Social Anxiety, Family Relationships, and Substance Use Research Lab
The SAFR Substance Use Research Lab broadly generates research on the implications of social anxiety and family relationships for a number of adolescent outcomes. Current research in the lab seeks to better understand the links between social anxiety and adolescent substance use (early initiation, greater use) and family influences (risk/protection) on these processes. The goals of this research are to identify important variation among youth with social anxiety, shed light on substance use risk among socially anxious youth, and to prevent later substance misuse and addiction. Other research interests include understanding how conflict in the family context affects adolescent social, emotional, and behavioral functioning.
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.
