Violeta J. Rodriguez, PhD, MSEd

Shared a poster at the NIH High-Risk, High-Reward Symposium on structural topic modeling and network analysis of parent interviews—early results from my DP5 project.

Shoutout to the Health Equity and Action Lab team for helping interview 151 parents in one semester.

#NIH #EarlyIndependenceAward

Grateful to be in Bethesda for the NIH High-Risk, High-Reward Symposium. Honored to be here through the NIH Director’s Early Independence Award and to meet fellow awardees, including others in psychology.

Inspiring science across fields!!

#NIH #HighRiskHighReward

New paper w/ @qmmmmliu.bsky.social

Network analysis of LGBTQIA+ parents linking parenting, stigma, & mental health.

Supportiveness, reinforcement, & transphobia were central.

Child psychopathology & parent anxiety bridged domains.

Patterns varied by identity

doi.org/10.1037/fam0001459

We loved having you @gramos.bsky.social!! Thanks so much for generously sharing your amazing work with us!

Academic betrayal, tapping into silliness: Science’s top personal essays of 2025 Our Working Life essays highlight the people behind the research and lessons learned as they overcome personal and professional challenges

Wow! Honored that my essay was named one of Science’s Top Personal Essays of 2025 for the second year in a row!

It means a lot that honest stories about the real pressures + joys of research resonate. Grateful to all who read, shared, and reached out.

Read here ➝ www.science.org/content/arti...

I’m excited to be a panelist at APF’s second annual Springfield Town Hall on sustaining impact in LGBTQIA+ psychological research.

🗓 Feb 11, 2026 | 6 PM ET | Zoom
🔗 ampsychfdn.org/events/sprin...

Open to all. Please share.

Measurement Invariance of the Regulation of Emotions in Parenting Scale (REPS): Psychometric Validation Across Ethnoracial Groups - Violeta J. Rodriguez, 2025 Parental emotion regulation is crucial for parent–child interactions and child psychological outcomes. However, limited research has examined whether the Regula...

Thrilled to share my new study validating the Regulation of Emotions in Parenting Scale (REPS) in a large, racially diverse U.S. sample

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

SO HONORED AND GRATEFUL to receive the Emerging Latino Leader Award at the Illinois Legislative Latino Caucus Foundation Gala.

Thank you Senator Karina Villa and Rey Raigoza. Grateful to @psychillinois.bsky.social Head Diane Beck, Dean Venetria Patton, & @benhankin.bsky.social for nominating me.

anyone have any insight on how NIH study section catchup is unfolding? Don't wanna bother POs since I imagine backlog is bananas, but seeing section rosters posted for mtgs listed as 'did not take place'; curious ab what kinds of timelines we might expect from here (also seems odd to post rosters?)

This sounds great! We may need to invite you Gio!

New paper in Assessmentauthored by @psychillinois.bsky.social MSPS student @antoniayuxinhua.bsky.social, with @qmmmmliu.bsky.social.

We validated the Regulating Emotions in Parenting Scale (REPS) across LGBT parents.

Read: doi.org/10.1177/1073...

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Officially licensed as a clinical psychologist in Illinois!!!!

Navigating Academic Brokering: Enhancing Belongingness in Scientific Training Programs As more psychologists engage with marginalized communities for research, the lack of diversity in the academic workforce and inadequate cultural sensitivity training often leads to relying on trainee...

So proud to share our paper on Academic Brokering with brilliant #LatinaScholars. 🌟 Grateful to @dllabarrie.bsky.social for leading the way & to Amanda Perozo Garcia, Michelle Perez, and @thaniagalvanphd.bsky.social for making this project come to fruition. 💜

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Grateful to NIH OAR for inviting me to join the panel at the Early Career Investigator Workshop in HIV. 🙏

Loved being in conversation about the many pathways research careers can take, and inspired by the leadership + commitment across institutes.

📺 Recordings: oar.nih.gov/nih-workshop...

It’s a new term: here are 99 lab hacks Nature asked contributors, editors and working researchers to share their best advice for scientists.

Excited to be included in Nature’s roundup of 99 lab hacks!

I shared advice on lab meetings + clear expectations for trainees. Small structures that can make a big difference in mentoring.

Check out the full piece here: doi.org/10.1038/d415...

Reminder 🚨 The NIH Workshop for Early Career Investigators in HIV is this Friday!

I’ll be speaking at 1:35pm ET, but the whole day is packed with great sessions.

📅 Sept 26, 2025 | 11am–3pm ET | Virtual
Register here: www.scgcorp.com/eciworkshop2...

Of course! Thank you for inviting us!!

Faculty Jobs Hosted on the Open Science Framework

@qmmmmliu.bsky.social and I just gave a presentation for the UChicago internship program on writing faculty job statements.

We talked through what makes them compelling (and what to avoid).

Slides are here if interested 👉 osf.io/3skx4/?view_...

Thanks to Dr. Shona Vas inviting us!!

Disentangling the Heterogeneity in Minority Stress: A Data Mining Approach - Archives of Sexual Behavior Minority stress theory posits that discrimination contributes to increased distress among individuals with minoritized identities, including individuals who identify as lesbian, gay, and bisexual. The...

🚨 New publication in Archives of Sexual Behavior! ❤️

Co–first authored w/ Dr. Qimin Liu — we applied conditional inference trees to examine intragroup nuances in discrimination + psychological distress among U.S. sexual minority adults.

@psychillinois.bsky.social

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A critique in my review: “The authors used omega instead of alpha.”

Cool, let me just return my master’s in measurement.

No other leads???