Cory Cobb

• PhD
• Texas A&M University

Objectives: In the present study we sought to examine psychosocial factors among undocumented Latinos/as acculturating to and residing in the United States. Method: A community sample of 122 self-reported undocumented Latino/a immigrants was asked to complete questionnaires measuring components of acculturation (i.e., national and ethnic identity,...

In the present study we used a mixed-method design to examine perceptions of legal status and their association with psychosocial experiences among undocumented Latino/a immigrants in the United States Participants were asked to compare their perceived social experiences with those of documented Latinos/as in order to determine whether differences...

In the current study, we sought to (a) determine the extent to which the categories proposed within Berry’s acculturation typologies model could be empirically derived among a sample of undocumented Latino immigrants, and (b) explore which approaches would be associated with the most positive psychological functioning. A community sample of 140 sel...

This cross-sectional study examined coping strategies and their relationship with depression among undocumented Hispanic immigrants. A community sample of 122 self-identified undocumented Hispanics filled out questionnaires measuring coping and depression. The authors categorized coping strategies as problem-focused, active-emotional, or avoidant-e...

This study examined the structure of the Spanish version of the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS) among a sample of 122 undocumented Hispanic immigrants. The component structure of the scale was examined using principal components analysis (PCA). Contrary to the findings of the original three-subscale structure (Friends, Fa...

The present article advances a perspective on crisis migration and its effects on crisis migrants’ identities within their destination cultural contexts. It integrates insights from the literature on crisis migration and acculturation, framing it as a process of cultural identity expansion and transformation. The article reviews the challenges asso...

Introduction Cultural stressors during migration can shape family dynamics and impact mental health outcomes. This study investigates the relationship between cultural stress, parent‐adolescent communication, and psychological well‐being among Former Soviet Union (FSU) immigrant families in Israel. Methods This longitudinal survey study collected...

In this article, we advance the thesis, called the cultural continuity hypothesis, which states that heritage culture retention represents an important psychological motivation that underlies a wide array of human behaviors and that is important for positive psychosocial functioning. Cultural continuity entails the purposeful preservation of salien...

In this article, we argue that ingroup discrimination represents a salient experience for many racial and ethnic groups, and yet there are considerable theoretical and empirical gaps in research on this topic. We provide a theoretical exposition regarding the psychological mechanisms underlying ingroup discrimination, while also explicating the bou...

Mass migration and COVID-19 represent two converging challenges affecting immigrant-receiving countries. Our understanding of intergroup emotion profiles—positive (happiness, hope, and sympathy) and negative (anger, fear, and disgust)—among members of immigrant destination societies in times of global uncertainty remains limited. Drawing from panel...

Objectives The present study evaluated sex differences in the direct and indirect links between depressive symptoms, coping motives to drink, and alcohol use severity among Latinos who drink. Methods A large and diverse panel sample of Latinos, who were strategically sampled to be reflective of the Latino demographics of the state of Texas, comple...

This study aimed to examine the rejection–identification model (RIM) within a community sample of undocumented Hispanic immigrants in the United States, a unique and vulnerable population who face distinct legal and sociopolitical challenges. The RIM posits that ethnic discrimination is associated with increased identification with one’s ethnic gro...

Research shows the impact of cultural stressors (e.g. perceived discrimination, bicultural stressors, negative context of reception) on adolescents' psychosocial outcomes. Given the presence of multiple cultural stressors in many Hispanic adolescents' lives, it is essential to examine the (a) developmental sequencing of cultural stressors among rec...

Latinos represent the largest ethnic minority group in the United States and are incredibly diverse in terms of their national origins, demographics, and psychosocial experiences. However, most psychological research to date has treated Latinos as a relatively homogenous group by neglecting to account for the vast heterogeneity that comprises this...

In September 2017, Hurricane Maria decimated Puerto Rico and resulted in the deaths of thousands of people, the destruction of thousands of homes, and the mass migration of hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans to the U.S. mainland. Because of these events, Puerto Rican Hurricane Maria survivors on the U.S. mainland are at risk for depressive symp...

The present study examines the extent to which culturally stressful experiences may predict impaired well-being, increased internalizing symptoms (depression and anxiety), and increased externalizing problems (social aggression, physical aggression, and rule breaking) among a sample of Hispanic college students in Miami across a 12-day period. The...

Undocumented Latino immigrants in the United States face pervasive discrimination that increases their risk for experiencing depressive symptomatology. Although research has linked discrimination to depressive symptoms more broadly, we do not know whether everyday forms of discrimination are associated with elevated risk for clinical depression amo...

The purpose of this commentary on the special issue of Prevention Science, “International Responses to Prevention Intervention Research During Human Ecosystem Disruptions” is to review the six target articles included in this issue, evaluate their results, and highlight the myriad ways in which diverse teams of prevention scientists mobilized to co...

