Hannah L Schacter
Biographic Data
| ID | 322062 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hannah L Schacter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hannah L |
| FAMILY NAME | Schacter |
| SIGNATURE | SCHACTER H L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wayne State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8186-7495 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Development of LGBTQ Other Group Orientation and Its Relation to Psychological and Social Well‐Being Among Cisgender Heterosexual Adolescents
Introduction Given the marked rise in the number of adolescents openly identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning (LGBTQ), there are more opportunities for peer interactions and friendships between cisgender heterosexual and LGBTQ adolescents. Yet, little is known about the development of cisgender heterosexual adolescents' openness toward engaging with LGBTQ individuals and how this relates to their own well‐being.…
The development of gender centrality and private regard and its relation to psychological and social well‐being among cisgender adolescents
Although adolescence is theorized to be a critical period for identity development, little is known about how gender identity, specifically gender centrality and private regard, develops among adolescents. The current study assessed trajectories of gender centrality and private regard across five waves of data from Grade 9 through Grade 10 among cisgender adolescents from the United States ( M age = 14.1 years; N = 374; SD = 0.41, 139 boys and 23…
Longitudinal pathways linking peer victimization to academic efficacy in adolescence
Although past research links greater peer victimization to poorer academic achievement, much less is known about if or how peer victimization contributes to adolescents’ academic efficacy, a potentially malleable predictor of academic success. Informed by the biopsychosocial framework of sleep that emphasizes the interplay of interpersonal dynamics and bioregulatory processes in shaping developmental outcomes, the current study investigated pathw…
Trajectories of adolescent friendship stability
Although the protective effects of high-quality friendships in adolescence are well-established, less is known about how adolescents' friendship stability changes over time and whether adolescents' friendship stability shapes health outcomes. Using six waves of data from 388 adolescents ( M age = 14.05, SD = 0.41; 61% female), the current study examined trajectories of friendship stability across high school and assessed whether friendship stabil…
Friendships in flux
Although maintaining stable friendships is an important developmental task for adolescents, there is limited understanding of whether adolescents' friendships vary from day to day and predict changes in emotional well-being. Therefore, the current daily diary study aimed to characterize the day-to-day consistency of adolescents' close friendships and investigate whether feeling close to the same friends from 1 day to the next (daily friend contin…
Connecting adolescent friendships to physical health outcomes
Friendships are developmentally significant peer relationships that meaningfully contribute to adolescent adjustment. Despite extensive evidence that friendships contribute to adolescents’ psychological well‐being and mental health, less is known about the connections between adolescents’ friendships and physical health outcomes. Therefore, the current review synthesizes a growing body of research examining associations between adolescent friends…
Longitudinal effects of peer victimization on adolescents' future educational and work expectations
Leveraging six waves of data, this study examined the effects of ninth-grade peer victimization on adolescents' future work and education expectations 2 years later, testing depressive symptoms as a mechanism. Participants (N = 388, M age = 14.05; 61% female, 35% male, 3% non-binary, trans, or other gender; 46% White, 19% Black, 17% Asian, 6% AMENA, 6% Multiracial, 6% other race) completed surveys from ninth through 11th grade. Results indicated …
Daily Fluctuations in Adolescents’ Perceived Friend Dominance and Friendship Clout
The promise of an identity-based self-affirmation intervention in protecting against self-esteem declines at the high school transition
Given the importance of self-esteem for promoting adolescents' social, psychological, and academic adjustment and the growing importance of social identities during adolescence, this five-wave study examined whether an identity-based self-affirmation intervention attenuated declines in adolescent self-esteem following the high school transition. A sample of ninth graders in the United States ( N = 388; M age = 14.05; 60.6% female; 35.8% male; 3.6…
The Power Dynamics of Friendship
On shaky grounds
INTRODUCTION: Although prior research has considered how friendship quality or quantity influence peer victimization risk and vice versa, considerably less is known about how friendship instability (i.e., high levels of friend turnover) and peer victimization may be related to each other across time. METHODS: = 14.05; 60.60% female; 35.8% male; 1.8% non-binary; 1.9% trans/unsure/something else) across 3-month intervals spanning one school year. U…
LGBTQ+ Youth’s Identity Development in the Context of Peer Victimization
Research rarely explores LGBTQ+ youth bullying in the context of culture-specific outcomes (e.g., LGBTQ+ identity development) and what can mitigate the impact of peer stressors. This study used a concurrent mixed methods design to explore how experiences of peer victimization predicted LGBTQ+ youth's identity development (i.e., stigma sensitivity, concealment motivation, and difficult process) and whether social support and outness served as pro…
