Mimi Stotsky

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Faculty Member at Boston Children's Hospital

The current study examined a bifactor model of affective dimensions of withdrawal. Specifically, a model which specified a general factor of anxious-avoidant withdrawal (i.e., withdrawal with negative affect), a specific factor of unsociability (i.e., withdrawal without negative affect), and a specific factor of negative affect without withdrawal w...

Introduction After years of neglect, there is now strong empirical interest in adolescents' romantic experiences. Most studies, however, focus on adolescents’ romantic relationships in Western societies and fail to consider other‐types of romantic experiences and adolescents who reside in non‐Western societies. Methods The present study begins to...

This study investigates the prospective and reciprocal associations between positive peer treatment and psychosocial (popularity, preference, psychological distress) and behavioral (prosocial behavior) outcomes during early adolescence. Participants were 270 young adolescents (52% boys; Mage = 11.84 years) who completed peer nomination and self‐rep...

Disagreement between parents and their adolescent children is ubiquitous. However, these discrepancies are not simply due to poor interrater reliability and they reflect important information for the clinician. High amounts of disagreement within parent-child dyads has been shown to be predictive of adverse outcomes for the child, such as drug use,...

SIP is often assessed using vignettes with hypothetical peers, but children may imagine different types of peers (e.g., friend, disliked peer) when reading them. The aim of this study was to test whether some children would be more likely to think of the non-specified, hypothetical peer as a friend. We hypothesized that children who are shy, show s...

Getting along with peers becomes increasingly important to health and well-being during early adolescence (10–14 years). Young adolescents may succeed with peers when they are well-liked by and popular among the larger peer group (or at the group-level of social complexity). They might also fare well with peers when they are able to form numerous m...

Informed by past theory and research on social withdrawal, the aims of this study were to investigate whether three subtypes of social withdrawal (shyness, avoidance, unsociability) are related with BIS and BAS, as hypothesized by leading theories. Also of interest was whether these three withdrawal subtypes are related uniquely to different theore...

Although a small number of studies characterized cross-sectional associations between sleep hygiene and insomnia severity, no prior study has examined their relationships prospectively. Further, the relationship between sleep hygiene and insomnia severity among college students has rarely been examined. This study examined the prevalence of diverse...