Deborah J Johnson
Biographic Data
| ID | 101756 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deborah J Johnson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deborah J |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnson |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSON D J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8585-2143 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 299 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Decolonizing Schooling: Aboriginal and Islander Education Officers as Cultural Leaders in Australian Education
The Education Department of Western Australia advocates for culturally responsive schools. Aboriginal Indigenous Education Officers (AIEOs) are employed by schools to facilitate and enable the potential for Aboriginal school children to thrive in school settings. This article describes the values that AIEOs, parents, and teachers emphasized as being important in responding to Aboriginal students, through yarning circles organized in the first yea…
Dormant season submergence as a predictor of forest seedling survival in a connected floodplain
Dormant season floods are receding earlier in the Apalachicola River. • Established seedlings of common competitors are similarly tolerant to dormant season submergence. • Duration of submergence does not advantage established seedlings of competitors differently. • Aerobic conditions of flood water in connected floodplains limit stress to established seedlings. Hydroperiod predicts forest species composition within floodplains, which influences …
Koorlangka Dreaming Becomes a Reality: A Moombaki Virtual Reality with Connections to Noongar Moort, Boodja, and Karnarn
In this paper, we describe the developmental process of a culturally grounded Moombaki virtual reality (VR) game. We share how Aboriginal children’s drawings have informed the creation of an interactive learning platform for primary school-aged children attending schools in Wadjuk Boodja. The project focused on connecting students to cultural knowledge through immersive storytelling, creative exploration, and collaborative design by using small g…
Latina and Black Women Collegians’ Paternal Relationships: A Chicana and Black Feminist Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis
In the current qualitative study, we explored father (and varying father figures’) ethnoracial and gendered socialization messages toward Latina and Black college women. We conducted six focus group interviews with Black (n = 3 groups) and Latina (n = 3 groups) college women. Guided by Chicana and Black feminist interpretive phenomenological analysis, we identified four clusters which detailed perceived paternal influences in the lives of these c…
Home Based Racialized Messages Transmitted to African American Students Transitioning to Predominantly White Institutions
This study focused on the cultural differences faced by African American students transitioning to a predominantly White institution and the protective factors that aided them with these transitions. In-depth individual interviews were conducted and used as the primary method of data collection for this study. In addition, a focus group session provided member checking opportunity and served to strengthen the trustworthiness of the study. The foc…
Quad-dimensional acculturation, cultural integration, and life satisfaction of South Sudanese refugee young adults in the United States: A quasilongitudinal qualitative study
The findings have theoretical and practical implications for African refugees' adjustment and psychological well-being. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
Longitudinal Associations Between Mother–Child and Father–Child Closeness and Conflict From Middle Childhood to Adolescence
Objective The present study aimed at examining the longitudinal associations between closeness and conflict in mother–child and father–child relationships from middle childhood to adolescence. Method Using six‐wave longitudinal data of mother–child and father–child relationships from Grades 1 to 9 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development study ( N = 1,105 families; 79% Europ…
Re/Formation and Identity: The Intersectionality of Development, Culture, and Immigration
Re/Formation and Identity: The Intersectionality of Development, Culture, and Immigration
Women Making Art: Women in the Visual, Literary, and Performing Arts since 1960, Second Edition
Handbook of Children and Prejudice: Integrating Research, Practice, and Policy
Parental Perspectives on Education: Mexican and Mexican-American Farmworker Families with Young Children Enrolled in Migrant and Seasonal Head Start
Migrant and Seasonal Head Start (MSHS) is a Head Start program which serves exclusively young children from the migrant farmworker community, the majority of whom are Mexican nationals and second-generation immigrants. From this early childhood context, little is known about parents’ perspectives on education and the roles they take to engage in their children’s education. For this inquiry, 14 in-depth interviews were conducted with migrant farmw…
The Ecology of Experiences for African American Women in Clinical Doctoral Programs
African American women must navigate higher education, in particular, clinical doctoral programs, as a gendered racial minority. These women often endure multiple levels of discrimination to obtain their degree. Findings of this study highlight these experiences and suggest the importance of increasing supports for African American women in clinical doctoral programs. Practices and supports should be put in place so that students of color are not…
