Dr. Liliana Lengua discusses the critical role parents play in raising resilient children, particularly in families facing limited income and poverty.
Raising Resilient Children
Focus Area: Child & Youth Well-Being & Resilience
Life course pathways from adverse childhood experiences to adult physical health: A structural equation model
In this study, Dr. Paula Nurius, CCFW Academic Partner, and colleagues address the relevance of early life adversity for adult health with several features that extend research to date.
Variable- and person-centered approaches to examining temperament vulnerability and resilience to the effects of contextual risk
Using both variable- and person-centered approaches, this study examined the role of temperament in relation to children’s vulnerable or resilient responses to cumulative risk.
Bioecological Model of the Effects of Economic Disadvantage and Adversity on Children’s Developmental Outcomes
In this guest presentation at the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Liliana Lengua discusses how adversity impacts child development.
Examining daily variability in willingness to drink in relation to young adult alcohol use
In this study, Dr. Kevin King and colleagues empirically tested the utility of the social reaction pathway of the Prototype Willingness Model in the prediction of drinking behavior at the daily level.
Cultural orientation trajectories and substance use: Findings from a longitudinal study of Mexican-origin youth
Dr. Kevin King collaborated with Dr. Rick A. Cruz, Utah State University, and other colleagues to use longitudinal data to examine whether cultural adaptation patterns were associated with differential substance use risk.