Category: Faculty Partner Research

Xinran Lehto – Despite the increasing popularity of solo travel, little attention has been given to the social experiences of solo international travelers.

Maria Marshall – Natural disasters pose significant challenges to small businesses, as they are more vulnerable to shocks. Their recovery is crucial to the resilience of communities. This literature review explores the topic of US small business disaster recovery by examining research in economics, management, and disaster studies.

Laura Schwab Reese – Many victims, particularly adolescents, must disclose abuse or neglect to have their experiences identified by people able to provide support and resources. Social media may be part of how young people seek support.

Nasreen Lalani – Rural caregivers experience significant financial stressors while caring for their older family members with chronic illnesses. Limited access to care, support, and resources in rural areas poses significant financial threats and insecurity for some caregivers.

Zoe Taylor – Personal relationships research is increasingly addressing the impact of both mothers’ and fathers’ parenting behaviors on youth’s development.

Kimberly Updegraff – Drawing from the integrative model and emotional spillover framework, the current study examined whether parents’ experiences of ethnic–racial discrimination informed Latino adolescents’ educational adjustment via features of their adaptive culture and youth’s ethnic–racial identity.

Sarah Eason, Arielle Borovsky, David Purpura – This study, involving 120 children and their parents, examined parent talk constructs and their relation to children’s early academic skills in 2021.

David Purpura – Children’s exposure to early numeracy activities in the home is associated with mathematics development.

Xinran Lehto – This study examines how multidimensional food experiences shape tourists’ perceptions of destination brand images, focusing on Cairo, Egypt. Using a survey of international tourists, the study assesses the impact of sensory, intellectual, affective, and behavioural food experiences.

Ellen Kossek – With high-profile return-to-office (RTO) pushes in both the private sector and federal government, some leaders critical of hybrid and remote work are again pushing the narrative that flexibility creates a trade-off between employee wellbeing and organizational productivity.