Maria Parente

Ph.D. Student
Department of Education

Email: mparente@uci.edu

Biography

Maria E. Parente obtained her BS in Human Development from Cornell University in 2003. Subsequently, she worked as Project Coordinator for the Yale University Study of Children’s Afterschool Time (PI: Joseph L. Mahoney, Ph.D.), a five-year longitudinal study investigating afterschool arrangements and their developmental correlates in an urban, low-income sample.

Maria received her MS in Psychology from Yale University in 2007. As an early career fellow of the Yale University Zigler Center for Child Development and Social Policy, her interests lie at the intersection of research and social policy, concerning issues of youth out-of-school time activities, neighborhood crime and structure, and the consequences of living in poverty. Her dissertation will focus on the social and academic consequences of child and adolescent time spent in unsupervised care during the out of school hours. She will examine probable moderators of these consequences, including neighborhood structural characteristics, parental monitoring, and friendship patterns. Below are selected publications.

Publications

Parente, M. E., & Mahoney, J. L. (under review). A longitudinal study of residential mobility, exposure to neighborhood crime, and childhood aggression. Journal of Community Psychology.

Parente, M. E., & Mahoney, J. L. (in press). Activity participation in childhood and adolescence. Invited chapter to appear in D. Carr (Editor-in-Chief), R. Crosnoe, M.E. Hughes, & A. Pienta (Assoc. Eds.), Encyclopedia of the Life Course and Human Development.

Mahoney, J.L., Parente, M.E., & Zigler, E. F. (in press). After-school program participation and children’s development. Invited chapter to appear in J. Meece & J.S. Eccles (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Schools, Schooling, and Human Development.

Lord, H., Parente, M.E., & Mahoney J.L. (2008) Extracurricular activities. Invited chapter to appear in R.A. Schweder (Editor-in-Chief), Chicago Companion to the Child.

Mahoney, J.L., Parente, M.E., & Lord, H. (2007) After-school program engagement: Developmental consequences and links to program quality and content. The Elementary School Journal, 107, 385-404.