Research in my lab concerns the means by which adolescents and emerging adults manage pursuit of their goals through self-regulation. We take a broad view of self-regulation, accounting for the separate and interactive influences of personality, environment (e.g., home, school, neighborhood), cognition and emotion, and social influences on the many facets of goal management. Although we occasionally study these influences in controlled laboratory experiments, our preference is to study the pu

Matt Maciejewski, PhD is a Professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences. He is also a Research Career Scientist and Director of the Health Economics and Policy Unit in the Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care at the Durham VA Medical Center. Matt also holds Adjunct Professor appointments in the Schools of Public Health and Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has research interests in four areas: 1) evaluation of sur

Randomized trials of behavioral interventions; adherence to treatment regimens; spousal support in chronic disease management, mixed research synthesis; measurement of self-reported medication nonadherence