Representative Publications

SELECTION OF PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

Nelson, J. M., Ferguson, M. A., Jeffrey, A., Schnitker, S. A., (invited paper: under review). Learning from Anishinaabe principles of relationality, process, and reciprocity to expand the reach of positive psychology to address the loneliness epidemic. The International Journal of Applied Positive Psychology.

Nelson, J.M., Tsang, J., Schnitker, S.A., (2024). Gratitude: From Relational Emotion to Contextualized Virtue Inclusive of Indebtedness. In R. M. Lerner (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Character. APA Psychological Association.

Nelson, J. M., Hendricks, J., Cazier, J., Hardy, S. A., (2023). Religious exemplars' experience of indebtedness to God: Employing innovative machine learning to explore a novel construct. Journal of Positive Psychology.

Nelson, J. M., Hardy, S.A., Tice, D., Schnitker, S., (2023). Returning thanks to God and others: Prosocial consequences of transcendent indebtedness. Journal of Positive Psychology.

Nelson, J. M., Hardy, S. A., *Hurst, J. L., Walker, L. J., (2023). The interactive roles of religion, parenting, and sex communication in adolescent sexual risk-taking. Applied Developmental Science.

Nelson, J. M., Schnitker, S., Williams, E.A., Tsang, J., (2022). Intangible benefactors and the contribution of construal level and attitude accessibility in predicting gratitude and expansive emotions. Religions.

Hardy, S.A., Hatch, D., Nelson, J.M., Schwadel, P., (2022). Family religiousness, peer religiousness, and religious community supportiveness as developmental contexts of adolescent and young adult religious deidentification. Research in Human Development.

Nelson, J. M., Hardy, S. A., Watkins, P., (2022). Transcendent indebtedness to God: a new construct in the psychology of religion and spirituality. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality.

Hardy, S. A., Nelson, J. M., Frandsen, S. B., Cazzell, A. R., & Goodman, M. A. (2022). Adolescent religious motivation: A self-determination theory approach. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion.

Hardy, S. A., Nelson, J. M., (2021). Religious development. In L. Crockett, G. Carlo, & J. Schulenberg (Eds.), Handbook of adolescent and young adult development. APA Psychological Association.

Hardy, S. A., Nelson, J. M., (2021). Introduction to special issue: Diverse approaches to the study of adolescent religious and spiritual development. Adolescent Research Review.

Hardy, S. A., Nelson, J. M., Moore, J., King, E. P., (2019). Process of religious and spiritual influence in adolescence: a systematic review of 30 years of research. Special Section. Journal of Research on Adolescence. 29(2), 254-275.