Amy L Gentzler
Biographic Data
| ID | 224541 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy L Gentzler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy L |
| FAMILY NAME | Gentzler |
| SIGNATURE | GENTZLER A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | West Virginia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2354-6351 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A meta-analytic review of cultural variation in affect valuation
What affective states do people ideally want to feel and why? In Affect Valuation Theory, Tsai et al. (2006) proposed and observed that (a) how people would ideally like to feel (their "ideal affect") differs from how they actually feel (their "actual affect"), and (b) cultural factors shape people's ideal affect even more than their actual affect. In this individual participant data meta-analysis, we reexamined these two premises in a combined d…
Profiles of negative and positive risk‐taking behavior among Asian and non‐Asian American emerging adults
Risk-taking includes both negative and positive risky behaviors, but little is known about how negative and positive risk-taking occur simultaneously. This study examined negative and positive risk-taking profiles of Asian American and Non-Asian American emerging adults (N = 401; M age = 20.68; 68.30% women) and their demographic and cultural factor correlates. Three profiles emerged: Moderate Negative and Positive, Low Negative and Positive, and…
Associations Between Parent and Adolescent General and Domain‐Specific Self Control
Adolescent self‐control is predictive of many outcomes (e.g., educational, financial, and interpersonal) during adolescence and into adulthood. Despite its importance, few studies report on associations between parental self‐control and adolescent self‐control, and no studies have considered how these associations may be domain‐specific (e.g., teens and parents’ self‐control are correlated for health behaviors but not for leisure activities). The…
Which social media platforms matter and for whom? Examining moderators of links between adolescents' social media use and depressive symptoms
INTRODUCTION: Despite extensive research on social media and risks for mental health, not enough is known about individual differences in these risks. METHODS: = 15.10; SD = 0.49; 51.1% girls and 48.5% boys). We investigated several moderators: gender, self-esteem, personality, and negative reactions to social media. Covariates were gender, timing of the follow-up (pre vs. during the pandemic), and depressive symptoms a year earlier. RESULTS: Res…
Emotion regulation and coping with racial stressors among African Americans across the lifespan
Risk and Protective Factors for Changes in Adolescent Psychosocial Adjustment During Covid‐19
The current study examined (1) changes in psychosocial adjustment among adolescents completing two surveys before COVID-19 and those completing the final survey during COVID-19 and (2) related risk/protective factors. Participants were 208 US adolescents (M age = 15.09, SD = 0.50, 48.8% female, 86.1% White; 40.9% COVID group) who completed longitudinal surveys assessing psychosocial adjustment and related risk/protective factors (e.g., emotion re…
Theater majors compared with nonmajors: Investigating temperament and emotion beliefs, awareness, regulation, and perception
Positive affect regulation in youth: Taking stock and moving forward
This article summarizes the four articles in the Social Development quartet focused on positive affect regulation in youth. Each article in the quartet shows that parents’ socialization of youth positive affect (e.g., encouraging, enhancing, savoring, or dampening responses) is associated with youth positive affect regulation and depressive symptoms. Further, three of the studies provide novel evidence for an indirect relationship whereby parenta…
Maternal socialization of children’s positive affect regulation: Associations with children’s savoring, dampening, and depressive symptoms
Maternal socialization of positive affect (PA) is linked to children's regulation of positive and negative emotions and the development of psychopathology. However, few studies have examined multiple types of emotion socialization as related to children's PA regulation and depressive symptoms. The current study examined how mothers’ socialization of children's PA regulation was related to children's PA regulation, and if children's PA regulation …
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
Parents’ Perceptions of and Responses to Children’s Emotions: Relations With Meta-Emotion Philosophy and Adult Attachment
Despite methodological limitations, results offer new evidence that parents' ratings on a standardized emotion perception task as well as their anticipated responses toward children's emotion displays are predicted by individual differences in their attachment and MEP
An upward spiral: Bidirectional associations between positive affect and positive aspects of close relationships across the life span
Young adults’ use of communication technology within their romantic relationships and associations with attachment style
Young Adolescents’ Responses to Positive Events: Associations With Positive Affect and Adjustment
This study examined how maximizing and minimizing responses to positive events were associated with sustained positive feelings about the events and adjustment in a community sample of 56 young adolescents (31 boys and 25 girls, 10-14 years of age). On daily reports, adolescents reported their positive emotional reactions to their best event each day. A week later, they reported their responses to their most intense positive event across the 4 da…
Parent–Child Emotional Communication and Children's Coping in Middle Childhood
Parent–child communication regarding children's negative emotions and coping were examined in a sample of 75 5th graders (53% boys) and their mothers and fathers. We predicted that emotionally open communication between a parent and his or her child would be related to children's use of constructive coping strategies. Parents reported on how they react to their child's negative emotions, and children reported on how much they share their negative…
Associations between insecure attachment and sexual experiences
Associations between insecure attachment and sexual experiences were tested in a sample of 328 college students. Variations in adult attachment previously have been shown to relate to sexual behaviors, with the current study extending earlier work by examining different sexual outcomes and by testing factors that may account for these relations. Avoidant attachment was expected to relate to engagement in casual sex (i.e., a greater number of sexu…
Parent–child attachment and monitoring in middle childhood.
