Assistant Professor Holli Tonyan, Ph.D.
Contact
- Office Phone: (818) 677-4970
Office Location: ST 321 - Email: Holli.Tonyan@csun.edu
- Website: http://www.csun.edu/~htonyan
Education
- Ph.D. 2001, UCLA. Psychological Studies in Education.
- B.A. 1996, Carleton College (MN). Psychology.
Courses Taught
- PSY 313
PSY 302
Selected Publications and Presentations
Tonyan, H. A. (2006). Considering the social nature of emotions. Every Child, 12, 9.
Tonyan, H. A. (2006). Using functionalist and sociocultural theories to examine coregulation of distress in mother-child interaction. New Zealand Research in Early Childhood Education Journal, 9, 105-114.
Tonyan, H. A. (2005). Coregulating distress: Mother-child interactions around children’s distress from 14 to 24 months. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 29, 433–444.
Tonyan, H. A., & Howes, C. (2003). Exploring patterns in time children spend in a variety of child care activities: Associations with quality of care, ethnicity, and gender. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 192, 1-22.
Howes, C., & Tonyan, H. A. (2000). Links between adult and peer relationships across four developmental periods. In K. A. Kerns & A. M. Neal-Barnett (Eds.), Examining associations between parent-child and peer relationships (pp. 85-113). NY: Greenwood/Praeger.
Howes, C., & Tonyan, H. A. (1999). Peer relations. In L. Balter & C. Tamis-LeMonda (Eds.), Child psychology: A handbook of contemporary issues (pp.143-157). Philadelphia: Psychology Press
Research Interests
Recent, ongoing collaborative projects examined playful interactions with teachers and parents. What are common characteristics of playful interactions that emerge from ongoing activity in day-to-day life? One project involves analysis of archived video files capturing interactions at home whereas the other project involves following children aged 2-3 for a ‘day in the life' at child care.
A new project I am currently developing will examine daily transitions between home and centres for infants and toddlers. How is the commonly stressful time socially mediated? How do different immediate stakeholders (parents/guardians, child care professionals, children) negotiate the many different interests both immediate and driven by the larger contexts of which they are a part (e.g., parent/guardian workplace, professional organizations around early childhood, government agencies/regulators, etc) that intersect in these daily practices?
I am currently organizing my lab activities. If you are interested in working as a research assistant with me, please email me and set up a time to talk with me about the projects. I am particularly looking for one or two individuals to assist in a systematic review of research into stress and cortisol reactions in child care (spring) and for two to three individuals to assist in collecting data for the daily transitions between home and child care project (during the spring and early summer).