NIMH Study on Friendships and Transitions
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Supported by National Institute of Mental Health: R01-MH58116
Principal Investigator
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About
The general objective of our research is to study the nature, quality, functions, and sources of friendship and parent-child relationships during the transitions from elementary school (fifth grade) to middle school (sixth grade); from middle school (eighth grade) to high school (ninth grade); and from high school (twelve grade) to “beyond.” Thus far, data have been collected up until the first year post high school graduation. We have been examining how, and if, friendships and parent-child relationships are related to, and predictive of child/adolescent and family characteristics and to child/adolescent socio-emotional adjustment.
Of specific interest has been the evaluation of the prevalence, stability, and quality of the best friendships of 5th, 6th, 8th, 9th, and 12th grade children/adolescents identified as “typical” (control), socially withdrawn, or aggressive. Another aim of the study has been to determine whether the friendships of socially withdrawn and aggressive children buffer them from developing psychosocial difficulties or whether these friendships actually exacerbate their difficulties. We are also investigating whether, during these various transitional periods, friendship can serve as a protective factor when children’s/adolescents’ relationships with their parents are qualitatively troubling.
Of specific interest has been the evaluation of the prevalence, stability, and quality of the best friendships of 5th, 6th, 8th, 9th, and 12th grade children/adolescents identified as “typical” (control), socially withdrawn, or aggressive. Another aim of the study has been to determine whether the friendships of socially withdrawn and aggressive children buffer them from developing psychosocial difficulties or whether these friendships actually exacerbate their difficulties. We are also investigating whether, during these various transitional periods, friendship can serve as a protective factor when children’s/adolescents’ relationships with their parents are qualitatively troubling.
Relevant Publications
Rubin, K.H., Dwyer, K.M.*, Booth-LaForce, C.L., Kim, A.H., Burgess, K.B.*, & Rose-Krasnor, L. (2004) Attachment, friendship, and psychosocial functioning in early adolescence, Journal of Early Adolescence, 24, 326-356. DOI: 10.1177/0272431604268530
Burgess, K.B.*, Wojslawowicz, J.C.*, Rubin, K.H., Rose-Krasnor, L., & Booth-LaForce, C. (2006). Social information processing and coping styles of shy/withdrawn and aggressive Children: Does friendship matter? Child Development. 77, 371-383.
Rubin, K.H., Wojslawowicz, J.C.*, Rose-Krasnor, L., Booth-LaForce, C.L. & Burgess, K.B.,* (2006). The best friendships of shy/withdrawn children: Prevalence, stability, and relationship quality. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 34, 139-153. DOI: 10.1007/s10802-005-9017-4
Wojslawowicz, J.C.*, Rubin, K.H., Burgess, K.B.*, Rose-Krasnor, L., & Booth-LaForce, C.L. (2006). Behavioral characteristics associated with stable and fluid best friendship patterns in middle childhood, Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 52, 671-693. DOI: 10.1353/mpq.2006.0000
Booth-LaForce, C.L., Oh, W.*, Kim, A.*, Rubin, K.H., Rose-Krasnor, L., & Burgess, K.B.* (2006). Attachment, self-worth, and peer-group functioning in middle childhood. Attachment and Human Development, 8, 309-325. DOI: 10.1080/14616730601048209
Bowker, J.C., Rubin, K.H., Rose-Krasnor, L., & Booth-LaForce, C.L. (2007). Good friendships, bad friends: Friendship factors as moderators of the relation between aggression and social information processing. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 4, 415-434.
Purcell, G., Laursen, B., Rubin, K.H., Booth-LaForce, C., & Rose-Krasnor, L. (2008). Gender differences in patterns of association between prosocial behavior, personality, and externalizing problems. Journal of Research in Personality, 42, 472-481. DOI:10.1016/j.jrp.2007.06.003
Oh, W.*, Rubin, K.H., Bowker, J.C., Booth-LaForce, C.L., Rose-Krasnor, L., & Laursen, B. (2008). Trajectories of social withdrawal middle childhood to early adolescence. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 36, 553-556.
