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Chinese American adolescents’ experiences of COVID-19 racial discrimination: Risk and protective factors for internalizing difficulties
(American Psychological Association, 2021-08-26)Objective: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has fueled anti-Asian racism and xenophobia in the United States, which negatively impact Asian Americans’ adjustment. To identify risk and protective factors for ... -
Longitudinal relations among child temperament, parenting, and acculturation in predicting Korean American children’s externalizing problems
(American Psychological Association, 2021)Objective: This study examined the transactional associations among maternal warmth, child temperamental inhibitory control, child externalizing behaviors, and maternal American acculturation in Korean immigrant families ... -
U.S. Parents’ Reports of Assisting Their Children with Distance Learning during COVID-19
(MDPI, 2021-09-03)COVID-19 has caused increased stress among U.S. adults, with many reporting concerns assisting their children with distance learning due to school closures. This study surveyed U.S. parents–most of whom were middle-aged, ... -
Plasma neurofilament light as a potential biomarker for cognitive decline in a longitudinal study of middle-aged urban adults
(Nature, 2021-08-21)Plasma neurofilament light (NfL) is a marker for neurodegenerative diseases. Few studies have examined the association of NfL with middle-aged changes in cognitive performance, and no studies have examined differential NfL ... -
Heads and Hearts: Interactive Relations of Left Ventricular Mass and Sociodemographic Factors on Cognitive Outcomes in Urban Dwelling African American and White Adults.
(2020-01-20)Degree of hypertrophy of the left ventricle, indexed by greater LVM, is a measure of subclinical CVD that is prognostic of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Much is known about the relations of select subclinical CVD ... -
HIGH SCHOOL MATH COURSE ENROLLMENT AMONG HIGH MATH ABILITY STUDENTS: GENDER, RACE/ETHNICITY, MOTIVATION, AND CONTEXT
(2020-01-20)National goals to increase the STEM workforce and representation of minorities in the STEM workforce underscore the need to consider secondary pathways into such fields. This study examined the motivational (competence ... -
Ethnic-racial socialization practices, gender, and academic achievement among high school adolescents
(2020-01-01)Academic achievement is an important determinant of adolescent outcomes (Skinner, McHale, Wood, & Telfer, 2018). Moreover, parents sometimes engage in ethnic-racial socialization (ERS) practices in an effort to increase ... -
White Matter Tract Integrity as a Mediator of the Association Between Socioeconomic Status and Executive Function
(2019-01-01)Lower socioeconomic status (SES) is related to poorer executive function, but the neural mechanisms of this association remain unclear. As optimal communication between brain regions is essential to our cognitive abilities, ... -
Shielding the Pain Away: Examining the Role of the Head-Mounted Display in Experimental Acute Pain Reduction
(2020-01-01)As an emerging technology, virtual reality (VR) poses the potential to transform experiences of acute pain in health settings. This study examined whether a competing environmental stimulus (CES) would yield a differential ... -
A Multi-Method Approach to Examine Predictors and Outcomes of Muslim American Adolescents? Social Identities
(2020-01-01)The Muslim American population is the fastest growing and one of the most discriminated against religious groups in the United States. The current socio-political climate poses profound developmental challenges for Muslim ... -
Injury Prevention in Human Service Settings Serving Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities
(2020-01-01)Staff working in health and human service settings (e.g., direct care staff) are at high risk of being injured on the job and workplace violence initiated by the very patients served results in the largest proportion of ... -
Chemistry Motivation and Achievement at the Intersection of Gender and Ethnicity
(2019-01-01)In the United States, the STEM workforce faces a diversity problem. Women and people of color remain underrepresented in STEM education and careers (National Science Board, 2018). A possible reason for continued ... -
Ambivalence about Marijuana Use: A Potential Facilitator of Information Processing and Changes in Attitudes and Intentions Resulting from Anti-Drug Messaging
(2020-01-20)In recent years, rates of marijuana use in the United States have increased, and along with that increase in use, attitudes about marijuana have become more accepting and perception of a risk of harm has decreased (Cerd� ... -
EXAMINING PARENTING IN CONTEXT USING MULTI-METHOD APPROACHES AMONG CHINESE IMMIGRANT FAMILIES IN THE UNITED STATES
(2020-01-20)This dissertation project utilized a multi-method approach to examine the role of culture and Chinese immigrant mothers? beliefs and the warm and controlling practices they engage in when interacting with their children. ... -
A MULTI-METHOD EXPLORATION OF KOREAN IMMIGRANT PARENTING AND CHILDREN?S SOCIO-EMOTIONAL AND BEHAVIORAL OUTCOMES IN THE U.S.
(2020-01-20)This dissertation project aimed to clarify pathways toward young Korean immigrant children?s socioemotional and behavioral adjustment by exploring associations among predictors of parenting, parenting behaviors and practices, ... -
Facial Emotion Recognition in Attenuated Psychosis, Depressive, and Anxiety Syndromes: Are Impairments Common or Specific?
(2019-01-01)Facial emotion recognition (FER) is often impaired among individuals with schizophrenia or clinical high-risk (CHR) for psychosis, but is also impaired among individuals with depressive and anxiety disorders, diagnoses ... -
The Impact of Criminal Record Stigma on Quality of Life: A Mediation Model
(2020-01-20)Across multiple stigmatized groups, research suggests that stigma may negatively impact individual wellbeing. Empirical evidence suggests this occurs through a sequential pathway that includes perceiving societal stigma, ... -
Relations of Pulse Wave Velocity and Sociodemographic Variables to Cognitive Functioning in Urban Dwelling African American and White Adults
(2020-01-20)Arterial stiffness, or the physical hardening of the central large arteries, is a prevalent type of subclinical vascular disease that is predictive of incident systolic hypertension, coronary heart disease, stroke, and ... -
The Relationship between School Climate, School Valuing, and Academic Achievement among Middle School Students
(2020-01-20)For adolescents, middle school can be a turbulent and stormy experience. During this stage, young people go through significant developmental changes, seek autonomy from their parents, and desire a sense of belonging with ... -
TELOMERE ATTRITION AND AGE-RELATED COGNITIVE DECLINE: DISPARITIES BY POVERTY STATUS AND RACE
(2020-01-20)Telomere length (TL) is a marker of biological aging. However, evidence for relations between TL attrition and age-related cognitive decline is equivocal. Further, it is unknown whether historically disadvantaged ...
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