Tay Gavin Erickson Lecture Series Fall 2022 Welcomes Belinda Campos

On Monday, Sept. 26 at 4 p.m., The Center for Research on Families will welcome Belinda Campos as part of the Tay Gavin Erickson Lecture Series.

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Belinda Campos is professor and chair of the Department of Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California Irvine (UCI), as well as an affiliate of the School of Medicine PRIME-LC Program and the Department of Psychological Science. Campos studies factors that promote high-quality relationships, with a particular focus on understanding how sociocultural context shapes relationship experiences in ways that benefit health. The findings of her work show that sociocultural contexts that emphasize prioritizing others before the self (e.g., Latino and East Asian) can be beneficial for relationships and protective of health. This work is recognized for generating novel insights that advance scientific understanding of culture, positive emotions, relationships and the link of relationships with health.

Her lecture will focus on how social relationships can enhance the quality of life by conferring higher levels of subjective well-being, greater resilience against adverse circumstances and better health. In this talk, Campos asserts that Latino contexts are of theoretical and applied interest for studying these questions and present a series of studies that show that Latino cultural values that emphasize interest in others are associated with benefits for relationship quality and implications for health. 

The free, public event will be hosted in a hybrid format, on Zoom and in South College, room W201. More information and registration is available on the Center for Research on Families website.