Diana Samek
E-mail: same0031@umn.edu
Di Samek is a Ph.D. student
in the Family Social Science department at the University of
Minnesota. She received her B.A. in Psychology, and M.A. in Family
Social Science from the University of Minnesota.
Di's current research interests include family communication, family
closeness perceptions, adolescent adjustment. Specifically, she is
interested in studying substance abuse and misuse, as well as clinical
psychopathology (internalizing and externalizing) in the adolescent
population. She is interested in understanding the complex relationship
between adjustment and protective family factors, including family
communication, closeness, and belonging.
Her theoretical interests are broad, however she currently is interested
in a comparison between social learning and social bonding theories. Di is
especially interested in studying families with varying degrees of
genetic-relatedness among children and parents (step, adoptive, ART).
