Sarah Enos Watamura

Biographic Data

ID6528071
NAMESarah Enos Watamura
GIVEN NAMESSarah Enos
FAMILY NAMEWatamura
SIGNATUREWATAMURA S E
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Denver
ORCID0000-0001-7860-0290
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS36
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX4

  • Physiologic stress in the classroom

    Open AccessLisa J Schlueter, Lisa Schlueter et al.ARTICLEPsychology in the Schools2024

    Extant literature has demonstrated that children's diurnal stress physiology often looks different on childcare versus home days. Specifically, children experience a rise in cortisol, rather than a decline, over the day while in full‐time care. Additionally, temperamental fit within classroom environment may influence both child and teacher cortisol and outcomes. The current study investigated whether teachers' cortisol levels ( n = 11) were asso…

  • Latina mothers’ mental health

    Open AccessThania Galvan, Eliana Hurwich‐Reiss et al.ARTICLEFamily Process2022

    The demands and stressors associated with motherhood can increase a mother's risk for mental health concerns. Latina mothers are particularly vulnerable to the relation between motherhood‐related stressors and maternal mental health given that they are at an increased risk for mental health concerns, that they are likely to have their mental health needs go unmet, and that traditional Latinx cultural values/gender roles emphasize women assuming t…

  • Stress and parenting during the global Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessSamantha M Brown, Jenalee R Doom et al.ARTICLEChild Abuse & Neglect2020

  • Family processes among Latino Early Head Start families

    Open AccessEliana Hurwich‐Reiss, Sarah Enos WatamuraARTICLEJournal of Community Psychology2019Cited by: 4References: 61

    The Family Stress Model (FSM) provides a framework for how economic pressure can impact family processes and outcomes, including parent's mental health, parenting, and child problem behaviors. Although the FSM has been widely replicated, samples disproportionately impacted by poverty, including early childhood samples and in particular Latino families with young children, have been largely excluded from FSM research. Therefore, among a sample of …

  • Evidence for a physiologic home–school gap in children of Latina immigrants

    Open AccessElly Miles, Elly M Miles et al.ARTICLEEarly Childhood Research Quarterly2018Cited by: 2References: 13

  • The effects of economic and sociocultural stressors on the well-being of children of Latino immigrants living in poverty

    Open AccessMarina M Mendoza, Julia Dmitrieva et al.ARTICLECultural Diversity & Ethnic…2017Cited by: 13References: 7

    The effects of economic hardship on the well-being of young children of Latino immigrants may depend on concurrent experiences of sociocultural stress, with detrimental effects emerging for these outcomes only when economic hardship and sociocultural stressors are high. (PsycINFO Database Record

  • The impact of program structure on cortisol patterning in children attending out-of-home child care

    Open AccessDaniel S Lumian, Julia Dmitrieva et al.ARTICLEEarly Childhood Research Quarterly2015Cited by: 4References: 3

  • Understanding cortisol reactivity across the day at child care

    Open AccessLisa S Badanes, Julia Dmitrieva et al.ARTICLEEarly Childhood Research Quarterly2011Cited by: 13References: 4