Amanda L Roy
Biographic Data
| ID | 110797 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amanda L Roy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amanda L |
| FAMILY NAME | Roy |
| SIGNATURE | ROY A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8652-841X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 132 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Childhood foundations of Black and Latinx adolescents’ critical consciousness
Critical consciousness (CC) among racially and ethnically marginalized youth has been linked to many aspects of well‐being. However, we lack understanding of how US children's earlier prosocial behaviors and self‐regulation may lay the foundation for their later CC during adolescence. Integrating Watts and Flanagan's framework on youth sociopolitical development (2007) and García Coll and colleagues’ (1996) integrative model of child development,…
“It’s never just [you], it’s the whole campus community”
I Get to See Another Day
The goal of this research is to document and contextualize sources of happiness for Black and Latinx youth living in economically disenfranchised, Chicago neighborhoods. We examined youth’s open-ended responses to the question, “What makes you happiest in life?” The sample consists of 409 Black (73%) and Latinx (27%) youth (54% female; on average 15 years old, SD = 0.80). Using an inductive process, we developed relevant codes and applied them to…
Association of census-tract level gentrification and income inequality with 6-year incidence of metabolic syndrome in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos, an epidemiologic cohort stud…
Black and Latino Adolescents’ Self-Regulation
Students from minoritized backgrounds, who disproportionately face higher poverty rates, are more likely to encounter risk factors, which tend to undermine individuals’ broader well-being by compromising self-regulatory processes. Yet, sociocultural theory highlights the presence of minoritized families’ cultural wealth. Consistent with a focus on assets, it is notable that college enrollment rates have increased among Black and Latino students i…
Redefining Exposure
Differences in how individuals navigate and interact with physical space have clear implications for when and where they are exposed to environmental characteristics. To address this reality, we propose and test a novel method with a sample of Chicago adolescents that links individual GPS coordinates with locations of environmental characteristics as a strategy to increase precision in the measurement of environmental exposures. We use exposure t…
What Drives You? Black and Latinx Youth’s Critical Consciousness, Motivations, and Academic and Career Activities
Impact of Being a Peer Recovery Specialist on Work and Personal Life
Safe Spaces Embedded in Dangerous Contexts
Much is known about how experiences of community violence negatively affect youth, but far less research has explored how youth remain resilient while living in dangerous neighborhoods. This study addresses this need by analyzing in-depth, geo-narrative interviews conducted with 15 youth (60% Black, 27% Latinx, 53% female, 14 to 17 years old) residing in low-income, high-crime Chicago neighborhoods to explore youths' perceptions of safety and str…
Chicago Youths’ Exposure to Community Violence
This study explores where and when community violence exposure ( CVE ) matters for psychological functioning in a sample of low‐income, racial/ethnic minority youth ( M) age = 16.17, 55% female, 69% Black, and 31% Non‐Black/Latinx) living in Chicago. CVE was measured with violent crime data that were geocoded in terms of distance from youths’ home and school addresses, and then calculated in terms of three distinct spatial dynamics: chronicity, p…
Navigating Challenges to Facilitate Success for College Students with Autism
Roughly 1 in 59 children in the United States is diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a rate that has more than doubled during the last 10 years. As students with autism increasingly pursue higher education, college educators must understand these students’ experiences and actively address issues that affect their college outcomes. This paper draws from interviews with autistic students who have had widely varying experiences and out…
The Latent Threat of Community Violence
This study examines the relation between adolescents’ indirect exposure to local homicides and mental health disorders and post‐traumatic stress disorder ( PTSD ) symptoms. We employ a sample of 300 adolescents ( representative for Bogotá, Colombia, and geocoded data on violent crimes recorded by the national police. Findings show that one SD increment in local homicides is associated with increments by 0.17 SD in the mental health disorder index…
If they focus on giving us a chance in life we can actually do something in this world”
