Jo Ann Farver

Tenure Track Appointments

• Professor, University of Southern California, 09/01/2010 –
• Associate Professor, University of Southern California, 09/01/1997 – 08/30/2010
• Assistant Professor, University of Southern California, 09/01/1991 – 08/01/1997

Summary Statement of Research Interests

Professor Farver’s research and teaching specialties are in the area of development psychology with a focus on children’s socio-emotional development in the context of the immigrant experience for families and their adjustment to a mainstream culture. Professor Farver’s current research cross-cultural projects include: “affluenza” in Hong Kong; a cyberbullying/cyberbystander project also in Hong Kong, and a study of immigrant families and their adolescent children in California’s central valley.

Contracts and Grants Awarded

• Promoting School Readiness Skills of Spanish-speaking English Language Learners, (NICHD), JoAnn M. Farver, Christopher J. Lonigan, $2,771,619, 01/2009 – 12/2014
• Intergenerational Transmission of Alcohol Involvement, (NIH), Luczak, S., Farver, J.M., McArdle, J., & Prescott, C. (Co-investigators), $3,382,397, 07/2009 – 06/2014
• Development of a Comprehensive Assessment System for Spanish-Speaking English-Language Learners’, (US Department of Education IES), JoAnn M. Farver, Christopher J. Lonigan, $1,712,848, 04/2009 – 04/2013
• Enhancing Literacy Outcomes For Young Children, (National Science Foundation), Farver, JoAnn Marie, $6,212,993, 10/01/2001 – 09/30/2009

Book Chapters

• Bornstein, M. H., Bradley, R., Chen, X., Farver, J. M., Gold, S., Hernandez, D. J., Phalet, K., Spielt, C., Suarez-Orozco, C., R. van de Vijver, A. J., Yoshikawa, H., Bernard, J. (2012). Psychological acculturation: Perspectives, principles, processes, and prospects. The International Handbook of Migration Studies New York: Routledge.

