Erin Phelps
Biographic Data
| ID | 5742630 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erin Phelps |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erin |
| FAMILY NAME | Phelps |
| SIGNATURE | PHELPS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tufts University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5531-4790 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 393 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Factors Affecting Perceptions of Disability and Self-Rated Health Among Older Adult, Long-Term Cancer Survivors
The findings suggest that geriatricians, geriatric nurses, and clinical gerontologists who work with cancer survivorsneed to be aware of the ways in which both cancer and noncancer illness factors work together in producing threats to health quality of life through the extent and nature of functional impairments
From Family to Society
SYNOPSIS Objective . The authors explored the relation between adolescent reports of parental warmth and monitoring and the development of youth civic engagement. Design . Longitudinal data were collected from 759 14- and 15-year-olds and their parents in the 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development. Results . Two-group latent variable models indicated that perceived parental monitoring predicted future civic engagement among males, whereas percei…
Promotion as Prevention
The present study was designed to examine the association of positive youth development with the likelihood of tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, hard drug, and sex initiation between 5th and 10th grades. A national, largely middle-class sample of 5,305 adolescents, participating in a longitudinal study funded by the National 4-H Council (although not all participants were enrolled in 4-H or other after-school programs), completed measures of positive …
Why Missing Data Matter in the Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Development
Positive Youth Development
The structure and developmental course of Positive Youth Development (PYD) in early adolescence
Problematics of Time and Timing in the Longitudinal Study of Human Development
Studying human development involves describing, explaining, and optimizing intraindividual change and interindividual differences in such change and, as such, requires longitudinal research. The selection of the appropriate type of longitudinal design requires selecting the option that best addresses the theoretical questions asked about developmental process and the use of appropriate statistical procedures to best exploit data derived from theo…
Patterns of Early Adolescents' Participation in Youth Development Programs Having Positive Youth Development Goals
Theory and research suggest that structured, out‐of‐school‐time activities, and in particular youth development programs aimed at promoting positive youth development (PYD), are key developmental assets for such development. Using longitudinal data from 945 fifth and sixth graders participating in the 4‐H Study of PYD, initial descriptive information is presented about early adolescent participation in youth programs having or not having PYD goal…
Academic Competence for Adolescents Who Bully and Who Are Bullied
School bullying has negative implications for adolescent academic competence, making it important to explore what factors promote such competence for adolescents who bully and who are bullied. Potential contextual and individual variables linked to academic competence were examined in the context of bullying. Data were derived from the Grades 5 and 6 of the 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development, a national longitudinal investigation of adolesce…
More than child's play
The authors used data from Grades 5 through 7 of the longitudinal 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development to assess relations among sports participation, other out-of-school-time (OST) activities, and indicators of youth development. They used a mixture of variable- and pattern-centered analyses aimed at disentangling different features of participation (i.e., intensity, breadth). The benefits of sports participation were found to depend, in part…
Use of missing data methods in longitudinal studies
Developmental science rests on describing, explaining, and optimizing intraindividual changes and, hence, empirically requires longitudinal research. Problems of missing data arise in most longitudinal studies, thus creating challenges for interpreting the substance and structure of intraindividual change. Using a sample of reports of longitudinal studies obtained from three flagship developmental journals-Child Development, Developmental Psychol…
Using positive youth development to predict contribution and risk behaviors in early adolescence
Theories of positive youth development (PYD) regard such development as bases of both community contributions and lessened likelihood of risk/problem behaviors. Using data from the 4-H Study of PYD, we tested these expectations by examining if PYD in Grade 5 predicted both youth contributions and risk behaviors and depression in Grade 6. Results of random effects regression and SEM models indicated that, as expected, PYD in Grade 5 predicted high…
Intentional Self-regulation in Early Adolescence
Using data from Grades 5, 6, and 7 of the 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development (PYD), the role of intentional self-regulation in the positive development of young adolescents was examined through use of the Selection, Optimization, and Compensation (SOC) measure. Consistent with Gestsdóttir and Lerner (2007), results of confirmatory factor analyses of SOC scores suggested the use of a global, nine-item index. Results of hierarchical linear mod…
Positive Youth Development, Participation in Community Youth Development Programs, and Community Contributions of Fifth-Grade Adolescents
The 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development (PYD), a longitudinal investigation of a diverse sample of 1,700 fifth graders and 1,117 of their parents, tests developmental contextual ideas linking PYD, youth contributions, and participation in community youth development (YD) programs, representing a key ecological asset. Using data from Wave 1 of the study, structural equation modeling procedures provided evidence for five firstorder latent facto…
Looking at Lives
Studying lives through time
To study lives in context through time, many approaches are available to the developmental psychologist. Two such ways are the analyses of longitudinal national data and secondary data analysis of long-term developmental studies conducted to answer questions not originally posed. This article, the first in a series of four, considers the current opportunuities for, and possible limitations of, these two types of analyses, the policy relevance of …
