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Rashmita S. Mistry is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their published research primarily falls under the broader domain of Social Sciences, with a significant focus on subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Education, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Their scholarly contributions encompass several main topics, including:

  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Critical Race Theory in Education
  • Parental Involvement in Education

Mistry's recent papers reflect this thematic scope. Notable publications include:

  • "Child Development During the COVID-19 Pandemic Through a Life Course Theory Lens" (2020), published in Child Development Perspectives
  • "Fostering anti-racism in white children and youth: Development within contexts." (2022), published in American Psychologist
  • "It's All in the Family: Parents' Economic Worries and Youth's Perceptions of Financial Stress and Educational Outcomes" (2021), published in Journal of Youth and Adolescence
  • "Advancing developmental intergroup perspectives on social class" (2021), published in Child Development Perspectives
  • "Being colorblind is one of the worst things": White teachers' attitudes and ethnic-racial socialization in a rural elementary school" (2021), published in Journal of Social Issues

The most frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Journal of Youth and Adolescence
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Child Development Perspectives
  • American Psychologist
  • Journal of Social Issues

Their collaborative network consists notably of the following frequent coauthors:

  • Laura Elenbaas (6 joint publications)
  • Taylor Hazelbaker (4 joint publications)
  • Anna M. Kimura (3 joint publications)
  • Aprile D. Benner (2 joint publications)
  • Lindsey Nenadal (2 joint publications)

Best Publications

  • Economic well-being and children's social adjustment: The role of family process in an ethnically diverse low-income sample

    Rashmita S. Mistry;Elizabeth A. Vandewater;Aletha C. Huston;Vonnie C. McLoyd

  • Congruence of Mother and Teacher Educational Expectations and Low-Income Youth's Academic Competence.

    Aprile D. Benner;Rashmita S. Mistry

  • Best Practices in Conceptualizing and Measuring Social Class in Psychological Research

    Matthew A. Diemer;Rashmita S. Mistry;Martha E. Wadsworth;Irene López

  • Family and social risk, and parental investments during the early childhood years as predictors of low-income children's school readiness outcomes

    Rashmita S. Mistry;Aprile D. Benner;Jeremy C. Biesanz;Shaunna L. Clark

  • Work-based antipoverty programs for parents can enhance the school performance and social behavior of children.

    Aletha C. Huston;Greg J. Duncan;Robert Granger;Johannes Bos

  • Economic disadvantage, family dynamics, and adolescent enrollment in higher education.

    Robert Crosnoe;Rashmita S. Mistry;Glen H. Elder

  • Family income and its relation to preschool children's adjustment for families in the NICHD Study of Early Child Care.

    Rashmita S. Mistry;Jeremy C. Biesanz;Lorraine C. Taylor;Margaret Burchinal

  • Socioeconomic status, parental investments, and the cognitive and behavioral outcomes of low-income children from immigrant and native households

    Rashmita S. Mistry;Jeremy C. Biesanz;Nina Chien;Carollee Howes

  • Discerning direct and mediated effects of ecological structures and processes on adolescents' educational outcomes.

    Aprile D. Benner;Sandra Graham;Rashmita S. Mistry

  • Expanding the Family Economic Stress Model: Insights From a Mixed‐Methods Approach

    Rashmita S. Mistry;Edward D. Lowe;Aprile D. Benner;Nina Chien

  • Social status as a predictor of race and gender stereotypes in late childhood and early adolescence

    Stephanie J. Rowley;Beth Kurtz-Costes;Rashmita Mistry;Laura Feagans

  • Family economic stress and academic well-being among Chinese-American youth: The influence of adolescents’ perceptions of economic strain.

    Rashmita S. Mistry;Aprile D. Benner;Connie S. Tan;Su Yeong Kim

  • Child Development During the COVID-19 Pandemic Through a Life Course Theory Lens

    Aprile D. Benner;Rashmita S. Mistry

  • A longitudinal study of the simultaneous influence of mothers' and teachers' educational expectations on low-income youth's academic achievement

    Rashmita S. Mistry;Elizabeth S. White;Aprile D. Benner;Virginia W. Huynh

  • Elementary School Children's Reasoning About Social Class: A Mixed-Methods Study

    Rashmita S. Mistry;Christia Spears Brown;Elizabeth S. White;Kirby A. Chow

  • An Integrated Conceptual Framework for the Development of Asian American Children and Youth

    Jayanthi Mistry;Jin Li;Hirokazu Yoshikawa;Vivian Tseng

  • Gender-Role Cognition in Three-Year-Old Boys and Girls.

    Marion O'Brien;Vicki Peyton;Rashmita Mistry;Ludmila Hruda

  • Socioeconomic status and receptive vocabulary development: Replication of the parental investment model with Chilean preschoolers and their families

    Catherine H. Coddington;Rashmita S. Mistry;Alison L. Bailey

  • Geographic Variations in Cost of Living: Associations With Family and Child Well-Being

    Nina C. Chien;Rashmita S. Mistry

  • Increasing the Complexity of Young Adolescents’ Beliefs About Poverty and Inequality: Results of an 8th Grade Social Studies Curriculum Intervention

    Rashmita S. Mistry;Christia Spears Brown;Kirby A. Chow;Geri S. Collins

Frequent Co-Authors

Christia Spears Brown
Christia Spears Brown University of Kentucky
Aprile D. Benner
Aprile D. Benner The University of Texas at Austin
Hirokazu Yoshikawa
Hirokazu Yoshikawa New York University
Vonnie C. McLoyd
Vonnie C. McLoyd University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Matthew A. Diemer
Matthew A. Diemer University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jeremy C. Biesanz
Jeremy C. Biesanz University of British Columbia
Aletha C. Huston
Aletha C. Huston The University of Texas at Austin
Carollee Howes
Carollee Howes University of California, Los Angeles
Martha E. Wadsworth
Martha E. Wadsworth Pennsylvania State University
Elizabeth T. Gershoff
Elizabeth T. Gershoff The University of Texas at Austin

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