Underline indicates graduate student collaborator. *Indicates undergraduate student collaborator.
2025
Sladek, M. R., Martinez-Fuentes, S., Wantchekon, K. A., Aguilar, G., & Umaña-Taylor, A. J. (2025). Ethnic-racial discrimination, identity, and out-group contact: A systematic review of daily process studies. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000735
2024
Aguilar, G., Wantchekon, K. A., Sladek, M. R., McDermott, E. R., Betancur Castrillón, S., Uribe Tirado, L. M., Tilano Vega, L. M., Safa, M. D., & Umaña-Taylor, A. J. (2024). Ethnic-racial identity, discrimination experiences, and academic adjustment among Colombian adolescents. Comparative Education Review, 68(4), https://doi.org/10.1086/733483
Umaña-Taylor, A. J. , Sladek, M. R., & Safa, M. D. (2024). Teachers’ implementation of the Identity Project is associated with increases in U.S. high school students’ ethnic-racial identity exploration. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 53, 2510-2533. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-024-01955-2 (*Access to read article here)
Satterthwaite-Freiman, M., Wantchekon, K. A., Aguilar, G., Sladek, M. R., Ison, A., Mason, P., Soto-Shed, E., & Umaña-Taylor, A. J. (2024). The challenges of engaging in conversations and activities focused on race, ethnicity, and identity in the classroom: Learning from U.S. based teachers. Identity, 24, 353-378. https://doi.org/10.1080/15283488.2024.2340489
Sladek, M. R., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Neville, H. A., Ison, A., Martinez-Fuentes, S., Mason, P., Park, Y., Safa, M. D., Satterthwaite-Freiman, M., Soto-Shed, E., & Wantchekon, K. A. (2024). Professional development for providing time and opportunities for change in U.S. teachers’ ethnic-racial identity. Identity, 24, 331-352. https://doi.org/10.1080/15283488.2024.2366892
Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Sladek, M. R., Safa, M. D., Uribe Tirado, L. M., & Tilano Vega, L. M. (2024). Examining ethnic-racial identity development and adjustment among Colombian adolescents. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 93, 101672. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2024.101672 (*open access link)
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2023
Sladek, M. R., Gusman, M., & Doane, L. D. (2023). Ethnic-Racial identity developmental trajectories across the transition to college. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 52, 61-75. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-022-01724-z (*Access to read article here)
Satterthwaite-Freiman, M., Sladek, M. R., Wantchekon, K. A., Rivas-Drake, D., & Umaña-Taylor, A. J. (2023). Examining ethnic-racial identity negative affect, centrality, and intergroup attitudes among White adolescents. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 52, 880-898. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-022-01680-8
Ison, A., Satterthwaite-Freiman, M., Sladek, M. R., & Umaña-Taylor, A. J. (2023). The role of family ethnic socialization and generational status in White adolescents’ ethnic-racial identity development. Journal of Adolescent Research. Advance online publication. http://doi.org/10.1177/07435584231166118
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2021-2022
Sladek, M. R., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Hardesty, J. L., Aguilar, G., Bates, D., Bayless, S. D., Gomez, E., Hur, C. K., Ison, A., Jones, S., Luo, H., Satterthwaite-Freiman, M., & Vázquez, M. A. (2022). “So, like, it’s all a mix of one”: Intersecting contexts of adolescents’ ethnic-racial socialization. Child Development, 93, 1284-1303. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13756
Wantchekon, K. A., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., McDermott, E. R., Sladek, M. R., Rivas-Drake, D., Agi, A., & Satterthwaite-Freiman, M. (2022). Comparing relations of ethnic-racial public regard, centrality, and intergroup contact attitudes among ethno-racially diverse adolescents. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 25(4), 833-852. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430220987599
Wantchekon, K. A., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Sladek, M. R., McDermott, E. R., & Updegraff, K. A. (2021). Adolescents’ ethnic-racial centrality moderates effect of school-based intervention on ethnic-racial identity exploration. Developmental Psychology, 57(3), 432-442. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001150
Anderson, S. F., Sladek, M. R., Doane, L. D. (2021). Negative affect reactivity to stress and internalizing symptoms over the transition to college for Latinx adolescents: Buffering role of family support. Development and Psychopathology, 33(4), 1322-1337. https://doi.org/10.1017/S095457942000053X
Martinez-Fuentes, S., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Jager, J., McDermott, E. R., & Sladek, M. R. (2021). Measurement equivalence testing of the American Identity Questionnaire across Black, Latino, and White adolescents. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 27(3), 376-385. https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000439
Sladek, M. R., Castro, S. C., & Doane, L. D. (2021). Ethnic-Racial discrimination experiences predict Latinx adolescents’ physiological stress processes across college transition. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 128, 105212. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2021.105212
Sladek, M. R., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Wantchekon, K. A., McDermott, E. R., & Updegraff, K. A. (2021). Contextual moderators of a school-based ethnic-racial identity intervention: The roles of family ethnic socialization and ethnic-racial background. Prevention Science, 22(3), 378-385. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-020-01166-8
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2019-2020
Sladek, M. R., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Oh, G., Spang, M. B., Uribe Tirado, L. M., Tilano Vega, L. M., McDermott, E. R., & Wantchekon, K. A. (2020). Ethnic-racial discrimination experiences and ethnic-racial identity predict adolescents’ psychosocial adjustment: Evidence for a compensatory risk-resilience model. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 44(5), 433-440. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165025420912013
