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Frederick O. Lorenz

Frederick O. Lorenz

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Psychology

D-Index
51
Citations
20748
World Ranking
5100
National Ranking
2801

Overview

Frederick O. Lorenz is affiliated with Iowa State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology, with work also intersecting several subfields including Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Their research contributions focus on topics such as Gender Roles and Identity Studies, Sexual Function and Dysfunction Studies, Menstrual Health and Disorders, Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving, Attachment and Relationship Dynamics, Family Dynamics and Relationships, and Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Lorenz include:

  • One Line of Sexual Decline? Growth Mixture Modeling for Midlife Sexual Satisfaction (2021), published in Archives of Sexual Behavior
  • The biopsychosocial associations between marital hostility and physical health of middle-aged couples (2021), published in Journal of Family Psychology
  • Do couple- and individual-level ambivalence predict later marital outcomes? The mediating role of marital conflict (2022), published in Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
  • The Association Between Economic Pressure and Positivity During Young Adulthood (2022), published in Journal of Adult Development
  • The Influence of Work Control Trajectories on Men's Mental and Physical Health During the Middle Years: Mediational Role of Personal Control (2021), published through UNC Libraries

Frederick O. Lorenz has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Tricia K. Neppl
  • Florensia F. Surjadi
  • K. A. S. Wickrama
  • Nathan D. Leonhardt
  • Brian J. Willoughby

The scientist has published in a range of academic venues reflective of their interdisciplinary interests, such as:

  • Archives of Sexual Behavior
  • Journal of Family Psychology
  • Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
  • Journal of Adult Development
  • UNC Libraries

Best Publications

  • Economic Stress, Coercive Family Process, and Developmental Problems of Adolescents

    Rand D. Conger;Xiaojia Ge;Glen H. Elder;Frederick O. Lorenz

  • A family process model of economic hardship and adjustment of early adolescent boys.

    Rand D. Conger;Katherine J. Conger;Glen H. Elder;Frederick O. Lorenz

  • Families in Troubled Times: Adapting to Change in Rural America

    Rand D. Conger;Glen H. Elder Jr.;Frederick O. Lorenz;Ronald L. Simons

  • Linking economic hardship to marital quality and instability.

    Rand D. Conger;Glen H. Elder;Frederick O. Lorenz;Katherine J. Conger

  • Trajectories of Stressful Life Events and Depressive Symptoms during Adolescence.

    Xiaojia Ge;Frederick O. Lorenz;Rand D. Conger;Glen H. Elder

  • Family economic stress and adjustment of early adolescent girls.

    Rand D. Conger;Katherine J. Conger;Glen H. Elder;Frederick O. Lorenz

  • Relationships among sexual satisfaction, marital quality, and marital instability at midlife.

    Hsiu-Chen Yeh;Frederick O. Lorenz;K. A. S. Wickrama;Rand D. Conger

  • Reciprocal influences between stressful life events and adolescent internalizing and externalizing problems.

    Kee Jeong Kim;Rand D. Conger;Glen H. Elder;Frederick O. Lorenz

  • TWO ROUTES TO DELINQUENCY: DIFFERENCES BETWEEN EARLY AND LATE STARTERS IN THE IMPACT OF PARENTING AND DEVIANT PEERS*

    Ronald L. Simons;Chyi-In Wu;Rand D. Conger;Frederick O. Lorenz

  • Explaining the Higher Incidence of Adjustment Problems among Children of Divorce Compared with Those in Two-Parent Families.

    Ronald L. Simons;Kuei-Hsiu Lin;Leslie C. Gordon;Rand D. Conger

  • The Short-Term and Decade-Long Effects of Divorce on Women's Midlife Health∗:

    Frederick O. Lorenz;K. A. S. Wickrama;Rand D. Conger;Glen H. Elder

  • Higher-Order Growth Curves and Mixture Modeling with Mplus : A Practical Guide

    Kandauda K.A.S. Wickrama;Tae Kyoung Lee;Catherine Walker O’Neal;Frederick O. Lorenz

  • Marital Quality and Physical Illness: A Latent Growth Curve Analysis

    K. A. S. Wickrama;Frederick O. Lorenz;Rand D. Conger;Glen H. Elder

  • Husband and wife differences in response to undesirable life events.

    Rand D. Conger;Frederick O. Lorenz;Glen H. Elder;Ronald L. Simons

  • Social Network and Marital Support as Mediators and Moderators of the Impact of Stress and Depression on Parental Behavior.

    Ronald L. Simons;Fred O. Lorenz;Chyi-in Wu;Rand D. Conger

  • Parents' stressful life events and adolescent depressed mood.

    Xiaojia Ge;Rand D. Conger;Frederick O. Lorenz;Ronald L. Simons

  • Parent-Adolescent Reciprocity in Negative Affect and Its Relation to Early Adult Social Development.

    Kee Jeong Kim;Rand D. Conger;Frederick O. Lorenz;Glen H. Elder Jr.

  • Mutual influences in parent and adolescent psychological distress.

    Xiaojia Ge;Rand D. Conger;Frederick O. Lorenz;Michael Shanahan

  • Economic pressure and marital quality: An illustration of the method variance problem in the causal modeling of family processes.

    Frederick O. Lorenz;Rand D. Conger;Ronald L. Simon;Les B. Whitbeck

  • Family antecedents and consequences of trajectories of depressive symptoms from adolescence to young adulthood: a life course investigation.

    K. A. S. Wickrama;Rand D. Conger;Frederick O. Lorenz;Tony Jung

Frequent Co-Authors

Rand D. Conger
Rand D. Conger University of California, Davis
Glen H. Elder
Glen H. Elder University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kandauda A. S. Wickrama
Kandauda A. S. Wickrama University of Georgia
Ronald L. Simons
Ronald L. Simons University of Georgia
Les B. Whitbeck
Les B. Whitbeck University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Xiaojia Ge
Xiaojia Ge University of Minnesota
M. Brent Donnellan
M. Brent Donnellan Michigan State University
Katherine J. Conger
Katherine J. Conger University of California, Davis
Meg Gerrard
Meg Gerrard University of Connecticut
Steven R. H. Beach
Steven R. H. Beach University of Georgia

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