ISSBD (Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development)
2026
Kaniušonytė, G., Legget-James, M.P., Rimienė, V. & Laursen, B. (2026, June). A Longitudinal Examination of Sensation Seeking, Susceptibility to Peer Influence, and Delinquent Behavior in Adolescence [Poster presentation]. International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development Biennial Meeting, Incheon, South Korea.
Guimond, F.-A., James Leggett, M. P., Kaniušonytė, G., & Laursen, B. (2026, June). Attractiveness Norms and Body Image Satisfaction Influence Appearance-Altering Behaviors in Youth [Poster presentation]. International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development Biennial Meeting, Incheon, South Korea.
2024
Šakinytė, D., Kaniušonytė, G., Žukauskienė, R., (2024, June 16-20) Understanding adolescence: exploring child’s changes, mother-child relationship dynamics, and mother’s stress [Poster presentation]. 27th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development, Lisbon, Portugal.
Katulis, G., Kaniušonytė, G. (2024, June 16-20) Healthy context paradox: how emotion suppression shapes victim responses to being social misfits [Poster presentation]. 27th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development, Lisbon, Portugal.
DeLay, D., Kaniušonytė, G., & Žukauskienė, R. (2024, June 16-20). The Social Dynamics of Fun: Can Fun Youth Bring Peers Together and Positively Influence Their Friends? In D. DeLay (Chair), Multi-Faceted Insights into Adolescent Development and Well-Being: Replicating and Expanding Peer Relations Research [Symposium] 27th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development, Lisbon, Portugal.
Kaniušonytė, G. & Laursen, B. (2024, June 16-20) When Moms Disapprove: Exploring the Ripple Effect on Peer Status of Pre- and Early Adolescents [Poster presentation]. 27th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development, Lisbon, Portugal.
Rimienė, V. & Kaniušonytė, G. (2024, June 16-20) Emotion regulation, body Image, and eating patterns in young adolescents [Poster presentation]. 27th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development, Lisbon, Portugal.
2022
Balundė A., Kaniušonytė G., Žukauskienė R. (2022, June 19-23). Longitudinal exploration of the role of adolescents’ instrumental self-reported prosociality and altruistic friend-reported prosociality in explaining caring for nature [Poster Presentation]. 26th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development, Rhodes, Greece.
Bakaitytė A., Žukauskienė R., Kaniušonytė G. (2022, June 19-23). The relation between maternal psychological control and child susceptibility to peer influence through emotion regulation [Poster Presentation]. 26th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development, Rhodes, Greece.
Kaniušonytė G., Žukauskienė R. (2022, June 19-23). The effect of peer victimization on externalizing and internalizing problems: the role of mother and friends [Poster Presentation]. 26th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development, Rhodes, Greece.
Šakinytė D., Žukauskienė R., Katulis G. (2022, June 19-23). Mother’s attachment style as a mediator between mother-adolescent relationship negativity and mother’s stress [Poster Presentation]. 26th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development, Rhodes, Greece.
Žukauskienė R, Bakaitytė A, Šakinytė D., Kaniušonytė G (2022, June 19-23). Psychological control as a mediator of bidirectional effects between maternal depression and child‘s externalizing problems [Poster Presentation]. 26th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development, Rhodes, Greece.
Katulis, G., Šakinytė, D., (2022, June 19-23) Perceived classroom peer context predict internalized and externalized problems [Poster Presentation]. 26th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development, Rhodes, Greece.
SRA (The Society for Research on Adolescence)
2026
Guimond, F.-A., James Leggett, M. P., Kaniušonytė, G., & Laursen, B. (2026, April 15-18). How Status-Based Attractiveness Norms Influence Appearance-Altering Behaviors Among Youth in Lithuania and the United States. Poster presentation in the 2026 SRA Biennial Meeting, Toronto, Canada.
Marion, D., Leggett James, M.P., Kaniušonytė, G., Laursen, B. (2026, April 15-18). The Downward Spiral of Negativity and Loneliness in Child and Adolescent Friendships. Poster presentation in the 2026 SRA Biennial Meeting, Toronto, Canada.
Veleckė, D., Kaniušonytė, G., Žukauskienė, R. Laursen, B. (2026, April 15-18). Perceived Changes in Adolescent Children Prompt Maternal Stress, Undermining Mother-Child Relationship Quality: A Mother’s Perspective. Poster presentation in the 2026 SRA Biennial Meeting, Toronto, Canada.
2024
Katulis, G., Kaniušonytė, G., Selover, M., Faur, S., & Laursen, B. (2024, April). Escalating problem behaviors among victimized social misfits. Poster presentation in the 2024 SRA Biennial Meeting, Chicago, IL, USA.
Faur, S., Leggett-James, M.P., Selover, M. Kaniušonytė, G. (2024, April). Perceptions of Relationship Quality that Predict Friendship Dissolution During Childhood and Adolescence: Social Support Matters More than Negativity. Poster presentation in the 2024 SRA Biennial Meeting, Chicago, IL, USA.
Kaniušonytė, G., Legget-James, M.P., Laursen, B. (2024, April). When Mom Says No: The Role of Maternal Disapproval and Social Support in Friendship Dissolution. Poster presentation in the 2024 SRA Biennial Meeting, Chicago, IL, USA.
