Maryse H Richards
Biographic Data
| ID | 129241 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maryse H Richards |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maryse H |
| FAMILY NAME | Richards |
| SIGNATURE | RICHARDS M H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0416-9140 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 58 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 847 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 58 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
The Role of Neighborhood and Parenting in the Development of Effortful Control During Early Childhood
‘Mentors need mentors’
This study investigates instructor activities that 158 adolescent mentors of community children found meaningful in the context of their under-resourced urban communities. Theoretical frameworks draw from trauma theory, self-psychology, and community cultural wealth. Data include field notes, peer-to-peer programme evaluation interviews, exit interviews, focus groups, and notes from clinical seminars for instructors. Mentors found instructor supp…
Self-efficacy is not just about the Self
Objective: Self-efficacy, a belief in one’s capacity to achieve specific outcomes despite obstacles, is tied to a myriad of positive outcomes in the educational, relational, mental health, and future achievement of Black youth. Black youth living in racially segregated, low-income urban communities face greater obstacles than other youth. This study examines how participation as mentors in a cross-age mentoring program influences self-efficacy, a…
Using community‐based participatory research to contextualize Latino exposure to community violence
While the relationship between community violence exposure and maladaptive outcomes has been established, the dynamic between violence exposure and resilience factors in youth is not well understood. The current study utilizes a community‐based participatory research (CBPR) framework and employs a novel mixed‐methods approach integrating quantitative geographic information systems (GIS) data and semi‐structured qualitative focus groups to examine…
We are not all gangbangers
Centering youth voices in a participatory cross-age mentoring program in urban high-poverty communities, this paper addresses three problems in knowledge about youth of color experiencing low-income: 1) Misrepresenting youth as disproportionately violence-prone, 2) minimizing stressors youth experience, and 3) ignoring youths' goals. Those knowledge problems can be framed as a contemporary form of DuBois' construct of "scientific racism." To coun…
We got to stand up and speak”
The Effects of Cross-Age Peer Mentoring on Adolescent Mentors of Color Residing in Low Income, Urban Communities
The current study seeks to understand the potential benefits of culturally matched cross-age peer mentoring for Black and Latinx adolescent mentors residing in low-income, urban communities. Data for the study were derived from a 4-year longitudinal project examining the effectiveness of community-based cross-age mentoring. Data from the current sample ( N = 249, 60.6% female, M = 16.72 years) were analyzed using HLM. Findings indicated that the …
Towards improving engagement of youth of color in cross-age mentoring programs in high poverty, high crime neighborhoods
Mexican American Urban Youth Perspectives on Neighborhood Stressors, Psychosocial Difficulties, and Coping
Understanding violence and developing resilience with African American youth in high-poverty, high-crime communities
Immigration policy, practices, and procedures
Currently, 15 million Mexican and Central American individuals live in the United States, with this number projected to rise in the next few decades (Lesser & Batalova, 2017; Zong & Batalova, 2017). Research has begun to investigate the impact of the nation's immigration practices and policies on immigrant Latino/a families and youth. Current immigration policies can create vulnerabilities, including fear and mistrust, discrimination, limited acc…
Gun Exposure Among Black American Youth Residing in Low-Income Urban Environments
Objective: The current study examined the extent of gun exposure, referring to the mere presence of guns in youth's lives, in a sample of Black American adolescents residing in low-income urban neighborhoods. The relationship of gun exposure to internalizing and externalizing outcomes was also explored. Method: Data were collected from a sample of 185 Black American eighth-grade students ( M = 13.58 years old, 59% female). Results: Just under hal…
Positive Peer Association Among Black American Youth and the Roles of Ethnic Identity and Gender
The study examined whether peer association, a subtype of peer influence that involves the indirect modeling of behaviors, can promote positive development among Black American adolescents living in high-risk neighborhoods. Data were collected during a three-year longitudinal study from a sample of 316 Black American adolescents (M = 11.65 years). As positive peer association increased over time, youth experienced an increase in self-esteem, scho…
Introduction to Special Issue
Resilience in Urban African American Adolescents
Exposure to violence (ETV) poses a serious threat to adolescents’ safety and well-being; however, some adolescents who grow up in such toxic environments are able to thrive due to a combination of internal and external characteristics. The current study examines the role of cohesion across contexts (i.e., family, school, and community) as moderating the relation between ETV and positive internal outcomes characteristic of resilient youth (i.e., e…
Numbing and Hyperarousal as Mediators of Exposure to Community Violence and Depression in Urban African-American Youth
Civic Engagement Curriculum
The Role of Neighborhood in the Development of Aggression in Urban African American Youth
