Justin A Lavner
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 98673 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Justin A Lavner |
| PRENOMES | Justin A |
| SOBRENOME | Lavner |
| ASSINATURA | LAVNER J A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Georgia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8121-0047 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 128 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Contextualizing Depressive Symptoms in Latino/a Adolescents With a History of Stressful Life Events
Latino/a adolescents are at greater risk of experiencing depressive symptoms than their non-Latino/a White peers, in part due to more exposure to stressful life events (SLEs). Identifying novel, non-stigmatizing factors associated with this increased risk is essential for mitigating depression-based disparities in this population. To that end, this study applied a Response Style Theory framework to examine relations among Latino/a adolescents' co…
Gendered Racism and Mental Health
Patterns and correlates of dating and intimate relationship involvement among sexual minority adolescents
Shifts in societal attitudes and beliefs about sexual minority people may provide sexual minority youth with more opportunities to engage in intimate relationships during adolescence. To date, however, the degree to which sexual minority adolescents are involved in relationships and the factors related to such involvement are not well understood. The current study addressed this gap using data from a national sample of over 15,000 sexual minority…
Racial discrimination, depressive symptoms, and parenting in African American families
Predictors of change in relationship satisfaction among Black postpartum mothers
The transition to parenthood can be a challenging time for the relationships of new parents and result in declines in relationship satisfaction. Although a robust literature has identified characteristics that predict changes in relationship satisfaction during this period, the relationships of Black mothers postpartum remain understudied. To address this gap, we examined a set of relational, individual, and external characteristics as predictors…
Mental health profiles of depressive symptoms and personal well‐being among active‐duty military families
Although some research has examined the mental health of individual family members in military families, additional research is needed that considers mental health among multiple members of the family system simultaneously and that characterizes subsets of families with distinct patterns. Mental health patterns of depressive symptoms and well‐being in and among families were identified using latent profile analysis with a community sample of 236 …
Gender differences-or the lack thereof-in the prediction of relationship dissolution among unmarried mixed-gender couples from the United States
This study examines gender differences in the degree to which men's and women's views of their relationship predict eventual dissolution among mixed-gender couples. We analyzed data from a national sample of 314 unmarried mixed-gender couples from the United States that were surveyed across four years to test gender differences in associations between baseline levels of perceived likelihood of breaking up, relationship satisfaction, commitment, a…
Sexual minority youth in romantic relationships
This study investigated differences in depressive symptoms, loneliness, and self-esteem for monosexual (lesbian, gay) and plurisexual (bisexual, pansexual, queer) sexual minority youth (SMY) by relationship status (single, partnered) and relationship configuration (same-gender partner, different-gender partner). Participants included 338 SMY (M age = 19.10 years) who reported on their relationship status, partner's gender identity, well-being, an…
Shift‐and‐persist coping and health among rural African American adolescents
This study examines whether shift-and-persist coping, a coping strategy defined by accepting challenges and remaining hopeful for the future, is associated with psychosocial and physical health and/or moderates the effects of contextual stress (i.e., racial discrimination, financial strain) on health among African American adolescents living in the rural Southeastern United States. Participants (N = 299, 56% boys, M age = 12.91) completed measure…
Racial discrimination predicts depressive symptoms throughout adolescence among Black youth
Experiences of racial discrimination are common among Black youth and predict worse mental health cross-sectionally and over time. Additional research is needed to address lingering questions regarding the direction of effect(s) underlying these patterns, differences in the magnitude of effects across adolescence, and gender differences. To address these gaps, the current study tested bidirectional linkages between racial discrimination and depre…
Are changes in marital satisfaction sustained and steady, or sporadic and dramatic
