Ibette Valle

Research Interests

• Latine/x educational pathways
• Identity development among racially and ethnically marginalized first-generation college students
• Social representations of race, ethnicity, gender, and social class in family and education contexts
• HSI servingness and educational equity
• Community-engaged research

Frequently Taught Classes

• PSYC 305: Research Methods
• PSYC 495/LATS 400: Latine/x Psychology
• LATS 101: Introduction to Latino Studies

Publications

• Valle, I. and Covarrubias, R. (2024). A critical race culture cycle study of class inequities in higher education. Journal of Social Issues. doi: 10.1111/josi.12653
• Valle, I. and Covarrubias, R. (2024). Stories of conflict, agency, and hope: Dominant narratives underlying home-school mismatches for first-generation Latina students. Qualitative Psychology, 11(3), 465–490. doi: 10.1037/qup0000302
• Valle, I., Quinteros, K. and Covarrubias, R. (2023). Security as servingness: Examining links between food insecurity and performance at a Hispanic Serving Institution. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. doi: 10.1037/dhe0000492
• Covarrubias, R. and Valle, I. (2023). “The in-between space of independence and interdependence: Low-income, Latinx students navigate paradoxes in home and school contexts.” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. doi: 10.1177/01461672231180148
• Covarrubias, R., Laiduc, G. and Valle, I. (2022). What institutions can learn from the navigational capital of minoritized students. Journal of First-generation Student Success, 2(1), 36-53. doi: 10.1080/26906015.2022.2065109
• Covarrubias, R., De Lima, F., Landa, I., Valle, I. and Flores-Hernandez, W. (2021). Facets of family achievement guilt for low-income, Latinx and Asian first-generation students. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 27(4), 696–704. doi: 10.1037/cdp0000418
• Covarrubias, R., Vasquez, A., Moreno, R., Estrada, J., Valle, I. and Zuñiga, K. (2020). Engaging families to foster the holistic success of low-income, Latinx first-generation students at a Hispanic-serving institution. In G. A. Garcia (Ed.), Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) in Practice: Defining “Servingness” at HSIs. Information Age Publishing.
• Covarrubias, R., Valle, I., Laiduc, G. and Azmitia, M. (2019). “You never become fully independent”: Family roles and independence of first-generation college students. Journal of Adolescent Research, 34(4), 381-410. doi: 10.1177/0743558418788402
• Covarrubias, R., Laiduc, G. and Valle, I. (2019). Culturally-relevant growth messages unexpectedly undermine women’s help-seeking in a STEM gateway course. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 22(3), 434-451. doi: 10.1177/1368430218802958