Julia O. Dmitrieva

Developmental Differences in the Effects of Social Context on Externalizing Behavior. Peer social context begins to influence externalizing at an early age – kindergarteners surrounded by classmates with behavioral problems are themselves also more likely to exhibit higher externalizing behavior (Dmitrieva, Steinberg, & Belsky, 2007). Throughout adolescence, peer behavior continues to play a role in youth externalizing and delinquency, but younger adolescents may be more vulnerable to the negative effects of peer context (Goldweber, Dmitrieva, Cauffman, Piquero, & Steinberg, 2011). Interestingly, early adolescent boys are more susceptible to romantic partner deviance than early adolescent girls (Monahan, Dmitrieva, & Cauffman, 2014). However, boys become more resistant to this antisocial influence as they transition into late adolescence and young adulthood, whereas girls become more susceptible during the same developmental period.
Cultural as a Context of Youth Development. My work has focused on the issue of culture-specific and culture-general factors in adolescent development. As such, my work finds support for both culture-general effect of parenting (effects of parental involvement, parent-adolescent conflict, parental monitoring on adolescent misconduct; Dmitrieva, Chen, Greenberger, & Gil-Rivas, 2004; Farruggia, Chen, Greenberger, & Dmitrieva, 2004), as well as culture-specific patterns of developmental trajectories in academic achievement (Dmitrieva, Chen, & Greenberger, 2008) and affect (Lin & Dmitrieva, 2018).