Critical distinctions among three approaches to peer education
Words Speak Louder Than Actions
Amy Demorest, Christine Meyer, Erin Phelps, Howard Gardner, Ellen Winner, Words Speak Louder Than Actions: Understanding Deliberately False Remarks, Child Development, Vol. 55, No. 4 (Aug., 1984), pp. 1527-1534
A naturalistic study of children's social understanding
This study examines developmental aspects of social understanding in three related contexts: a one-to-one interview, a real-life activity group, and related group discussions. Six middle-class girls, homogeneous with respect to grade (second and third vs. fourth and fifth) and level of reflective social understanding (as expressed in the interview) were assigned to each of four small activity groups. Each group met for 12 consecutive school weeks…
Television Literacy for Young Children
Aimee Dorr, Sherryl Browne Graves, Erin Phelps; Television Literacy for Young Children, Journal of Communication, Volume 30, Issue 3, 1 September 1980, Pag
A methodology for observing development of a formal reasoning strategy
Observations of the developmental process suggest that the most formidable obstacle to development may be the abandonment of old patterns, rather than construction of new ones
Positive Youth Development, Participation in Community Youth Development Programs, and Community Contributions of Fifth-Grade Adolescents
The 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development (PYD), a longitudinal investigation of a diverse sample of 1,700 fifth graders and 1,117 of their parents, tests developmental contextual ideas linking PYD, youth contributions, and participation in community youth development (YD) programs, representing a key ecological asset. Using data from Wave 1 of the study, structural equation modeling procedures provided evidence for five firstorder latent facto…
Use of missing data methods in longitudinal studies
Developmental science rests on describing, explaining, and optimizing intraindividual changes and, hence, empirically requires longitudinal research. Problems of missing data arise in most longitudinal studies, thus creating challenges for interpreting the substance and structure of intraindividual change. Using a sample of reports of longitudinal studies obtained from three flagship developmental journals-Child Development, Developmental Psychol…
More than child's play
The authors used data from Grades 5 through 7 of the longitudinal 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development to assess relations among sports participation, other out-of-school-time (OST) activities, and indicators of youth development. They used a mixture of variable- and pattern-centered analyses aimed at disentangling different features of participation (i.e., intensity, breadth). The benefits of sports participation were found to depend, in part…
Studying lives through time
To study lives in context through time, many approaches are available to the developmental psychologist. Two such ways are the analyses of longitudinal national data and secondary data analysis of long-term developmental studies conducted to answer questions not originally posed. This article, the first in a series of four, considers the current opportunuities for, and possible limitations of, these two types of analyses, the policy relevance of …
A naturalistic study of children's social understanding
This study examines developmental aspects of social understanding in three related contexts: a one-to-one interview, a real-life activity group, and related group discussions. Six middle-class girls, homogeneous with respect to grade (second and third vs. fourth and fifth) and level of reflective social understanding (as expressed in the interview) were assigned to each of four small activity groups. Each group met for 12 consecutive school weeks…
From Family to Society
SYNOPSIS Objective . The authors explored the relation between adolescent reports of parental warmth and monitoring and the development of youth civic engagement. Design . Longitudinal data were collected from 759 14- and 15-year-olds and their parents in the 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development. Results . Two-group latent variable models indicated that perceived parental monitoring predicted future civic engagement among males, whereas percei…
Academic Competence for Adolescents Who Bully and Who Are Bullied
School bullying has negative implications for adolescent academic competence, making it important to explore what factors promote such competence for adolescents who bully and who are bullied. Potential contextual and individual variables linked to academic competence were examined in the context of bullying. Data were derived from the Grades 5 and 6 of the 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development, a national longitudinal investigation of adolesce…
Why Missing Data Matter in the Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Development
Patterns of Early Adolescents' Participation in Youth Development Programs Having Positive Youth Development Goals
Theory and research suggest that structured, out‐of‐school‐time activities, and in particular youth development programs aimed at promoting positive youth development (PYD), are key developmental assets for such development. Using longitudinal data from 945 fifth and sixth graders participating in the 4‐H Study of PYD, initial descriptive information is presented about early adolescent participation in youth programs having or not having PYD goal…
A methodology for observing development of a formal reasoning strategy
Observations of the developmental process suggest that the most formidable obstacle to development may be the abandonment of old patterns, rather than construction of new ones
Television Literacy for Young Children
Aimee Dorr, Sherryl Browne Graves, Erin Phelps; Television Literacy for Young Children, Journal of Communication, Volume 30, Issue 3, 1 September 1980, Pag
A naturalistic study of children's social understanding
This study examines developmental aspects of social understanding in three related contexts: a one-to-one interview, a real-life activity group, and related group discussions. Six middle-class girls, homogeneous with respect to grade (second and third vs. fourth and fifth) and level of reflective social understanding (as expressed in the interview) were assigned to each of four small activity groups. Each group met for 12 consecutive school weeks…
Words Speak Louder Than Actions
Amy Demorest, Christine Meyer, Erin Phelps, Howard Gardner, Ellen Winner, Words Speak Louder Than Actions: Understanding Deliberately False Remarks, Child Development, Vol. 55, No. 4 (Aug., 1984), pp. 1527-1534
