Each semester I collect data from undergraduate students to understand how traumatic and traumatic stress impact the academic, emotional, physical, and relational health. This is an ongoing project since Spring 2020 and has included multiple universities, including University of Southern Mississippi, Oklahoma State University and hoping to expand to the University of Oklahoma.
The Center for Immigrant Health and Education also employs an awarding winning coparenting program to support couples who are going through a separation or divorce. Each year, the program serves approximately 4,000 families. Led by Drs Cox and Brosi, we collect data and currently have over 10,000 observations and approximately 1,000 matched couples (currently) and we utilize these data in program evaluation and other forms of research.
I utilized the Pairfam data from Germany which is a multiwave and multi-informant design that includes dyadic and triadic data. I use these data for two primary purposes including 1) longitudinal analyses of couples over time, with particular focus on intimate partner aggression (e.g., verbal abuse), and 2) using the data to demonstrate and implement dyadic methods
I utilize data from the study of Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS). I primarily use the MIDUS to connect childhood abuse and neglect to mental and physical health outcomes with a particular focus on the mechanistic features of social relationships
A second source of data that I use is from the Longitudinal Study of Child Abuse and Neglect (LONGSCAN). I used the LONGSCAN to prospectively investigate how childhood abuse and neglect influence psychosocial development
The Center for Immigrant Health and Education is current gathering data from multiple cultural groups (e.g., Hispanic, Chinese) on acculturation, shared language erosion, trauma, family relationships (e.g., parent-adolescent) and health. The project is in the data collection phase