Kimberly A Greder
Biographic Data
| ID | 4516275 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kimberly A Greder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kimberly A |
| FAMILY NAME | Greder |
| SIGNATURE | GREDER K A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Iowa State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8472-3075 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Factors Affecting the Mental Health of Immigrant Children
This policy brief helps the organisations working with immigrants to learn about the effects of immigration on the mental health of children in early childhood. The research shows that both structural barriers and parents’ characteristics affect the mental health of children, and these two factors should be considered in practice and policy in order to better support immigrant children
Relationship between coparent communication and teamwork, food insecurity, and depressive symptoms among rural low-income mothers
Depressive symptoms among rural Latina immigrant mothers before and during Covid-19
Experiencing multiple stressors over time can have lasting impacts on mental health. During the COVID-19 pandemic, loss of income, concerns about virus infection, and access to and confidence in the COVID-19 vaccine led to additional stress, especially among those who were essential workers and immigrants and who had low incomes. In this study, we investigated depressive symptom trajectories of 110 Latina immigrant mothers who resided in rural me…
Depressive symptoms and parenting alliance as mediators between food insecurity and child behavior
The Family Stress Model provides a versatile framework for family research, and while researchers have recently used it to explore constructs among Latinx families, few studies have used it in research about rural Latinx families.The FSM is used to examine the relations between food insecurity, maternal depressive symptoms, parenting alliance, and child behavior.Data from NC 1171, "Rural Families Speak about Health", are analyzed in a study using…
Economic Pressure and Parent Acculturative Stress: Effects on Rural Midwestern Low-Income Latinx Child Behaviors
Navigating health and well‐being during the Covid ‐19 pandemic: Experiences of Latina immigrant mothers in rural Midwestern communities
Hope for Latino immigrant youth: A longitudinal test of Snyder's Children's Hope Scale
Validation of the Family Fear of Deportation Scale for youth
PROMIS Pediatric Psychological Stress Measure: Validity for immigrant Latino youth
Reducing Obesogenic Eating Behaviors in Hispanic Children through a Family-Based, Culturally-Tailored RCT: Abriendo Caminos
Family-based interventions that incorporate culturally-tailored multi-component curricula and are grounded on evidence-based information and theoretical frameworks can help reduce the prevalence of obesity among Hispanic children. Abriendo Caminos : Clearing the Path to Hispanic Health is a multi-site culturally-tailored randomized control trial that aims to reduce obesity rates in Hispanic families by delivering education on nutrition, family we…
The Intersection of First-Generation Latino Fathers’ Work, Cultural Values, and Communication in Their Children’s Educational Attainment
This study contributes to the literature on understanding complexities related to educational disparities among Latino families. The roles of first-generation Latino fathers in their children’s education are often mischaracterized within the schools. Utilizing role theory, our study details how Latino fathers’ work, cultural values, and communication are key to understanding their involvement in their children’s education. Seventeen first-generat…
Shared Language Erosion: Rethinking Immigrant Family Communication and Impacts on Youth Development
In this paper we make the case for Shared Language Erosion as a potential explanation for the negative outcomes described in the immigrant paradox for second- and third- generation immigrants (e.g., declines in physical, mental, and behavioral health). While not negating the important role of cultural adaptation, we posit that parent-child communication difficulties due to a process we are calling Shared Language Erosion is driving the observed a…
Rural Midwestern Mexican Fathers’ Perspectives on Family Food, Mealtimes, and Physical Activity
Two focus group interviews with eight low-income Mexican fathers in two communities in a rural Midwestern state explored fathers' perceptions, behaviors, and roles related to child and family food consumption, mealtimes, and physical activity. On average, fathers were 34 years of age, had 10 years of formal education, and annual household incomes ranged from $36,250 to $46,249. Findings include the identification of fifteen themes through the pro…
Relationship between home environment and healthy living
This study sought to identify issues rural, low-income mothers face within their housing conditions and implications for their health and well-being. In-depth interview data from 79 rural, low-income mothers across 11 states who participated in the multi-state USDA Hatch funded project, Rural Families Speak about Health (RFSH), were analyzed. A conceptual framework that incorporated both Morris and Winter’s theory of family housing adjustment and…
Youth dialogue and design for educational possibility: Eliciting Youth Voice in Community Development
