Michaeline Jensen, Ph.D. 

Associate Professor of Psychology
Clinical Psychology Program
University of North Carolina at Greensboro 
email: [email protected]
​Office: ​ Eberhart 266
​Michaeline’s research leverages novel methodological techniques and mobile communication technologies to better understand the role of relationships in the development of adolescent mental health and substance use. She examines the roles of parents, peers, neighborhoods, and cultural values in youth internalizing, externalizing, and substance use, with an emphasis on development and evaluation of family-focused prevention programming for Latino families.  Increasingly, social connections are occurring not just face to face, but through mobile phones and online.  Michaeline’s research recognizes this shift in communication patterns; she is utilizing mobile phones and the wealth of information contained therein in to elucidate the role of technology in relationship maintenance, mental health, and substance use among young people and to assess and uncover social-communication processes that researchers often struggle to accurately assess via traditional self-report. 

Publications 

Chase, G.E., Brown, M.T., Navarro, J.L., Lippold, M.A., & Jensen, M. (2024). Digital location tracking in the parent/caregiver-college student dyad. Journal of Adolescence.  https://doi.org/10.1002/jad.12300
Jensen, M., Martin Romero, M. Y., Brown, M. T., Weinstein, M., Chan, M., & Stein, G. L. (2023). Digitally Mediated Racial-Ethnic Socialization Among Black/African American Emerging Adults and Their Caregivers. Journal of Adolescent Research, https://doi.org/10.1177/0743558423119360.
Weinstein, M., & Jensen, M. (2023). Depression and Reciprocal Language Style Matching in Text Messages. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927X231163305
Brown, M. T., Jensen, M., & Hussong, A. M. (2023). Parent-emerging adult text interactions and emerging adult perceived parental support of autonomy. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075231167347
Chase, G., Brown, M., & Jensen, M. (2022). Emerging adults’ digital technology engagement and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Frontiers in Psychology.   https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1023514
Navarro, J., Fletcher, A., & Jensen, M. (2022). A Measure of Parental Attitudes Regarding Mediation for the Digital Age: The Development and Validation of a Bifactor Model. Journal of Children and Media.   https://doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2022.2123012
Jensen, M., Weinstein, M., Brown, M., & Navarro, J. (2022). Digital Media in Adolescent Health Risk and Externalizing Behaviors. In J. Nesi, E. Telzer, & M. Prinstein (Eds.), Handbook of Adolescent Digital Media Use and Mental Health (pp. 264-299). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108976237.015
Fletcher, A. C., Jensen, M., & Vrshek-Schallhorn, S. (2022). Novel Perspectives on Adversity Exposure, Stress Responding, and Academic Retention Among First-and Continuing-Generation Students. Emerging Adulthood, https://doi.org/10.1177/21676968221089087. 
 Stein, G. L., Jensen, M., Christophe, N. K., Cruz, R. A., Martin Romero, M., & Robins, R. (2022). Shift and Persist in Mexican American Youth: A Longitudinal Test of Depressive Symptoms. Journal of Research on Adolescence. https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12714
Jensen, M., Hussong, A. M., & Haston, E. (2021). Digital Parenting of Emerging Adults in the 21st Century. Social Sciences, 10 (12), 482. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci1012048
Burnell, K., George, M.J., Jensen, M., Hoyle, R.H., & Odgers, C.L. (2021). Associations between Adolescents’ Daily Digital Technology Use and Sleep. Journal of Adolescent Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2021.09.033
Weinstein, M., Jensen, M., & Tynes, B. (2021). Victimized in Many Ways: Online and Offline Bullying/Harassment and Racial-Ethnic Discrimination in Diverse Racial-Ethnic Minority Adolescents. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. doi: https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000436
Jensen, M., George, M., Russell, M., Lippold, M., & Odgers, C. (2021). Does Adolescent Technology Use Detract from the Parent-Child Relationship? Journal of Research on Adolescence.  doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12618
