Christopher Anthony

Associate Professor University of Florida

Gainesville FL

Christopher Anthony is an expert in child development, character education, social skills and assessment to support positive youth outcomes.

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Biography

Christopher J. Anthony's research focuses on promoting children’s positive development. His work emphasizes character education, social skills, resilience and academic competence. He co-authors widely used assessments that serve hundreds of thousands of children in the United States and are used for reserach in over 30 countries. His recent work includes extensive scale development work for new measures of social skills, emotional behavior concerns and academic competence as well as cross-cultural studies of child well-being.

Areas of Expertise

Educational and Psychological Assessment

International Assessment

Academic Competence

Mental Health

Character Education

Child Development

Social Skills

Motivation

School Psychology

Media Appearances

College of Education Professor Spearheads Fulbright-Funded Research in Malta

UF College of Education online

2025-06-16

Christopher Anthony and his team are currently conducting a national survey of the social emotional wellbeing and academic learning skills of Maltese children.

Articles

Ratings of Students’ Stress: Initial Reliability and Validity Evidence for a Brief Stress and Resilience Assessment

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Anthony & Elliott

2025-04-12

In this study, we developed and initially validated a Stress Indicators Scale using five samples of teachers, parents, and students. We also identified the five best items from the scale that could inform development of a brief version of the scale for broader applications in comprehensive universal screening.

Editorial : Introduction to the special issue on assessing children’s social emotional learning to guide improvement programs

University of Malta Centre for Resilience & Socio-Emotional Health

Anthony, et al.

2024-01-01

Although the COVID-19 Pandemic began in 2020, it continues to exert a negative impact on the social, emotional, behavioral, and academic wellbeing of many children and youth across the globe and throughout Europe. To address these significant needs, researchers, educators, and policymakers have continued to stress the importance of developing instructional and intervention programs that target children’s social and emotional learning and emotional behavior concerns.

Measurement Invariance of Children’s SEL Competencies

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Anthony, et al.

2023-01-31

The current study examined the measurement invariance of translated versions of a brief, multi-informant measure of SEL skills developed in the US with data from six European countries: Croatia, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Portugal and Romania.