Gabriel P Kuperminc
Biographic Data
| ID | 97673 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gabriel P Kuperminc |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gabriel P |
| FAMILY NAME | Kuperminc |
| SIGNATURE | KUPERMINC G P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5354-9206 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 335 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Development and initial validation of the Immigrant Optimism Questionnaire (IOQ) for immigrant‐origin young adults
Immigrant optimism has been identified as a cultural protective factor that could be targeted in prevention efforts that support immigrant well‐being. However, to date, immigrant optimism has not been consistently operationalized. We report on an iterative and collaborative approach to develop and validate a measure of immigrant optimism. Methods: Content validity was established using feedback from immigrant‐origin young adults and from experts …
Interpersonal and Structural Discrimination, Ethnic‐Racial Identity and Civic Action Among Immigrant‐Origin Youth of Colour in the United States
Marginalised social identities and discrimination based on these identities often shape civic action among immigrant‐origin youth of colour (IYOC). This study examined unique and interactive effects of both interpersonal (ethnic‐racial) and structural discrimination and two dimensions of ethnic‐racial identity (ERI; exploration and commitment) on three types of civic action: conventional political, activism and community service among IYOC. Parti…
Incorporating immigrant optimism into critical consciousness and civic development models
OBJECTIVES: Civic action describes participation in political and prosocial activities aimed at benefiting one's communities. A growing literature rooted in critical consciousness (CC) theory suggests that engaging in critical action, which challenges societal inequities, is important for the positive development of youth of color. Although valuable, existing literatures have yet to consider how psychological processes related to the immigrant ex…
Academic outcomes in a national afterschool program
Researchers have documented positive associations among youth program quality and academic outcomes, primarily based on cross-sectional data. This study examined longitudinal associations among youth-reported program experiences and academic expectations, self-reported grades, and perceived value of school using data from the national evaluation of Boys and Girls Clubs of America (BGCA). The sample included 101,050 Club attendees at 2,741 BGCA si…
Acculturative Stress and Psychological Distress Among Latinx Youth
This study examined family cohesion and conflict as moderators of associations between discrimination stress and adaptation stress and psychological distress among Latinx youth. Participants included 199 Latinx adolescents (Mage = 13.68). Seventy nine percent were immigrants and 73% had family origins in Mexico. Discrimination stress and adaptation stress had differential associations with psychological distress and with indices of family functio…
A brief report on peer influence in group mentoring
Group mentoring programs foster supportive relationships and constructive feedback between mentors and peers. Given the power of peer influence to promote adaptive or harmful outcomes, it is important to evaluate peer influence in group mentoring. This study examined whether a history of negative behavior among peers in mentoring groups exacerbated individual participants' behavior problems. Using a sample of 239 ninth grade participants in a gro…
The Associations Between Multiple Dimensions of Acculturation and Psychological Distress Among Latinx Youth From Immigrant Families
Acculturation includes cognitive, affective, and behavioral dimensions, but few studies have included all three, and little is known about the ways in which these dimensions interact with contextual factors to predict psychological distress among Latinx adolescents. The current study explored the strength of the associations between the three dimensions of acculturation and psychological distress among Latinx adolescents from immigrant families (…
Tenemos que ser la voz”
The Role of School‐based Group Mentoring in Promoting Resilience among Vulnerable High School Students
This study examined the role of participation in a year‐long school‐based group mentoring program, Project Arrive ( PA ), on increasing resilience during the first year of high school among students identified as being at high risk for school dropout. Participants were 114, ninth grade students taking part in one of 32 PA mentoring groups, and 71 statistically matched comparison students (53% male, 75% eligible for free/reduced‐price lunch, 62% L…
Predictors of natural mentoring relationships and students’ adjustment to college
Little research exists that examines natural mentoring relationships (NMRs) during the college transition. We examine the role of parental attachment and help‐seeking behaviors in students’ development of new NMRs and the role NMRs have on students’ outcomes. Included in the study were 215 first‐year students at a large, urban, private university. Participants completed surveys at the beginning (Time 1) and at the end (Time 2) of the school year.…
