Lab Director
Michaeline Jensen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology in the Clinical Psychology Program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Studying how teens connect 💬
Research that meets young people where they talk.
Michaeline studies how parents, peers, neighborhoods, and culture shape adolescent mental health and substance use. Her work also develops and evaluates family-focused prevention programs for Latino families.
Young people increasingly stay connected through phones and online spaces. By studying these everyday exchanges, Michaeline examines how technology relates to relationships, mental health, and substance use. Phone-based surveys and text-message analysis help her capture interactions that traditional surveys may miss.
She earned her Ph.D. in Psychology from Arizona State University in 2016 and her Bachelor’s from the University of Arizona in 2008.
Published work
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Publication list
2026Sleep Quality and the Edge-On Edge-Off Cycle of Caffeine and Alcohol UseA.M. Hussong, A.K. Haik, M. Jensen, J.M. Traver, A.N. Richards · Substance Use: Research and Treatment 20, 29768357261474378
2026Digital deviancy trainingG.E. Chase, M. Jensen · Developmental Review 80, 101254
2026The college student adaptive and maladaptive academic behaviors scale: development, reliability, and validityA. Fletcher, B. Alligood, M. Jensen, S. Vrshek-Schallhorn · Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice 28 (1 …
2026Parental/caregiver racial-ethnic socialization during early childhood: a meta-ethnographic reviewK.N. Quick, J. Mendez Smith, S.I. Coard, M. Jensen · Frontiers in Psychology 17, 1716005
2026Behavioral Academic Avoidance as an Indirect Partial Mediator of the Association Between Chronic Family Stress and University GradesA. Fletcher, X. Xie, M. Jensen, S. Vrshek-Schallhorn · Chronic Stress 10, 24705470261426467
2026Styles of digital parental mediation: a multi-group person-centered approachJ.L. Navarro, M. Jensen · Journal of Child and Family Studies 35 (2), 481-501
2025First-generation college student status and minoritized race and ethnicity: Intersectional predictors of life stress exposure and lab-based cortisol reactivityD.M. Ponder, S. Vrshek-Schallhorn, C.B. Crayton, A.M. Cupito, G. Livas, M. Jensen, A. Fletcher · Psychoneuroendocrinology, 107677
2025Stress and Emerging Adult Substance Use: Testing the Buffering Effects of Parent-Provided Dyadic CopingM.A. Lippold, G.E. Chase, M. Jensen, K. Wyman, G. Bodenmann · Journal of Child and Family Studies 34 (9), 2419-2431
2025Digitally mediated racial-ethnic socialization among black/African American emerging adults and their caregiversM. Jensen, M.Y. Martin Romero, M.T. Brown, M. Weinstein, M. Chan, G.L. Stein · Journal of Adolescent Research 40 (4), 982-1016
2025Social media component effects: a commentary on Maheux et al.(2024)M. Jensen · Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 66 (4), 592-594
2025Dyadic associations between self and peer engagement in online alcohol-facilitative communication and college student drinkingG.E. Chase, A.M. Hussong, M. Jensen · Emerging Adulthood 13 (2), 278-290
2024Who is most at risk?: Identifying the risks for mental health problems related to social mediaJ.L. Hamilton, K.P. Kruzan, H. Szlyk, J. Reyes-Portillo, C. Biernesser, M. Jensen, J. Zelazny, B. Primack, J. Torous, P. Weigle · Handbook of Children and Screens: Digital Media, Development, and Well-Being …
2024Parent strategies to help emerging adults manage stress are associated with their mental health: A dyadic coping perspectiveM.A. Lippold, M. Jensen, G.E. Chase, K. Wyman, M.R. Jenkins, S. Mohanty, G. Bodenmann · Family Process 63 (4), 1964-1981
