Discipline(s):
Sociology
Area(s) of Expertise:
Social Demography, Sociology of the Family, Sociology of Health
Child and Adolescent Well-Being, Poverty, Social Support, and Social Inequality, Life Course Transitions, Sociology of Education, Educational and Socioemotional Adjustment of Children of Immigrants
E-Mail:
turney@umich.edu
Background:
Kristin Turney received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania in August 2009. Broadly, Kristin has developed an active research agenda that examines how social inequalities are reproduced within families. Her dissertation, Growing Up with Depressed Parents: Social Pathways to Disadvantaged Outcomes in Early Childhood, uses longitudinal data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing survey to examine the mechanisms that underlie the link between parental depression and children's internalizing and externalizing behaviors. Other current research projects examine the educational and socioemotional adjustment of young children with immigrant parents, the correlates and consequences of instrumental support from friends and family members, and the importance of neighborhood context in predicting economic and health outcomes throughout the life course. As a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar at the University of Michigan, Kristin will use both quantitative and qualitative data to examine the social processes that underlie the complex, reciprocal association between mental health and relationship trajectories (including relationship formation, dissolution, and quality). She plans to pay particular attention to unmarried couples and to examine variation by race and socioeconomic status. In addition, she anticipates examining the correlates and consequences of mental health during the transition to adulthood, a period in the life course considerably altered by recent, dramatic demographic changes.
Journal Articles:
Click here for a list of Kristin Turney's available publications in PubMed.