Ethnic socialization, ethnic identity, life satisfaction and school achievement of Roma ethnic minority youth
This article is part of a Special Issue entitled Explaining Positive Adaptation of Immigrant Youth across Cultures. This study tested a mediation model of ethnic socialization (i.e., parental practices that promote children's knowledge about their history, heritage culture, cultural authenticity, and ethnic bias management) in Roma youth. Roma are the largest ethnic minority group in Europe subjected to severe discrimination, both currently and h…
Exploring Black Immigrants' and Nonimmigrants' Understanding of "Acting Black" and "Acting White
Immigrant and nonimmigrant Black adolescents' perceptions of "acting Black" and "acting White" were compared using a concurrent mixed-methods approach. Using the Maryland Adolescent Development in Context Study data set, 39 second-generation African and Caribbean adolescent immigrants and a matched set of 39 nonimmigrant Black peers responded to the question "What does it mean to act Black/White?" Their responses were examined for differences and…
Community Violence and Racial Socialization: Their Influence on the Psychosocial Well-Being of African American College Students
The present study investigated the links between community violence exposure (witnessing and direct victimization) and racial socialization and psychological well-being in a sample of 281African American college students (76% female). We predicted that community violence exposure would be negatively related to psychosocial well-being. Additionally, it was hypothesized that the dimensions of racial socialization, cultural socialization and prepara…
They don't look at what affects us’: The role of ecodevelopmental factors on alcohol and drug use among Latinos with physical disabilities
Objectives. Latinos with disabilities disproportionately report substance use, including binge drinking and drug use. Ecodevelopmental factors, including socioeconomic patterning of poverty, social exclusion, and post-colonial racism, have been shown to impact alcohol and drug use. However, this line of research remains underdeveloped among Latinos with disabilities. The purpose of this study was to obtain rich descriptions of the role of ecodeve…
My Culture Helps Me Make Good Decisions”: Cultural Adaptation of Sudanese Refugee Emerging Adults
The last two decades have witnessed growing research on the experiences of children and youth after migration or resettlement. However, nearly all of this research focuses on children and youth who arrived in the country with their parents. We know little of the unique experiences of refugee youngsters who came to this country without parental company. How do they negotiate the different cultures in the absence of parents? In this article, we dra…
The Role of Intrapersonal Factors on Alcohol and Drug Use Among Latinos With Physical Disabilities
Persons with disabilities are disproportionately impacted by alcohol and drug use. Social work best practice approaches require an understanding of the effects of intrapersonal factors on alcohol and drug use, yet the theoretical and empirical literature remain underdeveloped, especially among ethnic minority populations. We sought to obtain a detailed description of the role of intrapersonal factors, including perceptions and life experiences, o…
Racial/Ethnic Socialization and Parental Involvement in Education as Predictors of Cognitive Ability and Achievement in African American Children
The Lost Boys of Sudan: Coping with ambiguous loss and separation from parents
The Lost Boys of Sudan were separated from their families by civil war and subsequently lived in three other countries-Ethiopia, Kenya, and the United States. In-depth interviews were conducted with 10 refugees about their experiences of separation from parents and ambiguous loss, and the coping strategies the youth used when they did not know if other members of their family were dead or alive. All of the youth reported using both emotion-focuse…
Cultural processes in parenting and youth outcomes: Examining a model of racial-ethnic socialization and identity in diverse populations
We review and summarize the findings across 7 studies contained in the special section titled, "Racial-Ethnic Socialization, Identity, and Youth Outcomes: Excavating Culture." These studies represent a significant advance for research in issues related to the impact of racial-ethnic socialization and identity on child outcomes. All 7 studies attempted to test in whole or part a hypothetical model in which ethnic-racial socialization in families o…
Transforming Caregiving: African American Custodial Grandmothers and the Child Welfare System
Growing numbers of African American grandmothers are raising grandchildren under the auspices of the child welfare system; however, little is known about the manner in which child welfare policies and practices impact custodial grandparenting. Based on focus groups with African American grandmothers who are raising grandchildren as formal kinship caregivers, this study explored the ways in which the new formalized relationship between the child w…
Parents' ethnic-racial socialization practices: A review of research and directions for future study
