Faculty Profile

Elizabeth Trejos-Castillo, Ph.D.
Human Development and Family Studies
806-742-3000, ext. 265 - Room 405
elizabeth.trejos@ttu.edu

Assistant Professor, Human Development and Family Studies

The Journal of Early Adolescence, Associate Editor

• Etiology of Risk-Taking Behaviors & Deviance among Ethnic Minority & Immigrant Youth
• Parenting Processes & Generational Effects
• Cross-Cultural/ Cross-National Research Methods & Teaching

Trejos-Castillo, E., Frederick, H.I., & Caldera, Y. (in-press). Latina teenage mothering: Meanings, challenges, and successes. In D.S Silva & J. Santiago (Eds.), Latina/Chicana mothering, Demeter Press.

Trejos-Castillo, E., & Vazsonyi, A.T. (2009). Risky sexual behaviors in first and second generation Hispanic immigrant youth. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. Special Issue: The Place of Race and Ethnicity in Adolescent Development, 38, 719–731.

Trejos-Castillo, E. & Vazsonyi, A. T. (2009). Immigration effects on parenting, stress, and risky sex: First and second generation Hispanic youth. In P. H. Krause & T. M. Dailey (Eds.), Handbook of parenting: Styles, stresses, and strategies. Nova Science Publishers.

Trejos-Castillo, E., Vazsonyi, A.T., & Jenkins, D.D. (2008). Violent and criminal behaviors in rural and non-rural African American youth: A risk-protective factor approach. Southern Rural Sociology, Special Issue: Rural Crime, 23, 108-130.

Vazsonyi, A. T., Trejos-Castillo, E., & Young, M. (2008). Rural and non-rural African American youth: Does context matter in the etiology of problem behaviors? Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 37 (7), 798-811.