Recent Accomplishments
SELECT GRANTS
Sigal, M. & Olwert, M.R. (Co-PIs): "Graduate Peer Support- Navigate your way to social fitness!" Healthy UC Davis & Equity in Mental Health Grant. (funded $22,385 July 2023- July 2025)
Miller, M. (PI): Early Identification of ADHD: A Longitudinal Follow-Up Study. 2022-2023 UC Davis Behavioral Health Center for Excellence Pilot Award, Amount: $50,000.
Choe, D.E. (PI): Healthy Offspring, Mothers, and Emotions Project. COVID-19 Research Accelerator Funding Track (CRAFT) 2.0 Program. UC Davis Provost’s Office. Submitted November 2022 (funded $40,000 from December 22, 2022 to December 22, 2023).
Hernández, M. (PI): “Promoting mental health resilience and mitigating covid-19 stressors in middle school.” UC Davis-HMS partnership for promoting mental health resilience in middle school - sponsored by the University of California, Davis, Public Scholarship and Engagement Research. https://www.air.org/covid-19-and-equity-education-community-researchers#promoting
Hagerman, R. (PI): “A double-blind placebo-controlled trial of metformin in individuals with fragile X syndrome. Azrieli Foundation.
Prado, E. (PI): "Investigation of a new sequential multiple hit model to examine risk and resilience in a prospective longitudinal cohort of children in Ghana.” R03 research grant. Co-investigators: Haiying Yuan, Paul Hastings, and Amanda Guyer at University of California, Davis, and Seth Adu-Afarwuah at the University of Ghana.
Schweitzer, J. (PI): “Can fidgeting lead to enhanced attention and emotional regulation in adult ADHD?” National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Mental Health.
Swartz, J.R. (PI): “Risk and protective factors associated with the development of depression and allostatic load in young adults of Mexican origin.” R01 research grant, National Institute of Mental Health.
Huo, M. (PI): “Empathy, Support Exchanges, and Well-being in Older Couples Coping with Early-Stage Alzheimer’s Disease.” National Institute on Aging funded R21 research grant.
Sparapani, N (PI). U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, Exploration ($1,699,998) Examining How Teacher-Student Interactions within Mathematics and Literacy Instructional Contexts Relate to the Developmental and Academic Outcomes of Early Elementary Students with Autism; Grant #R324A210288 Grant Duration: 7/1/2021 – 6/30/2025. IES Exploratory Project: https://ies.ed.gov/ncser/projects/21awards.asp.
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
Choe, D. E., Barreda, S., Galán, C. A., Gardner, F., Wilson, M. N., Dishion, T. J., & Shaw, D. S. (2024). Early childhood predictors of early school-age academic skills and resilience among children living in poverty. Social Development, 33(1), e12715. https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12715
Huo, M., & Kim, K. (2024). Dyadic profiles of couples’ self-perceptions of aging: Implications for mental health.Psychology and Aging, 39(2), 153–165. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000801
Zhao, Y., Dennis, J. M., & Houseman, C. (2024). Predictors of hookup behaviors among Asian and Asian American college students in the United States. Journal of American College Health. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2024.2311121
Abbeduto, L., del Hoyo Soriano, L., Berry-Kravis. E., Sterling, A., Edgin4, J.O., Abdelnur, N., Drayton, A., Hoffmann, A., Hamilton, D., Harvey, D.J., & Thurman, A.J. (2023). Expressive language sampling and outcome measures for treatment trials in fragile X and Down syndromes: Composite scores and psychometric properties. Scientific Reports, 13, 9267. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-36087-3
del Hoyo Soriano, L., Villarreal, J., & Abbeduto, L. (2023). Parental survey on Spanish-English bilingualism in neurotypical development and neurodevelopmental disabilities in the United States. Advances in Neurodevelopmental Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41252-023-00325-6
Stahmer, A.C., Suhrheinrich, J., Rieth, S.R., Roesch, Scott, Vejnoska, S., Chan, J., Nahmias, A., & Wang, T. (2023). A Waitlist Randomized Implementation Trial of Classroom Pivotal Response Teaching for Students with Autism. Focus on autism and Other Developmental Disabilities 38(1), 32–44. https://doi.org/10.1177/10883576221133486
Ugarte, E., & Hastings, P. D. (2023). Assessing unpredictability in caregiver-child relationships: Insights from theoretical and empirical perspectives. Development & Psychopathology, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579423000305
Choe, D. E., Olwert, M. R., & Golden, A. B. (2023). Cognitive and psychophysiological predictors of inductive and physical discipline among parents of preschool-aged children. Journal of Family Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0001140
Snyder, A.L., Bonus, J.A., & Cingel, D.P. (2023). Representations of LGBQ+ families in young children’s media. Journal of Children and Media, 17(1), 154-160. https://doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2023.2173856
