Christy Buchanan
Biographic Data
| ID | 120933 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christy Buchanan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christy |
| FAMILY NAME | Buchanan |
| SIGNATURE | BUCHANAN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wake Forest University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0988-954X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 720 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
A Longitudinal Study of Parental Solicitation, Rule-Setting, and Psychological Control as Predictors of Adolescent Disclosure across More Individualistic and More Collectivistic Countries
Although autonomy-relevant parenting practices (solicitation, rule-setting, and psychological control) have been linked to adolescent disclosure, little is known about how these practices operate across cultural contexts. Existing studies often examined these practices in isolation or relied on cross-sectional designs, limiting understanding of their unique relations over time. This study examined these associations longitudinally across eight co…
Experiential Civic Learning: When the Established Order Falters
Introduction: John Dewey, a prominent educational philosopher, emphasized the importance of connecting education and democracy, and advocated for the cultivation of civic values through experiential learning. Dewey’s pedagogical model most often unfolds with educators designing students’ experiences, which Dewey believed instills and advances the moral foundation of a democracy. Dewey faced many detractors over his lifetime who maintained that hi…
Developmental Trajectories of Parental Self-Efficacy as Children Transition to Adolescence in Nine Countries: Latent Growth Curve Analyses
Exploring how adolescent boys' and girls' internalizing and externalizing behaviors impact parental self‐efficacy: A vignette study
Deliberation, Cognitive Complexity, and Political Engagement: A Longitudinal Study of the Impact of Deliberative Training During Emerging Adulthood
Young adults who had participated in a college program in which they learned to deliberate were compared with a matched sample from the same college who did not participate. Interview and survey responses to questions about citizenship and communication about politics were analyzed. Ten years after their graduation, the students who learned to deliberate during college had more complex conceptions of citizenship and its responsibilities compared …
Introduction to Special Issue “Parenting in the 21st Century”
The nature of parenting and parent–child relationships is often dramatically affected by the historical period in which one raises children [...]
Parental Self-Efficacy and Physiological Responses to Stress among Mothers of Early Adolescents
Child-invested contingent self-esteem and parenting: Exploring Differentiations by Child Successes or Failures and Ethnicity/Race
Child-invested contingent self-esteem (CSE), or the extent to which parents derive their self-esteem from their children's accomplishments, has wide implications for parents and the parenting context. This study investigates links between CSE and parenting behaviors and beliefs and differentiates between CSE based on children's success versus failure. It also examines whether associations vary across ethnicity/race. Recruited through Qualtrics, p…
Trends in parental self-efficacy between 1999 and 2014
Parenting and parent–child relationships in Western countries have undergone notable changes over recent decades. Parents today generally spend more time with their children and use less harsh discipline compared to parents over 50 years ago. Less is known about trends in parental beliefs over this time period. In this study, we examined differences in parental self-efficacy (PSE) between parents of young adolescents from two samples, one collect…
Beliefs about Expressing Love to Adolescents among Ethnically and Economically Diverse Mothers
Acculturation Conflict, Cultural Parenting Self‐Efficacy, and Perceived Parenting Competence in Asian American and Latino/a Families
Parents from immigrant backgrounds must deal with normative parenting demands as well as unique challenges associated with acculturation processes. The current study examines the independent and interactive influences of acculturation conflict and cultural parenting self-efficacy (PSE; e.g., parents' confidence in instilling heritage, American, and bicultural values in their children) on perceptions of general parenting competence. Using data fro…
Change and predictors of change in parental self-efficacy from early to middle adolescence
Parental self-efficacy (PSE) describes parents' beliefs about being able to handle developmentally specific issues and being able to influence their child in a way that fosters the child's positive development and adjustment (Bandura, 1997). Parents of adolescents have been shown to feel less efficacious than parents of preadolescent children (Ballenski & Cook, 1982), but little is known about the factors behind low levels of PSE among parents of…
Civic Orientation in Cultures of Privilege: What Role Do Schools Play
The context of privilege provides unique opportunities and challenges for youth civic development. A mixed-method approach was used to examine links between school-based community service, school climate, and civic orientation among students in cultures of privilege. Surveys completed by students ( N = 376) at two private high schools-one with an extracurricular community service requirement and one without-suggest that students in the school wit…