The purpose of this study was to examine the role of neighborhood disadvantage and perceptions of neighborhood on the development of aggressive behavior among a sample of urban low‐income African American middle school aged youth (mean age = 11.65 years). Results of hierarchical linear modeling indicated that youth experienced significant changes in rates of aggression across the three middle school years, and that on average, negative youth perc…
African-American Youth and Exposure to Community Violence
Children’s exposure to community violence and its effects on child health outcomes have become a major public health concern in this country, and African-American youth are at greatest risk. Participatory action research, as a vehicle for promoting social justice, is one tool that can be used to address community violence. This article describes the use of focus groups as a way to give African-American youth a voice in providing solutions to viol…
Gender Differences in Monitoring and Deviant Peers as Predictors of Delinquent Behavior Among Low-Income Urban African American Youth
Juvenile delinquency is an ongoing social problem particularly among low-income urban youth who are regularly exposed to numerous risk factors. Although much research has been conducted in this area, the most at-risk youth have been largely neglected. This study examines the role of peer deviance in mediating the influence of adult monitoring on male and female adolescents’ delinquent behavior, using multisource, multimethod data with an emphasis…
Exposure to Community Violence and Protective and Risky Contexts Among Low Income Urban African American Adolescents
The After‐School Needs and Resources of a Low‐Income Urban Community
Using a collaborative research approach, this project describes a partnership between community residents and university researchers to develop a comprehensive survey of the after‐school needs of a low‐income urban community in a large Midwestern city. Surveying parents and children was considered particularly important because the current literature on after‐school does not include much input from them, the key stakeholders in programming. By su…
Predictors of Clinically Significant Sexual Concerns in a Child Welfare Population
Relationships Between Discretionary Time Activities, Emotional Experiences, Delinquency and Depressive Symptoms Among Urban African American Adolescents
The Effects of Changes in Racial Identity and Self-Esteem on Changes in African American Adolescents’ Mental Health
This study assessed the unique effects of racial identity and self-esteem on 259 African American adolescents' depressive and anxiety symptoms as they transitioned from the 7th to 8th grades (ages 12-14). Racial identity and self-esteem were strongly correlated with each other for males but not for females. For both males and females, an increase in racial identity over the 1 year was associated with a decrease in the prevalence of depressive sym…
Changes in adolescents' daily interactions with their families from ages 10 to 18
In a cross-sequential study spanning 5th-12th grade, 220 White working-and middle-class youth provided reports on their experience at 16,477 random moments in their lives. Amount of time spent with family was found to decrease from 35% to 14% ofwaking hours across this age period. indicating disengagement. However, transformation and continued connection were evident in stability across age in time talking and alone with parents; an age increase …
A self-report measure of pubertal status
The Effects of Changes in Racial Identity and Self-Esteem on Changes in African American Adolescents’ Mental Health
This study assessed the unique effects of racial identity and self-esteem on 259 African American adolescents' depressive and anxiety symptoms as they transitioned from the 7th to 8th grades (ages 12-14). Racial identity and self-esteem were strongly correlated with each other for males but not for females. For both males and females, an increase in racial identity over the 1 year was associated with a decrease in the prevalence of depressive sym…
The Attitudes Toward Women Scale for Adolescents (Awsa)
Divergent Experiences of Family Leisure
Mothers, fathers, and young adolescents in 55 European American families carried pagers for one week and reported on their experience at random times when signaled. All family members indicated high levels of freedom during family and home leisure activities, but they differed on other dimensions. Mothers reported less positive affect than fathers. Mothers' role of family caretaker may make it harder to enjoy family leisure, while fathers, whose …
Longitudinal effects of adolescent girls' pubertal development, perceptions of pubertal timing, and parental relations on eating problems
This study examines how young adolescent girls' pubertal development and perceptions of pubertal timing as well as their subjective experiences with their parents relate to the emergence of eating problems during later adolescence. The sample consisted of 240 White girls from 2 suburban communities near a large midwestern city. They were studied originally when they were in the 5th to 9th grades and again 2 years later (N = 177). They reported th…
Risk and protective factors for urban African‐American youth
The present study investigated risk and resilience processes in a sample of urban African‐American youth. Risk and protective factors were assessed across ecological levels including individual, family and community. Both externalizing and internalizing symptomatology were included as measures of child adjustment. Youth and parental reports as well as various methods, such as the Experience Sampling Method, were used to capture the daily experien…
Perceived Support and Internalizing Symptoms in African American Adolescents
Divergent worlds
