Theories and Issues in Human Development and Family Sciences
HDF 394 – Development of Close Relationships from Infancy through Adolescence.
Nancy L. Hazen-Swann
Associate Professor
HDFS FacultyOffice: SEA 2.422
Lab: SEA 4.418
Phone
Office: 512-471-1261Lab: 512-471-1740
Fax: 512-475-8662
Email
Work: nancyhazen@utexas.eduResearch Areas
infancy and childhood, interpersonal relationships, parenting and caregivingDocuments
CV [pdf]Syllabus HDF 313 [pdf]
Research Interests
Nancy Hazen’s current research primarily examines how parenting and family relationships affect the development of young children’s emotional and social competence. This longitudinal research focuses especially on the role of fathers in the family system, addressing issues such as how fathers function as attachment figures, how fathers and mothers function as a co-parenting system, and how fathers and mothers jointly, as well as separately, affect their children’s development. A secondary focus of her research is preschool peer relationships. She uses observational methods to investigate developmental and gender differences in young children’s communication skills and peer exclusion.
Select Publications
Fanger, S. M., Frankel, L. A., & Hazen, N. (2012). Peer exclusion in preschool children’s play: Naturalistic observations in a playground setting. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 58(2), 224-254.
Sasaki, T., Hazen, N., and Swann, W. B. (2010). The supermom trap: Involved dads foster marital satisfaction but erode mom’s self-esteem. Personal Relationships, 17, 71-79.
Hazen, N., McFarland, L., Jacobvitz, D., & Boyd-Soisson, E. (2010). Fathers’ frightening behaviors and sensitivity with infants: Relations with fathers’ attachment representations, father-infant attachment, and children’s later outcomes. Early Child Development and Care, 180, 51-69.
Curran, M., Hazen, N., & Mann, T. (2009). Husbands’ and wives’ expectations of parenthood and representations of the parents’ marriage as predictors of coparenting across the transition to parenthood. Parenting: Science and Practice, 9, 101–122
Curran, M., Hazen, N., Jacobvitz, D. and Sasaki, T. (2006). How representations of the parental marriage predict marital emotional attunement during the transition to parenthood. Journal of Family Psychology, 20, 477-484
Courses Recently Taught
Undergraduate
HDF 351 – Infant Development
HDF 345 – Peer Relationships
HDF 313 & HDF 113L – Child Development & Child Development Laboratory
Graduate
HDF 395.1 – Theories and Issues in Human Development and Family Sciences
HDF 394 – Development of Close Relationships from Infancy through Adolescence.