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Primary Investigator
Jeff Cookston, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychology
Jeff (he/his pronouns) was grew up in Texas and obtained a B.A. from Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX, and got his M.A. and Ph.D. in Educational Psychology - Human Development and Education from the University of Texas at Austin. After a two-year post-doctoral fellowship at Arizona State University in the Prevention and Intervention Research Center, he accepted a position at San Francisco State University in 2003 where he teaches developmental psychology undergraduate and graduate courses for the Psychology Department. He's served as department chair and graduate coordinator for the Psychology Department and is involved with the Society for Research on Adolescence.
His research has many foci: fathers (and mothers), divorce and separation, social construction of family life, and preventive interventions for individuals and families. He is especially interested in longitudinal methods and finding the right statistical technique for the question, whether it be ethnographic or structural equations modeling. Since 2009, he's been collecting data with preschool-aged children to teach observation methods and technical writing.
Current students
Undergraduate students
Mya Chan
Joe McKnight
Graduate students
Jada Lewis
Samaan Boloorian
Willow Weibel
Stefan Blecha
Reymund Nostratis
Lab Alumni - Graduate students
2004
Renee Cleary - Co-parenting Behaviors versus Child-Rearing Practices: A Family Systems View
2005
Lisa Baty - Positive Body Images in Media
Katherine Herold - The Relationship Between Language, Social Interaction, and Theory of Mind
2006
Jennifer Becnel - The Relationship Between Language, Social Interaction, and Theory of Mind
Andrea Finlay - Ethnicity and Sense of Community as Moderators of Civic Development
Scott De Guzman - The Relationship Between Language, Social Interaction, and Theory of Mind
2007
Andrew Gipson - Disclosure Guidelines: A Critical Element in Reaching Out to Parents
Ryan Kelly - Parental and Peer Influences on Alcohol Use in Emerging Adulthood
Amanda Foster - Stress, Coping, Social Support, and Adjustment During the First Year College Transition
Norma Perez-Brena - Gender Ideology and Parenting: “What Do I Do Best As A Father”?
Scott Bowditch - Language Brokering in the Chinese-American Community: Affective Consequences and Generational Effects
2009
Aubrey McGinn - The Effect of Residence Status on Perceived Adult Status and Parent-Child Relationship Quality During Emerging Adulthood
Alejandra Rodriguez-Larrain - Attitudes Toward Interracial Parenting: The Role of Stereotypes in Perceived Parenting
Amber Lowi - Individual, Familial and Societal Factors That Influence the Sociocultural Adaptation of Third Culture Kids
Shannon Hackett - Child's age at time of parental divorce and adjustment: A meta-analysis
Adriana Banihashemi - The Relationship Between Parental Divorce, Family Context, and Obesity Risk Among Children
2010
Sarah Brunskill - Evaluations of Change: Differences Between Partners of How Father Needs to Change
Wenson Fung - Influence of Father Support on Parenting Stress and Behavior Among Adolescent Mothers
Karyn Riel - School Demographics and School Performance: Relations to Ethnic Identity and School Choice
Michelle Weiner - The Importance of Dinnertime Rituals for Children in Married or Divorced Families
Sarah Dovi - Imitation and Symbolic Play among Children with Autism
2011
Bao Ho - Being Asian, Being American in Emerging Adulthood: Culture, Obligation, and Family Context
2012
Toi Sin Arvidsson - Interest, Perceived Employment Opportunities, and Academic Motivation Among College Students in Hong Kong and the United States (* Recipient of SFSU graduate student award for distinguished achievement)
Prianca Thairani - Cultural Differences in Helping Behavior
2013
Phillip Peters - Advocacy, Social Support, Service Use, Stress and Self Efficacy Among Parents of Children with Autism