Investigating the relation between ethnic–racial identity and classroom engagement among Cherokee adolescents
The present study demonstrates an important association between ethnic-racial identity and classroom engagement for Cherokee youth. Furthermore, findings highlight the importance of parental cultural socialization as a potential malleable factor that can enhance or diminish the relation between ethnic-racial identity and classroom engagement for Cherokee adolescents. These results suggest that encouraging parental cultural socialization, particul…
Feelings of Annoyance and Spoken Anger Words in Couples’ Everyday Lives
Little is known about the words that romantic couples use during emotionally heightened moments such as when feeling annoyed with their partner. In the present study, young adult couples received mobile phones that audio-recorded 50% of their day and prompted hourly self-reports of partner-related annoyance. Actor–partner models tested within-person (hourly) and between-person (across the day) associations between feelings of annoyance and spoken…
Connecting electronically with friends to cope with isolation during Covid-19 pandemic
Given that friends serve as one of the most important sources of emotional support during stress, the current study examines whether connecting electronically with friends can help alleviate loneliness and emotional distress during the social isolation mandates of the COVID-19 pandemic. Relying on a cross-sectional electronic survey conducted with a sample of 18-70-year-old adults (n = 295), information about the frequency of and satisfaction wit…
Does Family Context Moderate the Effects of Discrimination on Emerging Adults' Health
Given the adverse impacts of discrimination on overall well-being, this study tests whether family context, specifically family hostility (FH) and positive family environment (PFE), moderate well-documented associations between discrimination and mental and physical health symptoms. Diverse emerging adults ( n = 345) completed an online questionnaire about perceived discrimination due to a broad range of characteristics, positive and negative qua…
School and Cybervictimization Across High School
The current study examines normative developmental trajectories of school and cybervictimization across 3 years of high school and tests whether school and cybervictimization experiences predict increases in loneliness at school or whether loneliness at school increases the risk of victimization. Gender differences are also explored. Data were drawn from a longitudinal sample of 4,339 ethnically diverse U.S. adolescents (M age = 15.02) who comple…
Promoting Social Inclusion in Educational Settings
The goal of this article is to provide a critical analysis of barriers to social inclusion and integration in schools and propose inclusive educational practices that help connect and unite diverse students. Diversity is defined broadly to refer to a range of differences (i.e., overall heterogeneity) across students. We review theoretical frameworks that help explain group dynamics and contextual conditions that contribute to exclusion (i.e., pee…
The interplay of friends and parents in adolescents’ daily lives
This daily diary study investigated the interplay of perceived friend and parent support in adolescents' everyday lives. Specifically, we tested the interactive effects of friend and parent support on adolescent well-being at both the intra- and inter-individual level. A diverse sample of 119 adolescents ( M age =15.36) completed diary reports for two weeks. Multivariate multilevel models demonstrated that on days adolescents felt more supported …
When Do Friendships Help Versus Hurt? Perceived Best Friend Victimization and Support as Moderators of Peer Victimization-Related Distress
Although high-quality friendships are presumed to protect peer-victimized adolescents from distress, evidence supporting this claim is mixed. This study investigated whether the protective function of high-quality best friendships for victimized youth varies depending on adolescents’ perceptions of their best friend’s victimization. Among a sample of 1,667 eighth graders, we tested the effects of self-perceived victimization, best friend emotiona…
When it feels good to give
Past research has suggested that engaging in prosocial acts enhances the well-being of the helper, but does prosocial behavior benefit some individuals more than others? The current study implements a daily diary design to test associations between adolescents' daily prosocial behaviors toward relationally close others and mood. The main goal was to investigate whether daily help-giving has unique benefits for adolescents experiencing greater emo…
You've got a friend(ly school)
Testing the potential protective effects of school‐level prosocial norms and having friends on peer victimization‐related distress, this study examined whether one protective factor is particularly important in the absence of the other. An ethnically diverse sample (N = 5,991) from 26 middle schools reported on peer prosocial behavior, social anxiety, loneliness, and perceived school safety; peer nominations assessed victimization and friends. Mu…
The Effects of Middle School Weight Climate on Youth With Higher Body Weight
This study examines whether social-emotional difficulties associated with higher body weight vary across schools as a function of the school's weight climate. Weight climate, characterized by weight-policing, was assessed indirectly by examining how strongly self-reported weight predicts victim reputation within 26 ethnically diverse middle schools. Social-emotional indicators included self-reported loneliness, school belonging, and self-esteem. …
