Alex Kaeppler
Assistant Professor
Bio
Dr. Alex Kaeppler received his Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Science and Master's degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Auburn University. His research focuses on the impact of social stressors (e.g., peer victimization, parent-child conflict, discrimination) on the physiological and psychosocial functioning of children, adolescents, and young adults. He is especially interested in studying psychophysiological mechanisms that underlie or influence the development of anxiety, depressive symptoms, and substance use behaviors across adolescence and young adulthood.
- PHD - Auburn University (2024)
- MS - Auburn University (2016)
- Variability in adolescent reception of parental support: A test of the domain-matching hypothesis, Journal of Family Psychology, 2024,
- Coping with family stress as a moderator of the longitudinal association between childhood anxiety and adolescent depressive symptoms., Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 2024,
- Youth’s expectations for their teacher’s handling of peer victimization and their socioemotional development., The Journal of Early Adolescence, 2021,
- Resting high-frequency heart rate variability moderates the association between early-life adversity and body adiposity., Journal of Health Psychology, 2020,
- Respiratory sinus arrhythmia, parenting, and externalizing behavior in children with autism spectrum disorder. , Autism, 2020,
- Sympathetic-parasympathetic interaction and externalizing problems in children with autism spectrum disorder., Autism Research, 2019,
- Coping with peer stress predicts peer adjustment across the transition to middle school., Social Development, 2019,
- Linking social anxiety with social competence in early adolescence: Physiological and coping moderators., Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2017,