Rubin, K.H., Fredstrom, B.*, & Bowker, J. (2008). Future directions in friendship in childhood and early adolescence. Social Development, 17, 1085-1096. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2007.00445.x
Dwyer, K., Fredstrom, B., Rubin, K.H., Rose-Krasnor, L., Booth-LaForce, C.L., & Laursen, B. (2010). Attachment, social information processing, and friendship quality of early adolescent girls and boys. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 27, 91- 116. DOI:10.1177/0265407509346420
Bowker, J.C., Rubin, K.H., Buskirk-Cohen, A., Rose-Krasnor, L., & Booth-LaForce, C.L. (2010). Behavioral changes predicting temporal changes in perceived popular status. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 31, 126- 133. DOI:10.1016/j.appdev.2009.10.002
Laursen, B., Hafen, C., Rubin, K.H., Booth-LaForce, C. B., & Rose-Krasnor, L. (2010). The distinctive difficulties of disagreeable youth. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 56, 80-103. DOI:10.1353/mpq.0.0040
McDonald, K., Bowker, J.C., Rubin, K.H. & Laursen, B. (2010). Interactions between rejection sensitivity and supportive relationships in the prediction of adolescent internalizing difficulties. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 39, 563-574. DOI 10.1007/s10964-010-9519-4
Bowker, J.C.., Fredstrom, B., Rubin, K.H., Rose-Krasnor, L., Booth-LaForce, C.L., & Laursen, B. (2010). Distinguishing children who form new best-friendships from those who do not Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 27, 707-725. DOI: 10.1177/0265407510373259
Menzer, M., Oh, W., Rubin, K.H., McDonald, K.L. & Dashiell-Aje, E. (2010)., Behavioral correlates of peer exclusion and victimization of East Asian American and European American young adolescents, Asian American Journal of Psychology, 1, 290-302. DOI: 10.1037/a0022085
Rubin, K.H., Bowker, J.C., & Gazelle, H. (2010). Social withdrawal in childhood and adolescence: Peer relationships and social competence. In K.H. Rubin & R.J. Coplan (Eds), The Development of Shyness and Social Withdrawal in Childhood and Adolescence. (pp. 131-154). New York:Guilford.
Coplan, R.J. & Rubin, K.H. (2010). Social withdrawal and shyness in childhood: History, theories, definitions and assessment. In K.H. Rubin & R.J. Coplan (Eds), The Development of Shyness and Social Withdrawal in Childhood and Adolescence. New York: Guilford.
Hastings, P.D., Nuselovici, J.N., Rubin, K.H., & Cheah, C.S.L. (2010). Shyness, parenting, and parent-child relationships. In K.H. Rubin & R.J. Coplan (Eds), The Development of Shyness and Social Withdrawal in Childhood and Adolescence. New York: Guilford.
Gazelle, H. & Rubin, K.H. (2010). Social anxiety in childhood: Bridging Developmental and Clinical Perspectives. In H. Gazelle & K.H. Rubin (Eds). Social Anxiety in Childhood: Bridging Developmental and Clinical Perspectives. New Directions in Child and Adolescent Development. Vol. 227. San Francisco: Jossey Bass.
Rubin, K.H., Kennedy Root, A.E., & Bowker, J.C. (2010). Parents, peers and social withdrawal in childhood: A relationship perspective. In H. Gazelle & K.H. Rubin (Eds). Social Anxiety in Childhood: Bridging Developmental and Clinical Perspectives. New Directions in Child and Adolescent Development. Vol. 227. San Francisco: Jossey Bass.
McDonald, K.L., Wang, J., Menzer, M.M., Rubin, K.H., & Booth-LaForce, C. (2011). Prosocial behavior moderates the effects of aggression on young adolescents’ friendships. International Journal of Developmental Science, 1-2, 127–137. DOI: 10.3233/DEV-2011-10066
Rubin, K.H., Coplan, R., Bowker, J.C., & Menzer, M. (2011). Social withdrawal and shyness. In P.K. Smith & C. Hart (Eds), Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Social Development. (2nd Edition). (pp. 434-452). New York: Wiley-Blackwell.
