College students' socioeconomic background and sleep during the first year of college.

Objective: Sleep problems can hinder adjustment to college, but limited work has evaluated whether students' socioeconomic background is related to changes in sleep across the first year of college. The goal of the present study was to evaluate whether college-related financial stress, college generational status, and subjective social status were associated with differences in sleep across the first year of college.

Methods: A total of n = 216 first-year college students (M = 18.

The Influence of Financial Stress and First-generation College Status on Changes in Inflammation and Depressive Symptoms Across the Transition to College.

Objective: Socioeconomic adversity can hinder successful adjustment to college and may contribute to disparities in health. The present study evaluated whether first-generation college student status and financial stress over college expenses predicted changes in inflammation markers and depressive symptoms across the first year of college.

Methods: At the beginning and end of the academic year, a sample of N =198 first-year college students ( Mage =18.

The significance of feeling needed and useful to family and friends for psychological well-being during adolescence.

Introduction: Social relationships offer the opportunity to provide support and resources to others. Feeling needed and useful to others has been understudied during adolescence, despite being shown to predict health and well-being during adulthood. The current study examined this underappreciated way in which family and peer relationships may shape psychological well-being during adolescence.

Youth's Experiences of the Devaluing of Their Contributions Due to Their Ethnicity and Gender.

The message that one's contributions are devalued can be a significant way that youth experience marginalization during the transition into adulthood. Participants (N = 298, M = 19.47 years, 51% female) reported having their ideas, opinions, and contributions being unwelcomed due to their ethnicity and gender.

Feeling Needed and Useful during the Transition to Young Adulthood.

A more complete understanding of the role of social relationships during the transition to young adulthood should include the extent to which adolescents believe that others see them as needed and useful. Two samples of late adolescents (Ns = 237, 298) aged 18 to 25 years completed measures of feeling needed and useful by family and friends. Feeling needed and useful by family and friends did not differ across demographic groups, was associated with greater received support, and predicted psychological well-being above-and-beyond received support.

Predictors of Caregiver Participation in an Engagement Strategy to Increase Initiation into a Family-Based Preventive Intervention.

Previous studies have shown that engagement strategies can help increase enrollment and initiation of families in evidence-based preventive programs under natural service delivery settings. However, little is known about factors that predict completion of these engagement strategies. This study aimed to examine predictors (i.