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Xiafei Wang, the HEART lab Assistant Director and Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of Kentucky recently published a paper in the Journal of Early Adolescence, along with coauthors Kirstin Clear and Sara Vasilenko. This paper focuses on uncovering patterns of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in 9-11 year-old adolescents, and then examining how…

Doctoral candidate Linghua Jiang recently had a paper accepted to Journal of Research on Adolescence, which focuses on how the associations between parental closeness and sexual behavior change over the course of adolescence and young adulthood. The paper applied the time-varying effect model (TVEM) to data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult…

Three students from the HEART lab were recognized with awards at the Human Developmental and Family Studies end of the year awards ceremony. Linghua Jiang received the HDFS Doctorate Awards for Research Excellence, which is awarded to an HDFS student who has excelled in academics, research, and leadership. Kirstin Clear was awarded the Alice Sterling…