Kristina L McDonald
Biographic Data
| ID | 5508608 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristina L McDonald |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristina L |
| FAMILY NAME | McDonald |
| SIGNATURE | MCDONALD K L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alabama |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4909-7627 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 27 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Roles of Moral Disengagement and Perceived Anti-Bullying Norms in the Aggression of American and South Korean Victimized Youth
Peer victimization may lead to aggression among youth in the United States and South Korea. Moral disengagement (MD), a social-cognitive process justifying antisocial actions, may develop from victimization experiences and promote aggression. While MD could explain the victimization-aggression relation, this has not been tested cross-culturally, nor with American or Korean samples. Additionally, the potential buffering effect of anti-bullying cla…
Parents’ and Peers’ Messages about Race
Exploring the Moderating Role of Female Caregiver Perceived Stress in the Indirect Relationship between Caregiver Proactive Coping, Autonomy Support, and Early Adolescent Anxiety and Depression Sympto…
This study examines how caregiver proactive coping, perceived autonomy support, and caregiver stress relate to early adolescent anxiety and depression. Drawing on self-determination theory and proactive coping theory, data from 265 female caregivers and their adolescents (ages 11–14) were analyzed using a conditional indirect association model. Results show that caregiver proactive coping is linked with greater adolescent-perceived autonomy suppo…
School modality moderates the relationship between Covid-19 worries and depression in adolescents
Coping strategies in response to peer victimization
We examined cultural specificity in how adolescents' coping strategies in response to peer victimization are associated with adjustment with a sample of 7th-8th graders from the United States (n = 292, 60% female, M age = 13.6, SD = 0.65) and South Korea (n = 462, 50.2% female, M age = 13.7, SD = 0.58). Participants read scenarios describing victimization and rated the likelihood of utilizing different coping strategies. US adolescents rated conf…
Yearning for Popularity
Many adolescents want to be popular. Popularity goals are associated with adolescents’ relational and overt aggression and aggression has been linked to greater risk for victimization. The current study sought to examine if popularity goals may be linked to victimization through associations with aggression and if self-perceived popularity and gender may moderate these relationships. Participants were 292 adolescents (60.3% girls; 44.5% seventh g…
Caregiver Perceived Stress as a Link Between Family Covid-19 Experiences and Early Adolescent Mental Health Symptomology
The COVID-19 pandemic is associated with family adjustment, heightened adolescent mental health symptomology, and increased caregiver stress. The current study used a diverse sample of caregivers and early adolescents to examine the association between pandemic-related experiences, caregiver perceived stress, and adolescent mental health. Two hundred and 34 caregivers and their adolescents (10–14 years old) from the Southeastern United States com…
Interpretations and revenge goals in response to peer provocations
This study examined cultural specificity in how interpretations about peer provocation are associated with revenge goals and aggression. The sample consisted of young adolescents from the United States (369 seventh graders; 54.7% male; 77.2% identified as White) and from Pakistan (358 seventh graders; 39.2% male). Participants rated their interpretations and revenge goals in response to six peer provocation vignettes and completed peer nomination…
Attributions about Peer Victimization in US and Korean Adolescents and Associations with Internalizing Problems
The revealing effect of power
OBJECTIVE: Values have been found to predict aggressive behavior in adolescents. Adolescents who endorse self-enhancement values typically exhibit more aggressive behaviors, while adolescents who endorse self-transcendent values are less likely to behave aggressively. The associations between values and aggression are low to moderate, suggesting that other factors might moderate them. The study examined whether these associations were moderated b…
I Felt Like a Hero
Values and adolescents' self‐esteem
The study examined the relations between adolescents’ self‐esteem and two aspects of values: content and congruence with classmates. Using a large sample of Israeli adolescents ( N = 1,683; M age = 14.36, SD = 2.24, range = 11–18, 54.31% females), we found that self‐esteem related negatively to self‐enhancement values and positively to conservation values using zero order correlations. Multilevel polynomial regressions, controlling for demographi…
Individual and Family Predictors of Disrespect Sensitivity in Urban Adolescents
This study examines individual and family predictors of disrespect sensitivity in urban adolescents. Seventy-five adolescents from Southeastern USA (95% African American, 52% female) participated in two waves of a longitudinal study (mean ages 16.1 and 17.8 years, SDs = 1.11). Youth reported on their disrespect sensitivity at both time points, as well as physical aggression and parental nurturance at Time 1. Parents reported on parental harsh dis…
Identifying and Distinguishing Value Profiles in American and Israeli Adolescents
Although research has examined how values are correlated with behavior, little has examined how the system of values predicts behavior. In a cross‐cultural sample of American (109 European American; 216 African American) and Israeli (318 Arab Israeli; 216 Jewish Israeli) adolescents, the present study used latent profile analysis to identify groups which reflected the theoretical structure of values across both cultures. Four profiles were found:…
