Teresa Nguyen, Assistant Professor of Psychology, was awarded an American Psychological Foundation's Visionary Grant ($19,983) to support her research with lower-income newly married Latinx couples over the next year. Her new project will build upon her earlier research that links relationship outcomes to the social and economic demands that lower-income, racially minoritized couples routinely face. She proposes that identical social and economic stressors and communication behaviors can have different effects on couples depending upon their cultural values of simpatia, religiosity, and familismo.
The American Psychological Foundation's Visionary Grant seeks to seed innovation through supporting research projects that use psychology to solve social problems. This proposal was supported by APF's EnVISION Antiracism Campaign.
Her grant will cover research expenses and a lab manager position for a recently graduated SSU Psychology major. This national grant is extremely competitive and a huge accomplishment for any faculty member. However, for an Assistant Professor at a primarily undergraduate institution to receive this grant is especially impressive. Congratulations Dr. Nguyen!