Daily stress and emotional well-being among Asian American adolescents: Same-day, lagged, and chronic associations
Daily-diary data from 180 Asian American 9th-10th graders (58% female, 75% second generation; M age = 14.97 years) were used to investigate how family, school, and peer stress are each associated with same-day and next-day (lagged) well-being, and vice versa. Hierarchical linear modeling provided support for reciprocal links when considering same-day reports. More daily stress was associated with lower same-day happiness and higher distress and a…
Commitment to community and political involvement: A cross-cultural study with Italian and American adolescents
The purpose of this study was to test whether personal commitment to community was related to political involvement in two cultural contexts: Italy and the USA. Participants were 566 adolescents (48.2% males) aged 14–19 years (M = 16 years; SD = 1.29): 311 Italians and 255 Americans. Participants filled out a self-report questionnaire. Analyses of variance revealed that American high school students reported higher levels of personal commitment t…
Construction of Social Reality During Early Adolescence: Can Expecting Storm and Stress Increase Real or Perceived Storm and Stress
This study examines whether mothers' or adolescents' expectations concerning “storm and stress” behaviors at adolescence predict subsequent real or perceived adolescent behavior and attributes during the early years of adolescence. The study used a short‐term longitudinal design. Participants were 6th‐ and 7th‐grade adolescents and their mothers ( N =270 families). Data were collected via telephone interviews and questionnaires at 2 time points a…
Parenting and Perceived Maternal Warmth in European American and African American Adolescents
Traditional conceptualizations of parenting style assume certain associations between parenting practices/philosophies and parental warmth. This study examines whether those links are similar for European American and African American adolescents. Two hundred and ninety‐eight early adolescents and their mothers reported on discipline and control practices, decision‐making practices, and parenting philosophy, which were used to predict adolescents…
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Mothers' and Fathers' Knowledge of Adolescents' Daily Activities: Its Sources and Its Links With Adolescent Adjustment.
To elucidate the benefits ascribed to parental monitoring, the authors examined links between parental knowledge and methods of obtaining knowledge about adolescents' activities, and links between these constructs and adolescent adjustment. The roles of parent gender, adolescent gender, and family earner status in these associations were also studied. Participants were 95 adolescents (ages 10 to 17 years, 60% male and 40% female) and their parent…
Mothers’ Generalized Beliefs About Adolescents: Links to Expectations for a Specific child
Mothers’ generalized beliefs about adolescents were used to predict a mother’s expectations for her own child’s adolescent years. Participants were 75 mothers of children in either sixth grade or seventh grade. Generalized beliefs about adolescents predicted the mother’s expectations for her own young adolescent even after accounting for the young adolescent’s current attributes (e.g., depressed mood, closeness to mother). For example, the more l…
Psychological Control During Early Adolescence: Links to Adjustment in Differing Parent/Adolescent Dyads
The present study examined the association between adolescent perceptions of parental psychological control and adolescent internalizing and externalizing symptoms across four dyadic relationships (mother/daughter, mother/son, father/daughter, and father/eson) cross-sectionally and longitudinally. Participants were 306 sixth- and seventh-grade students,287 mothers, and 115 fathers, interviewed at two time points one year apart. Cross-sectionally,…
Measuring Beliefs About Adolescent Personality and Behavior
Adolescents After Divorce
Adolescents after Divorce
Adolescents after Divorce
Development during adolescence: The impact of stage-environment fit on young adolescents' experiences in schools and in families
Psychological Control During Early Adolescence: Links to Adjustment in Differing Parent/Adolescent Dyads
The present study examined the association between adolescent perceptions of parental psychological control and adolescent internalizing and externalizing symptoms across four dyadic relationships (mother/daughter, mother/son, father/daughter, and father/eson) cross-sectionally and longitudinally. Participants were 306 sixth- and seventh-grade students,287 mothers, and 115 fathers, interviewed at two time points one year apart. Cross-sectionally,…
Change and predictors of change in parental self-efficacy from early to middle adolescence
Parental self-efficacy (PSE) describes parents' beliefs about being able to handle developmentally specific issues and being able to influence their child in a way that fosters the child's positive development and adjustment (Bandura, 1997). Parents of adolescents have been shown to feel less efficacious than parents of preadolescent children (Ballenski & Cook, 1982), but little is known about the factors behind low levels of PSE among parents of…