Pacifists and Revenge-Seekers in Response to Unambiguous Peer Provocation
Private Self‐consciousness and Gender Moderate How Adolescents' Values Relate to Aggression
The relationship between values and aggression and the moderating roles of gender and private self‐ consciousness ( PSC ) on these relations were examined. Participants were 642 A rabic and J ewish adolescents in I srael ( M age = 13.79, SD = .51; 53.9 percent females). Values and PSC were measured by self‐reports and aggression was measured by peer nominations. Aggression was positively correlated with self‐enhancement and openness to change val…
Sources and Implications of Maternal Accuracy About Young Adolescents’ Vulnerability to Friendship Jealousy
To assist effectively with social difficulties, parents must accurately understand the peer situations that are difficult for their child. Mothers' insight into their young adolescent's vulnerability to friendship jealousy was assessed by posing identical vignettes to 72 young adolescents and their mothers and matching their responses. Mothers and children also completed questionnaires on their relationship and the child's adjustment. Mothers as …
The Social Values of Aggressive–Prosocial Youth
Best Friends’ Discussions of Social Dilemmas
Parenting Influences on the Social Goals of Aggressive Children
Although research has examined how parenting may influence children's social information processing, little research has examined how these factors may influence children's social goals. The current study examined how both parent- and child-reports of parenting behaviors were associated with regressed change in children's reported social goals over a one-year time period. Participants were 116 children (58.8% male), identified as being highly agg…
Contributions of Racial and Sociobehavioral Homophily to Friendship Stability and Quality Among Same-Race and Cross-Race Friends
The current study examined how racial and sociobehavioral similarities were associated with friendship stability and friendship quality. Cross-race friends were not significantly similar to each other in peer-nominated shyness/withdrawal, victimization, exclusion, and popularity/sociability. Relative to same-race friends, cross-race friends were significantly less similar in peer-nominated popularity/sociability, exclusion, and victimization. Alt…
Racially diverse classrooms
The purpose of this study was to examine the interactive effects that a child's race and the racial composition of a classroom have on a variety of sociometric measures. Sociometric nominations were collected from 872 fifth-grade students (48% male, 48% Black) who were in classrooms that ranged from nearly all Black to nearly all White students. Hierarchical Linear Modeling analyses indicated that the race of the child, the race of the rater, and…
Observed Gossip Moderates the Link between Anxious Withdrawal and Friendship Quality in Early Adolescence
We evaluated whether gossip between best friends moderated the relation between anxious withdrawal and friendship quality in early adolescence, using an Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (APIM, Kenny, Kashy, & Cook, 2006) approach. Participants (n = 256) were 5th and 6th grade young adolescents (actors) and their best friends (partners). Observed gossip between best friends moderated the association between anxious withdrawal and young adolesce…
College Students' Revenge Goals Across Friend, Romantic Partner, and Roommate Contexts
Residential college environments provide young people with distinctive relationship opportunities and challenges. A major purpose of the present study was to learn whether college students respond differently to conflict-of-interest vignettes in three different relationship contexts. Students were more likely to make negative interpretations about their romantic partner's behavior than they did about their friend's or roommate's behavior. They we…
Behavioral correlates of peer exclusion and victimization of East Asian American and European American young adolescents
Contributions of Racial and Sociobehavioral Homophily to Friendship Stability and Quality Among Same-Race and Cross-Race Friends
The current study examined how racial and sociobehavioral similarities were associated with friendship stability and friendship quality. Cross-race friends were not significantly similar to each other in peer-nominated shyness/withdrawal, victimization, exclusion, and popularity/sociability. Relative to same-race friends, cross-race friends were significantly less similar in peer-nominated popularity/sociability, exclusion, and victimization. Alt…
Interactions Between Rejection Sensitivity and Supportive Relationships in the Prediction of Adolescents’ Internalizing Difficulties
College Students' Revenge Goals Across Friend, Romantic Partner, and Roommate Contexts
Residential college environments provide young people with distinctive relationship opportunities and challenges. A major purpose of the present study was to learn whether college students respond differently to conflict-of-interest vignettes in three different relationship contexts. Students were more likely to make negative interpretations about their romantic partner's behavior than they did about their friend's or roommate's behavior. They we…
Values and adolescents' self‐esteem
The study examined the relations between adolescents’ self‐esteem and two aspects of values: content and congruence with classmates. Using a large sample of Israeli adolescents ( N = 1,683; M age = 14.36, SD = 2.24, range = 11–18, 54.31% females), we found that self‐esteem related negatively to self‐enhancement values and positively to conservation values using zero order correlations. Multilevel polynomial regressions, controlling for demographi…
