She studies the intersection of family and cultural contexts in the development of children of immigrants in the United States. She examines culturally-relevant developmental processes such as acculturation, tiger parenting, and language brokering in immigrant families, with a focus on the development of adolescents. Dr. Kim's focus is on Chinese American and Mexican American families in the United StatesChrystyna D. Kouros is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Southern Methodist University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame in 2008, working with Dr. E. Mark Cummings, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Vanderbilt University with Dr. Judy Garber. Her research interests focus on understanding the interplay between family processes — mainly, everyday marital conflict — and the development and maintenance of spouses' and children's depression symptoms.