Juan M Peña

Biographic Data

ID3838182
NAMEJuan M Peña
GIVEN NAMESJuan M
FAMILY NAMEPeña
SIGNATUREPEÑA J M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of New Mexico
ORCID0000-0003-4420-5764
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS9
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • A longitudinal analysis

    Open AccessYajaira A Cabrera Tineo, Weize Wang et al.ARTICLEPsychology of Men & Masculinity2026

    Latino immigrants in the United States are at risk for problematic drinking behaviors, with Latino men engaging in higher rates of drinking than their female counterparts. Guided by Gender Schema Theory and the Alcohol Expectancy Model, the present study examined the longitudinal associations between traditional masculine gender norms (i.e., traditional machismo and caballerismo), alcohol outcome expectancies (AOEs), and alcohol use in a sample o…

  • The relationship between social and cultural factors and mental health outcomes among middle‐aged and older Latino and Hispanic immigrants

    Open AccessJuan M Peña, Steven P Verney et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Community…2026References: 63

    The present study investigated the prevalence of exposure to traumatic events, and the relationship between trauma, acculturative stress, and protective social and cultural factors on mental health outcomes among aging Latino and Hispanic immigrants. In this cross‐sectional study, 80 middle‐aged and older (M = 54 years, SD = 7) Latino or Hispanic immigrants (51% male) living in the United States completed a series of questionnaires in Spanish. We…

  • A short pragmatic tool for evaluating community engagement

    Open AccessJohn G Oetzel, John Oetzel et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Background: As community-engaged research (CEnR), community-based participatory research (CBPR) and patient-engaged research (PEnR) have become increasingly recognized as valued research approaches in the last several decades, there is need for pragmatic and validated tools to assess effective partnering practices that contribute to health and health equity outcomes. This article reports on the co-creation of an actionable pragmatic survey, short…

  • Psychological Factors and Prevalence of Diabetes and Prediabetes in a United States–Mexico Border Community

    Jessica L McCurley, Jesús Lázaro Regueira Naranjo et al.ARTICLEEthnicity & Disease2025

    Results suggest the need for diabetes prevention interventions with an integrated biopsychosocial approach

  • Scales of Practices and Outcomes for Community‐Engaged Research

    Open AccessBlake Boursaw, John G Oetzel et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Community…2021Cited by: 4References: 44

    Despite the growth of research on community‐engaged research (CEnR), recent reviews suggest there has been limited development of validated scales to measure key contexts, mechanisms, and outcomes, impairing testing and refinement of theoretical models. The purpose of this study is to present the psychometric properties of scales from the Engage for Equity (E2) project, stemming from a long‐term research partnership examining community‐engaged re…

  • Engage for Equity

    Open AccessNina Wallerstein, John G Oetzel et al.ARTICLEHealth Education & Behavior2020

    Community-based participatory research (CBPR) and community-engaged research have been established in the past 25 years as valued research approaches within health education, public health, and other health and social sciences for their effectiveness in reducing inequities. While early literature focused on partnering principles and processes, within the past decade, individual studies, as well as systematic reviews, have increasingly documented …

  • Racial/ethnic group differences and sociocultural factors associated with implicit and explicit attitudes toward undocumented Latino immigrants

    Open AccessJuan M Peña, Steven P Verney et al.ARTICLEJournal of Latinx Psychology2020

    In the context of recent policies aimed at deterring immigration and criminalizing undocumented Latino immigrants, we examined factors predicting implicit and explicit attitudes toward this population. We hypothesized that more positive implicit and explicit attitudes toward undocumented Latino immigrants would be displayed by Latinxs (compared to non-Hispanic Whites) and by individuals having personal connections to undocumented immigrants or a …

  • Effectiveness of Respondent-Driven Sampling for Conducting Health Studies Among Undocumented Immigrants at a Time of Heightened Immigration Enforcement

    Open AccessLuz M Garcini, Thania Galvan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Immigrant and Minority…2020

  • A high price paid”

    Luz M Garcini, Thania Galvan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Latinx Psychology2019

  • Traumatic Events and Symptoms Among Mexican Deportees in a Border Community

    Juan M Peña, Luz M Garcini et al.ARTICLEJournal of Immigrant & Refugee…2017Cited by: 5References: 16

    Research on traumatic events experienced among Mexicans deported from the United States is scant. Using clinical interviews, this study assessed the frequency of traumatic events and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among 47 Mexican deportees in a U.S.-Mexico border community. The majority of participants (98%) reported having experienced one or more traumatic events (M = 9, SD = 5) and nearly half met DSM-IV-TR criteria for PTSD…