Publications
Publications from this lab have been organized into two broad domains: family process papers and family-centered preventive intervention papers. Please return often, as there are many manuscripts in various stages of preparation and review. Please feel free to contact me for reprints if you are interested in reading more.
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Family Process Research
Fosco, G.M., *Mak H.W., *Ramos, A. *LoBraico, E.J., & Lippold, M.A. (In Press). Exploring the Promise of Assessing Dynamic Characteristics of the Family for Predicting Adolescent Risk Outcomes. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.
Lippold, M.A., Fosco, G.M., Hussong, A., & Ram, N. (In Press). Child effects on lability in parents’ warmth and hostility: The moderating role of parents’ internalizing problems. Journal of Youth and Adolescence.
*Weymouth, B.B., Fosco, G.M., *Mak. H.W., *Mayfield, K., *LoBraico, E.J., & Feinberg, M.E. (In Press). Implications of Interparental Conflict for Adolescents' Peer Relationships: A Longitudinal Pathway through Threat Appraisals and Social Anxiety Symptoms. Developmental Psychology.
*McCauley, D., *Weymouth, B.B., Feinberg, M.E., & Fosco, G.M. (2019). Evaluating School and Peer Protective Factors in the Effects of Interparental Conflict on adolescent Threat Appraisals and Self-Efficacy. Journal of Adolescence, 71, 28-37.
Glatz, T., Lippold, M.A., Jensen, T.M., Fosco, G.M., & Feinberg, M.E. (In Press). Hostile interactions in the family: What are the patterns and how are they linked to youth externalizing problems? Journal of Early Adolescence.
*Lydon-Staley, D.M., *Xia, M., *Mak, H.W., & Fosco, G.M. (In Press). Adolescent Emotion Network Dynamics in Daily Life and Implications for Depression. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology.
*Hochgraf, A., McHale, S., & Fosco, G.M. (In Press). Parent responsiveness and gender moderate bidirectional links between self-esteem and weight concerns during adolescence. Journal of Family Psychology.
Fosco, G.M. & *Lydon-Staley, D.M. (In Press). A Within-Family Examination of Interparental Conflict, Cognitive Appraisals, and Adolescent Mood and Well-Being. Child Development.
*Weymouth, B.B., Fosco, G.M., & Feinberg, M.E. Nurturant-Involved Parenting and Adolescent Substance Misuse: Examining an Internalizing Pathway through Adolescent Social Anxiety Symptoms and Substance Refusal Efficacy. Development and Psychopathology.
Fosco, G.M. & *Lydon-Staley, D.M. (In Press). A Within-Family Examination of Interparental Conflict, Cognitive Appraisals, and Adolescent Mood and Well-Being. Child Development.
*Creavey, K.L., Gatzke-Kopp, L.M., & Fosco, G.M. (In Press). Differential Effects of Family Stress Exposure and Harsh Parental Discipline on child Social Competence. Journal of Child and Family Studies.
*Brinberg, M., Fosco, G.M., & Ram, N. (In Press). Examining Inter-Family Differences in Intra-Family (Parent-Adolescent) Dynamics using Grid-Sequence Analysis. Journal of Family Psychology.
*Mak, H.W., Fosco, G.M., & Feinberg, M.E. (In Press). The Role of Family for Youth Friendships: Examining a Social Anxiety Mechanism. Journal of Youth and Adolescence.
Fosco, G.M. & Feinberg, M.E. (In Press). Interparental Conflict and Long-Term Adolescent Substance Use Trajectories: Examining Threat Appraisals as a Mechanism of Risk. Journal of Family Psychology.
Lippold, M.A., Hussong, A., Fosco, G. M., & Ram, N. (In Press). Lability in the Parent's Hostility and Warmth Toward Their Adolescent: Linkages to Youth Delinquency and Substance Use. Developmental Psychology.
Lippold, M.A., Glatz, T., Fosco, G.M., & Feinberg, M.E. (In Press). Parental Perceived Control and Social Support: Linkages to Change in Parenting Practices During Early Adolescence. Family Process.