Worry, Behavior Change, and Daily Adversity
The current study examines residency status differences in US Latino/a parents' perceptions of how recent immigration actions and news have shaped their lives. Focus group data were collected during the fall of 2017 from 50 Central American parents of adolescents. Focus groups were homogenous with respect to one of four residency statuses: undocumented, Temporary Protected Status (TPS), permanent resident, and citizen. Three themes characterized …
School-Based Group Mentoring and Academic Outcomes in Vulnerable High-School Students
This study examined the association between participation in a school-based group-mentoring program (Project Arrive) and academic outcomes in a group of ninth-grade students who had been identified as at high risk of high-school dropout ( n = 239). Comparison participants were ninth-grade students with similar levels of risk ( n = 980). Using inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW) with a propensity score to reduce selection bias, and a…
Psychological Needs Fulfillment and Engagement in Afterschool
This qualitative study draws on concepts from Self-Determination Theory (SDT) within a positive youth development framework to postulate that participants in an after-school program will derive a sense of enjoyment and challenge in program activities when they perceive that the program supports their psychological needs for competence, autonomy, and relatedness. SDT suggests that when programs support participant’s need for autonomy, competence, …
Enhancing Program Quality in a National Sample of After‐school Settings
Using multilevel data from the national evaluation of Boys and Girls Clubs of America ( BGCA ), this study examined associations among programmatic structures, workplace and workforce characteristics, and relational practices of program staff as they relate to young people's ratings of their experience attending local clubs. The sample included 57,710 members and 5,231 staff members at 740 BGCA sites throughout the United States. Staff relational…
Autonomy-related Parenting Processes and Adolescent Adjustment in Latinx Immigrant Families
Effects of substance use screening and brief intervention on health-related quality of life
Resident characteristics and neighborhood environments on health‐related quality of life and stress
Relatively little research has attempted to disentangle the individual and neighborhood conditions underlying health disparities. To address this, survey data were collected from 1,107 residents living in one of the 114 census tracts. Results from a multilevel structural equation model found an individual's perceptions of the social and built environment were significantly associated with their current physical health, mental health, and perceive…
Testing a Model of Participant Retention in Longitudinal Substance Abuse Research
Longitudinal substance abuse research has often been compromised by high rates of attrition, thought to be the result of the lifestyle that often accompanies addiction. Several studies have used strategies including collection of locator information at the baseline assessment, verification of the information, and interim contacts prior to completing the follow-up to minimize attrition, however it is unclear whether these strategies are equally ef…
Leveraged Resources and Systems Changes in Community Collaboration
Most models of community collaboration emphasize the ability of diverse partners to come together to enact systematic changes that improve the health of individuals and communities. The ability of these groups to leverage resources is thought to be an important marker of successful collaboration and eventual improvements in community health. However, there is a paucity of research addressing linkages between systems change activities and leverage…
Family Support Mediates the Association Between Substance Use Severity and Suicidal Ideation in Early Adult Emergency Department Patients
Cool Girls, Inc. and Self-Concept
Social capital was examined as a mediator of the association between youth development program participation and gains in self-concept in a sample of 86 primarily African American female adolescents in the Cool Girls, program, and 89 comparisons. Two dimensions of social capital (the diversity of girls’ social networks and the number of life domains in which girls were able to access help) were examined. It was hypothesized that participation in …
Testing Effects of Community Collaboration on Rates of Low Infant Birthweight at the County Level
Interorganizational collaboration has become a popular strategy for addressing population health and well‐being. However, evidence for its effectiveness in achieving outcomes at the population level is limited, at least in part due to a variety of methodological challenges such as reduced sample size at the population level, the availability of suitable comparison groups of communities, and study durations that are too short to detect slowly emer…
Acculturative Stress and Gang Involvement Among Latinos
