Sophie M Aiyer

Biographic Data

ID5125258
NAMESophie M Aiyer
GIVEN NAMESSophie M
FAMILY NAMEAiyer
SIGNATUREAIYER S M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Michigan
ORCID0000-0003-0631-9568
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS59
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX3

  • Adolescent Family Conflict as a Predictor of Relationship Quality in Emerging Adulthood

    Open AccessJustin E Heinze, Hsing‐Fang Hsieh et al.ARTICLEFamily Relations2020

    Objective This research examines the influence of adolescent family conflict on relationship quality in early and later emerging adulthood, while considering the interpersonal resources that protect youth against the intergenerational transmission of negative relationship quality. Background Family conflict during adolescence can impede the development of skills needed to maintain future productive interpersonal relationships. Positive peer and r…

  • Developmental transitions during adulthood and neighborliness

    Open AccessSophie M Aiyer, Renee Zahnow et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community Psychology2020References: 51

    Neighborliness plays a critical role in promoting social integration, and is known to positively influence health and psychosocial adjustment. We examined variation in neighborliness based on developmental transitions as well as on the neighborhood context. We examined the direct and moderating role of neighborhood factors, to determine whether the neighborhood context modified the influence of developmental transitions on neighborliness. We anal…

  • Assessing Physical Disorder in Urban Neighborhoods

    Open AccessThomas M Reischl, Allison M Krusky et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community Psychology2016Cited by: 2References: 29

    Research on neighborhood factors that influence health and crime often use neighborhood measures of geographic areas such as census tracts, wards, and postal sectors. These administratively defined areas, however, may mask the heterogeneity of neighborhood influences. In response to calls for more specific measures, we tested the reliability and validity of the Parcel Maintenance Observation Tool (PMOT)–a new measure of physical disorder on prope…

  • From Broken Windows to Busy Streets

    Open AccessSophie M Aiyer, Marc A Zimmerman et al.ARTICLEHealth Education & Behavior2015

    In the present article, we introduce a community empowerment perspective to understanding neighborhoods. A preponderance of literature exists on neighborhood risk factors for crime. Yet less is known about positive factors that make neighborhoods safe and desirable. We propose community empowerment as a conceptual foundation for understanding neighborhood factors that promote social processes, and ultimately, lead to an improvement in structural …

  • Local Scarcity of Adult Men Predicts Youth Assault Rates

    Open AccessD J Kruger, Sophie M Aiyer et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community Psychology2014Cited by: 2References: 29

    Father involvement reduces risky youth behavior at the individual level. We examine the association between the scarcity of adult men and youth violence at the Census Tract level across a small midwestern city experiencing decades of economic adversity and high rates of violence. We calculated the ratio of men to women aged 25–64 years and indicators of concentrated disadvantage across residential Census Tracts with 2000 U.S. Decennial Census dat…

  • Exposure to Violence Predicting Cortisol Response During Adolescence and Early Adulthood

    Open AccessSophie M Aiyer, Justin E Heinze et al.ARTICLEJournal of Youth and Adolescence2014Cited by: 9References: 70

  • Adolescent Resilience

    Open AccessMarc A Zimmerman, Sarah A Stoddard et al.ARTICLEChild Development Perspectives2013

    Resilience theory provides a framework for studying and understanding how some youths overcome risk exposure and guides the development of interventions for prevention using a strengths-based approach. In this article, we describe basic concepts of the theory, such as promotive factors, and distinguish assets and resources that help youths overcome the negative effects of risk exposure. We also present three models of resilience theory—compensato…

  • The Ecology of Early Childhood Risk

    Open AccessCorrie L Vilsaint, Sophie M Aiyer et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Primary Prevention2013

  • Predicting Desistance in a High‐risk Sample

    Open AccessSophie M Aiyer, Joanna L Williams et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community Psychology2013Cited by: 2References: 41

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  • The Protective Role of Ethnic Identity for Urban Adolescent Males Facing Multiple Stressors

    Open AccessJoanna L Williams, Sophie M Aiyer et al.ARTICLEJournal of Youth and Adolescence2013Cited by: 31References: 23

  • Fine motor skills and early comprehension of the world

    David W Grissmer, David Grissmer et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2010Cited by: 13

    Duncan et al. (2007) presented a new methodology for identifying kindergarten readiness factors and quantifying their importance by determining which of children's developing skills measured around kindergarten entrance would predict later reading and math achievement. This article extends Duncan et al.'s work to identify kindergarten readiness factors with 6 longitudinal data sets. Their results identified kindergarten math and reading readiness…