Category: Faculty Partner Research

July 22, 2022

Household conditions modulate associations between cesarean delivery and childhood growth

Cesarean delivery is associated with childhood obesity in urbanized and sanitized environments, but this is not well-studied across broader epidemiologic settings. We examine birth mode, household conditions, and child growth in a Yucatec Maya farming community with limited sanitary infrastructure....
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July 18, 2022

Error Characteristics Lend Specificity to Nonword Repetition Performance in Children Who Stutter With and Without Concomitant Disorders

The aim of this study was to determine whether NWR error characteristics distinguish these groups of children with different speech sound production and language abilities yielding insight into the deficits underlying poorer performance.
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July 1, 2022

Children’s understanding of relational language for quantity comparisons

Numerical order and magnitude are important aspects of early number knowledge. We investigated children’s understanding of relational vocabulary for representing and communicating about order (before/after) and magnitude (bigger/smaller, more/less).
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June 30, 2022

A Randomized Intervention of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program–Education Did Not Improve Dietary Outcomes Except for Vitamin D Among Lower-Income Women in Indiana

The objective of the study was to evaluate the long-term effects of a direct SNAP-Ed intervention in which participants actively engage in learning with educator instruction about dietary quality and usual intake of key nutrient and food groups among Indiana...
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June 30, 2022

Relationship maintenance among military couples

A burgeoning body of research on the relationship maintenance of military couples over the past two decades suggests the time is right to organize, assimilate, and critique the literature. We conducted a systematic review informed by the integrative model of...
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June 30, 2022

Virtuality at work: A doubled-edged sword for women’s career equality?

Organizational scholarship on virtuality and women’s career equality are growing research streams relevant to the changing nature of work. Yet they are under-integrated, which creates a lack of nuanced understanding on how virtuality impacts gender equality in the workplace.
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June 19, 2022

Emerging Ideas. Families Together: Supporting family resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic

The program was widely used and received favor-able feedback. Participants reported less stress in weeks when they engaged in more program activities, and more family connectedness in weeks when they spent more time engaged in program materials.
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June 17, 2022

Sexual assault and harassment (SAH) victimization disparities between sexual minority and heterosexual Chinese youth

Sexual assault and harassment (SAH) has become an increasing global concern that disproportionately impacts gender and sexual minority youth, yet research is scarce outside Western nations. In addition, sexual assault and sexual harassment are closely related experiences in both academic...
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June 15, 2022

Making flexibility more I-Deal: Advancing work-life equality collectively

As the COVID-19 pandemic illuminated, work-life equality, the ability of workers to have equal access to, opportunity to use, and benefit from flexible working arrangements is a rising form of job inequality. We examine how existing flexibility i-deals can be...
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June 14, 2022

Children and parents’ physiological arousal and emotions during shared and independent e-book reading: A preliminary study

Although e-books allow young children to read independently, children could be missing out on opportunities to develop positive emotional associations with reading. The current study explored whether there are differences in emotions and physiological arousal when parents and children read...
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