This study compared the emotional states experienced by mothers and fathers during daily activities in the domestic and public spheres. Participants carried pagers for 1 week and reported their states when signaled at random times. Patterns for mothers and fathers differed markedly. Mothers reported more positive states in activities away from home, including during work at a job. These states were related to the perceived friendliness of co-work…
Boredom in the Middle School Years
This article uses time-sampling data to evaluate fifth to ninth graders' experiences of boredom both as a state, related to specific school and nonschool activities, and as a trait, related to individual dispositions that students bring to school. Data come from a study in which 392 youths carried pagers and reported on their activities and emotions at random times over a week when signaled. Results show that, while boredom is reported frequently…
How Urban African American Young Adolescents Spend Their Time
The time budgets of a population of youth provide important information about their daily experience and socialization. This study reports data on the time budgets of a sample of 253 urban African American poor to working‐ and middle‐class 5th–8th graders in Chicago. These youth were found to spend less time in school than other postindustrial adolescent populations, but spent no less time doing homework than White suburban U.S. young adolescents…
Family Emotions
This article tests the hypothesis, suggested by family theory, that adolescents' emotions are interrelated with their parents' emotions. A sample of 55 young adolescents, their mothers, and their fathers provided self-reports on a scale of affect over a week, following the procedures of the Experience Sampling Method. Analyses showed modest associations between adolescents and parents both in (a) their global emotional patterns (adolescents' and …
Resilience in Urban African American Adolescents
Exposure to violence (ETV) poses a serious threat to adolescents’ safety and well-being; however, some adolescents who grow up in such toxic environments are able to thrive due to a combination of internal and external characteristics. The current study examines the role of cohesion across contexts (i.e., family, school, and community) as moderating the relation between ETV and positive internal outcomes characteristic of resilient youth (i.e., e…
Parental Monitoring Mediates the Effects of Age and Sex on Problem Behaviors Among African American Urban Young Adolescents
Relation of weight to body image in pubertal girls and boys from two communities
The After‐School Needs and Resources of a Low‐Income Urban Community
Using a collaborative research approach, this project describes a partnership between community residents and university researchers to develop a comprehensive survey of the after‐school needs of a low‐income urban community in a large Midwestern city. Surveying parents and children was considered particularly important because the current literature on after‐school does not include much input from them, the key stakeholders in programming. By su…
Young Urban African American Adolescents' Experience of Discretionary Time Activities
This cross‐sectional study examined the daily discretionary time experiences of 246 (107 boys, 139 girls) fifth through eighth grade urban African American adolescents using the Experience Sampling Method. Relations between the types of activities (i.e., active structured, active unstructured, passive unstructured) engaged in during discretionary time and self‐reported levels of motivated engagement, positive affect, confidence, and perceived ali…
Relationships Between Discretionary Time Activities, Emotional Experiences, Delinquency and Depressive Symptoms Among Urban African American Adolescents
African American inner-city youth exposed to violence
The current study examined types of coping as either protective or vulnerability factors for youth exposed to community violence in a sample of 240 inner-city, African American pre- and early adolescents across sixth and seventh grade. Coping was conceptualized within a contextually relevant framework. It was predicted that avoidant coping would interact with exposure to violence to predict reductions in anxiety, cross-sectionally and longitudina…
Understanding violence and developing resilience with African American youth in high-poverty, high-crime communities
The relationship between body shape satisfaction and self-esteem
Introduction
Adolescent Personality in Girls and Boys
The development of personality characteristics appears to differ by sex of child and role of parent, with interpersonal concerns tending to characterize mothers and instrumental concerns describing fathers. Using a semi-structured interview protocol and paper-and-pencil questionnaires, we examined the effects of parenting, as reported by middle-class high school senior boys and girls, on the development of two aspects of personality. Ego developm…
The sporting life
African-American Youth and Exposure to Community Violence
Children’s exposure to community violence and its effects on child health outcomes have become a major public health concern in this country, and African-American youth are at greatest risk. Participatory action research, as a vehicle for promoting social justice, is one tool that can be used to address community violence. This article describes the use of focus groups as a way to give African-American youth a voice in providing solutions to viol…
The Attitudes Toward Women Scale for Adolescents (Awsa)
Cognitive mediators of ego functioning in adolescence
Peer knowledge of and reactions to adolescent suicide
A self-report measure of pubertal status
The sporting life
The life space and socialization of the self
Introduction
Taking care”
Maternal Education and Employment
This research investigated maternal employment and education in relation to mothers' emotional well-being and the emotional well-being of their adolescents. In the study, 52 adolescents and their parents carried electronic pagers and responded to signals via self-report forms for I week At the end of the week the Beck Depression Inventory and Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale were administered along with other self-report measures. The results showed t…
