K M Fitzpatrick
Biographic Data
| ID | 17842 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K M Fitzpatrick |
| GIVEN NAMES | K M |
| FAMILY NAME | Fitzpatrick |
| SIGNATURE | FITZPATRICK K M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arkansas at Fayetteville |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8802-1142 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 364 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Problematic alcohol use history among persons experiencing homelessness in Northwest Arkansas
Little research has attempted to simultaneously understand the myriad of social factors that might amplify or mitigate alcohol misuse patterns among persons experiencing homelessness. Using a sample of homeless adults in Northwest Arkansas (n = 168), the current study explores the role of social vulnerabilities, individual risks, and social and psychological resources on a history of self-reported problematic alcohol use. A series of ordinary lea…
Social Differences in Health Behaviours among Jordanian Adolescents
Social differences are evident in both developed and developing countries. During adolescence, there are limited differences in morbidity and mortality, but differences do appear in terms of health behaviours. This study aims to examine the relationship(s) between social differences and students’ health behaviours. A cross-sectional study was conducted in 2020 with a sample of high school students (N = 2741, aged 13–18 years) in Jordan. Besides d…
Social support and adolescent mental health and well-being among Jordanian students
Social support from family, friends, and others enhances the quality of life and acts as an important protective mechanism against mental health problems. The purpose of this study is to investigate how social support is related to mental health outcomes among Jordanian adolescents. Data were collected in 2020 from public and private schools in Irbid governorate, Jordan. Multistage cluster sampling was used to recruit students from 8th – 12th gra…
Post-traumatic stress symptomatology and displacement among Hurricane Harvey survivors
The Consequences of Covid-19 Fear
Members of socially marginalized communities have always suffered the most acute effects of natural disasters, and they have also been the slowest to recover. Thus, it is not surprising that the COVID-19 pandemic appears to be following a similar trajectory. This article details race disparities, social status and place, and their independent and combined effects on Americans' social and emotional health as COVID-19 infection rates began to accel…
Hurricane Harvey's Aftermath
Early June begins the Southern Hemisphere hurricane season. Stretching into November, it can often be a time of weary waiting and cautious optimism for coastal residents. Clear skies and calm seas can quickly give way to disaster. On August 27, 2017, a Category 4 hurricane (Harvey), targeting the Texas Gulf Coast and packing winds of over 130 miles per hour, wreaked havoc and created a path of destruction with bands of rain that seemingly went on…
Race and ethnicity, gender, and age on perceived threats and fear of Covid-19
Previous studies find preventative behaviors designed to reduce the number of infections during emerging disease outbreaks are associated with perceived risk of disease susceptibility. Few studies have attempted to identify underlying factors that explain differences in perceptions of risk during an infectious disease outbreak. Drawing from two early waves of American Trends Panel ( n= 7,441), as well as a National Science Foundation funded, Qual…
Fear of Covid-19 and the mental health consequences in America
The intent of this work was to examine the intersection of COVID-19 fear with social vulnerabilities and mental health consequences among adults living in the United States. Data are from a nationally representative sample ( n = 10,368) of U.S. adults surveyed online during demographic subgroups (gender, age, income, race and ethnicity, geography). The sample week of March 23, 2020. The sample was poststratification weighted to ensure a balanced …
Food Insecurity in the Post-Hurricane Harvey Setting
Food insecurity is of heightened concern during and after natural disasters; higher prevalence is typically reported in post-disaster settings. The current study examines food insecurity prevalence and specific risk/resource variables that may act as barriers or advantages in accessing food in such a setting. Using a modified quota sample ( n = 316), Hurricane Harvey survivors participated in face-to-face interviews and/or online surveys that ass…
Adolescent food insecurity
Objective: Food insecurity is not randomly dispersed throughout the population; rather, there are a number of risk and protective factors shaping both the prevalence and severity of food insecurity across households and sociodemographic populations. The present study examines some of these factors and the role that race and ethnicity among adolescent individuals in north-west Arkansas might play, paying specific attention to a subgroup of Pacific…