Acculturation Conflict, Cultural Parenting Self‐Efficacy, and Perceived Parenting Competence in Asian American and Latino/a Families
Parents from immigrant backgrounds must deal with normative parenting demands as well as unique challenges associated with acculturation processes. The current study examines the independent and interactive influences of acculturation conflict and cultural parenting self-efficacy (PSE; e.g., parents' confidence in instilling heritage, American, and bicultural values in their children) on perceptions of general parenting competence. Using data fro…
Are adolescents the victims of raging hormones? Evidence for activational effects of hormones on moods and behavior at adolescence
The literatures on hormone changes at adolescence, hormonal influences on moods and behavior in nonhuman animals and adult humans, and mood and behavioral changes at adolescence and the small but burgeoning literature on hormonal influences at adolescence are examined. The focus is on moods and behaviors often identified as typically adolescent (e.g., mood lability, mood intensity, irritability, conflict with parents) and the primary hormones of …
Parents' and teachers' beliefs about adolescents: Effects of sex and experience
Adolescents and their Families After Divorce: Three Residential Arrangements Compared
Adolescent adjustment and family processes 4 1/2 years after parental separation were examined through telephone interviews with 517 adolescents (10 1/2 to 18 years old) living in mother, father, or dual residence. Residence differences in adjustment were small in magnitude, with adolescents in father residence adjusting somewhat more poorly than adolescents in other arrangements, especially in comparison to dual-resident adolescents. The link be…
Daily stress and emotional well-being among Asian American adolescents: Same-day, lagged, and chronic associations
Daily-diary data from 180 Asian American 9th-10th graders (58% female, 75% second generation; M age = 14.97 years) were used to investigate how family, school, and peer stress are each associated with same-day and next-day (lagged) well-being, and vice versa. Hierarchical linear modeling provided support for reciprocal links when considering same-day reports. More daily stress was associated with lower same-day happiness and higher distress and a…
Measuring Beliefs About Adolescent Personality and Behavior
Parenting and Perceived Maternal Warmth in European American and African American Adolescents
Traditional conceptualizations of parenting style assume certain associations between parenting practices/philosophies and parental warmth. This study examines whether those links are similar for European American and African American adolescents. Two hundred and ninety‐eight early adolescents and their mothers reported on discipline and control practices, decision‐making practices, and parenting philosophy, which were used to predict adolescents…
Control Versus Autonomy During Early Adolescence
Research and theorizing about adult control have often made seemingly conflicting recommendations and predictions about the potential impact of that control on children's social and intellectual development. Researchers concerned with intrinsic motivation have argued for minimal use of controlling strategies with children; other researchers, in contrast, argue that relatively high levels of adult control, when exercised in an emotionally supporti…
Trends in parental self-efficacy between 1999 and 2014
Parenting and parent–child relationships in Western countries have undergone notable changes over recent decades. Parents today generally spend more time with their children and use less harsh discipline compared to parents over 50 years ago. Less is known about trends in parental beliefs over this time period. In this study, we examined differences in parental self-efficacy (PSE) between parents of young adolescents from two samples, one collect…
Construction of Social Reality During Early Adolescence: Can Expecting Storm and Stress Increase Real or Perceived Storm and Stress
This study examines whether mothers' or adolescents' expectations concerning “storm and stress” behaviors at adolescence predict subsequent real or perceived adolescent behavior and attributes during the early years of adolescence. The study used a short‐term longitudinal design. Participants were 6th‐ and 7th‐grade adolescents and their mothers ( N =270 families). Data were collected via telephone interviews and questionnaires at 2 time points a…
Mothers’ Generalized Beliefs About Adolescents: Links to Expectations for a Specific child
Mothers’ generalized beliefs about adolescents were used to predict a mother’s expectations for her own child’s adolescent years. Participants were 75 mothers of children in either sixth grade or seventh grade. Generalized beliefs about adolescents predicted the mother’s expectations for her own young adolescent even after accounting for the young adolescent’s current attributes (e.g., depressed mood, closeness to mother). For example, the more l…
Pubertal Status in Early-Adolescent Girls: Relations to Moods, Energy, and Restlessness
This study examined perceived pubertal change in relation to characteristics of early-adolescent girls' moods; energy, and restlessness. Fifty-two girls aged 9.1 to 10.8 years reported their moods, energy, and restlessness on 12 days over the course of 1 month. Average levels, variability, and intensity of these constructs were calculated Measures of certainty about self and perceived pubertal status and timing were also obtained. Girls who felt …
