Research Projects
Adolescent Developmental Psychopathology Lab
ADOLESCENT AND YOUNG ADULT ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS
Title: Clearing up the he said/she said of dating violence: A dyadic understanding of abuse.
Overview: This project uses dyadic data to (a) understand male and females reports of psychological dating violence within their current romantic relationships, and (b) investigate self-, partner-, and observational reports of psychological dating violence as predicted by externalizing behaviors (self- and partner- reports).
People Involved: Katie Klipfel (thesis), Manfred van Dulmen
Status: Manuscript in preparation
Title: Assortative mating and romantic relationship quality in dating couples: Investigating within couple differences on developmental characteristics of emerging adults.
Overview: This project investigates assortative mating on the Arnett's (2001) dimensions of emerging adulthood. Moreover, we investigate the way in which dissimilarity among couples predicts relationship outcomes (i.e. satisfaction, dissolution).
People Involved: Katie Klipfel, Shannon Claxton, Matt Smith, Manfred van Dulmen
Status: Presentation at emerging adulthood conference (October 2011); Manuscript in preparation
Title: From One-night Stands to Committed Relationships: Typologies of Casual and Committed Relationships
Overview: The current study investigates whether casual relationships and experiences are truly distinct or whether there are homogenous subgroups of individuals who participate in multiple types of casual relationships.
People involved: Shannon Claxton, Manfred van Dulmen
Status: Presentation at Society for Emerging Adulthood meeting (October 2011)
Title: Dating Violence Victimization within Friends-With-Benefits and Other Casual Relationships
Overview: This project focuses on examining dating violence victimization across committed relationships and casual relationships and experiences.
People involved: Shannon Claxton, Katie Klipfel, Manfred van Dulmen (joint first-authorship between Shannon and Katie)
Status: Submitted for Society for Research on Adolescence meeting (March 2012)
Title: Shannon Claxton’s Thesis Project
Overview: This project focuses on predicting involvement in casual relationships and experiences based on intimacy goals, relationship expectations, and other personal characteristics.
Title: Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between romantic relationship quality, behavior problems, and suicidality
Overview: The goal of this research project is to examine the cross-sectional and longitudinal association between romantic relationship quality and suicidal ideation and attempt, and how this association may be mediated by depression and externalizing behavior problems.
People: Manfred van Dulmen, Shannon Claxton, Robert Bossarte (University of Rochester), Monica Swahn (Georgia State University)
Status: Manuscript in progress
Title: Association between dating violence and use of humor in young adult romantic relationships
Overview: The goal of this study was to investigate whether a history of dating violence victimization and perpetration was associated with the use of humor in resolving conflict during a couple observational assessment
People: Manfred van Dulmen, Katherine Klipfel, Liz Goncy (Virginia Commonwealth University)
Status: Presented at SRCD (March 2011); manuscript in preparation
Title: The Association between Activities and Relationship Satisfaction in Emerging Adults: Importance of Who Participates
Overview: This study explores the association between the activities that emerging adults engage in with their romantic partners and how it relates to their relationship satisfaction. Additionally, we investigate how relationship satisfaction is impacted if other people participate in the activity with the romantic partners.
People: Andrea Mata, Katie Schinka, Shannon Claxton, Katie Klipfel, Manfred van Dulmen
Status: Previous version presented at MPA. Manuscript in preparation
SUICIDE
Title: Cross-Lagged Effects between Intimate Partner Violence and Suicidality form Adolescence into Adulthood
Overview: The current paper extended previous research on the association between intimate partner violence victimization and suicidality by longitudinally investigating their mutual impact from adolescence into early adulthood.
People: Manfred van Dulmen, Katie Schinka, Andrea Mata, Shannon Claxton, Monica Swahn (Georgia State University), Robert Bossarte (University of Rochester)
Status: Manuscript under review
Title: Economic Strain and Suicide in Middle Adulthood
Overview: This chapter will be included in an edited volume about suicide across the life-span. It focuses on the relationship between economic strain (job loss, home foreclosure, receiving government assistance) and suicide in middle-aged adults.
People: Katie Schinka, Manfred van Dulmen
Status: Manuscript in preparation
Title: Risk and protective factors for suicide in middle childhood
Overview: This chapter will be included in an edited volume about suicide across the life-span. The chapter reviews the empirical evidence for risk and protective factors for suicide in middle childhood.
People: Manfred van Dulmen, Katherine Klipfel, Shannon
Status: Manuscript in preparation
Title: Is the Interpersonal Psychological Theory of Suicidal Behavior supported by the empirical evidence on adolescent suicide?
Overview: The goal of this comprehensive paper is to review the empirical evidence in adolescence that supports the Interpersonal Psychological Theory of Suicide and to suggest how this theory may work differently in adolescents.
