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Margaret Beale Spencer

Margaret Beale Spencer

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Psychology

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43
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9992
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7155
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3870

Overview

Margaret Beale Spencer is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States and specializes in the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology. Their research contributions span several interdisciplinary subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Education, Safety Research, Clinical Psychology, and Gender Studies.

Spencer's scholarly work focuses primarily on topics such as Early Childhood Education and Development, Racial and Ethnic Identity Research, Youth Development and Social Support, Critical Race Theory in Education, Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology, Social and Intergroup Psychology, and Mental Health Research Topics.

Among recent notable publications, the following papers highlight key aspects of their research agenda:

  • "Acknowledging Bias and Pursuing Protections to Support Anti-Racist Developmental Science: Critical Contributions of Phenomenological Variant of Ecological Systems Theory," 2021, Journal of Adolescent Research
  • "Interrogating multisystem intended pathways to youth thriving and resilience: Benefits of inclusive human development theoretical framing," 2023, Development and Psychopathology

Additional works linked to related research areas include:

  • "Looking through a kaleidoscope: The phenomenological ethnic-racial socialization conceptual model and its application to U.S. Black and Latino Youth and families," 2021, Journal of Social Issues
  • "The Invisibility of Power: A Cultural Ecology of Development in the Contemporary United States," 2022, Annual Review of Clinical Psychology
  • "Vulnerability and resiliency implications of human capital and linked inequality presence denial perspectives: Acknowledging Zigler's contributions to child well-being," 2021, Development and Psychopathology

Spencer frequently publishes in named venues, with multiple papers appearing in Development and Psychopathology. Other venues include the Journal of Adolescent Research, Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, Journal of Social Issues, and the Review of Research in Education.

Collaborative work features several co-authors with repeated partnerships. Frequent collaborators include Bronwyn Nichols Lodato, Jennifer Hall, Christopher Graziul, Tasneem Mandviwala, and Judith C. Scott.

Best Publications

  • Educational Risk and Resilience in African-American Youth: Context, Self, Action, and Outcomes in School

    James Patrick Connell;Margaret Beale Spencer;J. Lawrence Aber

  • A phenomenological variant of ecological systems theory (PVEST): a self-organization perspective in context.

    Margaret Beale Spencer;Davido Dupree;Tracey Hartmann

  • Identity Processes among Racial and Ethnic Minority Children in America

    Margaret Beale Spencer;Carol Markstrom-Adams

  • Phenomenology and Ecological Systems Theory: Development of Diverse Groups

    Margaret Beale Spencer

  • Identity and School Adjustment: Revisiting the "Acting White" Assumption

    Margaret Beale Spencer;Elizabeth Noll;Jill Stoltzfus;Vinay Harpalani

  • Educational risk and resilience in African-American youth: context, self, action, and outcomes in school.

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  • “Every Shut Eye Ain’t Sleep”: Studying How People Live Culturally

    Carol D. Lee;Margaret Beale Spencer;Vinay Harpalani

  • Social and cultural influences on school adjustment: The application of an identity-focused..

    Margaret Beale Spencer

  • Research ethics for mental health science involving ethnic minority children and youths

    Celia B. Fisher;Kimberly Hoagwood;Cheryl Boyce;Troy Duster

  • Children's cultural values and parental child rearing strategies☆

    Margaret Beale Spencer

  • A Theoretical and Empirical Examination of Identity as Coping: Linking Coping Resources to the Self Processes of African American Youth

    Margaret B. Spencer;Suzanne G. Fegley;Vinay Harpalani

  • Black Males' Structural Conditions, Achievement Patterns, Normative Needs, and “Opportunities”

    Dena Phillips Swanson;Michael Cunningham;Margraret Beale Spencer

  • Challenges in studying minority youth.

    Margaret Beale Spencer;Sanford M. Dornbusch

  • Understanding Vulnerability and Resilience from a Normative Developmental Perspective: Implications for Racially and Ethnically Diverse Youth

    Margaret Beale Spencer;Vinay Harpalani;Elaine Cassidy;Cleopatra Y. Jacobs

  • Phenomenology and Intersectionality: Using PVEST as a Frame for Adolescent Identity Formation amid Intersecting Ecological Systems of Inequality.

    Gabriel Velez;Margaret Beale Spencer

  • Neighborhood and family factors predicting educational risk and attainment in African-American and European-American children and adolescents

    B. Halpern-Felsher;J. Connell;M. Spencer;J. Lawrence Aber

  • Civic Engagement as an Adaptive Coping Response to Conditions of Inequality: An Application of Phenomenological Variant of Ecological Systems Theory (PVEST)

    Elan C. Hope;Margaret Beale Spencer

  • Psychosocial development in racially and ethnically diverse youth: Conceptual and methodological challenges in the 21st century

    Dena Phillips Swanson;Margaret Beale Spencer;Vinay Harpalani;Davido Dupree

  • Understanding Hypermasculinity in Context: A Theory-Driven Analysis of Urban Adolescent Males' Coping Responses

    Margaret Beale Spencer;Suzanne Fegley;Vinay Harpalani;Gregory Seaton

  • Development of Minority Children: An Introduction

    Margaret Beale Spencer

  • Black Children's Race Awareness, Racial Attitudes and Self-Concept: A Reinterpretation.

    Margaret Beale Spencer

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham University of Louisville
Luis H. Zayas
Luis H. Zayas The University of Texas at Austin
Thomas Grisso
Thomas Grisso University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Kimberly Hoagwood
Kimberly Hoagwood New York University
Celia B. Fisher
Celia B. Fisher Fordham University
J. Lawrence Aber
J. Lawrence Aber New York University
Bonnie Halpern-Felsher
Bonnie Halpern-Felsher Stanford University
Sanford M. Dornbusch
Sanford M. Dornbusch Stanford University

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