John Kelly McCoy

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My academic interests include adolescents relationships with their parents, siblings and peers, with a particular interest in parents involvement in adolescents friendships. I am also interested in the way these different relational contexts interface for adolescents. I am also interested in adolescents experiences associated with different levels of peer interaction and their susceptibility to peer influences. I am interested in exploring the individual characteristics and family dynamics are predictive of young womens eating disorder potential. I am also interested in how adolescents individual characteristics and family dynamics are important to their formation of financial attitudes and behavior, and how family recreation can be significant to adolescents psychosocial wellbeing and the quality of their familial relationships.

Ivan F. Beutler, Lucy. B. Beutler, J. KELLY MCCOY (2005). Spending Well. Creating home as a sacred center: Principles for everyday living.
Mary S. Wells, Mark A. Widmer, J. KELLY MCCOY (2004). Grubs and Grasshoppers: Challenge-based Recreation and the Collective Efficacy of Families with At-risk Youth. Family Relations.
Marleen Williams, Steven R. Thomsen, J. KELLY MCCOY (2003). Looking for an accurate mirror: A model for the relationship between media use and anorexia. Eating Behaviors.
Christy Huff, Mark Widmer, KELLY MCCOY, Brain Hill (2003). The influence of challenging recreation on parent-adolescent communication. Therapeutic Recreation Journal.
Barbara L. Mandleco, J. KELLY MCCOY (2002). Growth and development of the adolescent. Pediatric nursing.
Steve R. Thomsen, J. KELLY MCCOY, R. L. Gustafson, & Marleen Williams (2002). Motivations for reading beauty and fashion magazines and anorexic risk in college-age women. Media Psychology.
J. KELLY MCCOY, G. H. Brody, Z. Stoneman (2002). Temperament and the quality of best friendships: Effect of same-sex sibling relationships. Family Relations.
J.KELLY MCCOY (2002). Siblings. Boyhood in America.