Recent Papers

Diemer, M.A., Frisby, M.B., Marchand, A. & Bardelli, E. (in press). Illustrating and enacting a Critical Quantitative approach to measurement with MIMIC models. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, Special Issue “Critical Quantitative Approaches for Anti-Racist Transformation in Education.”  Code and open materials at: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/8thpu

Diemer, M.A., Hillier, A. & Marcus, S.N. (in press). Preliminary development of the brief parent-report gender identity alignment/distress screener for children. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, special issue on “Gender Diversity.”

Pinedo, A., Diemer, M.A. & Frisby, M.B. (in press).Critical consciousness and political activism in youth. Invited manuscript, Annual Review of Developmental Psychology.

Pinedo, A., Kubi, G., Espinoza, A.J., Gonzales, J. & Diemer, M.A. (in press). Ethnic Studies and student development: Cultivating racially marginalized adolescents’ critical consciousnessDevelopmental Psychology.

Frisby, M.B. & Diemer, M.A. (2024). Development of the White Critical Consciousness Index (WhiCCI). Special issue on “Advances in Conceptualizing & Measuring Critical Consciousness.” Research on Human Development, 21, 229-244.

Marchand, A., Diemer, M.A., Rowley, S.J. (2024). Measuring critical parent engagement: The development and validation of the Black parent measure of critical consciousness in education. Special issue on “Advances in Conceptualizing & Measuring Critical Consciousness.” Research on Human Development, 21, 245-263.

 Schaefer, D.,Villalta, S. I., Vezaldenos, V. A., Umaña-Taylor, A. J. (2024) Some Birds Have Mixed Feathers: Bringing the Multiracial Population into the Study of Race Homophily. Sociological Science.

Vezaldenos, V. A., Jacobs, LA., & Rivas-Drake, D. (2023). Raising “Antiracist Disruptors”: Illuminating Socialization Practices that Support Antiracism in Multiracial Households. Race and Social Problems. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12552-023-09389-4

Pinedo, A., Frisby, M., Kubi, G., Vezaldenos, V. A., Diemer, M. A., McAlister, S., & Harris, E. (2023). Charting the Longitudinal Development and Interplay of Critical Consciousness among Youth Activists. Child Development, 00117. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13977

Anyiwo, N., Anderson, R. E., Marchand, A. D., Diemer, M. A., & Garrett, J. M. (2023). They raised me to resist: Examining the sociopolitical pathways between parental racial socialization and Black youth’s racial justice action. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 33(2), 270-286. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2652

Gardner-Neblett, N., De Marco, A., & Ebright, B. D. (2023). Do Katie and connor tell better stories than Aaliyah and Jamaal? teachers’ perceptions of children’s oral narratives as a function of race and narrative quality. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 62, 115–128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2022.07.014

Sack, D. E., Seabi, T. M., Frisby, M. B., Diemer, M. A., Ndlovu, G. H., Wagner, R. G., & Audet, C. M. (2023). Exploratory validation of relationship functioning and non-pregnant partner behavior scales in pregnant people living with HIV in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa. Global Health Action, 16(1), 2210882. https://doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2023.2210882

Kubi, G., Byrd, C. M., & Diemer, M. A. (2022). School ethnic-racial socialization and critical action among Black youth. In Frontiers in Education, 7. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2022.924930

Frisby, M. B., Diemer, M. A., Sack, D. E., & Audet, C. M. (2022). Dyadic Validation of Relational Processes in Seroconcordant Mozambican Couples: Social Support, Physician Trust, and Stigma. AIDS and Behavior, 26(12), 4135-4143. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-022-03739-w

Bañales, J., Pech, A., Pinetta, B., Pinedo, A., Diemer, M.A., & Romero, A.J. (2022). Critiquing inequality in society and on campus: Peers and faculty facilitate civic and academic outcomes of college students. Research in Higher Education, 63, 589–609. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11162-021-09663-7

Marchand, A. D., Frisby, M., Kraemer, M. R., Mathews, C. J., Diemer, M. A., & Voight, A. M. (2021). Sociopolitical Participation Among Marginalized Youth: Do Political Identification and Ideology Matter?. Journal of Youth Development, 16(5), 41-63. https://doi.org/10.5195/jyd.2021.1089

Frisby, M.B., Diemer, M.A. (2021). Everything in moderation: a proposed improvement to variance calculation for visualizing latent endogenous moderation. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 28(6), 914-927. https://doi.org/10.1080/10705511.2021.1911658

Pinedo, A., Diemer, M.A., Durkee, M.I., & Hope E.C. (2021). Disentangling longitudinal trajectories of racial discrimination and critical action among Black and Latinx college students: What role do peers play? Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 27(3), 546-557. https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000434

Diemer, M.A., Pinedo, A., Bañales, J., Mathews, C.J., Frisby, M.B., Harris, E., & McAlister, S. (2021). Recentering action in critical consciousness. Child Development Perspectives, 15(1), 12-17. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12393

Diemer, M. A., Frisby, M.B.Pinedo, A., Bardelli, E., Elliot, E., Harris, E. McAlister, S., & Voight, A. M. (2020). Validation of the short critical consciousness scale (ShoCCS). Applied Developmental Science. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888691.2020.1834394

Diemer, M.A., Marchand, A.D. & Mistry, R.S. (2020). Charting how wealth shapes educational pathways from childhood to early adulthood: A developmental process model. Journal of Youth & Adolescence, 49(5), 1073-1091. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-019-01162-4

Bañales, J. Mathews, C.J., Hayat, N., Anwiyo, N. & Diemer, M.A. (2020). Latinx and Black young adults’ pathways to civic/political engagement. Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology, 26(2), 176 – 188. https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000271

Bañales, J., Aldana, A., Richards-Schuster, K., Flanagan, C.A., Diemer, M.A., Rowley, S.J. (2019). Youth anti-racism action: Contributions of youth perceptions of school racial messages and critical consciousness. Journal of Community Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22266

Marchand, A.D., Reynolds-Vassar, R., Diemer, M.A. & Rowley, S.J. (2019). Integrating race, racism, and critical consciousness in Black parents’ engagement with schools. Journal of Family Theory and Review, 11(3), 367-384.  https://doi.org/10.1111/jftr.12344

Mathews, C.J., Medina, M.A., Bañales, J., Pinetta, B.J., Marchand, A.D., Agi, A.C., Miller, S.M., Hoffman, A.J., Diemer, M.A. & Rivas-Drake, D. (2020). Mapping the intersections of adolescents’ ethnic-racial identity and critical consciousness. Adolescent Research Review, 5, 363-379. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40894-019-00122-0

McKellar, S.E., Marchand, A.D., Diemer, M.A., Malanchuk, O. & Eccles, J.S. (2019). Threats and supports to female students’ math beliefs and achievement. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 29(2), 449-465. https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12384

Audet, C.M., Graves, E., Barreto, E., DeScacht, C., Gong, W. [et al., including Diemer, M.A.] (2018). Partners-based HIV treatment for seroconcordant couples attending antenatal and postnatal care in rural Mozambique: A cluster randomized trial protocol. Contemporary Clinical Trials, 71, 63-69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cct.2018.05.020

Broda, M., Yun, J., Schneider, B., Walton, G.M., Yeager, D.S. & Diemer, M.A. (2018). Reducing inequality in academic success for incoming college students: A randomized trial of growth mindset and belonging interventions. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 11(3), 317-338. https://doi.org/10.1080/19345747.2018.1429037

Rapa, L.J., Diemer, M.A. & Bañales, J. (2018). Critical action as a pathway to social mobility among marginalized youth. Developmental Psychology, 54(1), 127-137. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000414