Critical distinctions among three approaches to peer education
Studying lives through time
To study lives in context through time, many approaches are available to the developmental psychologist. Two such ways are the analyses of longitudinal national data and secondary data analysis of long-term developmental studies conducted to answer questions not originally posed. This article, the first in a series of four, considers the current opportunuities for, and possible limitations of, these two types of analyses, the policy relevance of …
Looking at Lives
Positive Youth Development, Participation in Community Youth Development Programs, and Community Contributions of Fifth-Grade Adolescents
The 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development (PYD), a longitudinal investigation of a diverse sample of 1,700 fifth graders and 1,117 of their parents, tests developmental contextual ideas linking PYD, youth contributions, and participation in community youth development (YD) programs, representing a key ecological asset. Using data from Wave 1 of the study, structural equation modeling procedures provided evidence for five firstorder latent facto…
Using positive youth development to predict contribution and risk behaviors in early adolescence
Theories of positive youth development (PYD) regard such development as bases of both community contributions and lessened likelihood of risk/problem behaviors. Using data from the 4-H Study of PYD, we tested these expectations by examining if PYD in Grade 5 predicted both youth contributions and risk behaviors and depression in Grade 6. Results of random effects regression and SEM models indicated that, as expected, PYD in Grade 5 predicted high…
Intentional Self-regulation in Early Adolescence
Using data from Grades 5, 6, and 7 of the 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development (PYD), the role of intentional self-regulation in the positive development of young adolescents was examined through use of the Selection, Optimization, and Compensation (SOC) measure. Consistent with Gestsdóttir and Lerner (2007), results of confirmatory factor analyses of SOC scores suggested the use of a global, nine-item index. Results of hierarchical linear mod…
Positive Youth Development
The structure and developmental course of Positive Youth Development (PYD) in early adolescence
Problematics of Time and Timing in the Longitudinal Study of Human Development
Studying human development involves describing, explaining, and optimizing intraindividual change and interindividual differences in such change and, as such, requires longitudinal research. The selection of the appropriate type of longitudinal design requires selecting the option that best addresses the theoretical questions asked about developmental process and the use of appropriate statistical procedures to best exploit data derived from theo…
Patterns of Early Adolescents' Participation in Youth Development Programs Having Positive Youth Development Goals
Theory and research suggest that structured, out‐of‐school‐time activities, and in particular youth development programs aimed at promoting positive youth development (PYD), are key developmental assets for such development. Using longitudinal data from 945 fifth and sixth graders participating in the 4‐H Study of PYD, initial descriptive information is presented about early adolescent participation in youth programs having or not having PYD goal…
Academic Competence for Adolescents Who Bully and Who Are Bullied
School bullying has negative implications for adolescent academic competence, making it important to explore what factors promote such competence for adolescents who bully and who are bullied. Potential contextual and individual variables linked to academic competence were examined in the context of bullying. Data were derived from the Grades 5 and 6 of the 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development, a national longitudinal investigation of adolesce…
More than child's play
The authors used data from Grades 5 through 7 of the longitudinal 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development to assess relations among sports participation, other out-of-school-time (OST) activities, and indicators of youth development. They used a mixture of variable- and pattern-centered analyses aimed at disentangling different features of participation (i.e., intensity, breadth). The benefits of sports participation were found to depend, in part…
Use of missing data methods in longitudinal studies
Developmental science rests on describing, explaining, and optimizing intraindividual changes and, hence, empirically requires longitudinal research. Problems of missing data arise in most longitudinal studies, thus creating challenges for interpreting the substance and structure of intraindividual change. Using a sample of reports of longitudinal studies obtained from three flagship developmental journals-Child Development, Developmental Psychol…
Promotion as Prevention
The present study was designed to examine the association of positive youth development with the likelihood of tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, hard drug, and sex initiation between 5th and 10th grades. A national, largely middle-class sample of 5,305 adolescents, participating in a longitudinal study funded by the National 4-H Council (although not all participants were enrolled in 4-H or other after-school programs), completed measures of positive …
Why Missing Data Matter in the Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Development
From Family to Society
SYNOPSIS Objective . The authors explored the relation between adolescent reports of parental warmth and monitoring and the development of youth civic engagement. Design . Longitudinal data were collected from 759 14- and 15-year-olds and their parents in the 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development. Results . Two-group latent variable models indicated that perceived parental monitoring predicted future civic engagement among males, whereas percei…
Factors Affecting Perceptions of Disability and Self-Rated Health Among Older Adult, Long-Term Cancer Survivors
The findings suggest that geriatricians, geriatric nurses, and clinical gerontologists who work with cancer survivorsneed to be aware of the ways in which both cancer and noncancer illness factors work together in producing threats to health quality of life through the extent and nature of functional impairments
Psychology (18 works) · Developmental psychology (13 works) · Youth Development and Social Support (10 works) · Longitudinal study (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (7 works) · Positive Youth Development (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Adolescent development (5 works) · Medicine (5 works)