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Associations of parent-adolescent relationship quality with type 1 diabetes management and depressive symptoms in Latino and Caucasian youth.
Main, A, D Wiebe, A Croom, K Sardone, E Godbey, C Tucker, and P White. 2014. “Associations of Parent-Adolescent Relationship Quality With Type 1 Diabetes Management and Depressive Symptoms in Latino and Caucasian Youth.”. Journal of Pediatric Psychology 39 (10): 1104-14.
Commonalities and differences in the research on children’s effortful control and executive function: A call for an integrated model of self-regulation.
Zhou, Q, S Chen, and A Main. 2012. “Commonalities and Differences in the Research on Children’s Effortful Control and Executive Function: A Call for an Integrated Model of Self-Regulation.”. Child Development Perspectives 6 (2): 112-21.
The relations of temperamental effortful control and anger/frustration to Chinese children’s academic achievement and social adjustment: A longitudinal study.
Zhou, Q, A Main, and Y Wang. 2010. “The Relations of Temperamental Effortful Control and Anger/Frustration to Chinese Children’s Academic Achievement and Social Adjustment: A Longitudinal Study.”. Journal of Educational Psychology 102 (1): 180-96.
Principal Investigator
Alexandra Main Principal Investigator Professor Alexandra Main received her PhD from UC Berkeley and completed her postdoctoral work at UC Merced. Her research focuses on social and and emotional development of children and adolescents within the family context. Specifically, she is interested in...
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Current Graduate Students
Abigail Bolter is a fifth year PhD Candidate. She earned her BA in Psychology from UC Santa Cruz, and as an undergraduate she researched plagiarism and other academic misconduct. As a graduate student, Abigail is interested in adolescents transitioning into adulthood, shared responsibility between...
VTAP study featured on ABC Action News
https://abc30.com/uc-merced-latina-mom-research/11144506/
SPSP 2019
Professor Main presented research from the Family Development Lab at the Parenting and Family Dynamics Preconference at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology annual conference in Portland, OR.
Welcome newest honorary member
The Family Development Lab welcomes its newest honorary member. Marin Walle was born November 29th, 2018!