Critical consciousness (CC) has emerged as a framework for understanding how low-income and racial/ethnic minority youth recognize, interpret, and work to change the experiences and systems of oppression that they face in their daily lives. Despite this, relatively little is known about how youths' experiences with economic hardship and structural oppression shape how they "read their world" and motivate participation in critical action behaviors…
Classifying trajectories of social–emotional difficulties through elementary school
Although research has shown fade-out of the cognitive benefits of classroom-based preschool interventions, less is known regarding the durability of social-emotional impacts. This study examines the extent to which the multicomponent Chicago School Readiness Project (CSRP) intervention lowered risk of internalizing, externalizing, attention, and social difficulties from Head Start through elementary school for 602 low-income children. Results sug…
Innovation or Violation? Leveraging Mobile Technology to Conduct Socially Responsible Community Research
Mobile technology is increasingly being used to measure individuals’ moods, thoughts, and behaviors in real time. Current examples include the use of smartphones to collect ecological momentary assessments ( EMA s; assessments delivered “in the moment”); wearable technology to passively collect objective measures of participants’ movement, physical activity, sleep, and physiological response; and smartphones and wearable devices with global posit…
Do We Know Where We Stand? Neighborhood Relative Income, Subjective Social Status, and Health
Bridging research on relative income and subjective social status (SSS), this study examines how neighborhood relative income is related to ones' SSS, and in turn, physical and mental health. Using a survey sample of 1807 U.S. adults, we find that neighborhood median income significantly moderates the relationship between household income and self-reported physical and mental health. Low-income individuals living in high-income neighborhoods (i.e…
Relationships Between Family and Neighborhood Income and First‐generation Latino Adults’ Depressive Symptoms and Well‐being
This study examines relationships between family and neighborhood income and depressive symptoms, life satisfaction, and financial satisfaction among first‐generation immigrant Dominican ( N = 255), Puerto Rican ( N = 242), and Mexican ( N = 212) adults. Results from random intercept regression models revealed family income to be consistently predictive of outcomes across samples. However, this relationship was moderated by neighborhood income. T…
Instability versus quality
Prior research has found that higher residential mobility is associated with increased risk for children's academic and behavioral difficulty. In contrast, evaluations of experimental housing mobility interventions have shown moving from high poverty to low poverty neighborhoods to be beneficial for children's outcomes. This study merges these disparate bodies of work by considering how poverty levels in origin and destination neighborhoods moder…
Intersections Between Nativity, Ethnic Density, and Neighborhood SES
Although past research has demonstrated a “health disadvantage” for Puerto Rican adults, very little is known about correlates of health among this group. Given Puerto Ricans’ unique experiences of migration and settlement, an ethnic enclave framework that integrates nativity, ethnic density, and neighborhood SES may offer insight into factors influencing Puerto Ricans’ health. This study uses a sample of 449 adult mainland‐ and island‐born Puert…
Neighborhood Crime and School Climate as Predictors of Elementary School Academic Quality
Past research has found negative relationships between neighborhood structural disadvantage and students’ academic outcomes. Comparatively little work has evaluated the associations between characteristics of neighborhoods and schools themselves. This study explored the longitudinal, reciprocal relationships between neighborhood crime and school‐level academic achievement within 500 urban schools. Results revealed that higher neighborhood crime (…
Exploring Neighborhood Effects on Health and Life Satisfaction
Ethnicity and Gender Stereotypes of Emotion
Instability versus quality
Prior research has found that higher residential mobility is associated with increased risk for children's academic and behavioral difficulty. In contrast, evaluations of experimental housing mobility interventions have shown moving from high poverty to low poverty neighborhoods to be beneficial for children's outcomes. This study merges these disparate bodies of work by considering how poverty levels in origin and destination neighborhoods moder…
Ethnicity and Gender Stereotypes of Emotion
If they focus on giving us a chance in life we can actually do something in this world”
