Lauren A Tighe

Biographic Data

ID5760062
NAMELauren A Tighe
GIVEN NAMESLauren A
FAMILY NAMETighe
SIGNATURETIGHE L A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Michigan
ORCID0000-0001-7177-3770
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS30
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Economic hardship trajectories of college‐educated families living in or near poverty

    Open AccessLauren A Tighe, Pamela Davis‐keanARTICLEFamily Relations2024

  • Does adding parent education and workforce training to Head Start promote or interfere with children's development

    Open AccessTerri J Sabol, Elise Chor et al.ARTICLEChild Development2024

    This study explores the effects of the two-generation program CareerAdvance—which combines education and training for parents in healthcare with Head Start for children—on children's academic, language, mathematics, and inhibitory control followed for 3 years. The sample (collected in Tulsa, Oklahoma from 2011 to 2018) includes 147 children in the CareerAdvance group and 139 children in a matched comparison group (n = 286; 40% Black, 17%, White, …

  • The effects of a two-generation English as a second language (ESL) intervention on immigrant parents and children in Head Start

    Teresa Eckrich Sommer, Lauren A Tighe et al.ARTICLEApplied Developmental Science2024

    We present results of a randomized control trial of a two-generation English as a Second Language (ESL) program in which all families participated in Head Start while treatment parents also enrolled in a high dosage, family-focused ESL curriculum with supportive services. Examining 197 parent-child dyads among Spanish- (89%) and Zomi-speaking (11%) immigrant families, we found improvements in participant parents’ English reading skills and engage…

  • The Role of Parent Educational Attainment in Parenting and Children’s Development

    Open AccessPamela Davis‐kean, Lauren A Tighe et al.ARTICLECurrent Directions in Psychological…2021

    Socioeconomic status (SES)—indexed via parent educational attainment, parent occupation, and family income—is a powerful predictor of children’s developmental outcomes. Variations in these resources predict large academic disparities among children from different socioeconomic backgrounds that persist over the years of schooling, perpetuating educational inequalities across generations. In this article, we provide an overview of a model that has …

  • Intergenerational ambivalence in adolescence and early adulthood

    Open AccessLauren A Tighe, Kira S Birditt et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2016Cited by: 7References: 5

    The parent-child relationship is often characterized by ambivalence, defined as the simultaneous experience of positive and negative relationship quality. This study examines reports of intergenerational ambivalence in 3 developmental periods: adolescence, emerging adulthood, and young adulthood, as well as its implications for depressive symptoms over a 12-year period. Participants ages 13 to 29 (n = 255) were interviewed in 1992 and again in 20…

  • Intergenerational Relationship Quality Across Three Generations

    Kira S Birditt, Lauren A Tighe et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2012Cited by: 23References: 11

    Findings are consistent with the intergenerational stake hypothesis and only partially consistent with the theory of intergenerational transmission. Overall, this study suggests that there is greater within-family variability than similarities in how family members feel about one another