Publications
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Peer Influence and Adolescent Health Risk Behaviors

Prinstein, M. J. & La Greca, A. M.  (in press).  Childhood depressive symptoms and adolescent cigarette use: A six-year longitudinal study controlling for peer relations correlates.  Health Psychology.

Otten, R., Engels, R.C.M.E., & Prinstein, M.J. (in press).  A prospective study of perception in adolescent smoking. Journal of Adolescent Health.

Simon, V. A., Aikins, J. W., & Prinstein, M. J. (2008).  Romantic partner selection and socialization during early adolescence.  Child Development, 79, 1676-1692. pdf

*Heilbron, N., & Prinstein, M. J. (2008). A review and reconceptualization of social aggression: Adaptive and maladaptive correlates. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 11, 176–217. pdf

*Heilbron, N., & Prinstein, M. J. (2008). Peer influence and adolescent nonsuicidal self-injury: A theoretical review of mechanisms and moderators. Applied and Preventive Psychology, 12, 169-177. pdf

Prinstein, M. J. & Dodge, K. A. (2008).  Understanding peer influence in children and adolescents.  New York: Guilford.

Prinstein, M. J. & Dodge, K. A. (2008).  Current issues in peer influence research.  In M. J. Prinstein & K. A. Dodge (Eds.), Understanding peer influence in children and adolescents.  New York: Guilford.

Lloyd-Richardson, E. E., Nock, M. K. & Prinstein, M. K. (2008). Functions of adolescent non-suicidal self-injury. In M. K. Nixon & N. Heath (Eds.), Self-injury in youth: Essential guide to assessment and intervention.

Prinstein, M. J. (2007).  Moderators of peer contagion: A longitudinal examination of depression socialization between adolescents and their best friends.  Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 36, 159-170. pdf

*Wang, S. S., *Houshyar, S., & Prinstein, M. J. (2006).  Adolescent girls’ and boys’ weight-related behaviors and cognitions:  Associations with reputation- and preference-based peer status.  Health Psychology, 25, 658-663. pdf

Nock, M. K., Joiner, T. E., Gordon, K. H., Lloyd-Richardson, E., & Prinstein, M. J.  (2006).  Non-suicidal self-injury among adolescents: Diagnostic correlates and relation to suicide attempts.  Psychiatry Research, 144, 65-72. pdf

Cohen, G. L. & Prinstein, M. J. (2006). Peer contagion of aggression and health-risk behavior among adolescent males: An experimental investigation of effects on public conduct and private attitudes. Child Development, 77, 967-983. pdf

Prinstein, M. J. & *Wang, S. S. (2005). False consensus and adolescent peer contagion: Examining discrepancies between perceptions and actual reported levels of friends’ deviant and health risk behavior. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 33, 293-306. pdf

Nock, M. K. & Prinstein, M. J. (2005). Contextual features and behavioral functions of self- mutilation among adolescents. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 114, 140-146. pdf

Prinstein, M. J. & La Greca, A. M. (2004). Childhood peer rejection and aggression as predictors of adolescent girls’ externalizing and health risk behaviors: A six year longitudinal study. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 72, 103-112. pdf

*Nock, M. K. & Prinstein, M. J. (2004). A functional approach to the assessment of self-mutilative behavior in adolescents. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 72, 885-890. pdf

Prinstein, M. J. & Cillessen, A. H. N. (2003). Forms and functions of adolescent peer aggression associated with high levels of peer status. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 49, 310-342. pdf

Prinstein, M. J., *Meade, C. S., & Cohen, G. L. (2003). Adolescent oral sex, peer popularity, and perceptions of best friends’ sexual behavior. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 28, 243-249. pdf

Pearce, M. J., Boergers, J., & Prinstein, M. J. (2002). Adolescent obesity, overt and relational peer victimization, and romantic relationships. Obesity Research, 10, 386-393. pdf

Prinstein, M.J., Boergers, J., & Spirito, A. (2001). Adolescents’ and their friends’ health-risk behavior: Factors that alter or add to peer influence. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 26, 287-298. pdf

La Greca, A. M., Prinstein, M. J., & Fetter, M. D. (2001). Adolescent peer crowd affiliation: Linkages with health-risk behaviors and close friendships. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 26, 131-143. pdf

La Greca, A. M. & Prinstein, M. J. (1999). Peer group. In W. K. Silverman & T. H. Ollendick (Eds.), Developmental issues in the clinical treatment of children and adolescents. New York: Wiley.

Interpersonal Models of Depression and Self-Injury in Youth

*Heilbron, N. & Prinstein, M.J. (in press).  Adolescent peer victimization, peer status, suicidal ideation, and nonsuicidal self-injury: Examining concurrent and longitudinal associations.  Merrill-Palmer Quarterly.

