W Andrew Collins
Biographic Data
| ID | 7706 |
|---|---|
| NAME | W Andrew Collins |
| GIVEN NAMES | W Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Collins |
| SIGNATURE | COLLINS W A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 891 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
The interpersonal antecedents of supportive parenting
This study drew on prospective, longitudinal data to test the hypothesis that the intergenerational transmission of positive parenting is mediated by competence in subsequent relationships with peers and romantic partners. Interview-based ratings of supportive parenting were completed with a sample of 113 individuals (46% male) followed from birth to age 32. Results indicated that supportive parenting during adulthood was predicted by observed ma…
Work and Love Among Emerging Adults
The literature on the association between work and love during the young adulthood years is relatively sparse. The articles in this special issue make a substantial contribution to the empirical evidence in this arena. In this commentary, we make several conceptual and methodological recommendations to further research in this area. In particular, we argue that researchers should carefully consider the spacing and timing of assessments and the in…
Relationship Pathways
This volume is designed to guide the reader through the research on close relationships before, during, and after adolescence. It begins with a section on developmental pathways and processes. The next section is devoted to family relationships during the transitions into adolescence and young adulthood. The final two sections concern peer relationships
Evolution, stress, and sensitive periods
According to a recent evolutionary life history model of development proposed by Ellis, Figueredo, Brumbach, and Schlomer (2009), growing up in harsh versus unpredictable environments should have unique effects on life history strategies in adulthood. Using data from the Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Risk and Adaptation, we tested how harshness and unpredictability experienced in early childhood (age 0-5) versus in later childhood (age 6-16) un…
Relationship pathways
Research on adolescent relationships has rapidly expanded during the past decade. Keeping apace with research advances is a difficult challenge. Harder still is integrating the literature into a coherent whole. This volume is designed to guide the reader through the research on close relationships before, during, and after adolescence. We are fortunate that some of the world's foremost experts on adolescent relationships agreed to summarize what …
The Salience of Adolescent Romantic Experiences for Romantic Relationship Qualities in Young Adulthood
Conceptual links between aspects of adolescents' dating experiences (i.e., involvement and quality; ages 15–17.5) and qualities of their romantic relationships in young adulthood (ages 20–21) were examined in a prospective longitudinal design. Even after accounting for earlier relationship experiences with parents and peers, aspects of adolescent dating experiences predicted romantic relationship qualities in young adulthood. Adolescents who date…
Stability, Continuity, and Similarity of Parenting Stress in European American Mothers and Fathers Across Their Child's Transition to Adolescence
OBJECTIVE: Experiencing some degree of parenting stress is virtually unavoidable, particularly as children enter early adolescence and assert their independence. In this study, we examined how parenting stress attributed to the parent, the child, or the dyad changed in mean level and relative standing across their child's transition to adolescence. We also compared mothers and fathers from the same families in terms of parenting stress and explor…
Adolescent Romantic Relationships
In this article, we review theoretical and empirical advances in research on romantic relationships between age 10 and the early twenties. First, we describe key themes in this area of research. Next, we briefly characterize the most influential theoretical formulations and distinctive methodological issues. We then describe research findings regarding pertinent social and developmental processes. We summarize the extensive findings on relationsh…
Parent—Child Relationships During Adolescence
Distinctiveness of Adolescent and Emerging Adult Romantic Relationship Features in Predicting Externalizing Behavior Problems
Exceptions to High School Dropout Predictions in a Low‐Income Sample
Adult–child relationship factors were examined to determine whether they differentiated between individuals who follow expected versus unexpected educational pathways. Low‐income participants (96 men, 83 women) in the United States were followed from birth through age 23. Individuals were identified who followed expected versus unexpected pathways to high school graduation or dropping out based on academic achievement and behavioral problems. Pat…
Social Dominance in Romantic Relationships
The study of social dominance has a long tradition within the peer relationships literature, but rarely has the topic been investigated observationally and longitudinally within other salient close relationships. The present study investigated the role of experiences in social relationships and adjustment indices in childhood in predicting later observed non‐verbal social dominance behaviors in the context of romantic relationships in emerging ad…
Attachment and the experience and expression of emotions in romantic relationships
In this longitudinal study, the authors tested a developmental hypothesis derived from attachment theory and recent empirical findings. Target participants were 78 individuals who have been studied intensively from infancy into their mid-20s. When targets were 20-23 years old, the authors tested the way in which interpersonal experiences at 3 pivotal points in each target's earlier social development--infancy/early childhood, early elementary sch…
Parent and Peer Predictors of Physical Aggression and Conflict Management in Romantic Relationships in Early Adulthood.
