Family and Consumer Sciences

 

TOMMY M. PHILLIPS, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Family and Consumer Sciences
Department of Family and Consumer Sciences

College of Education and Professional Studies
Jacksonville State University
700 Pelham Road North
Jacksonville, Alabama 36265-1602

Office: (256) 782-5184
Fax:     (256) 782-5916
Email:  tphillips@jsu.edu

Ph.D., Human Development and Family Studies, Auburn University, 2003
M.A., Psychology, University of West Georgia, 1997
B.A., Psychology, University of West Georgia, 1995
B.B.A., Management, Clayton College and State University, 1994

Dr. Phillips is a family scientist and an Assistant Professor of Family and Consumer Sciences.  Areas of teaching interest include courses related to child development, family functioning and family life, parent-child relationships, and research and statistical methods.  Areas of research emphasis currently include identity development in adolescence and early adulthood and family-of-origin influences on young adult romantic relationships. Dr. Phillips is a member of the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences and the Alabama Association of Family and Consumer Sciences. 

 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

Phillips, T.  (2007). The effects of Appalachian fatalism on adolescent identity processes.  Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 99, 11-15.

Phillips, T. & Pittman, J.   (In Press).  Adolescent psychological well-being by identity style.  Journal of Adolescence.

Phillips, T., Wall, S., Li, Cuiting, & Phillips, L.  (In Revision).  Between memories of the past and expectations of the future:  Young adults in romantic relationships.

Phillips, T. & Pittman, J. (2003).   Identity processes in poor adolescents: Exploring the linkages between economic disadvantage and the primary task of adolescence.  Identity, 3, 115-129.

Phillips, T.  & Wall, S.  (2007, March).  Between memories of the past and expectations of the future:  Young adults in romantic relationships.  Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Alabama Association of Family and Consumer Sciences, Huntsville, AL.

Phillips, T.  (2006, November).  Personal problems reported by a non-clinical sample of rural youth.  Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Educational Research Association, Birmingham, AL.

Phillips, T. & Phillips, L.  (2006, June).  Gender differences in identity style.  Paper presented at the Ninety-seventh Annual Conference and Expo of the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences, Charlotte, NC.

Phillips, T.  (2003, April).  Adolescent psychological well-being by identity style: A between-groups analysis.  Poster session presented at the Twenty-seventh Annual Southeastern Symposium on Child and Family Development, Auburn University, AL.

Phillips, T. & Pittman, J.  (2002, April).  Identity style and delinquent attitudes in adolescents.  Poster presented at the Ninth Annual Society for Research in Identity Formation Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA.

Current Research Projects

An Investigation of the Influence of the Parent-Child Bond on College Students' Interpersonal Rejection Beliefs and Fears of Intimacy

The Influence of Family of Origin Experiences on College Students' Romantic Relationships

Authoritarianism and Procrastination by Identity Style