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Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson
monicakj@wsu.edu
509.335.8773
Wilson Hall 247

Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Minnesota, 1999

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Areas of Research Interest: Work & Family, Education, Life Course, Social Psychology, Gender


Current Research Interests: My research interests are in the areas of work, family, and education across the life course, with particular focus on social psychological processes in adolescence and the transition to adulthood. A major portion of my research activities is focused on stability and change in work values-the importance people attach to various rewards of working. In current projects in this area, I am examining entry into adult family roles and early experiences of limited employment opportunities as potentially consequential for work values and subsequent occupational attainment. I am also currently studying educational experiences in adolescence and the ways in which such experiences set young people on different life trajectories (collaboratively with Glen Elder and Robert Crosnoe)


Recent Publications:

Johnson, Monica Kirkpatrick, Justin Allen Berg, and Toni Sirotzki.  2007.  “Relative Age in the Transition to Adulthood.”  Advances in Life Course Research 11:287-316.

Bohon, Stephanie A., Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson , and Bridget K. Gorman.  2006.  “College Expectations and Aspirations among Latino Adolescents in the United States .”  Social Problems 53:207-225.

Johnson, Monica Kirkpatrick, Robert Crosnoe, and Lyssa Thaden .  2006.  “Gendered Patterns in Adolescents' School Attachment.”  Social Psychology Quarterly 69:284-95.

Johnson, Monica Kirkpatrick.  2005.  “Family Roles and Work Values: Processes of Selection and Change.” Journal of Marriage and Family 67:352-69.


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