Parent–Child Emotional Communication and Children's Coping in Middle Childhood
Parent–child communication regarding children's negative emotions and coping were examined in a sample of 75 5th graders (53% boys) and their mothers and fathers. We predicted that emotionally open communication between a parent and his or her child would be related to children's use of constructive coping strategies. Parents reported on how they react to their child's negative emotions, and children reported on how much they share their negative…
Risk and Protective Factors for Changes in Adolescent Psychosocial Adjustment During Covid‐19
The current study examined (1) changes in psychosocial adjustment among adolescents completing two surveys before COVID-19 and those completing the final survey during COVID-19 and (2) related risk/protective factors. Participants were 208 US adolescents (M age = 15.09, SD = 0.50, 48.8% female, 86.1% White; 40.9% COVID group) who completed longitudinal surveys assessing psychosocial adjustment and related risk/protective factors (e.g., emotion re…
Young Adolescents’ Responses to Positive Events: Associations With Positive Affect and Adjustment
This study examined how maximizing and minimizing responses to positive events were associated with sustained positive feelings about the events and adjustment in a community sample of 56 young adolescents (31 boys and 25 girls, 10-14 years of age). On daily reports, adolescents reported their positive emotional reactions to their best event each day. A week later, they reported their responses to their most intense positive event across the 4 da…
Maternal socialization of children’s positive affect regulation: Associations with children’s savoring, dampening, and depressive symptoms
Maternal socialization of positive affect (PA) is linked to children's regulation of positive and negative emotions and the development of psychopathology. However, few studies have examined multiple types of emotion socialization as related to children's PA regulation and depressive symptoms. The current study examined how mothers’ socialization of children's PA regulation was related to children's PA regulation, and if children's PA regulation …
Profiles of negative and positive risk‐taking behavior among Asian and non‐Asian American emerging adults
Risk-taking includes both negative and positive risky behaviors, but little is known about how negative and positive risk-taking occur simultaneously. This study examined negative and positive risk-taking profiles of Asian American and Non-Asian American emerging adults (N = 401; M age = 20.68; 68.30% women) and their demographic and cultural factor correlates. Three profiles emerged: Moderate Negative and Positive, Low Negative and Positive, and…
Parent–child attachment and monitoring in middle childhood.
