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Ryan E. Adams, PhD

Statistician, Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone: 513-636-7445

Fax: 513-636-1360

Email: ryan.adams@cchmc.org

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Specialties

Adolescent relationships (i.e., friendships, mother-child, father-child, romantic relationships); peer victimization; aggression; obesity

Biography

Ryan E. Adams, PhD, studies adolescent relationships, such as parent-child, friendships, and romantic relationships, and their effects on development. Currently, his research focuses on the protective effects of friendships for obese adolescents in the pathway from peer victimization to depressive symptoms.

Education and Training

PhD: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, 2005
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MA: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, 2000.

Publications

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Fredstrom BK, Adams RE, Gilman R. Electronic and School-Based Victimization: Unique Contexts for Adjustment Difficulties During Adolescence. J Youth Adolesc. 2011 Apr;40(4):405-15.

Adams RE, Bukowski WM. Peer victimization as a predictor of depression and body mass index in obese and non-obese adolescents. J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2008 Aug;49(8):858-66.

Adams RE, Bukowski WM. Mothers and peers as moderators of the links between childhood sexual abuse and anxiety disorders. Child Abuse and Neglect. 2007;31,645-656.

Adams RE, Laursen B. The Correlates of conflict: disagreement is not necessarily detrimental. Journal of Family Psychology. 2007;21:445-458.

Book Chapters

Mooney K, Laursen B, Adams RE. Social support and positive development: Looking on the bright side of adolescent close relationships. In Rainer Silbereisen and Richard Lerner (Eds.) Approaches to Positive Youth Development. London: Sage Publications, 2007.