Elizabeth A Vandewater
Biographic Data
| ID | 125151 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth A Vandewater |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth A |
| FAMILY NAME | Vandewater |
| SIGNATURE | VANDEWATER E A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4454-6721 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 85 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Factors Associated With Successful E-Cigarette Cessation Among a Convenience Sample of Adult Users
Background: A growing body of literature suggests that many people who use e-cigarettes become dependent and have difficulty quitting. Most people who use e-cigarettes have interest in quitting, yet there is currently a lack of evidence to inform interventions for e-cigarette cessation. Objective: The purpose of this study was to identify factors associated with successful e-cigarette quit attempts among a large sample of people who use e-cigaret…
E-Cigarette Quit Attempts and Experiences in a Convenience Sample of Adult Users
Most e-cigarette users report planning to quit, but there is a paucity of evidence-based interventions for e-cigarette cessation. In the absence of interventions for e-cigarette cessation, we sought to understand how and why e-cigarette users attempt to quit on their own. Participants were recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk, an online crowdsourcing platform. Those who reported they had ever used e-cigarettes regularly and had attempted to quit…
Viewing images of alcohol use in PG-13-rated movies and alcohol initiation in Mexican-heritage youth
Mexican American adolescents report high rates of alcohol consumption as well as media use. Viewing alcohol images in the media is associated with increased alcohol consumption; however, to date, this association has not been examined across different ethnic groups in the United States. To bridge this gap, we examined the association between viewing alcohol use images in PG-13-rated movies and alcohol initiation in Mexican-heritage adolescents. A…
Age is opportunity”
Beliefs About Child TV Viewing in Low-Income Mexican American Parents of Preschoolers
Examining Africentric Cultural Values, Ethnic Identity, and Substance Use Abstinence in Low-Income, Early Adolescent, African American Girls
An examination of cultural protective factors that foster substance use abstinence among low-income, early adolescent, African American girls may be helpful in understanding how to promote resilience and reduce negative health outcomes. This study examined the relations between Africentric cultural values, ethnic identity, and substance use abstinence among 196 low-income African American early adolescent girls (age 11-14 years). Results of logis…
Examining marianismo gender role attitudes, ethnic identity, mental health, and substance use in Mexican American early adolescent girls
Given the increased trend in substance use patterns among Latina adolescents in recent years, the need for research that identifies gender-specific and culturally relevant protective factors is essential in tailoring interventions. The current study examined the links between marianismo gender role attitudes, ethnic identity, and substance use abstinence among 277 low-income Mexican American early adolescent girls. Mental health was also examined…
Adolescents’ awareness and use of menu labels in eating establishments
Objective Menu labelling has been identified as a potential strategy to help individuals make healthier choices when eating out. Although adolescents eat out often, little research involving menu labelling has been conducted with this population. The objectives of the present study were to: (i) gather qualitative information from adolescents regarding use of menu labels when eating out; (ii) gather adolescents’ suggestions for optimal ways to des…
Exposure to Pro-tobacco Messages and Smoking Status Among Mexican Origin Youth
Food Marketing, Television, and Video Games
This volume summarizes the findings and insights of obesity-related research from the full range of social sciences including anthropology, economics, government, psychology, and sociology.
Infant Word Learning From Commercially Available Video In The US
Based on the assumption that commercial screen media offers no advantages to children under 2, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends no exposure for them. However, few experimental tests of this assumption have been conducted. Utilizing a randomized controlled design, we examined vocabulary development in children ages 8 to 15 months. Experimental group infants were exposed to Baby Einstein's Baby Wordsworth DVD for 1 month, with vo…
A US Study of Transfer of Learning from Video to Books in Toddlers
Few empirical studies of word learning from video during toddlerhood have been conducted. Children aged 18 to 33 months viewed a 10-minute commercially available video about different shapes daily for 15 days. The experimental group video included the novel word and shape crescent; the control group video did not. The experimental group was significantly more likely to correctly point to the crescent shape at test than children in the control gro…
Measuring Children's Media Use in the Digital Age
In this new and rapidly changing era of digital technology, there is increasing consensus among media scholars that there is an urgent need to develop measurement approaches which more adequately capture media use The overarching goal of this paper is facilitate the development of measurement approaches appropriate for capturing children's media use in the digital age. The paper outlines various approaches to measurement, focusing mainly on those…
Digital Childhood
OBJECTIVES. The objectives of this study were to describe media access and use among US children aged 0 to 6, to assess how many young children fall within the American Academy of Pediatrics media-use guidelines, to identify demographic and family factors predicting American Academy of Pediatrics media-use guideline adherence, and to assess the relation of guideline adherence to reading and playing outdoors. METHODS. Data from a representative sa…
When the Television Is Always On
In American homes, the television is on approximately 6 hours a day on average. Yet little is known about the impact of growing up in the near constant presence of television. This study examines the prevalence and developmental impact of "heavy-television" households on very young children aged 0 to 6 drawn from a nationally representative sample (N = 756). Thirty-five percent of the children lived in a home where the television is on "always" o…
No-You Can't Watch That
This study addresses the relations between parental rules regarding television use (for time and program, respectively) and television use among very young children (ages 0 to 6). Higher education level was related to rules of both types, whereas higher household income was related to having program rules. Parents with time rules reported their children watching less television, but parents with program rules reported their children watching more…
