Bereaved College Students: Social Support, Coping Style, Continuing Bonds, and Social Media Use as Predictors of Complicated Grief and Posttraumatic Growth.

Many college students experience the death of someone close to them and could be at risk for complicated grieving. Their primary sources of support may be unavailable as family members may live far away and their peers may be unprepared to respond to their grief. In addition, college students are exposed to a variety of stressors that could result in maladaptive coping.

Evaluating the Effectiveness of an Online Intervention to Educate College Students About Dating Violence and Bystander Responses.

The purpose of this study was to conduct a randomized controlled trial to assess the efficacy of , an online intervention developed to educate students about dating violence and appropriate bystander interventions on college campuses. College students ( = 317) were randomly assigned to one of the three conditions: (a) the intervention, (b) a website containing information about dating violence, or (c) a control condition. Participants completed pre- and posttest quantitative and qualitative measures to assess knowledge of warning signs and appropriate bystander behaviors, attitudes about intervening as a bystander, willingness to intervene, and self-efficacy regarding intervening.

Is It Love or Is It Control? Assessing Warning Signs of Dating Violence.

The purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate the Relationship Red Flags Scale, a measure of ability to recognize warning signs of dating violence. The factor structure and psychometric properties of this measure were tested with independent samples of college women and men, and test-retest reliability was assessed with college women. Specifically, our first study examined the factor structure, validity, and reliability of the Relationship Red Flags measure with a sample of 433 undergraduate women.

Assessing women's career barriers across racial/ethnic groups: The Perception of Barriers Scale.

The purpose of the study was to examine the factor structure, measurement invariance, and psychometric properties of a commonly used measure of perceived career barriers (The Perception of Barriers Scale; Luzzo & McWhirter, 2001) with racially diverse college women. The results supported a 9-factor structure for the Perception of Barriers Scale; configural, metric, and scalar invariance for the 9-factors were found with Asian, African American, Latina, and White college women. All groups of women of color reported higher career barriers due to racism and higher educational barriers due to racial discrimination than White women.

Multiple Losses: The Psychological and Economic Well-Being of Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence.

This study advanced knowledge regarding the mechanisms through which intimate partner violence relates to psychological and financial distress with a sample of diverse low-income women. Data were collected from 147 female domestic violence survivors who were abused by a male partner within the past 6 months. Three hierarchical regression analyses revealed that psychological, physical, and economic abuse were predictive of posttraumatic stress, depression, and economic self-sufficiency among survivors.

Racial identity invalidation with multiracial individuals: An instrument development study.

Objectives: Racial identity invalidation, others' denial of an individual's racial identity, is a salient racial stressor with harmful effects on the mental health and well-being of Multiracial individuals. The purpose of this study was to create a psychometrically sound measure to assess racial identity invalidation for use with Multiracial individuals (N = 497).

Method: The present sample was mostly female (75%) with a mean age of 26.

Work, family, support, and depression: employed mothers in Israel, Korea, and the United States.

Our research revealed differences in work-family constructs for employed mothers in 3 countries, Israel (N = 105), Korea (N = 298), and the United States (N = 305). Although levels of work-family conflict were comparable, the Korean women had the lowest levels of work-family enrichment compared with the Israeli and American mothers. Moreover, Korean women reported the most depression and the least support from both spouses and employers.

Work-family enrichment among dual-earner couples: can work improve our family life?

The extent to which resources generated at work and positive affect were associated with enrichment in the family domain among 107 dual-earner couples was investigated. Grounded in work-family enrichment theory (Greenhaus & Powell, 2006), this study examined the indirect effect of workplace organizational support on family satisfaction through positive affect at work. Organizational support for work-family management was associated with positive affect at work for both women and men, and positive affect at work was related to family satisfaction for women.

Synchronous telehealth technologies in psychotherapy for depression: a meta-analysis.

Background: Many patients suffering from depression lack immediate access to care. The use of synchronous telehealth modalities to deliver psychotherapy is one solution to this problem. This meta-analysis examined differences in treatment efficacy for psychotherapy administered via synchronous telehealth as compared to standard nontelehealth approaches.

"Leaving before she leaves": considering future family when making career plans.

An instrument was developed to measure the extent to which people consider future children and romantic partners when planning for a career (i.e., the PLAN scale).

Challenges and resilience in the lives of urban, multiracial adults: an instrument development study.

Multiracial Americans represent a rapidly growing population (Shih & Sanchez, 2009); however, very little is known about the types of challenges and resilience experienced by these individuals. To date, few psychological measures have been created specifically to investigate the experiences of multiracial people. This article describes 2 studies focused on the development and psychometric properties of the Multiracial Challenges and Resilience Scale (MCRS).

An analogue study of the effects of asian cultural values and counselor multicultural competence on counseling process.

One-hundred-and-sixteen Asian American college students viewed analogue videotapes in which an actress portraying a European American female "counselor" expressed cultural values that were either consistent or inconsistent with Asian culture to an actress portraying an Asian American female "client." In addition, the counselor either acknowledged racial differences or did not acknowledge racial differences with the client. The results showed that when the counselor expressed values that were inconsistent with Asian culture, the counselor who acknowledged racial differences was perceived to be more cross-culturally competent than the counselor who did not acknowledge racial differences.