This study aimed to examine a model of youth substance use among New Latinos, a term used to describe the most recent wave of immigrants from Central and South America and their children. The proposed model hypothesized that perceived parental social support and Latino cultural orientation would...
Psychological skills training (PST) programs are becoming more prevalent for athletes of all levels of competition in an effort to gain an edge over their competitors (Birrer & Morgan, 2010). Despite the prevalence of PST programs, evidence of the efficacy of such programs lacks sound empirical...
Objective: Children with moderate to severe NF1 often experience significant pain and functional limitations. Family functioning and coping have been explored in other pediatric populations in relation to illness severity and psychosocial outcomes in other chronic illness populations. However,...
The three studies that follow were designed to advance the field's knowledge of positive coping patterns in response to insidious, ongoing natural and human-generated disaster threat. They will address the following three aims: 1) to create a psychometrically sound measure of self-efficacy as it...
This study examined the moderating role of emergency preparedness self-efficacy on the relationships between the perception of threat associated with natural and human-made disasters and outcomes, including behaviors (emergency preparedness) and psychological symptoms (anxiety and distress), for...