Nidia Ruedas-Gracia
Biographic Data
| ID | 89294 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nidia Ruedas-Gracia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nidia |
| FAMILY NAME | Ruedas-Gracia |
| SIGNATURE | RUEDAS-GRACIA N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4766-2709 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Vicarious Racial Discrimination and Sleep Health Among Latina/o/x/Hispanic First-Year College Students
Multilevel associations between discrimination and sleep health among ethnically and racially minoritized students during the college transition
Objectives: Ethnically and racially minoritized college students encounter various forms of discrimination, which disrupt sleep health.However, the mechanisms linking daily and chronic discrimination and sleep are less clear.This study investigated coping responses as a mediator linking discrimination and sleep at both the daily and chronic levels.Method: The analytic sample includes 482 ethnically and racially minoritized first-year college stud…
Means or Ends
People can create their own development by setting and pursuing goals. Whether people represent these goals in terms of the means (process focus) or the ends (outcome focus) is a concept known as goal focus. Past research frames goal focus as a tendency that shifts across age, with younger adults focusing on outcomes and older adults focusing on processes, but a process focus is considered more beneficial for goal-related results. However, eviden…
Taking It Day by Day
For emerging adults enrolled in higher education institutions, their sense of belonging to the university largely influences their development. However, not all students experience university belonging in the same way. There is a dearth of work identifying how students make meaning of their everyday experiences and how those experiences affect their daily university belonging. Our article draws on a mixed-methods study of students’ sense of unive…
Measures of Racial-Ethnic-Cultural (REC) Belonging
Is Belonging Stable Over Time
Sense of belonging is crucial for thriving in various contexts and must be maintained over time. However, we know little about how belonging fluctuates. In education, changes in school belonging differ by gender identity. Unfortunately, this evidence does not assess differences by racial identity or socioeconomic status. Because low belonging among students that espouse minoritized racial socioeconomic identities is a pervasive concern, it is imp…
The public psychology for liberation training model
Written against the backdrop of the 2020 twin pandemics of a global health crisis and greater national awareness of structural racism, this article issues a call for psychology to invest in training all psychologists to respond to the social ills of racial and other forms of oppression. We introduce a public psychology for liberation (PPL) training model. Essentially, the model reflects a science, a pedagogical commitment, and practice of, by, an…
Parent Educational Level and Motivation Among Native American Adolescents
School belonging and parent educational level are independently associated with student academic performance. However, few studies explore the simultaneous association between the three variables. This study examines this association among 215 Native American 9th through 12th graders. Overall, students reported an average school belonging score of 3.37 (SD = .67) out of a maximum score of 5.0. Additionally, there was a small but significant posit…
Disparate Cultural Values and Modes of Conflict Resolution in Peer Relations
We explored whether Latino first-generation college students would experience cross-cultural value conflicts as a result of the mismatch between more collectivistic values learned at home and more individualistic practices of their peers in a multiethnic college setting. Culturally structured conflict resolution styles were also explored. Participants completed a survey and thereafter engaged in a structured group discussion. Group discussions in…
The public psychology for liberation training model
Written against the backdrop of the 2020 twin pandemics of a global health crisis and greater national awareness of structural racism, this article issues a call for psychology to invest in training all psychologists to respond to the social ills of racial and other forms of oppression. We introduce a public psychology for liberation (PPL) training model. Essentially, the model reflects a science, a pedagogical commitment, and practice of, by, an…
Disparate Cultural Values and Modes of Conflict Resolution in Peer Relations
We explored whether Latino first-generation college students would experience cross-cultural value conflicts as a result of the mismatch between more collectivistic values learned at home and more individualistic practices of their peers in a multiethnic college setting. Culturally structured conflict resolution styles were also explored. Participants completed a survey and thereafter engaged in a structured group discussion. Group discussions in…
Disparate Cultural Values and Modes of Conflict Resolution in Peer Relations
We explored whether Latino first-generation college students would experience cross-cultural value conflicts as a result of the mismatch between more collectivistic values learned at home and more individualistic practices of their peers in a multiethnic college setting. Culturally structured conflict resolution styles were also explored. Participants completed a survey and thereafter engaged in a structured group discussion. Group discussions in…
Parent Educational Level and Motivation Among Native American Adolescents
School belonging and parent educational level are independently associated with student academic performance. However, few studies explore the simultaneous association between the three variables. This study examines this association among 215 Native American 9th through 12th graders. Overall, students reported an average school belonging score of 3.37 (SD = .67) out of a maximum score of 5.0. Additionally, there was a small but significant posit…
The public psychology for liberation training model
Written against the backdrop of the 2020 twin pandemics of a global health crisis and greater national awareness of structural racism, this article issues a call for psychology to invest in training all psychologists to respond to the social ills of racial and other forms of oppression. We introduce a public psychology for liberation (PPL) training model. Essentially, the model reflects a science, a pedagogical commitment, and practice of, by, an…
Measures of Racial-Ethnic-Cultural (REC) Belonging
Is Belonging Stable Over Time
Sense of belonging is crucial for thriving in various contexts and must be maintained over time. However, we know little about how belonging fluctuates. In education, changes in school belonging differ by gender identity. Unfortunately, this evidence does not assess differences by racial identity or socioeconomic status. Because low belonging among students that espouse minoritized racial socioeconomic identities is a pervasive concern, it is imp…
Taking It Day by Day
For emerging adults enrolled in higher education institutions, their sense of belonging to the university largely influences their development. However, not all students experience university belonging in the same way. There is a dearth of work identifying how students make meaning of their everyday experiences and how those experiences affect their daily university belonging. Our article draws on a mixed-methods study of students’ sense of unive…
Means or Ends
People can create their own development by setting and pursuing goals. Whether people represent these goals in terms of the means (process focus) or the ends (outcome focus) is a concept known as goal focus. Past research frames goal focus as a tendency that shifts across age, with younger adults focusing on outcomes and older adults focusing on processes, but a process focus is considered more beneficial for goal-related results. However, eviden…
Vicarious Racial Discrimination and Sleep Health Among Latina/o/x/Hispanic First-Year College Students
Multilevel associations between discrimination and sleep health among ethnically and racially minoritized students during the college transition
Objectives: Ethnically and racially minoritized college students encounter various forms of discrimination, which disrupt sleep health.However, the mechanisms linking daily and chronic discrimination and sleep are less clear.This study investigated coping responses as a mediator linking discrimination and sleep at both the daily and chronic levels.Method: The analytic sample includes 482 ethnically and racially minoritized first-year college stud…
Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Ethnic group (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Biology (2 works) · Communication in Education and Healthcare (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Higher Education Research Studies (2 works)