C Dalessandro
Biographic Data
| ID | 35777 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Dalessandro |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Dalessandro |
| SIGNATURE | DALESSANDRO C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3780-8647 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 27 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Thanks a Bot
Generative artificial intelligence is regularly tasked with navigating the complexities of human-to-human interaction, including peer-to-peer mental health support and improving interpersonal emotion regulation within customer service settings. Qualitative findings question whether artificial intelligence deserves a space in this area; however, many recent studies indicate that artificial intelligence may improve human-to-human interaction. In th…
The Digital Dignity Divide
Well-being outcomes for workers in the United States have worsened in recent years. However, the role that workers’ experiences with digital technologies may play in this trend is underexplored. Thus, using data from 10 focus groups ( n = 67) and an original survey with workers in the United States ( n = 4,898), we explore the impact of technology on workers’ self-assessments of emotional health and burnout levels. Focus groups revealed that work…
Inequalities in Self-Assessments of Mental and Physical Wellbeing Among Workers in the Tech Industry
Although the technology (tech) industry has historically had a reputation for being supportive when it comes to wellbeing initiatives, research has found persistent disparities among the tech industry workforce. Therefore, using an original survey of tech workers worldwide (n = 1207), this paper explores whether gender and identification with racial “minority” status have an impact on self-reported levels of mental and physical wellbeing measures…
The Pandemic-Stratified Workplace
In the wake of 2020, employees are currently diverging according to remote, hybrid, and completely onsite workspaces. However, questions remain regarding the impact of this stratification when it comes to employee cohesion and sense of belonging at work, and whether extant theories of belonging adequately capture employees’ feelings of belonging in post-pandemic work environments across the world. Thus, drawing from original, international survey…
Workplace Inclusion Initiatives Across the Globe
Despite the benefits of inclusion at work, organizational inclusivity efforts—such as diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) trainings—often fail. Thus, there is a need to investigate from an employee point of view which characteristics (including both organizational culture and inclusion training modalities themselves) may have the biggest impact when it comes to increasing inclusion in the workplace. Combining “planned behavior” and social con…
Who gets to choose
Purpose Compared to the years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, more workers today seemingly have choice over where, when and how they do their work. However, gender inequalities at work and at home persist, which may impact perceptions of choice. Thus, researchers must investigate the potential impact of gender and domestic responsibilities on perceptions of work-related options, including perceptions of workspace choice. Design/methodology/approa…
“It’s Not a Top Priority”
Women experiencing housing insecurity are at an elevated risk for adverse reproductive health outcomes due to the prevalence of chronic health conditions and higher risk behaviors. Social service and healthcare providers are front line in addressing women's needs when they seek support. Thus, we sought to explore reproductive healthcare barriers using in-depth interviews with 17 providers at 11 facilities serving housing-insecure women in Salt La…
Influence and Inequality
Though research shows that diversity and equity in the workplace lead to more innovation and other positive outcomes for organizations, businesses often struggle to accomplish their diversity, equity, and inclusion goals. Promoting employee voice is one strategy to support equity; however, employee perceptions of who has a voice at work may be increasingly unbalanced in the post-2020 workplace. Thus, drawing from an original survey dataset of wor…
Race, Marginalization, and Perceptions of Stress Among Workers Worldwide Post-2020
Research shows that stressful workplace changes in 2020 disproportionately impacted historically marginalized workers. However, we need more information on enduring inequalities of stress post-2020. Thus, drawing from surveys with employees working in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and India (N = 5,242), we use logistic regression to explore how worker identities (race/ethnicity, gender, sexual identity, and social class) m…
I Just Don’t Think I Can Deal
She Took Care of Us and She Went Through a Lot
In the United States, parenting pressures are growing for both mothers and fathers. Thus, it is important to investigate how younger generations may make sense of parenting in ways that could either reduce, or exacerbate, gender inequalities. In this article, interviews with 60 millennials discussing their experiences with their parents reveal that emotional support and emotional availability are key normative parenting expectations. However, dis…
Contraceptive Method Uptake at Title X Health Centers in Utah
For Me, It’s Having Something Meaningful”
While the sexual acceptability of contraception - or, the impact of contraceptive methods on individuals' sexual experiences - is a growing area of research, less frequently do studies engage the importance of individual emotions around sex when it comes to perceptions of sexual acceptability. Building on Higgins and Smith's model of sexual acceptability and drawing upon insights from the sociology of gender, we used qualitative interview data wi…
I talked to a couple of friends that had it
My family and friends thought it was a horrible idea’
Middle-class young adults in the United States increasingly face insecurity around social class. This situation is especially fraught for women, whose economic and social gains are still not equal to men’s. Using interviews with 20 heterosexual- and LGBTQ-identified women from middle-class backgrounds, this paper investigates the gendered and classed messages in women’s communications with friends and family regarding romantic intimacy choices. W…