Although prominent theories of intimate relationships, and couples themselves, often conceive of relationships as fluctuating widely in their degree of closeness, longitudinal studies generally describe partners' satisfaction as stable and continuous or as steadily declining over time. The increasing use of group-based trajectory models (GBTMs) to identify distinct classes of change has reinforced this characterization, but these models fail to a…
The protective role of parental vigilance in the link between risky childhood environments and health
Within-Couple Associations Between Communication and Relationship Satisfaction Over Time
Relationship science contends that the quality of couples’ communication predicts relationship satisfaction over time. Most studies testing these links have examined between-person associations, yet couple dynamics are also theorized at the within-person level: For a given couple, worsened communication is presumed to predict deteriorations in future relationship satisfaction. We examined within-couple associations between satisfaction and commun…
Does couple communication predict later relationship quality and dissolution? A meta‐analysis
Objective To estimate the overall effect between positive and negative communication behaviors and later relationship quality and dissolution. Background Behavioral models of relationship development argue that the quality of couples' communication is key to understanding later relational outcomes. However, longitudinal studies have yielded inconsistent associations between communication behaviors and subsequent relationship functioning, leaving …
Racial Discrimination and Private Regard Among Black Early Adolescents
The current study examined concurrent and longitudinal associations between experiences of racial discrimination and private regard (i.e., feelings about being Black and other Black people) among 346 Black early adolescents who completed four assessments over two years. Between-person (interpersonal) and within-person (intrapersonal) effects were tested to provide a rigorous and comprehensive examination of these associations. There was minimal e…
Effects of the Sleep Saaf responsive parenting intervention on rapid infant weight gain
Dyadic Profiles of Sexual Satisfaction among Chinese Newlywed Couples over Time
Although sexual satisfaction is a defining feature of marriage, research has consistently found that sexual satisfaction declines over time. Recently, however, emerging findings provide a more optimistic perspective on sexual satisfaction development by suggesting that couples may follow diverse sexual satisfaction trajectories. Using Dyadic Latent Class Growth Analysis, the current study is among the first to examine heterogeneity in couples' se…
Gay Men’s Engagement with a Gay Campground Community in the Rural Southern United States
Despite changing societal attitudes and acceptance of sexual minority individuals, gay men continue to seek out sexual minority-specific spaces. These spaces are often assumed to primarily consist of gay venues or neighborhoods in urban and metropolitan areas, but there is also a desire for less traditional gay spaces. To better understand the experiences of contemporary gay men forming connections in one such space and how these connections prom…
Childhood maltreatment amplifies the association between relationship functioning and depressive symptoms among rural African American couples
Despite considerable literature documenting associations between relationship functioning and depressive symptoms, there has been relatively little direct examination of this association among African American couples. Likewise, little research has investigated factors that may exacerbate this association. The current study addressed this gap by investigating longitudinal associations between relationship functioning and depressive symptoms among…
Military‐Related Stress and Family Well‐Being Among Active Duty Army Families
Objective To examine associations between objective (i.e., rank, time away for deployment, combat deployments) and subjective (i.e., difficulty coping with military life) military‐related stressors and multiple domains of family well‐being, including marital interactions, marital quality, parenting quality, and family functioning. Background Military‐related stressors are associated with individual well‐being, but less is known about associations…
Trajectories of relationship and individual functioning among waitlisted couples for an online relationship intervention
To inform research and practice with distressed couples, the current study was designed to examine patterns of change among distressed, help‐seeking couples prior to receiving an intervention . Data from this study originate from 221 couples assigned to the waitlist control condition of a randomized controlled trial for couples seeking online help for their relationship. All couples self‐selected into the online program and agreed to withhold see…
“Will you complete this survey too?” Differences between individual versus dyadic samples in relationship research.
