Sandra Y. Nay McCourt, Graduate Student    Edit

Sandra Y. Nay McCourt

Research Summary:
I am a fifth-year graduate student in the clinical psychology program. My primary research interests are in prevention and intervention research and policy for children and families at risk, especially in the areas of family violence, child maltreatment, development of aggression and psychopathy, poverty and welfare reform, and education science and policy. I also am interested in relationship research, specifically, psychological and social factors such as rejection and rejection sensitivity that influence close relationships and the impact of these relationships on mental health and general functioning. My advisor is Dr. Kenneth Dodge at the Center for Child and Family Policy.

Representative Publications:   (More Publications)   (search)

  1. Dodge, K. A., & McCourt, S. N. (2010). Translating models of antisocial behavioral development into efficacious intervention policy to prevent adolescent violence. Developmental Psychobiology, 52, 277-285.
  2. Yang, C., Nay, S., & Hoyle, R. (2010). Three approaches to using lengthy ordinal scales in structural equation models: Parceling, latent scoring, and shortening scales. Applied Psychological Measurement, 34, 122-142.
  3. Fite, J. E., Bates, J. E., Holtzworth-Munroe, A., Dodge, K. A., Nay, S. Y., & Pettit, G. S. (2008). Social information processing mediates the intergenerational transmission of aggressiveness in romantic relationships. Journal of Family Psychology, 22, 367-376.
  4. Gassman-Pines, A., Yoshikawa, H., & Nay, S. "Can money buy you love? Dynamic employment characteristics, the New Hope project, and entry into marriage." In H. Yoshikawa, T. Weisner & E. Lowe (Eds.), Making it work: Low-wage employment, family life, and child development. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2006
  5. Roy, A., Yoshikawa, H., & Nay, S. "Discrimination in the low-wage workplace: The unspoken barrier to employment." In H. Yoshikawa, T. Weisner & E. Lowe (Eds.), Making it work: Low-wage employment, family life, and child development. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2006