Current Projects
Past Projects
These are a few of the projects we have completed in the past.
- Book flood and volunteering
- Sexuality education for adults with developmental disabilities
- Fathers count
- Career opportunities in research
- Latino adolescents' resiliency
Emerging Adults' Well-Being
Examining contextual qualities related to emerging adults' academics and mental health
Purpose
- To examine how indvidual, family, and societal factors relate to the mental health of emerging adults.
Target Populations
- Latinos, African Americans, Armenians, Persians/Middle Easterners, Asians, Eastern European, Immigrants
Methods
- Cross-sectional design; self-report survey data from psychology subject pool, classrooms, campus groups, snowball sampling in community
Variables
- Depression, Anxiety, Quality of Life, Happiness,Academic Motivation, Grades
- Meeting Parents' Expectations, Parental Support, Parental Intrusiveness, Parent-Child Conflict
- Level of Stress, Religious Coping, Ethnic Identity, Rumination, Ethnic Discrimination
- Scott Williams, Ph.D., Family Studies, CA ST UN Northridge
- Andy Ainsworth, Ph.D., Psychology, CA ST UN Northridge
- Mark Otten, Ph.D., Psychology, CA ST UN Northridge
- Theresa White, Ph.D., Pan African Studies, CA ST UN Northridge
- Gila Frank, M.A., Clinical Psychology PsyD program, Pepperdine University
Collaborators