Gang involvement is an increasing issue among Latino youth, yet nuanced research on its potential causes is scarce. Quantitative and qualitative data were used to explore links between acculturative stress and gang involvement among immigrant and U.S.-born Latino middle school students ( N = 199). Regression analyses showed that U.S.-born youths were more likely to be gang-involved if they experienced discrimination stress, but less likely to be …
Introduction to the Special Issue on “Social and Motivational Processes in After-School Settings
This special issue of the Journal of Early Adolescence presents research exploring the social and motivational processes thought to contribute to early adolescent engagement and participation in afterschool and out-of-school time as well as to targeted proximal and more distal developmental outcomes. Papers in the special issue address three broad themes, including (1) the role of internally and externally regulated motivation in joining programs…
Acculturative Stress and School Belonging Among Latino Youth
Dimensions of acculturative stress and their implications for school belonging and achievement were examined among 199 Latino middle-school students. The proposed model hypothesized that school belonging would mediate the association between acculturative stress dimensions and low school achievement. Eighty percent youth of the sample were immigrants, 73% had Mexican origins, 57% were girls, and the mean age of the participants was 13.6 years. A …
A multivariate model of gender differences in adolescents' internalizing and externalizing problems
Acculturative Stress and School Belonging Among Latino Youth
Dimensions of acculturative stress and their implications for school belonging and achievement were examined among 199 Latino middle-school students. The proposed model hypothesized that school belonging would mediate the association between acculturative stress dimensions and low school achievement. Eighty percent youth of the sample were immigrants, 73% had Mexican origins, 57% were girls, and the mean age of the participants was 13.6 years. A …
Mentoring programs
As mentoring programs have proliferated, considerable variation in approaches to programmatic mentoring has emerged. Concomitant confusion exists about the context, structure, and goals that constitute mentoring as a distinct intervention. This article presents a brief summary of what is currently known about different approaches to mentoring and proposes a framework that identifies both the common and the specific elements among different youth …
Toward a Transactional Model of Parent-Adolescent Relationship Quality and Adolescent Psychological Adjustment
The present study includes externalizing problems, internalizing problems, mother-adolescent relationship quality, and father-adolescent relationship quality in the same structural equation model and tests the longitudinal reciprocal association among all four variables over a 1-year period. A transactional model in which adolescents' internalizing and externalizing problems are negatively related to the quality of adolescents' relationships with…
Gender Differences in Posttraumatic Stress and Related Symptoms Among Inner-City Minority Youth Exposed to Community Violence
Cultural Attributes and Adaptations Linked to Achievement Motivation Among Latino Adolescents
Acculturative Stress and Gang Involvement Among Latinos
Gang involvement is an increasing issue among Latino youth, yet nuanced research on its potential causes is scarce. Quantitative and qualitative data were used to explore links between acculturative stress and gang involvement among immigrant and U.S.-born Latino middle school students ( N = 199). Regression analyses showed that U.S.-born youths were more likely to be gang-involved if they experienced discrimination stress, but less likely to be …
The Role of School‐based Group Mentoring in Promoting Resilience among Vulnerable High School Students
This study examined the role of participation in a year‐long school‐based group mentoring program, Project Arrive ( PA ), on increasing resilience during the first year of high school among students identified as being at high risk for school dropout. Participants were 114, ninth grade students taking part in one of 32 PA mentoring groups, and 71 statistically matched comparison students (53% male, 75% eligible for free/reduced‐price lunch, 62% L…
Enhancing Program Quality in a National Sample of After‐school Settings
Using multilevel data from the national evaluation of Boys and Girls Clubs of America ( BGCA ), this study examined associations among programmatic structures, workplace and workforce characteristics, and relational practices of program staff as they relate to young people's ratings of their experience attending local clubs. The sample included 57,710 members and 5,231 staff members at 740 BGCA sites throughout the United States. Staff relational…
Psychological Needs Fulfillment and Engagement in Afterschool
This qualitative study draws on concepts from Self-Determination Theory (SDT) within a positive youth development framework to postulate that participants in an after-school program will derive a sense of enjoyment and challenge in program activities when they perceive that the program supports their psychological needs for competence, autonomy, and relatedness. SDT suggests that when programs support participant’s need for autonomy, competence, …
