Mechanisms of perpetration for Teen Dating Violence/Intimate Partner Violence/Sexual Violence
Development of Primary Prevention Strategies and Policy Approaches to reduce in Teen Dating Violence/Intimate
Partner Violence/Sexual Violence
Community Engagement/Community Engaged Research
Developmental Methodologies
Child Development/Adolescent Development/Emerging Young Adults
Child Maltreatment
Relational/Interpersonal Trauma
Complex Trauma
The interface between early childhood relational trauma, parenting, attachment, and cognitive/language processing
Cognitive processing, language processing, emotional regulation, attachment, and history of maltreatment as predictors of school adjustment
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Steinberg, D.B*., Smith-Darden, J.P., Simon, V.A., Victor, B.G.* & Kernsmith, P.D., Situating sexting behavior within trajectories of adolescent sexual development, Archives of Sexual Behavior. [in press].
Lee, J.M., Johns, S., Smith-Darden, J.P., Hong, J.S., & Voisin, D.R., The association between incarcerated adult at home and bullying behavior among urban African American adolescents in Chicago: The mediating effect of delinquent peer affiliation. International Journal of Bullying Prevention. [in press].
Kernsmith, P.D., Sabol, B.* & Smith-Darden, J.P. [in press] Female Pornography Use and Sexual Coercion Perpetration among Adolescents and Young Adults. In Conyers, A. & Calhoun, T.C. (eds.) Deviance Today Second Edition. Routledge, New York, NY.
Sobeck, J., Smith-Darden, J., Hicks, M., Kernsmith, P., Kilgore, P. E., Treemore-Spears, L., & McElmurry, S. (2020). Stress, Coping, Resilience and Trust during the Flint Water Crisis.Behavioral Medicine, 46(3-4), 202-216.
Sabol, B.*, Kernsmith, P.D., Hicks, M.R.*, & Smith-Darden, J.P. (2020).Attitudes about aggression and perpetration of adolescent dating aggression: A cross-lagged panel model, Journal of Adolescence, 83, 100-111.
Hicks, M.*, Kernsmith, P., & Smith-Darden, J. (2020). The effects of adverse childhood experiences on internalizing and externalizing behaviors among African American youth, Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma,1-8.
Meldrum, R.C., Campion Young, B., Soor, S., H., Carter, Copp, J., Trace, M., Smith-Darden, J.P., & Kernsmith, P.D. (2020). The association between adverse childhood experiences and low self-control. Criminal Justice and Behavior, DOI: 10.1177/0093854819879741.
Eisman A.B., Hicks M.*, Kernsmith P.D., Rupp L.*, Smith-Darden J. P., Zimmerman M.A. (2019). Adapting an Evidence-Based Positive Youth Development Intervention to Prevent Sexual and Teen Dating Violence. Translational Behavioral Medicine.
Steinberg, D.B.*, Simon, V.A., Victor*, B.G. Kernsmith, P.D. & Smith-Darden, J.P. (2019). Onset trajectories of sexting and other sexual behaviors across high school: A longitudinal growth mixture modeling approach.Archives of Sexual Behavior, 48(8), 2321-2331.
Dayton, C.J., Brown, S., Goletz, J., Hicks, L., Barron, C., & Smith-Darden, J. (2019). Pathways to parenting: Predictors of prenatal bonding in a sample of expectant mothers and fathers exposed to environmental risk.Journal of Child and FamilyStudies, 28(4), 1134-1144.