*Jensen, T.W., Lippold, M.A., Mills-Koonce, R., & Fosco, G.M. (In Press). Stepfamily Relationship Quality and Children’s Internalizing and Externalizing Problems. Family Process.
*Mandak, K., *O’Neill, T., Light, J., & Fosco, G.M. (2017). Bridging the Gap from Values to Actions: A Family Systems Framework for Family-Centered AAC Services. Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 33, 32-41.
Lynn, M.G., Grych, J.H., & Fosco, G.M. (2016). Influences on Father Involvement: Testing for Unique Contributions of Religion. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 25, 3247-3259.
Fosco, G.M. & Bray, B. (2016). Profiles of Adolescents’ Triangulation and Appraisals of Interparental Conflict: Implications for Adjustment. Journal of Family Psychology, 30, 524-537.
Fosco, G.M., Van Ryzin, M.J., Xia, M., & Feinberg, M.E. (2016). Trajectories of Hostile-Aggressive Behavior and Family Climate: Longitudinal Implications for Young Adult Romantic Relationship Competence, Developmental Psychology, 52, 1139-1150
Fosco, G.M., Xia, M., Lynn, M.G., Grych, J.H. (2016). Triangulation and Parent-Adolescent Relationships: Implications for Adolescent Dating Competence and Abuse. Journal of Research on Adolescence.
Lippold, M.A., Fosco, G.M., Ram, N., & Feinberg, M.E. (2016). Knowledge Lability: Within-Person Changes in Parental Knowledge and their Associations with Adolescent Problem Behavior. Prevention Science, 17, 274-283.
Xia, M., Fosco, G.M., & Feinberg, M.E., (2016). Examining Reciprocal Influences among Family Climate, School Attachment, and Academic Self-Regulation: Implications for School Success. Journal of Family Psychology, 30, 442-452.
Margolis, K., Fosco, G. M., & Stormshak, E. A. (2016). The Circle of Care: Extending beyond the nuclear family to examine the role of collaborative caretaking in adolescent development. Journal of Family Issues.
Schlomer G.L., Fosco, G.M., Cleveleand, H.H., Feinberg, M.E., & Vandenbergh, D.J. (2015). Interparental relationship sensitivity leads to adolescent internalizing problems: Different genotypes, different pathways. Journal of Marriage and Family, 77, 329-343.
Fosco, G.M. & Feinberg, M.E. (2015). Cascading effects of interparental conflict in adolescence: Linking threat appraisals, self-efficacy, and adjustment. Development and Psychopathology, 27, 239-252.
Fosco, G.M. , Lippold, M., & Feinberg, M.E. (2014). Interparental boundary problems, parent-adolescent hostility, and adolescent-parent hostility: A family process model for adolescent aggression problems. Couple and Family Psychology, Research and Practice, 3, 141-155.
Véronneau, M.-H., Racer, K.H., Fosco, G.M., & Dishion, T.J. (2014). The contribution of adolescent effortful control to early adult educational attainment. Journal of Educational Psychology, 106, 730-743.
Fosco, G. M., & Grych, J. H. (2013). Capturing the family context of emotion regulation: A family systems model comparison approach. Journal of Family Issues, 34, 557-578.
Fosco, G. M., Caruthers, A. S., & Dishion, T. J. (2012). A six-year predictive text of adolescent family relationship quality and effortful control pathways to emerging adult social and emotional health. Journal of Family Psychology, 26, 565-575.
Van Ryzin, M., Fosco, G. M., & Dishion, T. J. (2012). Family and Peer Predictors of Substance Use from Early Adolescence to Early Adulthood: An 11-Year Prospective Analysis. Addictive Behaviors, 37, 1314-1324.
Fosco, G. M., Stormshak, E. A., Dishion, T. J., & Winter, C. (2012). Family relationships and parental monitoring during middle school as predictors of early adolescent problem behavior. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 41, 202-213.
DeBoard-Lucas, R. L., Fosco, G. M., Raynor, S. M., & Grych, J. H. (2010). Interparental conflict in context: Exploring relations between parenting processes and children’s conflict appraisals. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 39, 163-175.
