Adrienne Nishina
Biographic Data
| ID | 4460581 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adrienne Nishina |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adrienne |
| FAMILY NAME | Nishina |
| SIGNATURE | NISHINA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2912-5889 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 170 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Interethnic Climate and Psychological Adjustment in High School: The Role of School Belonging and Ethnic Identity
Identifying patterns and predictors of social health in adolescence using data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study
Social health, having an adequate quantity and quality of social relationships, is essential for well-being but understudied during adolescence compared to adulthood. We sought to identify patterns and predictors of social health by characterizing peer relationships among 10,050 adolescents (10-13 years old, 4,815 girls, 53.68% non-Hispanic White) in Year 2 of the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study. To characterize social health profile…
Assessment of Infographics as a Retention Strategy in a Longitudinal Study of Diverse Emerging Adults
Retaining participants in longitudinal survey studies is critical for ensuring data quality but is especially difficult with emerging adults, who are navigating developmental transitions. We tested whether a low-cost intrinsic motivator—either a study specific or national data infographic—could improve participation in the seventh wave of a longitudinal study, compared to a no infographic control. Logistic regression models ( N = 559) examined th…
Adolescent perceptions of the ethnic composition of their friendship group and school
Diverse schools can provide opportunities for adolescents to interact with peers from diverse backgrounds. However, these opportunities do not automatically guarantee that adolescents will realize the benefits of diversity, particularly if they don't lead to meaningful relationships like friendships. The current study thus examined school interethnic climate as a factor that may promote friendship group inclusivity . With more than 500 tenth grad…
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…
Prospective associations between peer support, academic competence, and anxiety in college students
Fostering School Belonging and Students' Well‐Being Through a Positive School Interethnic Climate in Diverse High Schools
BACKGROUND: School belonging has been linked to students' health and well-being. As US schools become more ethnically diverse, it is important to understand how schools can contribute to a sense of belonging for students from all ethnic groups. METHODS: The present study examines the association between school interethnic climate, school belonging, and 3 well-being indicators (psychological, physical, and academic) among 657 10th graders across 2…
Conceptualizing and Measuring Biracial/Multiracial/Multiethnic Status: Friendship Homophily in Early Adolescence
This special issue highlights biracial/multiracial/multiethnic early adolescents as a fast-growing demographic warranting greater inclusion in developmental research. We address several likely barriers to inclusion related to the conceptualization and measurement of biracial/multiracial/multiethnic status and offer recommendations for including Multiracial youth that are informed by the research questions of interest. With a diverse sample of 610…
Peer Victimization and Depressive Symptoms During Adolescence: Examining the Roles of Social Support and Internalizing Coping
The purpose of this study was to examine how two coping strategies together moderate the relationship between peer victimization and adjustment among young adolescents. Sixth-grade adolescents from California, Oregon, and Wisconsin ( N = 1,058) self-reported peer victimization, depressive symptoms, and their utilization of social support seeking and internalizing coping. A regression analysis showed a significant three-way interaction between pee…
Comparisons of school and home-packed lunches for fruit and vegetable dietary behaviours among school-aged youths
Objective School-based interventions and policies encourage youths to include and consume fruits and vegetables at lunchtime via school lunches, but limited research has examined how these behaviours compare when youths have home-packed lunches. The objective of the present study was to compare fruit and vegetable contents and consumption among students having school or home-packed lunches over the school week. Design Participants were observed o…
Parental and family predictors of fruits and vegetables in elementary school children's home-packed lunches across a school week
Daily Compensation Can Improve College Students’ Participation and Retention Rates in Daily Report Studies
In longitudinal daily report research, it is challenging to maintain participation with college student samples due to the time and mental energy required. Small monetary incentives can assuage this; thus, the goal of this study was to determine whether incentive distribution method—via (1) the total compensation at the end of the study period, (2) daily compensation that increases with subsequent surveys, or (3) the same steady compensation each…
Discrepancies Between Retrospective and Actual Self‐Reports of Peer Victimization Six Years Earlier
Retrospective peer victimization reports may be inaccurate. With an ethnically and sexually diverse sample, this study compared adolescents' self-reported peer victimization in 6th grade to their own retrospective reports of 6th-grade victimization when they were in the 12th grade, controlling for past and current adjustment. Overall, 12th graders' retrospective victimization reports correlated with their own earlier 6th-grade self-reports and th…
