Welcome to the USC Family Studies Project!
For over 20 years the USC Family Studies Project has been conducting research under the direction of Dr. Gayla Margolin, Professor of Psychology at USC. This project resides in the Psychology Department at USC and has been funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institute of Mental Health, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
The mission of the USC Family Studies Project is to conduct state-of-the art research on family interaction that can be used to inform prevention and intervention efforts, as well as address legislative and social policy concerns. This research is founded on several premises:
- that the family unit is a key socializing influence for children;
- that families comprise interconnected units—what happens in one part of the family affects other parts;
- that families can either exacerbate or buffer life stressors;
- that the study of families requires rigorous and valid methods for assessing family process;
- that personal trajectories across the lifespan are influenced by a combination of environmental (familial, cultural, societal) and individual (temperamental, attitudinal) factors.
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Created under the Stamp Out Domestic Violence Act of 2001, the Stop Family Violence Stamp allows every American to contribute to a nationwide effort to end domestic violence. The design was created by Monique Blais, a six-year-old girl from Santa Barbara, California.
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