Principal Investigator
Ronald D. Taylor
Professor Ronald D. Taylor is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Temple University. Dr. Taylor received his doctoral degree from the University of Michigan in Developmental Psychology. His other affiliations include the Temple University Center for Research in Human Development and Education where he served as Assistant Director and Senior Research Associate. Dr. Taylor routinely investigates factors associated with the social and emotional adjustment of ethnic minority adolescents. His work has focused on family relations, including parent styles and parenting practices and the links to African American adolescents’ psychological well-being. Dr. Taylor’s work has also examined the association of family’s social support network and the links to parent and adolescent functioning.
In his work Dr. Taylor has been especially interested in assessing potential mediating and moderating processes linking family and kinship relations with adolescents’ adjustment. His recent work has focused on the social and emotional adjustment of emerging adults, particularly the role of family, peer and faculty relations in the college adjustment of ethnic minority college students. Dr. Taylor’s work has been funded by the Social Science Research Council and the U. S. Department of Education. Dr. Taylor has mentored many graduate and undergraduate students who have presented their work at national conferences, published their research in peer-reviewed journals and obtained outstanding positions in academic and federal institutions and settings.