Wendy Kliewer
Biographic Data
| ID | 116129 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wendy Kliewer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wendy |
| FAMILY NAME | Kliewer |
| SIGNATURE | KLIEWER W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Commonwealth University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0046-203X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 60 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 258 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 60 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Child marriage and well‐being in Central and Western Africa
INTRODUCTION: Child marriage is practiced widely in West and Central Africa with established links to several negative outcomes, particularly for girls. Although some reviews on predictors of the practice of child marriage exist, to date no review has focused on the costs and potential benefits to girls who have experienced child marriage. METHOD: We conducted a scoping review of PubMed, African Index Medicus, Embase, PsycINFO, Web of Science, an…
A Qualitative Scoping Review of Community Firearm Violence in Low-Income Settings
Firearm violence is a public health crisis in the United States that disproportionately impacts community members in low-income areas who witness and experience violence and violent victimization at elevated rates compared to other socioeconomic groups, often as result of community disinvestment and systemic racism (Smith et al., Soc Sci Med 246:112587, 2020). While quantitative reviews of firearm violence and related factors exist, a review of q…
The Influence of Parental Social-Emotional Competencies on Intergenerational Child Maltreatment
Child maltreatment is a major public and global health issue with well-documented intergenerational patterns. Social-emotional development, which is detrimentally impacted by child maltreatment, has been associated with parenting behaviors and implicated as a mechanism of intergenerational transmission of child maltreatment. This scoping review sought to synthesize information on the social-emotional skills that contribute to or protect against i…
Associations Between Coping, Support, and Mental Health Among Married Adolescent Girls in Northern Ghana
Adolescent girls in child marriage experience mental health problems. However, there are few studies that examined the mental health challenges of married adolescent girls, their ways of coping, and the factors that promote their mental health. This study explored the association of participants’ demographic characteristics, coping, and perceived social support in relation to mental health problems (i.e., symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stre…
Longitudinal Associations Between Peer Risk and Promotive Factors and Exposure to Community Firearm Violence Among Black Adolescents
Firearm violence is pervasive for Black early adolescents in disinvested urban communities. The current study used a subsample of a longitudinal school‐based dataset ( N = 479, ages 10–17, 100% Black), which included middle school students from three urban communities who completed surveys at two time points (Fall, Spring). Cross‐lagged panel models were run to specify the directionality of relations between five firearm exposure items and four p…
Adolescents’ Subjective Well-Being
Adjustment of Ghanaian Youth in Institutional Care Compared to Youth in Family Care
Parenting and other potential protective factors associated with polysubstance use among public school students in Lagos, Nigeria
Substance use is a growing problem in Nigeria. The present study extended recent work documenting the importance of parenting as protective against substance use in Nigerian youth by testing a model linking parenting, additional protective factors and polysubstance use. Public school students ( N = 1607; 56% female; M age = 14.88; SD = .44 years) living in the greater Lagos region participated in school‐based data collection. Lifetime polysubstan…
Protective factors for adverse childhood experiences
Future studies should focus on addressing gaps in our understanding of what factors may buffer the influence of ACES on physical health outcomes and risky health behaviors and our understanding of family and nonfamily relationships and community and cultural protective factors on the ACE-health outcome relationship in adults. Additionally, research is needed that focuses on samples that are more gender diverse and from countries outside of North …
Emotion Regulation in Families
The COVID-19 pandemic comprises a mass trauma for children and families, and children may face particular vulnerability to post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) through processes of parent and child emotional dysregulation, such as alexithymia. With 88 U.S. children (M age = 9.94 years; 54.5% female; 59.1% White) and their parents/caregivers (68.2% female; 59.1% White), a path model was tested in which child alexithymia symptoms partially mediate…
Risk and protective factors for marijuana use and problems with use in a national sample of female Ecuadorian secondary school students
This study investigated risk and protective factors for marijuana use and problems with use in Ecuadorian girls in an attempt to inform this growing problem. Female secondary school students ( N = 16,310; M = 15.02, SD = 1.73 years) who completed the 2016 national survey of drug use participated. The likelihood of lifetime marijuana use, reported by 7.3% of the sample, was predicted by older age, greater perceived access to marijuana and affiliat…
