Publications by authors named "R Adrian Robins"
The present study addresses a fundamental yet largely neglected question about personality development: To what extent are changes in parent personality traits associated with changes in their child's personality traits? Numerous developmental processes suggest that parent and child personality might have transactional associations over time, contributing to their codevelopment. This codevelopment may be homotypic (e.g.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLoneliness is a pressing public health concern, particularly among adolescents and young adults. This preregistered study examined changes in time spent alone from 7th to 12th grade, as well as relationship and personality predictors of time spent alone in adolescence and loneliness in early adulthood, using data from a longitudinal study of 674 Mexican-origin youth in the United States, a rapidly growing yet understudied demographic. Time spent alone showed linear increases from 7th to 12th grade, with greater increases in time spent alone in high school for youth who spent a high proportion of time alone at the start of high school (9th grade).
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- Warm and supportive parenting is linked to better emotion regulation in children, but less is understood about its impact on adolescents, especially during a time when mental health issues often emerge.
- The study focused on how maternal and paternal warmth from ages 10 to 16 affects adolescents' respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), a measure related to emotion regulation, at age 17 in a sample of 229 Mexican-origin youths.
- Results indicated that increases in maternal warmth during adolescence were connected to higher RSA in youths, suggesting that positive maternal interactions can enhance emotional regulation capabilities in teens.
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- The study examines how family and peer stressors affect alcohol use patterns in Mexican-origin adolescents over time, utilizing longitudinal data from 674 participants.
- Results indicate that early adolescent stressors are more effective as predictors of alcohol use trajectories when analyzed as growth trajectories rather than as individual instances of stress.
- The findings highlight the importance of developing strategies to reduce the long-term impact of stressors on alcohol consumption among Latinx youth.