Associations between insecure attachment and sexual experiences
Associations between insecure attachment and sexual experiences were tested in a sample of 328 college students. Variations in adult attachment previously have been shown to relate to sexual behaviors, with the current study extending earlier work by examining different sexual outcomes and by testing factors that may account for these relations. Avoidant attachment was expected to relate to engagement in casual sex (i.e., a greater number of sexu…
Parent–Child Emotional Communication and Children's Coping in Middle Childhood
Parent–child communication regarding children's negative emotions and coping were examined in a sample of 75 5th graders (53% boys) and their mothers and fathers. We predicted that emotionally open communication between a parent and his or her child would be related to children's use of constructive coping strategies. Parents reported on how they react to their child's negative emotions, and children reported on how much they share their negative…
Young Adolescents’ Responses to Positive Events: Associations With Positive Affect and Adjustment
This study examined how maximizing and minimizing responses to positive events were associated with sustained positive feelings about the events and adjustment in a community sample of 56 young adolescents (31 boys and 25 girls, 10-14 years of age). On daily reports, adolescents reported their positive emotional reactions to their best event each day. A week later, they reported their responses to their most intense positive event across the 4 da…
Young adults’ use of communication technology within their romantic relationships and associations with attachment style
An upward spiral: Bidirectional associations between positive affect and positive aspects of close relationships across the life span
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
Parents’ Perceptions of and Responses to Children’s Emotions: Relations With Meta-Emotion Philosophy and Adult Attachment
Despite methodological limitations, results offer new evidence that parents' ratings on a standardized emotion perception task as well as their anticipated responses toward children's emotion displays are predicted by individual differences in their attachment and MEP
Maternal socialization of children’s positive affect regulation: Associations with children’s savoring, dampening, and depressive symptoms
Maternal socialization of positive affect (PA) is linked to children's regulation of positive and negative emotions and the development of psychopathology. However, few studies have examined multiple types of emotion socialization as related to children's PA regulation and depressive symptoms. The current study examined how mothers’ socialization of children's PA regulation was related to children's PA regulation, and if children's PA regulation …
Positive affect regulation in youth: Taking stock and moving forward
This article summarizes the four articles in the Social Development quartet focused on positive affect regulation in youth. Each article in the quartet shows that parents’ socialization of youth positive affect (e.g., encouraging, enhancing, savoring, or dampening responses) is associated with youth positive affect regulation and depressive symptoms. Further, three of the studies provide novel evidence for an indirect relationship whereby parenta…
Theater majors compared with nonmajors: Investigating temperament and emotion beliefs, awareness, regulation, and perception
Emotion regulation and coping with racial stressors among African Americans across the lifespan
Risk and Protective Factors for Changes in Adolescent Psychosocial Adjustment During Covid‐19
The current study examined (1) changes in psychosocial adjustment among adolescents completing two surveys before COVID-19 and those completing the final survey during COVID-19 and (2) related risk/protective factors. Participants were 208 US adolescents (M age = 15.09, SD = 0.50, 48.8% female, 86.1% White; 40.9% COVID group) who completed longitudinal surveys assessing psychosocial adjustment and related risk/protective factors (e.g., emotion re…
Which social media platforms matter and for whom? Examining moderators of links between adolescents' social media use and depressive symptoms
INTRODUCTION: Despite extensive research on social media and risks for mental health, not enough is known about individual differences in these risks. METHODS: = 15.10; SD = 0.49; 51.1% girls and 48.5% boys). We investigated several moderators: gender, self-esteem, personality, and negative reactions to social media. Covariates were gender, timing of the follow-up (pre vs. during the pandemic), and depressive symptoms a year earlier. RESULTS: Res…
A meta-analytic review of cultural variation in affect valuation
What affective states do people ideally want to feel and why? In Affect Valuation Theory, Tsai et al. (2006) proposed and observed that (a) how people would ideally like to feel (their "ideal affect") differs from how they actually feel (their "actual affect"), and (b) cultural factors shape people's ideal affect even more than their actual affect. In this individual participant data meta-analysis, we reexamined these two premises in a combined d…
Profiles of negative and positive risk‐taking behavior among Asian and non‐Asian American emerging adults
Risk-taking includes both negative and positive risky behaviors, but little is known about how negative and positive risk-taking occur simultaneously. This study examined negative and positive risk-taking profiles of Asian American and Non-Asian American emerging adults (N = 401; M age = 20.68; 68.30% women) and their demographic and cultural factor correlates. Three profiles emerged: Moderate Negative and Positive, Low Negative and Positive, and…
Associations Between Parent and Adolescent General and Domain‐Specific Self Control
Adolescent self‐control is predictive of many outcomes (e.g., educational, financial, and interpersonal) during adolescence and into adulthood. Despite its importance, few studies report on associations between parental self‐control and adolescent self‐control, and no studies have considered how these associations may be domain‐specific (e.g., teens and parents’ self‐control are correlated for health behaviors but not for leisure activities). The…
Psychology (16 works) · Developmental psychology (15 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Clinical Psychology (10 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (4 works)