Violence between romantic partners is widespread, but developmental precursors of perpetration and victimization are little understood. Among participants followed from birth to 23 years of age, familial and extrafamilial childhood and adolescent relationships were examined in connection with couple violence in early adulthood. Predictors included early childhood physical abuse and witnessing of parental partner violence, features of parent-child…
Parent‐Adolescent Relationships and Influences
Changing Relationships, Changing Youth
In the past quarter century, research on adolescence has expanded from a near exclusive focus on intraindividual processes to a concern with individuals in an interpersonal context. Today, studies of the impact of relationships within families, with peers, and with romantic partners account for a large proportion of research in the field. This article outlines three features of this transformation: an increasing focus on the nature of, changes in…
A Prospective Study of Intraindividual and Peer Influences on Adolescents' Heterosexual Romantic and Sexual Behavior
More than Myth
Adolescents' romantic relationships have attracted popular interest, but, until recently, little scientific curiosity. Research has been impeded by erroneous assumptions that adolescent relationships are trivial and transitory, that they provide little information beyond measures of the influence of parent‐child and peer relationships, and that their impact is primarily associated with problems of behavior and adjustment. This article proposes th…
Relational Aggression and Victimization in Young Adults' Romantic Relationships
This study had three goals: (a) To investigate gender differences in relational aggression and victimization within young adults' romantic relationships, (b) to investigate associations between romantic relational aggression and victimization and perceptions of romantic relationship quality, and (c) to explore parent and peer predictors of romantic relational aggression and victimization. College students (70 females and 34 males) completed self‐…
Diverse aspects of dating
Toward Nature With Nurture
Toward Nature With Nurture
Toward Nature With Nurture
Contemporary research on parenting
Current findings on parental influences provide more sophisticated and less deterministic explanations than did earlier theory and research on parenting. Contemporary research approaches include (a) behavior-genetic designs, augmented with direct measures of potential environmental influences; (b) studies distinguishing among children with different genetically influenced predispositions in terms of their responses to different environmental cond…
The relationship context of human behavior and development
The influence of social relationships on human development and behavior is receiving increased attention from psychologists, who are central contributors to the rapidly developing multidisciplinary field of relationship science. In this article, the authors selectively review some of the significant strides that have been made toward understanding the effects of relationships on development and behavior and the processes by which relationships ex…
Contemporary research on parenting
Current findings on parental influences provide more sophisticated and less deterministic explanations than did earlier theory and research on parenting. Contemporary research approaches include (a) behavior-genetic designs, augmented with direct measures of potential environmental influences; (b) studies distinguishing among children with different genetically influenced predispositions in terms of their responses to different environmental cond…
More than Myth
Adolescents' romantic relationships have attracted popular interest, but, until recently, little scientific curiosity. Research has been impeded by erroneous assumptions that adolescent relationships are trivial and transitory, that they provide little information beyond measures of the influence of parent‐child and peer relationships, and that their impact is primarily associated with problems of behavior and adjustment. This article proposes th…
The relationship context of human behavior and development
The influence of social relationships on human development and behavior is receiving increased attention from psychologists, who are central contributors to the rapidly developing multidisciplinary field of relationship science. In this article, the authors selectively review some of the significant strides that have been made toward understanding the effects of relationships on development and behavior and the processes by which relationships ex…
Changing Relationships, Changing Youth
In the past quarter century, research on adolescence has expanded from a near exclusive focus on intraindividual processes to a concern with individuals in an interpersonal context. Today, studies of the impact of relationships within families, with peers, and with romantic partners account for a large proportion of research in the field. This article outlines three features of this transformation: an increasing focus on the nature of, changes in…
Interpersonal conflict during adolescence
Interpersonal conflict is considered within various frameworks of adolescent development. Conflict, defined as behavioral opposition, is distinguished from related constructs. Differences between adolescent relationships and across age groups are reviewed in the incidence and intensity, resolution, and outcome of conflict. Influences of setting on conflict behaviors and effects are emphasized. The evidence does not reveal dramatic shifts in confl…
Relational Aggression and Victimization in Young Adults' Romantic Relationships