Booth-LaForce, C., Oh, W., Kennedy, A.E., Rubin, K.H., Rose-Krasnor, L., & Laursen, B. (2012). Parent and peer links to trajectories of anxious withdrawal from Grades 5-8. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 41, 138-149. DOI: 10.1080/15374416.2012.651995
Fredstrom, B., Rose-Krasnor, L., Campbell, K., Rubin, K.H., & Booth-LaForce, C.B. (2012). How socially withdrawn preadolescents think about friendship. Journal of Adolescence, 35, 451-455. DOI:10.1016/j.adolescence.2011.05.005
Wang, J., McDonald, K.L., Rubin, K.H., & Laursen, B. (2012). Peer rejection as a social antecedent to rejection sensitivity in youth: The role of relational valuation. Personality and Individual Differences, 53, 939-942. DOI:10.1016/j.paid.2012.07.007
Menzer, M.M., McDonald, K., Rubin, K.H., Rose-Krasnor, L., Booth-LaForce, C., & Schulz Begle, A. (2012). Observed gossip moderates the link between anxious withdrawal and friendship quality in early adolescence. International Journal of Developmental Science, 6, 191–202. DOI 10.3233/DEV-1211079
Rubin, K.H., Malti, T. & McDonald, K.L. (2012). Civic development in relational perspective. In G. Trommsdorff & X. Chen (Eds.) Values, Religion, and Culture in Adolescent Development. Oxford University Press. Oxford, UK.
Spencer, S.V., Bowker, J.C.., Rubin, K.H., Booth-LaForce, C.L. (2013) Similarity between friends in social information processing and associations with positive friendship quality and conflict. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 59, 106-134. DOI: 10.1353/mpq.2013.0006
McDonald, K.L., Dashiell-Aje, E., Oh, W., Bowker, J.C., Rubin, K.H., & Menzer, M.* (2013). Contributions of racial and sociobehavioral homophily to friendship stability and quality among same-race and cross-race friends Journal of Early Adolescence. 33(7), 897–919. DOI: 10.1177/0272431612472259
Wang, J. M., Rubin, K. H., Laursen, B., Booth-LaForce, C, & Rose-Krasnor, L. (2013). Preference-for-solitude and adjustment difficulties in early vs. late adolescence. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. 42, 834-842. DOI: 10.1080/15374416.2013.794700
Rubin, K.H., Bowker, J.C., McDonald, K., & Menzer, M. (2013). Peer relationships in childhood. (pp. 242-275). In P. D. Zelazo (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Psychology. (Vol. 2) Oxford, UK.
McDonald, K.L., Malti, T., Killen, M., & Rubin, K.H. (2014). Best friends’ discussions of social dilemmas. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 43, 233-244.DOI 10.1007/s10964-013-9961-1
Rubin, K.H. & Barstead, M.G. (2014). Gender differences in child and adolescent social withdrawal: A commentary. Sex Roles, 70, 274-284. DOI: 10.1007/s11199-014-0357-9
Murray, K.W., Dwyer, K. M., Rubin, K.H., Booth-LaForce, C. & Knighton-Wisor, S. (2014). Parent-child relationships, parental psychological control, aggression: Maternal and paternal relations. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 43, 1361–1373, DOI:10.1007/s10964-013-0019-1
Rubin, K. (2014). On solitude. In R. Coplan & J.C. Bowker (Eds.) A handbook of solitude: Psychological perspectives on social isolation, social withdrawal, and being alone. New York: Wiley.
