Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Minnesota, 1999
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).
Selected Publications:
Johnson, Monica Kirkpatrick, Justin Allen Berg, and Toni Sirotzki. 2007. "The Confluence Model of Subjective Age Identity Extended: Social Experience and Differentiation in Self-Perceived Adulthood." Social Psychology Quarterly 70:243-61.
Johnson, Monica Kirkpatrick, Jeylan T. Mortimer, Jennifer C. Lee and Michael Stern. 2007. "Judgments About Work: Dimensionality Revisited." Work and Occupations 34:290-317.
Johnson, Monica Kirkpatrick, Justin Allen Berg, and Toni Sirotzki. 2007. "Relative Age in the Transition to Adulthood." 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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