Andrea Romero, Ph.D. 

Born in Visalia, California, Andrea Romero grew up in the Southwest United States, including Vallejo, California; Oxnard, California; El Paso, Texas; and Farmington, New Mexico. She received her B.A.(1993) in Chemistry with a minor in Psychology from Texas A & M University. She then went on to complete her master's(1995) and Ph.D.(1997) in Social Psychology from the University of Houston.  After completing her Ph.D. she worked on youth health promotion projects in the area of substance use prevention and obesity prevention at Stanford University at the Stanford Center for Research and Disease Prevention (1998-2000).  She is currently an assistant professor at the Mexican American Studies & Research Center at the University of Arizona (since 2000).  She has courtesy appointments in the Psychology Department and Family Studies and Child Development Department. She studies adolescent health with an emphasis on sources of resiliency found in ethnic identity, families and low-income neighborhoods. Her current research projects are working to prevent substance use and HIV/AIDS among Mexican American and Native American youth. 

Publications

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Romero, A.J. (in press). Orthogonal cultural identification theory. In F.T.L. Leong (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Counseling: Volume Four: Cross Cultural Counseling.  Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications. 

 

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Romero, A.J. & Ruíz, M.G. (in press). Does familism lead to increased parental monitoring?:  Protective factors for coping with risky behaviors. Journal of Child and Family Studies.  

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Romero, A.J. & Carvajal, S.C.,Valle, F., Orduña, M. (in press). Adolescent bicultural stress and its impact on mental well-being among Latinos, Asian Americans, and European Americans. Journal of Community Psychology.  

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Romero, A.J. (2005). Low-income neighborhood barriers and resources for adolescents’ physical activity. Journal of Adolescent Health, 36(3), 253-259.
 

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Romero, A.J., Robinson, T., Haydel, F., Mendoza, F. & Killen, J.D. (2004). Associations among familism, language preference, and education in Mexican American mothers and their children Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 25(1), 34-40.

 

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Romero, A.J., and Roberts, R.E.  (2003). The impact of multiple dimensions of ethnic identity on discrimination and adolescents’ self-esteem. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 33(11), 2288-2305.     

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Romero, A.J. and Roberts, R.E. (2003). Stress within a bicultural context for adolescents of Mexican descent.  Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology.  9(2). 171-184.  

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Carvajal, S.C., Hanson, C.E., Romero, A.J., & Coyle, K.C. (2002).Behavioural risk factors and protective factors in adolescents: A comparison
of Latinos and non-Latino Whites. Ethnicity and Health. 7(3), 181-193.

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Romero, A.J., Robinson, T., Kraemer, H.C., Erickson, S., Haydel, F., Mendoza, F. & Killen, J. (2001). Are perceived neighborhood hazards a barrier to physical activity in children? Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. 155(10), 1143-1148.  

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Romero, A.J., Cuéllar, I., & Roberts, R.E. (2000). Ethnocultural variables and attitudes toward cultural socialization of children. Journal of Community Psychology, 28(1), 79-89.  

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Niemann, Y.F., Romero, A.J., & Arbona, C. (2000). Effects of cultural orientation on the perception of conflict between relationship and education goals for Mexican American college students. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences. 22(1), 46-63.  

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Romero, A.J. (2000). Assessing and treating Latinos: Overview of research).  In.  I. Cuéllar and F. Paniagua (Eds.) Handbook of Multicultural Mental Health: Assessment and treatment of diverse populations (pp. 209-223). San Diego: Academic Press. 

 

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Niemann, Y.F., Romero, A.J., Arredondo, J., Rodriguez, V. (1999). What does it mean to be “Mexican”?:  Social construction of an ethnic identity. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 21(1), 47-60. 

 

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Roberts, R.E., Phinney, J.S., Masse, L.C., Chen, Y. R., Roberts, C.R., & Romero, A.J. (1999). The structure of ethnic identity of young   adolescents from diverse ethnocultural groups. Journal of Early Adolescence, 19(3), 301-322. 

 

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Romero, A.J., and Roberts, R.E. (1998). Perception of discrimination and ethnocultural variables in a diverse group of adolescents.  Journal of Adolescence, 21, 641-656.

Grants

2006-2010    Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Agency, Contract through the City of South Tucson

                      Title: City of South Tucson Drug Free Communities, Role:  Principal Investigator, Amount: $258,205 total costs.  

2004-2005     Source: National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health

                       Title: Culturally-Specific Substance Use Prevention, Role: Principal Investigator, Amount: $32,500 direct costs.  Click here for more information. 

 

2002-2005      Source:  Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Agency.

                          Title: Preventing Substance Use and HIV among Latino Adolescents, Role: Principal Investigator, Amount: $958,000 total costs.

 

 2001-2005     Source:  National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Addiction, National Institutes of Health

                        Title: Racial/ethnic differences in alcohol use in youth, Role: Co-Investigator, Amount: $348,875 direct costs.

  

2001-2004    Source:  National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health

                      Title:  Determinants of Latino/Euro American Youth's Drug Use, Role:  Co-Principal Investigator; Amount: $151,500 direct costs. 

  

Current and Previous Research Projects

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