My Research Interests:

• Coparenting and couple relationships
• Transition to parenthood
• Intersection of technology and family life
• Daily diary and intensive longitudinal data (ILD) designs

You may download my Vitae by clicking HERE.

NOTE: Last updated on March 2, 2017.

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Involvement
of Students
in Research

Students interested in working with me can email me at btmcdaniel.phd@gmail.com.

Along with teaching courses, I value mentorship as a teaching process and have found my mentorship experiences to be rewarding and a vital part of my work. Indeed, across my teaching and research, help from students (as teaching and research assistants) is always essential.  I have had many experiences teaching, training, and working with students. For example, I have mentored teams of teaching assistants during my courses, coding teams in observational research, and teams of undergraduate students across various semesters on recruitment, data collection, and data management for my daily diary research.

Example research skills my students learn include: how to connect theory to research, data management/cleaning, coding observational data, how to apply statistics to study variables, how to create research questions and hypotheses, how to find and summarize professional research articles, and so forth. I also mentor my students in answering a research question that is of interest to them utilizing my “real” data.

I expect and build toward my students being able to:

• think critically about the value and use of theory and research
• describe procedures used to study psychological aspects of families, relationships, and individuals
• accurately and effectively write about theories and interpersonal phenomena
• apply these experiences to future research and/or their chosen profession
• demonstrate knowledge and skills about research. 

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Peer-Reviewed Publications

McDaniel, B. T., & Radesky, J. (in press). Technoference: Parent distraction by technology and associations with child behavior problems. Child Development.

Cooper, A., Totenhagen, C., McDaniel, B. T., & Curran, M. A. (in press). Volatility in daily relationship quality: The roles of attachment and gender. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. doi: 10.1177/0265407517690038
 
Akçabozan, N. B., McDaniel, B. T., Curran, M. A., & Corkery, S. A. (in press). Gender, sacrifices, and variability in commitment: A daily diary study of pregnant cohabitors and their partners. Sex Roles.
 
McDaniel, B. T., Drouin, M., & Cravens, J. (2017). Do you have anything to hide? Infidelity-related behaviors on social media sites and marital satisfaction. Computers in Human Behavior, 66, 88-95. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2016.09.031

Leavitt, C. E., McDaniel, B. T., Maas, M. K., & Feinberg, M. E. (2017). Parenting stress and sexual satisfaction among first-time parents: A dyadic approach. Sex Roles, 76, 346-355. doi: 10.1007/s11199-016-0623-0

Le, Y., McDaniel, B. T., Leavitt, C. E., & Feinberg, M. E. (2016). Longitudinal associations between relationship quality and coparenting across the transition to parenthood: A dyadic perspective. Journal of Family Psychology, 30, 918-926 . doi: 10.1037/fam0000217
 
McDaniel, B. T., & Coyne, S. M. (2016). Technology interference in the parenting of young children: Implications for mothers’ perceptions of coparenting. The Social Science Journal, 53, 435-443. doi: 10.1016/j.soscij.2016.04.010
                                                                                                
Pempek, T. A., & McDaniel, B. T. (2016). Young children’s tablet use and associations with maternal well-being. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 25, 2636-2647. doi: 10.1007/s10826-016-0413-x

McDaniel, B. T., & Coyne, S. M. (2016). “Technoference”: The interference of technology in couple relationships and implications for women’s personal and relational well-being. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 5, 85-98. doi: 10.1037/ppm0000065
                         *Note: Originally published online in the journal in December 2014.

Curran, M. A., McDaniel, B. T., Pollitt, A. M., & Totenhagen, C. J. (2015). Gender, emotion work, and relationship quality: A daily diary study. Sex Roles, 73, 157-173. doi: 10.1007/s11199-015-0495-8

McDaniel, B. T., & Drouin, M. (2015). Sexting among married couples: Who is doing it, and are they more satisfied? Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. doi: 10.1089/cyber.2015.0334

Maas, M., McDaniel, B. T., Feinberg, M. E., & Jones, D. E. (2015). Division of labor and multiple domains of sexual satisfaction among first-time parents. Journal of Family Issues. doi: 10.1177/0192513X15604343

Teti, D. M., Crosby, B., McDaniel, B. T., Shimizu, M., & Whitesell, C. (2015). Marital and emotional adjustment in mothers and infant sleep arrangements during the first six months. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 80, 160-176. doi: 10.1111/mono.12150

McDaniel, B. T., & Teti, D. M. (2012). Coparenting during the first three months after birth: The role of infant sleep quality. Journal of Family Psychology, 26, 886-895. doi: 10.1037/a0030707

McDaniel, B. T., Coyne, S. M., & Holmes, E. K. (2012). New mothers and media use: Associations between blogging, social networking, and maternal well-being. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 16, 1509-1517. doi: 10.1007/s10995-011-0918-2

Book Chapters

McDaniel, B. T. (2015). “Technoference”: Everyday intrusions and interruptions of technology in couple and family relationships. In C. J. Bruess (Ed.), Family communication in the age of digital and social media. New York: Peter Lang Publishing.

Teti, D. M, Philbrook, L., Shimizu, M., Reader, J., Rhee, H.-Y., McDaniel, B. T., Crosby, B., Kim, B., & Jian, N. (2015). The social ecology of infant sleep: Structural and qualitative features of bedtime and nighttime parenting and infant sleep in the first year. In S. Calkins (Ed.), Handbook of infant biopsychosocial development. New York: Guildford Press.

Eggebeen, D. J., Knoester, C., & McDaniel, B. T. (2012).  The implications of fatherhood for men.  In N. Cabrera and C. S. Tamis-LeMonda (Eds.), Handbook of father involvement: Multidisciplinary perspectives (2nd Edition). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Under Review

McDaniel, B. T., Teti, D. M., & Feinberg, M. E. (revise and resubmit). Assessing coparenting relationships in daily life: The Daily Coparenting Scale (D-Cop).

Galovan, A., McDaniel, B. T., Curran, M. A., & Ledermann, T. (revise and resubmit). Considering similarity in dyads: A daily diary example of similarity in couples’ emotion work.

McDaniel, B. T., Cravens, J., Drouin, M., & Galovan, A. M. (under review). Technoference and implications for mothers’ and fathers’ couple and coparenting relationship quality.

Holmes, E. K. & McDaniel, B. T. (under review). Contextualizing the effects of child sleep problems on depression: Mothers’ marital status, employment, and life stress as moderators.