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​Ratner, K. (in press). How institutions of higher education support and thwart students’ negotiations of identity and self-direction: Exploring derailment in the college context. In P. L. Hill & A. L. Burrow (Eds.), Purpose in life as ancient but nascent: Perspectives from psychology, philosophy, and human development. Cambridge University Press.

 

Ratner, K., Budesheim, E. F., Alexander, C. S., Klein, R. C., Leinenweber, S., Zhang, L., Zhao, T. Y., Garcia Romero, O., & Napolitano, C. M. (2025). Hurry up and wait: Developmental anxiety during the transition to adulthood. Journal of Family Theory & Review. Advance online publication. doi:10.1111/jftr.12621

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Xie, H., Ratner, K., Fegley, S. G., & Nakkula, M. J. (2025). Heterogeneity in the developmental trajectories of Chinese youth educational aspirations: Identifying predictors and outcomes. Child Development, 96(3), 1220-1235. doi:10.1111/cdev.14234

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Rule, P. D., Ratner, K., Willroth, E. C., & Hill, P. L. (2025). Development and validation of the Physical Disability Identity Scale: A multi-study quantitative investigation with participant feedback. Rehabilitation Psychology. Advance online publication. doi:10.1037/rep0000606.

 

Ratner, K., Xie, H., Zhu, G., Estevez, M., & Burrow, A. L. (2025). Trajectories and predictors of adolescent purpose development in self-driven learning. Child Development, 96(2), 691-704. doi:10.1111/cdev.14201

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Ratner, K., Zhu, G., Li, Q., Rice, M., Estevez, M., & Burrow, A. L. (2024). Derailment in adolescence: Factor analytic structure and correlates. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 34(3), 1099-1106. doi:10.1111/jora.12954

 

Zhu, G., Zheng, J., Ratner, K., Li, Q., Estevez, M., & Burrow, A. L. (2024). How trait and state positive emotions, negative emotions, and self-regulation relate to adolescents’ perceived daily learning progress. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 77, 102275. doi:10.1016/j.cedpsych.2024.102275

 

Ratner, K., Gladstone, J. R., Zhu, G., Li, Q., Estevez, M., & Burrow, A. L. (2024). Purpose and goal pursuit as a self-sustaining system: Evidence of daily within-person reciprocity among adolescents in a self-driven learning program. Journal of Personality, 92(6), 1556-1570. doi:10.1111/jopy.12911

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Ratner, K., Zhu, G., Li, Q., Estevez, M., & Burrow, A. L. (2023). Interacting with supportive adults predicts greater same-day psychosocial functioning among adolescents in a self-driven learning program. Journal of Adolescence, 95(4), 729–739. doi:10.1002/jad.12149

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Ratner, K., Li, Q., Zhu, G., Estevez, M., & Burrow, A. L. (2023). Daily adolescent purposefulness, daily subjective well-being, and individual differences in autistic traits. Journal of Happiness Studies, 24(3), 967-‌989. doi:10.1007/s10902-023-00625-7

 

Jeon, H. J., Ratner, K., & Wang, Q. (2023). The effects of labeling and health identity on subjective health. British Journal of Health Psychology, 28(1), 174-187. doi:10.1111/bjhp.12618

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Ratner, K., Burrow, A. L., Mendle, J., & Thoemmes, F. (2023). Derailment and depression in college: Tests of 3-year predictive capacity and moderation by self-reflection, brooding, perfectionism, and cognitive flexibility. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 70(2), 212-222. doi:10.1037/cou0000649

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Ratner, K., Burrow, A. L., Thoemmes, F., & Mendle, J. (2022). Invariance of the Derailment Scale-6: Testing the measurement and correlates of derailment across adulthood. Psychological Assessment, 34(4), 320–331. doi:10.1037/pas0001093

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Rosenfeld, D. L., Balcetis, E., Bastian, B. Berkman, E. T., Bosson, J. K., Brannon, T. N., ... Ratner, K., ... Tomiyama, A. J. (2022). Psychological science in the wake of COVID-19: Social, methodological, and meta-scientific considerations. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 17(2), 311-333. doi:10.1177/1745691621999374 

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Ratner, K., Porcelli, S. E., & Burrow, A. L. (2022). Purpose in life, dispositional urgency, and the propensity to engage in risky and self-destructive behaviors. Motivation and Emotion, 46(1), 59-73. doi:10.1007/s11031-021-09915-0

 

Burrow, A. L., Ratner, K., Porcelli, S. E., & Sumner, R. (2022). Does purpose grow here?: Exploring 4-H as a context for cultivating youth purpose. Journal of Adolescent Research, 37(4), 471-500. https://doi.org/10.1177/0743558420942477 

