Diana R Samek
Biographic Data
| ID | 153271 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diana R Samek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diana R |
| FAMILY NAME | Samek |
| SIGNATURE | SAMEK D R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Auburn University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9174-7166 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Assessing Racial Trauma Experienced by First-Year Students of Color Attending a Mostly White University in the American Southeast
We studied the qualitative experiences of racism that first-year students reported prior to and during their first year of college. Participants included 134 first-year students (26.9% Asian, 32.1% Black/African American, 20.9% Multiracial, 20.0% Hispanic/Latino; 53.0% female; 21.6% LGBTQ+) who attended a medium-sized, predominately/historically White university in the American Southeast. Students answered open-ended questions about their lived e…
Cumulative Micro-Contextual Risk as a Predictor of Impulsivity Among Preteens: A Latent Change Score Analysis
Impulsivity has been routinely linked to problematic outcomes, but less research has identified salient predictors of impulsivity. Guided by bioecological theory and using data from the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development Study ( N = 11,876; 47.8% female; 52.1% White), we hypothesized that proximal processes associated with the individual (e.g., sleep), and within the family, school, and digital micro-contexts would prospectively predict t…
Contextualizing the Development of Emotion Regulation in Early Adolescence: Results From the ABCD Study
Studies have consistently shown emotion dysregulation to be a transdiagnostic risk factor for psychological and behavioral outcomes, yet less work has identified environmental predictors of such dysregulation. Taking a social ecological approach, we investigated if proximal processes associated with micro-contexts of family, school, and peers (e.g., family conflict), as well as macro-contexts (neighborhood and socioeconomic status) and their inte…
Microaggressions, perceptions of campus climate, mental health, and alcohol use among first‐year college students of color
Depressive and anxiety symptoms are increasingly common, and problematic alcohol use remains prevalent in college. To expand on prior research on mostly white samples, we surveyed first-year students of color from our predominately white university (Southeastern US) to identify risk factors for mental health symptoms and potentially co-occurring problematic alcohol use. Results showed significant associations between microaggressions and poor cam…
Predictors of persistent alcohol use disorder and co‐occurring depressive symptoms: Insights from the longitudinal college experiences study
INTRODUCTION: Problematic alcohol use and depression are prevalent in the college student population. The purpose of this study was to identify how personality and social-contextual factors in the first year of college work together to predict stable and potentially co-occurring alcohol use disorder (AUD) and depressive symptoms over a period of approximately 4 years. METHODS: Participants were first-year college students from the Southeastern Un…
Codevelopment Between Key Personality Traits and Alcohol Use Disorder From Adolescence Through Young Adulthood
OBJECTIVE: Personality traits related to negative emotionality and low constraint are strong correlates of alcohol use disorder (AUD), but few studies have evaluated the prospective interplay between these traits and AUD symptoms from adolescence to young adulthood. METHOD: The Minnesota Twin Family Study (N = 2,769) was used to examine the developmental interplay between AUD symptoms and three personality measures of constraint, negative emotion…
The Developmental Unfolding of Sibling Influences on Alcohol Use over Time
Antisocial peer affiliation and externalizing disorders in the transition from adolescence to young adulthood: Selection versus socialization effects
Prior research has demonstrated both socialization and selection effects for the relationship between antisocial peer affiliation and externalizing problems in adolescence. Less research has evaluated such effects postadolescence. In this study, a cross-lagged panel analysis was used to evaluate the extent of socialization (i.e., the effect of antisocial peer affiliation on subsequent externalizing disorders) and selection (i.e., the effect of ex…
Identity Development in a Transracial Environment: Racial/Ethnic Minority Adoptees in Minnesota
It has been argued that transracial adopted children have increased risk for problems related to self-esteem and ethnic identity development. We evaluated this hypothesis across four groups of transracial adoptees: Asian ( N = 427), Latino ( N = 28), Black ( N = 6), Mixed/Other ( N = 20), and same-race white adoptees ( N = 126) from 357 adoptive families. No mean differences were found in adoptee's ratings of affect about adoption, or of curiosit…
Sibling Facilitation Mediates the Association Between Older and Younger Sibling Alcohol Use in Late Adolescence
Previous research has shown adolescent siblings are similar in their alcohol use and that this similarity is largely due to their shared environment. Using a genetically-informed sibling sample (196 full-biological pairs, 384 genetically unrelated pairs), we confirmed that the extent to which older siblings facilitate younger siblings' alcohol use (i.e., help them get alcohol) was one factor contributing to this shared environmental association. …
Overview of Behavioral Genetics Research for Family Researchers
