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Overview

Robert W. Roeser is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States and has a research focus within the field of Psychology, with particular emphasis on Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, and Education. Their work spans subfields such as Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and General Health Professions.

The core themes addressed in their research include Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions, COVID-19 and Mental Health, Early Childhood Education and Development, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction, Child Therapy and Development, and Resilience and Mental Health.

Roeser has published extensively, with notable papers including:

  • Mindfulness training improves middle school teachers' occupational health, well-being, and interactions with students in their most stressful classrooms, 2021, Journal of Educational Psychology
  • Beyond All Splits: Envisioning the Next Generation of Science on Mindfulness and Compassion in Schools for Students, 2022, Mindfulness
  • Effects of teachers' emotion regulation, burnout, and life satisfaction on student well-being, 2020, Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology
  • The Effectiveness of a Teacher-Delivered Mindfulness-Based Curriculum on Adolescent Social-Emotional and Executive Functioning, 2021, Mindfulness
  • How is Mindfulness Linked to Negative and Positive Affect? Rumination as an Explanatory Process in a Prospective Longitudinal Study of Adolescents, 2020, Journal of Youth and Adolescence

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Roeser include Blake A. Colaianne, Mark T. Greenberg, Brian M. Galla, Zita Oravecz, and Matthew J. Hirshberg.

Roeser's research has been disseminated across a variety of publication venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • Mindfulness
  • Journal of American College Health
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology
  • Social and Personality Psychology Compass

Best Publications

  • Perceptions of the school psychological environment and early adolescents' psychological and behavioral functioning in school: The mediating role of goals and belonging.

    Robert W. Roeser;Carol Midgley;Timothy C. Urdan;Timothy C. Urdan

  • Schools as Developmental Contexts During Adolescence

    Jacquelynne S. Eccles;Robert W. Roeser

  • Schools, Academic Motivation, and Stage-Environment Fit

    Jacquelynne S. Eccles

  • School as a Context of Early Adolescents' Academic and Social-Emotional Development: A Summary of Research Findings

    Robert W. Roeser;Jacquelynne S. Eccles;Arnold J. Sameroff

  • The Development and Validation of Scales Assessing Students' Achievement Goal Orientations

    Carol Midgley;Avi Kaplan;Michael Middleton;Martin L. Maehr

  • Mindfulness training and reductions in teacher stress and burnout: Results from two randomized, waitlist-control field trials.

    Robert W. Roeser;Kimberly A. Schonert-Reichl;Amishi Jha;Margaret Cullen

  • Adolescents' Perceptions of Middle School: Relation to Longitudinal Changes in Academic and Psychological Adjustment

    Robert W. Roeser;Jacquelynne S. Eccles

  • Academic and emotional functioning in early adolescence: Longitudinal relations, patterns, and prediction by experience in middle school

    Robert W. Roeser;Jacquelynne S. Eccles;Arnold J. Sameroff

  • Mindfulness Training and Teachers' Professional Development: An Emerging Area of Research and Practice

    Robert W. Roeser;Ellen Skinner;Jeffry Beers;Patricia A. Jennings

  • Development of Achievement Motivation and Engagement

    Allan Wigfield;Jacquelynne S. Eccles;Jennifer A. Fredricks;Sandra Simpkins

  • Classroom and Individual Differences in Early Adolescents' Motivation and Self-Regulated Learning

    Paul R. Pintrich;Robert W. Roeser;Elisabeth A. M. de Groot

  • Mindfulness training effects for parents and educators of children with special needs.

    Rita Benn;Tom Akiva;Sari Arel;Robert W. Roeser

  • SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY INFLUENCES ON HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

    Jacquelynne S. Eccles;Robert W. Roeser

  • Linking the study of schooling and mental health: Selected issues and empirical illustrations at..

    Robert W. Roeser;Jacquelynne S. Eccles;Karen R. Strobel

  • Contemplative Practices and Mental Training: Prospects for American Education

    Richard J. Davidson;John Dunne;Jacquelynne S. Eccles;Adam Engle

  • An Education in Awareness: Self, Motivation, and Self-Regulated Learning in Contemplative Perspective

    Robert W. Roeser;Stephen C. Peck

  • The association of school transitions in early adolescence with developmental trajectories through high school.

    Jacquelynne S. Eccles;Sarah E. Lord;Robert W. Roeser;Bonnie L. Barber

  • Academic Functioning and Mental Health in Adolescence: Patterns, Progressions, and Routes From Childhood

    Robert W. Roeser;Jacquelynne S. Eccles;Carol Freedman-Doan

  • Exploring the roles of extracurricular activity quantity and quality in the educational resilience of vulnerable adolescents: Variable- and pattern-centered approaches

    Stephen C. Peck;Robert W. Roeser;Nicole Zarrett;Jacquelynne S. Eccles

  • Learning to Value Mathematics and Reading: Relations to Mastery and Performance-Oriented Instructional Practices

    Eric M. Anderman;Jacquelynne S. Eccles;Kwang S. Yoon;Robert Roeser

Frequent Co-Authors

Jacquelynne S. Eccles
Jacquelynne S. Eccles University of California, Irvine
Ellen A. Skinner
Ellen A. Skinner Portland State University
Kimberly A. Schonert-Reichl
Kimberly A. Schonert-Reichl University of British Columbia
Eric M. Anderman
Eric M. Anderman The Ohio State University
Tim Urdan
Tim Urdan Santa Clara University
Carol Midgley
Carol Midgley University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Avi Kaplan
Avi Kaplan Temple University
Andrew J. Mashburn
Andrew J. Mashburn Portland State University
Allan Wigfield
Allan Wigfield University of Maryland, College Park
Amishi P. Jha
Amishi P. Jha University of Miami

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