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Selected Publications


Does Flourishing Mental Health Improve Perceived Quality of Life?

Journal Article Journal of Happiness Studies · August 1, 2025 Flourishing mental health and quality of life (QoL) are related but distinct positive indicators of wellbeing. This study examined the relationship between flourishing mental health and QoL, specifically by using longitudinal data to determine the directio ... Full text Cite

Stability and shifts in the combined positive and negative mental health of clergy: A longitudinal latent class and latent transition analysis study of united methodist pastors before and after the onset of COVID-19.

Journal Article Social science & medicine (1982) · March 2024 COVID-19 and its associated restrictions presented unprecedented challenges for those in the helping professions. In this study, we seek to understand how the mental health of those who belong to one specific helping profession - clergy - changed in the co ... Full text Cite

Women's Configurations of Family, Work, and Education: Mapping Diverse Pathways Throughout Adulthood.

Journal Article Social currents · February 2024 We investigate how women's family, work, and education statuses are configured over the life course, defining different pathways throughout adulthood. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent and Adult Health, we conduct a repeated mea ... Full text Cite

Pathways of Intergenerational Support between Parents and Children throughout Adulthood.

Journal Article Sociological perspectives : SP : official publication of the Pacific Sociological Association · December 2023 This paper examines varying patterns of exchanges in financial and residential support between parents and children. We apply a life course perspective to explore how patterns of intergenerational support unfold throughout adulthood. Using Waves 3 to 5 of ... Full text Cite

The Relationship between Young Women’s Work-Family Orientations and Educational Transitions in Early Adulthood

Journal Article Journal of Family Issues · August 1, 2021 The primary aim of this paper is to examine the links between young women’s schematic configurations about work and family with their educational attainment at critical transitions of early adulthood. More specifically, as opposed to assessing the effect o ... Full text Cite

Understanding Why Religious Involvement's Relationship With Education Varies by Social Class.

Journal Article Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · June 2019 Religiosity's impact on adolescent educational outcomes has been widely documented in the sociology of religion literature. Building upon King's conceptual framework of ideological, social, and transcendent resources that are made available to youth throug ... Full text Cite

Religious Pathways from Adolescence to Adulthood.

Journal Article Journal for the scientific study of religion · September 2017 Prior research suggests the significance of religion for development and wellbeing in adolescence and beyond. Further, new developments and applications of statistical methods have led to ways of better accounting for the multidimensional nature of religio ... Full text Cite