Suchi S Daga

• PhD
• Director of Psychology Training at Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center

Conversations around race have come to the forefront of public discourses in the United States with incidents of police brutality leading to movements such as Black Lives Matter and its opposition, All Lives Matter. Although there is substantial psychological literature focusing on racial attitudes and intergroup relations, much of this research is...

Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory describes development in the context of multiple interconnected systems. This model is particularly suited to examining and contextualizing the experiences of immigrant families, as factors salient to immigrant family functioning are reflected in the various systems. Guided by Bronfenbrenner’s ecological s...

The ways in which people conceptualize and experience psychological distress and well-being are culturally grounded. This study explored conceptualizations of loss, trauma, anxiety, and well-being among international students from Asia living in the United States. Participants (N = 24) from China, India, and other South Asian countries described co...

Parental communications with their offspring about race and ethnicity are essential in a multiethnic society like the United States, and a body of research has examined this process of ethnic–racial socialization. Characterized as a “model minority,” South Asian Americans are a unique group that is largely invisible in psychological research. Under...

The present study examined whether reports of maternal socialization and child emotion expression differ depending on the emotion-eliciting context. Early adolescents and their mothers (N = 146) from suburban middle-class families in Gujarat, India participated. In response to hypothetical academic and interpersonal situations, children rated the i...

Socialization of emotion is implicated in a variety of child outcomes, yet few studies have examined parental emotion socialization in ethnic minority families in the United States. In this study, we compared Indian immigrant (n = 40) and White American (n = 54) mothers' parental meta-emotion philosophies using the Parental Meta-Emotion Interview (...

We explored the meta-emotion philosophies of Indian immigrant mothers living in the Midwest region of the United States to expand the scarce literature on emotion socialization in diverse families. A total of 15 mothers of teen and preteen children participated in a meta-emotion interview, in which they were asked about their own and their children...

Emotional expression and experience are dynamic processes that vary within and between individuals of different cultural groups (Kitayama, Mesquita, & Karasawa, 2006). The present study sought to compare self-reports of processes related to emotion communication and control in India and the United States. A total of 268 participants (United States:...