Faculty Partner Research | Center for Families

September 21, 2023

Protein consumption up across age groups, but sodium, saturated fat and added sugar still high

Heather Eicher-Miller

While overall dietary patterns are poor for American adults and adolescents who are exceeding the recommended limits for sodium, saturated fat and added sugar, toddlers are eating better and protein consumption across age groups is on the rise, according to...

September 21, 2023

Longitudinal associations between popularity, peer acceptance, and academic performance in adolescents

Sharon Christ

Longitudinal associations between popularity, peer acceptance, and academic performance were examined in Chinese 7th and 10th grade adolescents across three academic years. Growth curve analysis revealed parallel changes in popularity and academic performance in both middle- and high-school students whereas...

September 19, 2023

Family connectedness and sexual minority Asian Americans’ eating behavior regulation

Annabelle Atkin

To date, psychosocial and interpersonal protective factors such as family connectedness have received little attention in studies of eating behaviors among sexual minority Asian Americans. Therefore, we investigated associations of family connectedness and two types of eating behavior regulation motives...

September 11, 2023

Young adults’ perceptions of morality-based messages from parents about sex: An exploratory study

Rosie Shrout

The goal of this study was to explore the messages young adults received from their parents about sexual morality. Research on parent–child communication about sexuality has shown that parents are likely to convey moral messages about sex, however, little is...

September 10, 2023

Visual-orthographic skills predict the covariance of Chinese word reading and arithmetic calculation

David Purpura

This study provides evidence connecting two aspects of visual-orthographic skills (orthographic awareness and delayed copying) to the common variance shared by Chinese word reading and arithmetic calculation, as well as in identifying positional knowledge of numbers as a potential mediator...

September 7, 2023

The how many and give-N tasks: Conceptually distinct measures of the cardinality principle

David Purpura

In the current study we investigated performance on the how many and give-N tasks. We first investigated the relative performance of three-to-five-year-old children on these tasks. Replicating prior work, we found that children performed worse on give-N compared to how...

September 2, 2023

A ‘million word gap’ for children who aren’t read to at home

David Purpura

With students returning to school, one topic is especially timely to discuss: the incredible value of children reading at home. Young children whose parents read them five books a day enter kindergarten having heard about 1.4 million more words than...

September 1, 2023

Family-based and external discrimination experienced by multiracial individuals: Links to internalizing symptoms and familial support

Annabelle Atkin

Multiracial individuals are exposed to many forms of interpersonal racial discrimination, including general discrimination against their monoracial groups and discrimination against being multiracial. Because their families include members of different racial groups, multiracial people may also be exposed to various...

August 30, 2023

The roles of familial transmission and smoking during pregnancy on executive function skills: A sibling-comparison study

Kristine Marceau

This research examines maternal smoking during pregnancy and risk for poorer executive function in siblings discordant for exposure.

August 29, 2023

The relationship between mother and father racial-ethnic socialization profiles and family cohesion and sociopolitical values among Asian American adolescents

Annabelle Atkin

Although research on racial-ethnic socialization with Asian American families examines academic and psychological outcomes, less is known about whether messages from mothers and fathers are related to their adolescent's Asian American sociopolitical values and family cohesion.

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