Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Vonnie C. McLoyd.

American Psychologist, Vol 78(9), Dec 2023, 1023-1025; doi:10.1037/amp0001259The APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions honors psychologists who have made distinguished theoretical or empirical contributions to basic research in psychology. “For advancing understanding of the family-level processes through which poverty harms children. Vonnie C. McLoyd extended a family stress model of how families cope with the shock of economic loss to investigate how families cope with poverty and low income as ongoing conditions. Her work demonstrates that poverty and low-income can adversely affect children’s psychological functioning through its impact on mothers’ mental health and parenting behaviors. It also provides evidence of the protective effects of social support on mothers and children experiencing poverty and neighborhood violence. Her scholarship interrogating and critiquing the deficit, race-comparative paradigm helped move the study of African American children toward one that gives more attention to normative development, contextual influences, and sources of within-group variation.” (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)
Source: American Psychologist - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research