Margaret V Brehm

Biographic Data

ID761802
NAMEMargaret V Brehm
GIVEN NAMESMargaret V
FAMILY NAMEBrehm
SIGNATUREBREHM M V
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Pittsburgh
ORCID0009-0006-4070-2789
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS5
WORKS AS AUTHOR4
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Feeling socially connected to others is linked to better emotion regulation in adolescent girls' daily lives

    Open AccessB Quyen, Kirsten M P McKone et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research on Adolescence2025References: 14

    Developing effective emotion regulation ability to manage negative emotion (NE) is critical during adolescence. Social baseline theory posits social connectedness may impact adolescents' everyday emotion regulation. This study examined the relation between social connectedness and NE after a negative social interaction (emotion regulation) and whether contextual factors moderate the association. Adolescent girls (N = 114; M age = 12.26, SD = 0.8)…

  • Adolescent Peer and Adult Relationships Across Time and Transition

    Open AccessMargaret V Brehm, Theresa N Melton et al.ARTICLEJournal of Adolescent Research2025References: 11

    Accessing a network of supportive relationships is critical to adolescent development, yet many peer relationships shift across adolescence, and little is known about changes in non-parental youth-adult relationships over time. This study examined how and why relationships with peers and adults end or persist during adolescence, specifically across school transitions. Participants ( n = 35; 17 middle school-aged, 18 high school-aged) completed eg…

  • Support-seeking about social relationships with friends is associated with friendship quality, emotional support, and self-disclosure in adolescence

    Open AccessM A Costello, Margaret V Brehm et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social and Personal…2025Cited by: 1References: 41

    Adolescent friendships offer a crucial context for learning to seek social support. Through repeated social support encounters, adolescents take in social information and shape their own development. The current study characterizes adolescents' support-seeking discussion topics with close friends, how the topics are influenced by adolescent age and gender, and how they are related to interpersonal processes in close friendships. A community sampl…

  • Broadening the perspective on youth's systems of support

    Open AccessTheresa N Melton, Margaret V Brehm et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community Psychology2021Cited by: 4References: 51

    This study applies the theory of positive youth development (Lerner et al., 2010) and the youth systems framework (Varga & Zaff, 2018) to the examination of supportive peer and adult relationships across multiple contexts in which youth develop. Results of egocentric social network analysis indicated that high school‐aged youth nominated significantly more adults than middle school‐aged youth. Peers and adults both acted as important sources of s…