Journal Article

• Tilley, J., Farver, J. M. (2023). Contextual Predictors of Internalizing and Externalizing Problems Among Affluent Adolescents in Hong Kong. School Psychology International. Vol. doi (org/10), pp. 177/01430343221133499.
• Goodrich, M. J., Lonigan, C. J., Phillips, B. M., Farver, J. M., McDowell, K. M. (2021). Influences of the Home Language and Literacy Environment on Spanish and English Vocabulary Growth among Dual Language Learners. Early Childhood Research Quarterly. Vol. 57 (27-39)
• Farver, J. M., Usta, J., Jarrah, E., R., F. J. (2021). Elder Abuse From Different Points of View in Lebanon. Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect. Vol. doi (10), pp. 080/08946566.2021.1881013.
• Tilley, J. L., Huey, S. J., Farver, J. M., Lai, M., Wang, C. (2021). The Immigrant Paradox in the Problem Behaviors of Youth in the United States: A Meta-analysis. Child Development. Vol. doi (http), pp. /dx.doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13542.
• Tilley, J. L., Farver, J. M., Huey, S. J. (2020). Culture, Causal Attribution, and Coping in Ethnic Chinese College Students in the U. S. Vol. Asian (American), pp. ournal of Psychology. 11, 79–87.
• Toro, R., Farver, J. M. (2020). Acculturative Family Distancing and Depressive Symptoms Among Latinas: The Role of Intergenerational Cultural Conflict Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology Special Ed: Challenge of Being Latina: Personal, Political, & Economic, 26, 117-125.
• oro, R., Schofield, T. J., Calderon, C., Farver, J. M. (2019). Filial Responsibilities and Depressive Symptoms Among Latino Young Adults. Emerging Adulthood. Vol. 7 (370-377)
• Leung, A. N., Wong, N., Farver, J. M. (2019). Testing the effectiveness of an E-course to combat cyberbullying. Cyberpsychology. Vol. Behavior (&), pp. ocial Networking doi/10.1089/cyber.2018.0609.
• Leung, A. N., Wong, N., Farver, J. M. (2018). You are what you read on social networking sites: Belief system of cyber-bystanders. Frontiers in Psychology. Vol. doi (org/10), pp. 389/fpsyg.2018.0036.
• Leung, A. N., Fung, D., Farver, J. M. (2018). A Cyberbullying Intervention for Hong Kong Chinese College Students. Applied Research in Quality of Life. Vol. 13 (1037-1053)
• Lonigan, C. J., Goodrich, M., Farver, J. M. (2018). Identifying differences in early literacy skills across subgroups of language-minority children: A latent profile analysis. Developmental Psychology. Vol. 54 (631-647)
• Leung, A. N., Wong, N., Farver, J. M. (2018). Cyberbullying in Hong Kong Chinese students: Life satisfaction, and the moderating role of friendship qualities on cyberbullying victimization and perpetration. Journal of Personality and Individual Differences133. Vol. 7-12 (Doi), pp. 10.1016/j.paid.2017.07.016.
• Goodrich, J. M., Lonigan, C. J., Farver, J. M. (2017). Impact of a literacy-focused preschool curriculum on the early literacy skills of language-minority children. Early Childhood Research Quarterly. Vol. 40 (13-24)
• Zhou, Y., McBride, C., Leung, S. M., J., W., Y., J., M., F. J., Farver, J. M. (2017). Chinese and English reading related skills in L1 and L2 Chinese-speaking children in Hong Kong. Language. Vol. Cognition (and), pp. euroscience. Doi: 10.1080/23273798.2017.1342848.
• Wang, Y., McBride, C., Josti, M., Farver, J. M. (2017). Becoming Literate in Chinese: A Comparison of Native and Non-Native Speaking Children. Journal of Research in Reading. Vol. DOI (10), pp. 111/1467-9817.12122.
• Xu, Y., Farver, J. M., A, K. (2017). The Home Environment and Asian Immigrant Children’s Literacy Skills. Parenting. Vol. Science (and), pp. ractice, 17, 104-123.
• Usta, J., Masterson, A., Farver, J. M. (2016). Violence Against Displaced Syrian Women in Lebanon. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. Vol. DOI (10), pp. 177/0886260516670881.
• Goodrich, J. M., Lonigan, J. C., Kluever, C., Farver, J. M. (2016). Development and Transfer of Vocabulary Knowledge in Spanish-Speaking Language Minority Preschool Children. Journal of Child Language. Vol. 43 (969-992)
• Lu, H. J., Fung, K. Y., Farver, J. M., Chen, B., Chang, L. (2015). The influence of teachers’ preferences on children’s social status in schools. Journal of Educational and Developmental Psychology. Vol. 5, pp. 57-73.
• Farrington, A. L., Lonigan, C. J., Phillips, B. M., Farver, J. M., McDowell, K. D. (2015). Evaluation of the utility of the Revised Get Ready to Read! for Spanish-speaking English language learners through differential item functioning analysis. Assessments for Effective Intervention. Vol. 40 (216-227)
• Usta, J., Farver, J. M., Hamieh, C. S. (2015). Effects of Socialization on Gender Discrimination and Violence Against Women in Lebanon. Violence Against Women. Vol. 21 (12-20)