Manifesting maturity
In this article, I explore how 28 class-advantaged, young “emerging” adult women and men in the USA utilize understandings of their own intimate lives to make sense of themselves as adults in progress. Young adults who envision normative relationship futures (monogamous marriage) use a cultural story of coming to realize the importance of emotional monogamy over sex in order to make sense of themselves as becoming mature (getting closer to marria…
Conflicting contraceptive norms for men
Most research investigating how men and women in heterosexual relationships negotiate contraceptive use focuses on the women's point of view. Using a sample of 44 interviews with men attending a western US university, this study examines norms governing men's participation in contraceptive use and pregnancy prevention and their responses to those norms. The paper demonstrates how competing norms around sexual health decision-making and women's bo…
Dangerous Sex
Alicia M Walker, The Secret Life of the Cheating Wife
Japonica Brown-Saracino, How Places Make Us
Strategic Silence
Condom use among college men in the United States is notoriously erratic, yet we know little about these men's approaches to other contraceptives. In this paper, accounts from 44 men attending a university in the western United States reveal men's reliance on culturally situated ideas about gender, social class, race, and age in assessing the risk of pregnancy and STI acquisition in sexual encounters with women. Men reason that race- and class-pr…
It's a Lifestyle
In discussions of how social class matters during the transition to adulthood, the simultaneous importance of both class origins and future class trajectories is underexplored. In this paper, I use interviews with 60 emerging adults in the United States to investigate their stories about progress towards adulthood during the emerging adult years. I find that regardless of class backgrounds and trajectories, participants agree on three subjective …
Sister' and 'brother' schools, women and men
While current debates assess the continued relevancy of women’s colleges in the US, no research has explored how an ongoing relationship with a ‘brother school’—a previously (or sometimes currently) men-only institution that serves as the men’s counterpart to a women’s college—may influence the gendered ideas and identities of women’s college students. Using interviews with students at a women’s college that maintains an ongoing relationship with…
Internet Intimacy
In this paper, I use interviews with forty-two millennial young adults in the United States to explore their understandings of the role of digital media technologies in their relationship lives. Despite coming of age in an increasingly digitized society, these young adults have a complicated view of using digital technologies to forge and sustain their relationships. They contrast the pitfalls of their own digitally mediated relationships with th…
Blinded by Love
While young people today expect gender equity in relationships, inequality persists. In this article, we use interviews with 25 young adults (ages 22 to 32) to investigate the link between gender meanings, age meanings, and continued inequality in relationships. Middle-class young adults tell relationship stories in a gender and age context that both reflect and perpetuate ideas about adult masculinity and femininity. While women often tell stori…
Monogamy Lite
Studies of collegiate sexuality have not examined infidelity. Using in-depth peer interviews with college students, our article investigates the meanings and practices of 'monogamy' and 'cheating' for college women. College women use ideas about age, class, and gender to construct collegiate sexuality as a kind of 'monogamy lite' exempt from the 'rules' of adult sexuality. Many have cheated themselves. Simultaneously, they define 'real' relations…
Blinded by Love
While young people today expect gender equity in relationships, inequality persists. In this article, we use interviews with 25 young adults (ages 22 to 32) to investigate the link between gender meanings, age meanings, and continued inequality in relationships. Middle-class young adults tell relationship stories in a gender and age context that both reflect and perpetuate ideas about adult masculinity and femininity. While women often tell stori…
Strategic Silence
Condom use among college men in the United States is notoriously erratic, yet we know little about these men's approaches to other contraceptives. In this paper, accounts from 44 men attending a university in the western United States reveal men's reliance on culturally situated ideas about gender, social class, race, and age in assessing the risk of pregnancy and STI acquisition in sexual encounters with women. Men reason that race- and class-pr…
Internet Intimacy
In this paper, I use interviews with forty-two millennial young adults in the United States to explore their understandings of the role of digital media technologies in their relationship lives. Despite coming of age in an increasingly digitized society, these young adults have a complicated view of using digital technologies to forge and sustain their relationships. They contrast the pitfalls of their own digitally mediated relationships with th…
I talked to a couple of friends that had it
It's a Lifestyle
In discussions of how social class matters during the transition to adulthood, the simultaneous importance of both class origins and future class trajectories is underexplored. In this paper, I use interviews with 60 emerging adults in the United States to investigate their stories about progress towards adulthood during the emerging adult years. I find that regardless of class backgrounds and trajectories, participants agree on three subjective …
I don't advertise the fact that I'm a Catholic