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Ratner, K., Burrow, A. L., Mendle, J., & Hill, P. L. (2022). A prospective study of college student depressive symptoms, sense of purpose in life, and response to a COVID-19 campus shutdown. Personality and Individual Differences, 189, 111475. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2021.111475  

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Ratner, K., & Burrow, A. L. (2021). Derailment within the landscape of psychopathology. Current Opinion in Psychology, 41, 21-27. doi:10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.01.009

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Pfund, G. N., Ratner, K., Allemand, M., Burrow, A. L., & Hill, P. L. (2021). When the end feels near: Purpose predicts well-being as a function of future time perspective. Aging and Mental Health, 26(6), 1178-1188. doi:10.1080/13607863.2021.1891203

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Ratner, K., Burrow, A. L., & Mendle, J. (2020). The unique predictive value of discrete depressive symptoms on derailment. Journal of Affective Disorders, 270, 65–68. doi:10.1016/j.jad.2020.03.097

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Jeon, H. J., Wang, Q., Burrow, A. L., & Ratner, K. (2020). Perspectives of future health in self and others: The moderating role of culture. Journal of Health Psychology, 25(5), 703–712. doi:10.1177/1359105317730897

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Ong, A. D., Thoemmes, F., Ratner, K., Ghezzi-Kopel, K., & Reid, M. C. (2020). Positive affect and chronic pain: A preregistered systematic review and meta-analysis. Pain, 161(6), 1140-1149. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001828. 

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Ratner, K., Burrow, A. L., & Hill, P. L. (2020). Autistic traits and purpose in emerging adulthood: Associations with pathways to purpose and perceived adult status. Emerging Adulthood, 8(5), 420-427. doi:10.1177/2167696818817446

 

Burrow, A. L., Hill, P. L., Ratner, K., & Fuller-Rowell, T. E. (2020). Derailment: Conceptualization, measurement, and adjustment correlates of perceived change in self and direction. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 118(3), 584–601. doi:10.1037/pspp0000209. Find the 10-item Derailment Scale here.

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Berman, S. L., Montgomery, M. J., & Ratner, K. (2020). Trauma and identity: A reciprocal relationship?. Journal of Adolescence, 79, 275-278. doi:10.1016/j.adolescence.2020.01.018
 

Ratner, K., Burrow, A. L., Burd, K. A., & Hill, P. L. (2019). On the conflation of purpose and meaning in life: A qualitative study of high school and college student conceptions. Applied Developmental Science. Advance online publication. doi:10.1080/10888691.2019.1659140

 

Ratner, K., Mendle, J., Burrow, A. L., & Thoemmes, F. (2019). Depression and derailment: A cyclical model of mental illness and perceived identity change. Clinical Psychological Science, 7(4), 735-753. doi:10.1177/2167702619829748

 

Ratner, K., & Burrow, A. L. (2019). Identity and purpose in life as building blocks for wisdom. In R. J. Sternberg & J. Glück (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Wisdom (pp. 519–550). Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108568272.025

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Burrow, A. L., Hill, P. L., Ratner, K., & Sumner, R. (2018). A better tomorrow: Toward a stronger science of youth purpose. Research in Human Development, 15(2), 167-180. doi:10.1080/15427609.2018.1445926

 

Ratner, K., & Burrow, A. L. (2018). Autistic features in the general population: Implications for sensing purpose in life. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 13(5), 494-501. doi:10.1080/17439760.2017.1315647

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Burrow, A. L., Hill, P. L., & Ratner, K. (2018). Purpose. In R. J. R. Levesque (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Adolescence (2nd ed., pp. 2993-3302). Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing AG.

 

Ratner, K., Burrow, A. L., & Thoemmes, F. (2016). The effects of exposure to objective coherence on perceived meaning in life: A preregistered direct replication of Heintzelman, Trent, and King (2013). Royal Society Open Science, 3(11), 1-15. doi:10.1098/rsos.160431

 

Ratner, K., & Berman, S. L. (2016). Identity boundaries: An empirical perspective. Personality and Individual Differences, 90, 89-92. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2015.10.047

 

Ratner, K., & Berman, S. L. (2015). The influence of autistic features on identity development in emerging adults. Emerging Adulthood, 3(2), 136-139. doi:10.1177/2167696814559305

 

Berman, S. L., Ratner, K., Cheng, M., Li, S., Jhingnon, G., & Sukamaran, N. (2014). Identity distress during the era of globalization: A cross-national comparative study of India, China, and the United States. Identity: An International Journal of Theory and Research, 14(4), 286-296. doi: 10.1080/15283488.2014.944698

 

Ratner, K., & Berman, S. L. (2014). The role of parenting and attachment in identity style development. The University of Central Florida Undergraduate Research Journal, 7(1), 15-26.