Gerald G Strait

Biographic Data

ID9520737
NAMEGerald G Strait
GIVEN NAMESGerald G
FAMILY NAMEStrait
SIGNATURESTRAIT G G
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Houston - Clear Lake
ORCID0000-0003-1799-8631
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS22
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX3

  • Artificial intelligence in scale development

    Open AccessJohn Terry, Gerald Strait et al.ARTICLECurrent Psychology2025

    The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) presents a unique opportunity to enhance research capacity, yet rigorous evaluation of AI in psychological science is essential. This study explores the application of ChatGPT version 3.5 for developing survey items and compares their psychometric properties to those of a validated instrument measuring the construct of grit. In Study 1, an exploratory factor analysis with 180 college students revealed that…

  • School‐based motivational interviewing

    Open AccessTe Qi, Gill Strait et al.ARTICLEPsychology in the Schools2025

    The student check‐up (SCU) is a brief school‐based motivational interviewing intervention developed to promote academic‐related behavioral changes and to increase accessibility to mental health services. Despite published randomized controlled trials demonstrating SCU's effectiveness in promoting student self‐efficacy in academic efforts, the SCU's impact on student grade outcome has been inconsistent across studies. This study examines whether s…

  • Childhood maltreatment, mindfulness, and the mediating role of rumination in college students

    Open AccessStephen W Fox, Valerie Morgan et al.ARTICLECurrent Psychology2024

    Childhood maltreatment has been associated with a myriad of challenges in later life, including difficulties related to cognitive processing, emotional regulation, social-behavioral functioning, and academic achievement. The current study investigated how childhood maltreatment may affect college students by examining the interrelationship of important variables known to be associated with maltreatment: trait mindfulness and rumination. Data was …

  • State mindfulness mediates relation between brief mindfulness training and sustained engagement with social stressor across social anxiety levels

    Open AccessDiana Stinson, Diana C Stinson et al.ARTICLECurrent Psychology2024

  • Paraprofessionals use of group school‐based instrumental mentoring

    Open AccessGerald G Strait, Jenna Turner et al.ARTICLEPsychology in the Schools2020

    Many schools use paraprofessionals to implement and monitor interventions. Though paraprofessionals are cost‐effective, many questions remain about the training and skills they need to implement a wide array of school‐based interventions. In this study, we compare paraprofessionals' (i.e., undergraduates) implementation of the Group‐Academic Mentoring Program for Education Development (Group‐AMPED) to school psychology graduate students' implemen…

  • Brief Instrumental School‐based Mentoring for First‐ and Second‐year Middle School Students

    Open AccessSamuel D Mcquillin, Samuel McQuillin et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community Psychology2015Cited by: 8References: 21

    A limitation of school‐based mentoring (SBM) is the lack of structured, evidence‐based practices in mentoring sessions that explicitly target school‐relevant outcomes, such as academic performance and school behavior. To address this concern, we developed and experimentally evaluated a brief SBM program based on practices adapted from evidence‐based counseling and academic interventions with the goal of improving the academic and behavioral perfo…

  • Motivational Interviewing to Improve Middle School Students’ Academic Performance

    Open AccessJohn R Terry, John Terry et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community Psychology2013Cited by: 1References: 7

    Motivational interviewing (MI) is brief therapy originally designed to motivate adults to change risky or dysfunctional behavior. There is a push to use MI with middle and high school students; however, current research focuses on MI with families or teachers or to support program fidelity. In one of the few randomized studies, Strait et al. (2012) found one MI session produced statistically significant changes in middle school students’ math gra…

  • A Randomized Trial of Motivational Interviewing to Improve Middle School Students’ Academic Performance

    Open AccessGerald G Strait, Bradley H Smith et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community Psychology2012Cited by: 5References: 8

    Motivational interviewing (MI) is an effective method of promoting change in adults, but research on adolescents is limited. This study tests the efficacy of MI for promoting academic achievement in middle school students. Participants were 103 6th‐, 7th, and 8th‐grade students randomly assigned to either a MI (n = 50) or a waitlist control condition (n = 53). Students in the MI condition participated in a single MI session during the 7 th or 8 t…

  • Randomized evaluation of a single semester transitional mentoring program for first year middle school students

    Open AccessSamuel D Mcquillin, Samuel McQuillin et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community Psychology2011Cited by: 8References: 18

    School-based youth mentoring is popular in the United States. There are reasons to believe that school-based mentoring might be beneficial, but research has found primarily small effects and some negative effects. This study describes a formal evaluation of a single semester mentoring program that was implemented within the context of a school-university-community partnership. Middle school students were randomly assigned to a school-based mentor…