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Overview

S. Mark Pancer is affiliated with Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Health Professions, with specific contributions to Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, and General Health Professions.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics focused on childhood and adolescent development, relational dynamics, and community health. The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Community Health and Development

The publication record includes contributions to peer-reviewed journals, most notably to the American Journal of Community Psychology. One recent paper is:

  • "Trajectories of Youth's Helping From Adolescence into Adulthood: The Importance of Social Relations and Values" (2021), published in the American Journal of Community Psychology

Pancer has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, reflecting interdisciplinary and cooperative research efforts. Regular collaborators include:

  • Heather L. Ramey
  • Heather L. Lawford
  • M. Kyle Matsuba
  • Michael W. Pratt

This pattern of collaboration and publication activity situates Pancer's work within community psychology and developmental psychology frameworks, with a focus on relational and social influences on youth development over time.

Best Publications

  • The Importance of Friends Friendship and Adjustment Among 1st-Year University Students

    Vanessa M. Buote;S. Mark Pancer;Michael W. Pratt;Gerald Adams

  • Social Support: Relations to Coping and Adjustment During the Transition to University in the People’s Republic of China

    Sha Tao;Qi Dong;Michael W. Pratt;Bruce Hunsberger

  • Cognitive Complexity of Expectations and Adjustment to University in the First Year

    S. Mark Pancer;Bruce Hunsberger;Michael W. Pratt;Susan Alisat

  • Community and political involvement in adolescence: What distinguishes the activists from the uninvolved?

    S. Mark Pancer;Michael Pratt;Bruce Hunsberger;Susan Alisat

  • A Longitudinal Analysis of Personal Values Socialization: Correlates of a Moral Self- Ideal in Late Adolescence

    Michael W. Pratt;Bruce Hunsberger;S. Mark Pancer;Susan Alisat

  • Adolescent Generativity: A Longitudinal Study of Two Possible Contexts for Learning Concern for Future Generations

    Heather Lawford;Michael W. Pratt;Bruce Hunsberger;S. Mark Pancer

  • Thinking Ahead: Complexity of Expectations and the Transition to Parenthood

    S. Mark Pancer;Michael Pratt;Bruce Hunsberger;Margo Gallant

  • Becoming a parent : The relation between prenatal expectations and postnatal experience

    Patricia Delmore-Ko;S. Mark Pancer;Bruce Hunsberger;Michael Pratt

  • Religious Fundamentalism and Religious Doubts: Content, Connections, and Complexity of Thinking

    Bruce Hunsberger;Susan Alisat;S. Mark Pancer;Michael Pratt

  • Great Expectations: The Relation Between Expectancies and Adjustment During the Transition to University1

    Lynne M. Jackson;S. Mark Pancer;Michael W. Pratt;Bruce E. Hunsberger

  • Mandated Community Service in High School and Subsequent Civic Engagement: The Case of the “Double Cohort” in Ontario, Canada

    Ailsa Henderson;Steven D. Brown;S. Mark Pancer;Kimberly Ellis-Hale

  • Community and religious involvement as contexts of identity change across late adolescence and emerging adulthood

    Sam A. Hardy;Michael W. Pratt;S. Mark Pancer;Joseph A. Olsen

  • Adolescent identity formation: Religious exploration and commitment.

    Bruce Hunsberger;Michael Pratt;S. Mark Pancer

  • Optimism as a Mediator of the Relation between Perceived Parental Authoritativeness and Adjustment among Adolescents: Finding the Sunny Side of the Street.

    Lynne M. Jackson;Michael W. Pratt;Bruce Hunsberger;S. Mark Pancer

  • The Psychology of Citizenship and Civic Engagement

    S. Mark Pancer

  • Forming Impressions of Political Leaders: A Cross‐National Comparison

    S. Mark Pancer;Steven D. Brown;Cathy Widdis Barr

  • Facilitating the Transition to University: Evaluation of a Social Support Discussion Intervention Program.

    Michael W. Pratt;Bruce Hunsberger;S. Mark Pancer;Susan Alisat

  • A Longitudinal Study of Religious Doubts in High School and Beyond: Relationships, Stability, and Searching for Answers

    Bruce Hunsberger;Michael Pratt;S. Mark Pancer

  • Roots of Civic Identity: Social and Family Determinants of Community Service Involvement in Canadian Youth

    S. Mark Pancer;Michael W. Pratt

  • Community Service Experiences and Commitment to Volunteering1

    Trevor P. Taylor;S. Mark Pancer

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael W. Pratt
Michael W. Pratt University of California, San Diego
Bruce Hunsberger
Bruce Hunsberger Wilfrid Laurier University
Geoffrey Nelson
Geoffrey Nelson Wilfrid Laurier University
Janet Polivy
Janet Polivy University of Toronto
Jeffrey S. Hoch
Jeffrey S. Hoch University of California, Davis
Linda Rose-Krasnor
Linda Rose-Krasnor Brock University
Wendy M. Craig
Wendy M. Craig Queen's University
Michael A. Busseri
Michael A. Busseri Brock University
Sam A. Hardy
Sam A. Hardy Brigham Young University
Gerald R. Adams
Gerald R. Adams University of Guelph

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