The Associations Between Multiple Dimensions of Acculturation and Psychological Distress Among Latinx Youth From Immigrant Families
Acculturation includes cognitive, affective, and behavioral dimensions, but few studies have included all three, and little is known about the ways in which these dimensions interact with contextual factors to predict psychological distress among Latinx adolescents. The current study explored the strength of the associations between the three dimensions of acculturation and psychological distress among Latinx adolescents from immigrant families (…
Goal Discrepancy in African American Male Student-Athletes' Unrealistic Expectations for Careers in Professional Sports
The present study investigated whether African American male college student-athletes unrealistically focus their career goals on professional athletics to the detriment of their academic pursuits. The study considered the professional athleticaspirations of 702 AfricanAmerican male student-athletesfrom42 NCAA Division I universities using the concept of goal discrepancy to identify individuals whose professional athletic aspirations were inconsi…
Worry, Behavior Change, and Daily Adversity
The current study examines residency status differences in US Latino/a parents' perceptions of how recent immigration actions and news have shaped their lives. Focus group data were collected during the fall of 2017 from 50 Central American parents of adolescents. Focus groups were homogenous with respect to one of four residency statuses: undocumented, Temporary Protected Status (TPS), permanent resident, and citizen. Three themes characterized …
Introduction to the Special Issue on “Social and Motivational Processes in After-School Settings
This special issue of the Journal of Early Adolescence presents research exploring the social and motivational processes thought to contribute to early adolescent engagement and participation in afterschool and out-of-school time as well as to targeted proximal and more distal developmental outcomes. Papers in the special issue address three broad themes, including (1) the role of internally and externally regulated motivation in joining programs…
Cultural Equivalence and Cultural Variance in Longitudinal Associations of Young Adolescent Self-Definition and Interpersonal Relatedness to Psychological and School Adjustment
Autonomy, Relatedness, and Male Adolescent Delinquency
This study explored adolescents'developmental strivings for autonomy and relatedness as motivations in socialproblem-solving competence, and the relevance of those strivings to explaining variation in delinquent activity. Eighty African American and Caucasian male adolescents (11 through 18 years of age) at high riskfor delinquency provided their likely strategies for resolving hypothetical interpersonal dilemmas. Strategies reflecting relatednes…
Predictors of natural mentoring relationships and students’ adjustment to college
Little research exists that examines natural mentoring relationships (NMRs) during the college transition. We examine the role of parental attachment and help‐seeking behaviors in students’ development of new NMRs and the role NMRs have on students’ outcomes. Included in the study were 215 first‐year students at a large, urban, private university. Participants completed surveys at the beginning (Time 1) and at the end (Time 2) of the school year.…
Testing Effects of Community Collaboration on Rates of Low Infant Birthweight at the County Level
Interorganizational collaboration has become a popular strategy for addressing population health and well‐being. However, evidence for its effectiveness in achieving outcomes at the population level is limited, at least in part due to a variety of methodological challenges such as reduced sample size at the population level, the availability of suitable comparison groups of communities, and study durations that are too short to detect slowly emer…
Aggressive Behavior and Quality of Friendships
The current study investigates linear and curvilinear associations between overt aggressive behavior and the adolescents’ reports of the quality of their friendships over time. Moderation by gender was also investigated. The sample consisted of 246 boys and 253 girls from the sixth and seventh grades of a large public middle school. Findings suggested a curvilinear association between aggression and friendship quality for boys such that nonaggres…
Why Try? Achievement Motivation and Perceived Academic Climate Among Latino Youth
Elliot and McGregor’s (2001) 2 × 2 model of achievement motivation (mastery approach, mastery-avoidance, performance-approach and performance-avoidance) was used among 143 Latino adolescents to examine how achievement motivation changes over time, and whether perception of academic climate influences eventual academic outcomes. A series of hierarchical regressions revealed that perception of a task-focused academic climate moderated the associati…
Organizational Cultural Competence in Mental Health Service Delivery
