Kelli L Dickerson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4127488 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kelli L Dickerson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kelli L |
| FAMILY NAME | Dickerson |
| SIGNATURE | DICKERSON K L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1710-7651 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Everyday Discrimination and Adolescents’ Mental Health
Adolescents who report discrimination experience worse mental health. However, most research has been cross-sectional and retrospective. This study investigated how prospectively-assessed day-to-day perceptions of everyday discrimination relate to mental health symptoms in 395 adolescents across a 14-day ecological momentary assessment. Black adolescents reported discrimination on more days (15%) than White adolescents (6%), as did economically d…
The Covid-19 pandemic and lay perceptions of poverty and neglect
OBJECTIVES: In cases of child neglect, intervention depends on accurate identification and reporting. Prior work has shown that individuals, especially those of high socioeconomic status (SES), conflate poverty and neglect when making identification and reporting decisions. The COVID-19 pandemic led to changes in people's experiences with poverty, likely influencing their ability to distinguish poverty in families and neglectful parenting. HYPOTH…
Initial impact of the California continuum of care reform act on youth’s experiences in out-of-home care
Do laypersons conflate poverty and neglect
OBJECTIVE: Child neglect is often initially identified via adults who come into contact with children and report their suspicions to the authorities. Little is known about what behaviors laypersons view as constituting neglect and hence worth reporting. We examined laypersons' perceptions of neglect and poverty, particularly how these factors independently and jointly shaped laypersons' decisions about what warrants official reporting of neglect,…
Primary and Secondary Variants of Psychopathic Traits in at-Risk Youth
Early Environmental Unpredictability
Overcoming disclosure reluctance in youth victims of sex trafficking
An alarming number of youth worldwide are victims of commercial sexual exploitation, particularly sex trafficking. Normative developmental processes and motivations across the adolescent period-the age when youth are at greatest risk for trafficking-combined with their history, make them highly likely to be reluctant to disclose their exploitation to police, who often encounter victims because they are suspected of delinquency and crime and who i…
Overcoming disclosure reluctance in youth victims of sex trafficking
An alarming number of youth worldwide are victims of commercial sexual exploitation, particularly sex trafficking. Normative developmental processes and motivations across the adolescent period-the age when youth are at greatest risk for trafficking-combined with their history, make them highly likely to be reluctant to disclose their exploitation to police, who often encounter victims because they are suspected of delinquency and crime and who i…
Early Environmental Unpredictability
Early Environmental Unpredictability
Overcoming disclosure reluctance in youth victims of sex trafficking
An alarming number of youth worldwide are victims of commercial sexual exploitation, particularly sex trafficking. Normative developmental processes and motivations across the adolescent period-the age when youth are at greatest risk for trafficking-combined with their history, make them highly likely to be reluctant to disclose their exploitation to police, who often encounter victims because they are suspected of delinquency and crime and who i…
Do laypersons conflate poverty and neglect
OBJECTIVE: Child neglect is often initially identified via adults who come into contact with children and report their suspicions to the authorities. Little is known about what behaviors laypersons view as constituting neglect and hence worth reporting. We examined laypersons' perceptions of neglect and poverty, particularly how these factors independently and jointly shaped laypersons' decisions about what warrants official reporting of neglect,…
Primary and Secondary Variants of Psychopathic Traits in at-Risk Youth
The Covid-19 pandemic and lay perceptions of poverty and neglect
OBJECTIVES: In cases of child neglect, intervention depends on accurate identification and reporting. Prior work has shown that individuals, especially those of high socioeconomic status (SES), conflate poverty and neglect when making identification and reporting decisions. The COVID-19 pandemic led to changes in people's experiences with poverty, likely influencing their ability to distinguish poverty in families and neglectful parenting. HYPOTH…
Initial impact of the California continuum of care reform act on youth’s experiences in out-of-home care
Everyday Discrimination and Adolescents’ Mental Health
Adolescents who report discrimination experience worse mental health. However, most research has been cross-sectional and retrospective. This study investigated how prospectively-assessed day-to-day perceptions of everyday discrimination relate to mental health symptoms in 395 adolescents across a 14-day ecological momentary assessment. Black adolescents reported discrimination on more days (15%) than White adolescents (6%), as did economically d…
Medicine (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Poison control (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (3 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (3 works) · Psychiatry (3 works) · Aggression (2 works) · Child abuse (2 works)