A family process model of problem behaviors in adolescents
This study examines the ways in which different family processes and personal experiences of social contexts are related to the adjustment of adolescents in a subsample of 755 mother-child dyads drawn from the National Survey of Families and Households. Structural equation modeling was employed to examine a model in which joint family contexts (socioeconomic resources), mothers' and adolescents' experiences of outside-family contexts (perceived s…
Linking obesity and activity level with children's television and video game use
This study examined the links between childhood obesity, activity participation and television and video game use in a nationally representative sample of children ( N =2831) ages 1–12 using age‐normed body mass index (BMI) ratings. Results indicated that while television use was not related to children's weight status, video game use was. Children with higher weight status played moderate amounts of electronic games, while children with lower we…
Economic Well-Being and Children's Social Adjustment
Using latent variable structural equation modeling, a family economic stress model that links economic well-being to child well-being in an ethnically diverse, low-income sample of 419 elementary school-age children was evaluated. The sample was 57% African American and 28% Hispanic, and most families were headed by single mothers. The results provided support for the position that family process is a critical mediator of the effects of economic …
Influences of Family Structure and Parental Conflict on Children's Well-Being
Elizabeth A. Vandewater, Jennifer E. Lansford, Influences of Family Structure and Parental Conflict on Children's Well-Being, Family Relations, Vol. 47, No. 4, The Family as a Context for Health and Well-Being (Oct., 1998), pp. 323-330
Making Commitments, Creating Lives
This study examined the midlife personality implications of different long-term patterns of commitment to work 1 and family in a sample of educated women. Women with different work commitment patterns differed on both observer and self-report of instrumentality, and on observer report of interpersonal orientation and valuation of social norms. Women with different family-role commitment patterns differed only on self-report of valuation of social…
Predicting women's well-being in midlife
Theories of adult development suggest that both personality and social roles are sources of adult well-being, but most research has examined only social roles. An integrated model was used, including personality, number of roles, and role quality, to predict well-being in 2 longitudinal studies of college-educated women. Results for both samples indicated that role quality and personality development were important components of the path to well-…
Mothers construct fathers
Mother to Mother
This paper asks how La Leche League, an organization begun in the 1950s to promote breast-feeding and the value of maternal nurturance, continues to attract women in the 1990s. The League represents an interesting case of how conservative groups change in response to changing family norms and practices, most notably the increased employment of mothers of very young children and the acceptance of some egalitarian feminist tenets. In contrast to ot…
Gender, gender role identity, and children's reported feelings toward the same and opposite sex
Mother to Mother
This paper asks how La Leche League, an organization begun in the 1950s to promote breast-feeding and the value of maternal nurturance, continues to attract women in the 1990s. The League represents an interesting case of how conservative groups change in response to changing family norms and practices, most notably the increased employment of mothers of very young children and the acceptance of some egalitarian feminist tenets. In contrast to ot…
Measuring Children's Media Use in the Digital Age
In this new and rapidly changing era of digital technology, there is increasing consensus among media scholars that there is an urgent need to develop measurement approaches which more adequately capture media use The overarching goal of this paper is facilitate the development of measurement approaches appropriate for capturing children's media use in the digital age. The paper outlines various approaches to measurement, focusing mainly on those…
No-You Can't Watch That
This study addresses the relations between parental rules regarding television use (for time and program, respectively) and television use among very young children (ages 0 to 6). Higher education level was related to rules of both types, whereas higher household income was related to having program rules. Parents with time rules reported their children watching less television, but parents with program rules reported their children watching more…
A family process model of problem behaviors in adolescents
This study examines the ways in which different family processes and personal experiences of social contexts are related to the adjustment of adolescents in a subsample of 755 mother-child dyads drawn from the National Survey of Families and Households. Structural equation modeling was employed to examine a model in which joint family contexts (socioeconomic resources), mothers' and adolescents' experiences of outside-family contexts (perceived s…
Examining marianismo gender role attitudes, ethnic identity, mental health, and substance use in Mexican American early adolescent girls
Given the increased trend in substance use patterns among Latina adolescents in recent years, the need for research that identifies gender-specific and culturally relevant protective factors is essential in tailoring interventions. The current study examined the links between marianismo gender role attitudes, ethnic identity, and substance use abstinence among 277 low-income Mexican American early adolescent girls. Mental health was also examined…
When the Television Is Always On
In American homes, the television is on approximately 6 hours a day on average. Yet little is known about the impact of growing up in the near constant presence of television. This study examines the prevalence and developmental impact of "heavy-television" households on very young children aged 0 to 6 drawn from a nationally representative sample (N = 756). Thirty-five percent of the children lived in a home where the television is on "always" o…
Predicting women's well-being in midlife
Theories of adult development suggest that both personality and social roles are sources of adult well-being, but most research has examined only social roles. An integrated model was used, including personality, number of roles, and role quality, to predict well-being in 2 longitudinal studies of college-educated women. Results for both samples indicated that role quality and personality development were important components of the path to well-…
Mothers construct fathers
Making Commitments, Creating Lives