Cingel, D. P., Snyder, A. L., & Vigil, S. L. (2023). Minding children’s media morals: Parents’ moral foundation salience differentially relates to attitudes and motivations toward children’s educational media. Mass Communication and Society. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2023.2226645
Boyer, C. J., Ugarte, E., Buhler-Wassmann, A. C., & Hibel, L. C. (2022). Latina mothers navigating COVID-19: Within- and between-family stress processes over time. Family Relations. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.12748
Falbe, J., Grummon, A. H., & Krieger, J. W. (2022). Sugar-sweetened beverage taxes and population health outcomes. JAMA Pediatrics, 176(2), 129–131. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapediatrics.2021.5051
Gee, K. (2022). Household Food Insecurity Associated with Decline in Attentional Focus of Young Children with Disabilities, UC Davis Center for Poverty and Inequality Research (CPIR) Policy Brief: https://poverty.ucdavis.edu/post/household-food-insecurity-associated-decline-attentional-focus-young-children-disabilities
Hernández, M. M., Taylor, Z. E., & Jones, B. L. (2022). Fostering academic competence in Latinx youth: The role of cultural values and parenting behaviors. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075221095054
Partington, L. C., Mashash, M., & Hastings, P. D. (2022). Family thriving during covid-19 and the benefits for children’s well-Being. Frontiers in Psychology, 13. https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.879195
Beard, S. J., Hastings, P. D., Ferrer, E., Robins, R. W., & Guyer, A. E. (2022). Neural response to social exclusion moderates the link between adolescent anxiety symptoms and substance use. Biological Psychiatry, Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 7(2), 180–191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2021.06.00
STUDENT PRESENTATIONS
Golden, A.B., Olwert, M.R., & Choe, D.E. (2024). Preschoolers’ effortful control moderates the effects of parenting stress on parasympathetic activity [poster] Association for Psychological Science's 2024 Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA.
Olwert, M.R., Golden, A.B., & Choe, D.E. (2024). Children’s parasympathetic self-Regulation and co-Regulation during parent-child interactions [poster] Western Psychological Association's 2024 Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA.
Sigal, M. & Nishina, A. (2024). Does the use of general or study-specific infographics help participant retention in longitudinal studies of diverse emerging adults? [poster]. Society for Research on Adolescence, Chicago, IL.
Zhao, Y. & Munger, A. (2024). Chinese American parents’ perspectives on their children with intellectual and developmental disabilities’ oral health [poster]. 18th Annual Conference for University of California's Center for Research on Special Education, Disabilities, and Developmental Risk, Sacramento, CA.
Golden, A. B., Olwert, M.R., & Choe, D.E. (2023). Child respiratory sinus arrhythmia as a mechanism between parenting stress and child effortful control: Does context matter? [poster] 24th Occasional Temperament Conference, Montréal, Canada.
Li, J. (2023). Parenting stress and food Monitoring: Relationship quality as moderator [poster]. Society for Research in Child Development, Salt Lake City, UT.
Snyder, A.L. (2023). Mobile media use for emotion regulation in the family context during early childhood [poster]. Society for Research in Child Development, Salt Lake City, UT.
Sigal, M. (2023). Actual and perceived paternal behaviors related to Latino adolescents’ academics [poster]. Society for Research on Adolescence, San Diego, CA.
Vang, T. (2023). When the school embraces ethnic diversity, all students belong: A structural model [poster]. Society for Research on Adolescence, San Diego, CA.
Olwert, M.R. (2023) A latent profile analysis of body image and disordered eating attitudes and behaviors in adolescent males [poster]. Society for Research on Adolescence, San Diego, CA.
Frazier, M.R. (2023). Longitudinal associations between ventral striatum activity and depression and anhedonia symptoms in a Brazilian cohort of adolescents [poster]. Society of Biological Psychiatry Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.
Cordero, A. L. (2023). Longitudinal associations between amygdala-prefrontal cortex connectivity and depression symptoms in Brazilian adolescents [poster]. Society for Biological Psychiatry, San Diego, California.
AWARDS
Aubrey Golden: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2024-2027)
Allyson Snyder: Erna and Orville Thompson Endowment Graduate Student Research Award (2024)
Marika Sigal: Graduate Research Mentorship Fellowship (2023-2024)
Bri Grosskopf: Jastro Shields Graduate Student Research Award (2023)
Joe Venticinque: Westall Summer Research Fellowship (2023)
Lindsey Partington: Westall Summer Research Fellowship (2023)
Madeline Olwert: Westall Summer Research Fellowship (2023)
Andrea Cordero: Learning, Memory, and Plasticity (LaMP) T32 Training Grant (2022-2023)