An exploration of risk factors in a community sample of low socioeconomic status youth in South Africa
Youth in low socioeconomic status communities experience multiple risks which disrupts their emotional, cognitive, and psychological development. In South Africa, there is a tacit acceptance of risk constructs as researched globally. This study examines risk occurrence with the aim of identifying and examining the uniqueness of risks in a community sample of youth. Data were collected from youth and their maternal caregivers through interviews an…
Adverse childhood experiences, psychological well-being, and substance use in Pakistani university students
Adverse childhood experiences are associated with risky health behaviors and adverse health outcomes worldwide, including substance use; yet, relatively fewer studies have examined linkages between adverse childhood experiences and health behaviors and outcomes in low- and middle-income countries, including countries in sub-Saharan Africa and large portions of Asia. Furthermore, fewer studies of adverse childhood experiences have examined the pat…
School Adjustment and Academic Success in Qatari Secondary School Students
Although the Qatari government has invested significantly in education over the past two decades, little research has comprehensively assessed factors associated with high school adjustment and academic success in the country. The present study addressed this gap with a sample of 576 students attending high school in Qatar (M age = 16.32, SD = 1.09; 63.7% male). Students self-reported their school adjustment and perceived academic performance as …
Duty-related stressors, adjustment, and the role of coping processes in first responders
Additional research focused on both primary appraisals and coping efforts and that employs longitudinal designs would expand our understanding of the role of coping processes in first responders' adjustment to duty-related stress. Further, these data suggest that interventions targeting individuals (vs. systems or environments) should focus on replacing cognitive and behavioral disengaged coping strategies with engaged strategies that are cogniti…
Parenting and School Context Differentiate Nigerian Adolescents’ Profiles of Substance Use
Substance use among Nigerian adolescents has increased significantly in the past decade, highlighting the need to implement evidence-based, effective prevention programs as one strategy to help reverse this trend. This study aimed to identify profiles of adolescent substance use and parenting and school correlates of these profiles to inform preventive interventions. Latent class analysis identified four distinct use patterns in 2,004 adolescents…
Trauma exposure and post‐traumatic stress symptoms among Syrian refugee youth in Jordan
This study assessed relations between exposure to trauma and post‐traumatic stress (PTS) symptoms, and whether perceived social support from family and friends and gender moderated these associations. Syrian refugee youth ( N = 418, 55.0% female) attending public schools in Jordan participated. Boys reported more age‐adjusted PTS symptoms than girls. Analyses revealed that family support and gender moderated the association of trauma on PTS sympt…
The Association Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Child Telomere Length
Childhood adversity is linked to shortened telomere length (TL), but behavioral indicators of telomere attrition remain unclear. This study examined the association between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and child TL, and if ACEs were indirectly associated with TL through children’s self-regulatory abilities (i.e., effortful control and self-control). Hypotheses were tested using national data from teachers, parents, and their children (N =…
Peer Victimization Exposure and Subsequent Substance Use in Early Adolescence
Reentry of Incarcerated Juveniles
All incarcerated juveniles have to receive correctional education, but little is known about how these school experiences influence reentry. With longitudinal data of 569 incarcerated juveniles (91% male) from the Pathways to Desistance Project, this study tested how motivational (teacher bonding, school orientation, time spent on homework) and performance (grades) aspects of schooling were related to desistance for youth returning from juvenile …
Maternal and Family Correlates of Intrinsic Religiosity Profiles Among Low-Income Urban African American Adolescents
Social and Emotional Adjustment Across Aggressor/Victim Subgroups
Sex Differences in Risk for Substance Use Among High School Students in Myanmar
This study investigated sex differences in risk factors for alcohol and illicit drug use among high school students in Myanmar as part of a comprehensive substance abuse prevention approach. Participants ( N = 1,918; M age = 15.35 years, SD = 1.07 years, range = 14–18 years; 44.3% male) were recruited from 10 high schools in Myitkyina Township, Kachin State, Myanmar. Study constructs were assessed with a version of the Communities That Care surve…
Sex Differences in Alcohol-Related Problems Among a Sample of HIV-Positive Nigerians
Although alcohol use is common among persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), and heavy drinking is more common worldwide in males than females, studies of sex differences in risk for development of symptoms of alcohol dependence have yielded mixed results. In Nigeria, there is a paucity of data on sex differences in alcohol-related problems among PLWHA. This has hindered our ability to tailor treatment to best meet the needs of PLWHA. To address th…