This study examined the midlife personality implications of different long-term patterns of commitment to work 1 and family in a sample of educated women. Women with different work commitment patterns differed on both observer and self-report of instrumentality, and on observer report of interpersonal orientation and valuation of social norms. Women with different family-role commitment patterns differed only on self-report of valuation of social…
Examining Africentric Cultural Values, Ethnic Identity, and Substance Use Abstinence in Low-Income, Early Adolescent, African American Girls
An examination of cultural protective factors that foster substance use abstinence among low-income, early adolescent, African American girls may be helpful in understanding how to promote resilience and reduce negative health outcomes. This study examined the relations between Africentric cultural values, ethnic identity, and substance use abstinence among 196 low-income African American early adolescent girls (age 11-14 years). Results of logis…
Gender, gender role identity, and children's reported feelings toward the same and opposite sex
Age is opportunity”
Gender, gender role identity, and children's reported feelings toward the same and opposite sex
Mothers construct fathers
Mother to Mother
This paper asks how La Leche League, an organization begun in the 1950s to promote breast-feeding and the value of maternal nurturance, continues to attract women in the 1990s. The League represents an interesting case of how conservative groups change in response to changing family norms and practices, most notably the increased employment of mothers of very young children and the acceptance of some egalitarian feminist tenets. In contrast to ot…
Predicting women's well-being in midlife
Theories of adult development suggest that both personality and social roles are sources of adult well-being, but most research has examined only social roles. An integrated model was used, including personality, number of roles, and role quality, to predict well-being in 2 longitudinal studies of college-educated women. Results for both samples indicated that role quality and personality development were important components of the path to well-…
Influences of Family Structure and Parental Conflict on Children's Well-Being
Elizabeth A. Vandewater, Jennifer E. Lansford, Influences of Family Structure and Parental Conflict on Children's Well-Being, Family Relations, Vol. 47, No. 4, The Family as a Context for Health and Well-Being (Oct., 1998), pp. 323-330
Making Commitments, Creating Lives
This study examined the midlife personality implications of different long-term patterns of commitment to work 1 and family in a sample of educated women. Women with different work commitment patterns differed on both observer and self-report of instrumentality, and on observer report of interpersonal orientation and valuation of social norms. Women with different family-role commitment patterns differed only on self-report of valuation of social…
Economic Well-Being and Children's Social Adjustment
Using latent variable structural equation modeling, a family economic stress model that links economic well-being to child well-being in an ethnically diverse, low-income sample of 419 elementary school-age children was evaluated. The sample was 57% African American and 28% Hispanic, and most families were headed by single mothers. The results provided support for the position that family process is a critical mediator of the effects of economic …
Linking obesity and activity level with children's television and video game use
This study examined the links between childhood obesity, activity participation and television and video game use in a nationally representative sample of children ( N =2831) ages 1–12 using age‐normed body mass index (BMI) ratings. Results indicated that while television use was not related to children's weight status, video game use was. Children with higher weight status played moderate amounts of electronic games, while children with lower we…
When the Television Is Always On
In American homes, the television is on approximately 6 hours a day on average. Yet little is known about the impact of growing up in the near constant presence of television. This study examines the prevalence and developmental impact of "heavy-television" households on very young children aged 0 to 6 drawn from a nationally representative sample (N = 756). Thirty-five percent of the children lived in a home where the television is on "always" o…
No-You Can't Watch That
This study addresses the relations between parental rules regarding television use (for time and program, respectively) and television use among very young children (ages 0 to 6). Higher education level was related to rules of both types, whereas higher household income was related to having program rules. Parents with time rules reported their children watching less television, but parents with program rules reported their children watching more…
A family process model of problem behaviors in adolescents
This study examines the ways in which different family processes and personal experiences of social contexts are related to the adjustment of adolescents in a subsample of 755 mother-child dyads drawn from the National Survey of Families and Households. Structural equation modeling was employed to examine a model in which joint family contexts (socioeconomic resources), mothers' and adolescents' experiences of outside-family contexts (perceived s…
Digital Childhood
OBJECTIVES. The objectives of this study were to describe media access and use among US children aged 0 to 6, to assess how many young children fall within the American Academy of Pediatrics media-use guidelines, to identify demographic and family factors predicting American Academy of Pediatrics media-use guideline adherence, and to assess the relation of guideline adherence to reading and playing outdoors. METHODS. Data from a representative sa…
Measuring Children's Media Use in the Digital Age
In this new and rapidly changing era of digital technology, there is increasing consensus among media scholars that there is an urgent need to develop measurement approaches which more adequately capture media use The overarching goal of this paper is facilitate the development of measurement approaches appropriate for capturing children's media use in the digital age. The paper outlines various approaches to measurement, focusing mainly on those…
A US Study of Transfer of Learning from Video to Books in Toddlers
Few empirical studies of word learning from video during toddlerhood have been conducted. Children aged 18 to 33 months viewed a 10-minute commercially available video about different shapes daily for 15 days. The experimental group video included the novel word and shape crescent; the control group video did not. The experimental group was significantly more likely to correctly point to the crescent shape at test than children in the control gro…
Food Marketing, Television, and Video Games
This volume summarizes the findings and insights of obesity-related research from the full range of social sciences including anthropology, economics, government, psychology, and sociology.
