Welcome to the Youth Development in Context Lab

The Youth Development in Context Lab seeks to better understand the ways that community, school, peer, and family settings combine to shape child and adolescent development.  With a special focus on cultural contexts of development, our research focuses on topics such as the effects of discrimination on socioemotional development, ethnic identity development, interethnic group social preferences, and school attitudes & outcomes among diverse groups of immigrant youth in the US.

In addition to the studies housed at Suffolk, our research team has several collaborations with the Brown University Child Development in Context Research Program, as well as researchers at numerous other institutions across the country. Learn more...