Poverty affects children’s school readiness and development by limiting their access to educational resources and early childhood supportive programs. Interventions centered around responsive parenting have shown to reduce the developmental disparities by strengthening parent-child interaction and promoting their socio-emotional growth. This study wants to examine the effectiveness of PlayReadVIP, which is an evidence-based parenting education program that uses video feedback to improve parenting skills and support school readiness in preschool children, using a mixed-methods approach with both quantitative and qualitative measures that assess literacy skills, cognitive stimulation, parenting stress, and child development. The findings from this study will contribute to the expansion of evidence-based parenting interventions in underserved communities and support the efforts to reduce disparities in early childhood development.
Formerly incarcerated individuals face significant psychological and social barriers during community reentry, yet the role of existential isolation (EI) in this process remains understudied. This longitudinal study examined the relationships among internalized stigma, anticipated stigma, EI, psychological distress, and recovery capital (RC) over a 6-month follow-up period. Anticipated stigma, but not internalized stigma, was consistently associated with higher EI, greater depression and anxiety, and lower RC. Serial mediation analyses indicated that anticipated stigma indirectly reduced RC through EI and psychological distress. These findings identify EI as a potential barrier to successful community reentry and suggest that interventions targeting anticipated stigma and EI may improve psychological well-being and strengthen RC.
Joint attention is an important social-communicative skill that supports early language development, yet little is known about how tactile communication contributes to establishing shared attention in parent-child interactions involving children who are D/deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH). Previous research suggests that parents of children who are DHH use multimodal communication, including touch, more frequently than parents of children with hearing in the typical range (CTH). This study investigated whether maternal touch is temporally coordinated with joint attention behaviors and whether these patterns differ between parent-child dyads with children who are DHH and CTH. Video-recorded parent-child interactions were coded in Datavyu for touch events and joint attention behaviors, and temporal alignment between these behaviors was analyzed. Parent-child dyads with children who are DHH showed significantly greater temporal alignment between touch and pre-joint attention than CTH dyads, with indirect touch demonstrating the largest group difference. These findings suggest that touch, particularly indirect touch through objects, may play an important role in establishing shared attention before joint attention. This study highlights tactile engagement as a potentially important adaptive behavior of DHH parent-child interactions, which may inform evidence-based strategies for parents, educators, and clinicians seeking to support early communication and language development.
People with functional seizures (FS) often experience comorbid conditions such as anxiety. Recent research has focused on understanding how FS interacts with various disorders and influences emotional regulation. This study investigates the association between FS and emotional dysregulation through a systematic review and meta-analysis. Identifying prevalence of emotional dysregulation in participants with FS may support earlier, more personalized treatments targeting anxiety, depression, and more.
Studies will be variably coded onto an Excel spreadsheet, recording result data, reliability, sample size, and more. The emotional conflict task (ECT) results were recorded and as key data points for the meta-analysis through R Studio using the metafor package. Emotional regulation questionnaires (ERQ) will be analyzed through independent sample t-tests to investigate group differences, including healthy controls (HC) and FS participants.
ERQ independent t-tests resulted in a significant difference in emotional regulation between HC (M =16.7, SD = 4.35) and FS (M = 10.42, SD = 5.33); t(1147.54) = 22.5422, p =
Workplace microaggressions are the subtle forms of bias that can affect our minoritized workers’ well-being, sense of belonging, and workplace outcomes. This literature review seeks to examine how microaggressions may shape productivity-related outcomes through psychological safety and employee voice. Rather than just focusing only on individual resilience, this review explores how workplace climates influence whether employees feel safe, heard, and able to contribute fully. By combining research on microaggressions, psychological safety, employee voice, and productivity, this review will strengthen the connection between inclusive workplaces, employee well-being, and organizational effectiveness.
Social identity shapes every aspect of our lives. Our opinions, decisions, allegiances, and relationships are determined by the social identities we gain throughout our lives. While identity remains central to sociological inquiry, we need more research quantitatively examining how intersecting identities shape the nuance of people's beliefs and allegiances. Intersectionality by Crenshaw explains how people with multiple identities can experience new forms of discrimination, but what if that theory could be used to explore how intersecting social identities shape beliefs and allegiances? Intersectionality, individualism versus collectivism, and linked fate theory each explain a unique aspect of society. Combining these theories, I hypothesize that a person with multiple marginalized identities will make decisions that not only benefit themselves, but also their preferred group via group cohesion, voting behaviors, or advocacy. In my research, I plan to conduct a pilot study of around 25 to 50 people of different identities. Participants will be asked a series of questions, and their answers will determine further follow-up via interview in a future study.
