Aaron Metzger
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3827397 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Aaron Metzger |
| NOMBRES | Aaron |
| APELLIDO | Metzger |
| FIRMA | METZGER A |
| AFILIACIONES | West Virginia University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 396 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1985 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Heat Wave Beliefs and Behaviors in Southern Spain
Extreme heat is a pressing public health threat. This study assesses and describes the interrelationships between beliefs about heat waves, individuals' precautionary behaviors during heat waves, and demographic factors. In May 2022, we surveyed 1051 residents (aged 25-90 years) in Southern Spain, a region that experiences frequent heat waves. We found that many participants engaged in heat wave avoidance (80.5%, e.g., spending more time indoors)…
Identifying Determinants of Caregiver Responses to Health Messages About Optimal Child Nutrition During the First 1000 Days
Key nutritional behaviors during the first 1000 days of development (pregnancy to age 2) can affect a child's risks for obesity and related negative health conditions. Because social disadvantage can pose substantial barriers to engaging in healthy lifestyle behaviors and increase obesity risk, it's particularly important to help families facing such circumstances support optimal early nutrition. Although some studies have found relevant health m…
The role of family civic context in character development across childhood and adolescence
Parents promote character development in many ways: by cultivating a supportive relationship, modeling the strengths they hope to cultivate, and through the ideas they communicate to their children. Given the need for developmentally sensitive assessments of contexts that facilitate character development, this study examined the role of a family civic context by examining associations between psychological needs support, parental modeling, and co…
Assessing the Link between Adolescents’ Awareness of Inequality and Civic Engagement across Time and Racial/Ethnic Groups
It's none of your business
Although parental knowledge of youth behavior is associated with less adolescent engagement in problem behaviors, many adolescents keep their engagement in various activities secret from their parents. However, less research has examined why youth keep secrets about their engagement in problematic activities. The current study examined adolescents' reasons for keeping secrets from their parents regarding their engagement in problematic and multif…
Adolescents’ Evaluations of Political Leaders
The current study explored youths' views of President Donald Trump using quantitative ratings and open-ended responses from a diverse sample of 1,432 U.S. adolescents from three geographic regions. Adolescent demographic characteristics (i.e., gender, race, geographic location) were systematically associated with their views about Trump. Open-ended responses demonstrated substantial variability in youths' rationales for approving or disapproving …
Similarities and Differences in Adolescents’ Organized and Civic Activity Networks across Rural and Non-Rural Communities
Disaggregating behavioral and psychological components of religious and spiritual development across adolescence
Religious behavior and spirituality have been consistently found to be associated with a host of positive youth outcomes including increased grade point average (Ferris, Oosterhoff, & Metzger, 2013) and community service (Paxton, Reith, & Glanville, 2014) and decreased substance use (Milot & Ludden, 2009). However, few studies have investigated how religious behavior and spirituality uniquely and interactively predict these outcomes, as well as h…
Ambivalent Effects of Stay-at-Home and Working Mother Stereotypes on Mothers’ Intergroup and Interpersonal Dynamics
We applied foundational intergroup research to a quasi-experiment with stay-at-home mothers (SAHMs) and working mothers (WMs) in order to investigate mothers’ contributions to the pressures of idealized motherhood. After viewing a description of a target mother, who portrayed one of seven empirically-derived mother stereotypes, participant mothers (N = 529) reported on their intended attitudes, positive and negative emotions, and facilitative and…
Dimensions of Adolescent Civic Reasoning
The current study examined sociodemographic characteristics and political discussion as correlates of adolescents’ qualitative understanding of three civic behaviors. Participants were 743 adolescents ( M age = 15.87, range = 13-20; 55.6% female; 89.9% White) from a midsized city and a small rural town in an Appalachian state. Open-ended responses to three civic behavior scenarios, asking participants why should people protest, vote, and voluntee…
Adolescents' Civic Engagement