This article provides an overview of the methods, assumptions, and key findings of behavioral genetics methodology for family researchers with a limited background. We discuss how family researchers can utilize and contribute to the behavioral genetics field, particularly in terms of conducting research that seeks to explain shared environmental effects. This can be done, in part, by theoretically controlling for genetic confounds in research tha…
Associations Between Family Communication Patterns, Sibling Closeness, and Adoptive Status
Previous research has demonstrated the protective effect of family and sibling closeness on child adjustment, but fewer studies have investigated how closeness is promoted within families. Guided by Family Communication Patterns Theory, we tested the association between family communication and sibling emotional and behavioral closeness, and whether adoptive status moderated this relationship. Participating families included 616 adoptive and non-…
Adoptive Mothers: Identity Agents on the Pathway to Adoptive Identity Formation
The concept of identity agents provides a framework to examine adoptive mothers' responsibility to address children's dual connection to their birth and adoptive families. Adoptive mothers' identity agency was assessed using case analysis. Eight extensive interviews with four adoptive mothers were collected at Waves 1 and 2 of a longitudinal study. Adoptees' identity formation was measured at Waves 2 and 3. Adoptees were M = 6, 13, and 23 years o…
Identity Development in a Transracial Environment: Racial/Ethnic Minority Adoptees in Minnesota
It has been argued that transracial adopted children have increased risk for problems related to self-esteem and ethnic identity development. We evaluated this hypothesis across four groups of transracial adoptees: Asian ( N = 427), Latino ( N = 28), Black ( N = 6), Mixed/Other ( N = 20), and same-race white adoptees ( N = 126) from 357 adoptive families. No mean differences were found in adoptee's ratings of affect about adoption, or of curiosit…
Antisocial peer affiliation and externalizing disorders in the transition from adolescence to young adulthood: Selection versus socialization effects
Prior research has demonstrated both socialization and selection effects for the relationship between antisocial peer affiliation and externalizing problems in adolescence. Less research has evaluated such effects postadolescence. In this study, a cross-lagged panel analysis was used to evaluate the extent of socialization (i.e., the effect of antisocial peer affiliation on subsequent externalizing disorders) and selection (i.e., the effect of ex…
Sibling Facilitation Mediates the Association Between Older and Younger Sibling Alcohol Use in Late Adolescence
Previous research has shown adolescent siblings are similar in their alcohol use and that this similarity is largely due to their shared environment. Using a genetically-informed sibling sample (196 full-biological pairs, 384 genetically unrelated pairs), we confirmed that the extent to which older siblings facilitate younger siblings' alcohol use (i.e., help them get alcohol) was one factor contributing to this shared environmental association. …
Associations Between Family Communication Patterns, Sibling Closeness, and Adoptive Status
Previous research has demonstrated the protective effect of family and sibling closeness on child adjustment, but fewer studies have investigated how closeness is promoted within families. Guided by Family Communication Patterns Theory, we tested the association between family communication and sibling emotional and behavioral closeness, and whether adoptive status moderated this relationship. Participating families included 616 adoptive and non-…
The Developmental Unfolding of Sibling Influences on Alcohol Use over Time
Microaggressions, perceptions of campus climate, mental health, and alcohol use among first‐year college students of color
Depressive and anxiety symptoms are increasingly common, and problematic alcohol use remains prevalent in college. To expand on prior research on mostly white samples, we surveyed first-year students of color from our predominately white university (Southeastern US) to identify risk factors for mental health symptoms and potentially co-occurring problematic alcohol use. Results showed significant associations between microaggressions and poor cam…
Adoptive Mothers: Identity Agents on the Pathway to Adoptive Identity Formation
The concept of identity agents provides a framework to examine adoptive mothers' responsibility to address children's dual connection to their birth and adoptive families. Adoptive mothers' identity agency was assessed using case analysis. Eight extensive interviews with four adoptive mothers were collected at Waves 1 and 2 of a longitudinal study. Adoptees' identity formation was measured at Waves 2 and 3. Adoptees were M = 6, 13, and 23 years o…
Associations Between Family Communication Patterns, Sibling Closeness, and Adoptive Status
Previous research has demonstrated the protective effect of family and sibling closeness on child adjustment, but fewer studies have investigated how closeness is promoted within families. Guided by Family Communication Patterns Theory, we tested the association between family communication and sibling emotional and behavioral closeness, and whether adoptive status moderated this relationship. Participating families included 616 adoptive and non-…
Overview of Behavioral Genetics Research for Family Researchers
This article provides an overview of the methods, assumptions, and key findings of behavioral genetics methodology for family researchers with a limited background. We discuss how family researchers can utilize and contribute to the behavioral genetics field, particularly in terms of conducting research that seeks to explain shared environmental effects. This can be done, in part, by theoretically controlling for genetic confounds in research tha…
