Jahromi, Laudan B. (lbj2112)

Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University
M.A., New York University
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Postdoctoral Fellowship in Applied Human Development
UCLA Psychological Studies in Education - Developmental Disabilities Focus

Social-emotional well-being among children and families with complex support needs; the development of self-regulation in children with developmental disabilities and those at-risk for delay due to social-ecological factors with an emphasis on children's emotion regulation and executive function and caregivers' coping strategies; contribution of self-regulatory processes to children's social interactions and school readiness, particularly among those with autism

Caregiver well-being in the context of adolescent parenthood, parents of children with disabilities, and caregivers who face socio-demographic risks with a focus on familial and cultural strengths and assets

Chen, Y., & Jahromi, L. B. (2024). Self-Regulation and Academic Learning in Preschoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Links to School Engagement and Levels of Autism Characteristics. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. Online Ahead of Print.

Dakopolos, A., Jahromi, L. B., Brassard, M. R., Greer, D (2024).  Joint attention and maternal attention across varying dyadic interactions for autistic children.  Research in Autism Spectrum Disorder, 117, 102452.

Gaspar, C. R. & Jahromi, L.B. (2024).  Parent Perspectives of Early Childhood Special Education Transition: A Systematic Review.  Infants and Young Children, 23, 195-215.

Kangas-Dick, K., Brassard, M.R, Jahromi, L.B., Greer, R.D. (2024).  Preschoolers with ASD with and without Elevated Attention Problems: Observed Parenting Differences.  Focus on Autism and other Developmental Disorders.

Jahromi, L.B., Bravo, D.Y., Umaña-Taylor, A.J., Updegraff, K.A., Hinman, J.A. (2023).  Mexican-origin adolescent mothers' beliefs and practices concerning children's school readiness.  Early Education and Development.

Santana, A., Williams, C.D., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Jahromi, L. B., Updegraff, K. A., Corona, R., Leon-Perez, G. (2023).  A Longitudinal Test of Mexican-origin Teen Mothers’ Cultural Characteristics and Children’s Spanish Vocabulary via Mothers’ Spanish Language Use.  Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology.

Williams, C. D., Bell, A., DeLaney, E. N., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Jahromi, L. B., & Updegraff, K. A. (2023). Children’s ethnic-racial identity and mothers’ cultural socialization as protective in relations between sociocultural risk factors and children’s internalizing behaviors. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. 

Kim, J. Y.D , Fienup, D. M., Reed, D., Jahromi, L. B. (2022, OnlineFirst). A rapid assessment of sensitivity to reward delays and classwide token economy savings for school aged children. Journal of Behavioral Education, 12, 1-24.

Singer-Dudek, J., Du, L., Greer, A., Dakopolos, A., Jahromi, L., Brassard, M., & Greer, R. D. (2022). The Verbal Behavior Development Assessment-Revised: Convergent and Divergent Validity in a Sample of Preschoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 1-19.

Williams, C. D., Lozada, F. T., Hood, K. B., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Jahromi, L. B. & Updegraff, K. A. ​(2022).  ​Mexican-origin 5-year-old children’s ethnic-racial identity, centrality, and attitudes predicting social functioning. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology.

Jahromi, L. B., Kirkman, K., Friedman, M., & Nunnally, A. (2021).  Associations between emotional competence and prosocial behaviors with peers among children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.  American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 126, 79-96.

Williams, C. D., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Updegraff, K. A., Jahromi, L. B. (2021). Measuring 5-year-old Mexican-heritage children’s ethnic-racial identity, attitudes, centrality, and knowledge.  Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology.

McDermott, E. R., Jahromi, L. B., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Martinez-Fuentes, S., Jones, S., & Updegraff, K. A. (2021). Mexican-origin adolescent mothers’ economic contexts, educational re-engagement, and their children’s school readiness. Child Development, 92, e513-e530.

Jahromi, L. B., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Updegraff, K. A., Williams, C. D., & Kirkman, K. (2020).  Depressive symptoms and developmental change in young mothers’ emotion scaffolding:  Links to children's self-regulation and academic readiness.  Developmental Psychology, 56, 2040–2054.

Williams, C. D., Bravo, D. Y., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Updegraff, K. A., Jahromi, L. B., Martinez-Fuentes, S., & Elias, M. d. J. (2020). Intergenerational transmission of cultural socialization and effects on young children’s developmental competencies among Mexican-origin families. Developmental Psychology, 56, 199–207.

Jahromi, L. B., Chen, Y., Dakopolos, A., & Chorneua, A. (2019).  Delay of gratification in preschoolers with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder:  Individual differences and links to executive function, emotion regulation, and joint attention.  Autism, 23, 1720-1731.

