Andrew J. Fuligni, Ph.D.

Co-Director, Family Research Consortium IV Professor, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences University of California, Los Angeles afuligni@ucla.edu

Dr. Fuligni's research has focused on family relationships and adolescent development among culturally and ethnically diverse populations. Much of his work has examined the adaptation of immigrant families to American society, and how that adaptation process ultimately influences the development and adjustment of adolescents in those families. For the past ten years, Fuligni has been conducting a longitudinal study of adolescents from Asian and Latin American immigrant families in the San Francisco Bay area that has been supported by NICHD and the William T. Grant Foundation. In this study, he has examined the extent to which the cultural beliefs and values of adolescents in immigrant families shape their family relationships, peer relationships, educational adjustment, and psychological well-being. Fuligni is currently following these youths as they make the transition into young adulthood, and is employing both quantitative and qualitative methods in order to understand how the youths' sense of duty and obligation to the family shapes their psychological well-being and decision-making about education, employment, and family formation.

In addition, Fuligni has been employing daily diary methods in studies in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, in order to examine how the members of immigrant families adapt to the daily demands of adjusting to American society, and how that adaptation process ultimately affects their psychological well-being and educational adjustment. He is also a member of the Russell Sage Foundation's working group on Social Identity and Institutional Engagement, and has been an associate member of the Mac Arthur Foundations Research Network on Successful Pathways Through Development During Middle Childhood.

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