Expertise
My research focuses on the development of social competence across childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood. I am especially interested in the mechanisms through which family, peer, and romantic relationship experiences exert an impact on important developmental outcomes and on the risk and protective factors that moderate these linkages.
Degrees
PhD, Indiana University, Bloomington, Child Development, 1984
MS, Auburn University , Family and Child Development, 1978
BS, Auburn University , Psychology, 1973
Keywords
adolescents family children & youth social psychology social development parent participation health behavior
Languages
English
Associations
American Psychological Association
Society for Research on Child Development