Recently, there has been an emergence of literature on the mechanisms through which parents transmit information, values, and perspectives about ethnicity and race to their children, commonly referred to as racial or ethnic socialization. This literature has sought to document the nature of such socialization, its antecedents in parents' and children's characteristics and experiences, and its consequences for children's well-being and development…
Correlates in Children's Experiences of Parents' Racial Socialization Behaviors
This study examined racial socialization processes among 94 African American parents of third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade children as they were predicted by children's ethnic identity exploration and unfair treatment as well as by parents' ethnic identity and discrimination experiences. Findings indicated that children's ethnic identity exploration and parents' perceptions that their children had been treated unfairly by an adult because of their …
Correlates in Children's Experiences of Parents' Racial Socialization Behaviors
This study examined racial socialization processes among 94 African American parents of third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade children as they were predicted by children's ethnic identity exploration and unfair treatment as well as by parents' ethnic identity and discrimination experiences. Findings indicated that children's ethnic identity exploration and parents' perceptions that their children had been treated unfairly by an adult because of their …
Cultural processes in parenting and youth outcomes: Examining a model of racial-ethnic socialization and identity in diverse populations
We review and summarize the findings across 7 studies contained in the special section titled, "Racial-Ethnic Socialization, Identity, and Youth Outcomes: Excavating Culture." These studies represent a significant advance for research in issues related to the impact of racial-ethnic socialization and identity on child outcomes. All 7 studies attempted to test in whole or part a hypothetical model in which ethnic-racial socialization in families o…
Racial/Ethnic Socialization and Parental Involvement in Education as Predictors of Cognitive Ability and Achievement in African American Children
Ethnic socialization, ethnic identity, life satisfaction and school achievement of Roma ethnic minority youth
This article is part of a Special Issue entitled Explaining Positive Adaptation of Immigrant Youth across Cultures. This study tested a mediation model of ethnic socialization (i.e., parental practices that promote children's knowledge about their history, heritage culture, cultural authenticity, and ethnic bias management) in Roma youth. Roma are the largest ethnic minority group in Europe subjected to severe discrimination, both currently and h…
Community Violence and Racial Socialization: Their Influence on the Psychosocial Well-Being of African American College Students
The present study investigated the links between community violence exposure (witnessing and direct victimization) and racial socialization and psychological well-being in a sample of 281African American college students (76% female). We predicted that community violence exposure would be negatively related to psychosocial well-being. Additionally, it was hypothesized that the dimensions of racial socialization, cultural socialization and prepara…
My Culture Helps Me Make Good Decisions”: Cultural Adaptation of Sudanese Refugee Emerging Adults
The last two decades have witnessed growing research on the experiences of children and youth after migration or resettlement. However, nearly all of this research focuses on children and youth who arrived in the country with their parents. We know little of the unique experiences of refugee youngsters who came to this country without parental company. How do they negotiate the different cultures in the absence of parents? In this article, we dra…
Exploring Black Immigrants' and Nonimmigrants' Understanding of "Acting Black" and "Acting White
Immigrant and nonimmigrant Black adolescents' perceptions of "acting Black" and "acting White" were compared using a concurrent mixed-methods approach. Using the Maryland Adolescent Development in Context Study data set, 39 second-generation African and Caribbean adolescent immigrants and a matched set of 39 nonimmigrant Black peers responded to the question "What does it mean to act Black/White?" Their responses were examined for differences and…
Quad-dimensional acculturation, cultural integration, and life satisfaction of South Sudanese refugee young adults in the United States: A quasilongitudinal qualitative study
The findings have theoretical and practical implications for African refugees' adjustment and psychological well-being. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
Urban Zimbabwean mothers' choices and perceptions of care for young children
The Ecology of Experiences for African American Women in Clinical Doctoral Programs
African American women must navigate higher education, in particular, clinical doctoral programs, as a gendered racial minority. These women often endure multiple levels of discrimination to obtain their degree. Findings of this study highlight these experiences and suggest the importance of increasing supports for African American women in clinical doctoral programs. Practices and supports should be put in place so that students of color are not…