Associations between adolescent civic and organized activities (volunteering, standard political, social movement, school/community, religious) and civic beliefs (comprised of should, obligation, and respect judgments) were examined. Cross-sectional models (N = 703, M age = 15.87) indicated domain specificity between adolescent civic beliefs and behaviors. Longitudinal models (n = 219, M age = 15.39) indicated that adolescents' standard political…
Being a Latinx adolescent under a trump presidency
The Intersection of Emotional and Sociocognitive Competencies with Civic Engagement in Middle Childhood and Adolescence
Associations Among Adolescents' Cyber-Specific Beliefs and Information Management Strategies
The current study investigated associations among adolescents' reports of harmfulness and family decision-making beliefs regarding potentially problematic cyber behaviors (e.g., talking to strangers online), cyber-specific information management strategies (disclosure, secrecy, concealment), and family rules regarding adolescents' use of information and communication technology (ICT). The sample consisted of 159 adolescents aged 12 to 18 years ( …
Physical Activity and Quit Motivation Moderators of Adolescent Smoking Reduction
Adolescents may benefit from interventions designed to address the barriers faced during a quit attempt, including their motivation to make a change and their engagement in other healthy behaviors such as physical activity
Testing multidimensional models of youth civic engagement
Despite recognition that youth civic engagement is multidimensional, different modeling approaches are rarely compared or tested for measurement invariance. Using a diverse sample of 2,467 elementary, middle, and high school-aged youth, we measured eight dimensions of civic engagement: social responsibility values, informal helping, political beliefs, civic skills, environmental behavior, volunteering, voting intentions, and news consumption. We …
Variability in Parenting Self-Efficacy Across Prudential Adolescent Behaviors
SYNOPSISObjective. Extant research examining the predictors and outcomes of parenting self-efficacy has predominantly focused on families with young children. Adolescence is a time of increased autonomy during which parents may be uncertain about their abilities to influence their adolescents’ risk-taking behavior. Design. Parents’ (N = 145 mothers and 53 fathers) confidence in their parenting abilities across prudential adolescent behaviors was …
Longitudinal associations among adolescents’ organized activity involvement and sociopolitical values
Organized activities represent a potentially important context for the development of adolescent sociopolitical values, but few studies have examined longitudinal associations between youths’ sociopolitical values and activity involvement. Adolescents ( N = 299, Time 1 M age = 15.49, SD = .93, 62% female) reported on their organized activity involvement (volunteering, church, sports, arts/music, school and community clubs) and sociopolitical valu…
Adolescents' Sociopolitical Values in the Context of Organized Activity Involvement
Sociopolitical values are hypothesized to form during adolescence, but the developmental and contextual origins of these values have been largely unexplored. A sample of 846 adolescents ( Mage = 15.96, SD = 1.22, range = 13-20 years) reported on their organized activity involvement (volunteering, sports, church, community clubs, arts/music, school clubs) and their sociopolitical values (patriotism, authoritarianism, spirituality, social dominance…
Domain Specificity in Adolescents’ Concepts of Laws
Using detailed vignettes and scale measures, concepts of laws regulating domain-specific issues and engagement in delinquency were assessed among 340 9th through 12th graders (M age = 16.64, SD = 1.37). Adolescents distinguished between laws that regulate moral, drug-related prudential, conventional, personal, and multifaceted issues in their criterion judgments and justifications. Youths' ratings of the importance of laws, obligation to obey law…
A Social Domain Approach to Informant Discrepancies in Parental Solicitation and Family Rules
How Children Understand Civic Actions
The development of civically engaged citizens is vital for democratic societies. Although several studies have explored children and adolescents’ conceptualizations of civic engagement, less is known about youths’ understanding of the individual skills and attributes best suited for civic action. The current study utilized a Q-sort methodology to explore the types of character strengths children and adolescents ( n = 87; M age = 13, 9-19, 52% fem…
What Do Citizens Have to Do? Parents’ and Adolescents’ Messages About Civic Duty
The current study examined demographic and civic behavior correlates of observed messages concerning civic duty coded from dyadic, semi-structured interactions between 160 adolescents ( M age = 14.42, range = 12-18) and their parents (144 mothers, 52 fathers). Anecdotal statements are provided to illustrate the eight themes that emerged within parent-adolescent civic discussion. Three themes concerned community and political involvement— communit…
Dimensions of Citizenship