Statistical associations between individual and organizational dimensions of cultural competence were examined. Participants were 350 employees of 12 public mental health agencies in Atlanta. Results from hierarchical linear modeling indicated that agencies with culturally competent mission statements and training had significantly higher member perceptions of cultural competence within the organization.Las asociaciones estadísticas entre individ…
The College Life Experiences of African American Women Athletes
The present study provides a descriptive analysis of four areas of African American women student athletes' college life experiences: academic performance; alienation and abuse; perceived social advantage as the result of athletics; and life satisfaction. Multivariate comparisons were made between the four areas of college life experiences of 154 African American women student athletes and 793 White women student athletes, 250 African American wo…
Tenemos que ser la voz”
Autonomy-related Parenting Processes and Adolescent Adjustment in Latinx Immigrant Families
Cool Girls, Inc. and Self-Concept
Social capital was examined as a mediator of the association between youth development program participation and gains in self-concept in a sample of 86 primarily African American female adolescents in the Cool Girls, program, and 89 comparisons. Two dimensions of social capital (the diversity of girls’ social networks and the number of life domains in which girls were able to access help) were examined. It was hypothesized that participation in …
Autonomy, Relatedness, and Male Adolescent Delinquency
This study explored adolescents'developmental strivings for autonomy and relatedness as motivations in socialproblem-solving competence, and the relevance of those strivings to explaining variation in delinquent activity. Eighty African American and Caucasian male adolescents (11 through 18 years of age) at high riskfor delinquency provided their likely strategies for resolving hypothetical interpersonal dilemmas. Strategies reflecting relatednes…
Preventing Teen Pregnancy and Academic Failure
Joseph P. Allen, Susan Philliber, Scott Herrling, Gabriel P. Kuperminc, Preventing Teen Pregnancy and Academic Failure: Experimental Evaluation of a Developmentally Based Approach, Child Development, Vol. 68, No. 4 (Aug., 1997), pp. 729-742
Perceived School Climate and Difficulties in the Social Adjustment of Middle School Students
(1997). Perceived School Climate and Difficulties in the Social Adjustment of Middle School Students. Applied Developmental Science: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 76-88
The College Life Experiences of African American Women Athletes
The present study provides a descriptive analysis of four areas of African American women student athletes' college life experiences: academic performance; alienation and abuse; perceived social advantage as the result of athletics; and life satisfaction. Multivariate comparisons were made between the four areas of college life experiences of 154 African American women student athletes and 793 White women student athletes, 250 African American wo…
Goal Discrepancy in African American Male Student-Athletes' Unrealistic Expectations for Careers in Professional Sports
The present study investigated whether African American male college student-athletes unrealistically focus their career goals on professional athletics to the detriment of their academic pursuits. The study considered the professional athleticaspirations of 702 AfricanAmerican male student-athletesfrom42 NCAA Division I universities using the concept of goal discrepancy to identify individuals whose professional athletic aspirations were inconsi…
A multivariate model of gender differences in adolescents' internalizing and externalizing problems
Characteristics and Homogeneity of Early Adolescent Friendship Groups
The goals of this study were to examine gender differences in the adaptive and maladaptive characteristics of clique membership and in clique homogeneity. We compared the characteristics of clique members with liaisons, dyads, and isolates across 3 domains: peer relationships, problem behaviors, and school adjustment. Our sample consisted of 499 sixth and seventh graders (53% 6th graders, 51% girls, 49% Non-Hispanic White, 26% Hispanic, 22% Afric…
School Social Climate and Individual Differences in Vulnerability to Psychopathology among Middle School Students
Social Orientation
Ecological and Ethical Perspectives on Filial Responsibility
Gender Differences in Posttraumatic Stress and Related Symptoms Among Inner-City Minority Youth Exposed to Community Violence
Cultural Equivalence and Cultural Variance in Longitudinal Associations of Young Adolescent Self-Definition and Interpersonal Relatedness to Psychological and School Adjustment
Cultural Attributes and Adaptations Linked to Achievement Motivation Among Latino Adolescents
Mentoring programs
As mentoring programs have proliferated, considerable variation in approaches to programmatic mentoring has emerged. Concomitant confusion exists about the context, structure, and goals that constitute mentoring as a distinct intervention. This article presents a brief summary of what is currently known about different approaches to mentoring and proposes a framework that identifies both the common and the specific elements among different youth …
