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Here is a list of our scholarly writing. Student collaborators are italicized.

2024
Aguilar, G., Wantchekon, K., Sladek, M. R., McDermott, E. R., Betancur Castrillón, S., Uribe Tirado, L. M., Tilano Vega, L. M., Safa, M. D., & Umaña-Taylor, A. J. (2024). Ethnic-Racial identity, discrimination experiences, and academic adjustment among Colombian adolescents. Comparative Education Review. doi:10.1086/733483

Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Sladek, M. R., Safa, M. D., Uribe Tirado, L. M., & Tilano Vega, L. M., (2024). Examining Ethnic-Racial Identity Development and Adjustment among Colombian Adolescents. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology. doi:10.1016/j.appdev.2024.101672

Sladek, M. R., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Neville, H. A., Ison, A., Martinez-Fuentes, S., Mason, P., Park, Y., Safa, M. D., Satterthwaite-Freiman, M., Soto-Shed, E., & Wantchekon, K. A. (2024). Professional development for providing time and opportunities for change in U.S. teachers’ ethnic-racial identity. Identity. doi:10.1080/15283488.2024.2366892

Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Sladek, M. R., & Safa, M. D. (2024). Teachers’ implementation of the identity project is associated with increases in U.S. high school students’ ethnic-racial identity exploration. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. doi:10.1007/s10964-024-01955-2

Ware, O. D., Cano, M. T., Safa, M. D., Garza, N., Martinez, S., & Salloum, I. (2024). Availability of substance use disorder treatment in Spanish: Associations with state-level proportions of Spanish speakers and treatment facility characteristics in the United States. The American Journal on Addictions. doi:10.1111/ajad.13520

2023
Safa, M. D., Long, Y., & Umaña-Taylor, A. J. (2023). Bicultural identity mechanisms and adjustment among U.S. ethno-racial minoritized and immigrant adolescents. International Journal of Behavioral Development. doi:10.1177/01650254231218284

Hernández, M. M., Safa, M. D., Kornienko, O., Rogers, A., & Ha., T. (2023). A person-centered analysis of adolescent multicultural socialization niches and academic functioning. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. doi:10.1007/s10964-023-01828-0

Gusman, M. S., Safa, M. D., Grimm, K. J., & Doane, L. D. (2023). Contextualizing bicultural competence across youths’ adaptation from high school to college: Prospective associations with mental health and substance use. Clinical Psychological Science. doi:10.1177/21677026231159667

2022
Safa, M. D., Gusman, M. S., & Doane, L.D. (2022). Bicultural competence and academic adjustment across youth adaptation from high school to their first years in college. Child Development. doi:10.1111/cdev.13810

Safa, M. D., Umaña-Taylor, A., & Fuentes-Martinez, S. (2022). The role of ethnic-racial and national identities on U.S. Latino adolescents’ global identity coherence and adjustment. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. Advance online publication. doi:10.1037/cdp0000535

2021
Safa, M. D., White, R. M. B., & Knight, G. P. (2021). The influence of ethnic-racial identity developmental processes on bicultural competence development. Child Development. 92(6), 1211-1227. doi:10.1111/cdev.13632

Safa, M. D. & Umaña-Taylor, A. J. (2021). Biculturalism and adjustment among U.S. Latinos: A review of four decades of empirical findings. Advances in Child Development and Behavior. 61, 73-127. doi:10.1016/bs.acdb.2021.05.002

2020
Safa, M. D., White, R. M. B., & Knight, G. P. (2020). Family contextual influences on bicultural competence development among U.S. Mexican-origin youths. Developmental Psychology. 56(8), 1596–1609. doi:10.1037/dev0001022

Safa, M. D., White, R. M. B., & Knight, G. P. (2020). A family stress model investigation of bicultural competence among U.S. Mexican-origin youth. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. 27(3), 320–331. doi:10.1037/cdp0000424

Roche, K. M., White, R. M. B., Rivera, M. I., Safa, M. D., Newman, D., & Falusi O. O. (2020). Recent immigration actions and news and the adjustment of U.S. Latino/a adolescents. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. 27(3), 447–459. doi:10.1037/cdp0000330

2019
Safa, M. D., White, R. M. B., Mahrer, N. E., Knight, G. P., Gonzales, N. A., & Pasco M. C. (2019). U.S. Mexican-origin adolescents’ bicultural competence and mental health in context. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 25(2),299-310. doi:10.1037/cdp0000231

Knight, G. P., Safa, M. D., & White, R. M. B. (2018). Advancing the assessment of cultural orientation: A developmental and contextual framework of multiple psychological dimensions and social identities. Development and Psychopathology, 30(5), 1867-1888. doi:10.1017/S095457941800113X

White, R. M. B., Zeiders, K. H., & Safa, M. D. (2018). Neighborhood structural characteristics and Mexican-origin adolescents’ development. Development and Psychopathology, 30(5), 1679-1698. doi:10.1017/S0954579418001177