Positive Social Development Lab
at Virginia Tech
Publications
2024
Gülseven, Z., Simpkins, S.D., Jiang, S., & Vandell, D.L. (2024). Patterns of afterschool settings: Are they related to changes in academic and social functioning in children and adolescents?. Applied Developmental Science, Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888691.2024.2385425
Xiao, S. X., Gülseven, Z., Clancy, E. T., Liew, J., Carlo, G., Kim, S., & Jiang, S. (2024). Measuring early adolescents’ prosocial behavior toward diverse others: Considering multiple social identities. Journal of Adolescence, 96(4), 841-854. http://doi.org/10.1002/jad.12305
Gülseven, Z., Pierotti, S.L., Killoren, S.E., Alfaro, E.C., & Carlo, G. (2024). The role of maternal warmth in understanding the relations between cultural orientations and prosocial behaviors in U.S. Mexican college students. Journal of Latinx Psychology, 12(3), 261-276. https://doi.org/10.1037/lat0000253
2023
Gülseven, Z., Pierotti, S.L., Killoren, S.E., Alfaro, E.C., & Carlo, G. (2023, In press). The role of maternal warmth in understanding the relations between cultural orientations and prosocial behaviors in U.S. Mexican college students. Journal of Latinx Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/lat0000253
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Gülseven, Z., Puente, K., Tulagan, N., Zarrett, N., Simpkins, S. D., & Vandell, D. L. (2023 - In Press). Children’s self-control as an antecedent of adolescent prosociality and adult civic engagement. Applied Developmental Science, doi: 10.1080/10888691.2022.2158827
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Vandell, D.L. & Gülseven, Z. (2023). The Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD): Studying development from infancy to adulthood. Annual Review of Developmental Psychology, 5(1), 331-354. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-devpsych-120621-035345
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Gülseven, Z., Yu, M., Zarrett, N., Vandell, D. L., & Simpkins, S.D. (2023). Self-control and cooperation in childhood as antecedents of less moral disengagement in adolescence. Development and Psychopathology. doi:10.1017/S0954579421000584
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Maiya, S., Gülseven, Z., Killoren, S. E., Carlo, G., & Streit, C. (2023). The intervening role of anxiety symptoms in associations between self-regulation and prosocial behaviors in U.S. Latino/a college students. Journal of American College Health. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2021.1899187
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2022
Gülseven, Z., Maiya, S., & Carlo, G. (2022). The intervening roles of shame and guilt in relations between parenting and prosocial behavior in college students. Journal of Genetic Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221325.2022.2098004
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Carrizales, A., Gülseven, Z., & Lannegrand, L. (2022). The mediating role of empathy in the links between relationships with three socialization agents and adolescents’ prosocial behaviors. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075221099652
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Padilla-Walker, L., Van der Graaff, J., Workman, K., Carlo, G., Branje, S., Carrizales, A., Gerbino, M., Gülseven, Z., Hawk, S., Luengo Kanacri, P., Mesurado, B., Samper, P., Shen, Y., Taylor, L., Trach, J., Van Zalk, M., Zukauskiene, R. (2022). Emerging adults’ cultural values, prosocial behaviors, and mental health in fourteen countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 46(4), 286-296. https://doi.org/10.1177/01650254221084098
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Gülseven, Z., Carlo, G., Kumru, A., Sayıl, M., & Selçuk, B. (2022). The protective role of early prosocial behaviors against young Turkish children’s later internalizing and externalizing problems. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 19(3), 400-418. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405629.2021.1920917
Before 2022
Gülseven, Z. & Carlo, G. (2021). Parenting and prosocial behaviors in Nicaraguan adolescents: The roles of moral reasoning and familism. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 38(9), 2545-2565. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075211009298
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Gülseven, Z., Liu, Y., Ma, T., Yu, M., Simpkins, S.D., Vandell, D. L., & Zarrett, N. (2021). The development of cooperation and self-control in middle childhood: Associations with earlier maternal and paternal parenting. Developmental Psychology, 57(3), 397-409. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001151
