The current study explored the relationships among racial discrimination, depression and racial identity in a sample of 82 African American middle school students. The World Health Organization (WHO) cites depression as the leading cause of years lived with disability worldwide. Exposure to...
Nonmedical prescription stimulant (NPS) use, or taking an unprescribed stimulant (e.g., Adderall), with the goal of enhancing academic performance is an understudied and growing problem among college students. Despite numerous health risks, using NPS to study is common on campuses with lifetime...
AbstractThere are an estimated two million veterans returning from Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) and many are expected to attend higher education institutions as troops return home and take advantage of the available education benefits. Whether college campuses...
Low-income, ethnically diverse mothers face acute and chronic stress, putting them at risk for experiencing parenting difficulties and psychological symptoms (Nam, Wikoff, & Sherraden, 2015). Parental self-efficacy has been identified as a potential buffer against parenting distress and linked to...
Background. Approximately three in four transgender women in the United States have been tested for HIV in their lifetime. However, estimates of repeated HIV testing are lower than other vulnerable populations. Experiences of discrimination have been associated with HIV testing avoidance. This...
The ability to maintain and manipulate information in working memory (WM) underlies critical high-level behaviors from directing attention to making complex decisions. The neural correlates of WM have been the focus of various research and studies have produced fruitful insights into the nature...
Intervention Fidelity (IF) is often used in treatment trials to examine the extent to which an
intervention is delivered in the way it was intended to be, in order to assess effectiveness of
treatment outcomes. The current study examined IF in the context of evaluating an intervention
to...
The association between coparenting quality and children's externalizing and internalizing behavior problems was investigated in a sample of low-income, racially diverse mothers. The potential mediating effect of parenting style was also examined.
Background: Over the past decade the US has seen significant shifts in marijuana policy with some states having no marijuana legalization (NML), some passing medical marijuana laws (MML) and others passing recreational marijuana laws (RML). Previous literature, which has focused almost...
Introduction The association between maternal depressive symptoms and adverse child outcomes (Goodman et al., 2001) may be moderated by father involvement (Mezulis et al., 2004). These associations are understudied among low-income, unmarried or non-cohabiting African American families. We...