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Recent Publications

Memmott-Elison, M. K., Carlo, G., Maiya, S., & Roos, J. (2021). Neighborhood and family predictors of early adolescents’ prosocial behavior. Advance online publication at Social Development. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sode.12506

Memmott-Elison, M. K., Yu, M., Maiya, S., Dicus, J. L., & Carlo, G. (2020). Relations between stress, coping strategies, and emotional prosocial behavior in U.S. Mexican college students. Advance online publication at Journal of American College Health. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2020.1817035

Rudy, D., Ispa J.M., Fine, M.A., & James, A. G. (2020). Ethnic variations in mothers’ and children’s positive and negative emotional expressions toward each other. Social Development, Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12495

Rudy, D., & Grusec, J. E. (2020). Praise and prosocial behavior. In E. Brummelman (Ed.) Psychological Perspectives on Praise (pp. 103–110). Abingdon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429327667-16

Foell, A., Pitzer, K.A., Nebbitt, V., Lombe, M., Yu, M., Villodas, M., & Newransky, C. (2021). Exposure to community violence and depressive symptoms: Examining community, family, and peer effects among public housing youth. Health & Place, 69 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2021.102579

Manguvhewa, M., Florence, M., Yu, M. (2021) A bio-ecological perspective on risk awareness and factors Associated with substance use during pregnancy in communities of the Western Cape province, South Africa. International Journal of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences, 15 (1), 63-69.

Small, E., Kim, Y-K., & Yu, M. (2021). Sexually transimitted diseases among college students in Sierra Leone: A life course ecological analysis. Sexuality & Culture https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-020-09799-1

Hodge, D.R., Yu, M., & Kim, A. (2021). Ranking disciplinary social work journals: Comparing faculty perceptions with two citation-based approaches. Journal of the Society for Social Work Research, 12 (1), 109-129. https://doi.org/10.1086/713306

Udmuangpia, T., Yu, M., & Bloom, T. (2020). Intimate partner violence screening intention instrument for Thai nursing students : A principal component analysis, Journal of Clinical Nursing, 29 (23-24), 4748-4758 https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.15515

Yu, M., & Dannerbeck, A. (2020). Who is admitted into a drug treatment court? Comparing Caucasians and African Americans in a Midwest state. Ewha Journal of Social Sciences, 133-162. Invited.

Andrews, A. R., Haws, J. K., Acosta, L. M., Acosta Canchila, M. N., Carlo, G., Grant, K. M., & Ramos, A. K. (in press). Combinatorial effects of discrimination, legal status fears, adverse childhood experiences, and harsh working conditions among Latino migrant farmworkers: Testing learned helplessness hypotheses. Journal of Latinx Psychology.

Davis, A., Carlo, G., & Taylor, L. (in press). The interplay of community and family risk and protective factors on adjustment in young adult immigrants. International Journal of Psychology.

Davis, A., Carlo, G., & Crockett, L. (in press). The role of economic stress in parents’ depressive symptoms and warmth and adolescents’ prosocial behaviors among U.S. Latino/as. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology.

Maiya, S., Carlo, G., Gülseven, Z. & Crockett, L. (2020). Direct and indirect effects of parental involvement, deviant peer affiliation, and school connectedness on prosocial behaviors in U.S. Latino/a youth. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265407520941611

Maiya, S., Carlo, G., Davis, A. N., & Streit, C. E. (in press). Relations among acculturative stress, internalizing symptoms, and prosocial behaviors in U.S. Latino/a college students. Journal of Latinx Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/lat0000177

McGinley, M., Davis, A., Carlo, G., Schwartz, S., Lorenzo-Blanco, E., Unger, J., Szapocznik, J., Baezconde-Garbanati , L., Soto, D., Des Rosiers, S., Villamar, J., & Lizzi, K. (in press). A parallel process model of integration and multidimensional prosocial behaviors in recent immigrant U.S. Latinx adolescents. Psychological Reports.

Memmott-Elison, M. K., Yu, M., Maiya, S., Dicus, J. L., & Carlo, G. Relations between stress, coping strategies, and emotional prosocial behavior in U.S. Mexican college students. Manuscript accepted at Journal of American College Health. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2020.1817035.

Han, S., Palermo, F., Ispa, J. M., & Carlo, G. (in press). Parenting and children’s negative emotionality, self-regulation, and academic skills: The moderating role of fathers’ residency. Social Development.
Han, Y., & Carlo, G. (in press). The links between religiousness and prosocial behaviors in early adulthood: The mediating roles of media exposure preferences and empathic tendencies. Journal of Moral Education.

Pachter, L. M., García Coll, C., Perez-Brena, N. J., López, L. M., Halgunseth, L. C., Mistry, R. S., Livas Stein, G., & Carlo, G. (2020). Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on children and youth. Delaware Journal of Public Health, 6, 40-41.

Streit, C., Carlo, G., & Killoren, S. (in press). Family support, respect, and empathy as correlates of U.S. Latino/a college students’ prosocial behaviors towards different recipients. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.

Wang, W., Spinrad, T., Gal-Szabo, D. E.. Laible, D., Xiao, S. X., Xu, J., Berger, R., Eisenberg, N., & Carlo, G. (in press). The relations of White parents’ implicit racial attitudes to their children’s differential empathic concern towards White and Black victims. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.