Civic Orientation in Cultures of Privilege: What Role Do Schools Play
The context of privilege provides unique opportunities and challenges for youth civic development. A mixed-method approach was used to examine links between school-based community service, school climate, and civic orientation among students in cultures of privilege. Surveys completed by students ( N = 376) at two private high schools-one with an extracurricular community service requirement and one without-suggest that students in the school wit…
Adolescents after Divorce
Child-invested contingent self-esteem and parenting: Exploring Differentiations by Child Successes or Failures and Ethnicity/Race
Child-invested contingent self-esteem (CSE), or the extent to which parents derive their self-esteem from their children's accomplishments, has wide implications for parents and the parenting context. This study investigates links between CSE and parenting behaviors and beliefs and differentiates between CSE based on children's success versus failure. It also examines whether associations vary across ethnicity/race. Recruited through Qualtrics, p…
Commitment to community and political involvement: A cross-cultural study with Italian and American adolescents
The purpose of this study was to test whether personal commitment to community was related to political involvement in two cultural contexts: Italy and the USA. Participants were 566 adolescents (48.2% males) aged 14–19 years (M = 16 years; SD = 1.29): 311 Italians and 255 Americans. Participants filled out a self-report questionnaire. Analyses of variance revealed that American high school students reported higher levels of personal commitment t…
Parents' and teachers' beliefs about adolescents: Effects of sex and experience
Caught between Parents: Adolescents' Experience in Divorced Homes
Pubertal Status in Early-Adolescent Girls: Relations to Moods, Energy, and Restlessness
This study examined perceived pubertal change in relation to characteristics of early-adolescent girls' moods; energy, and restlessness. Fifty-two girls aged 9.1 to 10.8 years reported their moods, energy, and restlessness on 12 days over the course of 1 month. Average levels, variability, and intensity of these constructs were calculated Measures of certainty about self and perceived pubertal status and timing were also obtained. Girls who felt …
Control Versus Autonomy During Early Adolescence
Research and theorizing about adult control have often made seemingly conflicting recommendations and predictions about the potential impact of that control on children's social and intellectual development. Researchers concerned with intrinsic motivation have argued for minimal use of controlling strategies with children; other researchers, in contrast, argue that relatively high levels of adult control, when exercised in an emotionally supporti…
Adolescents and their Families After Divorce: Three Residential Arrangements Compared
Adolescent adjustment and family processes 4 1/2 years after parental separation were examined through telephone interviews with 517 adolescents (10 1/2 to 18 years old) living in mother, father, or dual residence. Residence differences in adjustment were small in magnitude, with adolescents in father residence adjusting somewhat more poorly than adolescents in other arrangements, especially in comparison to dual-resident adolescents. The link be…
Are adolescents the victims of raging hormones? Evidence for activational effects of hormones on moods and behavior at adolescence
The literatures on hormone changes at adolescence, hormonal influences on moods and behavior in nonhuman animals and adult humans, and mood and behavioral changes at adolescence and the small but burgeoning literature on hormonal influences at adolescence are examined. The focus is on moods and behaviors often identified as typically adolescent (e.g., mood lability, mood intensity, irritability, conflict with parents) and the primary hormones of …
Development during adolescence: The impact of stage-environment fit on young adolescents' experiences in schools and in families
Adolescents after Divorce
Adolescents after Divorce
Measuring Beliefs About Adolescent Personality and Behavior
Adolescents After Divorce
Mothers’ Generalized Beliefs About Adolescents: Links to Expectations for a Specific child
Mothers’ generalized beliefs about adolescents were used to predict a mother’s expectations for her own child’s adolescent years. Participants were 75 mothers of children in either sixth grade or seventh grade. Generalized beliefs about adolescents predicted the mother’s expectations for her own young adolescent even after accounting for the young adolescent’s current attributes (e.g., depressed mood, closeness to mother). For example, the more l…
Psychological Control During Early Adolescence: Links to Adjustment in Differing Parent/Adolescent Dyads
The present study examined the association between adolescent perceptions of parental psychological control and adolescent internalizing and externalizing symptoms across four dyadic relationships (mother/daughter, mother/son, father/daughter, and father/eson) cross-sectionally and longitudinally. Participants were 306 sixth- and seventh-grade students,287 mothers, and 115 fathers, interviewed at two time points one year apart. Cross-sectionally,…
Mothers' and Fathers' Knowledge of Adolescents' Daily Activities: Its Sources and Its Links With Adolescent Adjustment.
