Dr. Elizabeth Johnson

Assistant Professor

Elizabeth I. Johnson joins the Department of Child and Family Studies after spending two years at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Bordeaux, France. Elizabeth received a joint Ph.D. in Social Work and Developmental Psychology from the University of Michigan in 2006, and has M.S. degrees in both Social Work (Columbia) and Developmental Psychology ( Michigan). Most generally, her research is focused on understanding the diverse effects of social contexts on well-being and on investigating individual-level processes that may mediate the relationship between contextual variables and developmental outcomes. She is particularly interested in the ways in which family and neighborhood socioeconomic adversities confer vulnerability for child and adolescent outcomes, and in the special case of risk posed by parental incarceration to children and families. Her research uses national survey data to examine the effects of macro social contexts on outcomes, as well as data collected through ambulatory monitoring techniques (ESM/EMA) to study micro contexts and daily experiences.

Publications:

Johnson, E.I., Barrault, M., Nadeau, L., & Swendsen, J. (in press). Feasibility and validity of computerized ambulatory monitoring in drug-dependent women. Drug and Alcohol Dependence.

Johnson, E.I., Grondin, O., Barrault, M., Faytout, M., Helbig, S., Husky, M., Granholm, E., Loh, C., Nadeau, L. Wittchen, H.U., & Swendsen, J. (in press). Computerized ambulatory monitoring in psychiatry: A multi-site collaborative study of acceptability, compliance, and reactivity. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research.

Johnson, E.I. (2006). Youth with incarcerated parents: An introduction to the issues. The Prevention Researcher, 13, 3-7.

Johnson, E.I., & Waldfogel, J. (2004). Children of incarcerated parents: Multiple risks and children’s living arrangements. In M. Pattillo, D. Weiman, & B. Western (Eds.), Imprisoning America:The social effects of mass incarceration (pp. 97-131). New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Johnson, E.I., & Waldfogel, J. (2002). Trends in parental incarceration: Implications for child welfare. TheSocial Service Review, 76, 460-479.

Ambady, N., LaPlante, D., & Johnson, E.I. (2001). Thin slice judgments as a measure of interpersonal sensitivity. In J.A. Hall & F. Bernieri (Eds.), Interpersonal sensitivity: Theory and measurement (pp. 89-101). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

 

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