Category: Faculty Partner Research

December 2, 2024

Long-term trajectories of depressive symptoms by military affiliation

Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth, Zoe Taylor Laura Schwab-Reese, Sharon Christ

Using a national sample of Americans, this study estimated and compared patterns of depressive symptom trajectories stratified by military service.

November 28, 2024

Associations among parents’ math anxiety, math-related leisure activities, children’s early numeracy interest and skills

David Purpura

Parents play a pivotal role in early numeracy development. It however remains unknown whether parents' math anxiety and math-related leisure activities concurrently contribute to children's early numeracy skills through numeracy interest.

November 4, 2024

Weathering the storm: How agribusinesses and farms can prepare for natural disasters

Maria Marshall

Major natural disasters, like Hurricanes Helene and Milton, caused severe economic and environmental damage in the southeastern region of the U.S. this fall.

November 4, 2024

Purdue Center for Early Learning finds new research PURPOSE

David Purpura, Sarah Eason

The Purdue University Center for Early Learning (CEL) is pushing the integration of early STEM and non-STEM education research with PURPOSE.

November 4, 2024

Parental warmth and parent–child conflict among U.S. Latinx families in middle childhood

Kim Updegraff

Grounded in family systems theory and using latent profile analysis, the present study examined (a) patterns of parent–child warmth and parent–child conflict within multiple dyads among 305 U.S. Latinx families with fifth graders and younger siblings and tested links of...

November 4, 2024

Competence Perceptions at the Intersection of Gender and Race-Ethnicity

Trenton Mize

Competence perceptions represent a fundamental dimension of human perception and have wide-ranging consequences for social interaction. Therefore, it is no surprise that multiple prominent social psychological theories emphasize the role of competence perceptions.

November 3, 2024

Parental involvement in Mexican-origin adolescents’ romantic relationships: An examination of parents’ cultural orientations and parent-youth relationships

Kim Updegraff

Romantic relationships are normative in adolescence, and parents can play a role in supporting or restricting adolescents' romantic experiences.

November 1, 2024

Mode of pandemic school instruction associated with distress among military and non-military-connected students

Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth

Because they experience unique risk factors, students from military families may have responded differently to remote school instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic.

October 30, 2024

Lability in parent–child warmth and hostility and adolescent externalizing behaviors

Kristine Marceau

Both longer term developmental changes (increases in hostility, decreases in warmth) and lability (year-to-year fluctuations) in parent–child relationship quality across childhood and adolescence have been linked to adolescent externalizing behaviors.

October 30, 2024

Structural risks and family adjustment in midwestern Latine immigrant families: Extending the family stress model

Zoe Taylor

We tested an extended family stress model of economic hardship (FSM; Conger et al., 2010) incorporating structural risks (discrimination, immigration, and COVID-19 experiences) and qualitative data, to better understand the impact of culturally relevant experiences on family stress processes in...