LAUREE TILTON-WEAVER, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
AS 347
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Omaha, Nebraska 68182-0274
(402) 554-2581

Biography

Dr. Tilton-Weaver is a Lifespan Developmental Psychologist, trained at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. Her training focused on cognitive, emotional, and social development across the lifespan with a particular emphasis on the development of adolescents.

Her research focuses broadly on psychosocial development during adolescence and early adulthood. More specifically, she has studied the context and correlates of problem or risky behavior in adolescents, ranging from examining engagement in multiple risk factors (two or more high risk behaviors such as unsafe sex and binge drinking) in a large national sample, to considering problem behaviors as part of a broader framework of movement toward maturity. The latter work has spawned a research program showing how problem behaviors may allow adolescents to "lay claim" to more mature status, influencing their behaviors and their implicit theories of maturity. Currently, Dr. Tilton-Weaver is working on a project examining implicit theories of psychosocial and behavioral maturity across several cultural contexts. As part of the context of problem behaviors, Dr. Tilton-Weaver is also interested in the role played by parents, with a particular interest in two areas: parental control and peer management. With regard to parental control, she is particularly interested in adolescent's agency and the constraints that adolescents' behaviors and developmental needs place on parenting. In addition, she has examined the linkages between adolescents' problem behaviors, peer relations, and parents' efforts to manage their adolescents' peer relationships.

Recent Publications

Journal Articles

Marshall S. K., Tilton-Weaver, L. C., & Bosdet, L. (2005). Information management: Considering adolescents' regulation of parental knowledge. Journal of Adolescence, 28, 633-647.

Galambos, N. L., Barker, E. T., & Tilton-Weaver, L. C. (2003). Who gets caught at maturity gap? A study of pseudomature, immature, and mature adolescents. The International Journal of Behavioral Development, 27, 253-263.

Tilton-Weaver, L. C., & Galambos, N. L. (2003). Adolescents' characteristics and parents' beliefs as predictors of parents' peer management behaviors. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 13, 269-300.

Tilton-Weaver, L. C., Galambos, N. L., & Vitunski, E. T. (2001). Five images of maturity in adolescence: What does "grown up" mean? Journal of Adolescence, 24, 143-158.

Galambos, N. L., & Tilton-Weaver, L. C. (2000). Adolescents' psychosocial maturity, subjective age, and problem behavior: In search of the adulthood. Applied Developmental Science, 4, 178-192.

Books & Chapters

Tilton-Weaver, L. C., & Kakihara, F. (in press) Adolescence in the U.S. In J. J. Arnett (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Adolescence. New York: Routledge.