Fosco, G. M. & Grych, J. H. (2010). Adolescent triangulation into parental conflicts: Longitudinal implications for appraisals and adolescent-parent relations. Journal of Marriage and Family, 72, 254-266.
Fosco, G. M., & Grych, J. H. (2008). Emotional, cognitive, and family systems mediators of children’s adjustment to interparental conflict. Journal of Family Psychology, 22, 843-854.
Fosco, G.M., & Grych, J.H. (2007). Emotional expression in the family as a context for children's appraisals of interparental conflict. Journal of Family Psychology, 21, 248-258.
Fosco, G.M., DeBoard, R.L., & Grych, J.H. (2007). Making sense of family violence: Implications of children's appraisals of interparental aggression for their short-term and long-term functioning. The European Psychologist, 12, 6-16
Grych, J.H., Raynor, S.R., and Fosco, G.M. (2004). Family processes that shape the impact of interparental conflict on adolescents. Development and Psychopathology, 16, 649-665.
Lippold, M.A., Fosco, G.M., Hussong, A., & Ram, N. (In Press). Child effects on lability in parents’ warmth and hostility: The moderating role of parents’ internalizing problems. Journal of Youth and Adolescence.
*Weymouth, B.B., Fosco, G.M., *Mak. H.W., *Mayfield, K., *LoBraico, E.J., & Feinberg, M.E. (In Press). Implications of Interparental Conflict for Adolescents' Peer Relationships: A Longitudinal Pathway through Threat Appraisals and Social Anxiety Symptoms. Developmental Psychology.
*McCauley, D., *Weymouth, B.B., Feinberg, M.E., & Fosco, G.M. (2019). Evaluating School and Peer Protective Factors in the Effects of Interparental Conflict on adolescent Threat Appraisals and Self-Efficacy. Journal of Adolescence, 71, 28-37.
Glatz, T., Lippold, M.A., Jensen, T.M., Fosco, G.M., & Feinberg, M.E. (In Press). Hostile interactions in the family: What are the patterns and how are they linked to youth externalizing problems? Journal of Early Adolescence.
*Lydon-Staley, D.M., *Xia, M., *Mak, H.W., & Fosco, G.M. (In Press). Adolescent Emotion Network Dynamics in Daily Life and Implications for Depression. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology.
*Hochgraf, A., McHale, S., & Fosco, G.M. (In Press). Parent responsiveness and gender moderate bidirectional links between self-esteem and weight concerns during adolescence. Journal of Family Psychology.
Fosco, G.M. & *Lydon-Staley, D.M. (In Press). A Within-Family Examination of Interparental Conflict, Cognitive Appraisals, and Adolescent Mood and Well-Being. Child Development.
*Weymouth, B.B., Fosco, G.M., & Feinberg, M.E. Nurturant-Involved Parenting and Adolescent Substance Misuse: Examining an Internalizing Pathway through Adolescent Social Anxiety Symptoms and Substance Refusal Efficacy. Development and Psychopathology.
Fosco, G.M. & *Lydon-Staley, D.M. (In Press). A Within-Family Examination of Interparental Conflict, Cognitive Appraisals, and Adolescent Mood and Well-Being. Child Development.
*Creavey, K.L., Gatzke-Kopp, L.M., & Fosco, G.M. (In Press). Differential Effects of Family Stress Exposure and Harsh Parental Discipline on child Social Competence. Journal of Child and Family Studies.
*Brinberg, M., Fosco, G.M., & Ram, N. (In Press). Examining Inter-Family Differences in Intra-Family (Parent-Adolescent) Dynamics using Grid-Sequence Analysis. Journal of Family Psychology.
*Mak, H.W., Fosco, G.M., & Feinberg, M.E. (In Press). The Role of Family for Youth Friendships: Examining a Social Anxiety Mechanism. Journal of Youth and Adolescence.
Fosco, G.M. & Feinberg, M.E. (In Press). Interparental Conflict and Long-Term Adolescent Substance Use Trajectories: Examining Threat Appraisals as a Mechanism of Risk. Journal of Family Psychology.