They don't look at what affects us’: The role of ecodevelopmental factors on alcohol and drug use among Latinos with physical disabilities
Objectives. Latinos with disabilities disproportionately report substance use, including binge drinking and drug use. Ecodevelopmental factors, including socioeconomic patterning of poverty, social exclusion, and post-colonial racism, have been shown to impact alcohol and drug use. However, this line of research remains underdeveloped among Latinos with disabilities. The purpose of this study was to obtain rich descriptions of the role of ecodeve…
Transforming Caregiving: African American Custodial Grandmothers and the Child Welfare System
Growing numbers of African American grandmothers are raising grandchildren under the auspices of the child welfare system; however, little is known about the manner in which child welfare policies and practices impact custodial grandparenting. Based on focus groups with African American grandmothers who are raising grandchildren as formal kinship caregivers, this study explored the ways in which the new formalized relationship between the child w…
No Make-Believe Class Struggle: The Socialist Municipal Campaign in Los Angeles, 1911
Visible Now: Blacks in Private Schools
Visible Now: Blacks in Private Schools
Independent Schools with Black Children Making the Honor Roll: A Black Parent's Perspective on Private Education by Geraldine Kearse Brookins Ethnic Diversity: Patterns and Implications of Minorities in Independent Schools by Wanda A. Speede-Franklin Making a Difference for a New Generation: The ABC Story by Judith Griffin and Sylvia Johnson Promoting Independent School Enrollment in the Southeast: Three Organizational Efforts by Barbara Patterso…
In Search of Quality Education for African-American Children
Is art central to art history (and other debacles)
Urban Zimbabwean mothers' choices and perceptions of care for young children
Disentangling Poverty and Race
Race, class, and culture are inextricably linked in the lives of poor families. A perspective is provided for a disentangled view of these influences for the purposes of enhancing the effectiveness of practice, policy, and program design, as well as research. Deconstructing myths and beliefs about poor families of color with examples from African American and Hmong American life were key in the development of the approach. Three implications for …
No Make-Believe Class Struggle: The Socialist Municipal Campaign in Los Angeles, 1911
Correlates in Children's Experiences of Parents' Racial Socialization Behaviors
This study examined racial socialization processes among 94 African American parents of third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade children as they were predicted by children's ethnic identity exploration and unfair treatment as well as by parents' ethnic identity and discrimination experiences. Findings indicated that children's ethnic identity exploration and parents' perceptions that their children had been treated unfairly by an adult because of their …
Parents' ethnic-racial socialization practices: A review of research and directions for future study
Recently, there has been an emergence of literature on the mechanisms through which parents transmit information, values, and perspectives about ethnicity and race to their children, commonly referred to as racial or ethnic socialization. This literature has sought to document the nature of such socialization, its antecedents in parents' and children's characteristics and experiences, and its consequences for children's well-being and development…
Transforming Caregiving: African American Custodial Grandmothers and the Child Welfare System
Growing numbers of African American grandmothers are raising grandchildren under the auspices of the child welfare system; however, little is known about the manner in which child welfare policies and practices impact custodial grandparenting. Based on focus groups with African American grandmothers who are raising grandchildren as formal kinship caregivers, this study explored the ways in which the new formalized relationship between the child w…
The Lost Boys of Sudan: Coping with ambiguous loss and separation from parents
The Lost Boys of Sudan were separated from their families by civil war and subsequently lived in three other countries-Ethiopia, Kenya, and the United States. In-depth interviews were conducted with 10 refugees about their experiences of separation from parents and ambiguous loss, and the coping strategies the youth used when they did not know if other members of their family were dead or alive. All of the youth reported using both emotion-focuse…
Cultural processes in parenting and youth outcomes: Examining a model of racial-ethnic socialization and identity in diverse populations
We review and summarize the findings across 7 studies contained in the special section titled, "Racial-Ethnic Socialization, Identity, and Youth Outcomes: Excavating Culture." These studies represent a significant advance for research in issues related to the impact of racial-ethnic socialization and identity on child outcomes. All 7 studies attempted to test in whole or part a hypothetical model in which ethnic-racial socialization in families o…
Racial/Ethnic Socialization and Parental Involvement in Education as Predictors of Cognitive Ability and Achievement in African American Children
The Role of Intrapersonal Factors on Alcohol and Drug Use Among Latinos With Physical Disabilities