Based on twenty in-depth interviews with Catholic college students, this article investigates religious identity for emerging adults at a public university in the United States. Using sociological ambivalence as an analytical tool, I demonstrate how the expectations of collegiate emerging adulthood can shape students' expressions of religious identity. The students manage their expressions in strategic ways in order to craft particular kinds of i…
Race, Marginalization, and Perceptions of Stress Among Workers Worldwide Post-2020
Research shows that stressful workplace changes in 2020 disproportionately impacted historically marginalized workers. However, we need more information on enduring inequalities of stress post-2020. Thus, drawing from surveys with employees working in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and India (N = 5,242), we use logistic regression to explore how worker identities (race/ethnicity, gender, sexual identity, and social class) m…
Workplace Inclusion Initiatives Across the Globe
Despite the benefits of inclusion at work, organizational inclusivity efforts—such as diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) trainings—often fail. Thus, there is a need to investigate from an employee point of view which characteristics (including both organizational culture and inclusion training modalities themselves) may have the biggest impact when it comes to increasing inclusion in the workplace. Combining “planned behavior” and social con…
Who gets to choose
Purpose Compared to the years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, more workers today seemingly have choice over where, when and how they do their work. However, gender inequalities at work and at home persist, which may impact perceptions of choice. Thus, researchers must investigate the potential impact of gender and domestic responsibilities on perceptions of work-related options, including perceptions of workspace choice. Design/methodology/approa…
Influence and Inequality
Though research shows that diversity and equity in the workplace lead to more innovation and other positive outcomes for organizations, businesses often struggle to accomplish their diversity, equity, and inclusion goals. Promoting employee voice is one strategy to support equity; however, employee perceptions of who has a voice at work may be increasingly unbalanced in the post-2020 workplace. Thus, drawing from an original survey dataset of wor…
For Me, It’s Having Something Meaningful”
While the sexual acceptability of contraception - or, the impact of contraceptive methods on individuals' sexual experiences - is a growing area of research, less frequently do studies engage the importance of individual emotions around sex when it comes to perceptions of sexual acceptability. Building on Higgins and Smith's model of sexual acceptability and drawing upon insights from the sociology of gender, we used qualitative interview data wi…
Dangerous Sex
Monogamy Lite
Studies of collegiate sexuality have not examined infidelity. Using in-depth peer interviews with college students, our article investigates the meanings and practices of 'monogamy' and 'cheating' for college women. College women use ideas about age, class, and gender to construct collegiate sexuality as a kind of 'monogamy lite' exempt from the 'rules' of adult sexuality. Many have cheated themselves. Simultaneously, they define 'real' relations…
I don't advertise the fact that I'm a Catholic
Based on twenty in-depth interviews with Catholic college students, this article investigates religious identity for emerging adults at a public university in the United States. Using sociological ambivalence as an analytical tool, I demonstrate how the expectations of collegiate emerging adulthood can shape students' expressions of religious identity. The students manage their expressions in strategic ways in order to craft particular kinds of i…
Blinded by Love
While young people today expect gender equity in relationships, inequality persists. In this article, we use interviews with 25 young adults (ages 22 to 32) to investigate the link between gender meanings, age meanings, and continued inequality in relationships. Middle-class young adults tell relationship stories in a gender and age context that both reflect and perpetuate ideas about adult masculinity and femininity. While women often tell stori…
Sister' and 'brother' schools, women and men
While current debates assess the continued relevancy of women’s colleges in the US, no research has explored how an ongoing relationship with a ‘brother school’—a previously (or sometimes currently) men-only institution that serves as the men’s counterpart to a women’s college—may influence the gendered ideas and identities of women’s college students. Using interviews with students at a women’s college that maintains an ongoing relationship with…
Internet Intimacy
In this paper, I use interviews with forty-two millennial young adults in the United States to explore their understandings of the role of digital media technologies in their relationship lives. Despite coming of age in an increasingly digitized society, these young adults have a complicated view of using digital technologies to forge and sustain their relationships. They contrast the pitfalls of their own digitally mediated relationships with th…
Manifesting maturity
In this article, I explore how 28 class-advantaged, young “emerging” adult women and men in the USA utilize understandings of their own intimate lives to make sense of themselves as adults in progress. Young adults who envision normative relationship futures (monogamous marriage) use a cultural story of coming to realize the importance of emotional monogamy over sex in order to make sense of themselves as becoming mature (getting closer to marria…
Conflicting contraceptive norms for men
Most research investigating how men and women in heterosexual relationships negotiate contraceptive use focuses on the women's point of view. Using a sample of 44 interviews with men attending a western US university, this study examines norms governing men's participation in contraceptive use and pregnancy prevention and their responses to those norms. The paper demonstrates how competing norms around sexual health decision-making and women's bo…
Dangerous Sex
Alicia M Walker, The Secret Life of the Cheating Wife
Japonica Brown-Saracino, How Places Make Us
Strategic Silence