Hiatt, C., Laursen, B., Mooney, K.S., & Rubin, K.H. (2015). Forms of friendship: A person-centered assessment of the quality, stability, and outcomes of different types of adolescent friends. Personality and Individual Differences, 77, 149-155. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2014.12.051
Malti, T., McDonald, K.L., Rubin, K.H., Rose-Krasnor, L., & Booth-LaForce, C. (2015) Developmental trajectories of peer-reported aggressive behavior: The role of friendship understanding, friendship quality, and friends’ aggressive behavior. Psychology of Violence, 5, 402-410. DOI:10.1037/a0039685
Wang, J.M.*, Hartl, A.C., Laursen, B., Booth-LaForce, & Rubin, K.H. (2016). Associations between personality and physical aggression in Chinese and U.S. adolescents: The mediating role of temper. Journal of Early Adolescence, 36, 909-931. DOI: 10.1177/0272431615588953
Rubin, K.H., Bukowski, W., & Bowker, J. (2015). Children in peer groups. In M. Bornstein & T. Leventhal (Volume Eds.) and RM. Lerner (Series Ed.), Handbook of Child Psychology and Developmental Science (formerly The Handbook of Child Psychology), Seventh Edition, Volume Four: Ecological Settings and Processes. pp. 175-222. New York: Wiley.
Rubin, K.H., Coplan, R. Chen, X., Bowker, J.C., McDonald, K. & Heverly-Fitt, S. (2015). Peer relationships. In M. H. Bornstein & M.E. Lamb (Eds.), Developmental Science: An Advanced Textbook. (7th edition). Pp. 587-644. New York: Psychology Press.
Laursen, B., DeLay, D., Richmond, A., & Rubin, K.H. (2016). Youth negative affect attenuates associations between compromise and mother-adolescent conflict outcomes. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 25, 1110-1118. DOI: 10.1007/s10826-015-0288-2
Bowker, J.C., Coplan, R., & Rubin, K.H. (2016). Social withdrawal. In R.J.R. Levesque (Ed). Encyclopedia of Adolescence. (pp. 1-14). New York: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-32132-5_124-2
Wang, J.M., Hartl, A.C., Laursen, B., & Rubin, K.H. (2017). The high costs of low agreeableness: Low agreeableness exacerbates interpersonal consequences of rejection sensitivity in U.S. and Chinese adolescents. Journal of Research in Personality, 67,36-43. DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2016.02.005
Smith, K.*, Barstead, M.G.*, & Rubin, K.H. (2017). Personality traits as moderators of the relation between social withdrawal and internalizing problems. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. 46, 772-786. DOI: 10.1007/s10964-016-0594-z
Huey, M., Hiatt, C., Laursen, B., Burk, W.J., & Rubin, K.H. (2017). Mother-adolescent conflict types and adolescent adjustment: A person-oriented analysis. Journal of Family Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/fam0000294
McDonald, K. & Rubin, K.H. (2017). Peer relationships and influence in childhood. In V.S. Ramachandran (Editor-in-Chief). Reference Module in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology. (pp. 1-9). New York: Elsevier. ISBN: 9780128093245
Barstead, M. G.*, Smith, K. A.*, Laursen, B. , Booth‐LaForce, C. , King, S.* and Rubin, K. H. (2018), Shyness, Preference for Solitude, and Adolescent Internalizing: The Roles of Maternal, Paternal, and Best‐Friend Support. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 28, 488-504. DOI:10.1111/jora.12350
Rubin, K.H. & Bowker, J. (2018). Friendship. In M. Bornstein, Arterberry, M.E., Fingerman, K.L., & Lansford, J.E. (Eds). The SAGE Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development. (pp. 908-910). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781506307633.n339
