Nadia Sorkhabi

Dr. Sorkhabi studies the manner in which parenting styles and domain-specific practices of mothers and fathers relate to academic achievement, social competence, and mental health of children and adolescents. She also studies the quality of parent-child relationships, which includes the frequency and intensity of parent-adolescent conflicts, conflict resolution strategies, and adolescents’ disclosure of their activities to their parents. Dr. Sorkhabi studies cultural variations in parenting styles and practices and developmental outcomes. Her research interest is also to study cultural similarities and differences in moral reasoning of young adults about justice and care. Furthermore, Dr. Sorkhabi has studied how emerging adults attending university perceive their professors and achieve as a function of their perceptions of their professors and attributions about academic success and failure. Lastly, she continues to study how mutually negative stereotypes held by emerging adults attending university in Western cultures (i.e., United States) and West Asian cultures (i.e., Lebanon) can be modified to be differentiated by means of virtual exchange educational experiences. Dr. Sorkhabi is a Professor at San Jose State University in the Department of Child and Adolescent Development in California, United States.