Private Self‐consciousness and Gender Moderate How Adolescents' Values Relate to Aggression
The relationship between values and aggression and the moderating roles of gender and private self‐ consciousness ( PSC ) on these relations were examined. Participants were 642 A rabic and J ewish adolescents in I srael ( M age = 13.79, SD = .51; 53.9 percent females). Values and PSC were measured by self‐reports and aggression was measured by peer nominations. Aggression was positively correlated with self‐enhancement and openness to change val…
Reported Peer Conflicts of Children in the United States and Indonesia
U.S. and Indonesian 9‐ to 11‐year‐old children (N = 147) reported on multiple occasions conflicts that they experienced with peers. The precursors of conflict, behavior during conflict episodes, and resolutions were coded. Teacher ratings of aggression and social preference were obtained. The conflicts of children in both countries most often occurred between friends, were short, amicably settled, and solved without aggression. Indonesian childre…
Yearning for Popularity
Many adolescents want to be popular. Popularity goals are associated with adolescents’ relational and overt aggression and aggression has been linked to greater risk for victimization. The current study sought to examine if popularity goals may be linked to victimization through associations with aggression and if self-perceived popularity and gender may moderate these relationships. Participants were 292 adolescents (60.3% girls; 44.5% seventh g…
Caregiver Perceived Stress as a Link Between Family Covid-19 Experiences and Early Adolescent Mental Health Symptomology
The COVID-19 pandemic is associated with family adjustment, heightened adolescent mental health symptomology, and increased caregiver stress. The current study used a diverse sample of caregivers and early adolescents to examine the association between pandemic-related experiences, caregiver perceived stress, and adolescent mental health. Two hundred and 34 caregivers and their adolescents (10–14 years old) from the Southeastern United States com…
Attributions about Peer Victimization in US and Korean Adolescents and Associations with Internalizing Problems
I Felt Like a Hero
Pacifists and Revenge-Seekers in Response to Unambiguous Peer Provocation
The Social Values of Aggressive–Prosocial Youth
Reported Peer Conflicts of Children in the United States and Indonesia
U.S. and Indonesian 9‐ to 11‐year‐old children (N = 147) reported on multiple occasions conflicts that they experienced with peers. The precursors of conflict, behavior during conflict episodes, and resolutions were coded. Teacher ratings of aggression and social preference were obtained. The conflicts of children in both countries most often occurred between friends, were short, amicably settled, and solved without aggression. Indonesian childre…
Behavioral correlates of peer exclusion and victimization of East Asian American and European American young adolescents
Interactions Between Rejection Sensitivity and Supportive Relationships in the Prediction of Adolescents’ Internalizing Difficulties
Observed Gossip Moderates the Link between Anxious Withdrawal and Friendship Quality in Early Adolescence
We evaluated whether gossip between best friends moderated the relation between anxious withdrawal and friendship quality in early adolescence, using an Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (APIM, Kenny, Kashy, & Cook, 2006) approach. Participants (n = 256) were 5th and 6th grade young adolescents (actors) and their best friends (partners). Observed gossip between best friends moderated the association between anxious withdrawal and young adolesce…
College Students' Revenge Goals Across Friend, Romantic Partner, and Roommate Contexts
Residential college environments provide young people with distinctive relationship opportunities and challenges. A major purpose of the present study was to learn whether college students respond differently to conflict-of-interest vignettes in three different relationship contexts. Students were more likely to make negative interpretations about their romantic partner's behavior than they did about their friend's or roommate's behavior. They we…
Parenting Influences on the Social Goals of Aggressive Children
Although research has examined how parenting may influence children's social information processing, little research has examined how these factors may influence children's social goals. The current study examined how both parent- and child-reports of parenting behaviors were associated with regressed change in children's reported social goals over a one-year time period. Participants were 116 children (58.8% male), identified as being highly agg…
Contributions of Racial and Sociobehavioral Homophily to Friendship Stability and Quality Among Same-Race and Cross-Race Friends
The current study examined how racial and sociobehavioral similarities were associated with friendship stability and friendship quality. Cross-race friends were not significantly similar to each other in peer-nominated shyness/withdrawal, victimization, exclusion, and popularity/sociability. Relative to same-race friends, cross-race friends were significantly less similar in peer-nominated popularity/sociability, exclusion, and victimization. Alt…
Racially diverse classrooms
The purpose of this study was to examine the interactive effects that a child's race and the racial composition of a classroom have on a variety of sociometric measures. Sociometric nominations were collected from 872 fifth-grade students (48% male, 48% Black) who were in classrooms that ranged from nearly all Black to nearly all White students. Hierarchical Linear Modeling analyses indicated that the race of the child, the race of the rater, and…
Best Friends’ Discussions of Social Dilemmas
