IRSP Faculty Affiliate Profile:
Rena Repetti
Department of Psychology
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1563
Phone: (310) 206-9290
Email:
Webpage: http://repettilab.psych.ucla.edu

Research:
I am interested in the role that the family social environment plays in the health and well being of parents and children. In particular, I study the dynamic interplay between an individual’s efforts to cope with daily stressors and patterns of family interaction. This work originates in a social ecological perspective, one in which family members’ daily lives outside of the home are understood to be intimately intertwined with life within the home.

Selected Publications:

Saxbe, D. & Repetti, R.L. (in press). Taking the temperature of the family life: Preliminary results from an observational study.  In A. Marcus-Newhall, D. Halpern, & S. Tan (Eds), The Changing Realities of Work and Family: A Multidisciplinary Approach. New York: Wiley-Blackwell.

Klima, T. & Repetti, R.L. (in press). Children's peer relations and their psychological adjustment: Differences between close friendships and the larger peer group.  Merrill-Palmer Quarterly.

Saxbe, D., Repetti, R.L., & Nishina, A. (in press). Marital satisfaction, recovery from work, and diurnal cortisol among men and women.  Health Psychology.

Repetti, R.L., Taylor, S.E., & Saxbe, D. (2007). The influence of early socialization experiences on the development of biological systems. In J. Grusec & P. Hastings (Eds), Handbook of Socialization (pp. 124-152). New York, NY: Guilford Publications.

Reynolds, B. & Repetti, R.L. (2006). Adolescent girls' health in the context of peer and community relationships. In J. Worrell & C. Goodheart (Eds), Handbook of girls' and womens' psychological health: Gender and well-being across the life span (pp. 292-300). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Story, L. B. & Repetti, R.L. (2006). Daily occupational stressors and marital behavior. Journal of Family Psychology. 20(4), 690-700.

Repetti, R. (2005). A psychological perspective on the health and well-being consequences of parental employment. In S.M. Bianchi, L.M. Casper, & R. B. King (Eds.), Work, family, health and well-being (pp. 245-258). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Wood, J.J. and Repetti, R. L. (2004). What gets dad involved: A longitudinal study of change in parental caregiving involvement. Journal of Family Psychology, 18(1), 237-249.

Selected Courses:
Families, Emotion, and Health (graduate level seminar; Psych 298)

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