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Gülseven, Z., Kumru, A., Carlo, G., & de Guzman, M. R. (2020). The roles of perspective taking, empathic concern, and prosocial moral reasoning in the self-reported prosocial behaviors of Filipino and Turkish young adults. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 51(10), 814-830. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022120968265
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Maiya, S., Carlo, G., Gülseven, Z., & Crockett, L. (2020). Direct and indirect effects of parental involvement, deviant peer affiliation, and school connectedness on prosocial behaviors in U.S. Latino/a youth. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 37(10-11), 2898-2917. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265407520941611
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Davis, A. N., Carlo, G., Gülseven, Z., Palermo, F., Lin, C.H., Nagel, S. C., Vu, D. C., Vo, P. H., Ho, T. L., & McElroy, J. A. (2019). Exposure to environmental toxicants and young children’s cognitive and social development. Reviews on Environmental Health (REVEH), 34(1), 35-56. https://doi.org/10.1515/reveh-2018-0045
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Gülseven, Z., Kumru, A., Carlo, G., Palermo, F., Selçuk, B., Sayıl, M. (2018). The mediational roles of harsh and responsive parenting in the longitudinal relations between socioeconomic status and Turkish children’s emotional development. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 42(6), 563-573. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165025418783279
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Gülseven, Z., Carlo, G., Streit, C., Kumru, A., Selçuk, B., Sayıl, M., (2018). Longitudinal relations among parenting daily hassles, child rearing, and prosocial and aggressive behaviors in Turkish children. Social Development, 27(1), 45-57. https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12247
Presentations
2024
Gülseven, Z., Carlo, G., Aras, B. N., Kreidell, K., Torres, M., & Kumru, A. (April 2024). Prosocial behavior profiles of Nicaraguan youth: Relations with moral cognitions, parenting practices, and familism [Paper presentation]. Biennial Meeting for the Society for Research on Adolescence, Chicago, IL, United States.
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Kumru, A., Coko Sehir, P., Gülseven, Z., & Carlo, G. (April 2024). The role of culture and parent and peer attachment on the qualities of friendships among Turkish college students. [Paper presentation]. Biennial Meeting for the Society for Research on Adolescence, Chicago, IL, United States.
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Maiya, S., Carlo, G., Gülseven, Z., & Roos, J. (accepted - May 2024). Intervening Socio-Cognitive and-Emotive Mechanisms in Relations Between Discrimination and Prosocial Behaviors in Asian Indian Youth. [Paper will be presented]. Society for Research in Child Development Anti-Racist Developmental Science Summit: Transforming Research, Practices, and Policies, Panama City, Panama.
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Aras, B. N., Gulseven, Z., Kumru, A., Carlo, G., Sayil, M., & Selcuk, B. (2024, June 16-20). Developmental Trajectories of Turkish Children’s Prosocial Behaviors: Relations with Parenting Practices [Poster Presentation]. International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD) 27th Biennial Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal
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Kreidell, K., Gulseven, Z., Kumru, A., Carlo, G., Sayil, M., & Selcuk, B. (2024, June16-20). Temperament and Developmental Trajectories of Prosocial Behavior among Turkish Children [Poster Presentation]. International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD) 27th Biennial Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal.​​​
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2023
Gülseven, Z. (October 2023). Positive youth development among underserved and minoritized youth: Roles of organized afterschool activities. 13th Biennial Conference of the Society for the Study of Human Development (SSHD), Philadelphia, PA, United States.
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Gülseven, Z., Jiang, S., Simpkins, S., & Vandell, D. L. (October 2023). Patterns of participation in afterschool settings in middle childhood and early adolescence: Are they related to academic and social well-being? [Paper presentation]. In Z. Gülseven (Chair), Positive youth development among underserved and minoritized youth: Roles of organized afterschool activities. 13th Biennial Conference of the Society for the Study of Human Development (SSHD), Philadelphia, PA, United States.
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