This study had three goals: (a) To investigate gender differences in relational aggression and victimization within young adults' romantic relationships, (b) to investigate associations between romantic relational aggression and victimization and perceptions of romantic relationship quality, and (c) to explore parent and peer predictors of romantic relational aggression and victimization. College students (70 females and 34 males) completed self‐…
Evolution, stress, and sensitive periods
According to a recent evolutionary life history model of development proposed by Ellis, Figueredo, Brumbach, and Schlomer (2009), growing up in harsh versus unpredictable environments should have unique effects on life history strategies in adulthood. Using data from the Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Risk and Adaptation, we tested how harshness and unpredictability experienced in early childhood (age 0-5) versus in later childhood (age 6-16) un…
Attachment and the experience and expression of emotions in romantic relationships
In this longitudinal study, the authors tested a developmental hypothesis derived from attachment theory and recent empirical findings. Target participants were 78 individuals who have been studied intensively from infancy into their mid-20s. When targets were 20-23 years old, the authors tested the way in which interpersonal experiences at 3 pivotal points in each target's earlier social development--infancy/early childhood, early elementary sch…
Conflict Processes and Transitions in Parent and Peer Relationships
Relational components of three attributes often regarded as individual variables (conflict, autonomy, and self-regulation) were examined in two studies. In Study 1, mothers and their 10- through 12-, 13- through 15-, or 16- through 17-year-old offspring reported expected times of transition to 47 adultlike behaviors (behavioral autonomy) and rated the importance of delaying each transition. Discrepancies from mothers' expectancies were found to b…
The Salience of Adolescent Romantic Experiences for Romantic Relationship Qualities in Young Adulthood
Conceptual links between aspects of adolescents' dating experiences (i.e., involvement and quality; ages 15–17.5) and qualities of their romantic relationships in young adulthood (ages 20–21) were examined in a prospective longitudinal design. Even after accounting for earlier relationship experiences with parents and peers, aspects of adolescent dating experiences predicted romantic relationship qualities in young adulthood. Adolescents who date…
A Prospective Study of Intraindividual and Peer Influences on Adolescents' Heterosexual Romantic and Sexual Behavior
Exceptions to High School Dropout Predictions in a Low‐Income Sample
Adult–child relationship factors were examined to determine whether they differentiated between individuals who follow expected versus unexpected educational pathways. Low‐income participants (96 men, 83 women) in the United States were followed from birth through age 23. Individuals were identified who followed expected versus unexpected pathways to high school graduation or dropping out based on academic achievement and behavioral problems. Pat…
Effect of temporal separation between motivation, aggression, and consequences
Distinctiveness of Adolescent and Emerging Adult Romantic Relationship Features in Predicting Externalizing Behavior Problems
Children's comprehension of family role portrayals in televised dramas
Early Environmental Support and Elementary School Adjustment as Predictors of School Adjustment in Middle Adolescence
Longitudinal data from a high-risk sample (N = 173, male: n = 93, female: n = 80) were used to examine socioemotional antecedents of school adjustment in adolescence. Parental problem-solving support in early childhood and early adolescence and measures of peer competence, externalizing behavior, and emotional health/self-esteem in early middle childhood were examined both independently and in relation to academic achievement in early middle chil…
The interpersonal antecedents of supportive parenting
This study drew on prospective, longitudinal data to test the hypothesis that the intergenerational transmission of positive parenting is mediated by competence in subsequent relationships with peers and romantic partners. Interview-based ratings of supportive parenting were completed with a sample of 113 individuals (46% male) followed from birth to age 32. Results indicated that supportive parenting during adulthood was predicted by observed ma…
Parent-Child Relationships and Peer-Perceived Competence During Middle Childhood and Preadolescence in Israel
This study examined parent-child relationships in middle childhood and preadolescence and their significance for children's peer-perceived social competence. A sample of 9-and 11-year-old Israeli children (n = 95 and 98, respectively) completed inventories of mothers' and fathers' perceived acceptance, rejection, psychological autonomy, and psychological control. Their mothers and fathers indicated perceptions of their child on rebellious behavio…
Perceptions of Efficacy and Legitimacy of Parental Influence Techniques by Children and Early Adolescents
Age-related differences in behavioral expectations, attributions, and evaluations have long been considered factors in parent-child relationships uring the transition to adolescence, but little is known about such differences. In a two-phase procedure, 217 second, fifth, and eighth grade males and females were first asked to predict parental efficacy in twelve stories depicting one of three different parental strategies for gaining children's com…
Perceived Maturity as a Function of Appearance Cues in Early Adolescence