This study used a sample of 467 middle and high school students (Mage = 15.26) from a mid-Atlantic state. Structural equation models controlling for demographic variables (age, gender, and parents’ education) examined associations between three developing sociopolitical values (spiritualty, patriotism, and authoritarianism) and adolescents’ social and moral judgments (obligation and social praise) concerning four civic activities (community servi…
Information management strategies within conversations about cigarette smoking
The present study examined smoking-specific and general parenting predictors of in vivo observed patterns of parent-adolescent discussion concerning adolescents' cigarette smoking experiences and associations between these observed patterns and 24-month longitudinal trajectories of teen cigarette smoking behavior (nonsmokers, current experimenters, escalators). Parental solicitation, adolescent disclosure, and adolescent information management we…
Adolescent Development in Interpersonal and Societal Contexts
In this chapter we review theoretical and empirical advances in research on adolescent development in interpersonal and societal contexts. First, we identify several trends in current research, including the current emphasis on ecological models and the focus on diversity in and relational models of adolescent development. Next, we discuss recent research on interpersonal relationships, with an eye toward identifying major research themes and fin…
Being a Latinx adolescent under a trump presidency
Family and Religious Antecedents of Civic Involvement In Middle Class African American Late Adolescents
We examined family and religious/spiritual antecedents and correlates of current and intended civic involvement in 76 middle class African American late adolescents ( M =18.43 years) who had been followed longitudinally for 3 years. Adolescents' spirituality/religiosity and mothers' current involvement influenced the overall ratings and more specifically, current church and community (but not political) involvement, as assessed on a 14‐item measu…
The Intersection of Emotional and Sociocognitive Competencies with Civic Engagement in Middle Childhood and Adolescence
Patterns of Organized Activity Participation in Urban, Early Adolescents
This study examines patterns of organized activity and their concurrent association with academic achievement, problem behavior, and perceived adult support in a sample of urban, early adolescent, middle school students (mean age = 13.01; N = 2,495). Cluster analyses yielded six activity profiles: an uninvolved group ( n = 775, 31.1%), a multiply involved group ( n = 247, 9.9%), a sports group ( n = 469, 18.8%), a church group ( n = 486, 19.5%), …
How Children Understand Civic Actions
The development of civically engaged citizens is vital for democratic societies. Although several studies have explored children and adolescents’ conceptualizations of civic engagement, less is known about youths’ understanding of the individual skills and attributes best suited for civic action. The current study utilized a Q-sort methodology to explore the types of character strengths children and adolescents ( n = 87; M age = 13, 9-19, 52% fem…
Assessing the Link between Adolescents’ Awareness of Inequality and Civic Engagement across Time and Racial/Ethnic Groups
It's none of your business
Although parental knowledge of youth behavior is associated with less adolescent engagement in problem behaviors, many adolescents keep their engagement in various activities secret from their parents. However, less research has examined why youth keep secrets about their engagement in problematic activities. The current study examined adolescents' reasons for keeping secrets from their parents regarding their engagement in problematic and multif…
What Do Citizens Have to Do? Parents’ and Adolescents’ Messages About Civic Duty
The current study examined demographic and civic behavior correlates of observed messages concerning civic duty coded from dyadic, semi-structured interactions between 160 adolescents ( M age = 14.42, range = 12-18) and their parents (144 mothers, 52 fathers). Anecdotal statements are provided to illustrate the eight themes that emerged within parent-adolescent civic discussion. Three themes concerned community and political involvement— communit…
Young Chinese Children's Authority Concepts
Using multilevel analyses, we examined the influence of domain (moral, conventional, and personal) and the familiarity of different authority figures (mother, teacher, person in charge, and stranger) in public, school, or home settings in 123 four to seven‐year‐old Chinese children ( M = 5.6 years) in Hong Kong. Children affirmed authority more for moral and conventional than personal events, based primarily on punishment avoidance and convention…
Adolescents' Civic Engagement
Associations between adolescent civic and organized activities (volunteering, standard political, social movement, school/community, religious) and civic beliefs (comprised of should, obligation, and respect judgments) were examined. Cross-sectional models (N = 703, M age = 15.87) indicated domain specificity between adolescent civic beliefs and behaviors. Longitudinal models (n = 219, M age = 15.39) indicated that adolescents' standard political…