Rubin, K.H. & Barstead, M.* (2018). Social withdrawal and solitude. In M. Bornstein, Arterberry, M.E., Fingerman, K.L., & Lansford, J.E. (Eds). The SAGE Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development. (2101-2103). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781506307633.n780
Rubin, K.H. & & McDonald, K. (2018). Social relationships. In M. Bornstein, Arterberry, M.E., Fingerman, K.L., & Lansford, J.E. (Eds). The SAGE Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development. (2078-2082). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781506307633.n772
Rubin, K.H., Bowker, J.C., Barstead, M.G., & Coplan, R.J. (2018). Withdrawing from the peer group. In W. Bukowski, B. Laursen, & K.H. Rubin (Eds.), Handbook of peer interactions, relationships, and groups. (2 nd Edition). New York: Guilford. ISBN 9781462525010
Malti, T. & Rubin, K.H. (2018). Aggression in childhood and adolescence: Definition, theory, and history. In T. Malti & K.H. Rubin (Eds.), Handbook of Child and Adolescent Aggression. New York: Guilford. ISBN: 9781462526208
Rubin, K.H. & Malti, T. (2018). Challenges and priorities for aggression researchers. In T. Malti & K.H. Rubin (Eds.), Handbook of Child and Adolescent Aggression. New York: Guilford. ISBN: 9781462526208
Rubin, K.H., Dwyer, K.M.*, Booth-LaForce, C.L., Kim, A.H., Burgess, K.B.*, & Rose-Krasnor, L. (2004) Attachment, friendship, and psychosocial functioning in early adolescence, Journal of Early Adolescence, 24, 326-356. DOI: 10.1177/0272431604268530
Burgess, K.B.*, Wojslawowicz, J.C.*, Rubin, K.H., Rose-Krasnor, L., & Booth-LaForce, C. (2006). Social information processing and coping styles of shy/withdrawn and aggressive Children: Does friendship matter? Child Development. 77, 371-383.
Rubin, K.H., Wojslawowicz, J.C.*, Rose-Krasnor, L., Booth-LaForce, C.L. & Burgess, K.B.,* (2006). The best friendships of shy/withdrawn children: Prevalence, stability, and relationship quality. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 34, 139-153. DOI: 10.1007/s10802-005-9017-4
Wojslawowicz, J.C.*, Rubin, K.H., Burgess, K.B.*, Rose-Krasnor, L., & Booth-LaForce, C.L. (2006). Behavioral characteristics associated with stable and fluid best friendship patterns in middle childhood, Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 52, 671-693. DOI: 10.1353/mpq.2006.0000
Booth-LaForce, C.L., Oh, W.*, Kim, A.*, Rubin, K.H., Rose-Krasnor, L., & Burgess, K.B.* (2006). Attachment, self-worth, and peer-group functioning in middle childhood. Attachment and Human Development, 8, 309-325. DOI: 10.1080/14616730601048209
Bowker, J.C., Rubin, K.H., Rose-Krasnor, L., & Booth-LaForce, C.L. (2007). Good friendships, bad friends: Friendship factors as moderators of the relation between aggression and social information processing. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 4, 415-434.
Purcell, G., Laursen, B., Rubin, K.H., Booth-LaForce, C., & Rose-Krasnor, L. (2008). Gender differences in patterns of association between prosocial behavior, personality, and externalizing problems. Journal of Research in Personality, 42, 472-481. DOI:10.1016/j.jrp.2007.06.003
Oh, W.*, Rubin, K.H., Bowker, J.C., Booth-LaForce, C.L., Rose-Krasnor, L., & Laursen, B. (2008). Trajectories of social withdrawal middle childhood to early adolescence. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 36, 553-556.
