Auburn University
Department of Human Development and Family Studies
284 Spidle Hall
Auburn, Alabama 36849 (USA)
Phone: (334) 844-4091
Fax: (334) 844-4515
vazsonyi@auburn.edu
Ph.D., The University of Arizona, 1995

Research Interests

General: Child and adolescent development in context (family, school, neighborhood, and culture); the salience of family/parenting processes; adolescent adjustment and well-being; the school-work nexus, mentoring; self-control/self regulation; academic aspirations and achievement; etiology and development of child/adolescent problem behaviors, deviance, violence, and health compromising behaviors; cross-cultural and cross-national socio-contextual influences on child and adolescent development.

Statistics and Methodology: Measurement development and validation construct validation (CFA); study design; questionnaire data; SEM techniques (AMOS, EQS, and LISREL); comparative research method (e.g., cross-cultural or cross-national); program evaluation.

Selected Publications

Vazsonyi, A. T.& Huang*, L. (2010). Where self-control comes from: On the development of self-control and its relationship to deviance over time. Developmental Psychology, 46(1), 245-257.

Pickering*, L.E., & Vazsonyi, A. T. (2010). Does family process mediate the effect of religiosity on adolescent deviance: Revisiting the notion of spuriousness. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 37(1). 97-118.

Park, N.S., Lee, B. S., Sun, F., Vazsonyi, A. T., & Bolland, J.M. (2010). Pathways and predictors of antisocial behaviors in African American adolescents from poor neighborhoods. Children and Youth Services Review, 32(3), 409-415.

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