Mental Health (Selected)

2021  Fruehwirth JC, Biswas S, Perreira KM. The Covid-19 pandemic and mental health of first-year college students: Examining the effect of Covid-19 stressors using longitudinal data. PloS one, 16(3):e0247999.

2017    Brietzke MP, Perreira KM. Stress and Coping: Latino Youth Coming of Age in a New Latino Destination. Journal of Adolescent Research, 32(4):407-432.

2017  Mendoza M, Dmitrieva J, Perreira, KM, Watamura S. Children of Hispanic immigrants: The associations among immigration stress, economic hardship, and well-being. Journal of Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 23(1):15-26..

2015   Perreira KM, Gotman N., Isasi CR, Arguelles W, Castañeda SF, Daviglus LM, Giachello AL, Gonzalez P, Penedo FJ, Salgado H, Wassertheil-Smoller S. Mental Health and Exposure to the United States: Key Correlates from the Hispanic Community Health Study of Latinos. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 203(9):670-8.

2013    Perreira K, Ornelas I. Painful Passages: Traumatic Experiences and Post-Traumatic Stress among Immigrant Latino Adolescents and their Primary Caregivers, International Migration Review, 47(4): 976-1005.

2013    Merz EL, Roesch SC, Malcarne VL, Penedo FJ, Maria M. Llabre MM, Birnbaum-Weitzman O, Navas-Nacher EL, Perreira KM, Gonzalez F, Ponguta LA, Timothy P. Johnson TP, Gallo LC. Validation of Interpersonal Support Evaluation List-12 (ISEL-12) scores among English- and Spanish-Speaking Hispanics/Latinos from the HCHS/SOL Sociocultural Ancillary Study, Psychological Assessment, 26(2): 384-394.

2012    Potochnick S, Perreira K, Fuligni A. Fitting in: The Roles of Social Acceptance and Discrimination in Shaping the Daily Psychological Well-Being of Latino Youth. Social Science Quarterly, 93(1): 173-190.

2011    Ornelas I, Perreira K. The Role of Migration in the Development of Depressive Symptoms among Immigrant Parents. Social Science and Medicine, 73(8): 1169-1177.

2010    Potochnick S, Perreira K. Depression and Anxiety among First-Generation Immigrant Latino Youth: Key Correlates and Implications for Future Research. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 198(7):470-477.

2010    Beeber L, Holditch-Davis D, Perreira K. Short-term In-Home Intervention Reduces Depressive Symptoms in Early Head Start Latina Mothers of Infants and Toddlers, Research in Nursing and Health, 33, 60–76

2009    Fuligni A, Perreira K. Immigration and Adaptation, In Villaruel, F.A., Carlo, G., Grau, J.M., Azmitia, M., Cabrera, N., Chahin, J., Contreras, J.C., (Eds.) Handbook of U.S. Latino Psychology: Developmental and Community-Based Perspectives, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

2009    Ornelas I, Perreira K, Beeber LS, Maxwell, L. Challenges and Strategies to Maintaining Emotional Health: Qualitative Perspectives of Mexican Immigrant Mothers.  Journal of Family Issues, 30(11):1556-1575.

2005    Perreira K, Deeb-Sossa N, Harris K, Bollen K. What Are We Measuring? An Evaluation of the CES-D across Race-Ethnicity and Immigrant Generation. Social Forces, 83(4): 1567-1602.