Erika M Manczak
Biographic Data
| ID | 1739932 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erika M Manczak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erika M |
| FAMILY NAME | Manczak |
| SIGNATURE | MANCZAK E M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Denver |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8990-9357 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Between‐ and Within‐Person Associations Between Serum Lipids and Adolescent Depressive Symptoms
Cholesterol has previously been implicated in mental health outcomes but is less frequently studied during adolescence—a period of greater biological sensitivity and heightened risk for depression. In this study, 59 adolescents (ages 13–17) participated in two laboratory visits 3 months apart, during which they completed interviews to assess depressive symptoms and provided blood from which high‐density lipoprotein (HDL) and low‐density lipoprote…
Air Pollution’s Hidden Toll
Rising rates of depression among youth present a growing mental health crisis. Despite growing concerns regarding the risks of air pollution exposure on youth mental and physical health, associations between ambient air pollutants and depression have been largely overlooked in youth. In this cross-sectional study, we investigated associations between ozone, particulate matter, and depressive symptoms in adolescents across 224 Colorado census trac…
Shared Activities With Parents During Adolescence Predicts Health Risk Across Multiple Biological Systems 22 Years Later
OBJECTIVE: Although affectively focused dimensions of social relationships are associated with differences in health risk, less research has considered nonaffective features of relationships, such as engaging in shared activities. This study sought to test whether adolescents who engaged in more shared activities with their parents had lower health risk in early midlife across multiple biological markers. METHODS: Using data from a nationally rep…
Census tract ambient ozone predicts trajectories of depressive symptoms in adolescents
Exposure to ozone is a well-documented risk factor for negative physical health outcomes but has been considered less frequently in the context of socioemotional health. We examined whether levels of neighborhood ozone predicted trajectories of depressive symptoms over a four-year period in 213 adolescents (ages 9-13 years at baseline; 57% female; 53% of minority race/ethnicity). Participants self-reported depressive and other types of psychopath…
Commentary
In this Annual Research Review, Robles (2020) discusses and synthesizes a growing literature on immune correlates of social relationships during childhood and adolescence. As he notes, the capacity for our social experiences to shape innate immune processes holds tremendous medical and psychiatric import. Childhood social experiences are associated with peripheral inflammation later in life, with related and possibly intermediate markers (like st…
Fine Particle Air Pollution and Physiological Reactivity to Social Stress in Adolescence
OBJECTIVE: Exposure to high levels of fine particle air pollution (PM2.5) is associated with adolescent pathophysiology. It is unclear, however, if PM2.5 is associated with physiology within psychosocial contexts, such as social stress, and whether some adolescents are particularly vulnerable to PM2.5-related adverse effects. This study examined the association between PM2.5 and autonomic reactivity to social stress in adolescents and tested whet…
Academic disparities and health
Relational Victimization and Telomere Length in Adolescent Girls
An emerging body of research suggests that telomere length (TL)-a measure of cellular aging-is inversely associated with experiences of childhood stress. Given the salience of peer relationships in childhood and adolescence, we tested whether relational victimization is a unique and specific predictor of salivary TL in girls. Results examining 122 girls (ages 9-15) revealed that greater relational victimization was related to shorter TL but that …
Regulatory focus in the life story
Regulatory Focus Theory (Higgins, 1997) outlines the ways in which people attempt to achieve the presence of positive outcomes (promotion) or preserve the absence of negative outcomes (prevention), suggesting that individuals may differ in chronic orientations. The present work examines regulatory outlooks within a multilayered model of personality composed of dispositional traits, characteristic goals, and life stories (narrative identity). Fore…
Children's sensitivity to the knowledge expressed in pedagogical and nonpedagogical contexts
The present studies test 2 hypotheses: (1) that pedagogical contexts especially convey generic information (Csibra & Gergely, 2009) and (2) that young children are sensitive to this aspect of pedagogy. We examined generic language (e.g., "Elephants live in Africa") in 3 studies, focusing on informational versus narrative children's books (Study 1), the language of 6-year-old children and adults assuming either a pedagogical (teacher) or nonpedago…
Regulatory focus in the life story
Regulatory Focus Theory (Higgins, 1997) outlines the ways in which people attempt to achieve the presence of positive outcomes (promotion) or preserve the absence of negative outcomes (prevention), suggesting that individuals may differ in chronic orientations. The present work examines regulatory outlooks within a multilayered model of personality composed of dispositional traits, characteristic goals, and life stories (narrative identity). Fore…