2024Rumination as a Moderator of the Relation between Childhood Adversity Exposure and College Students’ Psychological DistressB. Alligood, A. Fletcher, S. Vrshek-Schallhorn, M. Jensen · Journal of Trauma Studies in Education 3 (2), 45-68
2024Associations of early adversity and negative emotionality with emerging adult latent internalizingD.M. Ponder, E. Cole, M. Jensen, S. Vrshek-Schallhorn · Psychiatry Research Communications 4 (3), 100193
2024Does Trait Rumination Moderate the Path From Chronic Stress Adversity Exposure to Internalizing Symptoms in First-Generation and Continuing-Generation College Students?S. Vrshek-Schallhorn, B. Alligood, A. Fletcher, M. Jensen · Journal of First-generation Student Success 4 (3), 258-279
2024Leveraging digital media to promote youth mental health: flipping the script on social media-related riskJ.L. Hamilton, J. Torous, H. Szlyk, C. Biernesser, K.P. Kruzan, M. Jensen, J. Reyes-Portillo, B. Primack, J. Zelazny, P. Weigle · Current treatment options in psychiatry 11 (2), 67-75
2024Digital location tracking in the parent/caregiver–college student dyadG.E. Chase, M.T. Brown, J.L. Navarro, M.A. Lippold, M. Jensen · Journal of Adolescence 96 (4), 855-864
2024Parenting styles in emerging adulthoodM. Jensen, J.L. Navarro, G.E. Chase, K. Wyman, M.A. Lippold · Youth 4 (2), 509-524
2024It isn’t just Mom: Gendered provision of family and home responsibilities among emerging adults during COVID-19J.L. Navarro, M.T. Brown, T. Jensen, M. Weinstein, M. Jensen · Frontiers in Psychiatry 15, 1330424
2024Parent-emerging adult text interactions and emerging adult perceived parental support of autonomyM.T. Brown, M. Jensen, A.M. Hussong · Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 41 (2), 499-520
2024Depression and reciprocal language style matching in text messagesM. Weinstein, M. Jensen · Journal of Language and Social Psychology 43 (1), 37-62
2023Dyadic parent–college student digital interaction styles.M. Jensen, J.L. Navarro, M.T. Brown, A.M. Hussong · Journal of Family Psychology 37 (6), 864
2023Novel perspectives on adversity exposure, stress responding, and academic retention among first-and continuing-generation studentsA. Fletcher, M. Jensen, S. Vrshek-Schallhorn · Emerging Adulthood 11 (1), 175-189
2023A bifactor model of US Parents’ attitudes regarding mediation for the digital ageJ.L. Navarro, A. Fletcher, M. Jensen · Journal of Children and Media 17 (1), 17-36
2022Shift and persist in Mexican American youth: A longitudinal test of depressive symptomsG.L. Stein, M. Jensen, N. Christophe, R.A. Cruz, M.Y. Martin Romero, R. Robins · Journal of Research on Adolescence 32 (4), 1433-1451
2022Emerging adults’ digital technology engagement and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemicG.E. Chase, M.T. Brown, M. Jensen · Frontiers in Psychology 13, 1023514
2022Digital Media in Adolescent Health Risk and Externalizing BehaviorsM. Jensen, M. Weinstein, M.T. Brown, J.L. Navarro · Handbook of adolescent digital media use and mental health, 264
2022Associations between adolescents’ daily digital technology use and sleepK. Burnell, M.J. George, M. Jensen, R.H. Hoyle, C.L. Odgers · Journal of Adolescent Health 70 (3), 450-456
2021Digital parenting of emerging adults in the 21st centuryM. Jensen, A.M. Hussong, E. Haston · Social Sciences 10 (12), 482
2021Daily parent-adolescent digital exchangesM. Jensen, M.J. George, M.A. Russell, M.A. Lippold, C.L. Odgers · Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology 49 (9), 1125-1138
2021Victimized in many ways: Online and offline bullying/harassment and perceived racial discrimination in diverse racial–ethnic minority adolescents.M. Weinstein, M. Jensen, B.M. Tynes · Cultural diversity & ethnic minority psychology 27 (3), 397
