Family Life Project/Children in Poverty
Start Date: 2002
Funder: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Penn State interested in how children develop have been awarded $16.5 million from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for a new five-year study. They will examine biological, individual, family and community influences that affect rural children. About 1,400 subjects from selected rural counties in North Carolina and Pennsylvania will be studied beginning in infancy and continuing over their first three years. In North Carolina, 800 newborns will be followed Wayne, Wilson and Sampson counties. In Project I, directed by Dr. Mark Greenberg of Penn State, researchers will examine child-related factors by measuring child temperamental reactivity and self-regulation. Dr. Lynne Vernon-Feagans of UNC will lead Project II, which will focus on competence as a precursor of later skills acquired in school.
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