Graduate Student Posters and Presentations at Conferences

Population Association of America, March 2007 (New York City)

Jen Wong (with M. Hardy)
“Women's retirement expectations: A longitudinal study of a transitional cohort in the U.S..”

Gerontological Society of America, November 2006 (Dallas, TX)

Jen Wong (with M. Hardy)
“Assessing heterogeneity in retirement expectations across time.”

American Public Health Association, November 2006 (Boston)

Lori Palen (with E. A. Smith & L. L. Caldwell)
“Transitions to sexual intercourse and substance use among South African high school students.”

National Council on Family Relations, November 2006 (Minneapolis)

Kelly Davis (with A. Crouter, K. Updegraff, M. Delgado, & M. Fortner)
“What Mexican American father's work conditions mean for family well-being.”
Jochebed Gayles
“Sibling relationship in the face of domestic violence.”
Megan Winchell and Kelly Davis (with A. Crouter)
“The role of SES and self-direction in African American mothers' racial socialization.”

American Psychological Association, August 2006 (New Orleans)

Jen Wong
“Does retirement status affect how older adults spend their time?”

International Association for Relationship Research Conference, July 2006 (Crete, Greece)

Marni Kan
“Parental involvement in adolescent romantic relationships: Patterns and correlates.”
Kelly Cichy
“Who's in Charge? Generational differences in dominance behavior during parent-adult offspring interactions.”

International Society for Behaviors in Nutrition and Physical Activity, July 2006 (Boston)

Alison Ventura
“Prelude to a risk: The emergence of metabolic syndrome in a non-clinical sample of 13-year-old girls.”

Society for Prevention Research, June 2006 (San Antonio, TX)

Bethany Bray (with L. Collins)
“The structure of gambling behavior in adulthood.”
Bethany Bray (with T. Ridenour)
“Do correlates of preadolescent gambling resemble correlates of early substance use targeted in prevention programs?”
Lori Palen (with L. L. Caldwell, E. A. Smith, A. J. Flisher, & E. Mpofu)
“Perceptions of opportunity among participants in a leisure-focused intervention trial.”
Lori Palen, Megan Patrick, Brittany Rhoades, & Ali Ventura (with D. Coffman)
“Why do high school seniors drink? Implications for a targeted approach.”
Alison Ventura
“Within-family associations among fathers', mothers', and daughters' weight status and weight gain.”

International Conference on Infant Studies, June 2006 (Kyoto, Japan)

Rachael Kelleher
“Temperament and parental responding effects on child vagal reactivity.”

International Conference on Eating Disorders, June 2006 (Barcelona, Spain)

Tammy Lynn Root
“Using latent transition analysis to examine the relation between disordered eating and the onset of substance use.”

Society for Research on Adolescence, March 2006 (San Francisco)

Beau Abar
“Associations between GPA and standardized test scores: Interactions with content domain & gender.”
Caitlin Abar
“Predicting plans to drink in college by perceived peer and friend drinking norms: Differences across gender and peer acceptance.”
Sandra Abarca
“Educational encouragement from mothers, fathers, teachers, and friends.”
Christina Chhin
“Gender-typed career choices: The long-term effect of parent's expectations.”
Alice Davidson
“Social network knowledge: Normative trends in children's perceptions of peer social groups.”
Aryn Dotterer
“Daily activities and school engagement among African-American adolescents.”
Graciela Hernandez
“Changes in ethnic identity among college students and ethnic differences in sexual behavior among multiethnic college students.”
Monique Faulk
“Community support, family functioning, and peer affiliation as influences on adolescents' delinquent behavior.”
Jochebed Gayles
“Being a swimmer means I work hard and am part of a team: Adolescent self-definition in sports and other activities.”
Meghan Gillen
“Ethnic differences in Latino American, European American, and multiethnic students' sexuality.”
Jamie Lyn Marks
“Child effects on parents sex-typed activities.”
Lori Palen
“Parenting for identity explorations: Development and properties of a new measure.”
Lori Palen (with E. A. Smith, L. L. Caldwell, & E. Mpofu)
“The co-morbidity of substance use and risky sexual behavior among South African adolescents.”
Megan Patrick
“Executive cognitive functioning, behavioral approach, and engagement in risk behaviors,”
“Between- and within-person predictors of negative alcohol expectancies and plans to drink.”
Tara Stoppa
“A longitudinal study of religiosity during the transition to college.”
Amy Syvertsen
“The friendship context: Is interpersonal trust the foundation of social trust?”
“Electoral politics and the 2004 campaign: Young people's civic attitudes and opinions.”
Laura Wray
“Pessimism or optimism? Immigrants and the social construct.”

Families and Work Research Conference, March 2006 (Provo, UT)

Kelly Davis
“Mothers' and fathers' work conditions and relationships with their adolescents: A longitudinal study.”

Gerontological Society of America, November 2005 (Orlando)

Sean Banks
“Out of the lab, into the field: Assessing circadian rhythms of salivary cortisol.”
Soyeon Cho
“Predictors of timing in placing dementia patients in nursing home: Spouses vs. non-spouses.”
Lindsay Ryan
“Work environment perceptions predicting health and satisfaction.”
Jen Wong
“Is daily life stressful after retirement?”

International Society of Developmental Psychobiology, November 2005 (Washington, DC)

Margaret Colby
“Intergenerational transmission of alcohol preference: Cross domain mediators.”

National Conference on Family Relations, November 2005 (Phoenix, AZ)

Kelly Davis
“Implications of nonstandard schedules for work-family spillover and marital quality.”
Jeff Dew
“The marital meaning of assets.”
Carolyn Ransford
“A psychometric analysis of Thompson et al.'s, work-family environment scale.”
Cindy Shearer
“Gender socialization in the family.”
Thulitha Wickrama
“The influence of parent-child relationships and depression on later relationship outcomes of adolescents.”
Megan Winchell
“Routes into knowledge: Social class and coparenting.”

Eating Disorders Research Society, September 2005 (Toronto)

Meghan Sinton
“Binge eating and weight status in girls.”

Meeting of the Society for Prevention Research, May 2004

Patricia Ang and Douglas Coatsworth
“Parenting quality, developmental assets, and adolescent subjective well-being.”
Sarah Meyer, Patricia Ang, Mark Greenberg, and Mark Feinberg
“Predicitng team effectiveness in community-based prevention programming: The PROSPER Project.”