https://yddclab.com/project/Recent content in Research Projects on YDDC LabHugo -- gohugo.ioenYouth Development in Diverse Contexts (YDDC) Lab, Fordham UniversityMon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000Funded the National Institutes of Health, FUSS explores how sleep patterns change and develop during and after the college transition. This study begins data collection during first year orientation to capture the development of sleep patterns as soon as students arrive at campus and continues through all four years of college. Teasing apart sociodemographic and environmental impacts of sleep behavior, this study explores systematic differences by ethnicity/race, age, gender, 1st-generation college students, SES, and commuters versus on-campus residents.Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000This study aims to investigate how graduates’ mental and physical well-being and resources change during the post-college transition period. Participants complete two online surveys: the first survey approximately 1 month before college graduation, and the second survey approximately 6 months after graduation. The ADAPT study builds on the work of the Fordham University Sleep Study (FUSS), expanding our research to include graduation as an important transitional time with many changes in resources and stressors.Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000As AI technology rapidly develops, people are increasingly turning to AI not only to answer questions or complete tasks, but also to have personal or meaningful conversations. Funded by a Fordham Faculty Research Grant, the CHAT Study examines individuals’ experiences and attitudes toward using AI chatbots for conversational purposes, aiming to understand who is most likely to seek AI support and how these interactions relate to mental health and interpersonal relationships.Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000The impact of discrimination on mental health is particularly salient to Asian American (AA) parents and children given the current social and political context. During the pandemic, covert and overt anti-Asian discrimination – such as referencing COVID-19 as “China virus” or “Kung Flu,” and physical assaults – skyrocketed by 145% in 2020, and spiked by 164% in the first quarter of 2021 compared to the same period in 2020. From March 19, 2020 to March 31, 2021, a national bias reporting clearinghouse, “Stop AAPI Hate,” received 6,603 reports of anti-Asian incidents, with 83.Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000The project draws from the on-going, national, longitudinal study of Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD), the largest national study of its kind, which follows 11,875 children (9-10 years old) through adolescence. The project examines three research aims. First, the study investigates temporal, prospective, and reciprocal linkages between discrimination and substance use, from late childhood to early adolescence, disentangling whether discrimination is a contributing or a resulting factor of substance use initiation and continuation.Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000This project seeks to improve the overall health and well-being of racial/ethnic minority youths and their families by reducing the effects of racism and discrimination. The central focus of this study is how emotion regulation and cognitive strategies, coping resources, and family/neighborhood influences explain or help condition these associations. The study used community-based collaboration to recruit a targeted sample of Mexican-origin adolescents, mothers, and fathers, contributing to a literature where fathers (particularly Latino fathers) have been largely missing.Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000Funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, The Ad Sleep Project is a longitudinal investigation of how stress impacts health, academic outcomes, and development through sleep processes among a diverse sample of adolescents from New York City public high schools. As part of this project, participants wore wrist actigraphs to collect data on sleep behaviors and patterns during a two-week period each year, and completed longer surveys several times a year along with nightly diary surveys during the two-week actigraph period, providing information on their demographics and daily stress, activities, and feelings.Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000Funded by an Interdisciplinary and a Faculty Research Grant, this project explores the physiological embodiment of stress. This study includes a sample of over 700 diverse college students who completed a preliminary demographic survey, and a subsample of over 200 students who completed an experimental manipulation of stress in the research lab. As part of the experimental study, participants were exposed to vignettes depicting varying degrees of stress. A psychological monitor (Biopac) assessed real-time heart-rate and skin response reactions to the vignettes.Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000This longitudinal study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, recruited 400 New York adolescent participants of diverse ethnic backgrounds from several high schools in the area. Students completed three longer surveys each year, as well as a one-week mini-study. During that week, participants answered a nightly survey about their activities and mood that day. They were also beeped at random on phones distributed by the researchers five times during the day and prompted to answer questions about their feelings at that moment.