Lars R Bergman
Professor
Head of the Laboratory for Developmental Science
Head of the research program Individual Development and Adaptation
Research interests
Behavioral science research methodology, especially methods for studying development. One research area is the development of new methods for studying profiles and structures from a process-oriented perspective. These methods include cluster analytic methods and non-linear dynamic models. Another research area is measurement in longitudinal research.
The study of the adjustment process. The main field of interest is the complex system that determines adjustment reactions and how it evolves during development. Examples of areas studied are the growth of pattern of adjustment problems and the longitudinal study of subjective well-being.
Ten selected scientific publications
Bergman, L.R. (2001). (Guest Ed.). Modern interactionism. In Special Issue of European Psychologist, 6, 151-152.
Bergman, L.R. (2001). A person approach in research on adolescence: Some methodological challenges. Journal of Adolescent Research, 16, 28-53.
Bergman, L.R., Andershed, H., & Andershed, A.-K. (2009). Types and continua in developmental psychopathology: Problem behaviors in school and their relationship to later antisocial behavior. Development and Psychopathology, 21, 975-992.
Bergman, L.R., Cairns, R.B., Nilsson, L.-G., & Nystedt, L. (Eds.). (2000). Developmental science and the holistic approach. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Bergman, L.R., & Lundberg, O. (Eds.). (in press). Perspectives on determinants of social welfare. In Special Issue of International Journal of Social Welfare.
Bergman, L.R., Magnusson, D., & El-Khouri, B.M. (2003). Studying individual development in an interindividual context: A person-oriented approach. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Daukantaite, D., & Bergman, L.R. (2005). Childhood roots of women's subjective well-being. The role of optimism. European Psychologist, 10, 287-297.
Lövdén, M., Bergman, L.R., Adolfsson, R., Lindenberger, U., & Nilsson, L.-G. (2005). Studying individual aging in an interindividual context: Typical paths of age-related, dementia-related, and mortality-related cognitive development in old age. Psychology and Aging, 20, 303-316.
von Eye, A., & Bergman, L.R. (2003). Research strategies in developmental psychopathology: Dimensional identity and the person-oriented approach. Development and Psychopathology, 15, 553-580.
Wångby, M., Bergman, L.R., & Magnusson, D. (1999). Development of adjustment problems in girls: What syndrome emerge? Child Development, 70, 678-699.
Find Bergman's abstracts in the Annual Report database.