Critical consciousness (CC) has emerged as a framework for understanding how low-income and racial/ethnic minority youth recognize, interpret, and work to change the experiences and systems of oppression that they face in their daily lives. Despite this, relatively little is known about how youths' experiences with economic hardship and structural oppression shape how they "read their world" and motivate participation in critical action behaviors…
Neighborhood Crime and School Climate as Predictors of Elementary School Academic Quality
Past research has found negative relationships between neighborhood structural disadvantage and students’ academic outcomes. Comparatively little work has evaluated the associations between characteristics of neighborhoods and schools themselves. This study explored the longitudinal, reciprocal relationships between neighborhood crime and school‐level academic achievement within 500 urban schools. Results revealed that higher neighborhood crime (…
The Latent Threat of Community Violence
This study examines the relation between adolescents’ indirect exposure to local homicides and mental health disorders and post‐traumatic stress disorder ( PTSD ) symptoms. We employ a sample of 300 adolescents ( representative for Bogotá, Colombia, and geocoded data on violent crimes recorded by the national police. Findings show that one SD increment in local homicides is associated with increments by 0.17 SD in the mental health disorder index…
Chicago Youths’ Exposure to Community Violence
This study explores where and when community violence exposure ( CVE ) matters for psychological functioning in a sample of low‐income, racial/ethnic minority youth ( M) age = 16.17, 55% female, 69% Black, and 31% Non‐Black/Latinx) living in Chicago. CVE was measured with violent crime data that were geocoded in terms of distance from youths’ home and school addresses, and then calculated in terms of three distinct spatial dynamics: chronicity, p…
Do We Know Where We Stand? Neighborhood Relative Income, Subjective Social Status, and Health
Bridging research on relative income and subjective social status (SSS), this study examines how neighborhood relative income is related to ones' SSS, and in turn, physical and mental health. Using a survey sample of 1807 U.S. adults, we find that neighborhood median income significantly moderates the relationship between household income and self-reported physical and mental health. Low-income individuals living in high-income neighborhoods (i.e…
Safe Spaces Embedded in Dangerous Contexts
Much is known about how experiences of community violence negatively affect youth, but far less research has explored how youth remain resilient while living in dangerous neighborhoods. This study addresses this need by analyzing in-depth, geo-narrative interviews conducted with 15 youth (60% Black, 27% Latinx, 53% female, 14 to 17 years old) residing in low-income, high-crime Chicago neighborhoods to explore youths' perceptions of safety and str…
What Drives You? Black and Latinx Youth’s Critical Consciousness, Motivations, and Academic and Career Activities
Impact of Being a Peer Recovery Specialist on Work and Personal Life
Classifying trajectories of social–emotional difficulties through elementary school
Although research has shown fade-out of the cognitive benefits of classroom-based preschool interventions, less is known regarding the durability of social-emotional impacts. This study examines the extent to which the multicomponent Chicago School Readiness Project (CSRP) intervention lowered risk of internalizing, externalizing, attention, and social difficulties from Head Start through elementary school for 602 low-income children. Results sug…
Relationships Between Family and Neighborhood Income and First‐generation Latino Adults’ Depressive Symptoms and Well‐being
This study examines relationships between family and neighborhood income and depressive symptoms, life satisfaction, and financial satisfaction among first‐generation immigrant Dominican ( N = 255), Puerto Rican ( N = 242), and Mexican ( N = 212) adults. Results from random intercept regression models revealed family income to be consistently predictive of outcomes across samples. However, this relationship was moderated by neighborhood income. T…
Intersections Between Nativity, Ethnic Density, and Neighborhood SES
Although past research has demonstrated a “health disadvantage” for Puerto Rican adults, very little is known about correlates of health among this group. Given Puerto Ricans’ unique experiences of migration and settlement, an ethnic enclave framework that integrates nativity, ethnic density, and neighborhood SES may offer insight into factors influencing Puerto Ricans’ health. This study uses a sample of 449 adult mainland‐ and island‐born Puert…
Navigating Challenges to Facilitate Success for College Students with Autism
