Dara R. Musher-Eizenman
mushere@bgsu.edu
(419)372-2948
Curriculum Vitae

Associate Professor of Psychology

Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1998

Professor Musher-Eizenman's research focuses on short-term change in variables that are typically thought of as stable and investigates how meaningful patterns of change may be found and related to outcomes of interest. She has studied the variability in week-to-week perceived environmental control with an elderly sample and showed that those whose weeks varied less had higher chances of survival over a 5-year period. Her current work addresses short-term change in variables related to child and adolescent adjustment. An ongoing project addresses children's weekly attitudes while enrolled in a school-based substance use prevention program to examine whether rapid or slower, cumulative change in attitudes are predictors of healthy behaviors. She applies methods such as dynamic factor analysis and latent growth curve modeling.

Recent Publications:

Musher-Eizenman, D.R., Young, K.M., & Laurene, K. (Forthcoming). Children's sensitivity to external food cues: How distance to serving bowl influences children's consumption. Health Education and Behavior.

Holub, S.C., & Musher-Eizenman, D.R. (Forthcoming). Examining preschoolers’ nutrition knowledge using a meal creation and food group classification task: Age and gender differences. Early Child Development and Care.

Kelley, C.C., Neufeld, J.M., & Musher-Eizenman, D.R. (2010). Drive for thinness and drive for muscularity: Opposite ends of the continuum or separate constructs? Body Image, 7 (1), 74-77.

Musher-Eizenman, D.R., de Lauzon-Guillain, B., Holub, S., Leporc, E., & Charles, M.A. (2009). Child and parent characteristics related to parental feeding practices: A cross-cultural examination in the US and France. Appetite, 52, 89-95.

Musher-Eizenman, D.R., & Carels, R.A. (2009). The impact of target weight and gender on perceptions of likeability, personality attributes, and functional impairment. Obesity Facts, 2, 311-317

de Lauzon-Guillain, B., Romon, M., Musher-Eizenman, D., Heude, B., Basdevant, A., Charles, M.A. (2009). Cognitive restraint, uncontrolled eating and emotional eating: Correlations between parent and adolescent. Maternal & Child Nutrition, 5(2), 171-178.

de Lauzon-Guillain, B., Musher-Eizenman, D., Leporc, E., Holub, S., & Charles, M.A. (2009). Parental feeding practices in the United States and in France: Relationships with child’s characteristics and parent’s eating behavior. Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 109(6), 1064-1069.

Hauser, J.C., Young, K.M., Neufeld, J., & Musher-Eizenman, D.R. (2008). The impact of recalled elementary school height and weight on later weight concerns. Eating and Weight Disorders, 4, 91-95.