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| Brett LaursenSummaryAffiliation: Florida Atlantic University Country: USA Publications
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Friend influence over adolescent problem behaviors as a function of relative peer acceptance: to be liked is to be emulatedBrett Laursen
Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University, 3200 College Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 121:88-94. 2012..Unstable friends resembled random pairs of youth in that more- and less-accepted partners were comparably uninfluential...- Mother and adolescent reports of associations between child behavior problems and mother-child relationship qualities: separating shared variance from individual varianceWilliam J Burk
Developmental Psychology, Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
J Abnorm Child Psychol 38:657-67. 2010..Findings from these analyses indicate that same-reporter variance bias should not be assumed in the absence of dyadic statistical analyses... 
Trajectories of perceived support in mother-adolescent relationships: the poor (quality) get poorerBrett Laursen
Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314, USA
Dev Psychol 46:1792-8. 2010..The findings are consistent with the claim that mothers and children with the worst relationships at the outset of adolescence experience the greatest deterioration in relations across the early adolescent years...- Capturing the peer context: the paradox of progressBrett Laursen
Florida Atlantic University, Department of Psychology, 3200 College Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314, USA
J Adolesc 33:897-902. 2010..In this essay I will summarize some of the methodological developments highlighted in this special section and I will describe some important implications that these improvements hold for research in the future... - Opposites detract: middle school peer group antipathiesBrett Laursen
Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314, USA
J Exp Child Psychol 106:240-56. 2010..There was some evidence of rivalry within the mainstream culture: The higher a group's school grades, the more its members disliked groups whose members participated in sports... - Reconsidering changes in parent-child conflict across adolescence: a meta-analysisB Laursen
Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University, Fort Lauderdale 33314 7714, USA
Child Dev 69:817-32. 1998.... - Relationship network quality: adolescent adjustment and perceptions of relationships with parents and friendsBrett Laursen
Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314 7714, USA
Am J Orthopsychiatry 78:47-53. 2008..e., low on positive features and high on negative features). The results failed to support the proposition that a single high quality relationship buffers against suboptimal levels of support in other relationships... - Friendship moderates prospective associations between social isolation and adjustment problems in young childrenBrett Laursen
Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University, Fort Lauderdale 33314, USA
Child Dev 78:1395-404. 2007..The findings suggest that friendship buffers against the adverse consequences associated with being isolated and presenting adjustment difficulties... - The antecedents and correlates of agreeableness in adulthoodBrett Laursen
Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University, Fort Lauderdale 33301, USA
Dev Psychol 38:591-603. 2002..High-agreeable adulthood types reported less alcoholism and depression, fewer arrests, and more career stability than did low-agreeable adulthood types... - More problems and less support: early adolescent adjustment forecasts changes in perceived support from parentsChristopher A Hafen
Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University, Davie, FL 33314, USA
J Fam Psychol 23:193-202. 2009..initial levels of relationship support did not predict changes in adolescent externalizing symptoms). Declines in perceived parental support were steeper at high-initial levels of adolescent externalizing than at average or low levels... - Adolescent psychological and academic adjustment as a function of discrepancies between actual and ideal self-perceptionsGail M Ferguson
Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, USA
J Youth Adolesc 39:1485-97. 2010..Implications for self-discrepancy measurement, adolescent development, and clinical practice are discussed... 
Characteristics of closeness in adolescent romantic relationshipsR E Adams
Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University, 2912 College Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314, USA
J Adolesc 24:353-63. 2001..Neither reciprocity nor authority was associated with relationship duration...- Modeling homophily over time with an actor-partner interdependence modelDanielle Popp
Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University, Davie, FL 33314, USA
Dev Psychol 44:1028-39. 2008..Over time, younger members of these dyads had less stable patterns of intoxication than older members, largely because younger partners changed their drinking behavior to resemble that of older partners... - Trajectories of social withdrawal from middle childhood to early adolescenceWonjung Oh
Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, 3304 Benjamin Building, College Park, MD 20742, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 36:553-66. 2008..Friendlessness, friendship instability, and exclusion were significant predictors of social withdrawal for the increasing class, whereas lower levels of peer exclusion predicted a decrease in social withdrawal for the decreasing class... - The correlates of conflict: disagreement is not necessarily detrimentalRyan E Adams
Educational Studies Program, University of Cincinnati, OH 45221 0002, USA
J Fam Psychol 21:445-58. 2007....