*Heilbron, N., Prinstein, M. J., & Hilt, L. M. (in press).  A lab-based examination of adolescent girls’ expressed negative cognitions in response to an in vivo social stressor: Links to depressive symptoms.  International Journal of Cognitive Therapy.

Prinstein, M. J., *Guerry, J. D., *Browne, C. B., & *Rancourt, D.  (2009).  Interpersonal models of nonsuicidal self-injury.  In M. K. Nock (Ed.), Non-suicidal self-injury: Current science and practice.  Washington, DC: American Psychological Association

*Hilt, L. M., Nock, M. K., Lloyd-Richardson, E. E., & Prinstein, M. J. (2008).  Longitudinal study of non-suicidal self-injury among young adolescents: Rates, correlates, and preliminary test of an interpersonal model.  Journal of Early Adolescence, 28, 455-469.   pdf

Prinstein, M. J. *Rancourt, D., *Guerry, J. D., & *Browne, C. B. (2009).  Peer reputations and  psychological adjustment.  In K. H. Rubin, W. Bukowski, & B. Laursen (Eds.), Handbook of peer interactions, relationships, and  groups.  New York: Guilford.

Prinstein, M. J. (2008).  Introduction to the Special Section on suicide and nonsuicidal self-injury: A review of unique challenges and important directions for self-injury science.  Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 76, 1-8.  pdf

Prinstein, M. J., Nock, M. K., Simon, V., Aikins, J. W., Cheah, C. S. L., & Spirito, A. (2008).  Longitudinal trajectories and predictors of adolescent suicidal ideation and attempts following inpatient hospitalization.  Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 76, 92-103.  pdf

*Sterba, S., Prinstein, M. J., & Cox, M. J. (2007). Developmental trajectories of internalizing problems across childhood: Heterogeneity, external validity, and gender differences. Development and Psychopathology, 19, 345-366 . pdf

*Borelli, J. L. & Prinstein, M. J. (2006). Reciprocal, longitudinal associations between adolescents’ negative feedback-seeking, depressive symptoms, and friendship perceptions. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 34, 159-169. pdf

Prinstein, M. J., *Borelli, J. L., *Cheah, C. S. L., *Simon, V. A., & *Aikins, J. W. (2005). Adolescent girls’ interpersonal vulnerability to depressive symptoms: A longitudinal examination of reassurance-seeking and peer relationships. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 114, 676-688. pdf

Prinstein, M. J., *Cheah, C. S. L., & *Guyer, A. E. (2005). Peer victimization, cue interpretation, and internalizing symptoms: Concurrent and longitudinal findings for children and adolescents. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 34, 11-24. pdf

*Stevens, E. A. & Prinstein, M. J. (2005). Peer contagion of depressogenic attributional styles among adolescents: A longitudinal study. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 33, 25-37. pdf

*De Los Reyes, A. & Prinstein, M. J. (2004). Applying depression-distortion hypotheses to the assessment of peer victimization in adolescents. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 33, 325-335. pdf

Prinstein, M. J. & *Aikins, J. W. (2004). Cognitive moderators of the longitudinal association between peer rejection and adolescent depressive symptoms. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 32, 147-158. pdf

D’Eramo, K. S. Prinstein, M. J. Freeman, J., Grapentine, W. L. & Spirito, A. (2004). Psychiatric diagnoses in relation to suicidal behavior among psychiatrically hospitalized adolescents. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 3, 21-35. pdf

Prinstein, M.J. (2003). Social factors: Peer relationships. In A. Spirito & J. C. Overholser (Eds.), Evaluating and treating adolescent suicide attempters: From research to practice. New York: Academic Press.

Prinstein, M. J. & La Greca, A. M. (2002). Peer crowd affiliation and internalizing distress in childhood and adolescence: A longitudinal follow-back study. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 12, 325-351. pdf

Prinstein, M. J., *Nock, M., Spirito, A., & Grapentine, W.L. (2001). Multi-method assessment of adolescent suicidality in adolescent psychiatric inpatients: Preliminary results on the relative utility of suicide assessment approaches. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 40, 1053-1061. pdf

Prinstein, M. J., Boergers, J., & Vernberg, E. M. (2001). Overt and relational aggression in adolescents: Social-psychological functioning of aggressors and victims. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 30, 477-489. pdf

Prinstein, M. J., Boergers, J., Spirito, A., Little, T.D., & Grapentine, W. L. (2000). Peer functioning, family dysfunction, and psychological symptoms in a risk factor model for adolescent inpatients’ suicidal ideation severity. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 29, 392-405. pdf

Prinstein, M. J., & La Greca, A. M. (1999). Links between mothers’ and children’s social competence, and associations with maternal adjustment. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 28, 197-210. pdf