People: Katie Schinka
Status: Manuscript in preparation
Title: Extracurricular Activity Involvement Indirectly Affects Adolescent Suicidality through School Belongingness
Overview: This study investigated the mediating role of school belongingness on the association between extracurricular activity involvement and adolescent suicidality. The findings demonstrated that in general participating in extracurricular activities increases adolescents’ sense of school belongingness which then is associated with reduced risk of suicidal ideation and attempts.
People: Andrea Mata, Manfred van Dulmen, Katie Schinka, Monica Swahn (Georgia State University), Rob Bossarte (University of Rochester), Dan Flannery (Case Western Reserve University)
Status: Manuscript under Review
Title: Developmental cascades between antisocial behavior and suicidality from adolescence into early adulthood
Overview: This study investigated the longitudinal associations between antisocial behavior and suicidality from adolescence into early adulthood
People: Manfred van Dulmen, Shannon Claxton, Rob Bossarte (University of Rochester), Monica Swahn (Georgia State University)
Status: Manuscript in Preparation
Title: Do behavior problems mediate the relationship between middle childhood peer exclusion and adolescent suicidal ideation?
Overview: This study investigated the cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between peer exclusion, behavior problems (internalizing/externalizing), and suicidal ideation. Results indicate that – longitudinally -- peer exclusion indirectly affects suicidal ideation through internalizing and externalizing behavior problems
People: Manfred van Dulmen, Katherine Schinka, Liz Goncy (Virginia Commonwealth University), Andrea Mata, Robert Bossarte (University of Rochester), Monica Swahn (Georgia State University).
Status: Manuscript in preparation
Title: Specificity of prospective risk factors for suicidality and externalizing behavior problems during adolescence
Overview: The purpose of the current study was threefold: we wanted to investigate 1) prospective psychosocial risk factors for adolescent suicidality, whether 2) these factors differ in predicting suicidal behaviors versus suicidal thoughts, and 3) whether predictors of suicidality differ from those predicting externalizing behavior problems.
People: Manfred van Dulmen, Angela Jones (John Carroll University), Katherine Schinka, Robert Bossarte (University of Rochester), Monica Swahn (Georgia State University)
Status: Paper presented at AAS; manuscript in preparation
Title: A longitudinal investigation of the interpersonal-psychological framework in middle childhood and adolescence
Overview: This paper examines the influence of belongingness, mattering, and victimization (and their interactions) in middle childhood on risk for suicide in adolescence. (Results: all three middle childhood variables are related to suicidality in adolescence. Further analyses demonstrate a particularly important role for belongingness; low levels of belongingness in middle childhood lead to increased suicidal thoughts in adolescence and and the interaction between belongingness and victimization during middle childhood lead to increased self-harm behaviors in adolescence.
People: Angie Jones (John Carroll University), Katie Schinka, Manfred van Dulmen, Robert Bossarte (University of Rochester), Monica Swahn (Georgia State University)
METHODOLOGY AND MEASUREMENT
Title: Trajectories of Child Externalizing and Internalizing Behavior Problems: Multi-informant Reports
Overview: This study questions whether reports of child externalizing and internalizing problems from 2 to 15 years old change depending on whether maternal or paternal report is used. The findings will provide insight on the number of and shape of the behavior problem trajectories, and whether mothers and fathers rate their child in similar trajectories.
People: Andrea Mata, Liz Goncy (Virginia Commonwealth University), Manfred van Dulmen
Status: Manuscript in preparation
Title: Confirmatory factor analysis of the Inventory of Dimensions of Emerging Adulthood in a sample of college students
Overview: The purpose of this study was to re-validate the Inventory of Dimensions of Emerging Adulthood (IDEA) measure. Confirmatory factor analysis results confirmed a six factor structure that was invariant across women and men
People: Manfred van Dulmen, Liz Goncy (Virginia Commonwealth University)
Status: Manuscript under review
OTHER PROJECTS
Title: Psychosocial predictors and outcomes of loneliness trajectories from childhood to early adolescence.
Overview: we investigated trajectories of loneliness from third grade to age 15. In addition, we tested whether certain factors (e.g. depression, aggression, social skills) were predictive of trajectory membership and/or an outcome of trajectory membership.
People: Katie Schinka, Andrea Mata, Monica Swahn, Robert Bossarte
Status: Manuscript in preparation
Title: Structured Activity Involvement and Behavior Problems: Investigation of Selection, Transactional, and Age-Specific Effects with the Use of Variable and Person-Centered Approaches
Overview: This study aims to better understand the relationship between structured activity involvement and behavior problems from early childhood through adolescence. The findings of the study will provide further insight into the directionality of this relationship.
People: Andrea Mata
Status: In progress (Mata dissertation)
Title: Adolescent Academic and Behavioral Functioning of Highly Involved Children
Overview: The aim of this study is to investigate how children who are highly involved in structured activities from kindergarten to fifth grade functioning academically and behaviorally during adolescence. The findings will shed light on whether or not parents should be concerned with the number of hours their children are involved in structured activities
People: Andrea Mata, Manfred van Dulmen
Status: Manuscript under review