Sladek, M. R., Doane, L. D., Luecken, L. J., Gonzales, N. A., & Grimm, K. J. (2020). Reducing cultural mismatch: Latino students’ neuroendocrine and affective stress responses following cultural diversity and inclusion reminder. Hormones and Behavior, 120, 104681. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2020.104681
Martinez-Fuentes., S., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Jager, J., Seaton, E. K., & Sladek, M. R. (2020). An examination of ethnic-racial identity and U.S. American identity among Black, Latino, and White adolescents. Identity, 20(3), 208-223. https://doi.org/10.1080/15283488.2020.1784177
Sladek, M. R., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., McDermott, E. R., Rivas-Drake, D., & Martinez-Fuentes, S. (2020). Testing invariance of ethnic-racial discrimination and identity measures for adolescents across ethnic-racial groups and contexts. Psychological Assessment, 32(6), 509-526. https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0000805
Sladek, M. R., Doane, L. D., & Park, H. (2020). Latino adolescents’ daily bicultural stress and sleep: Gender and school context moderation. Health Psychology, 39(3), 179-189. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0000824
Sladek, M. R., Doane, L. D., & Breitenstein, R. S. (2020). Daily rumination about stress, sleep, and diurnal cortisol activity. Cognition and Emotion, 34(2), 188-200. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2019.1601617
Hagan, M. J., Sladek, M. R., Luecken, L. J., & Doane, L. D. (2020). Event-related clinical distress in college students: Responses to the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Journal of American College Health, 68(1), 21-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2018.1515763
Sladek, M. R., Doane, L. D., Gonzales, N. A., Grimm, K. J., & Luecken, L. J. (2019). Latino adolescents’ cultural values associated with diurnal cortisol activity. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 109, 104403. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2019.104403
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2016-2018
Doane, L. D., Sladek, M. R., Breitenstein, R. S., Park, H., Castro, S. C., & Kennedy, J. L. (2018). Cultural neurobiology and the family: Evidence from the daily lives of Latino adolescents. Development and Psychopathology, 30(5), 1779-1796. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579418001104
Kroon Van Diest, A. M., Perez, M., *Smith, H., & Sladek, M. R. (2018). Body dissatisfaction and its correlates in 5- to 7-year-old girls: A social learning experiment. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 47(5), 757-769. https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2016.1157758
Sladek, M. R., Salk, R. H., & Engeln, R. (2018). Negative body talk measures for Asian, Latina(o), and White women and men: Measurement equivalence and associations with ethnic-racial identity. Body Image, 25, 66-77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2018.02.005
*Smith, H., Perez, M., Sladek, M. R., Becker, C. B., Ohrt, T. K., & Bruening, A. B. (2017). Development and validation of makeup and sexualized clothing questionnaires. Journal of Eating Disorders, 5, 39-52. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40337-017-0171-1 3-year
Hilt, L. M., Sladek, M. R., Doane, L. D., & Stroud, C. B. (2017). Daily and trait rumination: Diurnal cortisol patterns in adolescent girls. Cognition and Emotion, 31(8), 1757-1767. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2016.1262332
Tavernier, R., Heissel, J. A., Sladek, M. R., Grant, K. E., & Adam, E. K. (2017). Adolescents’ technology and face-to-face time use predict objective sleep outcomes. Sleep Health, 3(4), 276-283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleh.2017.04.005
Sladek, M. R., Doane, L. D., & Stroud, C. B. (2017). Individual and day-to-day differences in active coping predict diurnal cortisol patterns among early adolescent girls. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 46, 121-135. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-016-0591-2 IF = 4.501
Sladek, M. R., Doane, L. D., Jewell, S. L., & Luecken, L. J. (2017). Social support coping style predicts women’s cortisol in the laboratory and daily life: The moderating role of social attentional biases. Anxiety, Stress, & Coping, 30(1), 66-81. https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2016.1181754
Sladek, M. R., Doane, L. D., Luecken, L. J., & Eisenberg, N. (2016). Perceived stress, coping, and cortisol reactivity in daily life: A study of adolescents during the first year of college. Biological Psychology, 117, 8-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2016.02.003
*Drake, E. C., Sladek, M. R., & Doane, L. D (2016). Daily cortisol activity, loneliness, and coping efficacy in late adolescence: A longitudinal study of the transition to college. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 40(4), 334-345. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165025415581914
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2013-2015
Doane, L. D., Chen, F. R., Sladek, M. R., Van Lenten, S. A., & Granger, D. A. (2015). Latent trait cortisol (LTC) levels: Reliability, validity, and stability. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 55, 21-35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2015.01.017
Sladek, M. R., & Doane, L. D. (2015). Daily diary reports of social connection, objective sleep, and the cortisol awakening response during adolescents’ first year of college. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 44, 298-316. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-014-0244-2
Sladek, M. R., Engeln, R., & Miller, S. A. (2014). Development and validation of the Male Body Talk Scale: A psychometric investigation. Body Image, 11(3), 233-244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2014.02.005
Engeln, R., Sladek, M. R., & Waldron, H. (2013). Body talk among college men: Content, correlates, and effects. Body Image, 10(3), 300-308. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2013.02.001
