
Projects
Our lab is engaged in a number of projects, all aimed to better understand risk, resilience, and healthy development in minoritized youth and families.

Adolescent Resistance and Cultural Resilience (ARCR) Study
Status: Ongoing
The ARCR project aims to recruit Black parent-teen (13-17-years-old) dyads living in the province of Quebec. This project aims to combine longitudinal and daily diary designs to examine the development of cultural factors and resilience in the face of discrimination, how these processes operate in day-to-day life, and their long-terms impacts on individual and family wellbeing. Recruitment of the baseline sample ongoing.
Interested in participating in the ARCR study? Please fill out the eligibility survey in either English or French
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Neighborhoods 2 Neurons (N2N)
Status: Data Collection Ongoing
Neighborhoods to Neurons (N2N) is a project in collaboration with Dr. Anna Weinberg's TRAC Lab, as well as with Dr. Alexis Dennis (McGill Sociology) and Dr. Sam Nelson (McGill Religious Studies). N2N aims to characterize and quantify how neighborhood-level risk factors and markers of systemic racism exposure impact cognitive functioning and psychological health among Black families in the city of Montreal.​ Data are being collected by Decision Point Research.

This project is supported by a CONNECT grant from McGill Healthy Brains Healthy Lives.


Creation of an Anti-Racism Activism Measure for Canadian Emerging Adults: By the Community for the Community
Status: Ongoing
The anti-racism measure project aims to marry community-engaged research methods and a review of existing measures of anti-racist activism to create a new, comprehensive measure of anti-racist activism among youth of colour using a large, nationally representative sample of Canadian emerging adults (18-25 years old) of colour. The development of the anti-racist activism scale (e.g., evaluating existing items, creating new items, etc.) is ongoing through a youth advisory board, in collaboration with the research team, comprised of 8-10 racially diverse young (18-25) anti-racism activists in Québec. The measure aims to incorporate content of the activism, means of activism (online vs in-person), and risk-level.
SONA Psychology Participant Pool
Status: Ongoing
Yearly data collection of mental health, racialized experiences, identity, and resilience among McGill students of colour. Total sample size across 22/23 and 23/24 academic years ~1,000.
We have recently conducted a qualitative focus group interview follow-up with 20 Asian McGill students asking about their experiences with online and vicarious racism. This qualitative study is led by graduate student Tripat Rihal.


Multiracial Teen Study
Status: Data Collection Completed Jul '24
This project of 300 Black-White and 300 Latine-White Biracial adolescents (13-17-years-old) from around the united states is aims to measure cultural risk and resilience processes using measures specifically adapted for Multiracial populations. This project was conducted in collaboration with Dr. Chelsea Williams (Virginia Commonwealth University) and Dr. Annabelle Atkin (Purdue University). Findings will serve as pilot data for collaborative grants on development and resilience in Multiracial populations.
Leger Study
Status: Data Collection Completed Feb '24
We worked with Leger Marketing to collect data from a national sample of 511 Black and Latinx young adults (age 18-34 at baseline) from across Canada. Participants were surveyed at baseline and every 3 months for the next year, resulting in 5 waves of data across a 12-month period. This project is intended to assess the short-term longitudinal effects of discrimination, internalized racism, coping, anti-racist action, and mental health among Black and Latinx Canadian young adults.
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Multi-RaSCS Project
Status: Data Collection Completed
The Multi-RaSCS Project, or multi-racial socialization competency project, is a cross-sectional study broadly focused on parents’ ethnic-racial socialization practices, parents racialized experiences, and their children’s mental health and wellbeing. Collected in the summer of 2020, participants in Multi-RaSCS included about 800 Black, White, Latinx, and Asian American parents with at least one child between the ages of 10 and 18.
Members of the Multi-RaSCS team include:Riana Anderson, Ph.D. (University of Michigan), Michele Chan (UNC Greensboro), N. Keita Christophe, Ph.D. (McGill University), Shawn C.T. Jones, Ph.D. (Virginia Commonwealth University), Lisa Kiang, Ph.D. (Wake Forest University), Gabriela L. Stein, Ph.D. (UNC Greensboro), and Howard C. Stevenson, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania).
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Publications: Christophe et al. (2024) [link], Jones et al. (2024) [link], Kiang et al. (2023) [link], Kiang et al. (2022) [link], Christophe et al. (2022) [link]. See the Publications tab for further information.
LOVING Project
Status: Data Collection Completed
The LOVING project is a cross-sectional study on Multiracial emerging adults experiences and wellbeing. Collected in 2018 and 2019, the LOVING project consists of about 700 diverse Multiracial emerging adults aged 18-25 recruited from 3 universities across the United States. Manuscripts using the LOVING Project data have centered around gaining a better understanding of ethnic-racial socialization, ethnic-racial identity development, parental support, and the relations between discrimination and mental wellbeing.

Members of the LOVING Study collaborative, presented in alphabetical order, include: Clarissa Abidog (Arizona State University), Annabelle L. Atkin, Ph.D (Purdue University), N. Keita Christophe, Ph.D (McGill University), Abigail K. Gabriel (Arizona State University), Richard M. Lee, Ph.D (University of Minnesota), Gabriela L. Stein, Ph.D (UNC Greensboro), and Christine S. Wu, PhD (Oberlin College).
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Publications: Christophe et al. (2023) [link], Atkin et al. (2023) [link], Christophe et al. (2022) [link], Atkin et al. (2022) [link], Christophe et al. (2021) [link]. See the Publications tab for further information.