2021Does adolescent digital technology use detract from the parent–adolescent relationship?M. Jensen, M.J. George, M.A. Russell, M.A. Lippold, C.L. Odgers · Journal of Research on Adolescence 31 (2), 469-481
2021Collecting text messages from college students: Evaluating a novel methodologyA.M. Hussong, M. Jensen, S. Morgan, J. Poteat · Social Development 30 (1), 3-22
2021Text message content as a window into college student drinking: Development and initial validation of a dictionary of “alcohol-talk”M. Jensen, A.M. Hussong · International journal of behavioral development 45 (1), 3-10
2020Adolescent development and growing divides in the digital ageC.L. Odgers, M. Jensen · Dialogues in clinical neuroscience 22 (2), 143-149
2020Young adolescents' digital technology use, perceived impairments, and well-being in a representative sampleM.J. George, M. Jensen, M.A. Russell, A. Gassman-Pines, W.E. Copeland, R.H. Hoyle, C.L. Odgers · The Journal of pediatrics 219, 180-187
2020Annual research review: Adolescent mental health in the digital age: Facts, fears, and future directionsC.L. Odgers, M. Jensen · Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 61 (3), 336-348
2019Young adolescents’ digital technology use and mental health symptoms: Little evidence of longitudinal or daily linkagesM. Jensen, M.J. George, M.A. Russell, C.L. Odgers · Clinical Psychological Science 7 (6), 1416-1433
2019Coping and culture: The protective effects of shift-&-persist and ethnic-racial identity on depressive symptoms in Latinx youthN. Christophe, G.L. Stein, M.Y. Martin Romero, M. Chan, M. Jensen, L.M. Gonzalez, L. Kiang · Journal of youth and adolescence 48 (8), 1592-1604
2018Synthesizing a special issue on parenting adolescents in an increasingly diverse worldA.M. Hussong, D.J. Jones, M. Jensen · Journal of Research on Adolescence 28 (3), 665-673
2018Text messaging and social network site use to facilitate alcohol involvement: A comparison of US and Korean college studentsM. Jensen, A.M. Hussong, J. Baik · Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking 21 (5), 311-317
2018Effect of middle school interventions on alcohol misuse and abuse in Mexican American high school adolescents: Five-year follow-up of a randomized clinical trialN.A. Gonzales, M. Jensen, J.Y. Tein, J.J. Wong, L.E. Dumka, A.M. Mauricio · JAMA psychiatry 75 (5), 429-437
2018Ethnic socialization in neighborhood contexts: Implications for ethnic attitude and identity development among Mexican-origin adolescentsR.M.B. White, G.P. Knight, M. Jensen, N.A. Gonzales · Child Development 89 (3), 1004-1021
2017Externalizing and internalizing pathways to Mexican American adolescents’ risk takingN.A. Gonzales, Y. Liu, M. Jensen, J.Y. Tein, R.M.B. White, J. Deardorff · Development and psychopathology 29 (4), 1371-1390
2017Neighborhood moderation of sensation seeking effects on adolescent substance use initiationM. Jensen, L. Chassin, N.A. Gonzales · Journal of youth and adolescence 46 (9), 1953-1967
2015Mechanisms and Processes of Peer ContagionM. Jensen, T.J. Dishion · Oxford Bibliographies in Psychology
2014The cultural adaptation and mental health of Mexican American adolescentsN.A. Gonzales, M. Jensen, Z. Montano, H. Wynne · Mexican American children and families, 182-196
2014Long-term effects of a universal family intervention: Mediation through parent-adolescent conflictM. Jensen, J.J. Wong, N.A. Gonzales, L.E. Dumka, R. Millsap, S. Coxe · Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology 43 (3), 415-427
2012We‐Talk, Communal Coping, and Cessation Success in a Couple‐Focused Intervention for Health‐Compromised SmokersM.J. Rohrbaugh, V. Shoham, J.A. Skoyen, M. Jensen, M.R. Mehl · Family process 51 (1), 107-121