More than a dozen graduate students in the Department of Family Social Science will be sharing their research at national conferences in November. Their projects range from explorations of parent-child financial relationships to understanding the ambiguous loss experienced by LGBTQ individuals from religious families. Their travel experiences are supported by the Ruth E. Hall Fund for Graduate Student Professional Development, unless otherwise noted.
Renada Goldberg will present at the Association of Public Policy and Management in Denver on “To Gig or Not to Gig: The Effect of Social Stratification and Employment Motivations on Informal and Gig Work Participation.” She will present her findings on the effect of social stratification on employment motivations and choices in informal and gig work participation that suggests parent status, gender, and race are significant factors for workers, despite having a work identity grounded in wage labor. Those with more vulnerable social identities, particularly parents, women, and people of color, are more likely to engage in insecure work and view it as insecure.
At the 2019 Association of Financial Counseling and Planning Research & Training Symposium in Portland, OR, Yiting Li will share “A Decade Review of Publications in Family Financial Socialization, Young Couples, & Financial Behaviors: 2007 – 2017.” As previously reported in this news blog story, her review was named the 2019 Student Paper Award Winner. The review addresses a gap in current research (2007- 2017) by examining the financial socialization influences of both parents and romantic partners on young adults’ financial behaviors with a particular Asian cultural lens.
Athena Chung Yin Chan, a first year Ph.D. student, will attend the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) 2019 Annual Scientific Meeting in Austin to present her paper, “Grandparents’ roles in the context of adverse childhood experiences: The voices of emerging adults.” The presentation will focus on findings from a larger qualitative study regarding the unique roles of grandparents in childhood adversities in Hong Kong context.
Bosco Cheng, Sun-Kyung Lee, Liljun Li, and Jingchen Zhang head to Boston to present their research at the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies Annual Conference.
Cheng will present the poster, “Test Equating between the UCLA PTSD Reaction Index for DSM-IV and DSM-5,” and connect with other scholars who are conducting research on psychometric properties of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) measures among children/adolescents.
Lee will present, “Gender differences in the factor structure of the UCLA PTSD-RI DSM-IV and DSM-5” that supports the importance of including gender in future PTSD research.
Li will present, “G x I Effects of a Parenting Program on Child’s PTSD in Military Families,” a research project designed to understand how military families function after deployment to inform development of intervention, prevention, and education outreach programs.
Zhang will present “Deficits in Inhibitory Control Strengthen the Intervention Effect on PTSD among Male Service Members,” that examined how fathers’ inhibitory control moderated the intervention effect of a parenting program on fathers’ PTSD.
Sloan Okrey Anderson, Jacqueline Braughton, Sarah Burcher, Kay Burningham, Hailey Holmgren, Seonghee Hong, Nancy Lo and Quin Morrow will join FSoS faculty and UMN alumni at the National Council on Family Relations in Fort Worth.
As previously announced in this news blog story, Anderson and Burningham were among the winners of the 2019 Student and New Professional Outstanding Paper Award from the Religion, Spirituality, and Family Section of NCFR and will present at the conference symposium, “It’s Complicated: The Lived Experiences of LGBTQ Individuals From Religious Families and Communities.” Anderson will present the paper, “Spiritual Ambiguous Loss and Resilience Among Transgender Youth.”
In addition, Anderson is presenting a second paper, “Multiple Ambiguous Losses Among Religious and Spiritual Transgender People,” in the symposium, “LBGTQ+ Ambiguous Loss Theory: New Extensions and Applications,” and will co-moderate a special session on “Religion, Family, and Raising Trans Kids: Personal and Research Perspectives.” They are supported by the David and Karen Olson Travel Award.
Jacqueline Braughton will present the poster, “The Influence of Social Capital on Hmong Children’s Self-Perception of Academic Competence.” This uses preliminary data from a five-year longitudinal study led by Dr. Zha Blong Xiong, FSoS associate professor, on Hmong elementary students. She is supported by the David and Karen Olsen Travel Award.
Burcher will present the poster, “Parent-child financial relationship and stress among young adults with student loans: An application of the Family Stress Model,” to add to the discourse and research around student loans and financial behavior.
Holmgren will present the poster, “Cybervictimization: Implications for emerging adult well-being.”
Hong will present “Stakeholder Perspectives on Implementing Learning Technology in an Early Childhood Parenting Education Program.”
Lo will present a poster on research findings from “Understanding Perceived Parental Involvement And Children’s Academic Performance At Five Hmong-Focused Charter Schools.” The study examined the impact of children’s predicted parental involvement in home and school on children’s math and reading abilities and academic performance in five Hmong-focused charter schools in Minnesota.
Morrow will present “Ambiguous Loss and Transgender Youth in Foster Care: Considerations for Mental Health,” at the NCFR symposium, “LGBTQ+ Ambiguous Loss Theory: New Extensions and Applications.”
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The Department of Family Social Science, located in the College of Education and Human Development, offers bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees. Program alumni can be found around the world in academic, research, and policy leadership positions.