Private Self‐consciousness and Gender Moderate How Adolescents' Values Relate to Aggression
The relationship between values and aggression and the moderating roles of gender and private self‐ consciousness ( PSC ) on these relations were examined. Participants were 642 A rabic and J ewish adolescents in I srael ( M age = 13.79, SD = .51; 53.9 percent females). Values and PSC were measured by self‐reports and aggression was measured by peer nominations. Aggression was positively correlated with self‐enhancement and openness to change val…
Sources and Implications of Maternal Accuracy About Young Adolescents’ Vulnerability to Friendship Jealousy
To assist effectively with social difficulties, parents must accurately understand the peer situations that are difficult for their child. Mothers' insight into their young adolescent's vulnerability to friendship jealousy was assessed by posing identical vignettes to 72 young adolescents and their mothers and matching their responses. Mothers and children also completed questionnaires on their relationship and the child's adjustment. Mothers as …
The Social Values of Aggressive–Prosocial Youth
Identifying and Distinguishing Value Profiles in American and Israeli Adolescents
Although research has examined how values are correlated with behavior, little has examined how the system of values predicts behavior. In a cross‐cultural sample of American (109 European American; 216 African American) and Israeli (318 Arab Israeli; 216 Jewish Israeli) adolescents, the present study used latent profile analysis to identify groups which reflected the theoretical structure of values across both cultures. Four profiles were found:…
Pacifists and Revenge-Seekers in Response to Unambiguous Peer Provocation
Individual and Family Predictors of Disrespect Sensitivity in Urban Adolescents
This study examines individual and family predictors of disrespect sensitivity in urban adolescents. Seventy-five adolescents from Southeastern USA (95% African American, 52% female) participated in two waves of a longitudinal study (mean ages 16.1 and 17.8 years, SDs = 1.11). Youth reported on their disrespect sensitivity at both time points, as well as physical aggression and parental nurturance at Time 1. Parents reported on parental harsh dis…
Values and adolescents' self‐esteem
The study examined the relations between adolescents’ self‐esteem and two aspects of values: content and congruence with classmates. Using a large sample of Israeli adolescents ( N = 1,683; M age = 14.36, SD = 2.24, range = 11–18, 54.31% females), we found that self‐esteem related negatively to self‐enhancement values and positively to conservation values using zero order correlations. Multilevel polynomial regressions, controlling for demographi…
The revealing effect of power
OBJECTIVE: Values have been found to predict aggressive behavior in adolescents. Adolescents who endorse self-enhancement values typically exhibit more aggressive behaviors, while adolescents who endorse self-transcendent values are less likely to behave aggressively. The associations between values and aggression are low to moderate, suggesting that other factors might moderate them. The study examined whether these associations were moderated b…
I Felt Like a Hero
Interpretations and revenge goals in response to peer provocations
This study examined cultural specificity in how interpretations about peer provocation are associated with revenge goals and aggression. The sample consisted of young adolescents from the United States (369 seventh graders; 54.7% male; 77.2% identified as White) and from Pakistan (358 seventh graders; 39.2% male). Participants rated their interpretations and revenge goals in response to six peer provocation vignettes and completed peer nomination…
Attributions about Peer Victimization in US and Korean Adolescents and Associations with Internalizing Problems
School modality moderates the relationship between Covid-19 worries and depression in adolescents
Coping strategies in response to peer victimization
We examined cultural specificity in how adolescents' coping strategies in response to peer victimization are associated with adjustment with a sample of 7th-8th graders from the United States (n = 292, 60% female, M age = 13.6, SD = 0.65) and South Korea (n = 462, 50.2% female, M age = 13.7, SD = 0.58). Participants read scenarios describing victimization and rated the likelihood of utilizing different coping strategies. US adolescents rated conf…
Yearning for Popularity
Many adolescents want to be popular. Popularity goals are associated with adolescents’ relational and overt aggression and aggression has been linked to greater risk for victimization. The current study sought to examine if popularity goals may be linked to victimization through associations with aggression and if self-perceived popularity and gender may moderate these relationships. Participants were 292 adolescents (60.3% girls; 44.5% seventh g…
Caregiver Perceived Stress as a Link Between Family Covid-19 Experiences and Early Adolescent Mental Health Symptomology
The COVID-19 pandemic is associated with family adjustment, heightened adolescent mental health symptomology, and increased caregiver stress. The current study used a diverse sample of caregivers and early adolescents to examine the association between pandemic-related experiences, caregiver perceived stress, and adolescent mental health. Two hundred and 34 caregivers and their adolescents (10–14 years old) from the Southeastern United States com…
Parents’ and Peers’ Messages about Race
Developmental psychology (25 works) · Psychology (25 works) · Social Psychology (21 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (19 works) · Social Psychology (16 works) · Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression (15 works) · Aggression (10 works) · Clinical Psychology (9 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (8 works) · Medicine (7 works)