Relation of weight to body image in pubertal girls and boys from two communities
Daily Companionship in Late Childhood and Early Adolescence
Adolescent Personality in Girls and Boys
The development of personality characteristics appears to differ by sex of child and role of parent, with interpersonal concerns tending to characterize mothers and instrumental concerns describing fathers. Using a semi-structured interview protocol and paper-and-pencil questionnaires, we examined the effects of parenting, as reported by middle-class high school senior boys and girls, on the development of two aspects of personality. Ego developm…
Boredom in the Middle School Years
This article uses time-sampling data to evaluate fifth to ninth graders' experiences of boredom both as a state, related to specific school and nonschool activities, and as a trait, related to individual dispositions that students bring to school. Data come from a study in which 392 youths carried pagers and reported on their activities and emotions at random times over a week when signaled. Results show that, while boredom is reported frequently…
Pubertal Development and the Daily Subjective States of Young Adolescents
This study employed the Experience Sampling Method to examine pubertal development as it relates to the daily emotional experience of young adolescents. A sample of fifth to ninth graders carried electronic pagers for 1 week and recorded their subjective states at random times every 2 hr in response to signals sent through the pagers. Findings indicated almost no association of average mood and mood variability to puberty in the girls. For the bo…
Family Emotions
This article tests the hypothesis, suggested by family theory, that adolescents' emotions are interrelated with their parents' emotions. A sample of 55 young adolescents, their mothers, and their fathers provided self-reports on a scale of affect over a week, following the procedures of the Experience Sampling Method. Analyses showed modest associations between adolescents and parents both in (a) their global emotional patterns (adolescents' and …
Divergent worlds
This study compared the emotional states experienced by mothers and fathers during daily activities in the domestic and public spheres. Participants carried pagers for 1 week and reported their states when signaled at random times. Patterns for mothers and fathers differed markedly. Mothers reported more positive states in activities away from home, including during work at a job. These states were related to the perceived friendliness of co-work…
Divergent Realities
Divergent Realities: The Emotional Lives of Mothers, Fathers, and Adolescents. Reed Larson & Maryse H. Richards. New York: Basic Books. 1994. 256 pp. ISBN 0-465-01662-6. $26.00 cloth. Family researchers, and social scientists generally, are often frustrated by the limitations of the methods available to them. Questionnaires rely on people's notoriously unreliable memories. Laboratory studies always beg the question of how much they resemble real …
Divergent Realities
The relationship between body shape satisfaction and self-esteem
Changes in adolescents' daily interactions with their families from ages 10 to 18
In a cross-sequential study spanning 5th-12th grade, 220 White working-and middle-class youth provided reports on their experience at 16,477 random moments in their lives. Amount of time spent with family was found to decrease from 35% to 14% ofwaking hours across this age period. indicating disengagement. However, transformation and continued connection were evident in stability across age in time talking and alone with parents; an age increase …
Longitudinal effects of adolescent girls' pubertal development, perceptions of pubertal timing, and parental relations on eating problems
This study examines how young adolescent girls' pubertal development and perceptions of pubertal timing as well as their subjective experiences with their parents relate to the emergence of eating problems during later adolescence. The sample consisted of 240 White girls from 2 suburban communities near a large midwestern city. They were studied originally when they were in the 5th to 9th grades and again 2 years later (N = 177). They reported th…
Divergent Experiences of Family Leisure
Mothers, fathers, and young adolescents in 55 European American families carried pagers for one week and reported on their experience at random times when signaled. All family members indicated high levels of freedom during family and home leisure activities, but they differed on other dimensions. Mothers reported less positive affect than fathers. Mothers' role of family caretaker may make it harder to enjoy family leisure, while fathers, whose …
Waiting for the weekend
Adolescent Alcohol Involvement and the Experience of Social Environments
By utilizing a time-sampling technique, this study investigated patterns in the amount of time spent with and the experience of different social companionships in relation to alcohol involvement (AI). European American adolescents in 9th through 12th grade (N = 215) carried electronic pagers for 1 week and completed self-report forms in response to signals received at random times. Results indicated that Al was related to spending more time with …
How Urban African American Young Adolescents Spend Their Time
The time budgets of a population of youth provide important information about their daily experience and socialization. This study reports data on the time budgets of a sample of 253 urban African American poor to working‐ and middle‐class 5th–8th graders in Chicago. These youth were found to spend less time in school than other postindustrial adolescent populations, but spent no less time doing homework than White suburban U.S. young adolescents…
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