Dr. Bridget Weymouth earned her Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Prior to joining The University of Alabama, Dr. Weymouth completed a 2-year post-doctoral fellowship with the Prevention and Methodology Training Program at The Pennsylvania State University—a T32 program funded by NIDA at NIH involving collaboration between the Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center and The Methodology Center.
Dr. Weymouth’s research cuts across family and developmental science to examine adolescent interpersonal and psychological functioning. Her specific areas of interest include adolescent social anxiety symptoms, adolescent substance use, and conflict in the family context. In several studies, Dr. Weymouth has examined parent-adolescent and interparental conflict and the implications of this conflict for adolescent behavioral, emotional, and social functioning, including social anxiety symptoms and substance use. Additionally, she has examined social anxiety symptoms as a risk mechanism for adolescent substance use and is extending this line of research to examine substance use among heterogeneous subgroups of youth with social anxiety symptoms. This research is supported by her methodology training and experience in structural equation modeling and latent profile/class analyses.
Research interests and areas of expertise: Adolescent development; social anxiety symptoms; substance use; parent-adolescent conflict; interparental conflict; parent-adolescent relationships; physiological stress reactivity
Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Weymouth’s research cuts across family and developmental science to examine adolescent interpersonal and psychological functioning. Her specific areas of interest include adolescent social anxiety symptoms, adolescent substance use, and conflict in the family context. In several studies, Dr. Weymouth has examined parent-adolescent and interparental conflict and the implications of this conflict for adolescent behavioral, emotional, and social functioning, including social anxiety symptoms and substance use. Additionally, she has examined social anxiety symptoms as a risk mechanism for adolescent substance use and is extending this line of research to examine substance use among heterogeneous subgroups of youth with social anxiety symptoms. This research is supported by her methodology training and experience in structural equation modeling and latent profile/class analyses.
Research interests and areas of expertise: Adolescent development; social anxiety symptoms; substance use; parent-adolescent conflict; interparental conflict; parent-adolescent relationships; physiological stress reactivity
Curriculum Vitae
Selected Recent Publications
Weymouth, B. B., Fosco, G. M., Mak, H., Mayfield, K., LoBraico, E. J., & Feinberg, M. E. (2019). Implications of interparental conflict for adolescents’ peer relationships: A longitudinal pathway through threat appraisals and social anxiety symptoms. Developmental Psychology, 55, 1509-1522.
Fletcher, A. C., Buehler, C., McCurdy, A., & Weymouth, B. B. (2019). Skin conductance reactivity as a moderator of associations between neighborhood stressors and youth internalizing behaviors. Journal of Early Adolescence, 39, 1154–1176.
Weymouth, B. B., Fosco, G. M., & Feinberg, M. E. (2019). Nurturant-involved parenting and adolescent substance use: Examining an internalizing pathway through adolescent social anxiety symptoms and substance refusal efficacy. Development & Psychopathology, 31, 247-260
McCauley, D. M., Weymouth, B. B., Fosco, G. M., Feinberg, M. E. (2019). Evaluating school protective factors in the effects of interparental conflict on adolescent threat appraisals and self-efficacy. Journal of Adolescence, 71, 28-37.
Weymouth, B. B., & Buehler, C. (2018). Adolescents’ relationships with parents, teachers, and peers and increases in adolescent social anxiety symptoms. Journal of Family Psychology, 32, 496-506.
Fletcher, A. C., Buehler, C., Buchanan, C. M., & Weymouth, B. B. (2017). Parenting stressors and early adolescents’ depressive symptoms: Does high vagal suppression offer protection? Physiology & Behavior, 170, 78–87.
Weymouth, B. B., Buehler, C., Zhou, N., & Henson, R. A. (2016). A meta-analysis of parent-adolescent conflict: Disagreement, hostility, and youth maladjustment. Journal of Family Theory and Review, 8, 95-112.
Weymouth, B. B., & Buehler, C. (2016). Adolescent and parental contributions to parent-adolescent hostility across early adolescence. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 45, 713-729.
Fletcher, A. C., Buehler, C., McCurdy, A., & Weymouth, B. B. (2019). Skin conductance reactivity as a moderator of associations between neighborhood stressors and youth internalizing behaviors. Journal of Early Adolescence, 39, 1154–1176.
Weymouth, B. B., Fosco, G. M., & Feinberg, M. E. (2019). Nurturant-involved parenting and adolescent substance use: Examining an internalizing pathway through adolescent social anxiety symptoms and substance refusal efficacy. Development & Psychopathology, 31, 247-260
McCauley, D. M., Weymouth, B. B., Fosco, G. M., Feinberg, M. E. (2019). Evaluating school protective factors in the effects of interparental conflict on adolescent threat appraisals and self-efficacy. Journal of Adolescence, 71, 28-37.
Weymouth, B. B., & Buehler, C. (2018). Adolescents’ relationships with parents, teachers, and peers and increases in adolescent social anxiety symptoms. Journal of Family Psychology, 32, 496-506.
Fletcher, A. C., Buehler, C., Buchanan, C. M., & Weymouth, B. B. (2017). Parenting stressors and early adolescents’ depressive symptoms: Does high vagal suppression offer protection? Physiology & Behavior, 170, 78–87.
Weymouth, B. B., Buehler, C., Zhou, N., & Henson, R. A. (2016). A meta-analysis of parent-adolescent conflict: Disagreement, hostility, and youth maladjustment. Journal of Family Theory and Review, 8, 95-112.
Weymouth, B. B., & Buehler, C. (2016). Adolescent and parental contributions to parent-adolescent hostility across early adolescence. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 45, 713-729.
