Cunningham Compares Cumulative Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence Across Gender and Sexual Orientation
CSDE External Affiliate Mick Cunningham (Western Washington University) published a study in the Journal of Family Violence examining cumulative consequences of intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization over the life course by gender and sexual orientation, using data from the U.S. National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey. Women and sexual minorities experience IPV consequences — including fear, post-traumatic stress, injury, and missed work or school — at younger ages than straight men. Women experience more IPV consequences than men overall, and sexual minority women and men report more cumulative IPV consequences than their straight counterparts, with the burden particularly high for sexual minority women. This recent paper on IPV consequences extends research from a previous study highlighted gender differences in IPV victimization over the life course. Compared to men, women experience IPV at younger ages, with greater frequency, and by more perpetrators. These findings hold true for psychological aggression, coercive control, physical violence, and sexual violence. Novel measures of life course victimization provide important evidence refuting findings of gender symmetry in intimate partner violence.
*New* IAPHS Webinar: How to Archive, Share, and Access Qualitative Data with the Qualitative Data Repository (04/07/26)
Center for Social Science Computation and Research (CSSCR) Offers Drop-In Office Hours
The Center for Social Science Computation and Research (CSSCR) offers drop-in office hours for computational and statistical issues in research and coursework. This service is offered M-F 8am-6pm in Savery 119. We have graduate student staff from the departments of Anthropology, Economics, Education, Geography, Political Science, Social Work, and Sociology. The center supports R, Stata, Python, ArcGIS, QGIS, Matlab (limited), and Atlas.ti. The Center’s consultants can assist with data management, data wrangling, exploratory data analysis, regression, machine learning, text analysis, spatial analysis, and qualitative analysis. We also specialize in identifying and procuring data sets that can be used for research or course projects.
WA State Department of Housing Task Force Survey
The Washington State Department of Housing invites survey responses to inform recommendations for how to structure a new Department of Housing that will serve as the state’s coordinating and problem solving hub for ensuring adequate housing supply and housing stability for all Washingtonians. Your feedback will help inform the Task Force’s final report, due November 15, 2026, which will include recommendations on the mission, structure, programs, and goals of a new Department of Housing. The report will be submitted to the Governor and the Legislature for consideration. Here is the survey. It takes 15-25 minutes to fill out, depending on how thorough you want to be!
Housing work at the state level is currently primarily done in a sub-division of the department of commerce, but with several programs dispersed throughout state government and a general lack of ease in coordination between efforts. The governor has established a task force to develop legislation for the 2027 session that would establish a standalone housing department. The idea here being that by having a standalone agency, there would be better communication between programs doing finance, policy, development, services, land use, infrastructure, etc.
Study Supported by CSDE Research Scientist Matt Dunbar Featured on 60 Minutes
The Dog Aging Project, whose Data and Analysis Core is headed up by CSDE Research Scientist Matthew D. Dunbar, PhD, was recently spotlighted on the CBS news program 60 Minutes: “Research to help dogs live longer, healthier lives could unlock secrets for people to age better, too”
Why study aging in dogs? Companion dogs share genetic diversity, environmental exposures, and cognitive traits with humans. Dogs vary tremendously not only in size, shape, and behavior, but also in life expectancy and age-related risk of disease. They share our disease burden as well as our environment, and have a sophisticated health care system to diagnose, treat, and prevent diseases. Given their relatively short lifespan, we can learn from an observational study of dogs what would take decades in humans.
Dr. Dunbar, in his role as the Data Core Director for the Dog Aging Project, helped build the operational infrastructure for the Dog Aging Project to support this diverse national cohort of over 50,000 companion dogs for an in-depth, longitudinal analysis of aging and cognitive health over their lifespan. A complex and well-maintained research platform was critical to facilitate enrollment, retention, ongoing participant surveys, and collection of biospecimens. Dr. Dunbar has decades of experience designing primary data collection systems, managing field data campaigns, and he currently oversees CSDE’s own REDCap instance supporting population researchers.
To arrange a consultation appointment with Matt Dunbar or any of CSDE’s scientific support staff, please use the CSDE Science Core Consultation Request form.
Guttmannova, Martinez, and Co-authors Assess Measurement Equivalence of a Depressive Symptoms Scale Across Latinx Youth by Immigrant Generation Status
CSDE Affiliates Katarina Guttmannova (Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences) and Griselda Martinez (Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences) assessed the Communities That Care Brief Depression Scale (CTC-BDS) for measurement equivalence across Latinx and white youth by immigrant generation status, using confirmatory factor analysis of survey data collected across sixth, eighth, tenth, and twelfth grades. The study, published in Journal of Community Psychology, found evidence for both the one-factor structure and measurement equivalence of the CTC-BDS across ethnicity, immigrant generation status, and grade level throughout adolescence, supporting its use as a valid tool for comparing depressive symptoms across these groups in community monitoring and research.
Hirsh Examines How Household Work Hours Shape Support for Public Childcare Across 26 Countries
CSDE External Affiliate Elizabeth Hirsh (University of British Columbia) published a study in the International Journal of Comparative Sociology with collaborator, Erica Mildner (PhD student, University of British Columbia), examining individual support for government-provided childcare across 26 countries, using data from the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP). Household-level dynamics, particularly the “dual load” of both partners working full-time or overtime, are key predictors of support for government childcare. Women’s own full-time employment is associated with greater support for government childcare, while for men, having a full-time working partner is the stronger predictor. The findings suggest that households experiencing the heaviest work-life burdens form a natural constituency for government childcare policy.
CSSS Seminar: Pricilla Liu on “From Marginalization to Resilience: Understanding the Effects of Stress and Identifying Culturally Responsive Interventions” (04/08/26)
Please join us for our next speaker in the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences Seminar Series. Wednesday, April 8th at 12:30pm, Priscilla Lui, Associate Professor of Psychology, UW will give a seminar titled: From Marginalization to Resilience: Understanding the Effects of Stress and Identifying Culturally Responsive Interventions.
Abstract: In this presentation, I summarize a systematic, multi-method research program that examines how sociocultural stressors, including racial discrimination and acculturative stress, shape mental health and substance use among people of color. This research integrates complementary designs and statistical analysis methods to strengthen causal inference and measurement precision. Racial marginalization elevates stress and negative emotions and varies across contexts and individuals, and data suggest modifiable resilience factors such as social support and bicultural self-acceptance. By combining rigorous statistical approaches with diverse study designs, this research advances cumulative science and informs culturally responsive interventions.
This seminar will be offered as a hybrid session in 409 Savery Hall and on Zoom. Link & Meeting ID: 916 1200 4486