Dimensions of Adolescent Civic Reasoning
The current study examined sociodemographic characteristics and political discussion as correlates of adolescents’ qualitative understanding of three civic behaviors. Participants were 743 adolescents ( M age = 15.87, range = 13-20; 55.6% female; 89.9% White) from a midsized city and a small rural town in an Appalachian state. Open-ended responses to three civic behavior scenarios, asking participants why should people protest, vote, and voluntee…
Associations Among Adolescents' Cyber-Specific Beliefs and Information Management Strategies
The current study investigated associations among adolescents' reports of harmfulness and family decision-making beliefs regarding potentially problematic cyber behaviors (e.g., talking to strangers online), cyber-specific information management strategies (disclosure, secrecy, concealment), and family rules regarding adolescents' use of information and communication technology (ICT). The sample consisted of 159 adolescents aged 12 to 18 years ( …
Longitudinal associations among adolescents’ organized activity involvement and sociopolitical values
Organized activities represent a potentially important context for the development of adolescent sociopolitical values, but few studies have examined longitudinal associations between youths’ sociopolitical values and activity involvement. Adolescents ( N = 299, Time 1 M age = 15.49, SD = .93, 62% female) reported on their organized activity involvement (volunteering, church, sports, arts/music, school and community clubs) and sociopolitical valu…
Information management strategies within conversations about cigarette smoking
The present study examined smoking-specific and general parenting predictors of in vivo observed patterns of parent-adolescent discussion concerning adolescents' cigarette smoking experiences and associations between these observed patterns and 24-month longitudinal trajectories of teen cigarette smoking behavior (nonsmokers, current experimenters, escalators). Parental solicitation, adolescent disclosure, and adolescent information management we…
Adolescents’ Evaluations of Political Leaders
The current study explored youths' views of President Donald Trump using quantitative ratings and open-ended responses from a diverse sample of 1,432 U.S. adolescents from three geographic regions. Adolescent demographic characteristics (i.e., gender, race, geographic location) were systematically associated with their views about Trump. Open-ended responses demonstrated substantial variability in youths' rationales for approving or disapproving …
Adolescents' Sociopolitical Values in the Context of Organized Activity Involvement
Sociopolitical values are hypothesized to form during adolescence, but the developmental and contextual origins of these values have been largely unexplored. A sample of 846 adolescents ( Mage = 15.96, SD = 1.22, range = 13-20 years) reported on their organized activity involvement (volunteering, sports, church, community clubs, arts/music, school clubs) and their sociopolitical values (patriotism, authoritarianism, spirituality, social dominance…
A Social Domain Approach to Informant Discrepancies in Parental Solicitation and Family Rules
Dimensions of Citizenship
This study used a sample of 467 middle and high school students (Mage = 15.26) from a mid-Atlantic state. Structural equation models controlling for demographic variables (age, gender, and parents’ education) examined associations between three developing sociopolitical values (spiritualty, patriotism, and authoritarianism) and adolescents’ social and moral judgments (obligation and social praise) concerning four civic activities (community servi…
Similarities and Differences in Adolescents’ Organized and Civic Activity Networks across Rural and Non-Rural Communities
Variability in Parenting Self-Efficacy Across Prudential Adolescent Behaviors
SYNOPSISObjective. Extant research examining the predictors and outcomes of parenting self-efficacy has predominantly focused on families with young children. Adolescence is a time of increased autonomy during which parents may be uncertain about their abilities to influence their adolescents’ risk-taking behavior. Design. Parents’ (N = 145 mothers and 53 fathers) confidence in their parenting abilities across prudential adolescent behaviors was …
Misregulating Television
Misregulating Television
Family and Religious Antecedents of Civic Involvement In Middle Class African American Late Adolescents
We examined family and religious/spiritual antecedents and correlates of current and intended civic involvement in 76 middle class African American late adolescents ( M =18.43 years) who had been followed longitudinally for 3 years. Adolescents' spirituality/religiosity and mothers' current involvement influenced the overall ratings and more specifically, current church and community (but not political) involvement, as assessed on a 14‐item measu…
