Professor Emerita

Frosso Motti – Stefanidi, Ph.D

Ph.D, 1986, Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota
Professor Emerita at National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (2023-)
E-mail: frmotti@psych.uoa.gr

FROSSO MOTTI-STEFANIDI

Distinguished International Alumni Award, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota, 2005.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Motti-Stefanidi, F. (2023). Acculturation and resilience of immigrant-origin youth: “Do their school experiences reflect nonimmigrants” “native supremacy”..

SCIENTIFIC EVENTS

Athens, November 2023. Chair of a one-day conference on “Resilience in Military Context”, Hellenic Armed Forces Officers’ Club.

Academic Distinctions

  • Distinguished International Alumni Award, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota.
  • Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Research and Theory in Behavioral Development, International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD, 2022).
  • Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (APS, 2010).
  • Fellow of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD,2022).
  • Chen Yidan Global Fellow of the Graduate School of Education, Harvard University (2022).
  • President of the European Association of Personality Psychology (EAPP, 2008-2010).
  • President of the European Association of Developmental Psychology (EADP, 2013-2015).
  • President of the International Consortium of Developmental Societies of Psychology (ICDSS, 2020-2022)
  • Member of the Governing Council of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD, 2015-2021).
  • Member of the Governing Council of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD).
  • President-elect of of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD, 2023-2025).

Scientific Activities

IMMIGRANT YOUTH RESILIENCE

My main line of research has focused on the study of immigrant and refugee youth adaptation, development and acculturation. I have developed the Athena Studies of Resilient Adaptation (AStRA) project. This project has been supported by three grants co-funded by the European Social Fund and Greek National Resources..

The AStRA project includes three cohort longitudinal studies, one conducted before (2005-2007) and the other during the Great Economic Recession in Greece (2013-2015). The third was conducted during the COVID19 pandemic (2020-2023). Over 3500 immigrant adolescents and their nonimmigrant classmates, as well as 100 refugee adolescents were studied. It also includes the implementation of the Identity Project, a randomized control trial targeting ethnic-cultural identity exploration and resolution. The intervention was developed by Adriana Umana-Taylor and colleagues.

I collaborate with Professors Ann Masten (Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, USA), Jens Asendorpf (Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany),  Vassilis Pavlopoulos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Philia Issari (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens),  Katarina Salmela-Aro (University of Helsinki, Finland), Adriana Umana-Taylor (Harvard University, USA), Olga Kornienko (George Mason University, USA), Selcuk Sirin (New York University, USA).

RESILIENCE IN MILITARY CONTEXT

I am currently working on a collaborative project between the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) and the Hellenic Armed Forces. The Principal investigator is Assistant Professor Ioannis Tsaousis who is a psychometrician. Our mandate is to develop an instrument to assess resilience among peacekeeping forces and other military personnel. We collaborate on this project with Professor Melissa Polusny, University of Minnesota Medical School and Staff Psychologist at Minneapolis VA Medical Center.

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