Working with a community-based organization, we engaged middle school youth in mapping the realities of and dreams for their neighborhoods. We document the process we used to guide youth reflection on themselves as learners and, more specifically, detail our discoveries about their schools as learning places. Using critical literacy as a frame, we assert that youth insights about the physical, relational, and agentive environments of school revea…
Procuring Health: Experiences of Mexican Immigrant Women in Rural Midwestern Communities
Thematic analysis was used to analyze interview data from 15 first-generation Mexican immigrant women who resided in two rural Midwestern communities. Ten themes were identified and aligned with four thematic areas of interest ( meaning of being healthy, strategies to promote health, challenges to health, and supports for health). This study provides insights into the complexities and realities faced by Mexican immigrant women, as they strove to …
Health, Well-being, and Health Care Access in Rural Communities: Comparing Latino and Non-Latino White Low-income Families
This study explores how low-income rural Latino children and their mothers differ from their non-Latino white counterparts in terms of health, well-being, and health care access. A subsample of non-Latino white (n = 201) and Latino (n = 157) children and their mothers was drawn from the Rural Families Speak about Health Project, a multistate, cross-sectional data set developed through mixed purposive sampling methods. Findings suggest that Latino…
Rural, Low-Income Mothers' Use of Family-Based Nature Activities to Promote Family Health
This study explores how rural, low-income mothers use family-based nature activities to promote the health of themselves and their families. Data were collected through in-person interviews with a sub-sample of mothers (n = 85) who participated in a larger multistate, mixed-methods longitudinal project. Grounded theory analysis techniques were used to depict the social process of how mothers engage in family-based nature activities to promote phy…
Latina Immigrant Mothers: Negotiating New Food Environments to Preserve Cultural Food Practices and Healthy Child Eating
Latina immigrant mothers face complex challenges as they try to ensure their children get adequate nourishment to grow up healthy in their new U.S. communities. Eighty‐three Latina immigrant mothers living in a rural area of a Midwestern state who had young children and low household incomes were interviewed to explore their satisfaction with the food their children were eating, as well as ecological factors that affected children's eating patter…
Exploring Relationships Between Transnationalism and Housing and Health Risks of Rural Latino Immigrant Families
Interviews with 78 rural low‐income Latino immigrant mothers in three states (CA, OR, and IA) explored relationships between transnationalism and health and housing risks. Transnational activity based on language spoken at home, nature, and frequency of contact with family and friends in, and the extent and frequency of travel to the country of origin, was conceptualized as a continuum from high to low. Low transnational families lived in the Uni…
Involving Marginalized Families in Shaping Policies: Roles for Cooperative Extension
Family involvement in the policy-making process is critical to ensuring that policies are designed to effectively address family needs. This manuscript identifies critical roles for cooperative extension and other educators in involving families in shaping policies. Two educational tools, Sharing a Family's Story and the ROWEL Poverty Simulation, that assist in bringing a family perspective to policy making are described
Latina Immigrant Mothers: Negotiating New Food Environments to Preserve Cultural Food Practices and Healthy Child Eating
Latina immigrant mothers face complex challenges as they try to ensure their children get adequate nourishment to grow up healthy in their new U.S. communities. Eighty‐three Latina immigrant mothers living in a rural area of a Midwestern state who had young children and low household incomes were interviewed to explore their satisfaction with the food their children were eating, as well as ecological factors that affected children's eating patter…
Rural, Low-Income Mothers' Use of Family-Based Nature Activities to Promote Family Health
This study explores how rural, low-income mothers use family-based nature activities to promote the health of themselves and their families. Data were collected through in-person interviews with a sub-sample of mothers (n = 85) who participated in a larger multistate, mixed-methods longitudinal project. Grounded theory analysis techniques were used to depict the social process of how mothers engage in family-based nature activities to promote phy…
Procuring Health: Experiences of Mexican Immigrant Women in Rural Midwestern Communities
Thematic analysis was used to analyze interview data from 15 first-generation Mexican immigrant women who resided in two rural Midwestern communities. Ten themes were identified and aligned with four thematic areas of interest ( meaning of being healthy, strategies to promote health, challenges to health, and supports for health). This study provides insights into the complexities and realities faced by Mexican immigrant women, as they strove to …
Relationship between home environment and healthy living
