Lidia Y Monjaras‐Gaytan
Biographic Data
| ID | 5453935 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lidia Y Monjaras‐Gaytan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lidia Y |
| FAMILY NAME | Monjaras‐Gaytan |
| SIGNATURE | GAYTAN L Y M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9737-6340 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Childhood foundations of Black and Latinx adolescents’ critical consciousness
Critical consciousness (CC) among racially and ethnically marginalized youth has been linked to many aspects of well‐being. However, we lack understanding of how US children's earlier prosocial behaviors and self‐regulation may lay the foundation for their later CC during adolescence. Integrating Watts and Flanagan's framework on youth sociopolitical development (2007) and García Coll and colleagues’ (1996) integrative model of child development,…
Loneliness Among Racially Minoritized Adolescents
Loneliness is a public health concern. This cross-sectional study investigated whether racial discrimination from adults and ethnic-racial identity were associated with youth loneliness and whether ethnic-racial identity moderated the association between discrimination and loneliness. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses were conducted on survey data from 159 racially minoritized early adolescents ( M age = 12.51 years; 50% female, 49% male,…
Support systems impacting the mental health of diverse women in biomedical science programs
Biomedical doctoral trainees experience high rates of mental health distress compared to the general population. Minoritized students are particularly vulnerable to psychological stress during training due to systemic factors including discrimination, bullying, financial constraints, high workloads and constant critical feedback. As such, the mental health of minoritized biomedical trainees is both a social justice and health equity issue. We exa…
The effectiveness of providing training and ongoing support to foster cultural humility in volunteers serving as mentors to youth of color
gov -Clinical Trial #NCT05391711; original 05.21.2022; Amendment 07.01.2022: study status was updated and more details were provided on outcome measures; Amendment 11/13/2022: sample size was modified, a few mentor outcome measures were added in the 12-months survey, the timing of a mentor measure was updated
A mixed methods study of natural mentoring relationships and loneliness in emerging adulthood
The role of institutional natural mentors in first‐generation college students' social belonging and academic outcomes
One source of support that may help first‐generation college students (FGCS) complete their undergraduate studies is institutional natural mentors (e.g., university faculty, staff). Yet, few researchers have examined factors that contribute to having these relationships, and their relationship to college adjustment, among FGCS. The aim of this study was to examine whether FGCS' help‐seeking behaviors predicted the presence of institutional natura…
Emotional Distress and Access to Mental Healthcare Among First-Generation College Students During the Onset of the Covid-19 Pandemic
The shift to remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic presented significant mental health challenges for college students, particularly for students with minoritized identities. The current study used quantitative and qualitative methods to examine how psychological distress and barriers to mental healthcare shifted for first-generation college students (FGCS) as the pandemic affected campuses in Spring 2020. FGCS across three college setting…
The role of family in Latinx students’ science education and career pursuit
The roles of ethnic identity and stressors in natural mentoring support among Latinx adolescents
This study explored whether Latinx adolescents’ ethnic identity and stressful experiences predicted characteristics of their naturally-occurring mentoring relationships with non-parental adults. Ninth-grade Latinx students completed surveys about ethnic identity, stress exposure, and their natural mentoring relationships during 9th and 10th grade. Youth who showed greater ethnic identity exploration in 9th grade perceived more support from mentor…
Developing natural mentoring relationships among Latinx youth
Mentoring is one avenue to support Latinx adolescents in their positive development. The current study examined the roles of stressors and interpersonal trust toward adults in the formation and quality (instrumental and relational) of natural mentoring relationships. Participants were 347 Latinx adolescents who were surveyed in the 9th and 10th grades. Analyses demonstrated that more trust toward adults in 9th grade was not significantly associat…
Everyday Acts of Resistance
Study aims were to examine oppression in education among Mexican immigrant youth with undocumented status and how mentors and other adults helped them resist oppression. Qualitative, narrative one-on-one interviews were conducted with 17 Mexican immigrant young adults with undocumented or DACA status in the U.S. Participants provided retrospective accounts from childhood through older adolescence. Analyses revealed critical junctures in which par…
Historically underrepresented college students and institutional natural mentors
Despite studies examining outcomes associated with having a natural mentoring relationship with an institutional agent in a higher education setting, few studies have investigated the formation of these relationships among historically underrepresented college students. Institutional agents refer to any instructor, staff, or administrator on the college campus. This cross‐sectional study used an ecological approach to explore the factors associat…
Graduate student workload
The COVID‐19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the lives of graduate student workers within university settings. At a large Midwestern private university, a Psychology Graduate Student Association (PsychGSA) identified that, in response to the pandemic, different levels of accommodations were being provided by faculty to graduate students. The PsychGSA conducted an evaluative survey that captured the experiences of 50 graduate students in …
Act, Talk, Reflect, Then Act
The current mixed‐method study examined the role of natural mentors in the cyclical process of college students’ sociopolitical development, particularly their critical consciousness. College students ( N = 145) completed surveys at two time points over a one‐year period. Path analyses indicated that critical action and perceived inequalities were significantly associated with more social justice conversations with mentors and that having more so…
Helping me helps us
This research investigated the potential contributions of natural mentoring relationships and ethnic identity to the academic attitudes and performance of Latinx high school students. In a sample of 347 urban Latinx students in grades 9 and 10, analyses examined the presence and quality of mentoring relationships as well as ethnic identity exploration and affirmation as predictors of changes in grade point average and the perceived economic value…
Helping me helps us
This research investigated the potential contributions of natural mentoring relationships and ethnic identity to the academic attitudes and performance of Latinx high school students. In a sample of 347 urban Latinx students in grades 9 and 10, analyses examined the presence and quality of mentoring relationships as well as ethnic identity exploration and affirmation as predictors of changes in grade point average and the perceived economic value…
Everyday Acts of Resistance
Study aims were to examine oppression in education among Mexican immigrant youth with undocumented status and how mentors and other adults helped them resist oppression. Qualitative, narrative one-on-one interviews were conducted with 17 Mexican immigrant young adults with undocumented or DACA status in the U.S. Participants provided retrospective accounts from childhood through older adolescence. Analyses revealed critical junctures in which par…
Act, Talk, Reflect, Then Act
The current mixed‐method study examined the role of natural mentors in the cyclical process of college students’ sociopolitical development, particularly their critical consciousness. College students ( N = 145) completed surveys at two time points over a one‐year period. Path analyses indicated that critical action and perceived inequalities were significantly associated with more social justice conversations with mentors and that having more so…
Historically underrepresented college students and institutional natural mentors
Despite studies examining outcomes associated with having a natural mentoring relationship with an institutional agent in a higher education setting, few studies have investigated the formation of these relationships among historically underrepresented college students. Institutional agents refer to any instructor, staff, or administrator on the college campus. This cross‐sectional study used an ecological approach to explore the factors associat…
Emotional Distress and Access to Mental Healthcare Among First-Generation College Students During the Onset of the Covid-19 Pandemic
The shift to remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic presented significant mental health challenges for college students, particularly for students with minoritized identities. The current study used quantitative and qualitative methods to examine how psychological distress and barriers to mental healthcare shifted for first-generation college students (FGCS) as the pandemic affected campuses in Spring 2020. FGCS across three college setting…
Helping me helps us
This research investigated the potential contributions of natural mentoring relationships and ethnic identity to the academic attitudes and performance of Latinx high school students. In a sample of 347 urban Latinx students in grades 9 and 10, analyses examined the presence and quality of mentoring relationships as well as ethnic identity exploration and affirmation as predictors of changes in grade point average and the perceived economic value…
Act, Talk, Reflect, Then Act
The current mixed‐method study examined the role of natural mentors in the cyclical process of college students’ sociopolitical development, particularly their critical consciousness. College students ( N = 145) completed surveys at two time points over a one‐year period. Path analyses indicated that critical action and perceived inequalities were significantly associated with more social justice conversations with mentors and that having more so…
Developing natural mentoring relationships among Latinx youth
Mentoring is one avenue to support Latinx adolescents in their positive development. The current study examined the roles of stressors and interpersonal trust toward adults in the formation and quality (instrumental and relational) of natural mentoring relationships. Participants were 347 Latinx adolescents who were surveyed in the 9th and 10th grades. Analyses demonstrated that more trust toward adults in 9th grade was not significantly associat…
Everyday Acts of Resistance
Study aims were to examine oppression in education among Mexican immigrant youth with undocumented status and how mentors and other adults helped them resist oppression. Qualitative, narrative one-on-one interviews were conducted with 17 Mexican immigrant young adults with undocumented or DACA status in the U.S. Participants provided retrospective accounts from childhood through older adolescence. Analyses revealed critical junctures in which par…
Historically underrepresented college students and institutional natural mentors
Despite studies examining outcomes associated with having a natural mentoring relationship with an institutional agent in a higher education setting, few studies have investigated the formation of these relationships among historically underrepresented college students. Institutional agents refer to any instructor, staff, or administrator on the college campus. This cross‐sectional study used an ecological approach to explore the factors associat…
Graduate student workload
The COVID‐19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the lives of graduate student workers within university settings. At a large Midwestern private university, a Psychology Graduate Student Association (PsychGSA) identified that, in response to the pandemic, different levels of accommodations were being provided by faculty to graduate students. The PsychGSA conducted an evaluative survey that captured the experiences of 50 graduate students in …
The role of family in Latinx students’ science education and career pursuit
The roles of ethnic identity and stressors in natural mentoring support among Latinx adolescents
This study explored whether Latinx adolescents’ ethnic identity and stressful experiences predicted characteristics of their naturally-occurring mentoring relationships with non-parental adults. Ninth-grade Latinx students completed surveys about ethnic identity, stress exposure, and their natural mentoring relationships during 9th and 10th grade. Youth who showed greater ethnic identity exploration in 9th grade perceived more support from mentor…
Emotional Distress and Access to Mental Healthcare Among First-Generation College Students During the Onset of the Covid-19 Pandemic
The shift to remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic presented significant mental health challenges for college students, particularly for students with minoritized identities. The current study used quantitative and qualitative methods to examine how psychological distress and barriers to mental healthcare shifted for first-generation college students (FGCS) as the pandemic affected campuses in Spring 2020. FGCS across three college setting…
Support systems impacting the mental health of diverse women in biomedical science programs
Biomedical doctoral trainees experience high rates of mental health distress compared to the general population. Minoritized students are particularly vulnerable to psychological stress during training due to systemic factors including discrimination, bullying, financial constraints, high workloads and constant critical feedback. As such, the mental health of minoritized biomedical trainees is both a social justice and health equity issue. We exa…
The effectiveness of providing training and ongoing support to foster cultural humility in volunteers serving as mentors to youth of color
gov -Clinical Trial #NCT05391711; original 05.21.2022; Amendment 07.01.2022: study status was updated and more details were provided on outcome measures; Amendment 11/13/2022: sample size was modified, a few mentor outcome measures were added in the 12-months survey, the timing of a mentor measure was updated
A mixed methods study of natural mentoring relationships and loneliness in emerging adulthood
The role of institutional natural mentors in first‐generation college students' social belonging and academic outcomes
One source of support that may help first‐generation college students (FGCS) complete their undergraduate studies is institutional natural mentors (e.g., university faculty, staff). Yet, few researchers have examined factors that contribute to having these relationships, and their relationship to college adjustment, among FGCS. The aim of this study was to examine whether FGCS' help‐seeking behaviors predicted the presence of institutional natura…
Childhood foundations of Black and Latinx adolescents’ critical consciousness
Critical consciousness (CC) among racially and ethnically marginalized youth has been linked to many aspects of well‐being. However, we lack understanding of how US children's earlier prosocial behaviors and self‐regulation may lay the foundation for their later CC during adolescence. Integrating Watts and Flanagan's framework on youth sociopolitical development (2007) and García Coll and colleagues’ (1996) integrative model of child development,…
Loneliness Among Racially Minoritized Adolescents
Loneliness is a public health concern. This cross-sectional study investigated whether racial discrimination from adults and ethnic-racial identity were associated with youth loneliness and whether ethnic-racial identity moderated the association between discrimination and loneliness. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses were conducted on survey data from 159 racially minoritized early adolescents ( M age = 12.51 years; 50% female, 49% male,…
Psychology (10 works) · Mentoring and Academic Development (9 works) · Youth Development and Social Support (5 works) · Career Development and Diversity (4 works) · Higher Education Research Studies (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works)