Patterns of Spiritual Connectedness during Adolescence
The Longitudinal Consistency of Mother–Child Reporting Discrepancies of Parental Monitoring and Their Ability to Predict Child Delinquent Behaviors Two Years Later
Coping in middle childhood
The roles that social competence, Type A behavior, monitoring, blunting, and locus of control play in coping with everyday stressors was investigated. Forty-eight 2nd and 52 5th graders were interviewed individually 3 times over an 8-week period to assess perceptions of everyday stressors and associated coping behaviors. Teachers rated social competence and Type A behavior; the remaining predictors were self-reported at the start of the study. Re…
Gender and Age Patterns in Emotional Expression, Body Image, and Self-Esteem
Longitudinal Relations Between Adolescent and Parental Behaviors, Parental Knowledge, and Internalizing Behaviors Among Urban Adolescents
Perceived Racial Discrimination, Drug Use, and Psychological Distress in African American Youth
Experiences of racial discrimination and social inequality are related to higher levels of psychological distress and substance use that may contribute to health disparities among youth. This within‐group quantitative survey study tested two alternative theoretical models of the relations between perceived racial discrimination, psychological distress, alcohol, and marijuana use in a sample of 567 African American high school students (61% female…
Violence Exposure and Drug Use in Central American Youth
Associations between witnessing serious violence and drug use, and the protective influences of family cohesion and parental monitoring, were investigated among 9,840 adolescents (50.5% female, M age=15.29 years, SD =1.76) living in Panama and Costa Rica. After accounting for demographics and parental and sibling substance use, witnessing serious violence was associated with greater drunkenness, tobacco use, number of illicit drugs used, and prob…
Problematic Situations in the Lives of Urban African American Middle School Students
Qualitative methods were used to identify problem situations encountered by adolescents in urban middle schools serving a predominantly African American student population. Interviews focusing on identifying problem situations and the context in which they occur were conducted with 60 adolescents including students and peer mediators at middle schools and adolescents at community centers. Interviews were also conducted with 50 adults, including p…
Adolescent Self-Esteem and Gender
Associations between Sadness and Anger Regulation Coping, Emotional Expression, and Physical and Relational Aggression among Urban Adolescents
This study examined associations between self reports of sadness and anger regulation coping, reluctance to express emotion, and physical and relational aggression among two cohorts of predominantly African-American fifth (N = 191; 93 boys and 98 girls) and eighth (N = 167; 73 boys and 94 girls) graders. Multiple regression analyses indicated unique associations between relational aggression and expressive reluctance and sadness regulation coping…
Exposure to Violence in Early Adolescence
This study examined the relation between self-restraint and exposure to violence (witnessing violence and victimization) in predicting increased frequencies of aggression and drug use among an ethnically diverse sample of sixth graders attending four rural middle schools ( n = 913). Lower levels of self-restraint predicted higher rates of witnessing violence and victimization, but neither witnessing violence nor victimization was related to chang…
Dating, Parent–Adolescent Conflict, and Behavioral Autonomy
Do Parent-Adolescent Discrepancies Predict Deviant Peer Affiliation and Subsequent Substance Use
Longitudinal analyses of the relationship between unsupportive social interactions and psychological adjustment among women with fertility problems
A Longitudinal Path Analysis of Peer Victimization, Threat Appraisals to the Self, and Aggression, Anxiety, and Depression Among Urban African American Adolescents
Longitudinal Associations Between Maternal Solicitation, Perceived Maternal Acceptance, Adolescent Self-Disclosure, and Adolescent Externalizing Behaviors
The current study examined prospective associations between maternal solicitation and acceptance, adolescent self-disclosure, and adolescent externalizing behaviors. Participants included 357 urban adolescents (46% male; 92% African American) and their maternal caregivers. Participants provided data annually (three waves across 2-year time frame). Results of a three-wave longitudinal path model demonstrated that adolescent self-disclosure was rel…
Patterns of Spiritual Connectedness during Adolescence
Cause That’s the Only Skills in School You Need”
Revenge goals are correlated with maladjustment, and retaliation is a factor driving youth violence. However, revenge might be an important social tool adolescents use to achieve (self-)justice in environments where institutionalized interventions from authorities such as teachers or police are limited. This qualitative secondary analysis of 50 revenge scenarios from a larger study ( N = 358 youth-caregiver dyads) expands one-dimensional knowledg…
Home environmental consequences of commute travel impedance
The physical and perceptual dimensions of commuting travel impedance were again found to have stressful consequences in a study of 99 employees of two companies. This quasi-experimental replication study, which focuses here on home environment consequences, investigated the effects of physical impedance and subjective impedance on multivariate measures of residential satisfaction and personal affect in the home. Both sets of residential outcome m…
