Recent Publications & Presentations
(Names of students and research assistants appear in bold)
(Names of students and research assistants appear in bold)
Baldelomar, O. A. (in press). “How do you know someone is a Costa Rican?” Ethnicity and national identity content in Limón . In D. Chamberlain, J. Gil Ortiz, & J. Navarro (Eds.), Reframing Costa Rica: An anthology of counter-stories and critical perspectives. Palgrave-Macmillan.
Baldelomar, O. A., Bass, C., Krost, E., Baldelomar, O. D., & Chavez Nelson, D. (in press). “I Show That It’s the Culture I Belong To”: Bribri Adolescents, Technology, and the Making of Community. In D. Chamberlain, J. Gil Ortiz, & J. Navarro (Eds.), Reframing Costa Rica: An anthology of counter-stories and critical perspectives. Palgrave-Macmillan.
Vaydich, J. L., & Baldelomar, O. A. (in press). Internationalizing and decolonizing psychological research. In L. H. Bikos & C. DeBlaere (Eds.), Transforming research methods in health services psychology: Applications for the advocate ~ practitioner ~ scientist. https://lhbikos.github.io/TransformingResearchMethods/
Yuen, J. M., Wang, D. C., Baldelomar, O. A., & McMartin, J. (2025). Authoritarianism, xenophobia, Christian nationalism, and theological conservatism among Christian leaders in the United States, during COVID-19. Archive for the Psychology of Religion, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00846724251357014
Imes, C., & Baldelomar, O. A. (2026). Different by Design: How God Weaves Ethnic Identity Into His Grand Story.
Baldelomar, O. A. (2026). “Latinos can also be Americans”: Mexican-American children’s understanding of their nested ethnic categories and its impact on their social identities.
Baldelomar, O. A., Chen, Y., & Greenfield, P. M. (2026). A contextual model of global identity in U.S. emerging adults.
Baldelomar, O. A. (2026). Valuing cultural perspectives in integrating psychology and theology: Reflections on Stephen.
Baldelomar, O. A., Remland, S., & Stetzer, K. J. (June-July, 2026). Religious identity commitment and intrinsic religiosity predict substance-related attitudes in emerging adults. Poster to be presented at the 2026 Conference of the Society for the Study on Emerging Adulthood, Poznań, Poland.
Baldelomar, O. A., Tjahjono, G., Hensley, R. Joanna Tanabu, J., Fu, W., Tannous, S., Baldelomar, O. D., Chavez, D. (June-July, 2026). Global Identity Formation Scale (GIFS) validation: Measuring exploration and commitment in U.S. college students. Poster to be presented at the 2026 Conference of the Society for the Study on Emerging Adulthood, Poznań, Poland.
Baldelomar, O. A., Paschall, C., Bass, C., Hammond, H., Baldelomar, O. D., Ko, S., Krost, E., & Stetzer, K. (2025, June-July). Digital technology's impact on ethnic identity and mental health of indigenous teens in Costa Rica. Paper to be presented at the 2025 Conference of the International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychologists, Brisbane, Australia.
Baldelomar, O. A. (2025, March). Engaging Cultural diversity in the integration of psychology and theology: Pedagogical strategies and implications. Paper presented at the 2025 International Conference of the Christian Association for Psychological Science, Denver, CO.
Baldelomar, O. A., Krost, E., Baldelomar, O. D., & Hammond, H. (April, 2026). Global Screens, Local Identities: Patterns of Technology Use and Cultural Orientation among Indigenous Bribri Youth in Costa Rica. Poster to be presented at the 2026 Conference of the Society for Research on Adolescence, Toronto, Canada.
Shin, R., Eltiti, S. & Baldelomar, O. A. (April, 2025). Relationship between online gaming and psychosocial health. Poster to be presented at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Las Vegas, NV.
Baldelomar, O. A., Kim, G. Y., Kadiman, N. G. S., Wong, A. Y., & Son, S. H. (April, 2023). Validation of the Independent-interdependent Identity Scale (IIIS). Poster presented at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Riverside, CA.