Kristin L. Moilanen, Ph.D.

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

Pathways From Individual Characteristics to Subjective Consequences of Sex: The Mediating Role of Risky Sexual Encounters

Lisa J. Crockett, Kristin L. Moilanen, Meredith L. Cartwright

International Journal of Sexual Health, vol. 35(2), 2023, pp. 230-247

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, 73, 101235, 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, vol. 50(10), 2021, pp. 1970-1981

Risky Sexual Behavior

Kristin L. Moilanen

The encyclopedia of child and adolescent development (Vol. X): The development of the self in adolescence, S. Hupp (Series Ed.), J. Jewell (Series Ed.), R. Galliher (Volume Ed.), Wiley-Blackwell, 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, vol. 30(3), 2020, pp. 651-668

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