Luke Remy - Integrated Exercise Groups: A Physical Activity Based Adaptation of Integrated Play Groups (* Won first prize at COSE research showcase competition)
2014
Katlyn Fladboe - Examining Measurement Equivalence of Parenting Behaviors Through Adolescence and Across Ethnic Group, Family Type, and Socioeconomic Status
2014
Yookyung Lee - Positive Fathering Behaviors of Mattering, Parent-Adolescent Relationships, and Adolescents' Behavior Problems: Trends Across Time (* Recipient of SFSU graduate student award for distinguished achievement)
Susan Mauskopf - Self-Compassion, Bullying, and Psychological Functioning
Allison O’Leary - Parentification and psychological wellbeing: The role of cultural values, socioeconomic status, and perceived unfairness
2015
Lani Anton - Risk perception predicting risk taking behavior in adolescents
Kayla Bowen - Risk behaviors of binge eating adolescents/emerging adults its relationship with academic motivation
Aly Sweet - Minimal Intervention to Assist Resilient Parent Feeding Behavior
2016
Allie Morford - Moderators of parental distress tolerance across developmental stages: A cross sectional study
Chase Boyer - Intergenerational spillover of family conflict from adolescence to young adulthood (*Recipient of SFSU graduate student award for distinguished achievement)
2017
Priscilla Miranda - Ethnic identity development and its relationship to humor
Christina Marquez - Compassion and Self-Compassion Among Emerging Adults
2018
Gretchen Andazola - Changing ttitudes About Discipline: An Intervention for Reducing Pre-Parents’ Favorable Attitudes Toward Spanking (Recipient of SFSU graduate student award for distinguished achievement and won second prize at COSE research showcase competition)
2020
Bruna Mota - Wellbeing of Siblings of Children Diagnosed with Cancer
Wagner Peng - Achieving Adulthood: Associations between Family Obligation and Emerging Adulthood among Chinese Americans
Adriana Ruiz - Teaching Latinx Culture to Children on the Autism Spectrum
2021
Shaina Pilapil - Intergenerational Cultural Conflict and Acculturation Gap Within Asian American Families during COVID-19
Izabel Pisikyan - Mindful Parenting and the Regulation of Anger and Frustration Among Five- to Eight-Year-Old Children: The Additive Effects of Parental Self-Compassion
Katie Vavuris - COVID-19 Trauma, Parenting Behavior, and Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms in Thirteen to Seventeen-Year-Old Adolescents
2022
Amee Recinos - Time Perspective as Mediator of the Relationship Between Parenting and Academic Success Among Emerging Adults
Fernanda Resende - Parent-Child Relationships and Family Routines Among Brazilian Families in both Brazil and the United States During the Covid -19 Pandemic
2023
Victoria Chou - Longitudinal Associations between Parenting Behaviors and Familism among Mexican American Adolescents
Devyn Kowitz - Promoting Egalitarian Gender Role Attitudes among College Cisgender Men
2024
Hsu Htet Aung - Father-Child Quality Relationship Among Myanmar Men: Association with Warm and Affectionate Behaviors
Fernanda Amaya - Health Status and Relationship Closeness: Associations Among Adolescents with Chronic Health Conditions
Kellie Gorman - Parent Accounts of COVID-19 and the M(ai)cro Environment: Links to Decision-Making and Coparenting
Sid Wright - Anti-LGBTQ+ Statewide Legislation, Family Systems, and the Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Youth
Additional lab alumni
Dina Kaplan, Marie Romano, Tojo Chemmachel, Theresa MacNaughton, Jessica Beccerra, Ramsay-Kalani Yakut, Danae Dunnigan, Shawna Mastro, Daniel Jimenez, Jason Amarena, Jacquelyn Castino, Ariel Hirsch, Shelby Grana, Dawn Brew, Patty Llamas, Rakita O-Neal, Sandy McNaught, Christine_Sandoval, Lawerence So, Sonia Maryasov, Kelly Yuen, Lauren Loizides, Mohinur Uzoqova, Floris Yeung, Allison Gonzales, Vivi Rueda, Novia Tjiptamustika, Felicia Ortega, Jeren Rodrillo, Inayah Baquuee
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