Peer Victimization and School Adjustment Among Ethnically Diverse Middle School Students
Although research has shown that peer victimization is related to negative school outcomes, whether ethnic ingroup size alters victimization-adjustment links is unclear. This study examines whether smaller ethnic ingroup representation amplifies the negative associations between peer victimization and school adjustment. We also examine whether ingroup representation may be more salient for some ethnic groups than others. The ethnically diverse sa…
Gender Norm Salience Across Middle Schools
The effects of school-level victimization on self-blame
The current study examined school-level victimization as a moderator of associations between peer victimization and changes in 2 types of self-blaming attributions, characterological and behavioral, across the first year of middle school. These associations were tested in a large sample (N = 5,991) of ethnically diverse adolescents from fall to spring of the 6th-grade year across 26 schools. Consistent with hypotheses, the results of multilevel m…
Connecting electronically with friends to cope with isolation during Covid-19 pandemic
Given that friends serve as one of the most important sources of emotional support during stress, the current study examines whether connecting electronically with friends can help alleviate loneliness and emotional distress during the social isolation mandates of the COVID-19 pandemic. Relying on a cross-sectional electronic survey conducted with a sample of 18-70-year-old adults (n = 295), information about the frequency of and satisfaction wit…
The interplay of friends and parents in adolescents’ daily lives
This daily diary study investigated the interplay of perceived friend and parent support in adolescents' everyday lives. Specifically, we tested the interactive effects of friend and parent support on adolescent well-being at both the intra- and inter-individual level. A diverse sample of 119 adolescents ( M age =15.36) completed diary reports for two weeks. Multivariate multilevel models demonstrated that on days adolescents felt more supported …
You've got a friend(ly school)
Testing the potential protective effects of school‐level prosocial norms and having friends on peer victimization‐related distress, this study examined whether one protective factor is particularly important in the absence of the other. An ethnically diverse sample (N = 5,991) from 26 middle schools reported on peer prosocial behavior, social anxiety, loneliness, and perceived school safety; peer nominations assessed victimization and friends. Mu…
The Power Dynamics of Friendship
Gender Norm Salience Across Middle Schools
The promise of an identity-based self-affirmation intervention in protecting against self-esteem declines at the high school transition
Given the importance of self-esteem for promoting adolescents' social, psychological, and academic adjustment and the growing importance of social identities during adolescence, this five-wave study examined whether an identity-based self-affirmation intervention attenuated declines in adolescent self-esteem following the high school transition. A sample of ninth graders in the United States ( N = 388; M age = 14.05; 60.6% female; 35.8% male; 3.6…
Investigating the relation between ethnic–racial identity and classroom engagement among Cherokee adolescents
The present study demonstrates an important association between ethnic-racial identity and classroom engagement for Cherokee youth. Furthermore, findings highlight the importance of parental cultural socialization as a potential malleable factor that can enhance or diminish the relation between ethnic-racial identity and classroom engagement for Cherokee adolescents. These results suggest that encouraging parental cultural socialization, particul…
When Do Friendships Help Versus Hurt? Perceived Best Friend Victimization and Support as Moderators of Peer Victimization-Related Distress
Although high-quality friendships are presumed to protect peer-victimized adolescents from distress, evidence supporting this claim is mixed. This study investigated whether the protective function of high-quality best friendships for victimized youth varies depending on adolescents’ perceptions of their best friend’s victimization. Among a sample of 1,667 eighth graders, we tested the effects of self-perceived victimization, best friend emotiona…
Peer Victimization and School Adjustment Among Ethnically Diverse Middle School Students
Although research has shown that peer victimization is related to negative school outcomes, whether ethnic ingroup size alters victimization-adjustment links is unclear. This study examines whether smaller ethnic ingroup representation amplifies the negative associations between peer victimization and school adjustment. We also examine whether ingroup representation may be more salient for some ethnic groups than others. The ethnically diverse sa…
The effects of school-level victimization on self-blame
The current study examined school-level victimization as a moderator of associations between peer victimization and changes in 2 types of self-blaming attributions, characterological and behavioral, across the first year of middle school. These associations were tested in a large sample (N = 5,991) of ethnically diverse adolescents from fall to spring of the 6th-grade year across 26 schools. Consistent with hypotheses, the results of multilevel m…
When it feels good to give