To elucidate the benefits ascribed to parental monitoring, the authors examined links between parental knowledge and methods of obtaining knowledge about adolescents' activities, and links between these constructs and adolescent adjustment. The roles of parent gender, adolescent gender, and family earner status in these associations were also studied. Participants were 95 adolescents (ages 10 to 17 years, 60% male and 40% female) and their parent…
Special Reviewers
Parenting and Perceived Maternal Warmth in European American and African American Adolescents
Traditional conceptualizations of parenting style assume certain associations between parenting practices/philosophies and parental warmth. This study examines whether those links are similar for European American and African American adolescents. Two hundred and ninety‐eight early adolescents and their mothers reported on discipline and control practices, decision‐making practices, and parenting philosophy, which were used to predict adolescents…
Construction of Social Reality During Early Adolescence: Can Expecting Storm and Stress Increase Real or Perceived Storm and Stress
This study examines whether mothers' or adolescents' expectations concerning “storm and stress” behaviors at adolescence predict subsequent real or perceived adolescent behavior and attributes during the early years of adolescence. The study used a short‐term longitudinal design. Participants were 6th‐ and 7th‐grade adolescents and their mothers ( N =270 families). Data were collected via telephone interviews and questionnaires at 2 time points a…
Commitment to community and political involvement: A cross-cultural study with Italian and American adolescents
The purpose of this study was to test whether personal commitment to community was related to political involvement in two cultural contexts: Italy and the USA. Participants were 566 adolescents (48.2% males) aged 14–19 years (M = 16 years; SD = 1.29): 311 Italians and 255 Americans. Participants filled out a self-report questionnaire. Analyses of variance revealed that American high school students reported higher levels of personal commitment t…
Daily stress and emotional well-being among Asian American adolescents: Same-day, lagged, and chronic associations
Daily-diary data from 180 Asian American 9th-10th graders (58% female, 75% second generation; M age = 14.97 years) were used to investigate how family, school, and peer stress are each associated with same-day and next-day (lagged) well-being, and vice versa. Hierarchical linear modeling provided support for reciprocal links when considering same-day reports. More daily stress was associated with lower same-day happiness and higher distress and a…
Change and predictors of change in parental self-efficacy from early to middle adolescence
Parental self-efficacy (PSE) describes parents' beliefs about being able to handle developmentally specific issues and being able to influence their child in a way that fosters the child's positive development and adjustment (Bandura, 1997). Parents of adolescents have been shown to feel less efficacious than parents of preadolescent children (Ballenski & Cook, 1982), but little is known about the factors behind low levels of PSE among parents of…
Civic Orientation in Cultures of Privilege: What Role Do Schools Play
The context of privilege provides unique opportunities and challenges for youth civic development. A mixed-method approach was used to examine links between school-based community service, school climate, and civic orientation among students in cultures of privilege. Surveys completed by students ( N = 376) at two private high schools-one with an extracurricular community service requirement and one without-suggest that students in the school wit…
Acculturation Conflict, Cultural Parenting Self‐Efficacy, and Perceived Parenting Competence in Asian American and Latino/a Families
Parents from immigrant backgrounds must deal with normative parenting demands as well as unique challenges associated with acculturation processes. The current study examines the independent and interactive influences of acculturation conflict and cultural parenting self-efficacy (PSE; e.g., parents' confidence in instilling heritage, American, and bicultural values in their children) on perceptions of general parenting competence. Using data fro…
Trends in parental self-efficacy between 1999 and 2014
Parenting and parent–child relationships in Western countries have undergone notable changes over recent decades. Parents today generally spend more time with their children and use less harsh discipline compared to parents over 50 years ago. Less is known about trends in parental beliefs over this time period. In this study, we examined differences in parental self-efficacy (PSE) between parents of young adolescents from two samples, one collect…
Beliefs about Expressing Love to Adolescents among Ethnically and Economically Diverse Mothers
Deliberation, Cognitive Complexity, and Political Engagement: A Longitudinal Study of the Impact of Deliberative Training During Emerging Adulthood
Young adults who had participated in a college program in which they learned to deliberate were compared with a matched sample from the same college who did not participate. Interview and survey responses to questions about citizenship and communication about politics were analyzed. Ten years after their graduation, the students who learned to deliberate during college had more complex conceptions of citizenship and its responsibilities compared …
Psychology (29 works) · Developmental psychology (25 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (18 works) · Social Psychology (17 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (11 works) · Clinical Psychology (9 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works)