Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University, Clinical Psychology, 2006
M.S. Pennsylvania State University, Clinical Psychology, 2002
B.S. Texas A&M University, Psychology, 2002

• Physiological and coping responses to peer and family stress
• Social difficulties in childhood and adolescence
• Parent-child and peer relationships

Applied Research and Evaluation Methods
Relationship Development and Processes in Childhood and Adolescence
Peer Relationships: From Research to Prevention
Seminar in Human Development and Family Science

Predicting adolescent reception of parental support
Helping young adolescents cope with peer rejection: Mechanisms of effective adult intervention
Peer stress in preadolescence: Psychophysiological and coping responses

Altinoz, Z. S., Erath, S. A., Pettit, G. S., Laird, R. D., & Kaeppler, A. K. (2024). Variability in adolescent reception of parental support: Testing the domain-matching hypothesis. Journal of Family Psychology, 38, 654-662. https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0001225

VanDenBerg, C. E., Erath, S. A., Pettit, G. S., Altinoz, Z. S., & McWood, L. M. (2023). Parental sensitivity predicts parent-adolescent agreement about peer victimization. Journal of Family Psychology, 37, 554-560. https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0001066

Erath, S. A., & Pettit, G. S. (2021). Coping with relationship stress in adolescence: A decade in review. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 31, 1047-1067. https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12603

Erath, S. A., Pettit, G. S., & Troop-Gordon, W. (2021). Direct and compensatory parental responses to peer victimization. The Journal of Early Adolescence, 41, 197-217. https://doi.org/10.1177/0272431620940386

Erath, S. A., Su, S., & Tu, K. M. (2018). Electrodermal reactivity moderates the prospective association between peer victimization and depressive symptoms in early adolescence. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 47, 992-1103. https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2016.1197838