Michael Medina
Biographic Data
| ID | 4460580 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Medina |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Medina |
| SIGNATURE | MEDINA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1892-8432 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 104 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Development of the Academic Stress Scale for Adolescents and Examination of Perceived Academic Stress Among Chinese Adolescents
Academic stress is a common daily stressor among adolescents worldwide, particularly for secondary school students facing the pressure of preparing for postsecondary admission. Building on existing literature and using a sample of 903 adolescents ( M age = 14.91, SD age = 1.79) attending public secondary schools in China, the current study developed the Academic Stress Scale for Adolescents (ASSA) through a series of exploratory and confirmatory …
We are Resolved
Black and Latino boys exist at an intersection of underrepresented, harshly disciplined, and over‐scrutinized student populations in schools. Yet, both groups regularly display adaptive strategies such as resilience, determination, and resistance in the face of historic inequities. Integrating the literature on critical consciousness and ethnic‐racial identity with the phenomenological variant of ecological systems theory, this study examined Bla…
Interethnic Climate and Psychological Adjustment in High School
Anti-racist methodological approaches to ethnic-racial identity and critical consciousness scholarship
Fostering futures
The effects of college students' online experiences with racial/ethnic discrimination
Time online involves the risk of direct and vicarious online racial/ethnic discrimination. This study examined the day-to-day associations between online racial/ethnic discrimination and positive and negative affect, somatic symptoms, and anxiety. Participants were 208 fourth-year college students (25% men, 72.1% women, 2.9% not reporting gender; 36.1% Asian, 30.3% White, 17.3% Latinx, 7.7% Multiethnic, 8.7% Other; M age = 22 years). The sample r…
Patterns of ethnic–racial identity and critical consciousness and associations with science, technology, engineering, and math engagement and perceived barriers
Findings highlight the critical link between ERI and CC as promotive factors for academic engagement for racially minoritized youth in STEM and promote awareness of STEM-related barriers that may be useful to prepare and navigate future STEM challenges. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)
Prospective associations between peer support, academic competence, and anxiety in college students
The role of school friendship stability, instability, and network size in early adolescents’ social adjustment
This study examined longitudinal associations between early adolescents' school friendship stability, instability, and network size and their perceived social adjustment. The final sample consisted of 430 early adolescents residing in seven Midwestern schools (52% female, 47% Black, 42% White, 5% Hispanic or Latinx, and 6% Other). School friendship stability, instability, and network size were assessed via students' peer nominations of their same…
Latinx adolescents’ ethnic-racial discrimination and expected future barriers over time
Expecting discrimination in one's future occupation is known to have negative implications for adolescents' career pathways. However, little is known about how such discriminatory expectations emerge. The current contentious sociopolitical climate toward immigrants, especially those of Latinx heritage, has contributed to heightened discrimination against adolescents in this group. The present study examined how experiences of discrimination over …
Mapping the Intersections of Adolescents’ Ethnic-Racial Identity and Critical Consciousness
Considering multiple levels of influence on adjustment in school
Adolescence represents a developmental period of marked increase in the development of ethnic–racial identity (ERI) and the importance and influence of friends. Moreover, scores of studies have revealed that ERI and friendships are influential factors in many different academic and psychosocial outcomes for adolescents. However, the development of these relations between ERI, friendships, and academic and psychosocial adjustment do not occur in a…
Illuminating ethnic-racial socialization among undocumented Latinx parents and its implications for adolescent psychosocial functioning
The purpose of this study is to examine how parents' documentation status informs their ethnic-racial socialization (ERS) practices and the subsequent implications for Latinx youths' psychological adjustment. The mixed-methods approach combined convergent and exploratory sequential designs to explore the breadth and depth of Latinx parents' messages to their children regarding race and ethnicity. Qualitative data were used to generate hypotheses …
Friends matter
The current study investigated the role of ethnic-racial identity (ERI) on early adolescents’ school adjustment, as moderated by their school friends’ aggregate ERI. The study drew data from a longitudinal socioemotional project in a Midwestern U.S. middle school. Surveys were administered twice over a 6-month interval with a sample of 161 African American and Latino sixth through eighth grade students. Results suggested a promotive role of ERI, …
Ethnic Socialization, Family Cohesion, and Ethnic Identity Development Over Time among Latinx Adolescents
School climate and ethnic‐racial identity in school
The messages youth receive in schools about how they matter as individuals and as members of ethnic‐racial groups are influential in constructing their developing ethnic‐racial identities (ERI). However, the developing ERI students hold also have a role in shaping their experiences at school. The current study examined the longitudinal and reciprocal association between ERI (exploration and resolution) and school climate (support for cultural plu…
