Research Area of Specialization: Individual Development — Adolescence
- Douglas Coatsworth
- Prevention research and theory; design and evaluation of family-based interventions to promote development and to prevent mental health and behavioral problems in children and adolescents; resilience.
- Ann Crouter
- Interrelationships of parents' employment situations, family processes, and children's and adolescent's social development; gender socialization in middle childhood and adolescence.
- Anthony D'Augelli
- Community interventions; issues in the development of sexual orientation.
- Scott Gest
- Links between reading skills and social competence in elementary school; peer relations; early reading tutoring as a preventive intervention; longitudinal study of patterns of risk and adaptation from childhood to adulthood; behavioral inhibition and related internalizing dimensions of personality and psychopathology.
- Kathryn Hood
- The development of aggressive and inhibited behavior: Sex differences, menstrual cycle effects, effects of selective breeding, developmental theory, and longitudinal studies on the lifespan.
- Eva Lefkowitz
- Development during adolescence and emerging adulthood, with a focus on sexual attitudes and behaviors, gender role development, romantic relationships, religiosity, ethnic identity, body image, and communication.
- Jennifer Maggs
- Adolescent social development and health; transition to adulthood; risk behaviors; prevention science; research methods; alcohol expectancies.
- Susan McHale
- Family relationships and family roles (particularly gender roles) in childhood and adolescence; differential socialization of siblings.
- Fred Vondracek
- Career development across the life span; research settings include schools, work sites, and communities.