LEADER - Center for Lifespan Developmental Research
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Research Domains
- Humanities-Social sciences
Areas of Research
- Family Research
- Parenting
- Climate change
- Cognitive Functioning
- Norm breaking behavior
- Adolescents
- Aging
LEADER is a research environment that comprises researchers dedicated to the understanding of various aspects of human functioning and development. Broadly stated, our research aims to understand lifespan development using mixed methods to track changes in behavior, personality, social relationships, attitudes, and neurocognitive processes. We are also interested in the role of contextual conditions on human development and how to prevent negative development and promote adjustment. Our research involves children, adolescents and adults from diverse social backgrounds.
- Family and parenting
- Youth and diversity
- Antisocial development and psychopathy
- Aging and cognitive functioning
- Youth, sustainable development, and climate change
If you are interested in collaboration on topics related to our research or have questions about potential membership of the environment, contact any of the researchers.
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Research Projects
- A natural experiment to understand how adolescents change when they engage in sports
- A wicked problem occupation: exploring how climate change scientists identify and cope with their professional work
- Exposing others and self being expose to others threats and harassment in various living environments
- Mobility, informal learning and citizenship in mobile preschools
- Parents' use of Internet and social media
- Preconditions for communication about healthy and sustainable food with youths
- Prefiguring sustainable futures through food activism: How young people deal with border tensions between the sustainable and unsustainable in everyday life
- The PIA Study - Promoting Integration and Adjustment of Newly Arrived Youth and their Families
- Understanding of the conditions which may reduce the educational gap between young immigrant and Swedish adolescents
- Understanding the Risk and Protective Factors to Risky Drunken Behaviors
- Understandning Negative and Positive Youth Development within one Unifying Paradigm: an Agentic Perspective
- Vägledande samspel-ICDP - a method to improve teachers? relationship competence and improves their beliefs in their teaching ability
- Young people's communication with parents, friends, and teachers about global environmental problems: Emotions, coping, and self-efficacy