Charlene Collibee
Providence College, RI·Psychology
Teenagers who have been involved with the juvenile justice or child welfare systems face higher rates of dating violence, risky sexual behavior, and difficulties with emotional and social adjustment. Their close relationships, with caregivers, friends, and romantic partners, are a major source of both risk and resilience.
- Fields
Psychology
Public Health & Epidemiology
Social Science
- Topics
adolescent development
systems-involved youth
juvenile justice
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Jul 2029
What they work on
- Characterize romantic relationships among systems-involved adolescents, a largely unstudied part of their social lives, using clinical interviews and self-report alongside intensive real-time data.
- Use technology mediated communication (TMC) data, the texts and social media messages teens actually exchange, to describe communication processes with caregivers, peers, and romantic partners.
- Model same-day associations between interpersonal communication and relationship health, sexual health, and psychosocial adjustment using ecological momentary assessment, repeated brief phone surveys.
- Test longer-term associations between these interpersonal processes and developmental trajectories of relationship, sexual, and psychosocial outcomes across one year using a measurement burst design in 100 youth aged 14-18.
More about the research
But these relationships change constantly during adolescence, and most research captures them only as occasional self-report snapshots, which cannot show how day-to-day interactions actually unfold. Romantic relationships in particular are central to these teens' social lives yet have barely been studied. This project asks how everyday communication within these relationships shapes relationship health, sexual health, and psychosocial adjustment as teens move into late adolescence and adulthood.
Why it matters
Adolescents involved with juvenile justice and child welfare systems are at elevated risk for dating violence and sexual health problems, and little is known about how their day-to-day communication with caregivers, friends, and romantic partners drives those risks. Mapping these real-time processes could point to concrete targets for programs that help these youth build safer, healthier relationships during the transition to adulthood.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
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University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, TX·Medicine & Clinical Research
Investigate how the amount of social media use and positive or negative online experiences affect depression, anxiety and suicidal ideation trajectories over six months in 100 at-risk Texas youth.
Erin Vogel
University of Oklahoma-Health Sciences Center, OK·Psychology·Early-career
Characterize what kinds of social media content prompt social comparison among teens aged 13–18, using screenshots and surveys sent from a smartphone app during everyday life (ecological momentary assessment).
Michael Arthur Russell
Pennsylvania State University, PA·Public Health & Epidemiology
Test whether TAC sensor features, namely rise rate, peak and rise duration of each day's alcohol curve, predict alcohol-related consequences on individual drinking days, compared with EMA phone self-reports, in 500 young adults.
The school
Providence College: 1 labs on PI Pages, $6M a year on research.
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