Recent Publications

Lawford, H. L., Ramey, H. L., Rose-Krasnor, L., & Proctor, A. (in press). Predictors of adolescent successful development after an exchange: The importance of activity qualities and youth input. Journal of Adolescence.

Soucie, K., Lawford, H. L., Pratt, M. W. (in press). Personal stories of empathy in adolescence and emerging adulthood. Merrill Palmer Quarterly.

Nosko, A., Lawford, H., Tieu, T. & Pratt, M. W. (2011). How do I love thee? Let me count the ways: Parenting, attachment, trust and romantic narratives. Developmental Psychology, 47, 645-657.

Doyle, A. B., Lawford, H., & Markiewicz, D. (2009). Attachment to mother, father, and best friend across adolescence. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 19, 690-714.

Dumas, T. M., Lawford, H., Tieu, T., & Pratt, M. W. (2009). Positive parenting in adolescence and its relation to low point narration and identity status in emerging adulthood: A longitudinal analysis. Developmental Psychology, 45, 1531-1544.

Markiewicz, D., Lawford, H., Doyle, A.B., & Haggart, N. (2006). Developmental differences in adolescents’ and young adults’ use of mothers, fathers, best friends, and romantic partners to fulfill attachment needs. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 3, 127-140.

Lawford, H., Pratt, M.W., Hunsberger, B., & Pancer, S.M. (2005). The routes to generativity: Two contexts for learning of concern for future generations in adolescence. Journal of Research in Adolescence: Special Issue on Moral Development, 15, 261-273.

Pratt, M. W., Lawford, H. L., & Allen, J. W. (in press). Generativity and fathering: Travelling a two-way street to maturity. In J. Ball & K. Daly (Eds.). Engaging fathers in social change: Lessons from Canada. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.

Pratt, M. W., Norris, J. E., Lawford, H. L., & Arnold, M. L. (2010). “What he said to me stuck:” Adolescents’ narrative representations of their grandparents as teachers. In K. C. McLean & M. Pasupathi (Eds.), Narrative development in adolescence. (pp. 83-112). NewYork: Springer.

Pratt, M. W., Arnold, M. L., & Lawford, H. L. (2009). Growing towards care: A narrative approach to prosocial moral identity and generativity of personality in emerging adulthood. In D. Narvaez & D. Lapsley (Eds.), Personality, identity and character: Explorations in moral psychology. (pp. 295-315). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Lawford, H. L., Busseri, M., & Rose-Krasnor, L (2011, March). Activity engagement as a predictor of adolescent successful development. Poster to be presented at the Society for Research on Adolescence, Vancouver.

Lawford, H. L., Dumas, T. M., Davis, N., & Pratt, M. W. (2008, March). Stories of morality and moral courage and their association with concern for future generations in emerging adulthood. Poster presented at the Society for Research on Adolescence, Chicago.

Lawford, H., Doyle, A. B., & Markiewicz, D. (2006, March). An examination of the care and legacy components of generativity in adolescence. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Adolescence, San Francisco.

Lawford, H., Markiewicz, D. & Doyle, A. B.  (2005, April). Security of attachment to mothers: Associations with use of parents and peers for attachment functions across adolescence and emerging adulthood. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta.