Kristin L. Moilanen, Ph.D.


Visiting Senior Research Specialist, University of Illinois at Chicago; Editor in Chief, Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology

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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. 


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


Longitudinal Intra-Individual and Inter-Individual Relations Between Cognitive and Emotional Self-Regulation Across Adolescence.


Madison K. Memmott‐Elison, Kristin L Moilanen


Journal of youth and adolescence, 2021


Risky Sexual Behavior


Kristin L Moilanen


2020


Latent Growth in Self-Regulatory Subdimensions in Relation to Adjustment Outcomes in Youth Aged 12-19.


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



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Kristin L. Moilanen


Visiting Senior Research Specialist, University of Illinois at Chicago; Editor in Chief, Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology


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