This study examines the ways in which collecting data from individuals versus couples affects the characteristics of the resulting sample in basic research studies of romantic relationships. From a nationally representative sample of 1,294 individuals in a serious romantic relationship, approximately half of whom were randomly selected to invite their partner to participate in the study, we compare relationship, individual, and demographic charac…
Trajectories of Marital Satisfaction in Diverse Newlywed Couples
Couples’ marital satisfaction is thought to decline over the newlywed years, but recent research indicates that the majority of spouses have high, stable trajectories during this period, and significant declines occur only among initially dissatisfied spouses. These findings are drawn from predominantly White, middle-class samples, however, which may overestimate marital stability compared to samples with higher levels of sociodemographic risk. A…
Racial discrimination, depressive symptoms, and sleep problems among Blacks in the rural South
Persistent associations of racial discrimination with depressive symptoms and sleep problems reflect a lasting impact of racial discrimination. Because discrimination's effects on depression may contribute to increased sleep problems over time, interventions that buffer the effects of discrimination on depressive symptoms may also reduce sleep problems. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)
Gay-Specific and General Stressors Predict Gay Men’s Psychological Functioning Over Time
Patterns of Change in Marital Satisfaction Over the Newlywed Years
Although marital satisfaction starts high and declines for the average newlywed, some spouses may follow qualitatively distinct trajectories. Using 8 self-reports of satisfaction collected over 4 years from 464 newlywed spouses, we identified 5 trajectory groups, including patterns defined by high intercepts and no declines in satisfaction, moderate intercepts and minimal declines, and low intercepts and substantial declines. The groups varied sy…
Does Couples' Communication Predict Marital Satisfaction, or Does Marital Satisfaction Predict Communication
The quality of communication between spouses is widely assumed to affect their subsequent judgments of relationship satisfaction, yet this assumption is rarely tested against the alternative prediction that communication is merely a consequence of spouses' prior levels of satisfaction. To evaluate these perspectives, newlywed couples' positivity, negativity, and effectiveness were observed four times at 9-month intervals, and these behaviors were…
Personality change among newlyweds
The early years of marriage are a time of significant personal and relational changes as partners adjust to their new roles, but the specific ways that spouses' personalities may change in early marriage and how these changes are associated with spouses' marital satisfaction trajectories have been overlooked. Using 3 waves of data collected over the first 18 months of marriage (N = 338 spouses, or 169 heterosexual newlywed marriages), we examined…
Racial discrimination, depressive symptoms, and sleep problems among Blacks in the rural South
Persistent associations of racial discrimination with depressive symptoms and sleep problems reflect a lasting impact of racial discrimination. Because discrimination's effects on depression may contribute to increased sleep problems over time, interventions that buffer the effects of discrimination on depressive symptoms may also reduce sleep problems. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)
Is Communication a Mechanism of Relationship Education Effects Among Rural African Americans
Enhancing communication as a means of promoting relationship quality has been increasingly questioned, particularly for couples at elevated sociodemographic risk. In response, the current study investigated communication change as a mechanism accounting for changes in relationship satisfaction and confidence among 344 rural, predominantly low-income African American couples with an early adolescent child who participated in a randomized controlle…
Moderators of the Association Between Community Connectedness and Internalizing Symptoms Among Gay Men
Racial discrimination predicts depressive symptoms throughout adolescence among Black youth
Experiences of racial discrimination are common among Black youth and predict worse mental health cross-sectionally and over time. Additional research is needed to address lingering questions regarding the direction of effect(s) underlying these patterns, differences in the magnitude of effects across adolescence, and gender differences. To address these gaps, the current study tested bidirectional linkages between racial discrimination and depre…
Sexual orientation-related stigma and relationship functioning among female same-sex couples
This article discusses how sexual orientation-based stigma serves to undermine functioning in female same-sex relationships. We particularly focus on the unique roles of interpersonal stigma (e.g., victimization, microaggressions) and structural stigma (e.g., institutional forms of discrimination), highlighting critical limitations and gaps in this literature and offering suggestions for future studies. We also discuss the need for future work on…
Gay-Specific and General Stressors Predict Gay Men’s Psychological Functioning Over Time
Are changes in marital satisfaction sustained and steady, or sporadic and dramatic
Although prominent theories of intimate relationships, and couples themselves, often conceive of relationships as fluctuating widely in their degree of closeness, longitudinal studies generally describe partners' satisfaction as stable and continuous or as steadily declining over time. The increasing use of group-based trajectory models (GBTMs) to identify distinct classes of change has reinforced this characterization, but these models fail to a…
Dyadic Profiles of Sexual Satisfaction among Chinese Newlywed Couples over Time
Although sexual satisfaction is a defining feature of marriage, research has consistently found that sexual satisfaction declines over time. Recently, however, emerging findings provide a more optimistic perspective on sexual satisfaction development by suggesting that couples may follow diverse sexual satisfaction trajectories. Using Dyadic Latent Class Growth Analysis, the current study is among the first to examine heterogeneity in couples' se…
Gender differences-or the lack thereof-in the prediction of relationship dissolution among unmarried mixed-gender couples from the United States
This study examines gender differences in the degree to which men's and women's views of their relationship predict eventual dissolution among mixed-gender couples. We analyzed data from a national sample of 314 unmarried mixed-gender couples from the United States that were surveyed across four years to test gender differences in associations between baseline levels of perceived likelihood of breaking up, relationship satisfaction, commitment, a…
Sexual minority youth in romantic relationships
This study investigated differences in depressive symptoms, loneliness, and self-esteem for monosexual (lesbian, gay) and plurisexual (bisexual, pansexual, queer) sexual minority youth (SMY) by relationship status (single, partnered) and relationship configuration (same-gender partner, different-gender partner). Participants included 338 SMY (M age = 19.10 years) who reported on their relationship status, partner's gender identity, well-being, an…
Shift‐and‐persist coping and health among rural African American adolescents
This study examines whether shift-and-persist coping, a coping strategy defined by accepting challenges and remaining hopeful for the future, is associated with psychosocial and physical health and/or moderates the effects of contextual stress (i.e., racial discrimination, financial strain) on health among African American adolescents living in the rural Southeastern United States. Participants (N = 299, 56% boys, M age = 12.91) completed measure…
Childhood maltreatment amplifies the association between relationship functioning and depressive symptoms among rural African American couples
Despite considerable literature documenting associations between relationship functioning and depressive symptoms, there has been relatively little direct examination of this association among African American couples. Likewise, little research has investigated factors that may exacerbate this association. The current study addressed this gap by investigating longitudinal associations between relationship functioning and depressive symptoms among…
Sharing positive experiences related to one’s sexual orientation
Research on gay men has largely focused on health disparities and minority stress, but scholars have called for greater attention to resilience and the positive aspects of being a sexual minority. In the broader social psychology literature, research has found that capitalization—the act of sharing personal, positive life events with others—can benefit one’s wellbeing. As such, the goals of the current study were to examine the extent to which ga…
Coming to terms with coming out
For lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) adolescents and young adults, coming out to family members, especially parents, is a major psychological decision and hurdle due to both perceived fears and actual negative consequences. But beyond the literature on factors associated with the decision to come out and parents' initial reactions to the disclosure, empirical studies of what unfolds afterward, and how the family adjusts to the LGB adolescent's id…
Patterns of Change in Marital Satisfaction Over the Newlywed Years
Although marital satisfaction starts high and declines for the average newlywed, some spouses may follow qualitatively distinct trajectories. Using 8 self-reports of satisfaction collected over 4 years from 464 newlywed spouses, we identified 5 trajectory groups, including patterns defined by high intercepts and no declines in satisfaction, moderate intercepts and minimal declines, and low intercepts and substantial declines. The groups varied sy…
