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Laura M. Padilla-Walker

Laura M. Padilla-Walker

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Psychology

D-Index
61
Citations
13182
World Ranking
3404
National Ranking
1918

Overview

Laura M. Padilla-Walker is affiliated with Brigham Young University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology and social sciences, with a significant number of publications in subfields such as social psychology, clinical psychology, education, sociology and political science, and general health professions.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics including child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, child development and digital technology, attachment and relationship dynamics, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, bullying, victimization, and aggression, early childhood education and development, and the impact of technology on adolescents.

Frequent publication venues for Laura M. Padilla-Walker include the Journal of Adolescence, Emerging Adulthood, The Journal of Sex Research, Infancy, and the Journal of Adolescent Health.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Laura M. Padilla-Walker are:

  • Can helping others strengthen teens? Character strengths as mediators between prosocial behavior and adolescents' internalizing symptoms, 2020, Journal of Adolescence
  • Associations between prosocial behavior, externalizing behaviors, and internalizing symptoms during adolescence: A meta-analysis, 2020, Journal of Adolescence
  • Adolescents' Prosocial Behaviors Through a Multidimensional and Multicultural Lens, 2020, Child Development Perspectives
  • Intra-individual associations between intentional self-regulation and prosocial behavior during adolescence: Evidence for bidirectionality, 2020, Journal of Adolescence
  • Longitudinal Predictors of Helicopter Parenting in Emerging Adulthood, 2020, Emerging Adulthood

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Laura M. Padilla-Walker include Adam A. Rogers, Madison K. Memmott-Elison, Sarah M. Coyne, Corinne Archibald, and Hailey G. Holmgren.

Best Publications

  • Generation XXX Pornography Acceptance and Use Among Emerging Adults

    Jason S. Carroll;Laura M. Padilla-Walker;Larry J. Nelson;Chad D. Olson

  • Black hawk down?: Establishing helicopter parenting as a distinct construct from other forms of parental control during emerging adulthood

    Laura M. Padilla-Walker;Larry J. Nelson

  • Emerging in a Digital World A Decade Review of Media Use, Effects, and Gratifications in Emerging Adulthood

    Sarah M. Coyne;Laura M. Padilla-Walker;Emily Howard

  • Parenting in Emerging Adulthood: An Examination of Parenting Clusters and Correlates

    Larry J. Nelson;Laura M. Padilla-Walker;Katherine J. Christensen;Cortney A. Evans

  • Does parental mediation of media influence child outcomes? A meta-analysis on media time, aggression, substance use, and sexual behavior.

    Kevin M. Collier;Sarah M. Coyne;Eric E. Rasmussen;Alan J. Hawkins

  • Mother and father connectedness and involvement during early adolescence.

    Randal D. Day;Laura M. Padilla-Walker

  • "If you want me to treat you like an adult, start acting like one!" Comparing the criteria that emerging adults and their parents have for adulthood.

    Larry J. Nelson;Laura M. Padilla-Walker;Jason S. Carroll;Stephanie D. Madsen

  • Empathy and Self-Regulation as Mediators Between Parenting and Adolescents’ Prosocial Behavior Toward Strangers, Friends, and Family

    Laura M. Padilla‐Walker;Katherine J. Christensen

  • More than a just a game: video game and internet use during emerging adulthood

    Laura M. Padilla-Walker;Larry J. Nelson;Jason S. Carroll;Alexander C. Jensen

  • Flourishing and Floundering in Emerging Adult College Students

    Larry J. Nelson;Laura M. Padilla-Walker

  • Getting a High-Speed Family Connection: Associations between Family Media Use and Family Connection.

    Laura M. Padilla-Walker;Sarah Coyne;Ashley Michelle Fraser

  • Parent and child technoference and socioemotional behavioral outcomes: A nationally representative study of 10- to 20-year-old adolescents.

    Laura A. Stockdale;Sarah M. Coyne;Laura M. Padilla-Walker

  • Game on… girls: associations between co-playing video games and adolescent behavioral and family outcomes.

    Sarah M. Coyne;Laura M. Padilla-Walker;Laura Stockdale;Randal D. Day

  • “I Believe It Is Wrong But I Still Do It”: A Comparison of Religious Young Men Who Do Versus Do Not Use Pornography

    Larry J. Nelson;Laura M. Padilla-Walker;Jason S. Carroll

  • Prosocial development: A multidimensional approach.

    Laura M. Padilla-Walker;Gustavo Carlo

  • Parents and adolescents growing up in the digital age: latent growth curve analysis of proactive media monitoring.

    Laura M. Padilla-Walker;Sarah Coyne;Ashley Michelle Fraser;W Justin Dyer

  • Associations between prosocial behavior, externalizing behaviors, and internalizing symptoms during adolescence: A meta-analysis.

    Madison K. Memmott-Elison;Hailey G. Holmgren;Laura M. Padilla-Walker;Alan J. Hawkins

  • "Turn that thing off!" parent and adolescent predictors of proactive media monitoring.

    Laura M. Padilla-Walker;Sarah M. Coyne

  • "Media Time = Family Time": Positive Media Use in Families with Adolescents.

    Sarah M. Coyne;Laura M. Padilla-Walker;Ashley M. Fraser;Kaylene Fellows

  • Parenting dimensions and adolescents' internalisation of moral values

    Sam A. Hardy;Laura M. Padilla‐Walker;Gustavo Carlo

  • Is Hovering Smothering or Loving? An Examination of Parental Warmth as a Moderator of Relations Between Helicopter Parenting and Emerging Adults’ Indices of Adjustment

    Larry J. Nelson;Laura M. Padilla-Walker;Matthew G. Nielson

  • Bidirectional Relations Between Authoritative Parenting and Adolescents’ Prosocial Behaviors

    Laura M. Padilla-Walker;Gustavo Carlo;Katherine J. Christensen;Jeremy B. Yorgason

Frequent Co-Authors

Larry J. Nelson
Larry J. Nelson Brigham Young University
Sarah M. Coyne
Sarah M. Coyne Brigham Young University
Gustavo Carlo
Gustavo Carlo University of California, Irvine
Randal D. Day
Randal D. Day Brigham Young University
Ross A. Thompson
Ross A. Thompson University of California, Davis
Sam A. Hardy
Sam A. Hardy Brigham Young University
Brian J. Willoughby
Brian J. Willoughby Brigham Young University
Alan J. Hawkins
Alan J. Hawkins Brigham Young University
Byron L. Zamboanga
Byron L. Zamboanga University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
Jeffrey Jensen Arnett
Jeffrey Jensen Arnett Clark University

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