What is he best known for?
The fields of study he is best known for:
- Social psychology
- Developmental psychology
- Psychotherapist
His primary areas of investigation include Social psychology, Developmental psychology, Coping, Substance abuse and Social support.
His research in the fields of Social influence and Personality Assessment Inventory overlaps with other disciplines such as Social perception and Racism.
His Developmental psychology research incorporates themes from Intervention and Resistance.
His Coping study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Social relation, Personality and Self-control.
Thomas Ashby Wills combines subjects such as Novelty seeking, Life events, Sensation seeking and Competence with his study of Substance abuse.
Thomas Ashby Wills works mostly in the field of Social support, limiting it down to topics relating to Interpersonal relationship and, in certain cases, Interpersonal interaction, Big Five personality traits, Interpersonal communication and Affect.
His most cited work include:
- Stress, social support, and the buffering hypothesis. (10930 citations)
- Downward Comparison Principles in Social Psychology (1967 citations)
- Measuring perceived and received social support. (482 citations)
What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?
Thomas Ashby Wills focuses on Developmental psychology, Social psychology, Coping, Substance abuse and Self-control.
His studies deal with areas such as Social relation, Adolescent substance, Substance use and Personality as well as Developmental psychology.
His is involved in several facets of Social psychology study, as is seen by his studies on Social support, Social comparison theory, Interpersonal relationship, Novelty seeking and Big Five personality traits.
The study incorporates disciplines such as Personality Assessment Inventory, Health psychology and Peer support in addition to Social support.
His Coping research includes themes of Anger, Moderation and Competence.
Thomas Ashby Wills has researched Substance abuse in several fields, including Clinical psychology, Self-esteem and Cognition.
He most often published in these fields:
- Developmental psychology (59.09%)
- Social psychology (30.68%)
- Coping (28.41%)
What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2006-2016)?
- Developmental psychology (59.09%)
- Self-control (22.73%)
- Substance abuse (26.14%)
In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:
His main research concerns Developmental psychology, Self-control, Substance abuse, Peer group and Mediation.
As part of his studies on Developmental psychology, Thomas Ashby Wills often connects relevant subjects like Social relation.
His Self-control research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Cognitive psychology and Substance use prevention.
His Substance abuse research integrates issues from Self-esteem and Socialization.
Thomas Ashby Wills interconnects Boredom, Affect regulation and Substance use in the investigation of issues within Mediation.
Many of his Injury prevention research pursuits overlap with Social influence, Peer pressure, Interpersonal relationship and Social psychology.
Between 2006 and 2016, his most popular works were:
- Religiosity and substance use: test of an indirect-effect model in early and middle adolescence. (109 citations)
- Self-Control Constructs Related to Measures of Dietary Intake and Physical Activity in Adolescents (95 citations)
- Ethnic pride and self-control related to protective and risk factors: test of the theoretical model for the strong African American families program. (93 citations)
In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:
- Social psychology
- Developmental psychology
- Psychotherapist
Thomas Ashby Wills mainly focuses on Developmental psychology, Self-control, Substance abuse, Peer group and Binge drinking.
His Developmental psychology studies intersect with other subjects such as Pride, Physical activity, Confirmatory factor analysis and Time-varying covariate.
There are a combination of areas like Adolescent substance, Forgiveness, Substance use, Indirect effect and Coping integrated together with his Confirmatory factor analysis study.
Adolescent substance and Religiosity are frequently intertwined in his study.
His Time-varying covariate research covers fields of interest such as Family life, Social environment, Clinical psychology, Mental health and Risk factor.
Research on Human factors and ergonomics and Injury prevention is a part of his Binge drinking study.
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