Lippold, M.A., Hussong, A., Fosco, G. M., & Ram, N. (In Press). Lability in the Parent's Hostility and Warmth Toward Their Adolescent: Linkages to Youth Delinquency and Substance Use. Developmental Psychology.
Lippold, M.A., Glatz, T., Fosco, G.M., & Feinberg, M.E. (In Press). Parental Perceived Control and Social Support: Linkages to Change in Parenting Practices During Early Adolescence. Family Process.
*Jensen, T.W., Lippold, M.A., Mills-Koonce, R., & Fosco, G.M. (In Press). Stepfamily Relationship Quality and Children’s Internalizing and Externalizing Problems. Family Process.
*Mandak, K., *O’Neill, T., Light, J., & Fosco, G.M. (2017). Bridging the Gap from Values to Actions: A Family Systems Framework for Family-Centered AAC Services. Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 33, 32-41.
Lynn, M.G., Grych, J.H., & Fosco, G.M. (2016). Influences on Father Involvement: Testing for Unique Contributions of Religion. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 25, 3247-3259.
Fosco, G.M. & Bray, B. (2016). Profiles of Adolescents’ Triangulation and Appraisals of Interparental Conflict: Implications for Adjustment. Journal of Family Psychology, 30, 524-537.
Fosco, G.M., Van Ryzin, M.J., Xia, M., & Feinberg, M.E. (2016). Trajectories of Hostile-Aggressive Behavior and Family Climate: Longitudinal Implications for Young Adult Romantic Relationship Competence, Developmental Psychology, 52, 1139-1150
Fosco, G.M., Xia, M., Lynn, M.G., Grych, J.H. (2016). Triangulation and Parent-Adolescent Relationships: Implications for Adolescent Dating Competence and Abuse. Journal of Research on Adolescence.
Lippold, M.A., Fosco, G.M., Ram, N., & Feinberg, M.E. (2016). Knowledge Lability: Within-Person Changes in Parental Knowledge and their Associations with Adolescent Problem Behavior. Prevention Science, 17, 274-283.
Xia, M., Fosco, G.M., & Feinberg, M.E., (2016). Examining Reciprocal Influences among Family Climate, School Attachment, and Academic Self-Regulation: Implications for School Success. Journal of Family Psychology, 30, 442-452.
Margolis, K., Fosco, G. M., & Stormshak, E. A. (2016). The Circle of Care: Extending beyond the nuclear family to examine the role of collaborative caretaking in adolescent development. Journal of Family Issues.
Schlomer G.L., Fosco, G.M., Cleveleand, H.H., Feinberg, M.E., & Vandenbergh, D.J. (2015). Interparental relationship sensitivity leads to adolescent internalizing problems: Different genotypes, different pathways. Journal of Marriage and Family, 77, 329-343.
Fosco, G.M. & Feinberg, M.E. (2015). Cascading effects of interparental conflict in adolescence: Linking threat appraisals, self-efficacy, and adjustment. Development and Psychopathology, 27, 239-252.
Fosco, G.M. , Lippold, M., & Feinberg, M.E. (2014). Interparental boundary problems, parent-adolescent hostility, and adolescent-parent hostility: A family process model for adolescent aggression problems. Couple and Family Psychology, Research and Practice, 3, 141-155.
Véronneau, M.-H., Racer, K.H., Fosco, G.M., & Dishion, T.J. (2014). The contribution of adolescent effortful control to early adult educational attainment. Journal of Educational Psychology, 106, 730-743.
Fosco, G. M., & Grych, J. H. (2013). Capturing the family context of emotion regulation: A family systems model comparison approach. Journal of Family Issues, 34, 557-578.
Fosco, G. M., Caruthers, A. S., & Dishion, T. J. (2012). A six-year predictive text of adolescent family relationship quality and effortful control pathways to emerging adult social and emotional health. Journal of Family Psychology, 26, 565-575.
Van Ryzin, M., Fosco, G. M., & Dishion, T. J. (2012). Family and Peer Predictors of Substance Use from Early Adolescence to Early Adulthood: An 11-Year Prospective Analysis. Addictive Behaviors, 37, 1314-1324.
