Eleanor Kenyetta Seaton
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BIO
Dr. Eleanor K. Seaton is a developmental psychologist and her research is guided by four areas of inquiry that explore race among Black youth. The first area explores racial discrimination experiences and includes measurement, mediators and moderators of racial discrimination experiences. The second area explores the attitudes and feelings that African American youth ascribe to being Black, which is known as racial identity. The third area examines the complex relation between racial discrimination and racial identity among Black youth. A new area of inquiry assesses the interaction of racial discrimination, racial identity and pubertal development among Black children and adolescents. An extension of this area includes a focus on how racial discrimination “gets under the skin” with examination of the relation between racial discrimination experiences and physiological indicators such as cortisol, alpha amylase and C-reactive protein. Dr. Seaton uses quantitative and qualitative approaches embedded in a variety of methodological designs (e.g., daily diary, survey, qualitative) and analytical techniques (e.g., latent class, hierarchical linear modeling). Dr. Seaton’s ultimate goal is to understand how Black youth survive and thrive despite the pervasiveness of racism in the broader society.
For more information, see Dr. Seaton’s faculty website.
- Eleanor Kenyetta Seaton, Rebecca M. B. White. 2024. Racism and Positive Youth Development. The Routledge International Handbook of Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Character Development, Volume II :236-256.
- Morris, Kamryn S., Janssen, Jayley A., Eleanor Kenyetta Seaton. 2023. Level Up: Recommendations for Measuring Racial Discrimination. Diversity and Developmental Science: Bridging the Gaps Between Research, Practice, and Policy :19-38.
- Kornienko, Olga, Santos, Carlos E., Eleanor Kenyetta Seaton, Davila, Marissa, Garner, Pamela W.. 2023. Racial Discrimination Experiences and Friendship Network Dynamics Among Black and Latinx Youth. Journal of Youth and Adolescence 52(4):685-700.
- Kamryn S. Morris, Eleanor Kenyetta Seaton. 2023. Depressive symptoms, racism, and school belonging: examining correlates of substance use behaviors among Black college students. Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse
- Williams, Amber D., Aronson, Krista Maywalt, Chavous, Tabbye M., Cooke, Deanna Y., Glover, Ciara Smalls, Hoggard, Lori S., Kohn-Wood, Laura, Lesane-Brown, Chase L., Lewis-McCoy, R. L'Heureux, Martin, Pamela P., Rowley, Stephanie J., Eleanor Kenyetta Seaton, Smith-Bynum, Mia A., Wout, Daryl A., Yip, Tiffany, Enrique Neblett. 2023. Standing on the shoulders of a giant: The legacy of Robert M. Sellers. American Psychologist 78(4):441-456.