Feasibility and reliability of digital imaging for estimating food selection and consumption from students’ packed lunches
Early Adolescents’ Peer Experiences with Ethnic Diversity in Middle School: Implications for Academic Outcomes
Developmental Change in Sibling Support and School Commitment Across Adolescence
School commitment typically declines across adolescence, but the family-level factors that explain this decline have not been fully characterized. This study investigated sibling support as a family resource in predicting school commitment across 7th-10th grade using a sample of 444 adolescents (M ages = 12.61, 13.59, 14.59, 15.58 years). Results showed that sibling support linearly increased and school commitment decreased and stabilized, indepe…
Years of Loving: Interracial Romantic Relationships and Recommendations for Future Research
In honor of the 50th anniversary of Loving v. Virginia (1967), the landmark civil rights case that invalidated laws prohibiting interracial marriage in the United States, this review describes the field's past and future directions for studying interracial romantic relationships. We briefly present history, theories, and research about interracial and interethnic romantic relationships, and provide suggestions for future research. We also highlig…
Mismatches in Self-Reported and Meta-Perceived Ethnic Identification across the High School Years
Sharing, Trading, Stealing: Exploring the Role of Peers in Shaping Foods Available at Lunchtime
Childhood obesity continues to be a major concern in the United States, warranting a comprehensive approach. However, the majority of research studies continue to neglect the influence of peers on dietary behaviors. The present descriptive study aimed to provide information about the ways peers directly shape dietary choices via food exchanges (i.e., sharing, trading, and stealing). Peer food exchanges were examined through daily observations in …
Nice Guys and Gals Finish Last? Not in Early Adolescence When Empathic, Accepted, and Popular Peers are Desirable
Microcontextual Characteristics of Peer Victimization Experiences and Adolescents’ Daily Well-Being
School Context Protective Factors Against Peer Ethnic Discrimination Across the High School Years
Ethnically diverse high school contexts present unique social opportunities for youth to form interethnic relationships, but they may also subject students to certain social challenges such as peer ethnic discrimination. With a sample of 1,072 high school students (55% girls; 54% Latino, 20% African American, 14% Asian, 12% White) attending 84 high schools, school context factors that protect students' exposure to peer ethnic discrimination acros…
Longitudinal consistency of adolescent ethnic identification across varying school ethnic contexts
The present study examined consistency and inconsistency in adolescents' ethnic identification (i.e., self-reported ethnicity) across the 6 middle-school semesters. The sample (N = 1,589, of whom 46% were boys and 54% were girls) included African American, Asian/Pacific Islander, Caucasian/White, Latino/Latina, Mexican/Mexican American, and multiethnic students. Latent class analyses yielded 3 key patterns in ethnic identification across the midd…
When Might Peer Aggression, Victimization, and Conflict Have Its Largest Impact? Microcontextual Considerations
Peer aggression, victimization, and conflict are common occurrences during early adolescence. In the collection of articles in this special issue, several themes emerged, including the use of social psychological theory, individual difference variables, and social context. This article briefly reviews these articles and presents original data that examine microcontextual characteristics (i.e., context of specific events) of sixth and ninth grader…
It Must Be Me”: Ethnic Diversity and Attributions for Peer Victimization in Middle School
This study examined the mediating role of self-blaming attributions on peer victimization-maladjustment relations in middle school and the moderating role of classroom ethnic diversity. Latino and African American 6th grade participants (N = 1105, 56% female) were recruited from middle schools in which they were either members of the numerical majority ethnic group, the numerical minority, or one of several ethnic groups in ethnically diverse sch…
School Context Protective Factors Against Peer Ethnic Discrimination Across the High School Years
Ethnically diverse high school contexts present unique social opportunities for youth to form interethnic relationships, but they may also subject students to certain social challenges such as peer ethnic discrimination. With a sample of 1,072 high school students (55% girls; 54% Latino, 20% African American, 14% Asian, 12% White) attending 84 high schools, school context factors that protect students' exposure to peer ethnic discrimination acros…
Longitudinal consistency of adolescent ethnic identification across varying school ethnic contexts
The present study examined consistency and inconsistency in adolescents' ethnic identification (i.e., self-reported ethnicity) across the 6 middle-school semesters. The sample (N = 1,589, of whom 46% were boys and 54% were girls) included African American, Asian/Pacific Islander, Caucasian/White, Latino/Latina, Mexican/Mexican American, and multiethnic students. Latent class analyses yielded 3 key patterns in ethnic identification across the midd…
It Must Be Me”: Ethnic Diversity and Attributions for Peer Victimization in Middle School