The digital divide
Adolescents’ attitudes towards healthy eating
Examining food insecurity among high school students
Food Insecurity and Social Capital Among Middle School Students
This study examines the relationship between social capital, poverty, limited food accessibility, and food insecurity among fifth to seventh graders ( N = 317), ages 10 to 14, attending a middle school in Northwest Arkansas. Using survey data that overcomes methodological limitations of previous research on youth food insecurity, we answer the following questions: Does social capital have a direct impact on youth food insecurity? And, does social…
Circumstances, religiosity/spirituality, resources, and mental health outcomes among homeless adults in northwest Arkansas
Risks, resources, and depressive symptomatology among Marshallese adolescents
This study examined risks and resources to assess depressive symptom variation among a sample of Marshallese adolescents attending a Northwest Arkansas high school. A self-administered questionnaire was completed by 10th-12th-grade students (N = 1,493). With a general response rate in excess of 78%, the subsample (n = 208) represented 75% of all Marshallese students attending the high school and approximately 9% of the total K-12 Marshallese popu…
Understanding Community Connectedness Among Homeless Adults
A Community-Level Comparison of Terrorism Movements in the United States
The aim of this article is to identify characteristics of communities where persons indicted under terrorism charges lived, planned, and prepared prior to carrying out a terrorist act. Guided by a model of community deterioration and using data from the Terrorism and Extremist Violence in the United States database, findings indicate: (1) half of all census tracts where terrorists planned and prepared for attacks were located in the western Unite…
Psychosocial factors as mediators of food insecurity and weight status among middle school students
Do Place and Time Make a Difference? Examining Quality of Life Among Homeless Persons in Northwest Arkansas and Birmingham
Parent/Student Risk and Protective Factors in Understanding Early Adolescent’s Body Mass Index
This article’s aim is to examine correlates of middle school students’ body mass index (BMI). Little research simultaneously has considered both child and parent correlates in predicting child’s BMI; we examine the interrelationships between middle school students and their parent’s risks and protective factors and their impact on the child’s BMI. The study is based on a cross-sectional survey of 161 parent-middle school child pairs living in a l…
Socioeconomic inequalities in mental well-being among Hungarian adolescents
According to our results, professionals of school-based mental health programs should consider students whose parents are unemployed or have manual occupational status as a high risk group in terms of mental well-being
Circumstances, Resources, and Weight Status Outcomes Among Middle School Students
Obesity continues to plague U.S. school-age populations. A number of individual/structural circumstances have been identified as increasing the risk of poor health among children. The article’s aim is to examine some of these circumstances and their relationship to students being overweight/obese, while highlighting resource variables as potential mediators to these negative circumstances. Using a sample of fifth- to seventh-grade students ( n = …
Does Context Matter? Examining the Mental Health Among Homeless People
Social inequalities in adolescent depression
AIMS: Interpersonal theory suggests relationships between socio-economic status (SES) and adolescent psychopathology mediated by negative parenting. This study examines the role of perceived parental social support and optimism in understanding adolescents' depression and self-rated health among a sample of Hungarian youth. METHODS: Using a self-administered questionnaire, data (N = 881) were collected from high-school students (14-20 years old) …
Intersecting Social Affiliations and Intermarriage
A macrosociological theory's central principle, suggested by Simmel's concepts of crosscutting social circles and web of group affiliations, is that intersecting social differences promote intergroup relations. This theorem is tested with data on intermarriage rates in the 125 largest metropolitan areas in the United States. Since the theorem refers to intermarriage generally, the research testing reported here analyzes measures of ten different …
Social assets and mental distress among the homeless
Does class matter? SES and psychosocial health among Hungarian adolescents
Class Differences in Racial Attitudes
