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Examining neighborhood effects among survivors of health-related events
(2018-11-15)
To date, scientists have examined how neighborhoods impact health related to mental illness (Hurd, Stoddard, & Zimmerman, 2013), obesity rates (Pruchno, Wilson-Genderson, & Gupta, 2014), and cancer rates (Beyer, Malecki, ...
Examining Potential Pathways to Adolescent Dating Violence and the Impact of Youth Relationship Education on Common Correlates of Adolescent Dating Violence
(2018-04-24)
Romantic relationships play a significant role in adolescent development and set the framework for future relationship behaviors (Collins, 2003; Collins & Steinberg, 2006; Kerpelman et al., 2010). A national study recently ...
Public goods and private resources as determinants of county low birth weight incidence
(2018-04-24)
Infants born at low birth weight are at elevated risk of infant mortality, developmental delays, and adulthood cardiovascular disease. That low birth weight (LBW; <2500 grams) incidence varies two-to-three-fold between ...
Examining Impacts of Cumulative Risk on Military-Connected Youth and the Role of Coping
(2018-12-19)
Youth in military families are confronted with stressors that are normative (e.g., racial or ethnic minority status, non-married family structure, social isolation) and stressors that are context-specific and emerge in ...
Skin conductance reactivity moderates the association between parental behavioral control and adolescent externalizing behavior
(2018-07-18)
The present study examined whether skin conductance level reactivity (SCLR) moderated the concurrent and longitudinal association between parental behavioral control and early adolescents’ externalizing behaviors. Data ...
The Effects of Exposure to Interparental Coercive Control on Peer Relationships During High School
(2018-04-24)
Domestic violence (DV) is conceptualized as a combination of both physical violence and coercive control in the adult literature, yet the youth exposure literature mostly conceptualizes and measures DV without examining ...
Vicarious Racism Stress, Racial Discrimination, and Disease Activity: The Black Women’s Experiences Living with Lupus (BeWELL) Study
(2018-04-23)
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is characterized by Black-White disparities in severity, which in part are associated with group differences in exposure to psychosocial stress. Among salient sources of stress are those ...
Key Personality Traits and Alcohol Use Disorder Symptoms in First and Second Year College Students: Detangling Antecedent from Consequence
(2018-04-24)
Background. Studies have consistently shown that low constraint and high negative emotionality are associated with higher levels for alcohol use and greater alcohol related problems. Less research has examined associations ...
Individual Mental Health and Couple Functioning: Exploring Changes among Couple Relationship Education Participant Outcomes
(2018-07-20)
The current study uses a randomized control trial design to test the efficacy of two couple relationship education (CRE) programs in a diverse sample of 722 couples. Taking theoretical assumptions from Hammen’s (1991) ...
The Influence of Anxiety and Mindfulness on Relationship Quality: An Investigation of Comparative and Dyadic Effects
(2018-07-20)
The primary concern of all social scientists is to better quantify domains of human functioning in order to elucidate pathways for the effective pursuit of human flourishing. Relationship functioning has been consistently ...