Nayantara Nair

About

I am interested in identifying protective factors that can facilitate adolescent and parent resilience and well-being in contexts of adversity. I currently work as an independent research contractor for the Military Family Research Institute (MFRI) at Purdue University, with Drs. Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth and Dave Topp on a study exploring adolescents' functioning in the context of early exposure to parental deployment.

Employment

• Military Family Research Institute Postdoctoral Research Assistant
  2021 - 2022
• Medall Healthcare Pvt Ltd Counselor & Psychotherapist
  2015 - 2016

Education

• Purdue University Ph.D. Human Development and Family Studies
  2016 - 2021
• Tata Institute of Social Sciences M.A. Clinical Psychology
  2013 - 2015
• Women's Christian College B.Sc. Psychology
  2010 - 2013

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (10)

• Tackling Housing Concerns at the State-Level: Lessons From Family Impact Seminars
  National Council on Family Relations Policy brief 2023
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• Adolescent substance use: Findings from a state-wide pilot parent education program
  BMC Public Health 2022 8 citations DOI: 10.1186/s12889-022-12899-2
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• Strengths of the heart: Stressors, gratitude, and mental health in single mothers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  Journal of Family Psychology 2021 30 citations DOI: 10.1037/fam0000928
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• Family support and mental health of Latinx children in migrant farmworker families
  Applied Developmental Science 2020 23 citations DOI: 10.1080/10888691.2020.1800466
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• Relations of positive parenting, effortful control, and resilience in rural Midwestern Latinx early adolescents
  Children and Youth Services Review 2020 24 citations DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105003
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• Lability in parent- and child-based sources of parental monitoring is differentially associated with adolescent substance use
  Prevention Science 2020 14 citations DOI: 10.1007/s11121-020-01094-7
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• Developmental antecedents of adolescent optimism in rural midwestern U.S. Latinx youth
  Journal of Community Psychology 2020 14 citations DOI: 10.1002/jcop.22267
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• Associations between effortful control, cortisol awakening response, and depressive problems in Latino preadolescents
  The Journal of Early Adolescence 2019 5 citations DOI: 10.1177/0272431618798509
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• A mixed-method examination of ego-resiliency, adjustment problems, and academic engagement in children of Latino migrant farmworkers
  Social Development 2019 23 citations DOI: 10.1111/sode.12328
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• Post-traumatic stress symptom development as a function of changing witnessing in-home violence and changing peer relationship quality: Evaluating protective effects of peer relationship quality
  Child Abuse & Neglect 2018 12 citations DOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2018.05.013
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