This study examined the mediating role of self-blaming attributions on peer victimization-maladjustment relations in middle school and the moderating role of classroom ethnic diversity. Latino and African American 6th grade participants (N = 1105, 56% female) were recruited from middle schools in which they were either members of the numerical majority ethnic group, the numerical minority, or one of several ethnic groups in ethnically diverse sch…
The Influence of Classroom Ethnic Composition on Same‐ and Other‐ethnicity Peer Nominations in Middle School
The study of peer group status typically involves examination of peer nominations received. In this study, the focus was on nominations given and received. We examined the degree to which middle school students from different ethnic groups demonstrate same‐ethnicity preferences in their peer nominations, the effects of the classroom ethnic composition on these preferences, and the association between same‐ethnicity preferences and social standing…
When Might Peer Aggression, Victimization, and Conflict Have Its Largest Impact? Microcontextual Considerations
Peer aggression, victimization, and conflict are common occurrences during early adolescence. In the collection of articles in this special issue, several themes emerged, including the use of social psychological theory, individual difference variables, and social context. This article briefly reviews these articles and presents original data that examine microcontextual characteristics (i.e., context of specific events) of sixth and ninth grader…
Years of Loving: Interracial Romantic Relationships and Recommendations for Future Research
In honor of the 50th anniversary of Loving v. Virginia (1967), the landmark civil rights case that invalidated laws prohibiting interracial marriage in the United States, this review describes the field's past and future directions for studying interracial romantic relationships. We briefly present history, theories, and research about interracial and interethnic romantic relationships, and provide suggestions for future research. We also highlig…
Mismatches in Self-Reported and Meta-Perceived Ethnic Identification across the High School Years
Body Dissatisfaction and Physical Development Among Ethnic Minority Adolescents
Microcontextual Characteristics of Peer Victimization Experiences and Adolescents’ Daily Well-Being
Conceptualizing and Measuring Biracial/Multiracial/Multiethnic Status: Friendship Homophily in Early Adolescence
This special issue highlights biracial/multiracial/multiethnic early adolescents as a fast-growing demographic warranting greater inclusion in developmental research. We address several likely barriers to inclusion related to the conceptualization and measurement of biracial/multiracial/multiethnic status and offer recommendations for including Multiracial youth that are informed by the research questions of interest. With a diverse sample of 610…
Developmental Change in Sibling Support and School Commitment Across Adolescence
School commitment typically declines across adolescence, but the family-level factors that explain this decline have not been fully characterized. This study investigated sibling support as a family resource in predicting school commitment across 7th-10th grade using a sample of 444 adolescents (M ages = 12.61, 13.59, 14.59, 15.58 years). Results showed that sibling support linearly increased and school commitment decreased and stabilized, indepe…
Nice Guys and Gals Finish Last? Not in Early Adolescence When Empathic, Accepted, and Popular Peers are Desirable
Sharing, Trading, Stealing: Exploring the Role of Peers in Shaping Foods Available at Lunchtime
Childhood obesity continues to be a major concern in the United States, warranting a comprehensive approach. However, the majority of research studies continue to neglect the influence of peers on dietary behaviors. The present descriptive study aimed to provide information about the ways peers directly shape dietary choices via food exchanges (i.e., sharing, trading, and stealing). Peer food exchanges were examined through daily observations in …
Adolescent perceptions of the ethnic composition of their friendship group and school
Diverse schools can provide opportunities for adolescents to interact with peers from diverse backgrounds. However, these opportunities do not automatically guarantee that adolescents will realize the benefits of diversity, particularly if they don't lead to meaningful relationships like friendships. The current study thus examined school interethnic climate as a factor that may promote friendship group inclusivity . With more than 500 tenth grad…
Prospective associations between peer support, academic competence, and anxiety in college students
Peer Victimization and Depressive Symptoms During Adolescence: Examining the Roles of Social Support and Internalizing Coping
The purpose of this study was to examine how two coping strategies together moderate the relationship between peer victimization and adjustment among young adolescents. Sixth-grade adolescents from California, Oregon, and Wisconsin ( N = 1,058) self-reported peer victimization, depressive symptoms, and their utilization of social support seeking and internalizing coping. A regression analysis showed a significant three-way interaction between pee…
Feasibility and reliability of digital imaging for estimating food selection and consumption from students’ packed lunches
Early Adolescents’ Peer Experiences with Ethnic Diversity in Middle School: Implications for Academic Outcomes
Peer harassment, psychological adjustment, and school functioning in early adolescence.
