A5003694601- Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Gender Roles and Identity Studies
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Health and Well-being Studies
- Public Health Policies and Education
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Community Health and Development
- Social Representations and Identity
- Skin Protection and Aging
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
East Carolina University
2011-2019
University of Pittsburgh
2017
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools
2015
Greenville College
2015
University of Illinois Chicago
2014
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2014
Cancer Prevention Institute of California
2014
National Cancer Institute
2014
American Cancer Society
2008-2010
San Diego State University
2000-2006
In this article, the authors develop a brief questionnaire that assesses racist discrimination in lives ofAfricanAmericans, and conduct preliminary studies with it. The Schedule of Racist Events (SRE) is an 18-item self-report inventory frequency (specific, stressful events) past year (recent one's entire life (lifetime events), measures extent to which was evaluated (appraised) as (appraised events). Results revealed SRE has extremely high internal consistency split-half reliability....
This paper describes the development, reliability, and validity of Schedule Sexist Events (SSE), a measure lifetime recent (past year) sexist discrimination in women's lives. A culturally diverse standardization sample 631 women completed 20-item SSE. Factor analyses revealed that SSE-Lifetime SSE-Recent have four factors: Degradation, Sexism Distant Relationships, Close Discrimination Workplace. The scales had high internal-consistency (.92, .90) split-half (.87, .83) factors were similarly...
We tested the model that sexist discrimination, measured by Schedule of Sexist Events (SSE), would account for additional variance in women's physical and psychiatric symptoms, above beyond accounted generic stressors. A series hierarchical regression analyses, predicting symptoms on 10 different symptom outcome measures from stress (discrimination) were conducted, with stressors entered first step discrimination second. Results revealed contributed significantly to accounting those...
It was hypothesized that women may have more depressive, anxious, and somatic symptoms than men because they experience a deleterious stressor do not: sexist treatment. A total of 255 students (180 females, 75 males) at state university completed an anonymous questionnaire containing measures these symptoms. Women were found to exhibit significantly greater on all them. Further, who experienced frequent sexism had symptom measures, whereas little did not differ from any measure. These...
People living with HIV (PLWH) exhibit more severe mental health symptoms, including depression and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) than do members of the general public. We examined whether perceived discrimination, which has been associated poor in prior research, contributes to greater PTSD symptoms among HIV-positive Black men who have sex (MSM), are at high risk for discrimination from multiple stigmatized characteristics (HIV-serostatus, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation). A total...
This article describes the development, reliability, and validity of African American Acculturation Scale. 74-item scale has good construct concurrent validity. The eight subscales, assessing dimensions culture, have high internal consistency as a whole split-half reliability. Americans'scores on were unrelated to social class, gender, education. needfor cross-validation andfor specific research projects using it are detailed.
Abstract While it is clear that self-reported racial/ethnic discrimination related to illness, there are challenges in measuring or unfair treatment. In the present study, we evaluate psychometric properties of a instrument across groups population-based sample, and test interpret findings from applying two different widely-used approaches asking about Even though found subset items tested tap into single underlying concept, also more likely report on aspects discrimination. Whether race...
This article presents a cross-validation study of the Schedule Racist Events (SRE), brief inventory that assesses frequency various types racist dis-crimination in Blacks’lives. A new, larger, more representative sample 520 Af-rican Americans residing 10 randomly-selected southern California census tracts completed SRE and measure psychiatric symptoms. Results re-vealed 96% Blacks reported experiencing some type discrimina-tion past year, 98% racism at point their lives, 95% found to be...
Deconstructing Race and Reviving Culture A New Approach to 'Blacks' Toward a Theory of African American Acculturation Development Cross-Validation the Scale (AAAS) Physical Health Mental Conclusions Suggestions for Research
This article calls for a revision in the methodology of feminist psychological research because cultural differences can neither be investigated nor integrated without methodological change. A that combines etic (objective, behavioral) and emic (subjective, phenomenological) approaches was demonstrated an empirical investigation. White women did not differ from color self-ratings on several gender-role stereotypic terms (etic data). However, two groups differed significantly how they had...
The feminist paradigm has been advocated as an appropriate alternative framework for sport psychology theory and research. current paper. T.D. Nelson (Editor) Handbook of Prejudice, Stereotyping, discrimination. Taylor Bringing cultural diversity to psychology. New York, NY. Editorial Board, Cultural Diversity Ethnic Minority Psychology, 1994-2003. Book Review Feminist multicultural perspectives in trauma In S. Gold, C. T. Patterson (Ed.) Comprehensive handbook psychotherapy:. A native Cuba,...
We examined the role of residential segregation in 5+ daily fruit/vegetable consumption, exercise, and overweight/obesity among African Americans by linking data on 11,142 American adults 2000 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to census metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs). Multi-level modeling revealed that after controlling for individual-level variables, MSA Segregation Poverty contributed alone overweight/obesity. These findings highlight need research built-environments...