Here is a selection of our research group’s relevant publications about caregiving youth. For a full list, see Google Scholar.
Olson E., Siskowski C., Armstrong-Carter E., et al., (2023). Caregiving Youth Research Collaborative. Report on caregiving youth in the U.S.: Progress and opportunity [White paper]. American Association of Caregiving Youth: Caregiving Youth Institute.
Armstrong-Carter, E., Osborn, S., Smith, O., Siskowski, C., Olson, E.A. (2024). “I missed school to take care of someone else”: Middle and high school students’ caregiving responsibilities as a reason for absenteeism. Journal of School Health.
Armstrong‐Carter, E., & Sege, B. (2024). An urgent need to support children and adolescents who are caregivers for family in the US. Journal of Adolescent Health.
Armstrong-Carter, E.,Osborn, S., Smith, O., Siskowski, C., Olson, E.A. (2023). Middle and high school students who take care of siblings, parents and grandparents: Associations with school engagement, belonging, and wellbeing. AERA Open.
Armstrong-Carter, E.,Siskowski, C., Belkowitz, J., Johnson, C., Olson. E. Child and adolescent caregiving for family: Emotional, social, physical, and academic risk and individual differences. (2022). Journal of Family Psychology. doi.org/10.1037/fam0000969.
Armstrong-Carter, E., (2022). Black adolescents’ support to the family and educational outcomes: Differences by household income. Social Development. doi.org/10.1111/sode.12627.
Armstrong-Carter, E.,Panter, A., Hutson, B., Olson, A. (2022). A university-wide survey of caregiving students in the US: Individual differences and associations with emotional and academic adjustment. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01288-0.
Armstrong-Carter, E.,Siskowski, C., Belkowitz, J., Johnson, C., Olson, E., (2021). The United States should recognize and support caregiving youth. 34(2) 1-25. Society for Research in Child Development Social Policy Report. doi: 10.1002/sop2.14.
Armstrong-Carter, E.,Ivory, S., Lin, L. C., Muscatell, K. A., & Telzer, E. H. (2020). Role fulfillment mediates the association between daily family assistance and cortisol awakening response in adolescents. Child Development, 91(3). doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13213
Armstrong‐Carter, E.,Olson, E., & Telzer, E. (2019). A unifying approach for investigating and understanding youth’s help and care for the family. Child Development Perspectives, 13(3), 186–192. doi.org/10.1111/cdep.