Megan M Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 4460157 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Megan M Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Megan M |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS M M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9849-4632 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Differential Susceptibility to Friendship Quality
Friendships assume a salient role in well‐being during mid‐adolescence. This research examined (a) how friendship quality (stressful vs. supportive) is differentially associated with mid‐adolescents’ social adjustment (engagement in antisocial vs. prosocial behavior); (b) the extent to which these associations are contingent on individual differences in the tendency to base one's self‐worth on peer approval; and (c) whether these associations dif…
Need for approval and antisocial behavior moderate the effect of socioemotional cues on adolescent girls’ cognitive control
To examine whether need for approval (NFA) and antisocial behavior (ASB) moderate the effects of socioemotional stimuli on cognitive control, 88 girls (M age = 16.31 years; SD = 0.84; 65.9% White) completed a socioemotional Go/No-go and questionnaires. At high approach NFA, girls responded more slowly during appetitive than control (b = −8.80, p < .01) and aversive (b = −5.58, p = .01) trials. At high ASB, girls responded more slowly (b = −6.12, …
Risk for Depressive Symptoms Among Adolescents with a History of Adversity
Emotion mindsets and depressive symptoms in adolescence
Recent theories posit that emotion mindsets (i.e., the extent to which individuals believe emotions are malleable or fixed) play a crucial role in experiences of emotion and influence emotion regulation (ER) processes. Drawing from mindset theory, this study examined the hypothesis that fixed emotion mindsets (FEMs) would predict depressive symptoms via compromised ER competence in adolescence, a period when many first episodes of depression occu…
Maternal Antecedents to Adolescent Girls’ Neural Regulation of Emotion
The purpose of this study was to investigate contributions of maternal emotional resources to individual differences in adolescents' functional connectivity during emotion regulation. Participants included 35 adolescent girls who completed an implicit emotion regulation task during fMRI. Mothers reported on the quality of their adult attachment and emotional awareness when youth were in elementary school. Higher anxious attachment and lower emoti…
Differential Susceptibility to Parenting in Adolescent Girls
This research examined whether heightened neural activation to social cues confers adjustment advantages in supportive social contexts but adjustment disadvantages in stressful social contexts. Forty-five adolescent girls were exposed to social exclusion during an fMRI scan and reported on parent-child relationship quality and depressive symptoms. Stressful parent-child relationships predicted subsequent depressive symptoms in girls with high and…
Cognition–emotion interaction as a predictor of adolescent depressive symptoms
Given the sharp increase in rates of depression during adolescence, especially in girls, it is important to identify which youth are at greatest risk across this critical developmental transition. During the present research, we examined whether (a) individual differences in cognition-emotion interaction, as reflected in cognitive control (CC) deficits and trait negative emotionality (NE), predict depression levels across a 1-year period (sixth-s…
Differential Susceptibility to Parenting in Adolescent Girls
This research examined whether heightened neural activation to social cues confers adjustment advantages in supportive social contexts but adjustment disadvantages in stressful social contexts. Forty-five adolescent girls were exposed to social exclusion during an fMRI scan and reported on parent-child relationship quality and depressive symptoms. Stressful parent-child relationships predicted subsequent depressive symptoms in girls with high and…
Cognition–emotion interaction as a predictor of adolescent depressive symptoms
Given the sharp increase in rates of depression during adolescence, especially in girls, it is important to identify which youth are at greatest risk across this critical developmental transition. During the present research, we examined whether (a) individual differences in cognition-emotion interaction, as reflected in cognitive control (CC) deficits and trait negative emotionality (NE), predict depression levels across a 1-year period (sixth-s…
Cognition–emotion interaction as a predictor of adolescent depressive symptoms
Given the sharp increase in rates of depression during adolescence, especially in girls, it is important to identify which youth are at greatest risk across this critical developmental transition. During the present research, we examined whether (a) individual differences in cognition-emotion interaction, as reflected in cognitive control (CC) deficits and trait negative emotionality (NE), predict depression levels across a 1-year period (sixth-s…
Differential Susceptibility to Parenting in Adolescent Girls
This research examined whether heightened neural activation to social cues confers adjustment advantages in supportive social contexts but adjustment disadvantages in stressful social contexts. Forty-five adolescent girls were exposed to social exclusion during an fMRI scan and reported on parent-child relationship quality and depressive symptoms. Stressful parent-child relationships predicted subsequent depressive symptoms in girls with high and…
Emotion mindsets and depressive symptoms in adolescence
Recent theories posit that emotion mindsets (i.e., the extent to which individuals believe emotions are malleable or fixed) play a crucial role in experiences of emotion and influence emotion regulation (ER) processes. Drawing from mindset theory, this study examined the hypothesis that fixed emotion mindsets (FEMs) would predict depressive symptoms via compromised ER competence in adolescence, a period when many first episodes of depression occu…
Maternal Antecedents to Adolescent Girls’ Neural Regulation of Emotion
The purpose of this study was to investigate contributions of maternal emotional resources to individual differences in adolescents' functional connectivity during emotion regulation. Participants included 35 adolescent girls who completed an implicit emotion regulation task during fMRI. Mothers reported on the quality of their adult attachment and emotional awareness when youth were in elementary school. Higher anxious attachment and lower emoti…
Need for approval and antisocial behavior moderate the effect of socioemotional cues on adolescent girls’ cognitive control
To examine whether need for approval (NFA) and antisocial behavior (ASB) moderate the effects of socioemotional stimuli on cognitive control, 88 girls (M age = 16.31 years; SD = 0.84; 65.9% White) completed a socioemotional Go/No-go and questionnaires. At high approach NFA, girls responded more slowly during appetitive than control (b = −8.80, p < .01) and aversive (b = −5.58, p = .01) trials. At high ASB, girls responded more slowly (b = −6.12, …
Risk for Depressive Symptoms Among Adolescents with a History of Adversity
Differential Susceptibility to Friendship Quality
Friendships assume a salient role in well‐being during mid‐adolescence. This research examined (a) how friendship quality (stressful vs. supportive) is differentially associated with mid‐adolescents’ social adjustment (engagement in antisocial vs. prosocial behavior); (b) the extent to which these associations are contingent on individual differences in the tendency to base one's self‐worth on peer approval; and (c) whether these associations dif…
Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (7 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Cognition (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Psychiatry (4 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (3 works) · Depressive symptoms (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works)