About
Dr. Kristin L. Moilanen is a developmental psychologist. Her research interests include adolescence and adulthood, sexual risk-taking, self-regulation, and individual longitudinal change.
In June 2022, Dr. Moilanen joined the Life Experiences and Well-Being in Adults Study as a Visiting Senior Research Specialist-Social Sciences within the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the current Editor in Chief of the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology.
Previously, Dr. Moilanen was a postdoctoral fellow with the Pitt Mother and Child Project at the University of Pittsburgh from 2005-2008 and an associate professor in Child Development and Family Studies at West Virginia University from 2008-2022.
In June 2022, Dr. Moilanen joined the Life Experiences and Well-Being in Adults Study as a Visiting Senior Research Specialist-Social Sciences within the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the current Editor in Chief of the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology.
Previously, Dr. Moilanen was a postdoctoral fellow with the Pitt Mother and Child Project at the University of Pittsburgh from 2005-2008 and an associate professor in Child Development and Family Studies at West Virginia University from 2008-2022.
Recent Publications
Predictors of Initial Status and Change in Self-Control During the College Transition.
Kristin L Moilanen, Kathleen DeLong, S. Spears, A. Gentzler, N. Turiano
Journal of applied developmental psychology, 2021
Madison K. Memmott‐Elison, Kristin L Moilanen
Journal of youth and adolescence, 2021
Madison K. Memmott‐Elison, Kristin L Moilanen, Laura M. Padilla‐Walker
Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence, 2020
Kristin L Moilanen, Mary Lynn Manuel
Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2019
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Kristin L. Moilanen
Visiting Senior Research Specialist, University of Illinois at Chicago; Editor in Chief, Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology