Cheryl L Somers
Biographic Data
| ID | 5740620 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cheryl L Somers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cheryl L |
| FAMILY NAME | Somers |
| SIGNATURE | SOMERS C L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wayne State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3177-301X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Emotion‐Driven Eating and Overeating Among Fourth Graders
BACKGROUND Eating patterns such as breakfast consumption and fruit and vegetable intake have been associated with academic achievement and cognitive function. METHOD The purpose of this study was to learn more about psychological (emotion‐driven eating) and behavioral (over‐eating) eating patterns and motives, and the roles of body image, academic achievement (reading and math), and social supports (peer acceptance and school attachment), among 3…
“Expect to Be Taken Out of Class”
This study explores the intersections of race, gender, and trauma in students’ school experiences. We collected focus group data from 36 trauma-exposed Black girls and 10 trauma-exposed Black boys from two urban high schools. Data was analyzed using an intersectional framework and resulted in the following themes: (1) Don’t Touch the Students; (2) You Gettin’ Suspended; (3) You Supposed to Be the Bigger Person; and (4) If We Have a Uniform, They …
Effects of a Comprehensive School Health Program on Elementary Student Academic Achievement
BACKGROUND: Improving the academic achievement of youth in the United States is an area of interest and a critical indicator of the future success of the youth. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of a comprehensive school physical activity and healthy eating program on 5th-grade students' academic achievement, specifically reading and math. METHODS: Overall, 628 (intervention: 377, 54% girls; comparison: 251, 49% girls) 5th-grade…
Development and validation of a self-assessment tool to assess resource parents’ personal attributes, knowledge, attitudes & behaviors around caring for teens (RPSAC-T)
The current study develops and evaluates the psychometric properties of a tool to assess resource parents’ (the collective term used to refer to kinship/foster/adoptive parents) knowledge, perceptions, attitudes, and skills to care for teens placed in their homes.After first engaging 34 resource parents informally for feedback on initial item creation and selection, the internal consistency and reliability of the Resource Parent Self-Assessment o…
Adolescent Achievement
This study examined the role of select intrapersonal and microsystem factors in high school adolescents’ academic achievement. A combination of factors, derived from an ecological framework, were hypothesized to be unique in their ability to explain greater proportions of variance in academic achievement in adolescents. Participants included 379 high school students (176 males, 193 females) from a mid-western high school in a large metropolitan a…
Academic achievement among a sample of youth in foster care
Research shows that youth in foster care experience poor academic performance and disciplinary actions in school more frequently than do non‐foster care youth. The purpose of this cross‐sectional study was to further examine youth in foster care and the relationship between individual/intrapersonal factors (future orientation and school connectedness) and exosystem factors (number of placement and school moves) and academic performance (grades) a…
The potential for multi-site literacy interventions to reduce summer slide among low-performing students
Use of the Monarch Room as an Alternative to Suspension in Addressing School Discipline Issues Among Court-Involved Youth
Suspension is commonly used in schools, yet these practices can adversely affect students’ education well-being and do not improve student behavior. This study assesses the use of the Monarch Room (MR) intervention, a trauma-informed alternative to school discipline suspension policies, among 620 court-involved girls placed in residential care and enrolled in an urban-located public charter school. Teachers readily utilized the intervention as a …
Considering Physical Well-Being, Self-perceptions, and Support Variables in Understanding Youth Academic Achievement
The purpose of this study was to examine the relation between measures of students’ physical well-being and self-perception and their academic achievement. Specifically, we look at students’ social support for physical activity, physical activity perceptions, self-concept, self-efficacy, health behaviors, and cardiorespiratory fitness (as measured by the progressive aerobic cardiovascular endurance run [PACER] test). Students ( n = 697 fifth grad…
Examining Trauma-Informed Teaching and the Trauma Symptomatology of Court-Involved Girls
Academic and Psychosocial Outcomes of a Physical Activity Program With Fourth Graders
The purpose was to examine academic achievement, school attachment, and peer acceptance before and after a comprehensive school-based physical activity program (CSPAP) with 378 children in 12 fourth-grade classrooms across six schools in primarily low-socioeconomic status (SES) districts of a large Midwestern metropolitan area. Both personal and normative rate of academic achievement improvement metrics were used. Overall, all students showed per…
Student perspectives on how trauma experiences manifest in the classroom
Maternal and Paternal Parenting Style Patterns and Adolescent Emotional and Behavioral Outcomes
The purpose of this study was to extend current research to examine the relationship between parenting style combinations and adolescent emotional/behavioral outcomes to further understand affective functioning in adolescents. Previous research solely analyzed mothers, without including fathers and/or both parents. The roles of temperament and adolescent and parent gender were also examined. Participants were 12- to 18-year-old students (n = 195)…
The Roles of Teasing and Social Support in Adolescent Internalizing and Externalizing Behavioral Outcomes
The Linear and Nonlinear Associations between Multiple Types of Trauma and IQ Discrepancy Indexes in African American and Iraqi Refugee Adolescents
The effects of trauma types, cumulative trauma, and PTSD on IQ in two highly traumatized adolescent groups
We investigated the relationship between trauma type, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and intelligence quotient (IQ) utilizing a development-based taxonomy of trauma in a sample of 390 African-American adolescents and Iraqi refugee adolescents. Utilizing structural equation modeling, we compared different “good-fitting” models that describe the specific relationships between different trauma types, PTSD cluster symptoms (i.e., re-experienci…
Parent-Adolescent Relationships and Adolescent Sexuality
This study examined the role of American adolescents' perceptions of both maternal and paternal parent-adolescent closeness, communication about sexuality, and comfort with sexual communication in a diverse sample of adolescents' sexual attitudes and behaviors. Participants included 672 adolescents (231 males, 413 females, 28 unreported) in the 9th to 12th grades of three public urban and suburban high schools, of varying socioeconomic status, ap…
Aggressive Content of High School Students' Tv Viewing
The purpose of this study was to examine high school students' exposure to television programming with aggressive content and to explore whether consumption of aggressive TV varied by sex and ethnicity. Participants were 472 boys and girls from two high schools, one urban and one suburban. Definitions of both direct and indirect aggression were used to rate TV programs, and the participants' exposure to both was assessed. Analysis yielded a stati…
Later Adolescents' Reactions to Three Types of Childhood Teasing
The purposes of this study were: 1) to examine how predictive three types of childhood teasing (competency, weight, and appearance) were of later self-esteem; and 2) to examine how predictive these same three variables were of later body image. Additionally, the pattern of relations for each gender was be explored. Each of these questions will be explored for males and females separately. The participants in this study were 89 female and 75 male …
Maternal and Paternal Parenting Style Patterns and Adolescent Emotional and Behavioral Outcomes
The purpose of this study was to extend current research to examine the relationship between parenting style combinations and adolescent emotional/behavioral outcomes to further understand affective functioning in adolescents. Previous research solely analyzed mothers, without including fathers and/or both parents. The roles of temperament and adolescent and parent gender were also examined. Participants were 12- to 18-year-old students (n = 195)…
Use of the Monarch Room as an Alternative to Suspension in Addressing School Discipline Issues Among Court-Involved Youth
Suspension is commonly used in schools, yet these practices can adversely affect students’ education well-being and do not improve student behavior. This study assesses the use of the Monarch Room (MR) intervention, a trauma-informed alternative to school discipline suspension policies, among 620 court-involved girls placed in residential care and enrolled in an urban-located public charter school. Teachers readily utilized the intervention as a …
Student perspectives on how trauma experiences manifest in the classroom
The Roles of Teasing and Social Support in Adolescent Internalizing and Externalizing Behavioral Outcomes
Examining Trauma-Informed Teaching and the Trauma Symptomatology of Court-Involved Girls
Adolescent Achievement
This study examined the role of select intrapersonal and microsystem factors in high school adolescents’ academic achievement. A combination of factors, derived from an ecological framework, were hypothesized to be unique in their ability to explain greater proportions of variance in academic achievement in adolescents. Participants included 379 high school students (176 males, 193 females) from a mid-western high school in a large metropolitan a…
Considering Physical Well-Being, Self-perceptions, and Support Variables in Understanding Youth Academic Achievement
The purpose of this study was to examine the relation between measures of students’ physical well-being and self-perception and their academic achievement. Specifically, we look at students’ social support for physical activity, physical activity perceptions, self-concept, self-efficacy, health behaviors, and cardiorespiratory fitness (as measured by the progressive aerobic cardiovascular endurance run [PACER] test). Students ( n = 697 fifth grad…
Later Adolescents' Reactions to Three Types of Childhood Teasing
The purposes of this study were: 1) to examine how predictive three types of childhood teasing (competency, weight, and appearance) were of later self-esteem; and 2) to examine how predictive these same three variables were of later body image. Additionally, the pattern of relations for each gender was be explored. Each of these questions will be explored for males and females separately. The participants in this study were 89 female and 75 male …
Aggressive Content of High School Students' Tv Viewing
The purpose of this study was to examine high school students' exposure to television programming with aggressive content and to explore whether consumption of aggressive TV varied by sex and ethnicity. Participants were 472 boys and girls from two high schools, one urban and one suburban. Definitions of both direct and indirect aggression were used to rate TV programs, and the participants' exposure to both was assessed. Analysis yielded a stati…
Parent-Adolescent Relationships and Adolescent Sexuality
This study examined the role of American adolescents' perceptions of both maternal and paternal parent-adolescent closeness, communication about sexuality, and comfort with sexual communication in a diverse sample of adolescents' sexual attitudes and behaviors. Participants included 672 adolescents (231 males, 413 females, 28 unreported) in the 9th to 12th grades of three public urban and suburban high schools, of varying socioeconomic status, ap…
The effects of trauma types, cumulative trauma, and PTSD on IQ in two highly traumatized adolescent groups
We investigated the relationship between trauma type, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and intelligence quotient (IQ) utilizing a development-based taxonomy of trauma in a sample of 390 African-American adolescents and Iraqi refugee adolescents. Utilizing structural equation modeling, we compared different “good-fitting” models that describe the specific relationships between different trauma types, PTSD cluster symptoms (i.e., re-experienci…
The Linear and Nonlinear Associations between Multiple Types of Trauma and IQ Discrepancy Indexes in African American and Iraqi Refugee Adolescents
The Roles of Teasing and Social Support in Adolescent Internalizing and Externalizing Behavioral Outcomes
Student perspectives on how trauma experiences manifest in the classroom
Maternal and Paternal Parenting Style Patterns and Adolescent Emotional and Behavioral Outcomes
The purpose of this study was to extend current research to examine the relationship between parenting style combinations and adolescent emotional/behavioral outcomes to further understand affective functioning in adolescents. Previous research solely analyzed mothers, without including fathers and/or both parents. The roles of temperament and adolescent and parent gender were also examined. Participants were 12- to 18-year-old students (n = 195)…
Considering Physical Well-Being, Self-perceptions, and Support Variables in Understanding Youth Academic Achievement
The purpose of this study was to examine the relation between measures of students’ physical well-being and self-perception and their academic achievement. Specifically, we look at students’ social support for physical activity, physical activity perceptions, self-concept, self-efficacy, health behaviors, and cardiorespiratory fitness (as measured by the progressive aerobic cardiovascular endurance run [PACER] test). Students ( n = 697 fifth grad…
Examining Trauma-Informed Teaching and the Trauma Symptomatology of Court-Involved Girls
Academic and Psychosocial Outcomes of a Physical Activity Program With Fourth Graders
The purpose was to examine academic achievement, school attachment, and peer acceptance before and after a comprehensive school-based physical activity program (CSPAP) with 378 children in 12 fourth-grade classrooms across six schools in primarily low-socioeconomic status (SES) districts of a large Midwestern metropolitan area. Both personal and normative rate of academic achievement improvement metrics were used. Overall, all students showed per…
Academic achievement among a sample of youth in foster care
Research shows that youth in foster care experience poor academic performance and disciplinary actions in school more frequently than do non‐foster care youth. The purpose of this cross‐sectional study was to further examine youth in foster care and the relationship between individual/intrapersonal factors (future orientation and school connectedness) and exosystem factors (number of placement and school moves) and academic performance (grades) a…
The potential for multi-site literacy interventions to reduce summer slide among low-performing students
Use of the Monarch Room as an Alternative to Suspension in Addressing School Discipline Issues Among Court-Involved Youth
Suspension is commonly used in schools, yet these practices can adversely affect students’ education well-being and do not improve student behavior. This study assesses the use of the Monarch Room (MR) intervention, a trauma-informed alternative to school discipline suspension policies, among 620 court-involved girls placed in residential care and enrolled in an urban-located public charter school. Teachers readily utilized the intervention as a …
Effects of a Comprehensive School Health Program on Elementary Student Academic Achievement
BACKGROUND: Improving the academic achievement of youth in the United States is an area of interest and a critical indicator of the future success of the youth. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of a comprehensive school physical activity and healthy eating program on 5th-grade students' academic achievement, specifically reading and math. METHODS: Overall, 628 (intervention: 377, 54% girls; comparison: 251, 49% girls) 5th-grade…
Development and validation of a self-assessment tool to assess resource parents’ personal attributes, knowledge, attitudes & behaviors around caring for teens (RPSAC-T)
The current study develops and evaluates the psychometric properties of a tool to assess resource parents’ (the collective term used to refer to kinship/foster/adoptive parents) knowledge, perceptions, attitudes, and skills to care for teens placed in their homes.After first engaging 34 resource parents informally for feedback on initial item creation and selection, the internal consistency and reliability of the Resource Parent Self-Assessment o…
Adolescent Achievement
This study examined the role of select intrapersonal and microsystem factors in high school adolescents’ academic achievement. A combination of factors, derived from an ecological framework, were hypothesized to be unique in their ability to explain greater proportions of variance in academic achievement in adolescents. Participants included 379 high school students (176 males, 193 females) from a mid-western high school in a large metropolitan a…
“Expect to Be Taken Out of Class”
This study explores the intersections of race, gender, and trauma in students’ school experiences. We collected focus group data from 36 trauma-exposed Black girls and 10 trauma-exposed Black boys from two urban high schools. Data was analyzed using an intersectional framework and resulted in the following themes: (1) Don’t Touch the Students; (2) You Gettin’ Suspended; (3) You Supposed to Be the Bigger Person; and (4) If We Have a Uniform, They …
Emotion‐Driven Eating and Overeating Among Fourth Graders
BACKGROUND Eating patterns such as breakfast consumption and fruit and vegetable intake have been associated with academic achievement and cognitive function. METHOD The purpose of this study was to learn more about psychological (emotion‐driven eating) and behavioral (over‐eating) eating patterns and motives, and the roles of body image, academic achievement (reading and math), and social supports (peer acceptance and school attachment), among 3…
Psychology (19 works) · Developmental psychology (14 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Academic achievement (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works)