Class differences in racial attitudes among blacks were examined using the 1979-1980 National Survey of Black Americans (NSBA). We examined two perspectives-class realignment and ethnic competition-as possible explanations for attitudinal differences between middle- and lower-class blacks. The majority of our findings supported the ethnic competition perspective which predicts a more critical attitude among middle- than lower-class blacks toward …
Fighting Among America's Youth
Using three nationally representative, stratified samples of youth, this paper examines health-comprising behavior (fighting) using a risk and protective factors model. In addition, the interplay between risk and protective factors is explored in an attempt to specify their precise role in acting as either mediators or buffers in the risk-taking process. Regression results indicate some similarities among the three samples and the general model's…
The Aging of the Suburbs, 1960-1980
The suburban population in the United States has aged more rapidly than the population as a whole. This paper examines the suburbanization of the elderly during 1960-1980 for a national sample of metropolitan regions. The increasing proportion of residents age 65 and over has been accompanied by declining segregation of the elderly among suburbs in most metropolitan regions. During this period suburbs with older populations were relatively poor b…
Homelessness and Affiliation
Sociological theory portrays affiliation as an important source of personal power. Accordingly, some students of homelessness suggest that the extreme poverty and powerlessness of homeless individuals can be traced to a lack of social ties. Using data from a quota sample of 150 homeless persons in Birmingham, Alabama, this study examines (1) whether the homeless are disaffiliated and (2) the relationship between affiliation and power-related life…
Social Capital and Adolescent Violent Behavior
This study explores the relationship between social capital and adolescent violent behaviors for a national sample of secondary school students (N = 4,834). Cross-sectional data from The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health were used to evaluate multivariate models examining the family school and neighborhood correlates of violent behaviors. Results demonstrate the importance of social capital factors across domains as significant res…
Life Chances and Choices
A Weberian lifestyles approach is employed to examine differences in quality of life among the homeless. Using a systematic random sample of 161 homeless people in a mid-sized, Southern metropolitan area, the study focuses on the impact of life chances and social choices on aspects of quality of life in this severely challenged population. Regression results show that a number of life chance and social choice variables affect general and domain-s…
Placing” Health in an Urban Sociology
Central to urban sociology is the assumption that place matters. Yet, urban sociology has virtually ignored the role of place in understanding a critical aspect of personal and collective well–being—health. This article attempts to synthesize major sociological theories of health, within an urban ecological framework, in an effort to provide insight into how the distinct spatial qualities of neighborhoods impact the health risks, beliefs, and beh…
The Effects of Community Structure on Opportunities for Interracial Contact
Blau's (1977) macrostructural theory builds on the assumption that social structure affects intergroup relations. This relationship depends upon the opportunity for intergroup contact. Previous tests of Blau's theory, however, treat opportunity as an unmeasured construct. P*, as a measure of opportunity for intergroup contact, not only enables a test of that assumption, but also merges general sociological principles with specific middle-range on…
Bullying and Depressive Symptomatology Among Low-Income, African–American Youth
A comparison of homeless, community-wide, and selected distressed samples on the CES-Depression Scale
Center for Epidemiological Studies (CES) Depression Scale results for surveys of homeless, community-wide and selected distressed samples are compared. Nearly four times the percentage of homeless fit the criterion for clinical caseness (a score of 16+) compared to the general population (74 to 19 percent). None of the distressed samples exhibited a higher rate except psychiatric patients diagnosed as acutely depressive. High rates of depression …
Policy, School Structure, and Sociodemographic Effects on Statewide High School Dropout Rates
This article examines the effects of state policy, sociodemographic composition, and school structure on high school dropout rates in 1980. The findings support a mediating model in which state fiscal resources are transformed by school systems to improve retention. Of the policy variables considered, total educational expenditures per students' average daily attendance is a significant determinant of school structure and exerts the largest indir…
Post-traumatic stress symptomatology and displacement among Hurricane Harvey survivors