Two related studies addressed the extent to which appearance cues affect perceptions of early adolescents' physical maturity, age, and social maturity and the degree to which perceptions of unacquainted adults and perceptions of parents and teachers correspond. Photographic slides of 6th through 9th graders were rated by unacquainted adults on 7-point rating scales of physical maturity, age, and attractiveness. Physical appearance cues were poten…
Interviewers' Verbal Idiosyncrasies as a Source of Bias
Journal Article INTERVIEWERS' VERBAL IDIOSYNCRASIES AS A SOURCE OF BIAS Get access W. ANDREW COLLINS W. ANDREW COLLINS †W. Andrew Collins is a Research Assistant at the Institute for Communication Research, Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 34, Issue 3, FALL 1970, Pages 416–422, https://doi.org/10.1086/267820 Published: 01 January 1970
Systemic Patterns of Parenting as Reported by Adolescents
Parent behaviors are usually characterized globally in research on psychosocial outcomes, but mothers and fathers may show disparate patterns of control and influence. To examine perceived incongruence in parents' behaviors, 5th, 8th, and 11th graders' reports of each parent's childrearing practices were cluster analyzed Four clusters emerged: atn authoritative congruent pattern, in which both parents were accepting and allowed autonomy, with app…
Stability, Continuity, and Similarity of Parenting Stress in European American Mothers and Fathers Across Their Child's Transition to Adolescence
OBJECTIVE: Experiencing some degree of parenting stress is virtually unavoidable, particularly as children enter early adolescence and assert their independence. In this study, we examined how parenting stress attributed to the parent, the child, or the dyad changed in mean level and relative standing across their child's transition to adolescence. We also compared mothers and fathers from the same families in terms of parenting stress and explor…
Social Dominance in Romantic Relationships
The study of social dominance has a long tradition within the peer relationships literature, but rarely has the topic been investigated observationally and longitudinally within other salient close relationships. The present study investigated the role of experiences in social relationships and adjustment indices in childhood in predicting later observed non‐verbal social dominance behaviors in the context of romantic relationships in emerging ad…
Conceptual Changes during Adolescence and Effects upon Parent-Child Relationships
Cognitive changes during the adolescent years are frequently invoked as a factor in the transformation of parent-child relationships. Theoretical formulations and empirical studies of conceptual changes and linkages between these and changes in parent-child relationships were reviewed in three categories: those focussing on the role of conceptions of parents; those focussing on self-conceptions and their implications; and those focussing on conce…
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Interviewers' Verbal Idiosyncrasies as a Source of Bias
Journal Article INTERVIEWERS' VERBAL IDIOSYNCRASIES AS A SOURCE OF BIAS Get access W. ANDREW COLLINS W. ANDREW COLLINS †W. Andrew Collins is a Research Assistant at the Institute for Communication Research, Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 34, Issue 3, FALL 1970, Pages 416–422, https://doi.org/10.1086/267820 Published: 01 January 1970
Effect of temporal separation between motivation, aggression, and consequences
The Developing Child as Viewer
Journal Article The Developing Child as Viewer Get access W. Andrew Collins W. Andrew Collins 1W. Andrew Collins is Associate Professor at the Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 25, Issue 4, December 1975, Pages 35–44, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1975.tb00636.x Published: 07 February 2006
Children's social responses following modeled reactions to provocation
Counseling Interventions and Developmental Psychology
Temporal integration and children's understanding of social information on television
Recent studies are reviewed that suggest that preschool and young grade-school children often have incomplete or distorted impressions of social portrayals on television. It is suggested that cognitive-processing factors in understanding television dramas may put these younger viewers at special risk for deleterious effects of television viewing
Children's comprehension of family role portrayals in televised dramas
Schemata for understanding television
Three sources of knowledge, or schemata, are critical for the child's comprehension of television portrayals: familiarity with exposition formats, knowledge and experience of the social world, and understanding of the formal features specific to television
Conceptual Changes during Adolescence and Effects upon Parent-Child Relationships
Cognitive changes during the adolescent years are frequently invoked as a factor in the transformation of parent-child relationships. Theoretical formulations and empirical studies of conceptual changes and linkages between these and changes in parent-child relationships were reviewed in three categories: those focussing on the role of conceptions of parents; those focussing on self-conceptions and their implications; and those focussing on conce…
Perceptions of Efficacy and Legitimacy of Parental Influence Techniques by Children and Early Adolescents
Age-related differences in behavioral expectations, attributions, and evaluations have long been considered factors in parent-child relationships uring the transition to adolescence, but little is known about such differences. In a two-phase procedure, 217 second, fifth, and eighth grade males and females were first asked to predict parental efficacy in twelve stories depicting one of three different parental strategies for gaining children's com…
Perceived Maturity as a Function of Appearance Cues in Early Adolescence