First, J., Yu, M., & Houston, J.B. (2020). Development and validation of the disaster adaptation and resilience scale (DARS): A measure to assess individual disaster resilience. Disasters.  https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12452

Udmuangpia, T.*, Yu, M., Laughon, K., Saywat, T., & Bloom, T. (2020). Prevalence, risks, and health consequencies of intimate partner violence during pregnancy among young women: A systematic review. The Pacific Rim International Journal of Nursing Research, 24 (3), 412-429.  https://he02.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/PRIJNR/article/view/217503

Lee, N.*, Buchanan, K.*, & Yu, M. (2020). Each post matters : A content analysis of #mentalhealth images on Instagram. Journal of Visual Communication in Medicine, 43 (3), 128-138 . https://doi.org/10.1080/17453054.2020.1781535

Nebbitt, V., Lombe, M., Pitzer, K.A.*, Foell, A.*, Enelamath, N., Chu, Y., Yu, M., Newransky, C., & Gaylord-Harden, N. (2020). Exposure to violence and post-traumatic stress among youth in public housing : Do community, family, and peers matter?, Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-020-00780-0

Kim, Y-K., Sanders, J.E.*, Makubuya, T., & Yu, M. (2020). Risk factors of academic performance: School violence, school safety concerns, depression by by gender. Child & Youth Care Forum https://doi.org/10.1007/s10566-020-09552-7.

Hodge, D.R., Yu, M., & Kim, A.* (2020). Ranking disciplinary social work journals: Comparing faculty perceptions with two citation-based approaches. Journal of the Society for Social Work Research.

Memmott-Elison, M. K., Moilanen, K. L., & Padilla-Walker, L. M. (2020). Latent growth in self-regulatory subdimensions in relation to adjustment outcomes in youth aged 12-19. Journal of Research on Adolescence. Advance online publication. DOI:10.1111/jora.12550

Memmott-Elison, M. K., Holmgren, H. G, Padilla-Walker, L. M., & Hawkins, A. J. (2020). Associations between prosocial behavior, externalizing behaviors, and internalizing symptoms during adolescence: A meta-analysis. Journal of Adolescence, 80, 98-114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2020.01.012

Memmott-Elison, M. K., Padilla-Walker, L. M., Yorgason, J., & Coyne, S. M. (2020). Intra-individual associations between intentional self-regulation and prosocial behavior during adolescence: Evidence for bidirectionality. Journal of Adolescence, 80, 29-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2020.02.001

Carlo, G., & Maiya, S. (2019). Methodological issues in cross-cultural research on prosocial and moral development. In N. A. Jones, M. Platt, K. D. Mize, & J. Hardin (Eds.), Developmental research: A guide for conducting research across the life span (pp. 171-188). New York, NY: Routledge/Taylor-Francis Publishers.

Han, Y. (2019). Longitudinal associations among marital conflict, co-parenting, and children’s internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors, Korean Journal of Child Studies, 40(4), 109-122.

Padilla-Walker, L. M., Millett, M., & Memmott-Elison, M. K. (2020). Can helping others strengthen teens? Character strengths as mediators between prosocial behavior and adolescents’ internalizing problems. Journal of Adolescence, 79, 70-80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2020.01.001

Rogers, A. A., Memmott-Elison, M. K., Padilla-Walker, L. M., & Byon, J. (2019). Perceived parental psychological control predicts intraindividual decrements in self-regulation throughout adolescence. Developmental Psychology. Advance online publication.http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dev0000818

Willoughby, B. J., James, S., Marsee, I., Memmott-Elison, M. K., & Dennison, R. (2019). “I’m scared because divorce sucks”: Parental divorce and the marital paradigms of emerging adults. Journal of Family Issues, 0192513X19880933, 1-28. DOI:10.1177/0192513X19880933

Padilla-Walker, L. M., Coyne, S. M., & Memmott-Elison, M. K. (2019). Media and the family. In B. H. Fiese, M. Celano, K. Deater-Deckard, E. N. Jouriles, & M. A. Whisman (Eds.), APA handbook of contemporary family psychology: Applications and broad impact of family psychology., Vol. 2., 365–378. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000100-023

Chun, J., Yu, M., Kim, J., & Kim, A. (2019). E-cigarette, cigarette, and dual use in Korean adolescents: A test of problem behavior theory. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, https://doi.org/10.1080/02791072.2020.1712501

Hodge, D.R., Yu, M., & Kim, A. (2019). Assessing the quality and prestige of disciplinary social work journals: A national study. Research on Social Work Practice https://doi.org/10.1177/1049731519890402

Kim, Y-K., Yu, M., Conley, C.M., & Yang, M.Y. (2019). Peer victimization, feelings of sadness or hopelessness and sexual risk behaviors among high school youth in the United States : A gender-based approach. International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health DOI: 10.1515/ijamh-2019-0139

Hodge, D.R., Yu, M., & Kim, A. (2020). Ranking disciplinary social work journals: Comparing faculty perceptions with two citation-based approaches. Journal of the Society for Social Work Research.

Book Chapters

Carlo G., Memmott-Elison, M. K., & Crockett L.J. (2020). Latino prosocial development in the rural U.S. In J. Glick, S. McHale, & V. King (Eds.) Rural families and communities in the United States. National Symposium on Family Issues, vol. 10 (pp. 237-251). New York, NY: Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37689-5_9

Carlo, G., Hastings, P. D., Logan Dicus, J., & Ugarte, E. (in press). Development, culture, and neurobiology of moral emotions in ethnic/racial minority children: A case study of U.S. Latino/a children. To appear in D. Dukes, A. C. Samson, & E. A. Walle (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Emotional Development. New York: Oxford University Press.

Padilla-Walker, L. M., & Memmott-Elison, M. K. (2020). Family and moral development. In L. A. Jensen (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of moral development (pp. 461-485. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.