Roughly 1 in 59 children in the United States is diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a rate that has more than doubled during the last 10 years. As students with autism increasingly pursue higher education, college educators must understand these students’ experiences and actively address issues that affect their college outcomes. This paper draws from interviews with autistic students who have had widely varying experiences and out…
Innovation or Violation? Leveraging Mobile Technology to Conduct Socially Responsible Community Research
Mobile technology is increasingly being used to measure individuals’ moods, thoughts, and behaviors in real time. Current examples include the use of smartphones to collect ecological momentary assessments ( EMA s; assessments delivered “in the moment”); wearable technology to passively collect objective measures of participants’ movement, physical activity, sleep, and physiological response; and smartphones and wearable devices with global posit…
Exploring Neighborhood Effects on Health and Life Satisfaction
Ethnicity and Gender Stereotypes of Emotion
Exploring Neighborhood Effects on Health and Life Satisfaction
Intersections Between Nativity, Ethnic Density, and Neighborhood SES
Although past research has demonstrated a “health disadvantage” for Puerto Rican adults, very little is known about correlates of health among this group. Given Puerto Ricans’ unique experiences of migration and settlement, an ethnic enclave framework that integrates nativity, ethnic density, and neighborhood SES may offer insight into factors influencing Puerto Ricans’ health. This study uses a sample of 449 adult mainland‐ and island‐born Puert…
Neighborhood Crime and School Climate as Predictors of Elementary School Academic Quality
Past research has found negative relationships between neighborhood structural disadvantage and students’ academic outcomes. Comparatively little work has evaluated the associations between characteristics of neighborhoods and schools themselves. This study explored the longitudinal, reciprocal relationships between neighborhood crime and school‐level academic achievement within 500 urban schools. Results revealed that higher neighborhood crime (…
Instability versus quality
Prior research has found that higher residential mobility is associated with increased risk for children's academic and behavioral difficulty. In contrast, evaluations of experimental housing mobility interventions have shown moving from high poverty to low poverty neighborhoods to be beneficial for children's outcomes. This study merges these disparate bodies of work by considering how poverty levels in origin and destination neighborhoods moder…
Do We Know Where We Stand? Neighborhood Relative Income, Subjective Social Status, and Health
Bridging research on relative income and subjective social status (SSS), this study examines how neighborhood relative income is related to ones' SSS, and in turn, physical and mental health. Using a survey sample of 1807 U.S. adults, we find that neighborhood median income significantly moderates the relationship between household income and self-reported physical and mental health. Low-income individuals living in high-income neighborhoods (i.e…
Relationships Between Family and Neighborhood Income and First‐generation Latino Adults’ Depressive Symptoms and Well‐being
This study examines relationships between family and neighborhood income and depressive symptoms, life satisfaction, and financial satisfaction among first‐generation immigrant Dominican ( N = 255), Puerto Rican ( N = 242), and Mexican ( N = 212) adults. Results from random intercept regression models revealed family income to be consistently predictive of outcomes across samples. However, this relationship was moderated by neighborhood income. T…
Innovation or Violation? Leveraging Mobile Technology to Conduct Socially Responsible Community Research
Mobile technology is increasingly being used to measure individuals’ moods, thoughts, and behaviors in real time. Current examples include the use of smartphones to collect ecological momentary assessments ( EMA s; assessments delivered “in the moment”); wearable technology to passively collect objective measures of participants’ movement, physical activity, sleep, and physiological response; and smartphones and wearable devices with global posit…
Classifying trajectories of social–emotional difficulties through elementary school
Although research has shown fade-out of the cognitive benefits of classroom-based preschool interventions, less is known regarding the durability of social-emotional impacts. This study examines the extent to which the multicomponent Chicago School Readiness Project (CSRP) intervention lowered risk of internalizing, externalizing, attention, and social difficulties from Head Start through elementary school for 602 low-income children. Results sug…
The Latent Threat of Community Violence