Persons with disabilities are disproportionately impacted by alcohol and drug use. Social work best practice approaches require an understanding of the effects of intrapersonal factors on alcohol and drug use, yet the theoretical and empirical literature remain underdeveloped, especially among ethnic minority populations. We sought to obtain a detailed description of the role of intrapersonal factors, including perceptions and life experiences, o…
They don't look at what affects us’: The role of ecodevelopmental factors on alcohol and drug use among Latinos with physical disabilities
Objectives. Latinos with disabilities disproportionately report substance use, including binge drinking and drug use. Ecodevelopmental factors, including socioeconomic patterning of poverty, social exclusion, and post-colonial racism, have been shown to impact alcohol and drug use. However, this line of research remains underdeveloped among Latinos with disabilities. The purpose of this study was to obtain rich descriptions of the role of ecodeve…
My Culture Helps Me Make Good Decisions”: Cultural Adaptation of Sudanese Refugee Emerging Adults
The last two decades have witnessed growing research on the experiences of children and youth after migration or resettlement. However, nearly all of this research focuses on children and youth who arrived in the country with their parents. We know little of the unique experiences of refugee youngsters who came to this country without parental company. How do they negotiate the different cultures in the absence of parents? In this article, we dra…
Community Violence and Racial Socialization: Their Influence on the Psychosocial Well-Being of African American College Students
The present study investigated the links between community violence exposure (witnessing and direct victimization) and racial socialization and psychological well-being in a sample of 281African American college students (76% female). We predicted that community violence exposure would be negatively related to psychosocial well-being. Additionally, it was hypothesized that the dimensions of racial socialization, cultural socialization and prepara…
Ethnic socialization, ethnic identity, life satisfaction and school achievement of Roma ethnic minority youth
This article is part of a Special Issue entitled Explaining Positive Adaptation of Immigrant Youth across Cultures. This study tested a mediation model of ethnic socialization (i.e., parental practices that promote children's knowledge about their history, heritage culture, cultural authenticity, and ethnic bias management) in Roma youth. Roma are the largest ethnic minority group in Europe subjected to severe discrimination, both currently and h…
Exploring Black Immigrants' and Nonimmigrants' Understanding of "Acting Black" and "Acting White
Immigrant and nonimmigrant Black adolescents' perceptions of "acting Black" and "acting White" were compared using a concurrent mixed-methods approach. Using the Maryland Adolescent Development in Context Study data set, 39 second-generation African and Caribbean adolescent immigrants and a matched set of 39 nonimmigrant Black peers responded to the question "What does it mean to act Black/White?" Their responses were examined for differences and…
Handbook of Children and Prejudice: Integrating Research, Practice, and Policy
Parental Perspectives on Education: Mexican and Mexican-American Farmworker Families with Young Children Enrolled in Migrant and Seasonal Head Start
Migrant and Seasonal Head Start (MSHS) is a Head Start program which serves exclusively young children from the migrant farmworker community, the majority of whom are Mexican nationals and second-generation immigrants. From this early childhood context, little is known about parents’ perspectives on education and the roles they take to engage in their children’s education. For this inquiry, 14 in-depth interviews were conducted with migrant farmw…
The Ecology of Experiences for African American Women in Clinical Doctoral Programs
African American women must navigate higher education, in particular, clinical doctoral programs, as a gendered racial minority. These women often endure multiple levels of discrimination to obtain their degree. Findings of this study highlight these experiences and suggest the importance of increasing supports for African American women in clinical doctoral programs. Practices and supports should be put in place so that students of color are not…
Women Making Art: Women in the Visual, Literary, and Performing Arts since 1960, Second Edition
Longitudinal Associations Between Mother–Child and Father–Child Closeness and Conflict From Middle Childhood to Adolescence
Objective The present study aimed at examining the longitudinal associations between closeness and conflict in mother–child and father–child relationships from middle childhood to adolescence. Method Using six‐wave longitudinal data of mother–child and father–child relationships from Grades 1 to 9 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development study ( N = 1,105 families; 79% Europ…
Re/Formation and Identity: The Intersectionality of Development, Culture, and Immigration
Psychology (25 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Developmental psychology (15 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Political science (13 works) · Ethnic group (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Medicine (7 works)