Current M.S. Students

McKinley Hall

Home Town: Soldotna, AK

Research interests: Parental-adolescent communication about sex, marital sexuality, adolescent risky sexual behavior, religiosity and sexuality, commitment in long term relationships, and differences in cohabitating and married relationships. 

Margo Munday

Home Town: Lugansk, Ukraine

Research interests: The relationship between self-control and accomplishment of life goals across different developmental periods. 

Tory L Thomas

Home Town: Seattle, Washington

Research interests: The influence of child maltreatment (physical and sexual abuse) on adult close relationships through anxiety attachment style. 

Past M.S. Students

Julia J. Beier, M.S. (2022)

Home Town: St. Joseph, Missouri

Research interests: Adolescent development, identity formation, factors that perpetuate deviant behaviors, language and cultural factors in adolescent development

Guangyi Cui, M.S. (2016)

Home Town: Jinan, China

Research Interests: Parent-adolescent relationship, Parenting style, and adolescent sexuality

Christiana Datubo Brown, M.S. (2012)

Home Town: TBA
Research Interests: The relationship between parenting processes and internalizing behaviors among youth, mental health

Kristina M Hayes, M.S. (2019)

Home Town: Cincinnati, Ohio
Research Interests: Adolescent development in the context of chronic illness, children and grief

Brian Huei, M.S. (2010)

Home Town: Boynton Beach, Florida
Research Interests: Relationship between parenting and deviance/academic achievement in adolescence, Chinese youth from Taiwan

Melinda A Lemaster (2021)

Home Town: Salyersville, Kentucky
Research Interests: Late adolescence - Stress and well-being

 J. Melissa Scarpate, M.S. (2004)

Home Town: Midland City, Alabama 
Research Interests: Child and family well-being, strengthening families, quality pre-K programs, family processes, single parent families, kinship support, child/adolescent developmental outcomes

Amy B. Skipper-Tatum, M.S. (2004)

Home Town: Springfield, Missouri
Research Interests: Family processes, eating disorders in adolescent females, substance abuse in juveniles, juvenile delinquency programs
Affiliation: Child/Adolescent Therapist, Auburn, Alabama
  

Maureen Young, M.S. (2008)
Home Town: New Orleans, Louisiana 
Research Interests: Adolescent development, adolescent sexual behavior, deviance
Affiliation: Residence Hall Director, Auburn University