This study sought to identify issues rural, low-income mothers face within their housing conditions and implications for their health and well-being. In-depth interview data from 79 rural, low-income mothers across 11 states who participated in the multi-state USDA Hatch funded project, Rural Families Speak about Health (RFSH), were analyzed. A conceptual framework that incorporated both Morris and Winter’s theory of family housing adjustment and…
The Intersection of First-Generation Latino Fathers’ Work, Cultural Values, and Communication in Their Children’s Educational Attainment
This study contributes to the literature on understanding complexities related to educational disparities among Latino families. The roles of first-generation Latino fathers in their children’s education are often mischaracterized within the schools. Utilizing role theory, our study details how Latino fathers’ work, cultural values, and communication are key to understanding their involvement in their children’s education. Seventeen first-generat…
Youth dialogue and design for educational possibility: Eliciting Youth Voice in Community Development
Working with a community-based organization, we engaged middle school youth in mapping the realities of and dreams for their neighborhoods. We document the process we used to guide youth reflection on themselves as learners and, more specifically, detail our discoveries about their schools as learning places. Using critical literacy as a frame, we assert that youth insights about the physical, relational, and agentive environments of school revea…
Exploring Relationships Between Transnationalism and Housing and Health Risks of Rural Latino Immigrant Families
Interviews with 78 rural low‐income Latino immigrant mothers in three states (CA, OR, and IA) explored relationships between transnationalism and health and housing risks. Transnational activity based on language spoken at home, nature, and frequency of contact with family and friends in, and the extent and frequency of travel to the country of origin, was conceptualized as a continuum from high to low. Low transnational families lived in the Uni…
Involving Marginalized Families in Shaping Policies: Roles for Cooperative Extension
Family involvement in the policy-making process is critical to ensuring that policies are designed to effectively address family needs. This manuscript identifies critical roles for cooperative extension and other educators in involving families in shaping policies. Two educational tools, Sharing a Family's Story and the ROWEL Poverty Simulation, that assist in bringing a family perspective to policy making are described
Exploring Relationships Between Transnationalism and Housing and Health Risks of Rural Latino Immigrant Families
Interviews with 78 rural low‐income Latino immigrant mothers in three states (CA, OR, and IA) explored relationships between transnationalism and health and housing risks. Transnational activity based on language spoken at home, nature, and frequency of contact with family and friends in, and the extent and frequency of travel to the country of origin, was conceptualized as a continuum from high to low. Low transnational families lived in the Uni…
Latina Immigrant Mothers: Negotiating New Food Environments to Preserve Cultural Food Practices and Healthy Child Eating
Latina immigrant mothers face complex challenges as they try to ensure their children get adequate nourishment to grow up healthy in their new U.S. communities. Eighty‐three Latina immigrant mothers living in a rural area of a Midwestern state who had young children and low household incomes were interviewed to explore their satisfaction with the food their children were eating, as well as ecological factors that affected children's eating patter…
Rural, Low-Income Mothers' Use of Family-Based Nature Activities to Promote Family Health
This study explores how rural, low-income mothers use family-based nature activities to promote the health of themselves and their families. Data were collected through in-person interviews with a sub-sample of mothers (n = 85) who participated in a larger multistate, mixed-methods longitudinal project. Grounded theory analysis techniques were used to depict the social process of how mothers engage in family-based nature activities to promote phy…
Health, Well-being, and Health Care Access in Rural Communities: Comparing Latino and Non-Latino White Low-income Families
This study explores how low-income rural Latino children and their mothers differ from their non-Latino white counterparts in terms of health, well-being, and health care access. A subsample of non-Latino white (n = 201) and Latino (n = 157) children and their mothers was drawn from the Rural Families Speak about Health Project, a multistate, cross-sectional data set developed through mixed purposive sampling methods. Findings suggest that Latino…
Procuring Health: Experiences of Mexican Immigrant Women in Rural Midwestern Communities
Thematic analysis was used to analyze interview data from 15 first-generation Mexican immigrant women who resided in two rural Midwestern communities. Ten themes were identified and aligned with four thematic areas of interest ( meaning of being healthy, strategies to promote health, challenges to health, and supports for health). This study provides insights into the complexities and realities faced by Mexican immigrant women, as they strove to …
Youth dialogue and design for educational possibility: Eliciting Youth Voice in Community Development
