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Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Ingrid Schoon is a researcher affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their work primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology, with numerous contributions in related subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Clinical Psychology, Education, Social Psychology, and General Health Professions. The main topics addressed in their research include Youth Education and Societal Dynamics, Employment and Welfare Studies, Health disparities and outcomes, COVID-19 and Mental Health, Early Childhood Education and Development, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, and Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction.

Schoon's publication record features papers in several frequent venues, including the Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, Advances in Life Course Research, Developmental Psychology, and Zeitschrift für Psychologie. Their recent papers illustrate a focus on social and psychological dimensions of contemporary issues:

  • Understanding the effects of Covid-19 through a life course lens (2020), published in Advances in Life Course Research
  • Towards an Integrative Taxonomy of Social-Emotional Competences (2021), published in Frontiers in Psychology
  • Mental distress among young adults in Great Britain: long-term trends and early changes during the COVID-19 pandemic (2021), published in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
  • Social Inequalities in Young People's Mental Distress During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Do Psychosocial Resource Factors Matter? (2022), published in Frontiers in Public Health
  • Can Individual Agency Compensate for Background Disadvantage? Predicting Tertiary Educational Attainment among Males and Females (2020), published in Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Their research collaborations include frequent co-authors such as Thierry Gagné, Amanda Sacker, Golo Henseke, Filipa Nunes, and Catarina Pinheiro Mota, reflecting a network engaged in intersecting topics in social sciences and psychology.

Schoon has been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom, an acknowledgment within their professional field. Their research often explores the interplay between social structures, individual agency, and developmental outcomes, contributing to the understanding of mental health, education, and social inequalities.

Best Publications

  • Risk and Resilience: Adaptations in Changing Times

    Ingrid Schoon

  • Teenage Aspirations for Future Careers and Occupational Outcomes

    Ingrid Schoon;Samantha Parsons

  • The impact of non-cognitive skills on outcomes for young people. A literature review

    LM Gutman;I Schoon

  • Modeling developmental language difficulties from school entry into adulthood: literacy, mental health, and employment outcomes.

    James Law;Robert Rush;Ingrid Schoon;Samantha Parsons

  • Career success: The role of teenage career aspirations, ambition value and gender in predicting adult social status and earnings

    Julie S. Ashby;Ingrid Schoon

  • Understanding the Effects of COVID-19 Through a Life Course Lens

    Richard A. Settersten;Laura Bernardi;Juho Härkönen;Toni C. Antonucci

  • Teenage job aspirations and career attainment in adulthood: A 17-year follow-up study of teenagers who aspired to become scientists, health professionals, or engineers:

    Ingrid Schoon

  • Risk and Resilience in the Life Course: Implications for Interventions and Social Policies

    Ingrid Schoon;John Bynner

  • Social inequality in educational achievement and psychosocial adjustment throughout childhood: magnitude and mechanisms.

    Amanda Sacker;Ingrid Schoon;Mel Bartley

  • The Influence of Context, Timing, and Duration of Risk Experiences for the Passage from Childhood to Midadulthood

    Ingrid Schoon;John Bynner;Heather Joshi;Samantha Parsons

  • Who becomes an entrepreneur? Early life experiences as predictors of entrepreneurship.

    Ingrid Schoon;Kathryn Duckworth

  • Teenage career aspirations and adult career attainment: The role of gender, social background and general cognitive ability

    Ingrid Schoon;Elzbieta Polek

  • Career transitions in times of social change. His and her story

    Ingrid Schoon;Peter Martin;Andy Ross

  • Social status, cognitive ability, and educational attainment as predictors of liberal social attitudes and political trust

    Ingrid Schoon;Helen Cheng;Catharine R. Gale;G. David Batty

  • Socioeconomic adversity, educational resilience and subsequent levels of adult adaptation

    Ingrid Schoon;Samantha Parsons;Amanda Sacker

  • Achievement, agency, gender, and socioeconomic background as predictors of postschool choices : A multicontext study

    Philip D. Parker;Ingrid Schoon;Yi-Miau Tsai;Gabriel Nagy

  • Family hardship, family instability, and cognitive development

    Ingrid Schoon;Elizabeth Jones;Helen Cheng;Barbara Maughan

  • Children's Language Ability and Psychosocial Development: A 29-Year Follow-up Study

    Ingrid Schoon;Samantha Parsons;Robert Rush;James Law

  • Mental ability across childhood in relation to risk factors for premature mortality in adult life: the 1970 British Cohort Study

    G David Batty;Ian J Deary;Ingrid Schoon;Catharine R Gale

  • Transitions from School to Work: Globalization, Individualization, and Patterns of Diversity

    Ingrid Schoon;Rainer K. Silbereisen

  • Social Indicators Research

    Helen Cheng;Ingrid Schoon;John Bynner;Richard D Wiggins

Frequent Co-Authors

Katariina Salmela-Aro
Katariina Salmela-Aro University of Helsinki
James Law
James Law Newcastle University
Rainer K. Silbereisen
Rainer K. Silbereisen Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Ian J. Deary
Ian J. Deary University of Edinburgh
Philip D. Parker
Philip D. Parker Australian Catholic University
Herbert W. Marsh
Herbert W. Marsh Australian Catholic University
Jacquelynne S. Eccles
Jacquelynne S. Eccles University of California, Irvine
Jeylan T. Mortimer
Jeylan T. Mortimer University of Minnesota
Jutta Heckhausen
Jutta Heckhausen University of California, Irvine
John E. Schulenberg
John E. Schulenberg University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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