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99
Citations
55323
World Ranking
638
National Ranking
405

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Todd D. Little is affiliated with Texas Tech University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of psychology and social sciences. Their research spans multiple subfields including clinical psychology, education, sociology and political science, statistics and probability, and social psychology.

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics, including child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, racial and ethnic identity research, migration, health and trauma, intimate partner and family violence, early childhood education and development, optimism, hope and well-being, as well as wound healing and treatments.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Allison J. Tracy, Kathleen M. Roche, Sarah DeGue, Lianne Fuino Estefan, and Vi Donna Le.

Notable recent publications by Todd D. Little include:

  • Association of Family Member Detention or Deportation With Latino or Latina Adolescents' Later Risks of Suicidal Ideation, Alcohol Use, and Externalizing Problems (2020) in JAMA Pediatrics
  • Patient genetics is linked to chronic wound microbiome composition and healing (2020) in PLoS Pathogens
  • Effects of Dating Matters® on Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment Outcomes among Middle School Youth: a Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial (2020) in Prevention Science
  • Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Predict Annual Increases in Generalized Prejudice (2020) in Social Psychological and Personality Science
  • COVID-19 Stressors and Latinx Adolescents' Mental Health Symptomology and School Performance: A Prospective Study (2022) in Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Todd D. Little's publications are often featured in venues such as Prevention Science, JAMA Pediatrics, the International Journal of Behavioral Development, Contemporary Clinical Trials, and Teaching and Teacher Education. Among these, Prevention Science has the highest number of their published works.

In addition to journal articles, the scientist has published a book titled Parceling in Structural Equation Modeling (2022) through Cambridge University Press.

Recognition of their professional standing includes being named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2011.

Best Publications

  • To Parcel or Not to Parcel: Exploring the Question, Weighing the Merits

    Todd D. Little;William A. Cunningham;Golan Shahar;Keith F. Widaman

  • Longitudinal Structural Equation Modeling

    Todd D. Little

  • Direct and Indirect Aggression During Childhood and Adolescence: A Meta-Analytic Review of Gender Differences, Intercorrelations, and Relations to Maladjustment

    Noel A. Card;Brian D. Stucky;Gita M. Sawalani;Todd D. Little

  • Mean and Covariance Structures (MACS) Analyses of Cross-Cultural Data: Practical and Theoretical Issues

    Todd D. Little

  • Why the items versus parcels controversy needn't be one.

    Todd D. Little;Mijke Rhemtulla;Kimberly Gibson;Alexander M. Schoemann

  • Disentangling the "whys" from the "whats" of aggressive behaviour

    Todd D. Little;Christopher C. Henrich;Stephanie M. Jones;Patricia H. Hawley

  • Self-determination theory.

    Nicole Adams;Todd D. Little;Richard M. Ryan

  • On the Merits of Orthogonalizing Powered and Product Terms: Implications for Modeling Interactions Among Latent Variables

    Todd D. Little;James A. Bovaird;Keith F. Widaman

  • A large-scale evaluation of the KiVa antibullying program: grades 4-6.

    Antti Kärnä;Marinus Voeten;Todd D. Little;Elisa Poskiparta

  • Proactive and reactive aggression in childhood and adolescence: A meta-analysis of differential relations with psychosocial adjustment:

    Noel A. Card;Todd D. Little

  • Is age-related stability of subjective well-being a paradox? Cross-sectional and longitudinal evidence from the Berlin Aging Study.

    Ute Kunzmann;Todd D. Little;Jacqui Smith

  • On selecting indicators for multivariate measurement and modeling with latent variables: When "good" indicators are bad and "bad" indicators are good.

    Todd D. Little;Ulman Lindenberger;John R. Nesselroade

  • New developments in latent variable panel analyses of longitudinal data.

    Todd D. Little;Kristopher J. Preacher;James P. Selig;Noel A. Card

  • The Infant–Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment (ITSEA): Factor Structure, Reliability, and Validity

    Alice S. Carter;Margaret J. Briggs-Gowan;Stephanie M. Jones;Todd D. Little

  • On the Joys of Missing Data

    Todd D. Little;Terrence D. Jorgensen;Kyle M. Lang;E. Whitney G. Moore

  • The American Dream in Russia: Extrinsic Aspirations and Well-Being in Two Cultures

    Richard M. Ryan;Valery I. Chirkov;Todd D. Little;Kennon M. Sheldon

  • Autoregressive and cross-lagged panel analysis for longitudinal data

    James P. Selig;Todd D. Little

  • A Non-arbitrary Method of Identifying and Scaling Latent Variables in SEM and MACS Models

    Todd D. Little;David W. Slegers;Noel A. Card

  • Structural Equation Modeling of Mediation and Moderation With Contextual Factors

    Todd D. Little;Noel A. Card;James A. Bovaird;Kristopher J. Preacher

  • Longitudinal Data Analysis

    Wei Wu;James P. Selig;Todd D. Little

  • Modeling longitudinal and multilevel data: Practical issues, applied approaches, and specific examples.

    Todd D. Little;Kai Uwe Schnabel;Jürgen Baumert

  • Handbook of developmental research methods

    Brett Paul Laursen;Todd D. Little;Noel A. Card

  • Modeling contextual effects in longitudinal studies

    Todd D. Little;James A. Bovaird;Noel A. Card

Frequent Co-Authors

Karrie A. Shogren
Karrie A. Shogren University of Kansas
Michael L. Wehmeyer
Michael L. Wehmeyer University of Kansas
Keith F. Widaman
Keith F. Widaman University of California, Riverside
Daniel K. Mroczek
Daniel K. Mroczek Northwestern University
Patricia H. Hawley
Patricia H. Hawley Texas Tech University
Susan B. Palmer
Susan B. Palmer University of Kansas
Noel A. Card
Noel A. Card University of Georgia
Gabriele Oettingen
Gabriele Oettingen New York University
Paul B. Baltes
Paul B. Baltes Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Christina Salmivalli
Christina Salmivalli University of Turku

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