Adolescent Development in Interpersonal and Societal Contexts
In this chapter we review theoretical and empirical advances in research on adolescent development in interpersonal and societal contexts. First, we identify several trends in current research, including the current emphasis on ecological models and the focus on diversity in and relational models of adolescent development. Next, we discuss recent research on interpersonal relationships, with an eye toward identifying major research themes and fin…
Disclosure and Secrecy in Adolescent–Parent Relationships
Beliefs about parents' legitimate authority and adolescents' obligations to disclose to parents and actual disclosure and secrecy in different domains were examined in 276 ethnically diverse, lower middle-class 9th and 12th graders (Ms=14.62 and 17.40 years) and their parents (n=249). Adolescents were seen as more obligated to disclose prudential issues and less obligated to disclose personal than moral, conventional, and multifaceted issues; par…
Young Chinese Children's Authority Concepts
Using multilevel analyses, we examined the influence of domain (moral, conventional, and personal) and the familiarity of different authority figures (mother, teacher, person in charge, and stranger) in public, school, or home settings in 123 four to seven‐year‐old Chinese children ( M = 5.6 years) in Hong Kong. Children affirmed authority more for moral and conventional than personal events, based primarily on punishment avoidance and convention…
Patterns of Organized Activity Participation in Urban, Early Adolescents
This study examines patterns of organized activity and their concurrent association with academic achievement, problem behavior, and perceived adult support in a sample of urban, early adolescent, middle school students (mean age = 13.01; N = 2,495). Cluster analyses yielded six activity profiles: an uninvolved group ( n = 775, 31.1%), a multiply involved group ( n = 247, 9.9%), a sports group ( n = 469, 18.8%), a church group ( n = 486, 19.5%), …
Information management strategies within conversations about cigarette smoking
The present study examined smoking-specific and general parenting predictors of in vivo observed patterns of parent-adolescent discussion concerning adolescents' cigarette smoking experiences and associations between these observed patterns and 24-month longitudinal trajectories of teen cigarette smoking behavior (nonsmokers, current experimenters, escalators). Parental solicitation, adolescent disclosure, and adolescent information management we…
What Do Citizens Have to Do? Parents’ and Adolescents’ Messages About Civic Duty
The current study examined demographic and civic behavior correlates of observed messages concerning civic duty coded from dyadic, semi-structured interactions between 160 adolescents ( M age = 14.42, range = 12-18) and their parents (144 mothers, 52 fathers). Anecdotal statements are provided to illustrate the eight themes that emerged within parent-adolescent civic discussion. Three themes concerned community and political involvement— communit…
Dimensions of Citizenship
This study used a sample of 467 middle and high school students (Mage = 15.26) from a mid-Atlantic state. Structural equation models controlling for demographic variables (age, gender, and parents’ education) examined associations between three developing sociopolitical values (spiritualty, patriotism, and authoritarianism) and adolescents’ social and moral judgments (obligation and social praise) concerning four civic activities (community servi…
How Children Understand Civic Actions
The development of civically engaged citizens is vital for democratic societies. Although several studies have explored children and adolescents’ conceptualizations of civic engagement, less is known about youths’ understanding of the individual skills and attributes best suited for civic action. The current study utilized a Q-sort methodology to explore the types of character strengths children and adolescents ( n = 87; M age = 13, 9-19, 52% fem…
Domain Specificity in Adolescents’ Concepts of Laws
Using detailed vignettes and scale measures, concepts of laws regulating domain-specific issues and engagement in delinquency were assessed among 340 9th through 12th graders (M age = 16.64, SD = 1.37). Adolescents distinguished between laws that regulate moral, drug-related prudential, conventional, personal, and multifaceted issues in their criterion judgments and justifications. Youths' ratings of the importance of laws, obligation to obey law…
A Social Domain Approach to Informant Discrepancies in Parental Solicitation and Family Rules
Physical Activity and Quit Motivation Moderators of Adolescent Smoking Reduction
Adolescents may benefit from interventions designed to address the barriers faced during a quit attempt, including their motivation to make a change and their engagement in other healthy behaviors such as physical activity
Testing multidimensional models of youth civic engagement
