Dr Alison Pike

Biography

Role

Reader in Psychology

Director of Student Experience in Psychology

My interests span all of the key family relationships, marital, parent-child, and sibling, as well as the broader family context & climate.  Specifically, I link family relations to children's well-being.  I take a family systems approach to research, meaning that I pay attention to the inter-dependence of relations among family members, as well as recognizing that the broader contexts of work, school, neighbourhood, and culture can affect the nature of families, as well as effects that families have on children’s development.

Course convenor:
Psychology of the Family (Year 3)

Contributing lecturer:
Developmental Psychology (Year 2)

Student Consultation

My office hours are Tuesdays & Thursdays 10:30 - 11:30.

Pike, Alison and Oliver, Bonamy R (2013) Parenting in childhood. In: Behavioral genetics of interpersonal relationships across the lifespan. Springer, New York. (In Press)

Pike, Alison (2012) Commentary: are siblings birds of a feather? - reflections on Jenkins et al. (2012). The Journal Of Child Psychology And Psychiatry, 53 (6). pp. 630-631. ISSN 0021-9630

Carr, Amanda and Pike, Alison (2012) Maternal scaffolding behavior: Links with parenting style and maternal education. Developmental Psychology, 48 (2). pp. 543-551. ISSN 0012-1649

Pike, Alison (2012) The importance of behavioural genetics for developmental science. International Journal of Developmental Science, 6 (1-2). pp. 13-15. ISSN 2192-001X

Kretschmer, Tina and Pike, Alison (2010) Associations between adolescent siblings' relationship quality and similarity and differences in values. Journal of Family Psychology, 24 (4). pp. 411-418. ISSN 0893-3200

Dawson, Anneka and Pike, Alison (2010) Sex differences in academic self-concepts in middle childhood. The Psychology of Education Review, 34 (2). pp. 43-46. ISSN 0262-4087

Pike, Alison and Eley, Thalia C (2009) Links between parenting and extra-familial relationships: Nature or nurture? Journal of Adolescence, 32 (3). pp. 519-533. ISSN 0140-1971

Pike, Alison, Kretschmer, Tina and Dunn, Judith F (2009) Siblings - friends or foes? Psychologist, 22 (6). pp. 494-497. ISSN 0952-8229

Kretschmer, Tina and Pike, Alison (2009) Young children's sibling relationship quality: Distal and proximal correlates. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 50 (5). pp. 581-589. ISSN 0021-9630

Coldwell, Joanne, Pike, Alison and Dunn, Judy (2008) Maternal differential treatment and child adjustment: A multi-informant approach. Social Development, 17 (3). pp. 596-612. ISSN 0961-205X

Oliver, Bonamy R., Pike, Alison and Plomin, Robert (2008) Nonshared environmental influences on teacher-reported behaviour problems: monozygotic twin differences in perceptions of the classroom. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 49 (6). pp. 646-653. ISSN 0021-9630

Atzaba-Poria, Naama and Pike, Alison (2008) Correlates of parental differential treatment: Parental and contextual factors during middle childhood. Child Development, 79 (1). pp. 217-232. ISSN 0009-3920

Atzaba-Poria, Naama and Pike, Alison (2008) Correlates of parenting for mothers and fathers from English and Indian backgrounds. Parenting, 8 (1). pp. 17-40. ISSN 1529-5192

Atzaba-Poria, Naama and Pike, Alison (2007) Are ethnic minority adolescents at risk for problem behavior? Acculturation and intergenerational acculturation discrepancies in early adolescence. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 25 (4). pp. 527-541. ISSN 0261-510X

Cahill, Katherine R, Deater-Deckard, Kirby, Pike, Alison and Hughes, Claire (2007) Theory of mind, self-worth, and the mother-child relationship. Social Development, 16. pp. 45-56.

Coldwell, Jo, Pike, Alison and Dunn, Judy (2006) Household chaos - links with parenting and child behaviour. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 47 (11). pp. 1116-1122. ISSN 0021-9630

Pike, Alison, Iervolino, Alessandra C, Eley, Thalia C, Price, Thomas S and Plomin, Robert (2006) Environmental risk and young children's cognitive and behavioral development. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 30. pp. 55-66.

Pike, Alison, Coldwell, Joanne and Dunn, Judy (2006) Family relationships in middle childhood. Parenting in practice . National Children's Bureau for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, London. ISBN 9781904787860

Pike, Alison, Coldwell, Joanne and Dunn, Judith F (2005) Sibling relationships in early/middle childhood: Children's perspectives and links with individual adjustment. Journal of Family Psychology, 19 (4). pp. 523-532. ISSN 0893-3200

Atzaba-Poria, Naama and Pike, Alison (2005) Why do ethnic minority (Indian) children living in Britain display more internalizing problems than their English peers? The role of social support and parental style as mediators. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 29. pp. 532-540.

Deater-Deckard, Kirby, Atzaba-Poria, Naama and Pike, Alison (2004) Mother- and father-child mutuality in Anglo and Indian British families: a link with lower externalizing problems in middle childhood. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 32 (6). pp. 609-620. ISSN 0091-0627

Atzaba-Poria, Naama, Pike, Alison and Deater-Deckard, Kirby (2004) Do risk factors for problem behaviour act in a cumulative manner? An examination of ethnic minority and majority children through an ecological perspective. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 45 (4). pp. 707-718. ISSN 0021-9630

Atzaba-Poria, Naama, Pike, Alison and Barrett, Martyn (2004) Internalising and externalising problems in middle childhood: A study of Indian (ethnic minority) and English (ethnic majority) children living in Britain. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 28. pp. 449-460.

Pike, Alison and Atzaba-Poria, Naama (2003) Do sibling and friend relationships share the same temperamental origins? A twin study. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 44 (4). pp. 598-611. ISSN 0021-9630

Asbury, Kathryn, Dunn, Judith F, Pike, Alison and Plomin, Robert (2003) Nonshared Environmental Influences on Individual Differences in Early Behavioral Development: A Monozygotic Twin Differences Study. Child Development, 74 (3). pp. 933-943. ISSN 0009-3920

Manke, Beth and Pike, Alison (2003) Combining the social relations model and behavioral genetics to explore the etiology of familial interactions. Marriage and Family Review, 33. pp. 179-204.

Iervolino, Alessandra C, Pike, Alison, Manke, Beth, Reiss, David, Hetherington, E Mavis and Plomin, Robert (2002) Genetic and environmental influences in adolescent peer socialization: evidence from two genetically sensitive designs. Child Development, 73 (1). pp. 162-174. ISSN 0009-3920

Deater-Deckard, Kirby, Pike, Alison, Petrill, Stephen A, Cutting, Alexandra L, Hughes, Claire and O'Connor, Thomas G (2001) Nonshared environmental processes in social-emotional development: An observational study of identical twin differences in the preschool period. Developmental Science, 4. F1-F6.

Pike, Alison, Manke, Beth, Reiss, David and Plomin, Robert (2000) A genetic analysis of differential experiences of adolescent siblings across three years. Social Development, 9 (1). pp. 96-114. ISSN 0961205X