Dakopolos, A. & Jahromi, L. B. (2019).  Differences in sensory responses among children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and typical development: Links to joint attention and social competence. Infant & Child Development, e2117.

Rajan, S., Jahromi, L. B., Bravo, D.Y., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., & Updegraff, K. A. (2019). Maternal self-efficacy is protective for children's (but not mother) BMI among Mexican-origin children with negative temperament.  Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, 40, 633-641.

Derlan, C. L., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Updegraff, K. A., Jahromi, L. B., & Fuentes, S.  (2019). A prospective test of the family stress model with Mexican-origin adolescent mothers. Journal of Latinx Psychology, 7, 105-122.

Derlan, C. L., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Updegraff, K. A., & Jahromi, L. B. (2019). Mother-grandmother and mother-father coparenting across time among Mexican-origin adolescent mothers and families. Journal of Marriage and Family, 80, 349-366.

Zeiders, K. H., Bayless, S. D., Derlan, C. L., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Updegraff, K. A., & Jahromi, L. B. (2019). Discrimination and ethnic-racial identity: Understanding direction of effects using within- and between-person analyses. Child Development, 90, e373-e385.

Updegraff, K. A., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Zeiders, K. H., Bravo, D. Y., & Jahromi, L. B. (2018).  Familism values across the transition to adolescent motherhood: Links to family functioning and Mexican-origin adolescent mothers' adjustment.  Development & Psychopathology, 30, 1589-1609.

Zeiders, K. H., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Martinez-Fuentes, S., Updegraff, K. A., Douglass Bayless, S., & Jahromi, L. B. (2018). Latina/o youths’ discrimination experiences in the US Southwest: Estimates from three studies. Applied Developmental Science, 1-11.

Bravo, D. Y., Derlan, C. L., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Updegraff, K. A., & Jahromi, L. B. (2018). Processes underlying Mexican-origin adolescent mothers’ BMI. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 24, 284-293.

Wang, Y., Sylvestri, J.A., Jahromi, L.B. (2018).  Selected factors in reading comprehension for deaf and hearing adults:  Phonological skills and metacognition.  American Annals of the Deaf, 162, 445-462.

Jahromi, L. B. (2017).   Self-regulation in young children with Autism Spectrum Disorder:  An interdisciplinary perspective on emotion regulation, executive function, and effortful control.  In R. M. Hodapp and D. J. Fidler (Eds.) International Review of Research in Developmental Disabilities, 53, 45-89. 

Jahromi, L. B., Zeiders, K. H., Umana-Taylor, A. J., Updegraff, K. A. (2017).  The role of effortful control in the link between coparenting conflict and academic readiness for children of teen mothers.  Family Process, 1-15.

Seay, D., Umana-Taylor, A. J., Jahromi, L. B., Updegraff, K. A. (2017).  A prospective study of adolescent mothers’ social competence, children’s effortful control and compliance and children’s subsequent developmental outcomes.  Social Development, 26, 709-723.

Derlan, C. L., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Jahromi, L. B, & Updegraff, K. A. (2017). Cultural socialization attitudes and behaviors: Examining mothers’ centrality, discrimination experiences, and children’s effortful control as moderators. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 24, 162-172.

Wang, Y., Hartman, M., Jahromi, L. B., Tversky, B. (2017). Better story recall by children with unimodal communication.  Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 29, 699-720.

Derlan, C. L., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Updegraff, K. A., & Jahromi, L. B. (2017). Longitudinal relations among Mexican-origin mothers’ cultural characteristics, cultural socialization, and 5-year-old children’s ethnic-racial identification. Developmental Psychology, 53, 2078-2091.

Derlan, C. L., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Toomey, R. B., Jahromi, L. B, & Updegraff, K. A. (2016). Measuring cultural socialization attitudes and behaviors of Mexican-origin mothers with young children: A longitudinal investigation. Family Relations, 65, 477-489.

Wang, Y., Paul, P.V., Falk, J. L., Jahromi, L. B., Ahn, S. (2016).  Predictors of English reading comprehension for children who are d/Deaf or hard of hard of hearing.  Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 29, 35-54. 

Jahromi, L. B., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Updegraff, K. A., Zeiders, K. H. (2016).   Trajectories of developmental functioning among children of adolescent mothers: Factors associated with risk for delay.  American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 121, 346-363.  

Derlan, C. L., Umaña-Taylor, Updegraff, K. A., & Jahromi, L.B. (2016). Mothers’ characteristics as predictors of adolescents’ ethnic-racial identity:  An examination of Mexican-origin teen mothers.  Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 22, 453-459. 

