Lisa Crockett

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Lisa Crockett

Professor Psychology University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Contact

Address
BURN 315
Lincoln, NE 68588-0308
Phone
402-472-0584 On-campus 2-0584
Email
ecrockett1@unl.edu

Lisa Crockett's research interests focus on adolescent development. She conducts research in two primary areas: adolescent risk behavior, with an emphasis on sexuality; and ethnic differences in parenting and adolescent adjustment. In one study, she followed a sample of rural adolescents from early adolescence into early adulthood. Using this data set she has examined psychological and social predictors of early sexuality activity and heavy drinking among rural youth, as well as adolescent predictors of young adult outcomes. In subsequent work she examined the childhood origins of adolescents' sexual risk-taking, focusing on self-regulation as a key predictor. She has probed the relationships between early temperament and internalizing and externalizing problems, exploring the role of puberty, on one hand, and key social contexts (family, school, peers) on the other. Her work on ethnicity has examined the relations between parenting practices and adolescent adjustment across different ethnic groups, using national survey data and qualitative data from focus group interviews with teenagers. Her most recent project in this line of research examines the development and well-being of Latino adolescents, with particular attention to ecological, familial, and social-cognitive predictors of positive and negative adjustment. Dr. Crockett served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Research on Adolescence from 1999-2004 and has served on the editorial boards of Developmental Psychology, the Journal of Early Adolescence, Child Development, and CDEMP. She is a former president of the Society for Research on Adolescence.

 

Representative Recent Publications

  • Crockett, L. J., Streit, C., & Carlo, G. (2024). Cultural mechanisms linking mothers’ familism values to externalizing behaviors among Midwest U.S. Latinx adolescents. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 30(2), 224-233. doi: 10.1037/cdp0000551
  • Wasserman, A. M., Crockett, L. J., Temmen, C. T., & Cartwright, M. (2024). Indirect associations between immigration-related stressors and Latine adolescents’ depressive symptoms: The moderating roles of familism, nativity, and gender. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 30, 234-246. doi: 10.1037/cdp0000658
  • L. J., Crockett, G. Carlo, & J. E. Schulenberg, (Eds.) (2023). APA Handbook of adolescent and young adult development. American Psychological Association.
  • Crockett, L., J., Moilanen, K., & Cartwright, M. (2023). Pathways from individual characteristics to subjective consequences of sex: The mediating role of risky sexual encounters. International Journal of Sexual Health, 35(2), 230–247. https://doi.org/10.1080/19317611.2023.2204304
  • Moilanen, K., Crockett, L. J., & Pierson, A. (2023). Beyond the morning after: Measuring positive and negative psychosocial consequences of sexual encounters in early adulthood. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 52(7), 3081-309.
  • Wasserman, A. M., Crockett, L. J., Temmen, C. T., & Carlo, G. (2021). Bicultural stress and internalizing symptoms among Latinx youth: The moderating role of peer and parent support. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 27(4), 769-780. doi: 10.1037/cdp0000474
  • Temmen, C. D., & Crockett, L. J. (2021). The importance of father involvement for adolescent internalizing and externalizing symptoms. Psychology of Men & Masculinities, 22(3), 564-577. https://doi.org/10.1037/men0000322   
  • Temmen, C., & Crockett, L. J. (2020). Relations of stress and drinking motives to young adult alcohol misuse: Variations by gender. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 49, 907–920.
  • Cardwell, M., Soliz, J., & Crockett, L. J. (2020.) Critical incidents in the development of multiethnic-racial identity. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 37, 1653–1672. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265407520906256
  • Davis, A., Carlo, G., & Crockett, L. J. (2020). The role of economic stress in parents’ depression and warmth and adolescents’ prosocial behaviors among U.S. Latino/as.  Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 26, 162-170.
  • Crockett, L. J., Deardorff, J., Johnson, M., Irwin, C., & Petersen, A. C. (2019). Puberty education in a global context: Knowledge gaps, opportunities, and implications for policy. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 29, 177-195. 
  • McGinley, M. A, Veed., G, & Crockett, L. J.  (2019). Friendship network influence on the development of internalizing symptoms during adolescence.  Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 60, 157-165.
  • Wolff, J. M., & Crockett, L. J. (2019). Decision making processes and alcohol use among college students. Journal of American College Health, 67(7), 627–637. https://doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2018.1499654
  • Soulakova, J. N., Pham, T., Owens, V. L., & Crockett, L. J. (2018). Prevalence and factors associated with use of hookah tobacco among young adults in the U.S.  Addictive Behaviors, 85, 21-25.
  • Temmen, C. D., & Crockett, L. J.  (2018). Adolescent predictors of social and coping drinking motives in early adulthood. Journal of Adolescence, 66, 1–8.
  • Buhs, E. S., Koziol, N. A., Rudasill, K. M., & Crockett, L. J. (2018). Early temperament and middle school engagement: School social relationships as mediating processes. Journal of Educational Psychology, 110, 338-354. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/edu0000224
  • Crockett, L. J., Rudasill, K. M., Wasserman, A. M., Kalutskaya, I., & Hoffman, L. (2017). Temperamental anger and effortful control, teacher–child conflict, and externalizing behavior across the elementary school years.  Child Development.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12910
  • Wasserman, A. M., Crockett, L. J., & Hoffman, L.  (2017). Reward seeking and cognitive control: Using the dual systems model to adolescent sexual behavior.  Journal of Research on Adolescence.  http://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12321
  • Davis, A., Carlo, G., Streit, C., & Crockett, L. J.  (2017). Considering economic stress and empathic traits in predicting prosocial behaviors among U.S. Latino adolescents.  Social Development. http://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12249
  • Deutsch, A., & Crockett, L. J. (2016). Gender, generational status, and parent-adolescent sexual communication: Implications for Latino/a adolescent sexual behavior. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 26, 300-315. doi:10.1111/jora.12192
  • Beal, S. J., Crockett, L. J., & Peugh, J. (2016). Adolescents’ expectations for the future and changes in expectations predict timing of adult role transitions. Developmental Psychology, 52, 1606-1618.
  • Soulakova, J., & Crockett, L. J. (2016). Unassisted quitting and smoking cessation methods used in the US: Analyses of 2010-2011 Tobacco Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey Data.  Nicotine and Tobacco Research. 
  • Crockett, L. J., & Carlo, G. (Eds.) (2016). Rural ethnic minority youth in the United States: Theory, research and applications. In R. Levesque (Series Ed.) Advancing Responsible Adolescent Development. New York: Springer.