2022
Kaniušonytė, G., Laursen, B. (2022, March) Perceptions of positive parenting predict increases in resilience for low neurotic and high agreeable adolescents. Data blitz presentation at the SRA 2022 Biennial Meeting New Orleans, USA.
EARA (European Association for Research on Adolescence)
2024
Kaniušonytė, G. & Balundė, A. (2024, September) Two Steps Forward, One Step Back? A 8-wave Longitudinal Exploration of the Development of Adolescents’ Environmental Values. Poster presentation in the XIX European Association for Research on Adolescence (EARA) Conference 2024, Limassol, Cyprus.
Šakinytė, D., Kaniušonytė, G., Žukauskienė, R. (2024, September) Mothering Adolescents: Mother’s Attachment – A Bridge in Mediating Mother-Child Relationship and Mother’s Psychological Well-being. Poster presentation in the XIX European Association for Research on Adolescence (EARA) Conference 2024, Limassol, Cyprus.
2022
Bakaitytė, A., Kaniušonytė, G., Žukauskienė, R. (2022). Discrepancy Between Mother-child Perceived Maternal Psychological Control and Susceptibility to Peer Influence: The Importance of Adolescents’ Emotion Regulation and Externalized Problems. European Association for Research on Adolescence (EARA) conference in 2022 in Dublin, Ireland, August -24 -27, 2022.
Katulis, G., Kaniušonytė G. (2022, August). Moderating effects of perceived classroom peer context on the relationship between shyness, victimization and internalizing problems. European Association for Research on Adolescence (EARA) conference in 2022 in Dublin, Ireland.
Šakinytė D., Žukauskienė R., Bakaitytė A. (2022, August). Adolescent‘s Internalizing and Externalizing Difficulties Associated with Mother‘s Stress and Romantic Relationship Quality. European Association for Research on Adolescence (EARA) conference in 2022 in Dublin, Ireland.
Žukauskienė, R., Kaniušonytė, G., Katulis, G. (2022, August). Associations of Peer Rejection Sensitivity with Loneliness: Quality of Mother-Child Relationships as Mediators. European Association for Research on Adolescence (EARA) conference in 2022 in Dublin, Ireland.
Kaniušonytė, G., Žukauskienė, R. (22, August). The interplay between perceived prohibiting friendships and internalizing/externalizing behavior. European Association for Research on Adolescence (EARA) conference in 2022 in Dublin, Ireland.
SRCD (Society of Research on Child Development)
2025
Leclerc Bédard, L., Selover, M., Guillont, M., Žukauskienė, R., Kaniušonytė, G., & Laursen, B. (2025, May). Age-group differences in friend influence over academic achievement. Poster presentation at the biennial meetings of the Society of Research on Child Development, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Guillont, M., Bakaityté, A., Selover, M., Kaniušonytė, G., Žukauskienė, R., & Laursen, B. (2025, May). Friend loss exacerbates adjustment difficulties among shy children. Poster presentation at the biennial meetings of the Society of Research on Child Development, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Guillont, M., Selover, M., Kaniušonytė, G. & Laursen, B. (2025, May). What’s best about best friends: Friend nomination rank as a reflection of friendship durability. Poster presentation at the biennial meetings of the Society of Research on Child Development, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Sherrod, L., Faur, S., Legget-James, M.P., Selover, M., Leclerc-Bedard, L.-A., Kaniušonytė, G., & Laursen, B. (2025, May). Children with few friends are at heightened risk for conformity to classroom norms. Poster presentation at the biennial meetings of the Society of Research on Child Development, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
2023
Kaniušonytė, G., Žukauskienė, R., Bakaitytė, A., Laursen, B. Perceived maternal disapproval of friends: How mothers shape and respond to child and friend adjustment problems. Poster presentation at 2023 SRCD biennial meeting, Salt Lake City, USA, March 23-25, 2023.
ECDP (European Conference on Developmental Psychology)
2025
Balundė, A., Kaniušonytė, G. (2025, August). A Longitudinal Exploration of Adolescents’ Moral Obligation to Conserve the Environment and Pro-Environmental Actions. In S. Grapsas (Chair), Young environmentalists: who are they, and how do they develop? Symposium at the International Conference on Developmental Psychology, Vilnius, Lithuania.
2023
Balundė, A., Kaniušonytė, G., & Žukauskienė R. My best friend cares for nature, so do
I? A longitudinal exploration of adolescents and their best friends’ environmental values, self-identity,
personal norms, and behavior. Oral presentation at European Conference on Developmental Psychology.
Turku, Finland, 2023.
Katulis G. Victims Out of Sync: How Disparities in Victimization Impact Aggressive Behavior Amongst Adolescents. Stendinis pranešimas. Poster presentation at European Conference on Developmental Psychology. Turku, Finland, 2023.
Šakinytė D., Žukauskienė, R. Mother’s Control and Negative Emotions as a Serial Mediators between Adolescent’s Difficulties and Mother’s Fearful Attachment. Poster presentation at European Conference on Developmental Psychology (ECDP), Turku, Finland, 2023.