Exposure to Violence, Social Cognitive Processing, and Sleep Problems in Urban Adolescents
Multiple Risks, Emotion Regulation Skill, and Cortisol in Low-Income African American Youth
Associations between multiple risks, emotion regulation skill, and basal cortisol levels were examined in a community sample of 69 African American youth (mean age = 11.30 years; 49% male) living in an urban setting. Multiple risks were assessed at Time 1 and consisted of 10 demographic and psychosocial risk factors including parent, child, and observer reports. Parents rated the child's emotion regulation skill at Time 2, 6 months later. Three s…
Victimization and Biological Stress Responses in Urban Adolescents
Socioeconomic status, family-related variables, and caregiver–adolescent attachment
Associations between financial disadvantage, family structure, and indicators of the caregiver–adolescent relationship and family functioning were examined in a sample of 206 families recruited from low socioeconomic status (SES) communities in Durban, South Africa. Participants included a maternal caregiver and an adolescent (65.5% female) from each family; adolescents were in Grade 7 ( n = 175) or Grade 10 ( n = 31). Data were collected via hom…
Peer Victimization Exposure and Subsequent Substance Use in Early Adolescence
Maternal and Family Correlates of Intrinsic Religiosity Profiles Among Low-Income Urban African American Adolescents
The Role of Sleep in the Relationship Between Victimization and Externalizing Problems in Adolescents
Type A behavior and aspirations
Developmental and gender differences in anonymous support‐seeking
Calls to a community help line for children were analyzed for developmental and gender trends in support-seeking during middle childhood. Results indicated that between the ages of 10 and 11 the nature of help-seeking by callers changed, with a shift toward more informational support-seeking and concern regarding interpersonal problems. This shift was particularly dramatic for girls. Gender differences in the type of support sought (informational…
Home environmental consequences of commute travel impedance
The physical and perceptual dimensions of commuting travel impedance were again found to have stressful consequences in a study of 99 employees of two companies. This quasi-experimental replication study, which focuses here on home environment consequences, investigated the effects of physical impedance and subjective impedance on multivariate measures of residential satisfaction and personal affect in the home. Both sets of residential outcome m…
Coping in middle childhood
The roles that social competence, Type A behavior, monitoring, blunting, and locus of control play in coping with everyday stressors was investigated. Forty-eight 2nd and 52 5th graders were interviewed individually 3 times over an 8-week period to assess perceptions of everyday stressors and associated coping behaviors. Teachers rated social competence and Type A behavior; the remaining predictors were self-reported at the start of the study. Re…
Social competence and coping among children of divorce
Relationships between teacher-rated social competence and teacher and self-reports of children's coping behavior were examined in 177 school-age children of divorce. Social competence was positively associated with teacher reports of active coping, and with self-reported avoidance coping. Children showing a positive competence-avoidance relationship reported high levels of depressive symptoms. Implications for school-based interventions and for f…
The role of social and cognitive processes in children's adjustment to community violence.
Gender and Age Patterns in Emotional Expression, Body Image, and Self-Esteem
Dispositional, Environmental, and Context-Specific Predictors of Children's Threat Perceptions in Everyday Stressful Situations
Dating, Parent–Adolescent Conflict, and Behavioral Autonomy
Adolescent Self-Esteem and Gender
Violence Exposure, Catecholamine Excretion, and Blood Pressure Nondipping Status in African American Male Versus Female Adolescents
Objective Nondipping status (<10% decrease in blood pressure [BP] from awake to asleep) has been associated with end-organ disease (stroke and left ventricular hypertrophy) in adults. Nondipping status has also been observed in 30% of healthy African American adolescents, but little is known about the correlates of nondipping status in adolescents. This study examined the relationship between violence exposure, catecholamine excretion, and BP non…
Longitudinal analyses of the relationship between unsupportive social interactions and psychological adjustment among women with fertility problems
Violence Exposure and Adjustment in Inner-City Youth
This short-term, longitudinal interview study used an ecological framework to explore protective factors within the child, the caregiver, the caregiver-child relationship, and the community that might moderate relations between community violence exposure and subsequent internalizing and externalizing adjustment problems and the different patterns of protection they might confer. Participants included 101 pairs of African American female caregive…
Violence Exposure and Drug Use in Central American Youth
Associations between witnessing serious violence and drug use, and the protective influences of family cohesion and parental monitoring, were investigated among 9,840 adolescents (50.5% female, M age=15.29 years, SD =1.76) living in Panama and Costa Rica. After accounting for demographics and parental and sibling substance use, witnessing serious violence was associated with greater drunkenness, tobacco use, number of illicit drugs used, and prob…