Working with a community-based organization, we engaged middle school youth in mapping the realities of and dreams for their neighborhoods. We document the process we used to guide youth reflection on themselves as learners and, more specifically, detail our discoveries about their schools as learning places. Using critical literacy as a frame, we assert that youth insights about the physical, relational, and agentive environments of school revea…
Shared Language Erosion: Rethinking Immigrant Family Communication and Impacts on Youth Development
In this paper we make the case for Shared Language Erosion as a potential explanation for the negative outcomes described in the immigrant paradox for second- and third- generation immigrants (e.g., declines in physical, mental, and behavioral health). While not negating the important role of cultural adaptation, we posit that parent-child communication difficulties due to a process we are calling Shared Language Erosion is driving the observed a…
Rural Midwestern Mexican Fathers’ Perspectives on Family Food, Mealtimes, and Physical Activity
Two focus group interviews with eight low-income Mexican fathers in two communities in a rural Midwestern state explored fathers' perceptions, behaviors, and roles related to child and family food consumption, mealtimes, and physical activity. On average, fathers were 34 years of age, had 10 years of formal education, and annual household incomes ranged from $36,250 to $46,249. Findings include the identification of fifteen themes through the pro…
Relationship between home environment and healthy living
This study sought to identify issues rural, low-income mothers face within their housing conditions and implications for their health and well-being. In-depth interview data from 79 rural, low-income mothers across 11 states who participated in the multi-state USDA Hatch funded project, Rural Families Speak about Health (RFSH), were analyzed. A conceptual framework that incorporated both Morris and Winter’s theory of family housing adjustment and…
Reducing Obesogenic Eating Behaviors in Hispanic Children through a Family-Based, Culturally-Tailored RCT: Abriendo Caminos
Family-based interventions that incorporate culturally-tailored multi-component curricula and are grounded on evidence-based information and theoretical frameworks can help reduce the prevalence of obesity among Hispanic children. Abriendo Caminos : Clearing the Path to Hispanic Health is a multi-site culturally-tailored randomized control trial that aims to reduce obesity rates in Hispanic families by delivering education on nutrition, family we…
The Intersection of First-Generation Latino Fathers’ Work, Cultural Values, and Communication in Their Children’s Educational Attainment
This study contributes to the literature on understanding complexities related to educational disparities among Latino families. The roles of first-generation Latino fathers in their children’s education are often mischaracterized within the schools. Utilizing role theory, our study details how Latino fathers’ work, cultural values, and communication are key to understanding their involvement in their children’s education. Seventeen first-generat…
Depressive symptoms and parenting alliance as mediators between food insecurity and child behavior
The Family Stress Model provides a versatile framework for family research, and while researchers have recently used it to explore constructs among Latinx families, few studies have used it in research about rural Latinx families.The FSM is used to examine the relations between food insecurity, maternal depressive symptoms, parenting alliance, and child behavior.Data from NC 1171, "Rural Families Speak about Health", are analyzed in a study using…
Economic Pressure and Parent Acculturative Stress: Effects on Rural Midwestern Low-Income Latinx Child Behaviors
Navigating health and well‐being during the Covid ‐19 pandemic: Experiences of Latina immigrant mothers in rural Midwestern communities
Hope for Latino immigrant youth: A longitudinal test of Snyder's Children's Hope Scale
Validation of the Family Fear of Deportation Scale for youth
PROMIS Pediatric Psychological Stress Measure: Validity for immigrant Latino youth
Factors Affecting the Mental Health of Immigrant Children
This policy brief helps the organisations working with immigrants to learn about the effects of immigration on the mental health of children in early childhood. The research shows that both structural barriers and parents’ characteristics affect the mental health of children, and these two factors should be considered in practice and policy in order to better support immigrant children
Relationship between coparent communication and teamwork, food insecurity, and depressive symptoms among rural low-income mothers
Depressive symptoms among rural Latina immigrant mothers before and during Covid-19
Experiencing multiple stressors over time can have lasting impacts on mental health. During the COVID-19 pandemic, loss of income, concerns about virus infection, and access to and confidence in the COVID-19 vaccine led to additional stress, especially among those who were essential workers and immigrants and who had low incomes. In this study, we investigated depressive symptom trajectories of 110 Latina immigrant mothers who resided in rural me…
Psychology (17 works) · Immigration (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works) · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Gerontology (5 works)