Most of her research publications and national and international presentations focus on family stress and coping, especially as regards to physical disability, child emotional disability, dating with disabilities, and parenting with and without disability. She also has published studies on adolescents’ and emerging adults’ social interaction on the Internet as well as those of older adults and served on the American Psychological Association’s Committee on Disability Issues in Psychology. Mazur earned her B.A. in psychology from Amherst College, received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the University of Michigan, and completed a NIMH-funded postdoctoral fellowship at Arizona State University’s Program for Prevention Research.