Francheska Alers‐Roja

Biographic Data

ID5124394
NAMEFrancheska Alers‐Roja
GIVEN NAMESFrancheska
FAMILY NAMEAlers‐Roja
SIGNATUREROJA F A
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Texas at Austin
ORCID0000-0002-6928-6049
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS18
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3

  • Community violence exposure and mental health in urban Mexico

    Open AccessAndrea S Medrano, Patrick T Quintero et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research on Adolescence2026

    Community violence exposure (CVE) is a pervasive risk to youth mental health, yet developmental research examining protective factors in Latin America remains scarce. This cross‐sectional investigation examined CVE and psychological symptoms among early adolescents ( N = 346) and young adults ( N = 499) living in a chronically violent region of Michoacán, Mexico. Participants completed validated measures of witnessing violence, personal victimiza…

  • The co‐development of ethnic identity and future orientation among ethnically/racially minoritized adolescents

    Open AccessKiera M Coulter, Aprile D Benner et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research on Adolescence2025References: 11

    This brief report examined the co-development of ethnic/racial identity (ERI) and future orientation among ethnically/racially minoritized adolescents. The current study used three waves of longitudinal data (N = 619) spanning 8th to 10th grades from a diverse sample (55.9% Latino/a/x, 21.2% biracial/multiethnic/other, 13.2% Asian, 9.7% Black; 54.1% female; 57.4% economically disadvantaged). We investigated the developmental trajectories of futur…

  • Adolescents' exposure to community violence and associations with after‐school activities across two samples

    Open AccessFrancheska Alers‐Roja, Rosario Ceballo et al.ARTICLEJournal of Adolescence2024

    INTRODUCTION: Exposure to community violence (ECV) continues to be a major public health problem among urban adolescents in the United States. We sought to identify subgroups of adolescents' ECV and examine how after-school activities are related to exposure subgroups across two samples. METHODS: = 16 years; 54% girls) from the After-School Activity Study (ASAS; 2015-2017) in Chicago and Detroit. RESULTS: Exploratory latent class analyses yielded…

  • “Some people will tell jokes to you; some people be racist

    Open AccessAprile D Benner, Francheska Alers-Rojas et al.ARTICLEChild Development2024

    This study examined how adolescents make meaning of racist jokes and their impact on daily well-being using a sequential mixed-methods research design with interview (N = 20; 60% girls, 5% gender-nonconforming; 45% Asian American, 40% Latina/o/x, 10% Black, 5% biracial/multiethnic) and daily diary data (N = 168; 54% girls; 57% Latina/o/x, 21% biracial/multiethnic, 10% Asian American, 9% White, 4% Black). Qualitative results revealed that racist j…

  • Understanding Latina/o adolescents’ intersectional experiences of discrimination

    Open AccessAndrea S Mora, Jaime Muñoz-Velázquez et al.ARTICLEJournal of Latinx Psychology2023

  • Examining Mothers’ Exposure to Community Violence

    Open AccessRosanne M Jocson, Francheska Alers-Rojas et al.ARTICLEChild & Youth Care Forum2022

  • What Happens After School? Linking Latino Adolescents’ Activities and Exposure to Community Violence

    Open AccessRosario Ceballo, James A Cranford et al.ARTICLEJournal of Youth and Adolescence2021Cited by: 3References: 37

  • Daily Experiences of Discrimination and Ethnic/Racial Minority Adolescents’ Sleep

    Open AccessShanting Chen, Francheska Alers‐Roja et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research on Adolescence2021Cited by: 7References: 27

    Using data from a 14-day diary study of 95 ethnic/racial minority adolescents, this study examined the within-person effect of daily discrimination tied to multiple social identities on adolescents' daily sleep quality and duration and whether daily support from important others (i.e., friends, parents, and teachers) would moderate these links. We found that daily discrimination was a low-frequency, but high-impact event associated with shorter s…

  • Latina Mothers’ Awareness of Their Children’s Exposure to Community Violence

    Open AccessFrancheska Alers-Rojas, Francheska Alers‐Roja et al.ARTICLEHispanic Journal of Behavioral…2020Cited by: 1References: 31

    This study examines (a) the degree of agreement between mother-reported child community violence exposure and children’s self-reports and whether agreement changes over time; (b) whether child gender is associated with mother-child agreement; and (c) whether greater mother-child agreement is concurrently and longitudinally associated with children’s psychological well-being. We conducted secondary data analyses using longitudinal data with a soci…

  • Religion and Spirituality

    Open AccessRosanne M Jocson, Francheska Alers-Rojas et al.ARTICLEYouth & Society2020Cited by: 7References: 53

    Using data from 223 Latino adolescents residing in poor, urban neighborhoods, we investigate whether spirituality, religious importance at home, and religious involvement moderate the relation between community violence exposure and psychological well-being. Results showed significant interaction effects between community violence exposure and spirituality/religiosity. Specifically, personal victimization and witnessing violence were associated w…

  • The Usability and Acceptability of an Adolescent mHealth HIV/STI and Drug Abuse Preventive Intervention in Primary Care

    David Córdova, Francheska Alers-Rojas et al.ARTICLEBehavioral Medicine2016

    Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)/sexually transmitted infection (STI) risk behaviors among adolescents remain significant public health concerns. Shifts in policy and advances in technology provide opportunities for researchers and clinicians to deliver and evaluate mobile-health (mHealth) prevention programs in primary care, however, research is limited. This study assessed the usability and acceptability of Storytelling 4 Empowerment-a mHealt…