Research shows that cultural identity styles (CIS; i.e., hybrid identity style [HIS] vs. alternating identity style [AIS]) and cultural stressors (i.e., discrimination, negative context of reception, and bicultural stressors) are associated, but the directionality of this association remains unclear. Using a 2-wave, self-report dataset and a cross-...

The present study examines the extent to which culturally stressful experiences may predict impaired well-being, increased internalizing symptoms (depression and anxiety), and increased externalizing problems (social aggression, physical aggression, and rule breaking) among a sample of Hispanic college students in Miami, across a 12-day period. The...

This special issue is dedicated to the life and works of psychology pioneer Scott O. Lilienfeld. Dr. Lilienfeld tragically passed away in September 2020 and was one of the field’s most brilliant minds and prolific contributors. As a leading authority on psychopathy and the delineation between science and pseudoscience and a prodigious scholar acros...

Youth mental health is in a crisis as prevalence rates for youth psychopathology continue to rise. With global increases in youth mental health problems, along with the havoc wreaked by the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health disparities continue to widen as youth from disadvantaged backgrounds (e.g., ethnic/racial minority, low socioeconomic, rural,...

Scholarly citation represents one of the most common and essential elements of psychological science, from publishing research, to writing grant proposals, to presenting research at academic conferences. However, when authors mischaracterize prior research findings in their studies, such instances of miscitation call into question the reliability a...

The present article proposes an extension of the concept of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) to apply to crisis migration – where youth and families are fleeing armed conflicts, natural disasters, community violence, government repression, and other large-scale emergencies. We propose that adverse events occurring prior to, during, and followin...

Latino immigrant adolescents represent a high-risk group for developing depression. Such risk for depression becomes more salient in emerging destination contexts (e.g., Oregon) where immigrant youth face considerably more stressors compared to traditional contexts (e.g., Texas, New York, California). However, no study to date has considered how de...

Multiculturalism represents a powerful sociopolitical force that impacts nearly aspect of applied psychology. Although multiculturalism has made progress in brining much-needed attention to marginalized and neglected minority populations, there remain several unappreciated issues with multiculturalism that, if unaddressed, have the potential to res...

Aims Little work has considered the effects of salient interpersonal processes on the successful implementation and receipt of community‐based interventions within randomized control trial designs. Method Using data from the intervention arm (n = 120) of Nuestras Familias: Andando Entre Culturas (Our Families: Walking Between Cultures)—a community...

This book pays tribute to Scott O. Lilienfeld of Emory University, a leading scholar in the field of clinical science who has made important contributions to a wide range of central topics including definition of the field, cognitive biases and critical thinking, memory, personality and personality disorders, projective testing and its problems, cu...

Using a three‐wave prospective longitudinal design spanning 3 years, we assessed alcohol use likelihood trajectories and their correlates among a community sample of Latino immigrant adolescents in the emerging immigrant context of Western Oregon. Results from growth mixture modeling revealed two distinct classes: lower risk youth who reported litt...

Objective The present study was designed to examine distinct co‐occurrence patterns of acculturation and perceived context of reception between weekdays and weekends among Hispanic college students in Miami and their influences on psychosocial maladaptation. Methods We conducted a 12‐day diary study with a sample of first‐ and second‐generation Hi...

Prevalence rates for youth psychopathology have steadily increased over the last two decades. Youth from underserved families (e.g. racial/ethnic minority, rural, poor, gender, and sexual minority) are disparately impacted as they face myriad risk factors that adversely affect their mental health. Parents play an integral role in their mental healt...

Although the consideration of client and therapist values is thought to represent a core component of culturally-competent psychotherapy, sociopolitical attitudes and values (SPAVs) have been almost entirely neglected in the cultural competence literature. Based on research over the last several decades in behavior genetics, neuroscience, and perso...

The present study was designed to examine the extent to which, in a sample of 873 Hispanic college students, daily levels of, and variability in, well-being would mediate the predictive effects of culturally related stressors (discrimination, negative context of reception, and bicultural stress) on internalizing and externalizing symptoms 11 days l...

Most research on cultural stressors and alcohol has focused on intercultural stressors. Continuing to exclude intracultural stressors (e.g., intragroup marginalization) from alcohol research will yield a biased understanding of the experiences of Hispanics living in a bicultural society. As we amass more studies on intracultural stressors, research...

We conducted a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of Nuestras Familias: Andando Entre Culturas, a culturally adapted evidence-based parent management training (PMT) preventive intervention, with a sample of 241 Spanish-speaking Latino parents and their middle-school-aged children residing in an emerging immigration context. Scientifically rigorous s...

Adolescent hope can promote the emotional and behavioral well‐being of Latinx families. Positive family functioning may foster adolescent hope, whereas cultural stress may compromise adolescent hope and well‐being. We examined how adolescent hope changed over time, and whether cultural stress and family functioning predicted emotional and behaviora...

We conducted a randomized controlled trial to examine both the implementation feasibility and the efficacy of a culturally-adapted evidence-based parent management training preventive intervention, Nuestras Familias: Andando Entre Culturas, among a sample of 241 Spanish-speaking, Latino parents with middle-school-aged youth. The targets of the inte...

According to ecodevelopmental and social learning models, Latino immigrant parents experience considerable stress associated with the immigration process, and such immigration‐related stress is theorized to influence behavioral outcomes among their youth. Using a three‐year longitudinal design among 217 Latino immigrant families in western Oregon,...

We identify subtypes of Venezuelan youth based on patterns of technology-based communication with friends in their receiving (US) and sending (Venezuela) countries and, in turn, examine the behavioral health characteristics among different “subtypes” of youth. Using data from 402 recently-arrived Venezuelan immigrant youth (ages 10–17), latent prof...

In their 21-country study, Berry et al. (in press) examined within- and between-country support for three key hypotheses of successful interethnic coexistence – multiculturalism, contact, and integration. Although they found empirical support for all three hypotheses, they also report substantial variability in effect sizes both within- and between...

Although there is a substantial body of work focusing on the processes underlying cultural identity in general, less is known regarding how these processes might operate within the context of Latinx families. Moreover, among the limited research that has included the adolescent and caregiver cultural identity, most of the research has primarily foc...

Daily diary studies allow for examining the day-to-day dynamic experiences of biculturalism. The present study used a 12-day daily diary dataset collected with 873 Hispanic college students. Our goal was to (a) identify two distinct forms of dynamic daily processes of linguistic biculturalism (bicultural levels and bicultural fluctuations) and (b)...

The present study was designed to examine acculturation trajectories of first-generation, Latino immigrant youth and their parents in an emerging immigrant context. We also examined whether acculturation trajectories differed between families with youth who migrated at different stages of development and who have spent differential amounts of time...

James N. Butcher is a Korean War veteran, a leading psychologist in personality assessment psychology, and an artist of watercolor painting. Butcher is best‐known for his scholarship in research and clinical application of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), its revised edition (MMPI‐2), and its adolescent edition (MMPI‐A). His...

The NEO‐PI‐R is a 240‐item personality instrument that measures the five factors in the Five Factor Model. It consists of 30 eight‐item facet scales, 6 for each of the five basic personality factors: Neuroticism (N), Extraversion (E), Openness (O), Agreeableness (A), and Conscientiousness (C). Responses are recorded on a five‐point Likert‐type scal...

Assessment of career and vocational interests and abilities can facilitate self‐exploration and self‐understanding with respect to one's interests, abilities, or his or her perceptions of abilities. These assessments help people gain self‐knowledge, generate career choices, and make effective career decisions. This entry briefly reviewed some of th...

Henry Murray was an American psychologist who changed the landscape of academic and personality psychology. Originally trained in biochemistry and medicine, Murray eventually transitioned to psychology where he developed his theory of personality known as personology. Murray combined his medical and biochemical training to form an interdisciplinary...

The California Psychological Inventory (CPI) is a 434‐item self‐report measure that assesses individual personality. The CPI is one of the most widely used personality measures due to a variety of attractive properties. Specifically, the test's cross‐cultural relevance, ease of comprehension, and strong predictive power make the CPI a desirable mea...

Item analysis is one of the essential steps in scale construction of personality assessment. It refers to the process of evaluating the quality of the items in an assessment so to identify the items to be retained, revised, or removed from the item pool. Item analysis focuses on item discrimination and item difficulty and involves qualitative and q...

We examined national trends and mental health correlates of discrimination among Latinos in the United States. We used data from two nationally-representative surveys based on the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions collected in 2004 and 2013. Results indicated that perceived discrimination, both any and recurrent, incre...

Assessment of career and vocational interests and abilities can facilitate self‐exploration and self‐understanding with respect to one's interests, abilities, or his or her perceptions of abilities. These assessments help people gain self‐knowledge, generate career choices, and make effective career decisions. This entry briefly reviewed some of th...

Item analysis is one of the essential steps in scale construction of personality assessment. It refers to the process of evaluating the quality of the items in an assessment so to identify the items to be retained, revised, or removed from the item pool. Item analysis focuses on item discrimination and item difficulty and involves qualitative and q...

The California Psychological Inventory (CPI) is a 434‐item self‐report measure that assesses individual personality. The CPI is one of the most widely used personality measures due to a variety of attractive properties. Specifically, the test's cross‐cultural relevance, ease of comprehension, and strong predictive power make the CPI a desirable mea...

