A5087776813- Health disparities and outcomes
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Cardiac Health and Mental Health
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors
- Health, psychology, and well-being
- Sleep and related disorders
- Birth, Development, and Health
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Workplace Health and Well-being
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Personality Traits and Psychology
- Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue
University of Alabama
2018-2025
Texas Tech University
2017-2018
University of Pittsburgh
2016-2017
University of Utah
2010-2016
Stress is often invoked as a potential contributor to disparities in physical health function of social status. Although there good reason believe that stress exposure and responses may be an important pathway linking lower status poor health, direct evidence lacking. We summarize the for this limitations evidence, focusing particularly on how conceptualized measured. argue addition more tests mediation, measurement mediator—stress—could also improved. propose measuring theory-specific...
In adults, greater social integration is associated with reduced risk of cardiovascular disease, including hypertension. Social earlier in life may be similarly risk. Using a longitudinal sample 267 Black and White men, we examined whether peers during childhood adolescence, assessed by parent report, prospectively predicts lower blood pressure body mass index two decades later adulthood these effects differ race, given well-documented racial disparities Boys who were reported their parents...
The principle of complementarity in interpersonal theory states that an actor's behavior tends to "pull, elicit, invite, or evoke" responses from interaction partners who are similar affiliation (i.e., warmth vs. hostility) and opposite control dominance submissiveness). Furthermore, complementary interactions proposed evoke less negative affect promote greater relationship satisfaction. These predictions were examined two studies married couples. Results suggest describes a robust general...
The inverse association between socioeconomic position (SEP) and cardiovascular disease may involve social psychophysiological processes. To test effects of aspects SEP on physiological reactivity, we experimentally manipulated 3 features context related to hierarchy-social rank or status relative an interaction partner, the partner's degree dominant behavior, presence social-evaluative threat.The study design was a 2 × (Participant Relative Status [high vs. low] Partner Dominance Evaluative...
Socioeconomic disparities in cardiovascular health are well established, but the role that stress and related physiological changes play such is still unclear. There tentative evidence for a correlation between lower socioeconomic position poorer response to stress, observational designs do not allow conclusions regarding causality. The current study presents results from systematic review meta-analysis on experimental manipulations of social rank reactivity cortisol. A was conducted (N =...
The goal with this special issue was to provide a very broad look at how scientists currently conceptualize and research social influences on health, including the application of knowledge interventions public policy. strength these articles lies in various ways which they highlight promising mechanisms methods enhance our understanding physical health across multiple levels (e.g., sociocultural, dyadic, epigenetic). Collectively, provided offer unique opportunity push relationships forward...
The current study examined race differences in how childhood socioeconomic status (SES) predicted midlife inflammation. It also tested psychological resources (purpose life, optimism, and conscientiousness) as moderators of the association between SES inflammation among Black White adults.
The personality traits of neuroticism and agreeableness are consistently related to marital quality, influencing the individual's own (i.e., actor effect) spouse's quality partner effect). However, this research has almost exclusively relied on self-reports personality, despite fact that spouse ratings have been found incremental validity over for a variety other important outcomes. In study 300 middle-aged older married couples, we examined in predicting concurrent levels self-reported...
Socioeconomic status is robustly associated with rates of death and disease. Psychophysiological stress processes are thought to account for a portion this association.Although positive supportive relationships can buffer psychophysiological responses, no studies have examined whether the quality primary adult relationship-marriage-may negative association between socioeconomic stress-related disease processes.The current study examines interaction income marital (supportive vs. ambivalent)...
Low socioeconomic status (SES) in childhood confers risk for poor physical health later life. This study prospectively examines whether improvements family SES protect youth from developing problems by adulthood and such effects differ race or age.Participants are a school-based sample of urban Black (53%) White (47%) men (N = 311). Using latent growth curve modeling, we examined changes measured annually between Ages 7 16 predicted diagnoses (Age 32). Family was assessed as weighted...
Socioeconomic status (SES) is a well-established determinant of health. Disparities in stress are thought to partially account for SES-health disparities. We tested whether multiple indicators SES show similar associations with psychological and race, sex, geographic region moderate associations. Participants (n = 26,451) from well-characterized national cohort Black White US adults aged 45 years or older. Psychological was measured using the 4-item perceived scale. Income assessed as annual...
Abstract Lower socioeconomic position is associated with increased risk of coronary heart disease. This robust gradient found across levels and after controlling access to health care traditional biological behavioral factors. Thus, previous theory research has examined the role other, relatively static psychosocial factors (e.g., social isolation negative emotional traits) that may account for this association. Utilizing an interpersonal perspective on (Smith & Cundiff, ; Smith, Gallo,...
American Heart Association (AHA) developed a new metric to evaluate ideal cardiovascular health based on optimal levels of 7 risk factors and behaviors. We evaluated the relationships parenting characteristics academic achievement in adolescence relation midlife men.We measured 171 Black 136 White men their score was constructed AHA guidelines. When participants were 13-16 years old, annual measures parent-child communication, positive relationship, parental monitoring, family cohesion,...
Exposure to low socioeconomic status (SES) in childhood predicts increased morbidity and mortality. However, little prospective evidence is available test pathways linking SES adult health. In the current study, indirect effects through positive parenting adolescence were tested association between health behaviors psychological resources. Men (n = 305; 53% Black) followed longitudinally from ages 7 32. was measured annually (ages 7–9) again adulthood (age 32) using Hollingshead index....