Ethnic-Racial Identity and Friendships in Early Adolescence
The current study examined how adolescents' ethnic-racial identity (ERI) informed the demographic diversity of their friendship network (Goal 1) and the extent of similarity between adolescents' and their friends' ERI (Goal 2). Participants were sixth and seventh grade students (N = 353; M age = 11.88, SD = .73; 50% girls; 29% African American, 31% White, 13% Latino) in the Midwestern U.S. Results from longitudinal cross-lagged models (Goal 1) in…
If drugs does that to you, then I don't want it.’ Resiliency among non-marijuana using adolescents
The current study utilizes an asset-based approach to examine inner-city African-American and Latino adolescent non-marijuana use. Interview findings suggest that the common theme in adolescent narratives is why they avoid marijuana use. Specifically, adolescents formulate several reasons situated in their perceptions of self, peers, and parents to avoid marijuana use. Drawing on resiliency theory and to broaden our scope of inquiry, we utilize t…
Ethnic-Racial Identity and Friendships in Early Adolescence
The current study examined how adolescents' ethnic-racial identity (ERI) informed the demographic diversity of their friendship network (Goal 1) and the extent of similarity between adolescents' and their friends' ERI (Goal 2). Participants were sixth and seventh grade students (N = 353; M age = 11.88, SD = .73; 50% girls; 29% African American, 31% White, 13% Latino) in the Midwestern U.S. Results from longitudinal cross-lagged models (Goal 1) in…
Illuminating ethnic-racial socialization among undocumented Latinx parents and its implications for adolescent psychosocial functioning
The purpose of this study is to examine how parents' documentation status informs their ethnic-racial socialization (ERS) practices and the subsequent implications for Latinx youths' psychological adjustment. The mixed-methods approach combined convergent and exploratory sequential designs to explore the breadth and depth of Latinx parents' messages to their children regarding race and ethnicity. Qualitative data were used to generate hypotheses …
Friends matter
The current study investigated the role of ethnic-racial identity (ERI) on early adolescents’ school adjustment, as moderated by their school friends’ aggregate ERI. The study drew data from a longitudinal socioemotional project in a Midwestern U.S. middle school. Surveys were administered twice over a 6-month interval with a sample of 161 African American and Latino sixth through eighth grade students. Results suggested a promotive role of ERI, …
School climate and ethnic‐racial identity in school
The messages youth receive in schools about how they matter as individuals and as members of ethnic‐racial groups are influential in constructing their developing ethnic‐racial identities (ERI). However, the developing ERI students hold also have a role in shaping their experiences at school. The current study examined the longitudinal and reciprocal association between ERI (exploration and resolution) and school climate (support for cultural plu…
Latinx adolescents’ ethnic-racial discrimination and expected future barriers over time
Expecting discrimination in one's future occupation is known to have negative implications for adolescents' career pathways. However, little is known about how such discriminatory expectations emerge. The current contentious sociopolitical climate toward immigrants, especially those of Latinx heritage, has contributed to heightened discrimination against adolescents in this group. The present study examined how experiences of discrimination over …
Ethnic Socialization, Family Cohesion, and Ethnic Identity Development Over Time among Latinx Adolescents
The role of school friendship stability, instability, and network size in early adolescents’ social adjustment
This study examined longitudinal associations between early adolescents' school friendship stability, instability, and network size and their perceived social adjustment. The final sample consisted of 430 early adolescents residing in seven Midwestern schools (52% female, 47% Black, 42% White, 5% Hispanic or Latinx, and 6% Other). School friendship stability, instability, and network size were assessed via students' peer nominations of their same…
Considering multiple levels of influence on adjustment in school
Adolescence represents a developmental period of marked increase in the development of ethnic–racial identity (ERI) and the importance and influence of friends. Moreover, scores of studies have revealed that ERI and friendships are influential factors in many different academic and psychosocial outcomes for adolescents. However, the development of these relations between ERI, friendships, and academic and psychosocial adjustment do not occur in a…
Prospective associations between peer support, academic competence, and anxiety in college students
If drugs does that to you, then I don't want it.’ Resiliency among non-marijuana using adolescents
The current study utilizes an asset-based approach to examine inner-city African-American and Latino adolescent non-marijuana use. Interview findings suggest that the common theme in adolescent narratives is why they avoid marijuana use. Specifically, adolescents formulate several reasons situated in their perceptions of self, peers, and parents to avoid marijuana use. Drawing on resiliency theory and to broaden our scope of inquiry, we utilize t…
School climate and ethnic‐racial identity in school
The messages youth receive in schools about how they matter as individuals and as members of ethnic‐racial groups are influential in constructing their developing ethnic‐racial identities (ERI). However, the developing ERI students hold also have a role in shaping their experiences at school. The current study examined the longitudinal and reciprocal association between ERI (exploration and resolution) and school climate (support for cultural plu…
