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Obradović,
Jelena
Assistant Professor
Child and Adolescent Development Program |
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My research examines how contextual risk and adversity influence children’s adaptation across multiple domains of functioning over time. I am interested in identifying the biological, behavioral, and environmental processes that enable some highly disadvantaged children to demonstrate remarkable resilience, while placing others at risk for maladaptive outcomes. I primarily study how exposure to environmental risk and adversity interacts with children’s stress reactivity and self-regulatory abilities to influence their social, emotional, and cognitive development. |
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* Ph.D. Developmental Psychology, Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, 2007
* M.A. Developmental Psychology, Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, 2005
* B.A. Psychology, Lewis & Clark College, 2002 |
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* Assistant Professor, Child and Adolescent Development Program, 2009-present
* Junior Fellow, CIFAR Experience-based Brain and Biological Development network, 2009-2011
* Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of British Columbia, 2007-2009 |
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| * Since 2009. |
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| * Adaptation, resilience, and developmental psychopathology of disadvantaged children populations; Stress reactivity and biological sensitivity to contextual influences; Executive function and self-regulatory abilities; Effects of risk, adversity, and social status on children’s development. |
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* Psychological and Educational Resilience among Children and Youth (EDUC 256)
* Cognitive Development (EDUC 368) |
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* Obradović, J., Bush, N. R., Stamperdahl, J., Adler, N. A., & Boyce, W. T. (in press). Biological sensitivity to context: The interactive effects of stress reactivity and family adversity on socio-emotional behavior and school readiness. Child Development.
* Obradović, J. (in press). Effortful control and adaptive functioning of homeless children: Variable- and person-focused analyses. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology.
* Obradović, J., Shaffer, A. E., & Masten, A. S. (in press). Adversity and risk in developmental psychopathology: Progress and future directions. In L. C. Mayes & M. Lewis (Eds.), A Developmental Environment Measurement Handbook.
* Obradović, J., Burt, K. B., & Masten, A. S. (in press). Testing a dual cascade model linking competence and symptoms over 20 years from childhood to adulthood. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology.
* Obradović, J., & Boyce, W. T. (in press). The role of stress reactivity for child development: Indices, correlates and future directions. In L. C. Mayes & M. Lewis (Eds.), A Developmental Environment Measurement Handbook.
* Obradović, J., Long, J. D., Cutuli, J. J., Chan, A., Hinz, E., Heistad, D., & Masten, A. S. (2009). Academic achievement of homeless and highly mobile children in an urban school district: Longitudinal evidence on risk, growth, and resilience. Development and Psychopathology, 21, 493-518.
* Obradović, J. & Boyce, W. T. (2009). Individual differences in behavioral, physiological, and genetic sensitivities to contexts: Implications for development and adaptation. Developmental Neuroscience, 300-308. |
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* Principal Investigator, Processes underlying children’s susceptibility to environmental influences
* Co-Principal Investigator, Cognitive cultures and stress: Immigrant youth in family and school contexts (with Dr. Janxin Leu at the University of Washington)
* Co-Investigator, Epigenetic modifications and social disparities in neurodevelopmental vulnerability (PI: Dr. Tom Boyce, University of British Columbia)
* Collaborator, The Peers and Wellness Study (PI: Dr. Tom Boyce, University of California, Berkeley)
* Collaborator, Athena Studies of Resilient Adaptation (PI: Dr. Frosso Motti, University of Athens, Greece) |
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* Phone: 650.725.1250
* Email: jelena.obradovic@stanford.edu
* Home page: http://www.stanford.edu/~jelenao
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