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Undergraduate research serves as the foundation for a career as an investigator, consultant or professor. Although the Child, Youth and Family degree does not require a undergraduate thesis, I often urge students to consider completing one to make them more competitive in graduate program applications.  I advise undergraduate students on a variety of topics that are related to my general research interests. Preference is given  to students in Child, Youth and Family, Psychology, Sociology, or Anthropology; though I will consider students iin other majors.

Intermittently, I will post high quality undergraduate theses, or papers based on theses, as examples for interested students to read. These provide examples of what I consider to be excellent undergraduate reports.

Escaping the Self in Binge Eating: The Association between Identity Style and Bulimic Behavior
Heather A. Brock and Gerald R. Adams 
(download)

An Extension of the Dual Pathway Model of Bulimia
Iris Duemm, Gerald R. Adams and Leo Keating  (download)

Family Processes, Individual Characteristics, and Adolescent Academic Achievement: A Study of the Ecology of Family-School Connections
Julia M. Fuchs, Jonathan Midgett, Bruce A. Ryan and Gerald R. Adams  (download)

Child-rearing Behaviours and Adolescent Self-Esteem: An Examination of Reciprocal Effects
Nicole O. MacDonald, Kristin E. Steger, Gerald R. Adams and Sheila Marshall
  (download)

Exploring the Relation Between Identity Style and Bulimic Behavior
Shannon O'Neil and Gerald R. Adams
  (download)

Recollections of Childhood Teasing and Identity Styles of Young Adults
Cara S. Rolufs and Gerald R. Adams
  (download)

Gender Differences in Identity and Intimacy Development
Lauren M. Buckler 
(download)

On the Road Again:  The Influence of Family Relocation on the Academic Ability of Children
Laura Davey
  (download)

Identity Processing Styles and Canadian Adolescents’ Self-Reported Delinquency
Gerald Adams, Brenda Munro,  Gordon Munro, et al.
  (download)

Functions of Identity: Scale Construction and Validation
Toni Serafini and
Gerald R. Adams  (download)

A Study of Construct Validity of the Objective Measure of Ego Identity Status with a Sample of Canadian University Students
Gerald R. Adams  (download text)   (download figures)

The Family-School Relationships Model: Parental Influences On School Success
Gerald R. Adams and Bruce Ryan (download)