Assistant Professor of Psychology, Developmental Science
Faculty, Department of Psychology
Director, Positive Social Development (PSD) Lab
Faculty, Department of Psychology
Director, Positive Social Development (PSD) Lab
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Short Bio
Dr. Gülseven’s research focuses on positive social development during childhood and adolescence. She is particularly interested in prosocial behavior and moral development with their individual, parental, cultural, and contextual correlates in culturally diverse children and adolescents.
Interests
Positive social development during childhood and adolescence; Prosocial behavior; Moral development; Parenting; Parent-child relationship; Culture.
Recent Courses Taught
- PSYC 4364 - Latinx Youth and Families
- PSYC 5554 - Social Development
Select Publications
- Cruz, A. M., Carlo, G., Gülseven, Z., & Vandell, D.L. (2024). A Longitudinal study of prosocial behaviors predicting later academic performance in U.S. Latine youth. Journal of Adolescence. http://doi.org/10.1002/jad.12401
- Gülseven, Z., Simpkins, S.D., Jiang, S., & Vandell, D.L. (2024). Patterns of afterschool settings: Are they related to changes in academic and social functioning in children and adolescents?. Applied Developmental Science, Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888691.2024.2385425
- Xiao, S. X., Gülseven, Z., Clancy, E. T., Liew, J., Carlo, G., Kim, S., & Jiang, S. (2024). Measuring early adolescents’ prosocial behavior toward diverse others: Considering multiple social identities. Journal of Adolescence, 96(4), 841-854. http://doi.org/10.1002/jad.12305
- Gülseven, Z., Pierotti, S.L., Killoren, S.E., Alfaro, E.C., & Carlo, G. (2024). The role of maternal warmth in understanding the relations between cultural orientations and prosocial behaviors in U.S. Mexican college students. Journal of Latinx Psychology, 12(3), 261-276. https://doi.org/10.1037/lat0000253
- Gülseven, Z., Puente, K., Tulagan, N., Zarrett, N., Simpkins, S. D., & Vandell, D. L. (2023). Children’s self-control as an antecedent of adolescent prosociality and adult civic engagement. Applied Developmental Science, 28(2), 178–192. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888691.2022.2158827
- Vandell, D.L. & Gülseven, Z. (2023). The Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD): Studying development from infancy to adulthood. Annual Review of Developmental Psychology, 5(1), 331-354. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-devpsych-120621-035345
- Gülseven, Z., Yu, M., Zarrett, N., Vandell, D. L., & Simpkins, S.D. (2023). Self-control and cooperation in childhood as antecedents of less moral disengagement in adolescence. Development and Psychopathology, 35(1), 290-300. doi:10.1017/S0954579421000584
- Maiya, S., Gülseven, Z., Killoren, S. E., Carlo, G., & Streit, C. (2023). The intervening role of anxiety symptoms in associations between self-regulation and prosocial behaviors in U.S. Latino/a college students. Journal of American College Health, 71(2), 584-592. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2021.1899187
- Carrizales, A., Gülseven, Z., & Lannegrand, L. (2023). The mediating role of empathy in the links between relationships with three socialization agents and adolescents’ prosocial behaviors. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 40(9), 2855-2877. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075221099652
Degrees
- 2019-2022 - Postdoctoral Scholar, School of Education, University of California, Irvine.
- 2015-2019 - Ph.D. Human Development and Family Science, University of Missouri, Columbia.
- 2013-2015 - M.S. Human Development and Family Science, University of Missouri, Columbia.
- 2004-2009 - B.S. Psychology, Abant Izzet Baysal University, Turkey.