Sharon L. Christ
- Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Science and Associate Professor of Statistics
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Pillars of Interdisciplinary Research Excellence
Social Contexts and Policy for Optimal Aging; Enhancing Biological and Physical Function in Later Life
Social Contexts and Policy for Optimal Aging; Enhancing Biological and Physical Function in Later Life
Education
PhD University of North Carolina 2008
PhD University of North Carolina 2008
Research Interests
Contextual and Dynamic Models of Human Development Child Maltreatment Adolescent Development and Socialization
Contextual and Dynamic Models of Human Development Child Maltreatment Adolescent Development and Socialization
Teaching Interests
Structural Equation Modeling Survey Data Analysis - Complex Samples Longitudinal and Contextual (multi-level) modeling
Structural Equation Modeling Survey Data Analysis - Complex Samples Longitudinal and Contextual (multi-level) modeling
Grants
2024 - National Institute on Drug Abuse
2023 - U.S. Army Medical Research & Development Command
2023 - Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
2021 - National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders (3)
2021 - U.S. Army Medical Research & Development Command
2020 - National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders
2024 - National Institute on Drug Abuse
2023 - U.S. Army Medical Research & Development Command
2023 - Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
2021 - National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders (3)
2021 - U.S. Army Medical Research & Development Command
2020 - National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders
Selected Publications
Coppola, E. C., Wadsworth, S. M., Taylor, Z. E., Schwab-Reese, L., & Christ, S. L. (2025). Long-term trajectories of depressive symptoms by military affiliation. SSM - Population Health, 29, 101733. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2024.101733
Kaganovich, N., Ragheb, R., Christ, S., & Schumaker, J. (2025). Audiovisual speech perception deficits in unaffected siblings of children with developmental language disorder. Brain and Language, 263, 105547. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105547
Lee, J., Man, G., Christ, S., & Zhang, P. (2025). Structural priming for sentence production in aphasia: What does oral repetition do? Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_JSLHR-24-00216
Chahine, R., Christ, S. L., & Gkritza, K. (2024). A latent class analysis of public perceptions about shared mobility barriers and benefits. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 25, 101132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2024.101132
Coppola, E. C., MacDermid Wadsworth, S., Taylor, Z. E., Schwab-Reese, L., & Christ, S. L. (2024). Military service and sociodemographic determinants of depressive symptom trajectories. Social Science Research, 123, 103062. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103062
Elicker, J., Gold, Z. S., Mishra, A. A., & Christ, S. L. (2024). Child care providers' quality improvement within QRIS. Child & Youth Care Forum, 53(5), 1081-1109. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10566-023-09786-1
Kaganovich, N., Schumaker, J., Gausman, E., Christ, S., Pounds, T., & Greenwell, T. (2024). Children with developmental language disorder show deficits in the neural encoding of shape and movement. In Proceedings of the 48th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 245-256). Cascadilla Press.
Leonard, L. B., Christ, S. L., Deevy, P., Karpicke, J., & Kueser, J. B. (2024). Retrieval practice and word learning by children with developmental language disorder: Does expanding retrieval provide additional benefit? Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 67(5), 1530-1547. https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_JSLHR-23-00528
Leonard, L. B., Deevy, P., Christ, S. L., Karpicke, J. D., Kueser, J. B., & Fischer, K. (2024). Learning verbs in sentences: Children with developmental language disorder and the role of retrieval practice. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 67(11), 4446-4465. https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_JSLHR-24-00321
MacDermid Wadsworth, S. M., Topp, D., Lester, P., Stander, V., Christ, S. L., Whiteman, S., & Knobloch, L. (2024). Long-term consequences of mothers' and fathers' wartime deployments: Protocol for a two-wave panel study. PLOS ONE, 19(3), e0295007. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0295007
Coppola, E. C., Wadsworth, S. M., Taylor, Z. E., Schwab-Reese, L., & Christ, S. L. (2025). Long-term trajectories of depressive symptoms by military affiliation. SSM - Population Health, 29, 101733. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2024.101733
Kaganovich, N., Ragheb, R., Christ, S., & Schumaker, J. (2025). Audiovisual speech perception deficits in unaffected siblings of children with developmental language disorder. Brain and Language, 263, 105547. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105547
Lee, J., Man, G., Christ, S., & Zhang, P. (2025). Structural priming for sentence production in aphasia: What does oral repetition do? Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_JSLHR-24-00216
Chahine, R., Christ, S. L., & Gkritza, K. (2024). A latent class analysis of public perceptions about shared mobility barriers and benefits. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 25, 101132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2024.101132
Coppola, E. C., MacDermid Wadsworth, S., Taylor, Z. E., Schwab-Reese, L., & Christ, S. L. (2024). Military service and sociodemographic determinants of depressive symptom trajectories. Social Science Research, 123, 103062. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103062
Elicker, J., Gold, Z. S., Mishra, A. A., & Christ, S. L. (2024). Child care providers' quality improvement within QRIS. Child & Youth Care Forum, 53(5), 1081-1109. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10566-023-09786-1
Kaganovich, N., Schumaker, J., Gausman, E., Christ, S., Pounds, T., & Greenwell, T. (2024). Children with developmental language disorder show deficits in the neural encoding of shape and movement. In Proceedings of the 48th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 245-256). Cascadilla Press.
Leonard, L. B., Christ, S. L., Deevy, P., Karpicke, J., & Kueser, J. B. (2024). Retrieval practice and word learning by children with developmental language disorder: Does expanding retrieval provide additional benefit? Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 67(5), 1530-1547. https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_JSLHR-23-00528
Leonard, L. B., Deevy, P., Christ, S. L., Karpicke, J. D., Kueser, J. B., & Fischer, K. (2024). Learning verbs in sentences: Children with developmental language disorder and the role of retrieval practice. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 67(11), 4446-4465. https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_JSLHR-24-00321
MacDermid Wadsworth, S. M., Topp, D., Lester, P., Stander, V., Christ, S. L., Whiteman, S., & Knobloch, L. (2024). Long-term consequences of mothers' and fathers' wartime deployments: Protocol for a two-wave panel study. PLOS ONE, 19(3), e0295007. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0295007