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Home  People Lauren E. Molloy, M.S.
Lauren E. Molloy, M.S.
PAMT Pre-Doctoral Fellow, The Prevention Research Center and The Methodology Center
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The Pennsylvania State University
110-S Henderson
University Park, PA 16802
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609-731-1313
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| Education: |
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M.S., The Pennsylvania State University, 2009 (Human Development and Family Studies)
B.A., University of Virginia, 2006 (Psychology Major, Anthropology Minor)
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Substantively, I am interested in peer experiences and their role in critical domains of early adolescent development (especially self-system processes, achievement motivation and academic achievement, and substance use).
My methodological interests include the application of Social Network Analyses to understanding social contexts of youths’ development and implications for school-based prevention efforts, as well as the application of within-person methodologies to studying the individual development of adolescent beliefs, behaviors, interactions and relationships.
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| Current Projects and Collaborators: |
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I currently mentored by Scott Gest and Nilam Ram. Most recently, I have been primarily involved on three projects: 1.) the NIDA-funded PROSPER Peers Project (led by Wayne Osgood), a study of adolescent peer networks and substance use, in which I am currently investigating developmental trends in adolescent peer group structures and their relation to substance use; 2.) the Middle School Transition Project (led by Scott Gest), a study of academic and social adjustment during the transition from elementary to middle school, in which I am currently investigating intraindividual variability in youths’ self-perceptions as well as the role of youths’ friendship networks in the development of academic outcome domains, and 3.) the AMIB and iSAHIB Projects (led by Nilam Ram, Aaron Pincus, and David Conroy), a project aimed at developing analytic tools for measuring and describing dynamic processes of social interactions in a within-person modeling framework.
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| Honors and Awards: |
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- NIH/NIDA Pre-doctoral Research Fellowship: Prevention and Methodology Training Program (The Methodology Center and Prevention Research Center, The Pennsylvania State University; T32-DA-017629)
- University Graduate Fellowship (Pennsylvania State University)
- Hintz Fellowship ($3000) (Human Development & Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University)
- Double Hoo Research Award for Undergraduate-Graduate Student Collaborative Research ($2000) (University of Virginia)
- Distinguished Majors Program (University of Virginia)
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| Publications: |
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Peer-reviewed Papers |
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Molloy, L. E., Gest, S. D., & Rulison, K. L. (in press). Peer influences on academic adjustment: Exploring multiple methods of assessing youths’ most “influential” peer relationships. Under review, 2009.
Davidson, A. J., Molloy, L. E., Rulison, K.L., & Gest, S.D. (in press). Peer Influences on changes in academic achievement-related outcomes in early adolescence.
Gest, S. D., Molloy, L. E., & Rulison, K. L. (in press). Actor-oriented models of the co-evolution of friendship networks and academic adjustment in early adolescence.
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International Network for Social Network Analysis
Society for Research on Adolescence
Society for Research in Child Development
Society for Prevention Research
American Educational Research Association
National Institute on Drug Abuse
SIENA Homepage
Social Network Image Animator Homepage
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