Dr. Kornienko is considering applications from prospective graduate students to join the lab for the 2024-25 academic year.
Our current research projects use longitudinal and social network research design and methods to answer the following research questions:
- How do ethnic-racial, cultural, and bicultural identities inform selection and social influence processes in peer networks?
- What are the benefits and challenges of intergroup connections (i.e., across race, ethnicity, immigrant status) for adolescent and young adult development, health, and wellbeing?
- How is critical consciousness associated with social network structure and dynamics in adolescence and young adulthood?
- How do cultural assets (e.g., ethnic-racial identity development, multicultural socialization across parents, educators, and peers) and social network resources play promotive and buffering role for adolescent development and health, in general and in context of experiencing discrimination?
- How are in-person peer networks associated with social media and digital behaviors (i.e., social media addiction, digital status-seeking, and digital distress) and what are developmental consequences of these reciprocal processes?
We welcome applications from students who are interested using longitudinal and social network analysis design and methods to understand how peer social networks promote and contain the development, health, and well-being of ethnically and racially diverse and immigrant-origin youth.
Please feel free to reach out to Dr. Kornienko with any questions or to schedule a meeting to discuss the interests and questions related to graduate studies.
Selected Peer-Reviewed Posters and Presentations by Graduate and Undergraduate Students
* Student who performs research in Peer Networks & Development Lab
** Student from another faculty member’s research lab
**Maras, O., Ha, T., Kornienko, O., **Quiroz, S., *White, N., Hernández, M (2023, September). Peer contagion of adolescent digital dating abuse: A network study across social contexts. Poster presented at the Digital Media and Developing Minds International Scientific Congress, Washington, D.C.
*Bell, T. E., Kornienko, O., Hernández, M.M., & Ha. T. (2023, April). Ethnic-racial identity development is shaped by ethnic-racial and critical consciousness socialization by peers, parent, and educators. Poster presented at the Society for Research on Adolescence Biennial Meeting, San Diego, CA.
*Toth, C., Kornienko, O., **Quiroz, S., **Maras, O., Hernández M. M., & Ha, T. (2023, April). Friend homophily regarding social media addiction and digital status seeking in adolescence. Poster presented at the Society for Research on Adolescence Biennial Meeting, San Diego, CA.
**Young, D., Goldstein, T. R., & Kornienko, O. (2022, May). Critical collective: The role of friendship networks in the development of critical consciousness among HBCU students. Paper presented at the SRCD 2022 Special Topic Meeting: Construction of the ‘Other’: Development, Consequences, and Applied Implications of Racism, Prejudice, and Discrimination.
*Davila, M., Kornienko, O., Clary, L. K., & Ha, T. (2022, March). Adolescent relational aggression and internalizing symptoms in adulthood: The protective role of network centrality. Poster presented at the Society for Research on Adolescence Biennial Meeting.
*Shawkat, R., Kornienko, O., & Adams, L. M. (2019, October). A systematic review of religion and culture as predictors of social identity, psychological adjustment, and belonging among immigrants from Middle Eastern and North African countries in the United States and Europe. Poster presented at the Society for Study of Emerging Adulthood, Toronto, Canada.
*Francis, B., & Kornienko, O. (2019, May). Stress response to peer conflict: Examining mechanisms of emotion regulation and social buffering. Poster presented at American Psychological Science Association Meeting, Washington, DC.
*Davila, M., & Kornienko, O. (2021, July). Making, maintaining, and influencing friends: Examining the role of fear of negative evaluation and gender in adolescent networks. Paper presented at Networks 2021 Conference. Virtual/Washington, D.C.
*Norman E.M., Kornienko, O., *Davila, M., & Ha, T. (2021, April). The associations among aspects of ethnic-racial identity development and peer network integration in adolescence. Poster presented at the Virtual Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development
*Whitmore, S., Kornienko, O., *Davila, M., & Ha, T. (2021, April). Individual differences in appraisals of social relationships predict loneliness among ethno-racially diverse adolescents. Poster presented at the Virtual Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development