The relations between peer harassment, psychological adjustment, and school functioning were investi-gated with an ethnically diverse sample of middle school students. A conceptual model, which proposed that self-perceived peer harassment predicts psychological adjustment (loneliness, depression, and self-worth), which in turn predicts school outcomes (GPA and attendance), was tested using concurrent data (n = 244). Structural equation modeling s…
Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones, but Names Will Make Me Feel Sick: The Psychosocial, Somatic, and Scholastic Consequences of Peer Harassment
This study examined associations among peer victimization, psychosocial problems, physical symptoms, and school functioning across the 1st year in middle school. An ethnically diverse sample of urban 6th graders (N=1,526) reported on their perceptions of peer victimization, psychosocial adjustment, and physical symptoms during fall and spring. Objective measures of school functioning (i.e., grade point average and absences) were also collected. I…
Daily Reports of Witnessing and Experiencing Peer Harassment in Middle School
Two studies examined daily incidents of peer harassment in urban middle schools. Sixth-grade students (M age=11 years) described their daily personal experiences and witnessed accounts of peer harassment, and rated their negative feelings across a 2-week period. In Study 1 (n=95), within-subject analyses across 4 days revealed that both personally experienced and witnessed harassment were associated with increases in daily anxiety, whereas witnes…
Ethnic Diversity and Perceptions of Safety in Urban Middle Schools
Students' perceptions of their safety and vulnerability were investigated in 11 public middle schools (more than 70 sixth-grade classrooms) that varied in ethnic diversity. Results of hierarchical linear modeling analyses indicate that higher classroom diversity is associated with feelings of safety and social satisfaction. African American (n = 511) and Latino (n = 910) students felt safer in school, were less harassed by peers, felt less lonely…
Body Dissatisfaction and Physical Development Among Ethnic Minority Adolescents
Subtypes, Severity, and Structural Stability of Peer Victimization: What Does Latent Class Analysis Say?
This study uses latent class analysis (LCA) to empirically identify victimization groups during middle school. Approximately 2,000 urban, public middle school students (mean age in sixth grade = 11.57) reported on their peer victimization during the Fall and Spring semesters of their sixth, seventh, and eighth grades. Independent LCA analyses at each semester yielded 3 victim classes based on victimization degree rather than type (e.g., physical …
The Influence of Classroom Ethnic Composition on Same‐ and Other‐ethnicity Peer Nominations in Middle School
The study of peer group status typically involves examination of peer nominations received. In this study, the focus was on nominations given and received. We examined the degree to which middle school students from different ethnic groups demonstrate same‐ethnicity preferences in their peer nominations, the effects of the classroom ethnic composition on these preferences, and the association between same‐ethnicity preferences and social standing…
When Might Peer Aggression, Victimization, and Conflict Have Its Largest Impact? Microcontextual Considerations
Peer aggression, victimization, and conflict are common occurrences during early adolescence. In the collection of articles in this special issue, several themes emerged, including the use of social psychological theory, individual difference variables, and social context. This article briefly reviews these articles and presents original data that examine microcontextual characteristics (i.e., context of specific events) of sixth and ninth grader…
It Must Be Me”: Ethnic Diversity and Attributions for Peer Victimization in Middle School
This study examined the mediating role of self-blaming attributions on peer victimization-maladjustment relations in middle school and the moderating role of classroom ethnic diversity. Latino and African American 6th grade participants (N = 1105, 56% female) were recruited from middle schools in which they were either members of the numerical majority ethnic group, the numerical minority, or one of several ethnic groups in ethnically diverse sch…
Longitudinal consistency of adolescent ethnic identification across varying school ethnic contexts
The present study examined consistency and inconsistency in adolescents' ethnic identification (i.e., self-reported ethnicity) across the 6 middle-school semesters. The sample (N = 1,589, of whom 46% were boys and 54% were girls) included African American, Asian/Pacific Islander, Caucasian/White, Latino/Latina, Mexican/Mexican American, and multiethnic students. Latent class analyses yielded 3 key patterns in ethnic identification across the midd…
School Context Protective Factors Against Peer Ethnic Discrimination Across the High School Years
Ethnically diverse high school contexts present unique social opportunities for youth to form interethnic relationships, but they may also subject students to certain social challenges such as peer ethnic discrimination. With a sample of 1,072 high school students (55% girls; 54% Latino, 20% African American, 14% Asian, 12% White) attending 84 high schools, school context factors that protect students' exposure to peer ethnic discrimination acros…