Kuttler, A. F., La Greca, A. M., & Prinstein. M. J. (1999). Friendship qualities and social- emotional functioning of adolescents with close, cross-sex friendships. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 9, 339-366. pdf

Measurement, Coping, and Traumatic Stress

Prinstein, M. J. (2007).  Assessment of adolescents’ preference- and reputation-based popularity using sociometric experts.  Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 53, 243-261.  pdf

Anthony, J. L., Lonigan, C. J., Vernberg, E. M., Silverman, W. K., La Greca, A. M., & Prinstein, M. J. (2005). Multisample cross-validation of a model of childhood posttraumatic stress disorder symptomotology. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 18, 667-676. pdf

La Greca, A. M. & Prinstein, M. J. (2002). Hurricanes and earthquakes. In A. M. La Greca, W. K. Silverman, E. M. Vernberg, and M. C. Roberts (Eds.), Helping children cope with disasters and terrorism. Washington, DC: APA Books.

Zakriski, A.L., & Prinstein, M.J. (2001). Sociometric status of child inpatients in clinical and normative peer groups: Is peer status in a clinical setting a useful measure of adjustment? Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 22, 1-17. pdf

Donaldson, D., Prinstein, M. J., Danovsky, M., & Spirito, A. (2000). Patterns of children’s with life stress: Implications for clinicians. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 70, 351-359. pdf

Zakriski, A. L., Seifer, R., Sheldrick, R. C., Prinstein, M. J., Dickstein, S, & Sameroff, A. (1999). Child-focused versus school-focused sociometrics: A challenge for the applied researcher. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 20, 481 - 499. pdf

Prinstein, M.J., La Greca, A.M., Vernberg, E.M., & Silverman, W.K. (1996). Children’s coping assistance: How parents, teachers, and friends help children cope after a natural disaster. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 25, 463-475. pdf

La Greca, A.M., Silverman, W.K., Vernberg, E.M., & Prinstein, M.J. (1996). Symptoms of posttraumatic stress in children following Hurricane Andrew: A prospective study. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 64, 712-723. pdf

Vernberg, E.M., La Greca, A.M., Silverman, W.K., & Prinstein, M.J. (1996). Prediction of posttraumatic stress symptoms in children after Hurricane Andrew. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 105, 237-248. pdf

La Greca, A. M., Vernberg, E. M., Silverman, W. K., Vogel, A. L., & Prinstein, M. J. (1995). Helping children. Japanese translation of: Helping children prepare for and cope with natural disasters: A manual for professionals working with elementary school children. Published by: Asahi, Tokyo, Japan.

La Greca, A.M., Vernberg, E.M., Silverman, W.K., Vogel, A.L., & Prinstein, M.J. (1994). Helping children prepare for and cope with natural disasters: A manual for professionals working with elementary school children. Miami, FL: Author.

Professional Commentaries and Professional Development Publications

Prinstein, M. J. & Roberts, M. C. (2006). The professional adolescence of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology and Pediatric Psychology: Grown up and striving for autonomy. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 13, 263-268. pdf

Prinstein, M. J. & Patterson, M. (Eds.) (2003). The portable mentor: Expert guide to a successful career in psychology. New York: Springer/Kluwer Academic/Plenum. Table of Contents

Williams-Nickelson, C. & Prinstein, M.J. (Eds.) (2004, First Edition; 2005, Second Edition). Internships in psychology: The APAGS workbook for writing successful applications and finding the right match. Washington, DC: APA.

Prinstein, M.J. (2004, First Edition; 2005, Second Edition). The interview. In C. Williams-Nickelson & M.J. Prinstein (Eds.), Internships in psychology: The APAGS workbook for writing successful applications and finding the right match. Washington, DC: APA.

Lopez, S. J. & Prinstein, M.J. (2004, First Edition; 2005, Second Edition). Goals and essays. In C. Williams-Nickelson & M.J. Prinstein (Eds.), Internships in psychology: The APAGS workbook for writing successful applications and finding the right match. Washington, DC: APA.

Williams-Nickelson, C. & Prinstein, M.J. (2004, First Edition; 2005, Second Edition). Supplementary materials. In C. Williams-Nickelson & M.J. Prinstein (Eds.), Internships in psychology: The APAGS workbook for writing successful applications and finding the right match. Washington, DC: APA.

Prinstein, M. J., Lopez, S. J., & Rasmussen, H. N. (2003). Navigating the internship application process. In M. J. Prinstein & M. Patterson (Eds.), The portable mentor: Expert guide to a successful career in psychology. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum.

Other Published Work

Prinstein, M. J. & *Nock, M. K. (2003). Invited commentary: Parents under-report children’s suicidal ideation and attempts. Evidence Based Mental Health, 6, 12.

Prinstein, M. J. (2002). Cliques. In N. J. Salkind (Ed.), Child Development. New York: Macmillan.

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