Past research has suggested that engaging in prosocial acts enhances the well-being of the helper, but does prosocial behavior benefit some individuals more than others? The current study implements a daily diary design to test associations between adolescents' daily prosocial behaviors toward relationally close others and mood. The main goal was to investigate whether daily help-giving has unique benefits for adolescents experiencing greater emo…
You've got a friend(ly school)
Testing the potential protective effects of school‐level prosocial norms and having friends on peer victimization‐related distress, this study examined whether one protective factor is particularly important in the absence of the other. An ethnically diverse sample (N = 5,991) from 26 middle schools reported on peer prosocial behavior, social anxiety, loneliness, and perceived school safety; peer nominations assessed victimization and friends. Mu…
The Effects of Middle School Weight Climate on Youth With Higher Body Weight
This study examines whether social-emotional difficulties associated with higher body weight vary across schools as a function of the school's weight climate. Weight climate, characterized by weight-policing, was assessed indirectly by examining how strongly self-reported weight predicts victim reputation within 26 ethnically diverse middle schools. Social-emotional indicators included self-reported loneliness, school belonging, and self-esteem. …
Peer Victimization and School Adjustment Among Ethnically Diverse Middle School Students
Although research has shown that peer victimization is related to negative school outcomes, whether ethnic ingroup size alters victimization-adjustment links is unclear. This study examines whether smaller ethnic ingroup representation amplifies the negative associations between peer victimization and school adjustment. We also examine whether ingroup representation may be more salient for some ethnic groups than others. The ethnically diverse sa…
Gender Norm Salience Across Middle Schools
Promoting Social Inclusion in Educational Settings
The goal of this article is to provide a critical analysis of barriers to social inclusion and integration in schools and propose inclusive educational practices that help connect and unite diverse students. Diversity is defined broadly to refer to a range of differences (i.e., overall heterogeneity) across students. We review theoretical frameworks that help explain group dynamics and contextual conditions that contribute to exclusion (i.e., pee…
The interplay of friends and parents in adolescents’ daily lives
This daily diary study investigated the interplay of perceived friend and parent support in adolescents' everyday lives. Specifically, we tested the interactive effects of friend and parent support on adolescent well-being at both the intra- and inter-individual level. A diverse sample of 119 adolescents ( M age =15.36) completed diary reports for two weeks. Multivariate multilevel models demonstrated that on days adolescents felt more supported …
When Do Friendships Help Versus Hurt? Perceived Best Friend Victimization and Support as Moderators of Peer Victimization-Related Distress
Although high-quality friendships are presumed to protect peer-victimized adolescents from distress, evidence supporting this claim is mixed. This study investigated whether the protective function of high-quality best friendships for victimized youth varies depending on adolescents’ perceptions of their best friend’s victimization. Among a sample of 1,667 eighth graders, we tested the effects of self-perceived victimization, best friend emotiona…
School and Cybervictimization Across High School
The current study examines normative developmental trajectories of school and cybervictimization across 3 years of high school and tests whether school and cybervictimization experiences predict increases in loneliness at school or whether loneliness at school increases the risk of victimization. Gender differences are also explored. Data were drawn from a longitudinal sample of 4,339 ethnically diverse U.S. adolescents (M age = 15.02) who comple…
Feelings of Annoyance and Spoken Anger Words in Couples’ Everyday Lives
Little is known about the words that romantic couples use during emotionally heightened moments such as when feeling annoyed with their partner. In the present study, young adult couples received mobile phones that audio-recorded 50% of their day and prompted hourly self-reports of partner-related annoyance. Actor–partner models tested within-person (hourly) and between-person (across the day) associations between feelings of annoyance and spoken…
Connecting electronically with friends to cope with isolation during Covid-19 pandemic
Given that friends serve as one of the most important sources of emotional support during stress, the current study examines whether connecting electronically with friends can help alleviate loneliness and emotional distress during the social isolation mandates of the COVID-19 pandemic. Relying on a cross-sectional electronic survey conducted with a sample of 18-70-year-old adults (n = 295), information about the frequency of and satisfaction wit…
Does Family Context Moderate the Effects of Discrimination on Emerging Adults' Health
Given the adverse impacts of discrimination on overall well-being, this study tests whether family context, specifically family hostility (FH) and positive family environment (PFE), moderate well-documented associations between discrimination and mental and physical health symptoms. Diverse emerging adults ( n = 345) completed an online questionnaire about perceived discrimination due to a broad range of characteristics, positive and negative qua…
On shaky grounds