Can gay and lesbian parents promote healthy development in high-risk children adopted from foster care
Adoption is known to promote cognitive and emotional development in children from foster care, but policy debates remain regarding whether children adopted by gay and lesbian parents can achieve these positive outcomes. This study compared the cognitive development and behavior problems at 2, 12, and 24 months postplacement of 82 high-risk children adopted from foster care in heterosexual and gay or lesbian households. On average, children in bot…
Parent adjustment over time in gay, lesbian, and heterosexual parent families adopting from foster care
Although increasing numbers of gay and lesbian individuals and couples are adopting children, gay men and lesbian women continue to face increased scrutiny and legal obstacles from the child welfare system. To date, little research has compared the experiences of gay or lesbian and heterosexual adoptive parents over time, limiting conceptual understandings of the similarities they share and the unique challenges that gay and lesbian adoptive pare…
Does Couples' Communication Predict Marital Satisfaction, or Does Marital Satisfaction Predict Communication
The quality of communication between spouses is widely assumed to affect their subsequent judgments of relationship satisfaction, yet this assumption is rarely tested against the alternative prediction that communication is merely a consequence of spouses' prior levels of satisfaction. To evaluate these perspectives, newlywed couples' positivity, negativity, and effectiveness were observed four times at 9-month intervals, and these behaviors were…
Relationship satisfaction in lesbian couples
There has been increased interest in and attention to understanding the characteristics associated with relationship satisfaction among same-sex couples. This review examines the individual, couple, and external factors associated with relationship satisfaction among contemporary lesbian couples, highlighting domains such as internalized homophobia, personality, communication, conflict, sex, stress, and social support. I discuss methodological co…
Is Communication a Mechanism of Relationship Education Effects Among Rural African Americans
Enhancing communication as a means of promoting relationship quality has been increasingly questioned, particularly for couples at elevated sociodemographic risk. In response, the current study investigated communication change as a mechanism accounting for changes in relationship satisfaction and confidence among 344 rural, predominantly low-income African American couples with an early adolescent child who participated in a randomized controlle…
Personality change among newlyweds
The early years of marriage are a time of significant personal and relational changes as partners adjust to their new roles, but the specific ways that spouses' personalities may change in early marriage and how these changes are associated with spouses' marital satisfaction trajectories have been overlooked. Using 3 waves of data collected over the first 18 months of marriage (N = 338 spouses, or 169 heterosexual newlywed marriages), we examined…
Patterns of positivity
This study examined positive affect (PA) trajectories over the first year of life among infants of mothers with a history of depression ( N = 191) as well as predictors (i.e., maternal prenatal and postpartum depression symptoms, maternal parenting behaviors) of those trajectories. Infant PA was observed in play and feeding tasks during laboratory visits at 3, 6, and 12 months of age; parenting behaviors were observed at 3 months. Mothers complet…
Sharing positive experiences related to one’s sexual orientation
Research on gay men has largely focused on health disparities and minority stress, but scholars have called for greater attention to resilience and the positive aspects of being a sexual minority. In the broader social psychology literature, research has found that capitalization—the act of sharing personal, positive life events with others—can benefit one’s wellbeing. As such, the goals of the current study were to examine the extent to which ga…
Sexual orientation-related stigma and relationship functioning among female same-sex couples
This article discusses how sexual orientation-based stigma serves to undermine functioning in female same-sex relationships. We particularly focus on the unique roles of interpersonal stigma (e.g., victimization, microaggressions) and structural stigma (e.g., institutional forms of discrimination), highlighting critical limitations and gaps in this literature and offering suggestions for future studies. We also discuss the need for future work on…
Moderators of the Association Between Community Connectedness and Internalizing Symptoms Among Gay Men
“Will you complete this survey too?” Differences between individual versus dyadic samples in relationship research.
