Elizabeth Shewark
University of Notre Dame, IN·Psychology·Early-career
Growing up in a poor or violent neighborhood strongly predicts problems across life, yet some young people thrive despite these conditions. Most research on youth resilience, meaning doing well in the face of adversity, has focused on family hardship rather than neighborhood hardship.
- Fields
Psychology
Social Science
Public Health & Epidemiology
- Topics
youth resilience
neighborhood disadvantage
neighborhood effects
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Jul 2027
What they work on
- Map trajectories of psychiatric, social, emotional and academic resilience to neighborhood disadvantage from middle childhood to adolescence, using longitudinal analysis methods.
- Test whether warm and involved parenting changes how youth resilience to neighborhood adversity develops from middle childhood into adolescence.
- Determine how positive structural neighborhood features, previously linked to resident well-being, promote youth resilience across the transitions from middle childhood to emerging adulthood.
More about the research
It has also mostly looked at mental health alone, and has found mixed evidence on whether resilience stays stable as children grow. This project asks how resilience to neighborhood disadvantage changes from middle childhood through adolescence and into emerging adulthood, periods when young people gain independence and self-control.
Why it matters
Youth in disadvantaged neighborhoods face higher risk of difficulties in mental health, relationships and school. By pinpointing which parenting behaviors and neighborhood features help young people thrive, this work could identify changeable protective factors that intervention programs, families and community planners could target to promote healthy youth development.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Erin Thompson
Florida International University, FL·Psychology·Early-career
Examine how exclusionary school discipline, such as suspension, relates to adolescent mental health and substance use in the ABCD Study, accounting for neighborhood, school, behavioral and socioeconomic factors.
Michael A Mooney
Oregon Health & Science University, OR·Psychology
Map how inattention, hyperactivity-impulsivity, irritability, executive functioning, vigilance and reward delay discounting co-develop from ages 7–19, using longitudinal data from the Oregon-ADHD-1000 and ABCD cohorts.
Robert Crosnoe
University of Texas at Austin, TX·Social Science
Document whether exposure to family member deaths in childhood and adolescence predicts unstable trajectories of socioeconomic attainment, family-building, and health in young adulthood, using longitudinal causal-inference techniques on the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health.
The school
University of Notre Dame: 19 labs on PI Pages, $346M a year on research, 277 research doctorates a year.
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