Sibling Facilitation Mediates the Association Between Older and Younger Sibling Alcohol Use in Late Adolescence
Previous research has shown adolescent siblings are similar in their alcohol use and that this similarity is largely due to their shared environment. Using a genetically-informed sibling sample (196 full-biological pairs, 384 genetically unrelated pairs), we confirmed that the extent to which older siblings facilitate younger siblings' alcohol use (i.e., help them get alcohol) was one factor contributing to this shared environmental association. …
Identity Development in a Transracial Environment: Racial/Ethnic Minority Adoptees in Minnesota
It has been argued that transracial adopted children have increased risk for problems related to self-esteem and ethnic identity development. We evaluated this hypothesis across four groups of transracial adoptees: Asian ( N = 427), Latino ( N = 28), Black ( N = 6), Mixed/Other ( N = 20), and same-race white adoptees ( N = 126) from 357 adoptive families. No mean differences were found in adoptee's ratings of affect about adoption, or of curiosit…
Antisocial peer affiliation and externalizing disorders in the transition from adolescence to young adulthood: Selection versus socialization effects
Prior research has demonstrated both socialization and selection effects for the relationship between antisocial peer affiliation and externalizing problems in adolescence. Less research has evaluated such effects postadolescence. In this study, a cross-lagged panel analysis was used to evaluate the extent of socialization (i.e., the effect of antisocial peer affiliation on subsequent externalizing disorders) and selection (i.e., the effect of ex…
Codevelopment Between Key Personality Traits and Alcohol Use Disorder From Adolescence Through Young Adulthood
OBJECTIVE: Personality traits related to negative emotionality and low constraint are strong correlates of alcohol use disorder (AUD), but few studies have evaluated the prospective interplay between these traits and AUD symptoms from adolescence to young adulthood. METHOD: The Minnesota Twin Family Study (N = 2,769) was used to examine the developmental interplay between AUD symptoms and three personality measures of constraint, negative emotion…
The Developmental Unfolding of Sibling Influences on Alcohol Use over Time
Predictors of persistent alcohol use disorder and co‐occurring depressive symptoms: Insights from the longitudinal college experiences study
INTRODUCTION: Problematic alcohol use and depression are prevalent in the college student population. The purpose of this study was to identify how personality and social-contextual factors in the first year of college work together to predict stable and potentially co-occurring alcohol use disorder (AUD) and depressive symptoms over a period of approximately 4 years. METHODS: Participants were first-year college students from the Southeastern Un…
Microaggressions, perceptions of campus climate, mental health, and alcohol use among first‐year college students of color
Depressive and anxiety symptoms are increasingly common, and problematic alcohol use remains prevalent in college. To expand on prior research on mostly white samples, we surveyed first-year students of color from our predominately white university (Southeastern US) to identify risk factors for mental health symptoms and potentially co-occurring problematic alcohol use. Results showed significant associations between microaggressions and poor cam…
Contextualizing the Development of Emotion Regulation in Early Adolescence: Results From the ABCD Study
Studies have consistently shown emotion dysregulation to be a transdiagnostic risk factor for psychological and behavioral outcomes, yet less work has identified environmental predictors of such dysregulation. Taking a social ecological approach, we investigated if proximal processes associated with micro-contexts of family, school, and peers (e.g., family conflict), as well as macro-contexts (neighborhood and socioeconomic status) and their inte…
Assessing Racial Trauma Experienced by First-Year Students of Color Attending a Mostly White University in the American Southeast
We studied the qualitative experiences of racism that first-year students reported prior to and during their first year of college. Participants included 134 first-year students (26.9% Asian, 32.1% Black/African American, 20.9% Multiracial, 20.0% Hispanic/Latino; 53.0% female; 21.6% LGBTQ+) who attended a medium-sized, predominately/historically White university in the American Southeast. Students answered open-ended questions about their lived e…
Cumulative Micro-Contextual Risk as a Predictor of Impulsivity Among Preteens: A Latent Change Score Analysis
Impulsivity has been routinely linked to problematic outcomes, but less research has identified salient predictors of impulsivity. Guided by bioecological theory and using data from the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development Study ( N = 11,876; 47.8% female; 52.1% White), we hypothesized that proximal processes associated with the individual (e.g., sleep), and within the family, school, and digital micro-contexts would prospectively predict t…
Psychology (12 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Alcohol (5 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (5 works) · Cognitive Abilities and Testing (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Psychiatry (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)