… A previous study from the current project (Ge, Conger, & Elder, 1996) reported a much larger
pubertal timing effect on adolescent girls than that found in this study for boys. Whereas the …

… Elder is currently conducting longitudinal studies of the transitions from childhood to the
adult years, research on significant others beyond the family, and studies of pathways from …

Research on adolescent friendships has typically treated these social ties differently from
friendships at other stages of life or from other relationships during adolescence. To draw …

Research on multiracial individuals is often cross‐sectional, obscuring the fluid nature of
multiracial self‐categorization across time. Pathways of racial self‐identification are developed …

Stressful transitions in adolescence increase depressive symptoms, especially among girls.
However, little is known about this risk as adolescents mature into young adulthood, …

The purposes of this 9-year, prospective longitudinal study were (a) to investigate hypothesized
reciprocal growth in negative emotions between parents and adolescents and (b) to …

This study applies a family process model to the linkage between early economic disadvantage
and later enrollment in higher education. Using two waves of data on low‐income youth, …

If problematic relationships with parents are an academic risk factor during adolescence,
then nonparental sources of support (eg, friends, siblings, and teachers) may be arenas of …

Religious communities are known to instill standards of achievement in their young people,
but this observation may not apply as well to disadvantaged youth and their culture. In this …

The concept of ambivalence emphasizes the complexity of family relations and the potential
for individuals to evaluate relationships as both positive and negative. Using multilevel …