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5116
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2815

Overview

Janis B. Kupersmidt is affiliated with Innovation Research and Training in the United States. Their research primarily centers around social sciences and psychology, with a significant focus on social psychology, clinical psychology, education, gender studies, and general health professions.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics, including mentoring and academic development, gender, feminism, and media, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, sexuality, behavior, and technology, early childhood education and development, bullying, victimization, and aggression, as well as child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development.

Janis B. Kupersmidt has published extensively, with contributions to various publication venues. Frequent outlets for their work include UNC Libraries, where they have eight publications; Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences; Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology; Journal of Child and Family Studies; and Child & Family Social Work.

Selected recent papers by Kupersmidt demonstrate the diversity of their research interests and collaborations:

  • "Establishing effective STEM mentoring relationships through mentor training" (2020), published in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
  • "Accidental and Ambiguous Situations Reveal Specific Social Information Processing Biases and Deficits in Adolescents with Low Intellectual Level and Clinical Levels of Externalizing Behavior" (2020), published in Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
  • "Risk and Resilience among Children with Incarcerated Parents: Examining Heterogeneity in Delinquency and School Outcomes" (2020), published in Journal of Child and Family Studies
  • "Rape Myth Acceptance Reflects Perceptions of Media Portrayals as Similar to Others, but Not the Self" (2020), published in Violence Against Women
  • "The role of visits and parent-child relationship quality in promoting positive outcomes for children of incarcerated parents" (2021), published in Child & Family Social Work

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers. Key coauthors include Kathryn N. Stump, Rebecca L. Stelter, Tracy M. Scull, Jean E. Rhodes, and Christina V. Malik. These collaborations reflect a network focused on social and developmental psychology topics.

Best Publications

  • Peer group behavior and social status.

    John D. Coie;Kenneth A. Dodge;Janis B. Kupersmidt

  • A Behavioral Analysis of Emerging Social Status in Boys' Groups.

    John D. Coie;Janis B. Kupersmidt

  • Preadolescent peer status, aggression, and school adjustment as predictors of externalizing problems in adolescence.

    Janis B. Kupersmidt;John D. Coie

  • The role of poor peer relationships in the development of disorder.

    Janis B. Kupersmidt;John D. Coie;Kenneth A. Dodge

  • Peer relationships and self-esteem among children who have been maltreated.

    Kerry E. Bolger;Charlotte J. Patterson;Janis B. Kupersmidt

  • Children's academic and behavioral adjustment as a function of the chronicity and proximity of peer rejection.

    Melissa E. DeRosier;Janis B. Kupersmidt;Charlotte J. Patterson

  • Psychosocial Adjustment among Children Experiencing Persistent and Intermittent Family Economic Hardship.

    Kerry E. Bolger;Charlotte J. Patterson;William W. Thompson;Janis B. Kupersmidt

  • Income Level, Gender, Ethnicity, and Household Composition as Predictors of Children's School-based Competence

    Charlotte J. Patterson;Janis B. Kupersmidt;Nancy A. Vaden

  • Children's perceptions of self and of relationships with others as a function of sociometric status.

    Charlotte J. Patterson;Janis B. Kupersmidt;Pamela C. Griesler

  • Childhood Aggression and Peer Relations in the Context of Family and Neighborhood Factors

    Janis B. Kupersmidt;Pamela C. Griesler;Melissa E. DeRosier;Charlotte J. Patterson

  • Overt and Relational Aggression and Victimization: Multiple Perspectives within the School Setting

    Martha Putallaz;Christina L. Grimes;Kristen J. Foster;Janis B. Kupersmidt

  • Contributions of Hot and Cool Self-Regulation to Preschool Disruptive Behavior and Academic Achievement

    Michael Willoughby;Janis Kupersmidt;Mare Voegler-Lee;Donna Bryant

  • The Effects of Youth Mentoring Programs: A Meta-analysis of Outcome Studies.

    Elizabeth B Raposa;Jean Rhodes;Geert Jan J M Stams;Noel Card

  • Environmental risk factors and children's achievement from middle childhood to early adolescence.

    Elizabeth P. Pungello;Janis B. Kupersmidt;Margaret R. Burchinal;Charlotte J. Patterson

  • Similarity as the Basis for Children's Friendships: The Roles of Sociometric Status, Aggressive and Withdrawn Behavior, Academic Achievement and Demographic Characteristics

    Janis B. Kupersmidt;Melissa E. DeRosier;Charlotte P. Patterson

  • Childhood peer rejection, aggression, withdrawal, and perceived competence as predictors of self-reported behavior problems in preadolescence

    Janis B. Kupersmidt;Charlotte J. Patterson

  • Developmental patterns of childhood peer relations as predictors of externalizing behavior problems.

    Janis B. Kupersmidt;Margaret Burchinal;Charlotte J. Patterson

  • The relation between exposure to violence and social information processing among incarcerated adolescents.

    Ariana Shahinfar;Janis B. Kupersmidt;Louis S. Matza

  • Factors Influencing Teacher Identification of Peer Bullies and Victims

    Stephen S. Leff;Charlotte J. Patterson;Janis B. Kupersmidt;Thomas J. Power

  • The Association between Preschool Children's Social Functioning and Their Emergent Academic Skills.

    David H. Arnold;Janis B. Kupersmidt;Janis B. Kupersmidt;Mary Ellen Voegler-Lee;Mary Ellen Voegler-Lee;Nastassja A. Marshall

Frequent Co-Authors

Charlotte J. Patterson
Charlotte J. Patterson University of Virginia
John D. Coie
John D. Coie Duke University
Michael T. Willoughby
Michael T. Willoughby RTI International
Jean E. Rhodes
Jean E. Rhodes University of Massachusetts Boston
Kenneth A. Dodge
Kenneth A. Dodge Duke University
Donna M. Bryant
Donna M. Bryant University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Constantine Sedikides
Constantine Sedikides University of Southampton
Erica Weintraub Austin
Erica Weintraub Austin Washington State University
Thomas J. Power
Thomas J. Power Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Margaret Burchinal
Margaret Burchinal University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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