INTRODUCTION: Although prior research has considered how friendship quality or quantity influence peer victimization risk and vice versa, considerably less is known about how friendship instability (i.e., high levels of friend turnover) and peer victimization may be related to each other across time. METHODS: = 14.05; 60.60% female; 35.8% male; 1.8% non-binary; 1.9% trans/unsure/something else) across 3-month intervals spanning one school year. U…
LGBTQ+ Youth’s Identity Development in the Context of Peer Victimization
Research rarely explores LGBTQ+ youth bullying in the context of culture-specific outcomes (e.g., LGBTQ+ identity development) and what can mitigate the impact of peer stressors. This study used a concurrent mixed methods design to explore how experiences of peer victimization predicted LGBTQ+ youth's identity development (i.e., stigma sensitivity, concealment motivation, and difficult process) and whether social support and outness served as pro…
Investigating the relation between ethnic–racial identity and classroom engagement among Cherokee adolescents
The present study demonstrates an important association between ethnic-racial identity and classroom engagement for Cherokee youth. Furthermore, findings highlight the importance of parental cultural socialization as a potential malleable factor that can enhance or diminish the relation between ethnic-racial identity and classroom engagement for Cherokee adolescents. These results suggest that encouraging parental cultural socialization, particul…
The Power Dynamics of Friendship
Connecting adolescent friendships to physical health outcomes
Friendships are developmentally significant peer relationships that meaningfully contribute to adolescent adjustment. Despite extensive evidence that friendships contribute to adolescents’ psychological well‐being and mental health, less is known about the connections between adolescents’ friendships and physical health outcomes. Therefore, the current review synthesizes a growing body of research examining associations between adolescent friends…
Longitudinal effects of peer victimization on adolescents' future educational and work expectations
Leveraging six waves of data, this study examined the effects of ninth-grade peer victimization on adolescents' future work and education expectations 2 years later, testing depressive symptoms as a mechanism. Participants (N = 388, M age = 14.05; 61% female, 35% male, 3% non-binary, trans, or other gender; 46% White, 19% Black, 17% Asian, 6% AMENA, 6% Multiracial, 6% other race) completed surveys from ninth through 11th grade. Results indicated …
Daily Fluctuations in Adolescents’ Perceived Friend Dominance and Friendship Clout
The promise of an identity-based self-affirmation intervention in protecting against self-esteem declines at the high school transition
Given the importance of self-esteem for promoting adolescents' social, psychological, and academic adjustment and the growing importance of social identities during adolescence, this five-wave study examined whether an identity-based self-affirmation intervention attenuated declines in adolescent self-esteem following the high school transition. A sample of ninth graders in the United States ( N = 388; M age = 14.05; 60.6% female; 35.8% male; 3.6…
Longitudinal pathways linking peer victimization to academic efficacy in adolescence
Although past research links greater peer victimization to poorer academic achievement, much less is known about if or how peer victimization contributes to adolescents’ academic efficacy, a potentially malleable predictor of academic success. Informed by the biopsychosocial framework of sleep that emphasizes the interplay of interpersonal dynamics and bioregulatory processes in shaping developmental outcomes, the current study investigated pathw…
Trajectories of adolescent friendship stability
Although the protective effects of high-quality friendships in adolescence are well-established, less is known about how adolescents' friendship stability changes over time and whether adolescents' friendship stability shapes health outcomes. Using six waves of data from 388 adolescents ( M age = 14.05, SD = 0.41; 61% female), the current study examined trajectories of friendship stability across high school and assessed whether friendship stabil…
Friendships in flux
Although maintaining stable friendships is an important developmental task for adolescents, there is limited understanding of whether adolescents' friendships vary from day to day and predict changes in emotional well-being. Therefore, the current daily diary study aimed to characterize the day-to-day consistency of adolescents' close friendships and investigate whether feeling close to the same friends from 1 day to the next (daily friend contin…
The Development of LGBTQ Other Group Orientation and Its Relation to Psychological and Social Well‐Being Among Cisgender Heterosexual Adolescents
Introduction Given the marked rise in the number of adolescents openly identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning (LGBTQ), there are more opportunities for peer interactions and friendships between cisgender heterosexual and LGBTQ adolescents. Yet, little is known about the development of cisgender heterosexual adolescents' openness toward engaging with LGBTQ individuals and how this relates to their own well‐being.…
Psychology (23 works) · Developmental psychology (22 works) · Social Psychology (21 works) · Social Psychology (16 works) · Clinical Psychology (14 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (12 works) · Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression (10 works) · Clinical Psychology (10 works) · Peer victimization (9 works) · Poison control (9 works)