Children's sensitivity to the knowledge expressed in pedagogical and nonpedagogical contexts
The present studies test 2 hypotheses: (1) that pedagogical contexts especially convey generic information (Csibra & Gergely, 2009) and (2) that young children are sensitive to this aspect of pedagogy. We examined generic language (e.g., "Elephants live in Africa") in 3 studies, focusing on informational versus narrative children's books (Study 1), the language of 6-year-old children and adults assuming either a pedagogical (teacher) or nonpedago…
Academic disparities and health
Children's sensitivity to the knowledge expressed in pedagogical and nonpedagogical contexts
The present studies test 2 hypotheses: (1) that pedagogical contexts especially convey generic information (Csibra & Gergely, 2009) and (2) that young children are sensitive to this aspect of pedagogy. We examined generic language (e.g., "Elephants live in Africa") in 3 studies, focusing on informational versus narrative children's books (Study 1), the language of 6-year-old children and adults assuming either a pedagogical (teacher) or nonpedago…
Regulatory focus in the life story
Regulatory Focus Theory (Higgins, 1997) outlines the ways in which people attempt to achieve the presence of positive outcomes (promotion) or preserve the absence of negative outcomes (prevention), suggesting that individuals may differ in chronic orientations. The present work examines regulatory outlooks within a multilayered model of personality composed of dispositional traits, characteristic goals, and life stories (narrative identity). Fore…
Relational Victimization and Telomere Length in Adolescent Girls
An emerging body of research suggests that telomere length (TL)-a measure of cellular aging-is inversely associated with experiences of childhood stress. Given the salience of peer relationships in childhood and adolescence, we tested whether relational victimization is a unique and specific predictor of salivary TL in girls. Results examining 122 girls (ages 9-15) revealed that greater relational victimization was related to shorter TL but that …
Fine Particle Air Pollution and Physiological Reactivity to Social Stress in Adolescence
OBJECTIVE: Exposure to high levels of fine particle air pollution (PM2.5) is associated with adolescent pathophysiology. It is unclear, however, if PM2.5 is associated with physiology within psychosocial contexts, such as social stress, and whether some adolescents are particularly vulnerable to PM2.5-related adverse effects. This study examined the association between PM2.5 and autonomic reactivity to social stress in adolescents and tested whet…
Academic disparities and health
Commentary
In this Annual Research Review, Robles (2020) discusses and synthesizes a growing literature on immune correlates of social relationships during childhood and adolescence. As he notes, the capacity for our social experiences to shape innate immune processes holds tremendous medical and psychiatric import. Childhood social experiences are associated with peripheral inflammation later in life, with related and possibly intermediate markers (like st…
Census tract ambient ozone predicts trajectories of depressive symptoms in adolescents
Exposure to ozone is a well-documented risk factor for negative physical health outcomes but has been considered less frequently in the context of socioemotional health. We examined whether levels of neighborhood ozone predicted trajectories of depressive symptoms over a four-year period in 213 adolescents (ages 9-13 years at baseline; 57% female; 53% of minority race/ethnicity). Participants self-reported depressive and other types of psychopath…
Shared Activities With Parents During Adolescence Predicts Health Risk Across Multiple Biological Systems 22 Years Later
OBJECTIVE: Although affectively focused dimensions of social relationships are associated with differences in health risk, less research has considered nonaffective features of relationships, such as engaging in shared activities. This study sought to test whether adolescents who engaged in more shared activities with their parents had lower health risk in early midlife across multiple biological markers. METHODS: Using data from a nationally rep…
Air Pollution’s Hidden Toll
Rising rates of depression among youth present a growing mental health crisis. Despite growing concerns regarding the risks of air pollution exposure on youth mental and physical health, associations between ambient air pollutants and depression have been largely overlooked in youth. In this cross-sectional study, we investigated associations between ozone, particulate matter, and depressive symptoms in adolescents across 224 Colorado census trac…
Between‐ and Within‐Person Associations Between Serum Lipids and Adolescent Depressive Symptoms
Cholesterol has previously been implicated in mental health outcomes but is less frequently studied during adolescence—a period of greater biological sensitivity and heightened risk for depression. In this study, 59 adolescents (ages 13–17) participated in two laboratory visits 3 months apart, during which they completed interviews to assess depressive symptoms and provided blood from which high‐density lipoprotein (HDL) and low‐density lipoprote…
Psychology (8 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Demography (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works) · Confounding (3 works) · Context (archaeology (3 works) · Demography (3 works) · Environmental health (3 works) · Air Quality and Health Impacts (2 works)