Microcontextual Characteristics of Peer Victimization Experiences and Adolescents’ Daily Well-Being
Sharing, Trading, Stealing: Exploring the Role of Peers in Shaping Foods Available at Lunchtime
Childhood obesity continues to be a major concern in the United States, warranting a comprehensive approach. However, the majority of research studies continue to neglect the influence of peers on dietary behaviors. The present descriptive study aimed to provide information about the ways peers directly shape dietary choices via food exchanges (i.e., sharing, trading, and stealing). Peer food exchanges were examined through daily observations in …
Nice Guys and Gals Finish Last? Not in Early Adolescence When Empathic, Accepted, and Popular Peers are Desirable
Developmental Change in Sibling Support and School Commitment Across Adolescence
School commitment typically declines across adolescence, but the family-level factors that explain this decline have not been fully characterized. This study investigated sibling support as a family resource in predicting school commitment across 7th-10th grade using a sample of 444 adolescents (M ages = 12.61, 13.59, 14.59, 15.58 years). Results showed that sibling support linearly increased and school commitment decreased and stabilized, indepe…
Years of Loving: Interracial Romantic Relationships and Recommendations for Future Research
In honor of the 50th anniversary of Loving v. Virginia (1967), the landmark civil rights case that invalidated laws prohibiting interracial marriage in the United States, this review describes the field's past and future directions for studying interracial romantic relationships. We briefly present history, theories, and research about interracial and interethnic romantic relationships, and provide suggestions for future research. We also highlig…
Mismatches in Self-Reported and Meta-Perceived Ethnic Identification across the High School Years
Daily Compensation Can Improve College Students’ Participation and Retention Rates in Daily Report Studies
In longitudinal daily report research, it is challenging to maintain participation with college student samples due to the time and mental energy required. Small monetary incentives can assuage this; thus, the goal of this study was to determine whether incentive distribution method—via (1) the total compensation at the end of the study period, (2) daily compensation that increases with subsequent surveys, or (3) the same steady compensation each…
Discrepancies Between Retrospective and Actual Self‐Reports of Peer Victimization Six Years Earlier
Retrospective peer victimization reports may be inaccurate. With an ethnically and sexually diverse sample, this study compared adolescents' self-reported peer victimization in 6th grade to their own retrospective reports of 6th-grade victimization when they were in the 12th grade, controlling for past and current adjustment. Overall, 12th graders' retrospective victimization reports correlated with their own earlier 6th-grade self-reports and th…
Feasibility and reliability of digital imaging for estimating food selection and consumption from students’ packed lunches
Early Adolescents’ Peer Experiences with Ethnic Diversity in Middle School: Implications for Academic Outcomes
Comparisons of school and home-packed lunches for fruit and vegetable dietary behaviours among school-aged youths
Objective School-based interventions and policies encourage youths to include and consume fruits and vegetables at lunchtime via school lunches, but limited research has examined how these behaviours compare when youths have home-packed lunches. The objective of the present study was to compare fruit and vegetable contents and consumption among students having school or home-packed lunches over the school week. Design Participants were observed o…
Parental and family predictors of fruits and vegetables in elementary school children's home-packed lunches across a school week
Peer Victimization and Depressive Symptoms During Adolescence: Examining the Roles of Social Support and Internalizing Coping
The purpose of this study was to examine how two coping strategies together moderate the relationship between peer victimization and adjustment among young adolescents. Sixth-grade adolescents from California, Oregon, and Wisconsin ( N = 1,058) self-reported peer victimization, depressive symptoms, and their utilization of social support seeking and internalizing coping. A regression analysis showed a significant three-way interaction between pee…
Conceptualizing and Measuring Biracial/Multiracial/Multiethnic Status: Friendship Homophily in Early Adolescence
This special issue highlights biracial/multiracial/multiethnic early adolescents as a fast-growing demographic warranting greater inclusion in developmental research. We address several likely barriers to inclusion related to the conceptualization and measurement of biracial/multiracial/multiethnic status and offer recommendations for including Multiracial youth that are informed by the research questions of interest. With a diverse sample of 610…
Psychology (26 works) · Social Psychology (21 works) · Developmental psychology (20 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Ethnic group (14 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression (12 works) · Peer group (11 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (10 works) · Sociology (10 works)