Ethnic-Racial Identity and Friendships in Early Adolescence
The current study examined how adolescents' ethnic-racial identity (ERI) informed the demographic diversity of their friendship network (Goal 1) and the extent of similarity between adolescents' and their friends' ERI (Goal 2). Participants were sixth and seventh grade students (N = 353; M age = 11.88, SD = .73; 50% girls; 29% African American, 31% White, 13% Latino) in the Midwestern U.S. Results from longitudinal cross-lagged models (Goal 1) in…
Friends matter
The current study investigated the role of ethnic-racial identity (ERI) on early adolescents’ school adjustment, as moderated by their school friends’ aggregate ERI. The study drew data from a longitudinal socioemotional project in a Midwestern U.S. middle school. Surveys were administered twice over a 6-month interval with a sample of 161 African American and Latino sixth through eighth grade students. Results suggested a promotive role of ERI, …
Ethnic Socialization, Family Cohesion, and Ethnic Identity Development Over Time among Latinx Adolescents
Mapping the Intersections of Adolescents’ Ethnic-Racial Identity and Critical Consciousness
Considering multiple levels of influence on adjustment in school
Adolescence represents a developmental period of marked increase in the development of ethnic–racial identity (ERI) and the importance and influence of friends. Moreover, scores of studies have revealed that ERI and friendships are influential factors in many different academic and psychosocial outcomes for adolescents. However, the development of these relations between ERI, friendships, and academic and psychosocial adjustment do not occur in a…
Illuminating ethnic-racial socialization among undocumented Latinx parents and its implications for adolescent psychosocial functioning
The purpose of this study is to examine how parents' documentation status informs their ethnic-racial socialization (ERS) practices and the subsequent implications for Latinx youths' psychological adjustment. The mixed-methods approach combined convergent and exploratory sequential designs to explore the breadth and depth of Latinx parents' messages to their children regarding race and ethnicity. Qualitative data were used to generate hypotheses …
Latinx adolescents’ ethnic-racial discrimination and expected future barriers over time
Expecting discrimination in one's future occupation is known to have negative implications for adolescents' career pathways. However, little is known about how such discriminatory expectations emerge. The current contentious sociopolitical climate toward immigrants, especially those of Latinx heritage, has contributed to heightened discrimination against adolescents in this group. The present study examined how experiences of discrimination over …
The role of school friendship stability, instability, and network size in early adolescents’ social adjustment
This study examined longitudinal associations between early adolescents' school friendship stability, instability, and network size and their perceived social adjustment. The final sample consisted of 430 early adolescents residing in seven Midwestern schools (52% female, 47% Black, 42% White, 5% Hispanic or Latinx, and 6% Other). School friendship stability, instability, and network size were assessed via students' peer nominations of their same…
Prospective associations between peer support, academic competence, and anxiety in college students
Patterns of ethnic–racial identity and critical consciousness and associations with science, technology, engineering, and math engagement and perceived barriers
Findings highlight the critical link between ERI and CC as promotive factors for academic engagement for racially minoritized youth in STEM and promote awareness of STEM-related barriers that may be useful to prepare and navigate future STEM challenges. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)
Anti-racist methodological approaches to ethnic-racial identity and critical consciousness scholarship
Fostering futures
The effects of college students' online experiences with racial/ethnic discrimination
Time online involves the risk of direct and vicarious online racial/ethnic discrimination. This study examined the day-to-day associations between online racial/ethnic discrimination and positive and negative affect, somatic symptoms, and anxiety. Participants were 208 fourth-year college students (25% men, 72.1% women, 2.9% not reporting gender; 36.1% Asian, 30.3% White, 17.3% Latinx, 7.7% Multiethnic, 8.7% Other; M age = 22 years). The sample r…
Development of the Academic Stress Scale for Adolescents and Examination of Perceived Academic Stress Among Chinese Adolescents
Academic stress is a common daily stressor among adolescents worldwide, particularly for secondary school students facing the pressure of preparing for postsecondary admission. Building on existing literature and using a sample of 903 adolescents ( M age = 14.91, SD age = 1.79) attending public secondary schools in China, the current study developed the Academic Stress Scale for Adolescents (ASSA) through a series of exploratory and confirmatory …
We are Resolved
Black and Latino boys exist at an intersection of underrepresented, harshly disciplined, and over‐scrutinized student populations in schools. Yet, both groups regularly display adaptive strategies such as resilience, determination, and resistance in the face of historic inequities. Integrating the literature on critical consciousness and ethnic‐racial identity with the phenomenological variant of ecological systems theory, this study examined Bla…
Interethnic Climate and Psychological Adjustment in High School
Psychology (12 works) · Developmental psychology (11 works) · Ethnic group (10 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Perception (6 works) · Parental Involvement in Education (5 works)