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I am a family and developmental scientist who examines the intersections of identity, oppression, public policy, and health and well-being among sexual and gender minority populations. My research examines how sexual and gender minority youth, and Latinx SGM youth in particular, thrive and are resilient despite the oppressive barriers and challenges they encounter in society. To accomplish these goals, my research identifies malleable individual-level mechanisms (e.g., coping, activism) and systems-level policies (e.g., inclusive school policies) that reduce the impact of discrimination and contribute to optimal health, well-being, and educational outcomes.Show Less
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Research Opportunities
- Undergrad Research Opp For Credit
Grant: Not Listed
Adolescent development; Gender identity and expression; Intersectionality; LGBTQA populations; Margi...
Courses
- TDCDRTopics in Diverse Contexts for Development and Relationships
- HSRHuman Sexuality and Relations
- ADASEMAdvanced Data Analysis: Structural Equation Modeling
- AAdolescence
- IQAIntermediate Quantitative Analysis
- CPPDJMCareer Planning and the PhD Job Market
Grants
- Views of Gender in Adolescence
Principal Investigator (PI)
2022
$34.2K
Active - Standing Up, Speaking Out: Reducing Prejudice in Sports
Principal Investigator (PI)
2020
$7.1K
Active - Effects of Teaching Practices on Peer Victimization and Defending Behaviors
Co-Investigator (COI)
2019
$678.0K
Active - Mapping Q: An Arts-Based Suicide Prevention Program for LGBTQ Youth
Co-Investigator (COI)
2019
$4.2K
- No Longer at the Margins: Envisioning the Integration of an Intersectional Lens in Developmental Science
Principal Investigator (PI)
2016
$9.6K
- Strengths and Supports in the Lives of LGBT Youth: An Examination of Suicide Attempts and Thriving
Principal Investigator (PI)
2015
$82.0K
- Meta-analyses of Contextual Correlates of Peer Victimization
Principal Investigator (PI)
2014
$237.5K
News
- Study Reveals Which Transgender Teens Have Highest Suicide Risk
2018
- Bennu, Burials and (Queen) Bees: UA's Top Stories of 2018
2018
- LGB-Focused Resources Help Stressed Teens Cope
2017
- Compassion for the Environment: UA Wants to Talk About It
2017
- Study Looks at LGBT Allies in College Sports
2017
- UA Report: Few Studies Look at Well-Being of LGB Youth of Color
2016
- LGBT Identities, Experience Core of Day-long Conference
2010
- Study Links Bullying to Depression, Other Adult Ailments
2010
Publications (79)
Recent
- Discrimination and depressive symptoms in sexual minority Latinx youth: Moderation by religious importance and attendance
2021
- External stressors and trajectories of marital quality during the early years of Chinese marriage: Buffering effects of resources at multiple ecological levels.
2021
- Heteronormativity in the Lives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Queer Young People
2021
- Family abuse among gender minority adolescents: A comparison study.
2021
- Parent Financial Socialization Scale: Development and preliminary validation
2021
- Implications of trans inclusive resources for feelings of inclusion in campus LGBTQ groups: Differences by race and gender identity.
2021
- Talk is cheap: Parent financial socialization and emerging adult financial wellbeing
2021
- Advancing Research on Minority Stress and Resilience in Trans Children and Adolescents in the 21st Century
2021
- The association between preparation for bias and ethnic identity development: Exploring the moderating effect of age among Latinx sexual minority youth.
2021
- Sexual orientation disclosure to classmates among Latinx sexual minority high school and college youth
2021
- Sexual orientation-based victimization and internalized homonegativity among Latinx sexual minority youth: Exploring the moderating effects of social support and school level.
2021
- Latinx sexual minority youth adjustment in the context of discrimination and internalized homonegativity: The moderating role of cultural orientation processes
2020
- *Facets of career development in a new immigrant destination
2020
- Do beliefs about sexual orientation predict voting behavior? Results from the 2016 U.S. presidential election
2020
- Parent-Initiated Sexual Orientation Change Efforts With LGBT Adolescents: Implications for Young Adult Mental Health and Adjustment
2020
- LGBTQ Sampling Methodology
2019
- Rethinking demographic data collection: Race and gender in multiple dimensions.
2019
- Creating Connections: Preventing Co-Occurring Health Risks among Secondary School Students
2019
- The Developmental Assets Framework revisited: Confirmatory factor analysis and invariance testing to create a new generation of assets measures for applied research
2019
- Introduction: Integrating an intersectionality lens in theory and research in developmental science
2018
- RC2 and RA2: Place identity, attachment, and involvement among rural sexual and gender minorities.
2018
- Profiles of LGBTQ ally engagement in college athletics
2018
- Young adults’ psychological and physiological reactions to the 2016 U.S. presidential election: The role of gender, race/ethnicity, and political views
2018
- Sex differences in behavioral and psychological expression of grief during adolescence. A meta-analysis
2018
- Transgender adolescent suicide behavior: Understanding subgroup differences
2018
- When is bicultural stress associated with loss of hope and depressive symptoms? Variations by ethnic identity status among Mexican descent youth
2018
- Are developmental assets protective against suicidal behavior? Differential associations by sexual orientation
2018
- Family socialization for racism and heterosexism: Experiences of Latinx sexual minority adolescent and young adults.