Rubin, K.H., Fredstrom, B.*, & Bowker, J. (2008). Future directions in friendship in childhood and early adolescence. Social Development, 17, 1085-1096. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2007.00445.x
Dwyer, K., Fredstrom, B., Rubin, K.H., Rose-Krasnor, L., Booth-LaForce, C.L., & Laursen, B. (2010). Attachment, social information processing, and friendship quality of early adolescent girls and boys. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 27, 91- 116. DOI:10.1177/0265407509346420
Bowker, J.C., Rubin, K.H., Buskirk-Cohen, A., Rose-Krasnor, L., & Booth-LaForce, C.L. (2010). Behavioral changes predicting temporal changes in perceived popular status. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 31, 126- 133. DOI:10.1016/j.appdev.2009.10.002
Laursen, B., Hafen, C., Rubin, K.H., Booth-LaForce, C. B., & Rose-Krasnor, L. (2010). The distinctive difficulties of disagreeable youth. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 56, 80-103. DOI:10.1353/mpq.0.0040
McDonald, K., Bowker, J.C., Rubin, K.H. & Laursen, B. (2010). Interactions between rejection sensitivity and supportive relationships in the prediction of adolescent internalizing difficulties. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 39, 563-574. DOI 10.1007/s10964-010-9519-4
Bowker, J.C.., Fredstrom, B., Rubin, K.H., Rose-Krasnor, L., Booth-LaForce, C.L., & Laursen, B. (2010). Distinguishing children who form new best-friendships from those who do not Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 27, 707-725. DOI: 10.1177/0265407510373259
Menzer, M., Oh, W., Rubin, K.H., McDonald, K.L. & Dashiell-Aje, E. (2010)., Behavioral correlates of peer exclusion and victimization of East Asian American and European American young adolescents, Asian American Journal of Psychology, 1, 290-302. DOI: 10.1037/a0022085
Rubin, K.H., Bowker, J.C., & Gazelle, H. (2010). Social withdrawal in childhood and adolescence: Peer relationships and social competence. In K.H. Rubin & R.J. Coplan (Eds), The Development of Shyness and Social Withdrawal in Childhood and Adolescence. (pp. 131-154). New York:Guilford.
Coplan, R.J. & Rubin, K.H. (2010). Social withdrawal and shyness in childhood: History, theories, definitions and assessment. In K.H. Rubin & R.J. Coplan (Eds), The Development of Shyness and Social Withdrawal in Childhood and Adolescence. New York: Guilford.
Hastings, P.D., Nuselovici, J.N., Rubin, K.H., & Cheah, C.S.L. (2010). Shyness, parenting, and parent-child relationships. In K.H. Rubin & R.J. Coplan (Eds), The Development of Shyness and Social Withdrawal in Childhood and Adolescence. New York: Guilford.
Gazelle, H. & Rubin, K.H. (2010). Social anxiety in childhood: Bridging Developmental and Clinical Perspectives. In H. Gazelle & K.H. Rubin (Eds). Social Anxiety in Childhood: Bridging Developmental and Clinical Perspectives. New Directions in Child and Adolescent Development. Vol. 227. San Francisco: Jossey Bass.
Rubin, K.H., Kennedy Root, A.E., & Bowker, J.C. (2010). Parents, peers and social withdrawal in childhood: A relationship perspective. In H. Gazelle & K.H. Rubin (Eds). Social Anxiety in Childhood: Bridging Developmental and Clinical Perspectives. New Directions in Child and Adolescent Development. Vol. 227. San Francisco: Jossey Bass.
McDonald, K.L., Wang, J., Menzer, M.M., Rubin, K.H., & Booth-LaForce, C. (2011). Prosocial behavior moderates the effects of aggression on young adolescents’ friendships. International Journal of Developmental Science, 1-2, 127–137. DOI: 10.3233/DEV-2011-10066
Rubin, K.H., Coplan, R., Bowker, J.C., & Menzer, M. (2011). Social withdrawal and shyness. In P.K. Smith & C. Hart (Eds), Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Social Development. (2nd Edition). (pp. 434-452). New York: Wiley-Blackwell.