Organizational Cultural Competence in Mental Health Service Delivery
Statistical associations between individual and organizational dimensions of cultural competence were examined. Participants were 350 employees of 12 public mental health agencies in Atlanta. Results from hierarchical linear modeling indicated that agencies with culturally competent mission statements and training had significantly higher member perceptions of cultural competence within the organization.Las asociaciones estadísticas entre individ…
Toward a Transactional Model of Parent-Adolescent Relationship Quality and Adolescent Psychological Adjustment
The present study includes externalizing problems, internalizing problems, mother-adolescent relationship quality, and father-adolescent relationship quality in the same structural equation model and tests the longitudinal reciprocal association among all four variables over a 1-year period. A transactional model in which adolescents' internalizing and externalizing problems are negatively related to the quality of adolescents' relationships with…
Aggressive Behavior and Quality of Friendships
The current study investigates linear and curvilinear associations between overt aggressive behavior and the adolescents’ reports of the quality of their friendships over time. Moderation by gender was also investigated. The sample consisted of 246 boys and 253 girls from the sixth and seventh grades of a large public middle school. Findings suggested a curvilinear association between aggression and friendship quality for boys such that nonaggres…
Why Try? Achievement Motivation and Perceived Academic Climate Among Latino Youth
Elliot and McGregor’s (2001) 2 × 2 model of achievement motivation (mastery approach, mastery-avoidance, performance-approach and performance-avoidance) was used among 143 Latino adolescents to examine how achievement motivation changes over time, and whether perception of academic climate influences eventual academic outcomes. A series of hierarchical regressions revealed that perception of a task-focused academic climate moderated the associati…
Cool Girls, Inc
Introduction to the Special Issue on “Social and Motivational Processes in After-School Settings
This special issue of the Journal of Early Adolescence presents research exploring the social and motivational processes thought to contribute to early adolescent engagement and participation in afterschool and out-of-school time as well as to targeted proximal and more distal developmental outcomes. Papers in the special issue address three broad themes, including (1) the role of internally and externally regulated motivation in joining programs…
Acculturative Stress and School Belonging Among Latino Youth
Dimensions of acculturative stress and their implications for school belonging and achievement were examined among 199 Latino middle-school students. The proposed model hypothesized that school belonging would mediate the association between acculturative stress dimensions and low school achievement. Eighty percent youth of the sample were immigrants, 73% had Mexican origins, 57% were girls, and the mean age of the participants was 13.6 years. A …
Family Support Mediates the Association Between Substance Use Severity and Suicidal Ideation in Early Adult Emergency Department Patients
Cool Girls, Inc. and Self-Concept
Social capital was examined as a mediator of the association between youth development program participation and gains in self-concept in a sample of 86 primarily African American female adolescents in the Cool Girls, program, and 89 comparisons. Two dimensions of social capital (the diversity of girls’ social networks and the number of life domains in which girls were able to access help) were examined. It was hypothesized that participation in …
Testing Effects of Community Collaboration on Rates of Low Infant Birthweight at the County Level
Interorganizational collaboration has become a popular strategy for addressing population health and well‐being. However, evidence for its effectiveness in achieving outcomes at the population level is limited, at least in part due to a variety of methodological challenges such as reduced sample size at the population level, the availability of suitable comparison groups of communities, and study durations that are too short to detect slowly emer…
Acculturative Stress and Gang Involvement Among Latinos
Gang involvement is an increasing issue among Latino youth, yet nuanced research on its potential causes is scarce. Quantitative and qualitative data were used to explore links between acculturative stress and gang involvement among immigrant and U.S.-born Latino middle school students ( N = 199). Regression analyses showed that U.S.-born youths were more likely to be gang-involved if they experienced discrimination stress, but less likely to be …
Psychology (42 works) · Developmental psychology (28 works) · Social Psychology (28 works) · Medicine (18 works) · Social Psychology (18 works) · Youth Development and Social Support (18 works) · Clinical Psychology (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (13 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (13 works)