Amy L Mccurdy
Biographic Data
| ID | 4227007 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy L Mccurdy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy L |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccurdy |
| SIGNATURE | MCCURDY A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4714-8451 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“They won't push me away”
Autonomy-supportive parenting as a moderator of associations between ethnic and racial identity processes and psychological adjustment during college
Supporting the psychological adjustment of college students of color necessitates acknowledging the importance of both parental and institutional efforts to encourage students' autonomy strivings and ERI processes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)
Unaccompanied unstable housing among racially, ethnically, sexually, and gender diverse youth
80,456) were used to examine the relationship between parent caring and intersections of minoritized identities that experience the highest prevalence of two distinct types of unaccompanied unstable housing with expanded categories of sexual and gender identities. Exhaustive chi-square automatic interaction detection models revealed that low parent caring was the most common predictor of unaccompanied homelessness and running away, but there was …
Financial, resource, and psychological impacts of Covid-19 on U.S. College students
Examination of the “model minority” stereotype through ethnicity and sexual orientation heterogeneity among Asian American youth
INTRODUCTION: The "model minority" stereotype disguises heterogeneity among Asian American youth, many of whom are harmed by policies and attitudes that assume this population to be uniformly high achieving and "problem free." The current study uses an intersectional lens to disaggregate this population by ethnicity and sexual orientation subgroups to demonstrate differences in academic performance and substance use behavior among Asian American …
Perceived parental social support and psychological control predict depressive symptoms for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or questioning youth in the United States
Salient practices in the parenting literature—support and control—have seldom been applied to understanding lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or questioning (LGBTQ) youth mental health. We examine associations among perceived parental social support, psychological control, and depressive symptoms for LGBTQ youth in the United States (n = 536; M age = 18.98; 48.1% women; 25.2% Black or African American; 37.1% Hispanic or Latino/a/x). Dat…
Sexual minority youth in romantic relationships
This study investigated differences in depressive symptoms, loneliness, and self-esteem for monosexual (lesbian, gay) and plurisexual (bisexual, pansexual, queer) sexual minority youth (SMY) by relationship status (single, partnered) and relationship configuration (same-gender partner, different-gender partner). Participants included 338 SMY (M age = 19.10 years) who reported on their relationship status, partner's gender identity, well-being, an…
“If I Hadn’t Had that Support System, I Think I Would Have Dropped Out by Now”
Understanding college students’ perceptions of parental support and its impact on student adjustment have important implications for maximizing retention rates within higher education institutions. College students ( N = 53) participated in qualitative interviews focused on students’ perceptions of mothers’ and fathers’ support during college and its impact on college adjustment. Holistic coding interviews indicated three different classification…
College Students’ Perceptions of Communication Technology Use and Parent–Child Relationships
Technologically-assisted communication plays a key role in facilitating relationships between parents and emerging adult college students who are living away from home. Informed by Media Multiplexity Theory, we investigated the channels that college students use to communicate with parents and the impact that used and non-used channels have on perceived parent–child relationships. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 44 undergraduate st…
Parental Self-Efficacy and Physiological Responses to Stress among Mothers of Early Adolescents
Father–daughter relationships and autonomy development during college
Female college students ( N = 26) from ethnically and socioeconomically diverse backgrounds participated in in‐depth qualitative interviews focused on the nature of their relationships with fathers. Holistic coding of interviews indicated three types of father–daughter relationships: connected, conflictual, and uncomfortable. Daughters perceived relationships with fathers as shaped by distinct factors all of which were, for the most part, in plac…
Autonomy‐Supportive Parenting in Adolescence
This review focuses on how the expression of parental autonomy support (particularly the promotion of independence and volitional functioning) and its impact on adolescent adjustment varies across cultural groups in the United States. We review history involving the conceptualization of parental autonomy support and its impact on adolescent development, discuss cross‐cultural research focused on the expression and impact of autonomy support, revi…
The Significance of Parenting and Parent–Child Relationships for Sexual and Gender Minority Adolescents
Adolescents in 21st century America are experiencing the emergence of their sexual and gender identities in a heteronormative society that is steadily adopting more progressive views and policies related to sexual orientation and gender. However, despite these sociocultural changes, parent–child relationships remain as one of the strongest predictors of LGBT adolescent adjustment. This article reviews the extant literature on this topic from fami…
Skin Conductance Reactivity as a Moderator of Associations Between Youth Perceptions of Neighborhood Stress and Depressive Symptoms
Young adolescents ( N = 68) completed questionnaires concerning perceptions of neighborhood stress (i.e., high negative influences, low cohesion, and connectedness). Youth self-reported their own depressive symptoms and participated in a public speaking task designed to be moderately stressful. Increases in skin conductance in response to this laboratory-based challenge task were measured (i.e., skin conductance level reactivity; SCLR). Higher le…
Sexual minority youth in romantic relationships
This study investigated differences in depressive symptoms, loneliness, and self-esteem for monosexual (lesbian, gay) and plurisexual (bisexual, pansexual, queer) sexual minority youth (SMY) by relationship status (single, partnered) and relationship configuration (same-gender partner, different-gender partner). Participants included 338 SMY (M age = 19.10 years) who reported on their relationship status, partner's gender identity, well-being, an…
Autonomy-supportive parenting as a moderator of associations between ethnic and racial identity processes and psychological adjustment during college