Despite recognition that youth civic engagement is multidimensional, different modeling approaches are rarely compared or tested for measurement invariance. Using a diverse sample of 2,467 elementary, middle, and high school-aged youth, we measured eight dimensions of civic engagement: social responsibility values, informal helping, political beliefs, civic skills, environmental behavior, volunteering, voting intentions, and news consumption. We …
Variability in Parenting Self-Efficacy Across Prudential Adolescent Behaviors
SYNOPSISObjective. Extant research examining the predictors and outcomes of parenting self-efficacy has predominantly focused on families with young children. Adolescence is a time of increased autonomy during which parents may be uncertain about their abilities to influence their adolescents’ risk-taking behavior. Design. Parents’ (N = 145 mothers and 53 fathers) confidence in their parenting abilities across prudential adolescent behaviors was …
Longitudinal associations among adolescents’ organized activity involvement and sociopolitical values
Organized activities represent a potentially important context for the development of adolescent sociopolitical values, but few studies have examined longitudinal associations between youths’ sociopolitical values and activity involvement. Adolescents ( N = 299, Time 1 M age = 15.49, SD = .93, 62% female) reported on their organized activity involvement (volunteering, church, sports, arts/music, school and community clubs) and sociopolitical valu…
Adolescents' Sociopolitical Values in the Context of Organized Activity Involvement
Sociopolitical values are hypothesized to form during adolescence, but the developmental and contextual origins of these values have been largely unexplored. A sample of 846 adolescents ( Mage = 15.96, SD = 1.22, range = 13-20 years) reported on their organized activity involvement (volunteering, sports, church, community clubs, arts/music, school clubs) and their sociopolitical values (patriotism, authoritarianism, spirituality, social dominance…
Adolescents' Civic Engagement
Associations between adolescent civic and organized activities (volunteering, standard political, social movement, school/community, religious) and civic beliefs (comprised of should, obligation, and respect judgments) were examined. Cross-sectional models (N = 703, M age = 15.87) indicated domain specificity between adolescent civic beliefs and behaviors. Longitudinal models (n = 219, M age = 15.39) indicated that adolescents' standard political…
Being a Latinx adolescent under a trump presidency
The Intersection of Emotional and Sociocognitive Competencies with Civic Engagement in Middle Childhood and Adolescence
Associations Among Adolescents' Cyber-Specific Beliefs and Information Management Strategies
The current study investigated associations among adolescents' reports of harmfulness and family decision-making beliefs regarding potentially problematic cyber behaviors (e.g., talking to strangers online), cyber-specific information management strategies (disclosure, secrecy, concealment), and family rules regarding adolescents' use of information and communication technology (ICT). The sample consisted of 159 adolescents aged 12 to 18 years ( …
Disaggregating behavioral and psychological components of religious and spiritual development across adolescence
Religious behavior and spirituality have been consistently found to be associated with a host of positive youth outcomes including increased grade point average (Ferris, Oosterhoff, & Metzger, 2013) and community service (Paxton, Reith, & Glanville, 2014) and decreased substance use (Milot & Ludden, 2009). However, few studies have investigated how religious behavior and spirituality uniquely and interactively predict these outcomes, as well as h…
Ambivalent Effects of Stay-at-Home and Working Mother Stereotypes on Mothers’ Intergroup and Interpersonal Dynamics
We applied foundational intergroup research to a quasi-experiment with stay-at-home mothers (SAHMs) and working mothers (WMs) in order to investigate mothers’ contributions to the pressures of idealized motherhood. After viewing a description of a target mother, who portrayed one of seven empirically-derived mother stereotypes, participant mothers (N = 529) reported on their intended attitudes, positive and negative emotions, and facilitative and…
Dimensions of Adolescent Civic Reasoning
The current study examined sociodemographic characteristics and political discussion as correlates of adolescents’ qualitative understanding of three civic behaviors. Participants were 743 adolescents ( M age = 15.87, range = 13-20; 55.6% female; 89.9% White) from a midsized city and a small rural town in an Appalachian state. Open-ended responses to three civic behavior scenarios, asking participants why should people protest, vote, and voluntee…
Psychology (27 obras) · Social Psychology (22 obras) · Developmental psychology (21 obras) · Social Psychology (17 obras) · Youth Development and Social Support (17 obras) · Political science (15 obras) · Politics (12 obras) · Civic engagement (9 obras) · Parental Involvement in Education (8 obras) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (7 obras)