Fosco, G. M., Stormshak, E. A., Dishion, T. J., & Winter, C. (2012). Family relationships and parental monitoring during middle school as predictors of early adolescent problem behavior. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 41, 202-213.
DeBoard-Lucas, R. L., Fosco, G. M., Raynor, S. M., & Grych, J. H. (2010). Interparental conflict in context: Exploring relations between parenting processes and children’s conflict appraisals. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 39, 163-175.
Fosco, G. M. & Grych, J. H. (2010). Adolescent triangulation into parental conflicts: Longitudinal implications for appraisals and adolescent-parent relations. Journal of Marriage and Family, 72, 254-266.
Fosco, G. M., & Grych, J. H. (2008). Emotional, cognitive, and family systems mediators of children’s adjustment to interparental conflict. Journal of Family Psychology, 22, 843-854.
Fosco, G.M., & Grych, J.H. (2007). Emotional expression in the family as a context for children's appraisals of interparental conflict. Journal of Family Psychology, 21, 248-258.
Fosco, G.M., DeBoard, R.L., & Grych, J.H. (2007). Making sense of family violence: Implications of children's appraisals of interparental aggression for their short-term and long-term functioning. The European Psychologist, 12, 6-16
Grych, J.H., Raynor, S.R., and Fosco, G.M. (2004). Family processes that shape the impact of interparental conflict on adolescents. Development and Psychopathology, 16, 649-665.
Family-Centered Preventive Intervention Research
*LoBraico, E.J., Fosco, G.M., Crowley, D.M., Feinberg, M.E., Spoth. R.L., & Redmond, C. (In Press). Examining Intervention Component Dosage Effects on Substance Use Outcomes in the Strengthening Families Program: For Parents and Youth Ages 10-14. Prevention Science.
Feinberg, M.E., *Xia, M., Fosco, G.M., & Chow, S. (In Press). Dynamical Systems Modeling of Couple Interaction: A New Method for Assessing Intervention Impact Across the Transition to Parenthood. Prevention Science.
Connel, A.M., Stormshak, E.A., Dishion, T.J., Fosco, G.M., & Van Ryzin, M. (In Press). The Family Check-Up and Adolescent Depression: An Examination of Treatment Responders and Non-Responders. Prevention Science.
Van Ryzin, M., Roseth, C., Fosco, G.M., Lee, Y-k., & Chen, I-C. (2016). A Component-Centered Meta-Analysis of Family-Based Prevention Programs for Adolescent Substance Use. Clinical Psychology Review
Fosco, G.M., Van Ryzin, M., Connell, A.M., & Stormshak, E.A. (2016). Preventing Adolescent Depression with the Family Check-Up: Examining Family Conflict as a Mechanism of Change. Journal of Family Psychology.
Bamberger, K. T., Coatsworth, J.D., Fosco, G.M., & Ram, N. (2014). Change in participant engagement during a family-based preventive intervention: Ups and downs with time and tension. Journal of Family Psychology, 28, 811-820.
Fosco, G. M., Van Ryzin, M., Stormshak, E. A., & Dishion, T. J. (2014). Putting theory to the test: Examining Family Context, Caregiver Motivation, and Conflict in the Family Check-Up model. Development and Psychopathology.
Fosco, G. M., Frank, J. L., Stormshak, E. A., & Dishion, T. J. (2013). Opening the “Black Box”: Explaining Family Check-Up Intervention Effects for Adolescent Effortful Control, Problem Behavior, and Substance Use. Journal of School Psychology.
McEachren, A.D., Fosco, G.M., Dishion, T.J., Shaw, D.S., Wilson, M.N., & Gardner, F. (2013). Collateral Benefits of the Family Check-Up in Early Childhood: Caregivers' Social Support and Relationship Satisfaction. Journal of Family Psychology, 27, 271-281.