This study examines the ways in which collecting data from individuals versus couples affects the characteristics of the resulting sample in basic research studies of romantic relationships. From a nationally representative sample of 1,294 individuals in a serious romantic relationship, approximately half of whom were randomly selected to invite their partner to participate in the study, we compare relationship, individual, and demographic charac…
Trajectories of Marital Satisfaction in Diverse Newlywed Couples
Couples’ marital satisfaction is thought to decline over the newlywed years, but recent research indicates that the majority of spouses have high, stable trajectories during this period, and significant declines occur only among initially dissatisfied spouses. These findings are drawn from predominantly White, middle-class samples, however, which may overestimate marital stability compared to samples with higher levels of sociodemographic risk. A…
Racial discrimination, depressive symptoms, and sleep problems among Blacks in the rural South
Persistent associations of racial discrimination with depressive symptoms and sleep problems reflect a lasting impact of racial discrimination. Because discrimination's effects on depression may contribute to increased sleep problems over time, interventions that buffer the effects of discrimination on depressive symptoms may also reduce sleep problems. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)
Gay-Specific and General Stressors Predict Gay Men’s Psychological Functioning Over Time
Military‐Related Stress and Family Well‐Being Among Active Duty Army Families
Objective To examine associations between objective (i.e., rank, time away for deployment, combat deployments) and subjective (i.e., difficulty coping with military life) military‐related stressors and multiple domains of family well‐being, including marital interactions, marital quality, parenting quality, and family functioning. Background Military‐related stressors are associated with individual well‐being, but less is known about associations…
Trajectories of relationship and individual functioning among waitlisted couples for an online relationship intervention
To inform research and practice with distressed couples, the current study was designed to examine patterns of change among distressed, help‐seeking couples prior to receiving an intervention . Data from this study originate from 221 couples assigned to the waitlist control condition of a randomized controlled trial for couples seeking online help for their relationship. All couples self‐selected into the online program and agreed to withhold see…
Within-Couple Associations Between Communication and Relationship Satisfaction Over Time
Relationship science contends that the quality of couples’ communication predicts relationship satisfaction over time. Most studies testing these links have examined between-person associations, yet couple dynamics are also theorized at the within-person level: For a given couple, worsened communication is presumed to predict deteriorations in future relationship satisfaction. We examined within-couple associations between satisfaction and commun…
Does couple communication predict later relationship quality and dissolution? A meta‐analysis
Objective To estimate the overall effect between positive and negative communication behaviors and later relationship quality and dissolution. Background Behavioral models of relationship development argue that the quality of couples' communication is key to understanding later relational outcomes. However, longitudinal studies have yielded inconsistent associations between communication behaviors and subsequent relationship functioning, leaving …
Racial Discrimination and Private Regard Among Black Early Adolescents
The current study examined concurrent and longitudinal associations between experiences of racial discrimination and private regard (i.e., feelings about being Black and other Black people) among 346 Black early adolescents who completed four assessments over two years. Between-person (interpersonal) and within-person (intrapersonal) effects were tested to provide a rigorous and comprehensive examination of these associations. There was minimal e…
Effects of the Sleep Saaf responsive parenting intervention on rapid infant weight gain
Dyadic Profiles of Sexual Satisfaction among Chinese Newlywed Couples over Time
Although sexual satisfaction is a defining feature of marriage, research has consistently found that sexual satisfaction declines over time. Recently, however, emerging findings provide a more optimistic perspective on sexual satisfaction development by suggesting that couples may follow diverse sexual satisfaction trajectories. Using Dyadic Latent Class Growth Analysis, the current study is among the first to examine heterogeneity in couples' se…
Gay Men’s Engagement with a Gay Campground Community in the Rural Southern United States
Despite changing societal attitudes and acceptance of sexual minority individuals, gay men continue to seek out sexual minority-specific spaces. These spaces are often assumed to primarily consist of gay venues or neighborhoods in urban and metropolitan areas, but there is also a desire for less traditional gay spaces. To better understand the experiences of contemporary gay men forming connections in one such space and how these connections prom…
Childhood maltreatment amplifies the association between relationship functioning and depressive symptoms among rural African American couples
Despite considerable literature documenting associations between relationship functioning and depressive symptoms, there has been relatively little direct examination of this association among African American couples. Likewise, little research has investigated factors that may exacerbate this association. The current study addressed this gap by investigating longitudinal associations between relationship functioning and depressive symptoms among…
Psychology (34 obras) · Developmental psychology (29 obras) · Clinical Psychology (23 obras) · Social Psychology (22 obras) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (19 obras) · Psychiatry (16 obras) · Social Psychology (14 obras) · Clinical Psychology (12 obras) · Medicine (12 obras) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (10 obras)