Booth-LaForce, C., Oh, W., Kennedy, A.E., Rubin, K.H., Rose-Krasnor, L., & Laursen, B. (2012). Parent and peer links to trajectories of anxious withdrawal from Grades 5-8. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 41, 138-149. DOI: 10.1080/15374416.2012.651995
Fredstrom, B., Rose-Krasnor, L., Campbell, K., Rubin, K.H., & Booth-LaForce, C.B. (2012). How socially withdrawn preadolescents think about friendship. Journal of Adolescence, 35, 451-455. DOI:10.1016/j.adolescence.2011.05.005
Wang, J., McDonald, K.L., Rubin, K.H., & Laursen, B. (2012). Peer rejection as a social antecedent to rejection sensitivity in youth: The role of relational valuation. Personality and Individual Differences, 53, 939-942. DOI:10.1016/j.paid.2012.07.007
Menzer, M.M., McDonald, K., Rubin, K.H., Rose-Krasnor, L., Booth-LaForce, C., & Schulz Begle, A. (2012). Observed gossip moderates the link between anxious withdrawal and friendship quality in early adolescence. International Journal of Developmental Science, 6, 191–202. DOI 10.3233/DEV-1211079
Rubin, K.H., Malti, T. & McDonald, K.L. (2012). Civic development in relational perspective. In G. Trommsdorff & X. Chen (Eds.) Values, Religion, and Culture in Adolescent Development. Oxford University Press. Oxford, UK.
Spencer, S.V., Bowker, J.C.., Rubin, K.H., Booth-LaForce, C.L. (2013) Similarity between friends in social information processing and associations with positive friendship quality and conflict. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 59, 106-134. DOI: 10.1353/mpq.2013.0006
McDonald, K.L., Dashiell-Aje, E., Oh, W., Bowker, J.C., Rubin, K.H., & Menzer, M.* (2013). Contributions of racial and sociobehavioral homophily to friendship stability and quality among same-race and cross-race friends Journal of Early Adolescence. 33(7), 897–919. DOI: 10.1177/0272431612472259
Wang, J. M., Rubin, K. H., Laursen, B., Booth-LaForce, C, & Rose-Krasnor, L. (2013). Preference-for-solitude and adjustment difficulties in early vs. late adolescence. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. 42, 834-842. DOI: 10.1080/15374416.2013.794700
Rubin, K.H., Bowker, J.C., McDonald, K., & Menzer, M. (2013). Peer relationships in childhood. (pp. 242-275). In P. D. Zelazo (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Psychology. (Vol. 2) Oxford, UK.
McDonald, K.L., Malti, T., Killen, M., & Rubin, K.H. (2014). Best friends’ discussions of social dilemmas. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 43, 233-244.DOI 10.1007/s10964-013-9961-1
Rubin, K.H. & Barstead, M.G. (2014). Gender differences in child and adolescent social withdrawal: A commentary. Sex Roles, 70, 274-284. DOI: 10.1007/s11199-014-0357-9
Murray, K.W., Dwyer, K. M., Rubin, K.H., Booth-LaForce, C. & Knighton-Wisor, S. (2014). Parent-child relationships, parental psychological control, aggression: Maternal and paternal relations. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 43, 1361–1373, DOI:10.1007/s10964-013-0019-1
Rubin, K. (2014). On solitude. In R. Coplan & J.C. Bowker (Eds.) A handbook of solitude: Psychological perspectives on social isolation, social withdrawal, and being alone. New York: Wiley.
Hiatt, C., Laursen, B., Mooney, K.S., & Rubin, K.H. (2015). Forms of friendship: A person-centered assessment of the quality, stability, and outcomes of different types of adolescent friends. Personality and Individual Differences, 77, 149-155. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2014.12.051
Malti, T., McDonald, K.L., Rubin, K.H., Rose-Krasnor, L., & Booth-LaForce, C. (2015) Developmental trajectories of peer-reported aggressive behavior: The role of friendship understanding, friendship quality, and friends’ aggressive behavior. Psychology of Violence, 5, 402-410. DOI:10.1037/a0039685
Wang, J.M.*, Hartl, A.C., Laursen, B., Booth-LaForce, & Rubin, K.H. (2016). Associations between personality and physical aggression in Chinese and U.S. adolescents: The mediating role of temper. Journal of Early Adolescence, 36, 909-931. DOI: 10.1177/0272431615588953
Rubin, K.H., Bukowski, W., & Bowker, J. (2015). Children in peer groups. In M. Bornstein & T. Leventhal (Volume Eds.) and RM. Lerner (Series Ed.), Handbook of Child Psychology and Developmental Science (formerly The Handbook of Child Psychology), Seventh Edition, Volume Four: Ecological Settings and Processes. pp. 175-222. New York: Wiley.
