Jeanne Tschann, PhD

PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz
Adjunct Professor

Phone: (415) 476-7761
Fax: (415) 476-7744
E-mail: tschannj@healthpsych.ucsf.edu

The Collaborative HIV-Prevention Research in Minority Communities Program
Department of Psychiatry

Research Interests:

My primary interest is the study of personal relationships and their influence on health-related outcomes among children and adolescents, particularly in Latino populations. In two related longitudinal studies, I examined how family relationships influence adolescents’ health risk behaviors, violence and victimization. I am currently completing a study funded by NIAID to investigate the impact of sexual relationship dynamics on condom use among Latino adolescent couples. In this research, I am using both quantitative and qualitative methods to assess sexual relationship issues, such as each partner’s relative power in the relationship, which condom negotiation strategies are effective, and the cultural factors that may influence relationship dynamics. I have recently received funding from NHLBI to examine parental influences on obesity among Mexican American children, particularly focusing on parents’ child-feeding practices that may be linked to weight gain in children. In all my research, I engage in extensive qualitative work, including focus groups and qualitative interviews, to develop measures and to assure the cultural appropriateness of measures. I have also acted as methodological consultant on numerous studies, advising colleagues on research designs, hypothesis generation, methodology, and statistical model selection.

Selected Publications:

Deardorff J, Tschann JM, Flores E. (in press). Sexual values among Latino youth: Measurement development using a culturally-based approach. Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology.

Tschann JM, Pasch LA, Flores E, Marin BV, Baisch EM, Wibbelsman CJ. (in press.) Nonviolent aspects of interparental conflict and dating violence among adolescents. Journal of Family Issues.

Casey-Canon S, Pasch LA, Tschann JM, Flores E. (2006). Nonparent adult social support and depressive symptoms among Mexican American and European American Adolescents. Journal of Early Adolescence, 26( 3), 318-343.

Pasch LA, Deardorff J, Tschann JM, Flores E, Penilla C, Pantoja P. (2006). Acculturation, parent-adolescent conflict, and adolescent adjustment in Mexican American families. Family Process, 45, 75-86.

Operario D, Tschann JM, Flores E, Bridges M. (2006). Brief report: Associations of parental warmth, peer support, and gender with adolescent emotional distress. Journal of Adolescence, 29, 299-305.

Operario D, Tschann JM, Flores E, Bridges M. (2006). Brief report: Associations of parental warmth, peer support, and gender with adolescent emotional distress. Journal of Adolescence, 29, 299-305.

Tschann JM, Flores E, Marin BV, Pasch LA. (2005). Emotional distress, alcohol use, and peer violence among Mexican American and European American adolescents. Journal of Adolescent Health, 37, 11-18.

Ozer EJ, Tschann JM, Pasch LA, Flores E. (2004). Violence perpetration across peer and partner relationships: co-occurrence and longitudinal patterns among adolescents. Journal of Adolescent Health, 34, 64-71.

Flores E, Tschann JM, Marin BV, Pantoja P. (2004). Marital conflict and acculturation among Mexican American husbands and wives. Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology, 10(1), 39-52.

Tschann JM, Flores E, Marin BV, Pasch LA, Baisch EM, Wibbelsman CJ. (2002). Interparental conflict and risk behaviors among Mexican American adolescents: A cognitive-emotional model. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 30, 373-385.

Tschann JM, Adler NE, Millstein SG, Gurvey JE, Ellen JM. (2002). Relative power between sexual partners and condom use among adolescents. Journal of Adolescent Health, 31, 17-25.

Tschann JM, Flores E, Pasch LA, Marin BV. (1999). Assessing interparental conflict: Reports of parents and adolescents in European American and Mexican American families. Journal of Marriage & the Family, 61, 269-283.

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