This study examines the relation between adolescents’ indirect exposure to local homicides and mental health disorders and post‐traumatic stress disorder ( PTSD ) symptoms. We employ a sample of 300 adolescents ( representative for Bogotá, Colombia, and geocoded data on violent crimes recorded by the national police. Findings show that one SD increment in local homicides is associated with increments by 0.17 SD in the mental health disorder index…
If they focus on giving us a chance in life we can actually do something in this world”
Critical consciousness (CC) has emerged as a framework for understanding how low-income and racial/ethnic minority youth recognize, interpret, and work to change the experiences and systems of oppression that they face in their daily lives. Despite this, relatively little is known about how youths' experiences with economic hardship and structural oppression shape how they "read their world" and motivate participation in critical action behaviors…
Safe Spaces Embedded in Dangerous Contexts
Much is known about how experiences of community violence negatively affect youth, but far less research has explored how youth remain resilient while living in dangerous neighborhoods. This study addresses this need by analyzing in-depth, geo-narrative interviews conducted with 15 youth (60% Black, 27% Latinx, 53% female, 14 to 17 years old) residing in low-income, high-crime Chicago neighborhoods to explore youths' perceptions of safety and str…
Chicago Youths’ Exposure to Community Violence
This study explores where and when community violence exposure ( CVE ) matters for psychological functioning in a sample of low‐income, racial/ethnic minority youth ( M) age = 16.17, 55% female, 69% Black, and 31% Non‐Black/Latinx) living in Chicago. CVE was measured with violent crime data that were geocoded in terms of distance from youths’ home and school addresses, and then calculated in terms of three distinct spatial dynamics: chronicity, p…
Navigating Challenges to Facilitate Success for College Students with Autism
Roughly 1 in 59 children in the United States is diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a rate that has more than doubled during the last 10 years. As students with autism increasingly pursue higher education, college educators must understand these students’ experiences and actively address issues that affect their college outcomes. This paper draws from interviews with autistic students who have had widely varying experiences and out…
Black and Latino Adolescents’ Self-Regulation
Students from minoritized backgrounds, who disproportionately face higher poverty rates, are more likely to encounter risk factors, which tend to undermine individuals’ broader well-being by compromising self-regulatory processes. Yet, sociocultural theory highlights the presence of minoritized families’ cultural wealth. Consistent with a focus on assets, it is notable that college enrollment rates have increased among Black and Latino students i…
Redefining Exposure
Differences in how individuals navigate and interact with physical space have clear implications for when and where they are exposed to environmental characteristics. To address this reality, we propose and test a novel method with a sample of Chicago adolescents that links individual GPS coordinates with locations of environmental characteristics as a strategy to increase precision in the measurement of environmental exposures. We use exposure t…
What Drives You? Black and Latinx Youth’s Critical Consciousness, Motivations, and Academic and Career Activities
Impact of Being a Peer Recovery Specialist on Work and Personal Life
I Get to See Another Day
The goal of this research is to document and contextualize sources of happiness for Black and Latinx youth living in economically disenfranchised, Chicago neighborhoods. We examined youth’s open-ended responses to the question, “What makes you happiest in life?” The sample consists of 409 Black (73%) and Latinx (27%) youth (54% female; on average 15 years old, SD = 0.80). Using an inductive process, we developed relevant codes and applied them to…
Association of census-tract level gentrification and income inequality with 6-year incidence of metabolic syndrome in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos, an epidemiologic cohort stud…
Childhood foundations of Black and Latinx adolescents’ critical consciousness
Critical consciousness (CC) among racially and ethnically marginalized youth has been linked to many aspects of well‐being. However, we lack understanding of how US children's earlier prosocial behaviors and self‐regulation may lay the foundation for their later CC during adolescence. Integrating Watts and Flanagan's framework on youth sociopolitical development (2007) and García Coll and colleagues’ (1996) integrative model of child development,…
“It’s never just [you], it’s the whole campus community”
Psychology (18 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works) · Public health (10 works) · Health psychology (9 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (8 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works)