Seay, D., Jahromi, L. B., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., & Updegraff, K. A. (2016).   Intergenerational transmission of maladaptive parenting strategies in families of adolescent mothers: Effects from grandmothers to young children. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 44, 1097-1109.

Zeiders, K. H., Umaña-Taylor, A. J, Jahromi, L. B., Updegraff, K. A., & White, R. M. (2016).  Discrimination and acculturation stress:  A longitudinal study of children’s well-being from prenatal development to 5 years of age.  Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 37, 557-564. 

Bravo, D., Toomey, R. B., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Updegraff, K. A., & Jahromi, L. B. (2016). Growth trajectories of Mexican-origin adolescent mothers’ educational expectations.  International Journal of Behavioral Development, 41, 165-174. 

Bravo, D.Y., Umaña-Taylor, A.J., Toomey, R.B., Updegraff, K.A., & Jahromi, L.B. (2016). Risky behaviors and educational attainment among young Mexican-origin mothers: The role of acculturative stress and the educational aspiration-expectation gap. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 52, 13-26.  

Bravo, D. Y., Umaña‐Taylor, A. J., Zeiders, K. H., Updegraff, K. A., & Jahromi, L. B. (2016). Incongruent Teen Pregnancy Attitudes, Coparenting Conflict, and Support among Mexican‐Origin Adolescent Mothers. Journal of Marriage and Family, 78, 531-545.

Zeiders, K. H., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Jahromi, L. B., & Updegraff, K. A. (2015). Grandmothers’ familism values, adolescent mothers’ parenting efficacy, and children’s well-being. Journal of Family Psychology, 29, 624-634.

Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Updegraff, K. A., Jahromi, L. B. & Zeiders, K. (2015). Trajectories of ethnic-racial identity and autonomy among Mexican-origin adolescent mothers in the U.S. Child Development, 86, 2034-2050. 

Toomey, R. J., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Updegraff, K. A., & Jahromi, L. B. (2015).  Trajectories of problem behavior among Mexican-origin adolescent mothers:  An examination of risk enhancing and reducing factors.  Journal of Latina/o Psychology, 3, 1-10. 

Toomey, R. B., Updegraff, K. A., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., & Jahromi, L. B. (2015). Gender role attitudes across the transition to adolescent motherhood in Mexican-origin families. Family Process, 54, 247-262. 

Zeiders, K. H., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Updegraff, K. A., & Jahromi, L. B. (2015a). An idiographic and nomothetic approach to the study of Mexican-origin adolescent mothers’ sociocultural stressors and adjustment. Prevention Science, 16, 386-396. 

Zeiders, K. H., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Updegraff, K. A., & Jahromi, L. B. (2015b). Acculturative stress and enculturative stress, depressive symptoms, and maternal warmth: Examining within-person relations among Mexican-origin adolescent mothers. Development & Psychopathology, 27, 293-308.

Perez-Brena, N. P., Updegraff, K. A., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Jahromi, L. B., Guimond, A. B. (2015). Co-parenting profiles in the context of Mexican-origin teen pregnancy: Links to mother-daughter quality and adjustment.  Family Process, 54, 263-279.   

Derlan, C. L., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Toomey, R. B., Updegraff, K. A., & Jahromi, L. B. (2015).  Person-environment fit: Everyday conflict and coparenting conflict in Mexican-origin teen mother families. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 21, 136-145.

Jahromi, L. B., Guimond, A. B., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Updegraff, K. A., & Toomey, R. B. (2014). Family context, Mexican-origin adolescent mothers’ parenting knowledge, and children’s subsequent developmental outcomes. Child Development, 85, 593–609. 

Toomey, R. B., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Williams, D., Harvey-Mendoza, E. C., Jahromi, L. B., & Updegraff, K. A. (2014). The impact of Arizona's S.B. 1070 immigration law on utilization of health care and public assistance among Mexican-origin teen mothers and their mother figures. American Journal of Public Health, 104 (s1), S28–S34.

Derlan, C. L., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Toomey, R. B., Updegraff, K. A., Jahromi, L. B., & Flores, L. I. (2014). Perceived discrimination and ethnic affirmation: Anglo culture orientation as a moderator among Mexican-origin adolescent mothers.  Child Development, 85, 1357-1365.

Bravo, D. Y., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., & Guimond, A. B., Updegraff, K. A., & Jahromi, L. B. (2014). Familism, family ethnic socialization, and Mexican-origin adolescent mothers’ educational adjustment. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 20, 389-400.

