Professor
School of Education

Prosocial and moral development, cultural mechanisms, personality, parenting, child and adolescent development

Dr. Gustavo Carlo is Professor in the School of Education at the University of California, Irvine. His primary research interest focuses on understanding positive social development and health in culturally-diverse children and adolescents. Many of his projects focus on ethnic/racial groups across the world and in U.S. Latino/a youth and families. He has published over 250 books, chapters, and research papers. He has received funding from various agencies (including NSF, NIH) and has received several awards for his research and mentorship. He currently serves as a member of the SRCD Governing Council, Associate Editor of Developmental Psychology and Child Development, and co-edited the recent APA Handbook of Adolescent and Young Adult Development.

Card, N. A., Morris, A. S., Salmivalli, C., & Carlo, G. (2021). Introduction: A decade review of adolescence research. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 31, 840-842. https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12691

Maiya, S., Killoren, S., & Carlo, G. (2021). Parenting and person correlates of prosocial behaviors in Asian Indian young adults. Personal Relationships, 29, 100-119. https://doi.org/10.1111/pere.12404

López-Mora, C., Carlo, G., Ross, J., Maiya, S. & González-Hernández, J. (2021) Associations among attachment and problematic cell phone use through self-regulation and prosociality. Psicothema, 33, 564-570. https://doi.org/10.7334/psicothema2021.60

Laible, D., Karahuta, E., Van Norden, C., Stout, W., Cruz, A., Neely, P., & Carlo, G. (2021). Toddlers' helping, sharing, and empathic distress: Does the race of the target matter? Developmental Psychology, 57, 1452-1462. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/dev0001233

Taylor, L., & Carlo, G. (2021). Prosocial development in risky and vulnerable contexts. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 45, 289-292. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165025421990759

Gulseven, Z., Carlo, G., Kumru, A., Sayil, M., & Selcuk, B. (2022). The protective role of early prosocial behaviors against young Turkish children’s later internalizing and externalizing problems. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 19, 400-418. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405629.2021.1920917

Memmott-Elison, M. K., Yu, M., Maiya, S., Dicus, J. L. & Carlo, G. (2022). Relations between stress, coping strategies, and prosocial behavior in U.S. Mexican college students. Journal of American College Health, 70, 1644-1650. https://doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2020.1817035

Wasserman, A. M., Crockett, L. J., Temmen, C. D., & Carlo, G. (2021). Bicultural stress and internalizing symptoms among U.S. Latinx youth: The moderating role of peer and parent support. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 27(4), 769-780. https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000474

Davis, A. N., Carlo, G., Maiya, S., Schwartz, S. J., Szapocznik, J., & Des Rosiers, S. E., (2021). A longitudinal study of paternal and maternal involvement and neighborhood risk on recent immigrant Latino/a youth prosocial behaviors. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 177, 13-30. https://doi.org/10.1002/cad.20417

Ramos, A. K., McGinley, M., & Carlo, G. (2021). The relations of workplace safety, perceived occupational stress, and adjustment among Latino/a immigrant cattle feedyard workers in the United States. Safety Science, 139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2021.105262

Davis, A., Carlo, G., & Maiya, S. (2021). Towards a multisystems, strengths-based model of social inequities in U.S. Latinx youth. Human Development, 65, 204-216. https://doi.org/10.1159/000517920

Bayati, M., Vu, D. C., Vo, P. H., Rogers, E., Park, J., Ho, T. L., Davis, A. N., Gulseven, Z., Carlo, G., Palermo, F., McElroy, J.A., Nagel, S. C., & Lin, C-L. (2021). Health risk assessment of volatile organic compounds at daycare facilities. Indoor Air: International Journal of Indoor Environment and Health, 31, 977-988. https://doi.org/10.1111/ina.12801

Gülseven, Z. & Carlo, G. (2021). Parenting and prosocial behaviors in Nicaraguan adolescents: The roles of prosocial moral reasoning and familism. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 38, 2545-2565. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075211009298

Memmott-Elison, M. K., Carlo, G., Maiya, S., & Roos, J. (2021). A cross-ethnoracial comparison of objective and subjective neighborhood predictors of early adolescents’ prosocial behavior. Social Development, 30, 767-785. https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12506

McGinley, M., Pierotti, S., & Carlo, G. (2022). Latent profiles of multidimensional prosocial behaviors: An examination of prosocial personality groups. Journal of Social Psychology, 162, 245-261. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2021.1881031

Streit, C., Carlo, G., Knight, G. P., White, R. M. B., & Maiya, S. (2021). Relations among parenting, culture, and prosocial behaviors in U.S. Mexican youth: An integrative socialization approach. Child Development, 92, e383-e397. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13550

Davis, A. N., McGinley, M., Carlo, G., Schwartz, S. J., Unger, J. B., Des Rosiers, S. E., Baezconde-Garbanati, L., Lorenzo-Blanco, E. I., & Soto, D. (2021). Examining discrimination and familism values as longitudinal predictors of prosocial behaviors among recent immigrant adolescents. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 45, 317-326. https://doi.org/10.1177/01650254211005561

Booker, J. A., Ispa, J. M., Maiya, S., Roos, J., & Carlo, G. (2021). African American mothers talk to their preadolescents about honesty and lying. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 27, 521-530. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/cdp0000396

Ramos, A. K., Carlo, G., & McGinley, M. (2021). Fatigue and the need for recovery among Latino/a immigrant cattle feedyard workers. Journal of Agromedicine, 26, 47-58. https://doi.org/10.1080/1059924X.2020.1845894

Streit, C., Carlo, G., Ispa, J., & Palermo, F. (2021). Direct and indirect relations between family conflict and youth's later behavioral outcomes. Social Development, 30, 482-495. Top cited article in Social Development, 2021-2022. https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12483

Maiya, S., Carlo, G., Davis, A. N., & Streit, C. E. (2021). Relations among acculturative stress, internalizing symptoms, and prosocial behaviors in U.S. Latino/a college students. Journal of Latinx Psychology, 9, 77-91. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/lat0000177

McGinley, M., Davis, A., Carlo, G., Schwartz, S., Lorenzo-Blanco, E., Unger, J., Szapocznik, J., Baezconde-Garbanati, L., Soto, D., Des Rosiers, S., Villamar, J., & Lizzi, K. (2021). A parallel process model of integration and multidimensional prosocial behaviors in recent immigrant U.S. Latinx adolescents. Psychological Reports, 124, 1237-1267. https://doi.org/10.1177/0033294120928268

Han, Y., & Carlo, G. (2021). The links between religiousness and prosocial behaviors in early adulthood: The mediating roles of media exposure preferences and empathic tendencies. Journal of Moral Education, 50, 419-435. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057240.2020.1756759

Maiya, S., Carlo, G., Landor, A., & Memmott-Elison, M. K. (2021). Ethnic-racial identity and religious identity as mediators of relations between ethnic-racial socialization and prosocial behaviors in Black young adults. Journal of Black Psychology, 47, 31-50. https://doi.org/10.1177/0095798420971388

Davis, A., Carlo, G., & Taylor, L. (2021). The interplay of community and family risk and protective factors on adjustment in young adult immigrants. International Journal of Psychology, 56, 208-215. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12698

Han, S., Palermo, F., Ispa, J. M., & Carlo, G. (2021). Parenting and children’s negative emotionality, self-regulation, and academic skills: The moderating role of fathers’ residency. Social Development, 30, 131-148. Top cited article in Social Development, 2021-2022. https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12479

Psychology

Cultural Resiliency and Learning Center

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08/15/2023