James N. Butcher is a Korean War veteran, a leading psychologist in personality assessment psychology, and an artist of watercolor painting. Butcher is best‐known for his scholarship in research and clinical application of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), its revised edition (MMPI‐2), and its adolescent edition (MMPI‐A). His...

Henry Murray was an American psychologist who changed the landscape of academic and personality psychology. Originally trained in biochemistry and medicine, Murray eventually transitioned to psychology where he developed his theory of personality known as personology. Murray combined his medical and biochemical training to form an interdisciplinary...

The NEO‐PI‐R is a 240‐item personality instrument that measures the five factors in the Five Factor Model. It consists of 30 eight‐item facet scales, 6 for each of the five basic personality factors: Neuroticism (N), Extraversion (E), Openness (O), Agreeableness (A), and Conscientiousness (C). Responses are recorded on a five‐point Likert‐type scal...

Method Two hundred Hispanic emerging adults from Arizona (n = 99) and Florida (n = 101) completed a cross‐sectional survey, and data were analyzed using hierarchical multiple regression and moderation analyses. Results Higher social media discrimination was associated with higher symptoms of depression and generalized anxiety. Moderation analyses...

Objective The present study introduces a daily, micro‐level perspective on acculturation using a sample of Hispanic college students in Miami. Methods We conducted a 12‐day diary study with a sample of first‐ and second‐generation Hispanic college students in Miami. Outcome variables were measured on Days 1 and 12, and acculturation components (pr...

Objective Hispanic immigrants exhibit more positive outcomes than U.S.‐born Hispanics across educational, psychological, and physical health indices, a phenomenon called the immigrant paradox. We examined the immigrant paradox in relation to alcohol use severity among Hispanic young adults while considering both positive (optimism) and negative (de...

The present article proposes an integration between cultural psychology and developmental science. Such an integration would draw on the cultural-psychology principle of culture–psyche interactions, as well as on the developmental-science principle of person↔context relations. Our proposed integration centers on acculturation, which is inherently b...

International migration has reached historic highs, with more than 240 million people currently residing in a country other than where they were born (United Nations, 2019). Migration is not random, and there are noteworthy migration flows from specific sending countries to specific destination countries. In most cases, migrants settling in postind...

Over the last thirty years, multiculturalism has become an implicit and explicit philosophy that permeates research, grant funding, teaching, training, and scholarship within nearly every domain of American psychology. Although multiculturalism has succeeded in bringing much-needed attention to historically neglected minority populations, it may ha...

Findings from multiple studies link acculturation processes to the psychological and behavioral health of Latino immigrant populations in the United States. A critical factor impacting this relation is the context of reception where immigrants settle. Several studies of acculturation have been conducted in traditional receiving contexts, and less a...

Using a relational efficacy framework, we examined the advisory working alliance and its associations with research self-efficacy among clinical and counseling psychology PhD students. Moreover, we examined whether the association between the advisory working alliance was indirectly associated with research self-efficacy by way of relation-inferred...

This presentation highlighted both the strengths and deficits of contemporary multiculturalism -- with a primary focus on where MC has failed to deliver on some of its promises. The presentation concludes with empirically-supported and theoretically-grounded guidelines that may be used to assist MC policies, initiatives, and interventions to be mor...

We examined two conceptualizations of bicultural identity – the Bicultural Identity Integration (BII) framework (cultural identity blendedness-distance and harmony-conflict) and cultural hybridizing and alternating (mixing one’s two cultural identities and/or switching between them). Utilizing data from a 12-day diary study with 873 Hispanic colleg...

The vast majority of immigration-focused research in psychology is rooted in deficit models that center on negative health outcomes (e.g., depression, acculturative stress, anxiety, substance use), resulting in a widely held assumption that immigrants are at greater risk for pathology and poor well-being compared to native-born individuals. Moreove...

Although studies have explored how cultural identity impacts young people’s daily lives, these studies have exclusively focused on daily variability in cultural identity salience, overlooking daily variability in the underlying developmental processes. In the present study, we used a 12-day daily assessment conducted with 873 Hispanic college stude...

Objectives: We investigated the association between perceived ethnic discrimination with psychological well-being and life satisfaction among a community sample of unauthorized Hispanic immigrants in the United States. We also assessed whether ethnic/racial group identity centrality moderated this relationship. Method: A community sample of self-re...

Mentoring during graduate training confers a multitude of benefits. However, despite these benefits, health service psychology programs (e.g., counseling and clinical psychology) could benefit from additional attention to mentoring and associated outcomes. Although the field of health service psychology has examined advising during graduate trainin...