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Eva M. Pomerantz is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences and psychology, with notable contributions to education and clinical psychology.

Their work often addresses themes related to parental involvement in education, early childhood education and development, and child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development. Additional topics include family and disability support research, diverse education studies and reforms, family support in illness, and cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills.

Pomerantz has published extensively in several academic venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Developmental Psychology
  • Child Development
  • Journal of Youth and Adolescence
  • Theory Into Practice
  • Contemporary Educational Psychology

Several recent papers illustrate the scope and focus of their research:

  • Parents' daily involvement in children's math homework and activities during early elementary school, 2022, Child Development
  • Why is Self-Esteem Higher Among American than Chinese Early Adolescents? The Role of Psychologically Controlling Parenting, 2021, Journal of Youth and Adolescence
  • Should parents be involved in their children's schooling?, 2022, Theory Into Practice
  • Parents' math anxiety and their controlling and autonomy-supportive involvement in children's math learning: Implications for children's math achievement, 2022, Developmental Psychology
  • Parents' responses to children's math performance in early elementary school: Links with parents' math beliefs and children's math adjustment, 2022, Child Development

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Dajung Diana Oh
  • Michael M. Barger
  • Wu Jiawen
  • Florrie Fei-Yin Ng
  • Yu Xiong

Best Publications

  • The How, Whom, and Why of Parents’ Involvement in Children’s Academic Lives: More Is Not Always Better

    Eva M. Pomerantz;Elizabeth A. Moorman;Scott D. Litwack

  • The role of parents' control in early adolescents' psychological functioning: a longitudinal investigation in the United States and China.

    Qian Wang;Eva M. Pomerantz;Huichang Chen

  • Making the Grade but Feeling Distressed: Gender Differences in Academic Performance and Internal Distress

    Eva Marie Pomerantz;Ellen Rydell Altermatt;Jill L. Saxon

  • Issues and Challenges in Studying Parental Control: Toward a New Conceptualization

    Wendy S. Grolnick;Eva M. Pomerantz

  • Attitude strength and resistance processes.

    Eva M. Pomerantz;Shelly Chaiken;Rosalind S. Tordesillas

  • Parental involvement and children's motivation and achievement: A domain-specific perspective

    Meredith L. Rowe;Geetha B. Ramani;Eva M. Pomerantz

  • Parents' Involvement in Children's Learning in the United States and China: Implications for Children's Academic and Emotional Adjustment

    Cecilia Sin Sze Cheung;Eva M. Pomerantz

  • Maternal intrusive support in the academic context: transactional socialization processes.

    Eva M. Pomerantz;Missa Murry Eaton

  • Sex differences in math performance: The role of children's approach to schoolwork.

    Gwen A. Kenney-Benson;Eva M. Pomerantz;Allison M. Ryan;Helen Patrick

  • Why Does Parents' Involvement Enhance Children's Achievement? The Role of Parent-Oriented Motivation.

    Cecilia Sin Sze Cheung;Eva M. Pomerantz

  • The relation between parents' involvement in children's schooling and children's adjustment: A meta-analysis.

    Michael M. Barger;Elizabeth Moorman Kim;Nathan R. Kuncel;Eva M. Pomerantz

  • The Role of Parents in How Children Approach Achievement: A Dynamic Process Perspective.

    Eva M. Pomerantz;Wendy S. Grolnick;Carrie E. Price

  • The development of competence-related and motivational beliefs: An investigation of similarity and influence among friends.

    Ellen Rydell Altermatt;Eva M. Pomerantz

  • Why are Chinese mothers more controlling than American mothers? "My child is my report card".

    Florrie Fei Yin Ng;Eva M. Pomerantz;Ciping Deng

  • Resolving Conflicts Among Self-Evaluative Motives : Positive Experiences as a Resource for Overcoming Defensiveness

    Yaacov Trope;Eva M. Pomerantz

  • Structural consistency and attitude strength.

    Shelly Chaiken;Eva M. Pomerantz;Roger Giner-Sorolla

  • The Role of Parental Control in Children's Development in Western and East Asian Countries

    Eva M. Pomerantz;Qian Wang

  • The role of maternal control in the development of sex differences in child self-evaluative factors

    Eva Marie Pomerantz;Diane N. Ruble

  • European American and Chinese Parents' Responses to Children's Success and Failure: Implications for Children's Responses

    Florrie Fei-Yin Ng;Eva M. Pomerantz;Shui fong Lam

  • Children's Achievement Moderates the Effects of Mothers' Use of Control and Autonomy Support

    Florrie Fei Yin Ng;Gwen A. Kenney-Benson;Eva M. Pomerantz

  • Mothers' affect in the homework context: the importance of staying positive.

    Eva M. Pomerantz;Qian Wang;Florrie Fei Yin Ng

Frequent Co-Authors

Diane N. Ruble
Diane N. Ruble New York University
Wendy S. Grolnick
Wendy S. Grolnick Clark University
Dov Cohen
Dov Cohen University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Allison M. Ryan
Allison M. Ryan University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Richard W. Robins
Richard W. Robins University of California, Davis
Glenn I. Roisman
Glenn I. Roisman University of Minnesota
Geetha B. Ramani
Geetha B. Ramani University of Maryland, College Park
Shelly Chaiken
Shelly Chaiken New York University
Andrei Cimpian
Andrei Cimpian New York University
Meredith L. Rowe
Meredith L. Rowe Harvard University

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