Dedicated to understanding and improving family life.
Welcome to the Family P.O.W.E.R. Lab Website! We are passionate about understanding and supporting families. Please explore our research projects, publications, and reach out with any questions or thoughts. We love to collaborate and exchange ideas, so please feel free to connect with us and start a dialogue with us. You can contact the lab director, Dr. Greg Fosco, at [email protected]
News & Announcements:
June, 2025: Greg, Lan, and Jess teamed up to get our first paper published from the Every Day lives in Adolescence study. We can't wait for it to come out! Fosco, G.M., *Chen, L., DeFelice, J. (Conditional Acceptance). Intraindividual Variability in Adolescent Impulsivity: Family and Peer Relationships Explain Daily Changes in Adolescent Impulsivity. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopathology.
May, 2025: Lan Chen's paper was accepted at the Journal of Family Psychology! Title: When Do Parents Use Positive Behavior Support? Day-to-day Fluctuations in Parental Moods and Coparenting Support. Congratulations Lan!
May, 2025: The Family P.O.W.E.R Lab presented at SRCD. Check out our presentations (download here!)
Lan Chen's talk Daily Fluctuations in Adolescent Emotion Control and Mood: Timing Positive Parenting." Check out her talk in the symposium Daily Family Stressors and Supports: Implications for Mood, Behaviors, and Relationships Across Childhood and Adolescence.
Lan Chen's poster: "Time Matters: Bidirectional Effect of Positive Parenting and Adolescent Mood (Poster)
Carolyn Albright's talk: Using Pandemic Research to Uncover Processes of Family Stress and Resilience Amid Crisis.
Seoyoung (Chloe) Ha's posters: Current vs. Prior Depression as a Risk Factor for Parenting Quality: Does Children's Difficult Temperament Moderate the Effect?
The second poster: Orchids or Dandelions? Rethinking Parenting Effects Through the Lens of Children's Environmental Sensitivity.
April, 2025: Great news! The Journal of Research on Adolescence has named our paper a "Top Viewed Article". Thanks to Carlie Sloan and Loes Janssen for their leadership on this project. Check it out (open access): Janssen, L.H.C., Sloan, C.J., Verkuil, B., Van Houtum, L.A.E.M., Wever, M.C.M., Fosco, G.M., & Elzinga, B.M. (2023). Adolescents’ and Parents’ Perceptions of and Discrepancies in Parental Warmth: Associations with Adolescent and Parent Affect in Daily Life
March, 2025: Lan Chen's paper was just accepted at the Journal of Family Psychology! Congratulations! Chen, L., Sloan, C.J., & Fosco, G.M. (In Press). When Do Parents Use Positive Behavior Support? Day-to-day Fluctuations in Parental Moods and Coparenting Support. Journal of Family Psychology. Watch out for it in a TOC feed!
March, 2025: Congratulations to Danny Rahal on his paper in Child Development - out his month! Check it out (open access): Rahal, D. & Fosco, G.M. (2025) Positive well-being and dampened emotional reactivity to daily family conflict and family cohesion.
January, 2025: Congratulations to Hyanghee Lee on landing a paper in Child Development! Check it out (open access): Lee, H., Fosco, G.M., & Feinberg, M.E. (2025) Family functioning and child internalizing and externalizing problems: A 16‐wave longitudinal study during the COVID‐19 pandemic.
December, 2024: A case study in developmental discontinuity: PROSPER Interventions and adolescent substance use trajectories shape young adult substance use and mental health problems was published in the Journal of Research on Adolescence Special Issue honoring John Schulenberg. Check it out (open access)!
October, 2024: Chloe Ha will be presenting her poster, "The Role of Mothers' Empathy on Pragmatic Language Abilities in High-Functioning and Low-Functioning ASD Children in South Korea" at the American Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
September, 2024: Our paper, "Cascading Effects of the Family Context in Adolescence: Implications for Young Adult Antisocial Behavior and Intergenerational Transmission of Risk" was accepted for publication at Prevention Science. This is the first intergeneratonal study from the PROSPER 2nd Generation Project!
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