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Author:

Culotta, Carmen M.

Title:

Parent-Child Mutual Affect and Friendships during Middle Childhood as Predictors of Adolescent Deviant Behavior

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

adolescence
deviance
friendships
mutual affect

File:

Download Culotta_MS_thesis_Final_Version_July16.pdf

Committee Members:

Alysia Blandon, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alysia Yvonne Blandon, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Ebrahimi, Nassim

Title:

The costs and benefits of being a social butterfly: Interpersonal and intrapersonal correlates of individuals with friends across multiple cliques

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Peer relationships
social butterfly
cliques
adolescents
adolescence
loneliness
interpersonal competence

File:

Download etd.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey G Parker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Karen Gasper, Committee Member
Janet Swim, Committee Member
Scott David Gest, Committee Member

Author:

Picci, Giorgia

Title:

Puberty matters: A look at the development of face recognition biases in children and adolescents

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Face recognition
biases
own age bias
own gender bias
adolescence
puberty
developmental tasks

File:

Download Final_Thesis_Picci_Formatted.pdf

Committee Members:

Kathyrn Suzanne Scherf, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sheri A. Berenbaum, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Martha Ellen Wadsworth, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Joos, Celina Maria

Title:

The Role of Puberty in the Development of Coping

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

puberty
adolescence
stress
development of coping

File:

Download Joos_Masters_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Martha Wadsworth, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kristin Buss, Committee Member
Lorah Dorn, Committee Member

Author:

Boggs, Saskia

Title:

A Person-Centered Approach to Understand Black Students’ Racial-Academic Identities: An Examination of Predictors and Outcomes

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

african-americans
identity development
positive black psychology
racial identity
academic identity
adolescence
school transitions
school racial climate
school academic climate
middle school
high school
academic outcomes
academic attainment
psychosocial wellbeing
self-esteem
optimism
black youth
youth of color
students of color
socioeconomic diversity

File:

Download Boggs_Dissertation_Joint_Racial-Academic_Identity_FINAL_FORMAT_cv-1.pdf

Committee Members:

Dawn P. Witherspoon, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dawn P. Witherspoon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Johnathan E. Cook, Committee Member
K. Suzy Scherf, Committee Member
Mayra Y. Bámaca-Colbert, Outside Member

Author:

Pham, Holly

Title:

Investigation of the Pathway from Interpersonal Stress to Internalizing Problems: Potential Roles of Pubertal Timing and HPA Stress Reactivity

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

interpersonal stress
pubertal timing
sex difference
HPA stress reactivity
cortisol
adolescence

File:

Download Pham_Masters_Summer_2020.pdf

Committee Members:

Martha Ellen Wadsworth, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ginger A Moore, Committee Member
Lorah D Dorn, Committee Member
Kristin Ann Buss, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chen, Tong

Title:

Heritable, Environmental, and Timing Effects on the Intergenerational Transmission of Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms in Early Adolescence

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

anxiety and depressive symptoms
timing
sensitive periods
adoption
adolescence
anxiety and depressive symptoms
timing
sensitive periods
adoption
adolescence

File:

Download TongChen_Master_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jenae Marie Neiderhiser, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kristin Ann Buss, Committee Member
Peter Cm Molenaar, Committee Member
Kristin Ann Buss, Program Head/Chair