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Protective Deprioritization
Protective Deprioritization is an original concept introduced by Jenique Dean in a working paper examining behavioral health and workforce systems.
“Protective Deprioritization: Introducing a Theoretical Construct of Vulnerability-Based Differential Emotional Investment”
Current status
Working paper published on Academia.edu; under journal peer review. Posted November 2026.
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Existing scholarship
Doctoral research
Jenique’s dissertation examined colorism’s effects on job obtainment for early adult women in Ghana. The work is part of a broader scholarly interest in how identity, culture, and institutions shape professional and psychological experience.
Citation
Dean, J. (2025, July 18). Colorism's Effects on Job Obtainment for Early Adult Women in Ghana. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/xqh9p_v1
Published as a preprint on PsyArXiv (OSF).
Research interests
Culture & identity
How culture, identity, and social structures influence psychological experience.
Behavioral health
How care systems, crisis response, and leadership affect people and communities.
International perspective
Research shaped by context.
International research and field experiences have included Ghana, Kuwait, and the Philippines, with work focused on psychosocial well-being, trauma, mental-health systems, resilience, and underserved communities. Additional Chicago–Hamburg work forms part of Jenique’s international perspective.
Research archive
Working papers
Protective Deprioritization: Introducing a Theoretical Construct of Vulnerability-Based Differential Emotional Investment.
Published on Academia.edu; under journal peer review · November 2026
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Dean, J. (2025, July 18). Colorism's Effects on Job Obtainment for Early Adult Women in Ghana. PsyArXiv.
Published preprint · July 2025
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