Publications by authors named "M Ungar"
Unlabelled: Although many positive psychology interventions like mindfulness-based treatments (MBTs) for youth have been used with a wide array of risk exposed populations (children living in poverty, victims of violence, displaced persons, children with disabilities, etc.), the efficacy of MBTs with regard to the level and domain of risk exposure has been largely overlooked. This oversight contributes to a perception of positive psychology as being decontextualized.
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- This study explored how parental mental health affects children's psychological issues and behavior in families impacted by the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake in Türkiye.
- It involved 358 preschoolers and their parents, revealing that higher parental psychological distress linked to more child difficulties and less prosocial behavior, with parenting quality playing a mediating role.
- The results highlighted that fostering positive parenting could help protect children from the negative effects of parental distress, emphasizing the importance of supporting parent-child relationships after traumatic events.
Violence across Latin America is an increasingly important factor influencing migration to the US. A particular form of violence that is experienced by many Latinx migrants is extortion. This research analyzes the extortion experiences of Latinx immigrant adults arriving at the US southern border and the impact these experiences have on mental health.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDoes historic school engagement buffer the threats of disrupted schooling - such as those associated with the widespread COVID-19-related school closures - to school engagement equally for female and male high school students? This article responds to that pressing question. To do so, it reports a study that was conducted in 2018 and 2020 with the same sample of South African students ( = 172; 66.30% female; average age in 2020: 18.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Despite expanding knowledge about the internal and external resources that contribute to resilience among individuals who have experienced depression, the long-term accessibility and protectiveness of these resources across different stressors is unknown. We investigated whether and how the resilience resources of individuals who previously recovered from late-life depression remained protective during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods: We used a sequential explanatory mixed methods design.