Rubin, K.H., Coplan, R. Chen, X., Bowker, J.C., McDonald, K. & Heverly-Fitt, S. (2015). Peer relationships. In M. H. Bornstein & M.E. Lamb (Eds.), Developmental Science: An Advanced Textbook. (7th edition). Pp. 587-644. New York: Psychology Press.
Laursen, B., DeLay, D., Richmond, A., & Rubin, K.H. (2016). Youth negative affect attenuates associations between compromise and mother-adolescent conflict outcomes. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 25, 1110-1118. DOI: 10.1007/s10826-015-0288-2
Bowker, J.C., Coplan, R., & Rubin, K.H. (2016). Social withdrawal. In R.J.R. Levesque (Ed). Encyclopedia of Adolescence. (pp. 1-14). New York: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-32132-5_124-2
Wang, J.M., Hartl, A.C., Laursen, B., & Rubin, K.H. (2017). The high costs of low agreeableness: Low agreeableness exacerbates interpersonal consequences of rejection sensitivity in U.S. and Chinese adolescents. Journal of Research in Personality, 67,36-43. DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2016.02.005
Smith, K.*, Barstead, M.G.*, & Rubin, K.H. (2017). Personality traits as moderators of the relation between social withdrawal and internalizing problems. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. 46, 772-786. DOI: 10.1007/s10964-016-0594-z
Huey, M., Hiatt, C., Laursen, B., Burk, W.J., & Rubin, K.H. (2017). Mother-adolescent conflict types and adolescent adjustment: A person-oriented analysis. Journal of Family Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/fam0000294
McDonald, K. & Rubin, K.H. (2017). Peer relationships and influence in childhood. In V.S. Ramachandran (Editor-in-Chief). Reference Module in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology. (pp. 1-9). New York: Elsevier. ISBN: 9780128093245
Barstead, M. G.*, Smith, K. A.*, Laursen, B. , Booth‐LaForce, C. , King, S.* and Rubin, K. H. (2018), Shyness, Preference for Solitude, and Adolescent Internalizing: The Roles of Maternal, Paternal, and Best‐Friend Support. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 28, 488-504. DOI:10.1111/jora.12350
Rubin, K.H. & Bowker, J. (2018). Friendship. In M. Bornstein, Arterberry, M.E., Fingerman, K.L., & Lansford, J.E. (Eds). The SAGE Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development. (pp. 908-910). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781506307633.n339
Rubin, K.H. & Barstead, M.* (2018). Social withdrawal and solitude. In M. Bornstein, Arterberry, M.E., Fingerman, K.L., & Lansford, J.E. (Eds). The SAGE Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development. (2101-2103). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781506307633.n780
Rubin, K.H. & & McDonald, K. (2018). Social relationships. In M. Bornstein, Arterberry, M.E., Fingerman, K.L., & Lansford, J.E. (Eds). The SAGE Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development. (2078-2082). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781506307633.n772
Rubin, K.H., Bowker, J.C., Barstead, M.G., & Coplan, R.J. (2018). Withdrawing from the peer group. In W. Bukowski, B. Laursen, & K.H. Rubin (Eds.), Handbook of peer interactions, relationships, and groups. (2 nd Edition). New York: Guilford. ISBN 9781462525010
Malti, T. & Rubin, K.H. (2018). Aggression in childhood and adolescence: Definition, theory, and history. In T. Malti & K.H. Rubin (Eds.), Handbook of Child and Adolescent Aggression. New York: Guilford. ISBN: 9781462526208
Rubin, K.H. & Malti, T. (2018). Challenges and priorities for aggression researchers. In T. Malti & K.H. Rubin (Eds.), Handbook of Child and Adolescent Aggression. New York: Guilford. ISBN: 9781462526208