Research and News from the Center for Families at Purdue University

December 29, 2024

How Latine youth’s positive development unfold through farmwork in rural migrant farmworker families in the U.S. Midwest

Zoe Taylor

Some Latine youth from rural migrant farmworker communities engage in farmwork to help support themselves and their families. Although research has documented their motives for working and some characteristics of their employment, knowledge about how these youth construct their work...

December 20, 2024

Uncovering the boundary conditions of the association between concerns about falling and physical activity in adult populations: a scoping review protocol

Kelsie Muller

Despite evidence of variation in how concerns about falling influence physical activity, many of the currently available knowledge syntheses merely assume that this relation is uniform across populations and contexts. Therefore, we propose a scoping review protocol to guide a...

December 18, 2024

Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research: Interview with Kristine Marceau & Gina Canino-Quiñones

Bob L. and Joyce Beery Miles Research Enhancement Grant Recipients discuss their award-supported research.

December 12, 2024

Relationship Dynamics and Young Women’s Contraceptive Use

Christie Sennott

Research from sub-Saharan Africa has shown that women’s relationships and partners influence their contraceptive use. Most relevant studies focus on relationship status with few considering how the quality of a relationship might influence women’s use of contraceptives.

December 11, 2024

MFRI Announces Winner of Barbara Thompson Excellence in Research on Military and Veteran Families Award

MFRI named a groundbreaking study on the connections between childhood trauma, stressors and posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) in military couples as the winner of the 2024 Barbara Thompson Excellence in Research on Military and Veteran Families Award.

December 9, 2024

Consider agritourism for farm growth

Maria Marshall

An Indiana family successfully expanded their farming operation with an agritourism business, positively impacting themselves and the community.

December 9, 2024

How EASI can it be? Closing the research-to-practice gap via population-based validation of the MAPS-EASI 2.0 early childhood irritability screener for translation to clinical use.

Leigha MacNeill

Dysregulated irritability is the most robust early childhood transdiagnostic predictor of psychopathology. However, this evidence has failed to translate to practice due to a dearth of efficient, developmentally based screening tools.

December 6, 2024

Food donations can focus on nutrition, not just hunger

Heather Eicher-Miller

Food donations are on the minds of many people, especially around the holidays, as collection drives pop up to help food banks, pantries and people in need.

December 4, 2024

Relation between general vocabulary knowledge and early numeracy competence: The mediating role of mathematical language

David Purpura

Early language skills are considered important precursors of early mathematical development. Prior research extensively explored the association between vocabulary and early numeracy.