Fosco, G. M., Seeley, J. R., Dishion, T. J., Smolkowski, K., Stormshak, E. A., Downey-McCarthy, R., Falkenstein, C. A., Moore, K. J., & Strycker, L. A. (In Press). Lessons learned from scaling up the ecological approach to family interventions and treatment (EcoFIT) program in middle schools. In M. Weist, N. Lever, C. Bradshaw, & J. Owens (Eds.), Handbook of School Mental Health, Second Edition. New York, NY: Springer.
Fosco, G. M., Dishion, T. J., & Stormshak, E. A. (2012). A public health approach to family-centered prevention of alcohol and drug addiction: A middle school strategy. In H.J. Shaffer, D. A. LaPlante, & S. E. Nelson (Eds.) The American Psychological Association Addiction Syndrome Handbook, Volume 2: Recovery, Prevention, and Other Issues (pp 225-245). Washington DC: American Psychological Association.
Stormshak, E. A., Fosco, G. M., & Dishion, T. J. (2010). Implementing Interventions with Families in Schools to Increase Youth School Engagement: The Family Check-Up Model. School Mental Health, 2, 82-92.
Feinberg, M.E., *Xia, M., Fosco, G.M., & Chow, S. (In Press). Dynamical Systems Modeling of Couple Interaction: A New Method for Assessing Intervention Impact Across the Transition to Parenthood. Prevention Science.
Connel, A.M., Stormshak, E.A., Dishion, T.J., Fosco, G.M., & Van Ryzin, M. (In Press). The Family Check-Up and Adolescent Depression: An Examination of Treatment Responders and Non-Responders. Prevention Science.
Van Ryzin, M., Roseth, C., Fosco, G.M., Lee, Y-k., & Chen, I-C. (2016). A Component-Centered Meta-Analysis of Family-Based Prevention Programs for Adolescent Substance Use. Clinical Psychology Review
Fosco, G.M., Van Ryzin, M., Connell, A.M., & Stormshak, E.A. (2016). Preventing Adolescent Depression with the Family Check-Up: Examining Family Conflict as a Mechanism of Change. Journal of Family Psychology.
Bamberger, K. T., Coatsworth, J.D., Fosco, G.M., & Ram, N. (2014). Change in participant engagement during a family-based preventive intervention: Ups and downs with time and tension. Journal of Family Psychology, 28, 811-820.
Fosco, G. M., Van Ryzin, M., Stormshak, E. A., & Dishion, T. J. (2014). Putting theory to the test: Examining Family Context, Caregiver Motivation, and Conflict in the Family Check-Up model. Development and Psychopathology.
Fosco, G. M., Frank, J. L., Stormshak, E. A., & Dishion, T. J. (2013). Opening the “Black Box”: Explaining Family Check-Up Intervention Effects for Adolescent Effortful Control, Problem Behavior, and Substance Use. Journal of School Psychology.
McEachren, A.D., Fosco, G.M., Dishion, T.J., Shaw, D.S., Wilson, M.N., & Gardner, F. (2013). Collateral Benefits of the Family Check-Up in Early Childhood: Caregivers' Social Support and Relationship Satisfaction. Journal of Family Psychology, 27, 271-281.
Fosco, G. M., Seeley, J. R., Dishion, T. J., Smolkowski, K., Stormshak, E. A., Downey-McCarthy, R., Falkenstein, C. A., Moore, K. J., & Strycker, L. A. (In Press). Lessons learned from scaling up the ecological approach to family interventions and treatment (EcoFIT) program in middle schools. In M. Weist, N. Lever, C. Bradshaw, & J. Owens (Eds.), Handbook of School Mental Health, Second Edition. New York, NY: Springer.
Fosco, G. M., Dishion, T. J., & Stormshak, E. A. (2012). A public health approach to family-centered prevention of alcohol and drug addiction: A middle school strategy. In H.J. Shaffer, D. A. LaPlante, & S. E. Nelson (Eds.) The American Psychological Association Addiction Syndrome Handbook, Volume 2: Recovery, Prevention, and Other Issues (pp 225-245). Washington DC: American Psychological Association.
Stormshak, E. A., Fosco, G. M., & Dishion, T. J. (2010). Implementing Interventions with Families in Schools to Increase Youth School Engagement: The Family Check-Up Model. School Mental Health, 2, 82-92.
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