Research Interests
- Developmental Psychopathology
- Depression
- Neglect
Research Description
My research focuses on how and why certain children and adolescents go on to develop internalizing symptoms. Specifically, I examine the prospective interplay between cognitive, interpersonal, and physiological vulnerability factors and the onset and maintenance of depression in both domestic and international youth samples. In recent years, I have become increasingly interested in translating these basic developmental psychopathology findings into screening procedures that can better identify youth living in adverse family contexts, and thus, at elevated risk for psychological distress. Over the next several years, I look forward to taking an applied developmental psychopathology approach to research in which more objective psychosocial screening procedures are developed on the bases of novel, longitudinal, laboratory studies with at-risk youth.
Education
Ph.D., Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick
Additional Campus Affiliations
Affiliate, Center for Social and Behavioral Science
External Links
Recent Publications
Thakur, H., Stutts, M., Choi, J. W., Temple, J. R., & Cohen, J. R. (2023). Adolescent Loneliness during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Pre-Pandemic Risk Factors. Child Indicators Research, 16(2), 617-639. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12187-022-09984-8
Choi, J. W., Thakur, H., Briley, D. A., Temple, J. R., & Cohen, J. R. (2022). Testing the Factor Structure and Measurement Invariance of the Temporal Experience of Pleasure Scale in Adolescents Across Time, Gender, and Race/Ethnicity. Psychological assessment, 34(8), 752-762. https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0001142
Cohen, J. R., McNeil, S., & Menon, S. V. (2022). Childhood Maltreatment and Anhedonic Symptoms: Test of a Dual-risk Model in Emerging Adults. Journal of interpersonal violence, 37(9-10), NP7447-NP7469. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260520969242
Cohen, J. R., & Thakur, H. (2022). Intersecting identities and adolescent depression: Patterns of depressed mood and anhedonia in the past decade. Journal of Affective Disorders, 319, 518-525. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2022.09.088
Cohen, J. R., & Choi, J. W. (2022). Is ACEs Screening for Adolescent Mental Health Accurate and Fair? Prevention Science, 23(7), 1216-1229. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-022-01391-3
