Browsing College for Health, Community and Policy Faculty Research by Department "Sociology"
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Are Religious Teens Nice Kids? Faith and Congeniality among American Adolescents
(10/26/2018)One body of extant research has documented the social contours and positive effects of teen religiosity, while another has explored the religious sources of social congeniality (“niceness”) among adult Americans. This study ... -
Buddhism and Depressive Symptoms among Married Women in Urban Thailand
(1/25/2020)A growing body of research has documented salutary associations between religious involvement and poor mental health outcomes, such as depressive symptoms and psychological distress. However, little scholarly attention has ... -
Comparing same- and different-sex relationship dynamics: Experiences of young adults in Taiwan
(Demographic Research;Vol. 40, 2019-03-05)Background: Few studies of same-sex relationships are able to capture the dynamics of these relationships from formation to dissolution, and even fewer provide evidence on these dynamics in a non-Western context. Objective: ... -
The Contribution of Sociocultural Factors in Shaping Self-Reported Sickness Behavior
(Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience;, 2020-01-24)Sickness behavior is an evolutionarily conserved phenomenon found across a diverse range of animals involving a change in motivational priorities to theoretically maximize energetic investment in immune function and recovery. ... -
Double Burden for Women in Mid and Later Life: Evidence from Time Use Profiles in Cebu, the Philippines
(Ageing and Society;Vol. 38, Iss. 11, 2017-07-10)Using data from the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey (1994, 1998, 2002, 2005, 2007, 2012), we utilise latent class analysis to develop time-use class membership to characterise the degree to which women in ... -
The Emergence of Educational Hypogamy in India
(Demography;57, 2020-06-10)With rising education among women across the world, educational hypergamy (women marrying men with higher education) has decreased over the last few decades in both developed and developing countries. Although a decrease ... -
Evaluating the Impact of a Clinician Improvement Program for Treating Patients with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: The Challenging Case of Mississippi
(1/10/2018)In recent years, people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) have moved from institutionalized settings to local community residences. While deinstitutionalization has yielded quality of life improvements ... -
Evaluating the Impact of the Synar Program: Tobacco Access and Use among Youth in Mississippi, the South, and the U.S.
(12/22/2019)(1) Background: This study examines the impact of Synar policy adoption on youth commercial access to tobacco products in Mississippi, the South, and the remaining U.S. The principal focus on youth commercial access is ... -
Evolving parent–adult child relations: location of multiple children and psychological well-being of older adults in China
(Public Health;Volume 158, 2018-05)Objective: This study examines the interplay among intergenerational emotional closeness, location of multiple children, and parental depressive symptoms in the context of massive migration in rural China. Study design: ... -
Fear God, Not COVID-19: Is Conservative Protestantism Associated with Risky Pandemic Lifestyles?
(2023-02-15)Previous research has established attitudinal and behavioral health variations in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic, but scholarship on the religious antecedents associated with these outcomes has only recently gained ... -
Gender Role Discrepancy Stress and COVID-19 Prevention Behaviors Among Men in the United States
(2023-01-17)Purpose: To examine the associations between gender role discrepancy (non-conformity to socially prescribed masculine gender role norms) and discrepancy stress (distress arising from this discrepancy) on COVID-19 prevention ... -
Good Things in Small Packages? Evaluating an Economy of Scale Approach to Behavioral Health Promotion in Rural America
(6/26/2018)Rural American youth exhibit pronounced health disparities. This study enlists insights from an economy of scale paradigm to determine the relative effects of serving smaller versus larger client groups in an assembly-style ... -
Housing Conditions, Neighborhood Physical Environment, and Secondhand Smoke Exposure at Home: Evidence from Chinese Rural-to-Urban Migrant Workers
(4/11/2020)Over the past two decades, health-related issues among rural-to-urban migrant workers in China have been widely discussed and documented by public health scholars. However, little, if any, scholarly attention has been paid ... -
Intergenerational Exchange of Resources and Elderly Support in Rural China
(The International Journal of Aging and Human Development;Vol. 83, Iss. 2, 2016-05-09)This study examines how parental investments on children affect elderly support, and how this effect is contingent on emotional closeness or parental authority. Data collected from 770 elderly parents residing in rural ... -
A latent profile analysis of the link between sociocultural factors and health-related risktaking among U.S. adults
(BMC Public Health;, 2021-03-19)Background: Research suggests that health/safety behaviors (e.g., drinking heavily) and medical behaviors (e.g., donating blood) may be perceived as inherently risky, and further suggests there is substantial variation in ... -
Male Sexual Dysfunction and the Perpetration of Intimate Partner Violence
(2023-05-21)We contribute to our understanding of the social epidemiology of intimate partner violence (IPV) by developing a mediation model that frames IPV as an outcome of male sexual dysfunction (performance anxiety and erectile ... -
Mechanisms Linking Masculine Discrepancy Stress and the Perpetration of Intimate Partner Violence Among Men in the United States
(2022-08-26)Although studies show that masculine discrepancy stress (i.e., the intrapsychic strain associated with failing to meet internalized masculine ideals) is associated with intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration, little ... -
Minding Mental Health: Clinicians' Engagement with Youth Suicide Prevention
(2022-05-11)Suicidal ideation and deaths among children and adolescents have seen an unprecedented rise over the last ten years, recently further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. This research explores mental health professionals' ... -
Mixed Blessing: The Beneficial and Detrimental Effects of Religion on Child Development among Third-Graders
(1/9/2019)Previous research has linked parental religiosity to a number of positive developmental characteristics in young children. This study introduces the concept of selective sanctification as a refinement to existing theory ... -
Moving beyond living arrangements: the role of family and friendship ties in promoting mental health for urban and rural older adults in China
(Aging and Mental Health;Iss. 9, 2019-04-12)Objective: This study examines the interplay among living arrangements, social networks, and depressive symptoms among Chinese older adults. Methods: Data are derived from the 2014 baseline survey of the China Longitudinal ...