Two related studies addressed the extent to which appearance cues affect perceptions of early adolescents' physical maturity, age, and social maturity and the degree to which perceptions of unacquainted adults and perceptions of parents and teachers correspond. Photographic slides of 6th through 9th graders were rated by unacquainted adults on 7-point rating scales of physical maturity, age, and attractiveness. Physical appearance cues were poten…
Gender- and Age-Related Patterns of Complexity in Adolescents' Concepts of Same-Age and Parent-Age Targets
An investigation was undertaken to examine gender and age related differences in cognitive complexity regarding targets from adolescents ‘own age-group and targets representing the age-group of most adolescents’ parents. Sixth grade, eighth grade, and high school students (N= 143) completed separate card sorts of descriptive traits for 12–14 year olds and 30–40 year olds. There was significantly greater complexity of sorts by females than by male…
Mother-child and father-child relationships in middle childhood and adolescence
Shared views and parent-adolescent relationships
The implications of the preceding chapters for a developmental perspective on relationships between parents and adolescents are discussed, with a particular focus on differences among dyads and the process of transformation in relationships during the transition to adolescence. Agreement and disagreement are viewed as interrelated to interactive and emotional components of relationships
Systemic Patterns of Parenting as Reported by Adolescents
Parent behaviors are usually characterized globally in research on psychosocial outcomes, but mothers and fathers may show disparate patterns of control and influence. To examine perceived incongruence in parents' behaviors, 5th, 8th, and 11th graders' reports of each parent's childrearing practices were cluster analyzed Four clusters emerged: atn authoritative congruent pattern, in which both parents were accepting and allowed autonomy, with app…
Father-adolescent relationships
Research on father-adolescent relationships must move beyond demonstrations of links between father behavior and adolescent outcomes. The chapters in this volume raise issues that lead toward investigations of processes that may account for these links
Parent-Child Relationships and Peer-Perceived Competence During Middle Childhood and Preadolescence in Israel
This study examined parent-child relationships in middle childhood and preadolescence and their significance for children's peer-perceived social competence. A sample of 9-and 11-year-old Israeli children (n = 95 and 98, respectively) completed inventories of mothers' and fathers' perceived acceptance, rejection, psychological autonomy, and psychological control. Their mothers and fathers indicated perceptions of their child on rebellious behavio…
Interpersonal conflict during adolescence
Interpersonal conflict is considered within various frameworks of adolescent development. Conflict, defined as behavioral opposition, is distinguished from related constructs. Differences between adolescent relationships and across age groups are reviewed in the incidence and intensity, resolution, and outcome of conflict. Influences of setting on conflict behaviors and effects are emphasized. The evidence does not reveal dramatic shifts in confl…
Relationships and development during adolescence
Developmental perspectives on relationships address Processes of dyadic adaptation to normative changes in individuals. Relationships with parents and peers during adolescence are a microcosm of these continuous adaptations. Three key themes from research on relationships during adolescence are examined: changes in relative distance from, and connectedness to, different categories of relationship partners; the coexistence of continuity and change…
Afterword
Limited research exists on romantic relationships in adolescence. The chapters in this volume call attention to several conceptual issues that must be addressed to advance understanding of processes and development in adolescent romantic relationships
Developmental precursors of romantic relationships
Romantic relationships emerge in a context of earlier experiences with caregivers and peers that contribute to variability in adolescents' capacities for intimacy
Conflict Processes and Transitions in Parent and Peer Relationships
Relational components of three attributes often regarded as individual variables (conflict, autonomy, and self-regulation) were examined in two studies. In Study 1, mothers and their 10- through 12-, 13- through 15-, or 16- through 17-year-old offspring reported expected times of transition to 47 adultlike behaviors (behavioral autonomy) and rated the importance of delaying each transition. Discrepancies from mothers' expectancies were found to b…
Reconsidering Changes in Parent-Child Conflict across Adolescence
Capacity for Intimate Relationships
The advent of romantic relationships is a hallmark transition of adolescence. Images of the sudden onset of preoccupation with the other, shyness and self-consciousness, awkwardness in interactions, and sexual awakening suffuse popular treatments of the topic. In developmental perspective, however, romantic relationships are embedded in fundamental human motivations to form and maintain close relationships (Baumeister & Leary, 1995; MacDonald, 19…
Psychology (46 works) · Developmental psychology (44 works) · Social Psychology (28 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (26 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (26 works) · Social Psychology (20 works) · Romance (13 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (12 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (11 works) · Interpersonal relationship (8 works)