​Jensen, M., George, M., Russell, M., Lippold, M., & Odgers, C. (2021). Daily Parent-Adolescent Digital Exchanges. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-020-00765-x
Jensen, M., & Hussong, A. M. (2021). Text message content as a window into college student drinking: Development and initial validation of a dictionary of “alcohol-talk”. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 45(1), 3-10. doi: 10.1177/0165025419889175
Odgers, C. &  Jensen, M. (2020). Adolescent Development and Growing Divides in the Digital Age. Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, 22(2):143-149. doi: 10.31887/DCNS.2020.22.2/codgers​​
Hussong, A. M., Jensen, M., Morgan, S., & Poteat, J. (2020). Collecting Text Messages from College Students: Evaluating a Novel Methodology. Social Development. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12466
Odgers, C. &  Jensen, M. (2020). Adolescent Mental Health in the Digital Age: Facts, Fears and Future Directions. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 61, 336-348. doi:10.1111/jcpp.13190. ​
George, M., Jensen, M., Russell, M., Gassman-Pines, A., Copeland, W.E., Hoyle, R.H., & Odgers, C. (2020). Young Adolescents' Digital Technology Use, Perceived Impairments, and Wellbeing in a Representative Sample. Journal of Pediatrics.  doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2019.12.00
Jensen, M., George, M., Russell, M., & Odgers, C. (2019). Young Adolescents' Digital Technology Use and Mental Health Symptoms: Little Evidence of Longitudinal or Daily Linkages. Clinical Psychological Science.  doi: 10.1177/2167702619859336 
Christophe, N.K., Stein, G.L., Martin Romero, M.Y., Chan, M., Jensen, M., Gonzales, L.M., & Kiang, L. (2019).  Coping and Culture: The Protective Effects of Shift-&-Persist and Ethnic-Racial Identity on Depressive Symptoms in Latinx Youth.  Journal of Youth and Adolescence. doi: 10.1007/s10964-019-01037-
Hussong, A., M., Jones, D.J., & Jensen, M.  (2018). Synthesizing a Special Issue on Parenting Adolescents in an Increasingly Diverse World.  Journal of Research on Adolescence, 28, 665-673. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.1239
Jensen, M., Hussong, A., Baik, J. (2018). Text Messaging and Social Network Site Use to Facilitate Alcohol Involvement:  Comparison of US and Korean College Students. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 21 (5).  doi: 10.1089/cyber.2017.061
Gonzales, N.A., Jensen, M., Tein, J.Y., Wong, J.J, Dumka, L., & Mauricio, A. (2018). Effect of Middle School Intervention on Alcohol Misuse and Abuse in Mexican American High School Adolescent: Five Year Follow-up of a Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Psychiatry, 75(5), 429-437. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2018.0058
Jensen, M., Chassin, L., & Gonzales, N. A. (2017). Neighborhood Moderation of Sensation Seeking Effects on Adolescent Substance Use Initiation. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 46(9), 1953-1967 doi: 10.1007/s10964-017-0647-y
Gonzales, N. A., Liu, Y., Jensen, M., Tein, J. Y., White, R. M., & Deardorff, J. (2017). Externalizing and Internalizing Pathways to Mexican American Adolescents’ Risk Taking. Development and Psychopathology, 29(4), 1371-1390. doi: 10.1017/S0954579417000323
White, R., Knight, G., Jensen, M., & Gonzales, N. A. (2017). Ethnic Socialization in Neighborhood Contexts: Implications of Ethnic Attitude and Identity Development among Mexican-Origin Adolescents. Child Development, 89(3), 1004-1021.  doi: 10.1111/cdev.12772 
Jensen, M., & Dishion, T.J. (2015). Mechanisms and Processes of Peer Contagion. In D.S. Dunn (Ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Psychology.  New York: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780199828340-0165
Jensen, M., Wong, J., Gonzales, N. A., Dumka, L. E., Millsap, R., & Coxe, S. (2014). Long-term Effects of a Universal Family intervention: Mediation through Parent-Child Conflict. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 43(3):415-27. doi: 10.1080/15374416.2014.89122
Rohrbaugh, M.J., Shoham, V., Skoyen, J.A., Jensen, M., & Mehl, M.R. (2012). We-Talk, Communal Coping, and Cessation Success in a Couple-Focused Intervention for Health Compromised Smokers. Family Process, 5(1), 107-121. doi: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2012.01388.x

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