Browsing Auburn University Graduate School by Department "Human Development and Family Science"
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Parental Support and Adolescent Disclosure in the Context of Peer Stress
(2026-08-05)
The present study examined whether global parenting behaviors and context-specific parental
support behaviors predicted adolescents’ global and observed disclosure about their peer relationships.
Adolescents completed ...
Partnering with Reach Out and Read Alabama to Understand Families’ Experiences with Books and Their Babies: The Reading and Relationships Project
(2022-07-22)
Shared book reading is associated with higher quality parent-child interactions (Canfield et al., 2020a), as well as child cognitive (e.g., Baker, 2013; Baker et al., 2017) and socioemotional development (Downer & Mendez, ...
Piecing the Puzzle Together: Assembling a beautiful future for survivors of commercial sexual exploitation
(2025-07-16)
This investigation sought to develop a deeper understanding of the lived experiences of survivors of commercial sexual exploitation by considering the links between childhood background, trafficking experiences, and outcomes. ...
Pivoting to Meaningfully Connect with Youth: Youth Relationship Educators’ Perceptions of Success During the Coronavirus Pandemic
(2022-08-03)
This study considered the experiences of youth-focused relationship educators as they transitioned to online education due to the coronavirus pandemic. The aim was to understand the process and impact of these experiences ...
Prepared to Serve: Evaluating Two Interventions Promoting Readiness Among Service Members and the Helping Professionals Who Serve Them
(2025-11-24)
The social organization theory of action and change (Mancini et al., 2005) highlights the role of community service organizations and social processes in promoting adaptability and well-being within communities. Support ...
Reason for Referral and Treatment Focus as Moderators of Alliance and Individual Symptom Distress in Couple Therapy
(2021-05-03)
Therapeutic alliance is a significant predictor of positive treatment outcomes for individuals and couples undergoing therapy (Davis et al., 2012; Baldwin, Wampold, & Imel, 2008; Horvath, 2001; Flükiger et al., 2019; ...
The Relationship between Key Personality traits and Type I/II Alcoholism among College Students
(2021-07-19)
Alcohol use remains common among college students. This study used longitudinal data from a sample of 209 first-year students at a university located in the Southeastern United States to identify support for Cloninger’s ...
The Relationship between Sexual and Relationship Satisfaction: Moderated by Perceptions of Relational Power
(2021-07-22)
Following the Relational Theory of Power, which states that relationship power is more fluid than static, this study hoped to show the mutual influence of sexual satisfaction and equitable relationship power dynamics on ...
Second Chances: Protective Factors Within the Child-Caregiver Relationship for Families with Incarcerated Parents
(2025-12-11)
In the U.S., about 7% of children have a parent who was incarcerated, which indicates
that more than five million children have experienced a parental incarceration. This figure does
not include non-custodial parents and ...
Secure Base Script Stability and Early Childhood Competence
(2023-05-10)
Internal representations of attachment inform children about themselves and the world around them and shape the expectations they have for relationships. Secure representations of attachment – measured by the secure base ...
Sexual Assault and Links to Sense of Control and Economic and Marital Stability
(2021-11-15)
This investigation utilized the Midlife in the United States Survey (N = 3,258) to assess the relations between experiences of sexual assault and sense of control, economic stability, and marital stability. For those who ...
Should I Stay or Should I Go? An Examination of the Effects of Work and Family Factors on Active-duty and National Guard and Reserve Service Members’ Military Career Intentions
(2022-11-21)
The Department of Defense (DoD) prioritizes the retention of military personnel to maintain a ready defense force and earn return on their investment of training highly skilled Service members. Prior research has examined ...
Sleep, Physical Activity, and Mental Health Among Sexual-Minority, Transgender, and Gender-Diverse Youth
(2023-08-03)
In the face of legislation that curtails the rights and wellbeing of sexual- and gender-minority (SGM) youth, developmental science has a responsibility to investigate SGM health and its protective factors. Sleep is a ...
Social Anxiety as a Moderator of the Association Between Autonomic Reactivity to Social Stress and Avoidant, Withdrawn, or Disengaged Responses
(2024-07-22)
Avoidant, withdrawn, and disengaged (AWD) responses orient a person away from a stressor or one’s own thoughts, emotions, or physiological responses and high levels of AWD responses are associated with negative psychosocial ...
Socio-Ecological Risk and Protective Factors, Individual Differences, and Adolescent Outcomes: A Developmental Cascade
(2025-07-02)
Adolescent alcohol use remains prevalent, and internalizing symptoms and sleep deficits have worsened for adolescents in recent years. To better understand the development of these outcomes, I tested a developmental cascade ...
Supporting Families During Adolescents' Transition from Acute Psychiatric Care to Home and School Environment
(2025-12-07)
The transition from acute psychiatric hospitalization to home is a challenging period for adolescents and their families, with approximately one in four adolescents requiring readmission within a year (Edgcomb et al., 2020) ...
Teachers’ Perceptions of Student Defenders of Bullied Peers: Associations with Defenders’ Race and Gender, and the Classroom Racial Composition
(2022-07-25)
This thesis examined whether children’s defending of bullied peers predicts changes in teachers' reports of students' prosocial and aggressive behavior and whether those associations are moderated by children’s gender and ...
Testing A Conditional Process Model of Gender Minority Stress and Resilience, Depressive Symptoms, and Dyadic Coping Among Gender Minorities
(2023-04-20)
Many studies show that depression is pervasive among gender minority populations with strong links between minority-related stress and the development of depressive symptoms. Using frameworks of minority stress theory ...
Title: A Theoretical Update and Empirical Analysis of the Multiple Family Group Intervention
(2023-07-31)
The Multiple Family Group Intervention (MFGI) is a family therapy intervention within a larger treatment program (the Accountability Based Sex Offense Prevention (ABSOP) Program) for the treatment of illegal sexual behavior ...
Translating and Applying Recent Research on Military Family Life: A Preliminary Examination of the Efficacy of Mobile-Application-Based Professional Development for Military Human and Family Service Professionals
(2022-08-09)
A new mobile application (app) was developed by the Military REACH team. It delivered research-backed professional development content to practicing human and family service providers over the course of eight weeks. The ...