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Jochebed G. Gayles, M.S.
PAMT Pre-Doctoral Fellow, The Prevention Research Center and The Methodology Center

Address:
Department of Human Development and Family Studies
The Pennsylvania State University
113 South Henderson Building
University Park, PA 16802
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Telephone:
814-441-3338
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Jochebed G. Gayles, M.S.
Education:
M.S., The Pennsylvania State University, 2007 (Human Development and Family Studies)
B.S., San Diego State University, 2004 (Psychology)
Research Interests:
Adolescent development, happiness and well-being; parent-adolescent relationships and interaction; emotional dynamics in parent adolescent interaction; culture and social context in positive youth outcomes (goals, purpose, thriving, etc.); links among well-being and risk behaviors; methods for analyzing intra- and inter-individual change in adolescent well-being indicators; methods for analyzing dyadic data; person-specific analysis, dynamic systems modeling, and person oriented approaches to  the study of adolescent development; and person-family-based promotive interventions for positive youth development

Methodology Center Research Areas: latent class analysis, latent transition analysis
Current Projects and Collaborators:
Currently, I work with J. Douglas Coatsworth on investigating relations among parents, adolescents, socio-cultural contexts and adolescents’ well-being. I am also working with Doug Coatsworth, Mark Greenberg, and Larissa Duncan on developing and testing a coding system for observing mindful parenting during parent-adolescent interactions.

Additionally, I work with Peter Molenaar on using dynamic systems and person-specific models for studying intraindividual variation in developmental processes. We are also interested in computing models for properly accounting for nested variance in dyadic data analytic techniques.  

Honors and Awards:
  • NIH/NIDA Pre-doctoral Research Fellowship: Prevention and Methodology Training Program (The Methodology Center and Prevention Research Center, The Pennsylvania State University; T32-DA-017629)
  • Karl Freeman Petersen Graduate Award in Prevention Fellowship: Prevention Research Center at the Pennsylvania State University, September 2007-May 2008
  • Prevention Research Center Award: Prevention Research Center at the Pennsylvania State University
  • Edward and Helen Skade Hintz Graduate Educational Enhancement Award: College of Health and Human Development at the Pennsylvania State University

Publications:
Peer-reviewed Papers

Gayles, J.G., & Coatsworth, J.D. (in press). Parenting and neighborhood predictors of youth problem behaviors among Hispanic families: The moderating role of family structure.

 

Bamaca, M., & Gayles, J.G. (under review). Mexican-Origin Mother-Daughter Cultural Orientation Dissonance: Associations to Mother Daughter Relationship Factors and Psychological Adjustment in Early and Middle Adolescence.

 

Pruitt, E.-R., Gayles, J.G., Schmidt, M., Ellis, E., Aronson, K., & Carpenter, S. (under review). Doctoral student's perceptions of recruitment, mentoring, and climate at a Big 10 university.

 

Syvertsen, A., Cleveland, M., Gayles, J.G., Tibbits, M., & Faulk, M. (in preparation). Profiles of protection among adolescents.

 

Gayles, J.G., Coatsworth, J.D., E. H. Sharp, & Puschbeck, M. (in preparation). Direct and indirect effects of perceived opportunity and expressive identity on adolescent outcomes via future perspective.

 

Gayles, J.G., & Coatsworth, J.D. (in preparation). Subjective Experiences in Adolescent Leisure Activities: Application of a Person-Oriented Approach to Youth Outcomes.

 

Gayles, J.G., Davis, K. D., & McHale, S. M. (in preparation). The Implications of Daily Positive and Negative Events for Adolescents’ Emotional Well-being.

 

Gayles, J.G.  & Molenaar, P.C.M. (in preparation). Person-specific Analysis and Optimal Guidance of Developmental Processes.
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