2018
- Profiles of minority stressors and identity centrality among sexual minority Latinx youth
2018
- Coping With Sexual Orientation-Related Minority Stress
2018
- Contributions of the Integrative Model for the Study of Developmental Competencies in Minority Children: What have we learned about adaptive culture?
2018
- Special Issue: Envisioning the integration of an intersectional lens in developmental science.
2018
- Athletes’ perceptions of the climate for sexual and gender minority athletes and their intervention in bias
2018
- Overt and Relational Aggression Participant Role Behavior: Measurement and Relations With Sociometric Status and Depression
2017
- Growth Trajectories of Mexican-Origin Adolescent Mothers' Educational Expectations
2017
- Sexual minority youth of color: A content analysis and critical review of the literature
2017
- What if macrosystemic forces feel like a roller-coaster ride? Sexual and gender minority stigma in the 21st century
2017
- Professional school counselor perceptions of systemic barriers affecting Latino students: Implications for socially just preparation and practice
2016
- LGBTQ ally development and engagement in sports: A mixed-methods study
2016
- Transfamily theory: How the presence of trans* family members informs gender development in families.
2016
- Mindfulness as a coping strategy for bias-based school victimization among Latina/o sexual minority youth
2016
- Are school policies focused on sexual orientation and gender identity associated with less bullying? Teachers' perspectives
2016
- An examination of the validity and reliability of a measure of sexual orientation identity exploration, resolution, and affirmation
2016
- Measuring Cultural Socialization Attitudes and Behaviors of Mexican-Origin Mothers With Young Children: A Longitudinal Investigation
2016
- The Role of Sexual Orientation in School-Based Victimization: A Meta-Analysis
2016
- Risky behaviors and educational attainment among young Mexican-origin mothers: The role of acculturative stress and the educational aspiration-expectation gap
2016
- Trajectories of Problem Behavior among Mexican-Origin Adolescent Mothers
2015
- Ethnic-racial identity and personal identity developmental processes among young Mexican-origin mothers: Are they unique constructs?
2015
- An exploration of family therapists' beliefs about the ethics of conversion therapy: the influence of negative beliefs and clinical competence with lesbian, gay, and bisexual clients
2015
- Person-environment fit: everyday conflict and coparenting conflict in Mexican-origin teen mother families
2015
- Latino adolescents' perceived discrimination in online and offline settings: an examination of cultural risk and protective factors
2015
- Assessing lesbian, gay, and bisexual affirmative training in couple and family therapy: establishing the validity of the Faculty Version of the Affirmative Training Inventory
2015
- Gender role attitudes across the transition to adolescent motherhood in Mexican-origin families
2015
- The intersection of spirituality, religion, sexual orientation, and gender identity in family therapy training: An exploration of students’ beliefs and practices
2014
- Peers' Perceptions of Gender Nonconformity: Associations with Overt and Relational Peer Victimization and Aggression in Early Adolescence
2014
- Establishing the validity of the spirituality in clinical training scale: Measuring the level of integration of spirituality and religion in family therapy training
2014
- School engagement mediates long-term prevention effects for Mexican American adolescents
2014
- Being out at school: the implications for school victimization and young adult adjustment
2014
- Perceived discrimination and ethnic affirmation: Anglo culture orientation as a moderator among mexican-origin adolescent mothers
2014
- Family context, Mexican-origin adolescent mothers' parenting knowledge, and children's subsequent developmental outcomes
2014
- Impact of Arizona's SB 1070 immigration law on utilization of health care and public assistance among Mexican-origin adolescent mothers and their mother figures
2014
- Measuring Social Support from Mother-Figures in the Transition from Pregnancy to Parenthood among Mexican-Origin Adolescent Mothers
2013
- Associations among bullying, cyberbullying, and suicide in high school students
2013
- Perceived Discrimination, Coping Strategies, and Mexican Origin Adolescents' Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors: Examining the Moderating Role of Gender and Cultural Orientation
2013
- Risk and Protective Factors for Suicidal Thoughts Among Sexual Minority Youth: Evidence from the Add Health Study
2013
- An Initial Investigation of Sexual Minority Youth Involvement in School-Based Extracurricular Activities
2013
- Ethnic identity development and ethnic discrimination: examining longitudinal associations with adjustment for Mexican-origin adolescent mothers
2013
- Establishing the Validity of the Feminist Couple Therapy Scale: Measuring Therapists’ Use of Feminist Practices With Heterosexual Couples
2013
- Gay-Straight Alliances, Social Justice Involvement, and School Victimization of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Queer Youth: Implications for School Well-Being and Plans to Vote
2013
- Establishing the Validity of the Affirmative Training Inventory: Assessing the Relationship between Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Affirmative Training and Students' Clinical Competence
2013
- The Role of Ethnic Identity on Self-Esteem for Ethnic Minority Youth: A Brief Review
2012
- Men's sexual orientation and suicide: Evidence for US adolescent-specific risk
2012
- Heteronormativity, school climates, and perceived safety for gender nonconforming peers
2012
- High School Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) and Young Adult Well-Being: An Examination of GSA Presence, Participation, and Perceived Effectiveness
2011
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender adolescent school victimization: implications for young adult health and adjustment
2011
- School Climate for Transgender Youth: A Mixed Method Investigation of Student Experiences and School Responses
2010
- Gender-nonconforming lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth: school victimization and young adult psychosocial adjustment
2010
- Perceived sibling relationships of sexual minority youth
2009