Infant Word Learning From Commercially Available Video In The US
Based on the assumption that commercial screen media offers no advantages to children under 2, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends no exposure for them. However, few experimental tests of this assumption have been conducted. Utilizing a randomized controlled design, we examined vocabulary development in children ages 8 to 15 months. Experimental group infants were exposed to Baby Einstein's Baby Wordsworth DVD for 1 month, with vo…
Exposure to Pro-tobacco Messages and Smoking Status Among Mexican Origin Youth
Adolescents’ awareness and use of menu labels in eating establishments
Objective Menu labelling has been identified as a potential strategy to help individuals make healthier choices when eating out. Although adolescents eat out often, little research involving menu labelling has been conducted with this population. The objectives of the present study were to: (i) gather qualitative information from adolescents regarding use of menu labels when eating out; (ii) gather adolescents’ suggestions for optimal ways to des…
Examining marianismo gender role attitudes, ethnic identity, mental health, and substance use in Mexican American early adolescent girls
Given the increased trend in substance use patterns among Latina adolescents in recent years, the need for research that identifies gender-specific and culturally relevant protective factors is essential in tailoring interventions. The current study examined the links between marianismo gender role attitudes, ethnic identity, and substance use abstinence among 277 low-income Mexican American early adolescent girls. Mental health was also examined…
Beliefs About Child TV Viewing in Low-Income Mexican American Parents of Preschoolers
Examining Africentric Cultural Values, Ethnic Identity, and Substance Use Abstinence in Low-Income, Early Adolescent, African American Girls
An examination of cultural protective factors that foster substance use abstinence among low-income, early adolescent, African American girls may be helpful in understanding how to promote resilience and reduce negative health outcomes. This study examined the relations between Africentric cultural values, ethnic identity, and substance use abstinence among 196 low-income African American early adolescent girls (age 11-14 years). Results of logis…
Viewing images of alcohol use in PG-13-rated movies and alcohol initiation in Mexican-heritage youth
Mexican American adolescents report high rates of alcohol consumption as well as media use. Viewing alcohol images in the media is associated with increased alcohol consumption; however, to date, this association has not been examined across different ethnic groups in the United States. To bridge this gap, we examined the association between viewing alcohol use images in PG-13-rated movies and alcohol initiation in Mexican-heritage adolescents. A…
Age is opportunity”
E-Cigarette Quit Attempts and Experiences in a Convenience Sample of Adult Users
Most e-cigarette users report planning to quit, but there is a paucity of evidence-based interventions for e-cigarette cessation. In the absence of interventions for e-cigarette cessation, we sought to understand how and why e-cigarette users attempt to quit on their own. Participants were recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk, an online crowdsourcing platform. Those who reported they had ever used e-cigarettes regularly and had attempted to quit…
Factors Associated With Successful E-Cigarette Cessation Among a Convenience Sample of Adult Users
Background: A growing body of literature suggests that many people who use e-cigarettes become dependent and have difficulty quitting. Most people who use e-cigarettes have interest in quitting, yet there is currently a lack of evidence to inform interventions for e-cigarette cessation. Objective: The purpose of this study was to identify factors associated with successful e-cigarette quit attempts among a large sample of people who use e-cigaret…
Psychology (21 works) · Developmental psychology (15 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Child Development and Digital Technology (8 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Advertising (5 works) · Demography (5 works) · Environmental health (5 works) · Ethnic group (5 works)