Briana Abarca

Graduate Service Assistant,

The Sanford School

[email protected]

Mail code: 7203

Campus: Tempe
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Student Information

Graduate Student
Family and Human Development
The College of Lib Arts & Sci

Research Interests

Neighborhood and activity space structures and social processes in parent-adolescent processes
Contextual influences on Latine family health and well-being

Research Activity

Abarca, B. N., White, R. M. B., Witherspoon, D. P., Briones, A., Muñoz, I. M., Osman, K. M., Rojo, L. M., & Roche, K. M. (2026, April 15-18). Mesosystemic influences on Latina mothers' monitoring of their adolescents. Abstract accepted for poster presentation. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA), Toronto, Canada.

White, R. M. B., Witherspoon, D. P., Abarca, B. N., Briones, A., Muñoz, I. M., Osman, K. M., Rojo, L. M., & Roche, K. M. (2026, April 15-18). Latina mothers of adolescents exhibit increased socio-spatial restriction in the context of immigration-related family stressors. Abstract accepted for poster presentation. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA), Toronto, Canada.

Osman, K. M., White, R. M. B., Abarca, B. N., Lambert, S. F., Briones, A., Muñoz, I. M., Rojo, L. M., & Roche, K. M. (2026, April 15-18). The implications of skin tone on family ethnic socialization and ethnic-racial identity among Latin American heritage youth. Abstract accepted for poster presentation. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA), Toronto, Canada.

Abarca, B. N., White, R. M. B., Witherspoon, D. P., & Roche, K. M. (2025, November 7). Contextual influences on Latina mothers' monitoring of their adolescents. [Poster presentation]. Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR) Graduate Student Poster Contest, Tempe, AZ, USA.

White, R. M. B., Zhao, C., Abarca, B. N., Lambert, S. F., & Roche, K. M. (2025, May 1-3). Latina mothers' experiences of ethnic-racial discrimination across mesosystem exposures to ethnicity and race. [Poster presentation]. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Minneapolis, MN, USA.

Zhao, C., White, R. M. B., Roche, K. M, Osborne, K., Abarca, B. N. (2024, April 18-20). How mothers’ activity spaces shape adolescent ethnic-racial identity through socialization in U.S. Latinx families. [Paper symposium]. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA), Chicago, IL, USA.