Problematic Situations in the Lives of Urban African American Middle School Students
Qualitative methods were used to identify problem situations encountered by adolescents in urban middle schools serving a predominantly African American student population. Interviews focusing on identifying problem situations and the context in which they occur were conducted with 60 adolescents including students and peer mediators at middle schools and adolescents at community centers. Interviews were also conducted with 50 adults, including p…
Exposure to Violence in Early Adolescence
This study examined the relation between self-restraint and exposure to violence (witnessing violence and victimization) in predicting increased frequencies of aggression and drug use among an ethnically diverse sample of sixth graders attending four rural middle schools ( n = 913). Lower levels of self-restraint predicted higher rates of witnessing violence and victimization, but neither witnessing violence nor victimization was related to chang…
Associations between Sadness and Anger Regulation Coping, Emotional Expression, and Physical and Relational Aggression among Urban Adolescents
This study examined associations between self reports of sadness and anger regulation coping, reluctance to express emotion, and physical and relational aggression among two cohorts of predominantly African-American fifth (N = 191; 93 boys and 98 girls) and eighth (N = 167; 73 boys and 94 girls) graders. Multiple regression analyses indicated unique associations between relational aggression and expressive reluctance and sadness regulation coping…
Multiple Risks, Emotion Regulation Skill, and Cortisol in Low-Income African American Youth
Associations between multiple risks, emotion regulation skill, and basal cortisol levels were examined in a community sample of 69 African American youth (mean age = 11.30 years; 49% male) living in an urban setting. Multiple risks were assessed at Time 1 and consisted of 10 demographic and psychosocial risk factors including parent, child, and observer reports. Parents rated the child's emotion regulation skill at Time 2, 6 months later. Three s…
The Longitudinal Consistency of Mother–Child Reporting Discrepancies of Parental Monitoring and Their Ability to Predict Child Delinquent Behaviors Two Years Later
Cognitive, affective, and behavioral responses to witnessed versus experienced violence
Cognitive, affective, and behavioral responses to experiencing or witnessing violence were examined in a sample of 263 inner-city youth (94% African American, 49% male, M(age) = 12.06, SD = 1.61, 52% 5th graders, 48% 8th graders). The youth participated in Wave 1 of a larger, longitudinal study for which they completed the Social Competence Interview (SCI; Ewart, Jorgensen, Suchday, Chen, & Matthews, 2002), a process whereby the youth relive witn…
What Do Urban Black Mothers Tell Their Adolescents About Alcohol and Other Drugs
The current study utilized qualitative content analysis to examine messages conveyed about alcohol and other drugs by urban Black mothers ( N =130) with a personal, familial, or personal and familial history of problematic substance use to younger and older adolescents ( M = 15.2 years). Data from a two-cohort longitudinal sample revealed considerable similarity in themes across the younger and older cohorts. Results suggest Black mothers offer m…
A Longitudinal Path Analysis of Peer Victimization, Threat Appraisals to the Self, and Aggression, Anxiety, and Depression Among Urban African American Adolescents
Perceived Racial Discrimination, Drug Use, and Psychological Distress in African American Youth
Experiences of racial discrimination and social inequality are related to higher levels of psychological distress and substance use that may contribute to health disparities among youth. This within‐group quantitative survey study tested two alternative theoretical models of the relations between perceived racial discrimination, psychological distress, alcohol, and marijuana use in a sample of 567 African American high school students (61% female…
Validation of the Communities That Care Measure Adapted for Use in Malaysia
In order to address drug use among adolescents and young adults in Malaysia, research is needed on risk and protective factors across multiple domains. The current study describes the adaptation of the Communities That Care (CTC) assessment tool for use in Malaysia, and assessment of its reliability and validity. Participants were 338 adolescents (58.3% male) from secondary schools (87%) and a juvenile center for youth with substance abuse or del…
Rather Than Talking in Tamil, They Should Be Talking to Tamils
Following the end of the Sri Lankan civil war in 2009, Sri Lankan Tamil refugees in India are being expected to repatriate to their home country. Although voluntary repatriation has long been seen as the most effective and durable response to forced displacement, it can only be carried out by obtaining informed consent from refugees. This study examined Sri Lankan Tamil refugees’ readiness, support, concerns, resources, and strategies for repatri…
Psychology (56 works) · Developmental psychology (44 works) · Medicine (42 works) · Clinical Psychology (40 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (33 works) · Psychiatry (26 works) · Clinical Psychology (24 works) · Social Psychology (19 works) · Public health (17 works) · Health psychology (14 works)