- Professor of Psychology, University of Nebraska Omaha
Jonathan Santo is a professor of psychology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He serves as director of the graduate Developmental Psychology program and faculty member in the Office of Latino/Latin-American Studies. Most of his research focuses on the impact of peer relations on child and adolescent development, with emphasis on the importance of friendships as a source of social support. Santo also studies cultural differences in factors related to self-esteem as well as classroom-level influences. Ultimately, his research is aimed at improving the lives of children and adolescents by fostering supportive school environments and encouraging positive peer relationships.
Experience
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–presentProfessor of Psychology , University of Nebraska Omaha
Education
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2009University of Nebraska at Omaha, Psychology
Publications
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2021Socially responsible children: A link between school climate and aggression and victimization, International Journal of Behavioral Development
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2021I Already Belong: Immigrant-origin College Students’ Persistence, Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice
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2021Unpacking the misfit effect: Exploring the influence of gender and social norms on the association between aggression and peer victimization, International Journal of Behavioral Development
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2021Authoritative School Climate and Peer Victimization Among Brazilian Students, Revista Educação Especial
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2020AoA Effects in Reading Aloud and Lexical Decision: Locating the (Semantic) Locus in Terms of the Number of Backward Semantic Associations, The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
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2020Self-Continuity Moderates the Association Between Sexual-Minority Status Based Discrimination and Depressive Symptoms, Journal of Homosexuality
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2020Trust, Ethnicity, and Political Approval in 21st Century South Africa, ID: International Dialogue: A Multidisciplinary Journal of World Affairs
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2019Family Psychosocial Assessment in the Clinical Setting, BMC Psychology
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2019A Dynamic Examination of the Associations between Shyness, Psychological Difficulties, and Stressful Life Events during Early Adolescence, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
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2019Authoritative School Climate and Peer Victimization Among Brazilian Students, Psico
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2019Depressive symptoms are associated with more negative functional outcomes than anxiety symptoms in persons with multiple sclerosis (MS), The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
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2019Severe Social Withdrawal: Cultural Variation in Past Hikikomori Experiences of University Students in Nigeria, Singapore, and the US, Journal of Genetic Psychology
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2019Examination of age, ethnicity and sex differences on attraction among late-adolescents, Social Moments
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2019Cognitive Processes That Indirectly Affect Olfactory Dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease, Clinical Parkinsonism & Related Disorders
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2019The predictive value of school climate and teacher techniques on students’ just world beliefs: A comprehensive Brazilian sample, Social Psychology of Education
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2019Fairness, Trust, and School Climate as Foundational To Growth Mindset: A Study Among Brazilian Children and Adolescents, Educational Psychology
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2019Sexual activity and attitudes as predictors of sexual satisfaction during pregnancy. A multi-level model describing the sexuality of couples in the first 12 weeks, Archives of sexual behavior
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2018Repeatability and reliability of exploratory behavior in proactive and reactive zebrafish, Danio rerio, Scientific reports
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2018I like you, do you like me? How aggression, gender, social norms predict adolescent peer liking from a dyadic, individual and group perspective, Revista Psicologia Argumento
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2018Self-Continuity Moderates the Association Between Peer Victimization and Depression, Journal of Research on Adolescence (special issue on adolescents in the majority world)
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2017Comparing depression screening tools in persons with multiple sclerosis (MS), Rehabilitation Psychology
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2017Contextual influences on the relations between physical and relational aggression and peer victimization, School Psychology International
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2017Prenatal Androgen Exposure and Parental Care Interact to Influence Timing of Reproductive Maturation in Marmosets, American Journal of Primatology
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2017Androgyny in Liking and in Being Liked Are Antecedent to Well-Being in Pre-adolescent Boys and Girls, Sex Roles
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2017A cross-cultural analysis of the relations of physical and relational aggression with peer victimization, International Journal of Behavioral Development
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2017Work-family conflict among Blacks, Whites and Hispanics, Community, Work and Family
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2016Correlates of Early Adolescent Friend Choice Order in a Colombian Sample: Interactions Between Friend, Individual and Contextual Prosocial Behavior and Aggression, Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies
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2016The Relationships Between Anxious and Unsociable Withdrawal and Peer Difficulties: The Moderating Role of Insecure Attachment, International Journal of Behavioral Development
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2016Mother–child attachment and social withdrawal in urban Chinese children, Social Behavior and Personality
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2016Friendship Security, But Not Friendship Intimacy, Moderates the Stability of Anxiety During Early Adolescence, Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology
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2016Classroom Context and the Relations between Social Withdrawal and Peer Victimization, Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology
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2015Evidence for a synchronization of hormonal states between humans and dogs during competition, Physiology & Behavior
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2015Overrating Bruins, Underrating Badgers Media, Bias, and College Basketball, Journal of Sports Management and Commercialization
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2015Is reading-aloud performance in megastudies systematically influenced by the list context?, The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
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2014Successful Transition to Elementary School and the Implementation of Facilitative Practices Specified in the Reggio-Emilia Philosophy, School Psychology International
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2013Measurement Invariance of Self-Continuity Strategies: Comparisons of Early Adolescents from Brazil, Canada, and Colombia, European Journal of Developmental Psychology (special section on instruments and procedures for developmental research)
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2013Salivary cortisol and interpersonal functioning: An event-contingent recording study in the offspring of parents with bipolar disorder, Psychoneuroendocrinology
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2013Investigating the Portrait Values Questionnaire at Two Transitions in Adulthood: Retirement and University, Quality & Quantity
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2013Factors underlying contextual variations in the structure of the self: Differences related to SES, gender, culture and “majority/“non-majority” status during early adolescence, Journal of Research on Adolescence (special issue on adolescents in the majority world)
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2012Mediating and moderating effects on the association between vision loss and depression among older adults, Insight: Research and Practice in Visual Impairment and Blindness
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2012Is Self Evaluation of Creativity a Useful Criterion?, Creativity Research Journal
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2012Effects of a Wellness for Women Intervention on Healthy Eating Behavior in Midlife Rural Women, Social Science and Medicine
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2012Natural variation in gestational cortisol is associated with patterns of growth in marmoset monkeys (Callithrix geoffroyi), General and Comparative Endocrinology
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2011The Presence of a Best Friend Buffers the Effects of Negative Experiences, Developmental Psychology
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2011Effects of Homophobic Victimization vs. Non-homophobic Victimization on School Commitment and the Moderating effect of Teacher Attitudes, Journal of LGBT Youth
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2010High cortisol levels in the offspring of parents with bipolar disorder during two weeks of daily sampling, Bipolar Disorders
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2010Context-Dependent Peer Victimization: Are physical and relational aggression tolerated differently in mixed-sex versus all-girl schools?, Merrill-Palmer Quarterly
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2009Affective Well-Being in the Retirement Transition: Money, Health, and the Role of Values Over Three Years, Journal of Happiness Studies
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2009Reactivity and distortions in the self: Narcissism, types of aggression, and the functioning of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis during early adolescence, Development and Psychopathology
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2006Recent advances for Developmental Psychopathology in the study of social and personal experiences, International Journal of Behavioral Development
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2003Non-24-hour sleep-wake syndrome following a car accident, Neurology
Professional Memberships
- International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development
- Society for Research on Child Development
- Society for Research on Adolescence
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