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

Auburn University, 2006

Assistant Professor, Human Development and Family Studies

The Journal of Early Adolescence, Associate Editor

Interests:

The importance of family, individual, and contextual factors as well as internalizing behaviors and generational effects on the etiology of health risk-taking behaviors and deviance among minority and immigrant youth using a cross-cultural/cross-national comparative perspective.

Recent Publications:

Trejos-Castillo, E. & Vazsonyi, A. T. (in-press). Immigration effects on parenting, stress, and risky sex: First and second generation Hispanic youth. In F.

Columbus (Ed.), Parenting: Styles, Stresses, and Strategies. Nova Science Publishers. 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., & 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.

Vazsonyi, A. T., Trejos-Castillo, E. & Huang, L. (2007). Youth violence across ethnic and national groups: Comparison of rates and developmental processes.

In D. J. Flannery, A. T. Vazsonyi, & I Waldman, I. (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Violent Behavior and Aggression, pp. 418-430. Cambridge University Press, New York, NY.