Condom use among college men in the United States is notoriously erratic, yet we know little about these men's approaches to other contraceptives. In this paper, accounts from 44 men attending a university in the western United States reveal men's reliance on culturally situated ideas about gender, social class, race, and age in assessing the risk of pregnancy and STI acquisition in sexual encounters with women. Men reason that race- and class-pr…
It's a Lifestyle
In discussions of how social class matters during the transition to adulthood, the simultaneous importance of both class origins and future class trajectories is underexplored. In this paper, I use interviews with 60 emerging adults in the United States to investigate their stories about progress towards adulthood during the emerging adult years. I find that regardless of class backgrounds and trajectories, participants agree on three subjective …
My family and friends thought it was a horrible idea’
Middle-class young adults in the United States increasingly face insecurity around social class. This situation is especially fraught for women, whose economic and social gains are still not equal to men’s. Using interviews with 20 heterosexual- and LGBTQ-identified women from middle-class backgrounds, this paper investigates the gendered and classed messages in women’s communications with friends and family regarding romantic intimacy choices. W…
Contraceptive Method Uptake at Title X Health Centers in Utah
For Me, It’s Having Something Meaningful”
While the sexual acceptability of contraception - or, the impact of contraceptive methods on individuals' sexual experiences - is a growing area of research, less frequently do studies engage the importance of individual emotions around sex when it comes to perceptions of sexual acceptability. Building on Higgins and Smith's model of sexual acceptability and drawing upon insights from the sociology of gender, we used qualitative interview data wi…
I talked to a couple of friends that had it
I Just Don’t Think I Can Deal
She Took Care of Us and She Went Through a Lot
In the United States, parenting pressures are growing for both mothers and fathers. Thus, it is important to investigate how younger generations may make sense of parenting in ways that could either reduce, or exacerbate, gender inequalities. In this article, interviews with 60 millennials discussing their experiences with their parents reveal that emotional support and emotional availability are key normative parenting expectations. However, dis…
“It’s Not a Top Priority”
Women experiencing housing insecurity are at an elevated risk for adverse reproductive health outcomes due to the prevalence of chronic health conditions and higher risk behaviors. Social service and healthcare providers are front line in addressing women's needs when they seek support. Thus, we sought to explore reproductive healthcare barriers using in-depth interviews with 17 providers at 11 facilities serving housing-insecure women in Salt La…
Influence and Inequality
Though research shows that diversity and equity in the workplace lead to more innovation and other positive outcomes for organizations, businesses often struggle to accomplish their diversity, equity, and inclusion goals. Promoting employee voice is one strategy to support equity; however, employee perceptions of who has a voice at work may be increasingly unbalanced in the post-2020 workplace. Thus, drawing from an original survey dataset of wor…
Race, Marginalization, and Perceptions of Stress Among Workers Worldwide Post-2020
Research shows that stressful workplace changes in 2020 disproportionately impacted historically marginalized workers. However, we need more information on enduring inequalities of stress post-2020. Thus, drawing from surveys with employees working in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and India (N = 5,242), we use logistic regression to explore how worker identities (race/ethnicity, gender, sexual identity, and social class) m…
The Pandemic-Stratified Workplace
In the wake of 2020, employees are currently diverging according to remote, hybrid, and completely onsite workspaces. However, questions remain regarding the impact of this stratification when it comes to employee cohesion and sense of belonging at work, and whether extant theories of belonging adequately capture employees’ feelings of belonging in post-pandemic work environments across the world. Thus, drawing from original, international survey…
Workplace Inclusion Initiatives Across the Globe
Despite the benefits of inclusion at work, organizational inclusivity efforts—such as diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) trainings—often fail. Thus, there is a need to investigate from an employee point of view which characteristics (including both organizational culture and inclusion training modalities themselves) may have the biggest impact when it comes to increasing inclusion in the workplace. Combining “planned behavior” and social con…
Who gets to choose
Purpose Compared to the years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, more workers today seemingly have choice over where, when and how they do their work. However, gender inequalities at work and at home persist, which may impact perceptions of choice. Thus, researchers must investigate the potential impact of gender and domestic responsibilities on perceptions of work-related options, including perceptions of workspace choice. Design/methodology/approa…
The Digital Dignity Divide
Well-being outcomes for workers in the United States have worsened in recent years. However, the role that workers’ experiences with digital technologies may play in this trend is underexplored. Thus, using data from 10 focus groups ( n = 67) and an original survey with workers in the United States ( n = 4,898), we explore the impact of technology on workers’ self-assessments of emotional health and burnout levels. Focus groups revealed that work…
Psychology (22 works) · Social Psychology (20 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Political science (13 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (7 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (6 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (6 works)