Natalie D. Eggum is an Associate Professor in Arizona State University's T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, and Director of The ECLIPSE Studies Lab (https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/eclipse). Dr. Eggum researches factors that shape children’s and adolescents' social, emotional, and psychological adjustment internationally. She has published over 60 articles and chapters. She is a Consulting Editor for Developmental Psychology. Her research has been funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and The Brady Education Foundation. Her methodological interests involve latent variable modeling and longitudinal data.
Dr. Eggum teaches undergraduate-level statistics, as well as graduate-level advanced quantitative methods courses. Her teaching was recognized with the 2014 Zebulon Pearce Distinguished Teaching Award in Social Sciences by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the 2016 Centennial Professorship Award by the Associated Students of Arizona State University.
Dr. Eggum's service activities facilitate emerging scholars’ success in social science careers, as well as improve students’ and scholars’ understanding and application of quantitative methods. She serves as Coordinator for The Sanford School's Quantitative Methodology Group.
Education
Ph.D. Developmental Psychology, Arizona State University 2009
The mission of Dr. Eggum's research is to provide insight into child, social, and cultural factors that shape children’s social, school, and psychological adjustment domestically and internationally. Four central goals guide her research:
Describe the nature, and develop accurate measures, of children’s social withdrawal and social competence in children and adolescents.
Determine why children and adolescents develop social withdrawal and social competence.
Establish if, how, and why social withdrawal and social competence affect children’s and adolescents’ adaptation in other domains.
Examine if, how, and why children’s and adolescents’ experiences of adversity relate to their psychological and academic adjustment.
Dr. Eggum's methodological interests involve latent variable modeling of longitudinal data.
