Research and News from the Center for Families at Purdue University

February 1, 2023

CFF Faculty Partner, Eicher-Miller to serve on 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, announces USDA and HHS

The 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee will be tasked with reviewing the current body of nutrition science and developing a scientific report that includes its independent, science-based advice for HHS and USDA to consider. The committee’s review, along with public...

February 1, 2023

Stephanie Land on campus March 1 for Perrucci-Cummings Lecture Series

Stephanie Land, author of New York Times Bestseller and inspiration for the Netlfix Original Series, Maid, will be at Purdue Memorial Union North Ballroom, doors open at 6pm, event begins at 6:30pm. There will be a Q&A and book signing...

February 1, 2023

How aging couples’ emotional and physiological associations change across positive, supportive, and conflictual discussions: Roles of capitalization and responsive behaviors

Couples’ emotions and physiology change across interactions and based on behaviors. Aging couples’ emotions and physiology may be closely related as they spend more time together and rely on each other for support.

February 1, 2023

The role of semantic similarity in verb learning events: Vocabulary-related changes across early development

Verb meaning is challenging for children to learn across varied events. This study examined how the taxonomic semantic similarity of the nouns in novel verb learning events in a progressive alignment learning condition differed from the taxonomic dissimilarity of nouns...

January 31, 2023

Grit but Not Help-Seeking Was Associated with Food Insecurity among Low Income, At-Risk Rural Veterans

Rural veterans have poorer health, use healthcare services less often than their urban counterparts, and have more prevalent food insecurity than average U.S. households. Food insecurity and resource use may be influenced by modifiable psychological attributes such as grit and...

January 31, 2023

Incorporating Diaspora into the Developmental Science of Immigrant Communities

Children, youth, and families who are displaced from or voluntarily leave their homelands, such as refugees, migrant workers, third culture children and adults, international students and scholars, and transnational adoptees, are largely overlooked in developmental science.

January 31, 2023

Incorporating Diaspora into the Developmental Science of Immigrant Communities

Children, youth, and families who are displaced from or voluntarily leave their homelands, such as refugees, migrant workers, third culture children and adults, international students and scholars, and transnational adoptees, are largely overlooked in developmental science. Based on their unique...

January 31, 2023

Applying Critical Multiracial Theory to Conceptualizing and Measuring Multiracial Experiences and Identity

This Diversity and Developmental Science chapter applies critical multiracial theory to advance the conceptualization and measurement of multiracial experiences and identity in developmental science. We aim to illustrate the complexity in how multiracials navigate, negotiate, and challenge (mono)racism and white...

January 29, 2023

Dietary Costs among Midwestern Adult Food-Pantry Users by Food-Security Status

Evidence of the relationship between dietary cost, diet quality, and socio-economic status is mixed. This study investigated whether food-pantry clients with low and very low food-security status had less expensive daily diets than food-secure clients by comparing total cost, cost...

January 27, 2023

Investigating How Parental Support Varies Across Racially Diverse Mothers and Fathers in Relation to Emerging Adults’ Multiracial Experiences and Psychological Distress

The present study examined Multiracial emerging adults’ reports of up to two of their primary caregivers’ support of their Multiracial experiences, in addition to their reports on outcomes of their own feelings of Multiracial pride, challenges with racial identity, lack...