The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $588,063 Project Grant to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) through the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). This 3-year grant, effective August 1, 2023, supports a collaborative research project to examine disparities in emotional resilience and mental health among mothers and their children facing high psychosocial stress. The research employs biocultural and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $648,655 in funding to Miami University to investigate how childhood experiences, such as maltreatment and parenting quality, predict daily emotional reactivity to stress in adulthood. The research aims to inform the design of interventions to help people respond constructively to daily stress. The project builds on the long-running Minnesota Longitudinal...
This Project Grant award of $103,302 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (CFDA 47.075 - Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences) supports collaborative research at Marquette University aimed at understanding disparities in emotional resilience and mental health among mothers and their children facing high psychological, social, and cultural stress. The 3-year project will leverage an existing birth cohort study to examine how maternal...
The National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Social and Economic Science, awarded a 3-year, $545,831 Project Grant to the University of Southern California (USC) to conduct a study on the consequences of parental and grandparental death for children's wellbeing. The study, titled "MCA: A Three-Generation Study of Family Bereavement and Child Wellbeing," examines the effects of family bereavement on children's behavioral, mental, physical, cognitive, and academic outcomes. The...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $233,862 to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) to study how childrearing practices involving a specialized infant cradle impact motor, cognitive, and social-emotional development during the first two years of life. The 3-year project compares infants raised with high versus low levels of movement restriction using the...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Sciences awarded Regents Of The University Of California At Riverside a $200,000 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) with a period of performance from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026. The grant supports a 2-year longitudinal study to understand how extended family support shapes housing stability and safety for youth at risk of homelessness. The study follows 83 youth...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $199,993 to Trinity University to conduct a 2-year longitudinal study on how support from extended family members shapes the housing stability and safety of youth at risk of homelessness. The study builds on a previous 1-year study, following 83 youth aged 16-19 from two states in the Southwest U.S., including rural and minority communities. Through...
This $300,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports collaborative research on extended family support and housing stability among at-risk youth. The Regents of the University of California at Riverside will study how instrumental and emotional support from grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and adult siblings influences the sense of safety and housing stability over time for 80 youth aged 16-19 in rural and minority communities in two Southwestern states. Using mixed methods...
This federal Project Grant award of $464,110.00 was provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The award supports research to examine the prevalence, duration, and life course implications of generational overlap between grandparents, parents, and grandchildren in the U.S. and Denmark. Key products and services to be delivered include: A descriptive analysis of the...
This $146,005 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program aims to examine how family stress and cohesion relate to a young child's language environment and language acquisition. The project consists of two studies: a secondary analysis of existing data from 100 families with 3- to 5-year-old children, and an intensive longitudinal study with natural home observations of 50 multigenerational families. The...