About SSEA
SSEA Leadership
Past President (2015-2017):
Seth Schwartz, University of Miami Medical School
Dr. Seth J. Schwartz is Professor of Public Health Sciences at the University of
Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine. He is a Founding Member and
President-Elect for SSEA. He has a master’s degree in family and child sciences
from Florida State University and a Ph.D. in developmental psychology from
Florida International University. His research interests include personal and
cultural identity, immigration and acculturation, health risk behavior,
well-being, and parenting and family functioning. He has over 200 scholarly
publications and has been principal investigator of three grant awards from the
National Institutes of Health.
Selected Publications:
Schwartz, S. J., Zamboanga, B. L., Luyckx, K., Meca, A., & Ritchie, R. A.
(2013). Identity in emerging adulthood: Reviewing the field and looking forward.
Emerging Adulthood, 1, 96-113.
Schwartz, S. J., Unger, J. B., Zamboanga, B. L., & Szapocznik, J. (2010).
Rethinking the concept of acculturation: Implications for theory and research.
American Psychologist, 65, 237-251.
Schwartz, S. J., Benet-Martínez, V., Knight, G. P., Unger, J. B., Zamboanga, B.
L., Des Rosiers, S. E., Stephens, D. P., Huang, S., & Szapocznik, J. (2014).
Effects of language of assessment on the measurement of acculturation:
Measurement equivalence and cultural frame switching. Psychological Assessment,
26, 100-114.
Schwartz, S. J., Des Rosiers, S., Huang, S., Zamboanga, B. L., Unger, J. B.,
Knight, G. P., Pantin, H., & Szapocznik, J. (2013). Developmental trajectories
of acculturation in Hispanic adolescents: Associations with family functioning
and adolescent risk behavior. Child Development, 84, 1355-1372.
Schwartz, S. J., Klimstra, T. A., Luyckx, K., Hale, W. W., III, Frijns, T.,
Oosterwegel, A., van Lier, P. A. C., Koot, H. M., & Meeus, W. H. J. (2011).
Daily dynamics of personal identity and self-concept clarity. European Journal
of Personality, 25, 373-385.