• Goodrich, J. M., Lonigan, J. C., Farver, J. M. (2014). Children’s Expressive Language Skills and Their Impact on the Relation Between First and Second Language Phonological Awareness Skills. Scientific Studies of Reading. Vol. 18 (114-129)
• Xu, Y., Farver, J. M., Pauker, K. (2014). Ethnic Identity and Self-Esteem Among Asian and European Americans: When a Minority Is the Majority and the Majority Is a Minority. European Journal of Social Psychology. Vol. 45 (62-76)
• Goodrich, J. M., Lonigan, J. C., Farver, J. M. (2013). Do Early Literacy Skills in Children’s First Language Promote Development of Skills in Their Second Language?: An Experimental Evaluation of Transfer. Journal of Educational Psychology.
• Yarnell, L. M., Sargeant, M. N., Prescott, C. A., Tilley, J. L., Farver, J. M., Venables, P. H., Mednick, S. A., Luczak, S. E. (2013). Measurement invariance of an internalizing and externalizing behavioral syndrome factors in a non-Western sample. Assessment. Vol. 20(5 (642-655)
• Xu, Y., Farver, J. M., Lee-Shin, Y. (2013). Shyness and Psychosocial Functioning in South Korean Children. European Journal of Personality. Vol. 5 (AUG), pp. 013 | DOI: 10.1002/per.1938.
• Lonigan, C. J., Farver, J. M., Nakamoto, J., Eppe, S. (2013). Developmental Trajectories of Preschool Early Literacy Skills: A Comparison of Language-Minority and Monolingual-English Children. Developmental Psychology. Vol. 49 (1943-1957)
• Lonigan, C. J., Farver, J. M., Nakamoto, J., Eppe, S. (2012). Developmental trajectories of preschool early literacy skills: A comparison of English-language learners and monolingual English-speakers. Developmental Psychology.
• Farver, J. M., Xu, Y., Lonigan, C. J. (2012). Home Environments and Latino Preschoolers’ Early Literacy Skills. Developmental Psychology.
• Usta, J., Farver, J. M., Dandachi, D. (2011). Child Maltreatment: The Lebanese Children’s Experiences. Child: Care, Health & Development.
• Lonigan, C. J., Farver, J. M., Phillips, B., Clancy-Menchetti, J. (2011). Promoting the Development of Preschool Children’s Emergent Literacy Skills: A Randomized Evaluation of a Literacy-Focused Curriculum and Two Professional Development Models. Reading and Writing Quarterly: An interdisciplinary journal. (24), pp. 305-337.
• Usta, J., Farver, J. M. (2010). Child Sexual Abuse and Maltreatment in Lebanon During War and Peace. Child: Care, Health and Development. Vol. 36, pp. 361-368.
• Xu, Y., Farver, J. M., Zhang, Z. (2009). Temperament, harsh and indulgent parenting, and Chinese children’s proactive and reactive aggression. Child Development. Vol. 80, pp. 244-258.
• Xu, Y., Farver, J. M. (2009). What makes you shy? Situational elicitors of shyness in Chinese children. International Journal of Behavioral Development. Vol. 33, pp. 97-104.
• Farver, J. M., Lonigan, C. J., Eppe, S. (2009). Effective Early Literacy Skill Development for Young Spanish-Speaking English Language Learners: An Experimental Study of Two Methods. Child Development. Vol. 80, pp. 703-719.
• Xu, Y., Farver, J. M., Yu, L., Zhang, Z. (2009). Three Types of Shyness in Chinese Children and the Relation to Effortful Control. Journal of Social and Personality Psychology. Vol. 97, pp. 1061-1073..
• Usta, J., Farver, J. M. (2008). Women, war and violence: Surviving the Lebanese experience. Journal of Women’s Health. Vol. 17, pp. 1-12.
• Xu, Y., Farver, J. M., Yang, Y., Zeng, Q. (2008). Chinese children’s conception of shyness: A prototype approach. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly. Vol. 54, pp. 515-544.
• Chang, L., Liu, H., Fung, K., Wang, Y., Wen, Z., LI, H., Farver, J. M. (2008). Meditating and Moderating Effects of Teacher Preference on the Relation Between Students’ Social Behavior and Peer Acceptance. Merrill Palmer Quarterly. Vol. 53, pp. 603-630.
• Farver, J. M., Nakamoto, J., Lonigan, C. J. (2007). Assessing Preschoolers’ Emergent Literacy Skills in English and Spanish with the Get Ready to Read! Screening Tool. Annals of Dsylexia/Elsevier. Vol. 2007
• Farver, J. M., Xu, Y., Bhadha, B. R., Narang, S. K., Lieber, E. (2007). Ethnic Identity, Acculturation, Parenting Beliefs, and Adolescent Adjustment: A Comparison of Asian Indian and European American Families. Merrill Palmer Quarterly. Vol. 53, pp. 110-119.
• Usta, J., Farver, J. M. (2007). Domestic Violence: The Lebanese experience. Public Health. Vol. 121, pp. 208-219.
• Abou-ezzeddine, T., Schwartz, D., Chang, L., Lee-Shin, Y., Farver, J. M., Xu, Y., Xu, Y. (2007). Positive Peer relationships and Risk for Victimization in Chinese and South Korean Children’s Peer Groups. Social Development. Vol. 16, pp. 107-127.

• Mellon Award for Excellence in Mentoring, 04/2006 –
• Mellon Award for Excellence in Mentoring, 04/2005 –
• USC Associates Award For Excellence In Teaching, The highest homor the university faculty bedtows on its members for outstanding teaching, 2012