Meek, S.E., Lemery-Chalfant, K., Jahromi, L.B., & Valiente, C. (2014). A review of gene-environment correlations and their implications for autism: A conceptual model.  Psychological Review, 120, 497-521.

Updegraff, K. A., Perez-Brena, N. J., Umana-Taylor, A. J., Jahromi, L. B., & Harvey-Mendoza, E. C. (2013).  Mothers’ trajectories of depressive symptoms across Mexican-origin adolescent daughters’ transitions to parenthood. Journal of Family Psychology, 27, 376-386.

Umana-Taylor, A. J., Guimond, A. B., Updegraff, K. A., & Jahromi, L. B.  (2013). A longitudinal examination of social support and self-esteem interacting to inform Mexican-origin adolescent mothers’ parenting efficacy. Journal of Marriage and Family, 75, 746-759.

Jahromi, L. B., Bryce, C. D., & Swanson, J. (2013).  The importance of self-regulation for the school and peer engagement of children with high-functioning autism.  Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 7, 235-246.

Bryce, C. D., & Jahromi, L. B. (2013). Compliance and noncompliance to parental control strategies in children with high functioning autism and their typical peers.  Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 43, 236-243. 

Toomey, R. J., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Jahromi, L. B., & Updegraff, K.A. (2013).  Measuring mothers’ social support in the transition from adolescent pregnancy to parenthood.  Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 35, 195-212.

Toomey, R. J., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Updegraff, K. A. & Jahromi, L. B. (2013).   Ethnic identity development and ethnic discrimination: Examining longitudinal associations with adjustment for Mexican-origin adolescent mothers.  Journal of Adolescence, 36, 825-833. 

Jahromi, L. B., Meek, S.E., & Ober-Reynolds, S. (2012).  Emotion regulation in the context of frustration among preschoolers with autism and their typical peers.  Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 53, 1250-1258.

Meek, S. E., Robinson, L. & Jahromi, L. B. (2012).  Parent-child predictors of social competence with peers in children with and without autism.  Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 6, 815-823.

Jahromi, L. B., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Updegraff, K. A., & Lara, E. (2012).  Birth characteristics and developmental outcomes of infants of Mexican-origin adolescent mothers:  Risk and promotive factors.  International Journal of Behavioral Development, 36, 146-156.   

Kasari, C., Jahromi, L. B., & Gulsrud, A. (2012).  Emotional Development in Children with Developmental Disabilities.  In J. Burack, R. Hodapp, G. Iarocci, and E. Zigler (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Intellectual Disability and Development.  New York:  Oxford University Press. 

Gulsrud, A. C., Jahromi, L. B., & Kasari, C. (2010).  The co-regulation of emotions between mothers and their children with autism.  Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 40, 227-237. 

Jahromi, L. B., Kasari, C. L., McCracken, J., T., Lee, L. S-Y., Aman, M. G., McDougle, C. J., Scahil, L., Tierney, E., Arnold, E., Vitiello, B., Ritz, L., Witwer, A., Kustan, E., Ghuman, J., & Posey, D. J. (2009). Positive effects of methylphenidate on social communication and self-regulation in children with pervasive developmental disorders and hyperactivity.  Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorder, 39, 395-404. 

Jahromi, L. B., Gulsrud, A. C., & Kasari, C. (2008).  Emotional competence in children with Down syndrome:  Negativity and regulation.  American Journal on Mental Retardation, 113, 32-43.

Jahromi, L. B., & Stifter, C. A. (2008).  Individual differences in preschoolers’ self-regulation and theory of mind.  The Merrill-Palmer Quarterly Journal of Developmental Psychology, 54, 125-150.

Kasari, C., Freeman, S., Paparella, T., & Jahromi, L. B. (2008). Predicting language outcome in autism from controlled comparison of joint attention and play interventions. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 76, 125-137.

Stifter, C. A., Putnam, S. P., & Jahromi, L. B. (2008).  Exuberant and inhibited toddlers:  Stability of temperament and prediction to behavioral adjustment.  Development and Psychopathology, 20, 401-421.

Jahromi, L. B., & Stifter, C. A. (2007).  Individual differences in the contribution of maternal soothing to infant distress reduction.  Infancy, 11, 255-269.

Riggs, N. R., Jahromi, L. B., Peters, R. A., Dillworth, J. E., & Mueller, U. (2006).  Executive function and the promotion of social-emotional and behavioral competence.  Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 27, 300-309. 

Jahromi, L. B., Putnam, S. P., & Stifter, C. A. (2004).  Maternal regulation of infant reactivity from 2 to 6 months. Developmental Psychology, 40, 477-487.