Supporting the psychological adjustment of college students of color necessitates acknowledging the importance of both parental and institutional efforts to encourage students' autonomy strivings and ERI processes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)
Skin Conductance Reactivity as a Moderator of Associations Between Youth Perceptions of Neighborhood Stress and Depressive Symptoms
Young adolescents ( N = 68) completed questionnaires concerning perceptions of neighborhood stress (i.e., high negative influences, low cohesion, and connectedness). Youth self-reported their own depressive symptoms and participated in a public speaking task designed to be moderately stressful. Increases in skin conductance in response to this laboratory-based challenge task were measured (i.e., skin conductance level reactivity; SCLR). Higher le…
The Significance of Parenting and Parent–Child Relationships for Sexual and Gender Minority Adolescents
Adolescents in 21st century America are experiencing the emergence of their sexual and gender identities in a heteronormative society that is steadily adopting more progressive views and policies related to sexual orientation and gender. However, despite these sociocultural changes, parent–child relationships remain as one of the strongest predictors of LGBT adolescent adjustment. This article reviews the extant literature on this topic from fami…
Skin Conductance Reactivity as a Moderator of Associations Between Youth Perceptions of Neighborhood Stress and Depressive Symptoms
Young adolescents ( N = 68) completed questionnaires concerning perceptions of neighborhood stress (i.e., high negative influences, low cohesion, and connectedness). Youth self-reported their own depressive symptoms and participated in a public speaking task designed to be moderately stressful. Increases in skin conductance in response to this laboratory-based challenge task were measured (i.e., skin conductance level reactivity; SCLR). Higher le…
Autonomy‐Supportive Parenting in Adolescence
This review focuses on how the expression of parental autonomy support (particularly the promotion of independence and volitional functioning) and its impact on adolescent adjustment varies across cultural groups in the United States. We review history involving the conceptualization of parental autonomy support and its impact on adolescent development, discuss cross‐cultural research focused on the expression and impact of autonomy support, revi…
Father–daughter relationships and autonomy development during college
Female college students ( N = 26) from ethnically and socioeconomically diverse backgrounds participated in in‐depth qualitative interviews focused on the nature of their relationships with fathers. Holistic coding of interviews indicated three types of father–daughter relationships: connected, conflictual, and uncomfortable. Daughters perceived relationships with fathers as shaped by distinct factors all of which were, for the most part, in plac…
“If I Hadn’t Had that Support System, I Think I Would Have Dropped Out by Now”
Understanding college students’ perceptions of parental support and its impact on student adjustment have important implications for maximizing retention rates within higher education institutions. College students ( N = 53) participated in qualitative interviews focused on students’ perceptions of mothers’ and fathers’ support during college and its impact on college adjustment. Holistic coding interviews indicated three different classification…
College Students’ Perceptions of Communication Technology Use and Parent–Child Relationships
Technologically-assisted communication plays a key role in facilitating relationships between parents and emerging adult college students who are living away from home. Informed by Media Multiplexity Theory, we investigated the channels that college students use to communicate with parents and the impact that used and non-used channels have on perceived parent–child relationships. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 44 undergraduate st…
Parental Self-Efficacy and Physiological Responses to Stress among Mothers of Early Adolescents
Financial, resource, and psychological impacts of Covid-19 on U.S. College students
Examination of the “model minority” stereotype through ethnicity and sexual orientation heterogeneity among Asian American youth
INTRODUCTION: The "model minority" stereotype disguises heterogeneity among Asian American youth, many of whom are harmed by policies and attitudes that assume this population to be uniformly high achieving and "problem free." The current study uses an intersectional lens to disaggregate this population by ethnicity and sexual orientation subgroups to demonstrate differences in academic performance and substance use behavior among Asian American …
Perceived parental social support and psychological control predict depressive symptoms for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or questioning youth in the United States
Salient practices in the parenting literature—support and control—have seldom been applied to understanding lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or questioning (LGBTQ) youth mental health. We examine associations among perceived parental social support, psychological control, and depressive symptoms for LGBTQ youth in the United States (n = 536; M age = 18.98; 48.1% women; 25.2% Black or African American; 37.1% Hispanic or Latino/a/x). Dat…
Sexual minority youth in romantic relationships
This study investigated differences in depressive symptoms, loneliness, and self-esteem for monosexual (lesbian, gay) and plurisexual (bisexual, pansexual, queer) sexual minority youth (SMY) by relationship status (single, partnered) and relationship configuration (same-gender partner, different-gender partner). Participants included 338 SMY (M age = 19.10 years) who reported on their relationship status, partner's gender identity, well-being, an…
“They won't push me away”
Autonomy-supportive parenting as a moderator of associations between ethnic and racial identity processes and psychological adjustment during college
Supporting the psychological adjustment of college students of color necessitates acknowledging the importance of both parental and institutional efforts to encourage students' autonomy strivings and ERI processes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)
Unaccompanied unstable housing among racially, ethnically, sexually, and gender diverse youth
80,456) were used to examine the relationship between parent caring and intersections of minoritized identities that experience the highest prevalence of two distinct types of unaccompanied unstable housing with expanded categories of sexual and gender identities. Exhaustive chi-square automatic interaction detection models revealed that low parent caring was the most common predictor of unaccompanied homelessness and running away, but there was …
Psychology (14 works) · Developmental psychology (12 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Sexual orientation (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Ethnic group (4 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (4 works) · Medicine (4 works)