Psychosocial factors as mediators of food insecurity and weight status among middle school students
Reorganizing Organizing
(1999). Reorganizing Organizing: Immigrant Labor in North America Interview with New York Taxi Workers' Alliance. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 169-182
The Impact of Psychosocial Resources on Caregiver Burden and Depression
This article uses a psychosocial resources model to examine the distress process for a sample of 110 primary caregivers of geriatric outpatients. Two versions of the psychosocial resources model are tested—the mediation/deterioration and buffering model. For both models, we assess the role of social support and internal locus of control (mastery) in reducing the negative impact that life stressors have on caregiver burden and depressive symptomat…
The digital divide
Adolescents’ attitudes towards healthy eating
Examining food insecurity among high school students
A Community-Level Comparison of Terrorism Movements in the United States
The aim of this article is to identify characteristics of communities where persons indicted under terrorism charges lived, planned, and prepared prior to carrying out a terrorist act. Guided by a model of community deterioration and using data from the Terrorism and Extremist Violence in the United States database, findings indicate: (1) half of all census tracts where terrorists planned and prepared for attacks were located in the western Unite…
Circumstances, Resources, and Weight Status Outcomes Among Middle School Students
Obesity continues to plague U.S. school-age populations. A number of individual/structural circumstances have been identified as increasing the risk of poor health among children. The article’s aim is to examine some of these circumstances and their relationship to students being overweight/obese, while highlighting resource variables as potential mediators to these negative circumstances. Using a sample of fifth- to seventh-grade students ( n = …
Does Context Matter? Examining the Mental Health Among Homeless People
Food Insecurity and Social Capital Among Middle School Students
This study examines the relationship between social capital, poverty, limited food accessibility, and food insecurity among fifth to seventh graders ( N = 317), ages 10 to 14, attending a middle school in Northwest Arkansas. Using survey data that overcomes methodological limitations of previous research on youth food insecurity, we answer the following questions: Does social capital have a direct impact on youth food insecurity? And, does social…
Intersecting Social Affiliations and Intermarriage
A macrosociological theory's central principle, suggested by Simmel's concepts of crosscutting social circles and web of group affiliations, is that intersecting social differences promote intergroup relations. This theorem is tested with data on intermarriage rates in the 125 largest metropolitan areas in the United States. Since the theorem refers to intermarriage generally, the research testing reported here analyzes measures of ten different …
The Aging of the Suburbs, 1960-1980
The suburban population in the United States has aged more rapidly than the population as a whole. This paper examines the suburbanization of the elderly during 1960-1980 for a national sample of metropolitan regions. The increasing proportion of residents age 65 and over has been accompanied by declining segregation of the elderly among suburbs in most metropolitan regions. During this period suburbs with older populations were relatively poor b…
The Limits to Growth
This article examines aggregate real estate firm mortality rates in a group of metropolitan areas during the 1960s and 1970s. Real estate firms play a critical role in the local growth machine, yet no research has examined the environmental limits which these firms experience. A set of ecological hypotheses are constructed which detail the influence of task and institutional environments on aggregate firm mortality rates. The findings show the se…
A comparison of homeless, community-wide, and selected distressed samples on the CES-Depression Scale
Center for Epidemiological Studies (CES) Depression Scale results for surveys of homeless, community-wide and selected distressed samples are compared. Nearly four times the percentage of homeless fit the criterion for clinical caseness (a score of 16+) compared to the general population (74 to 19 percent). None of the distressed samples exhibited a higher rate except psychiatric patients diagnosed as acutely depressive. High rates of depression …
Homelessness and Affiliation
Sociological theory portrays affiliation as an important source of personal power. Accordingly, some students of homelessness suggest that the extreme poverty and powerlessness of homeless individuals can be traced to a lack of social ties. Using data from a quota sample of 150 homeless persons in Birmingham, Alabama, this study examines (1) whether the homeless are disaffiliated and (2) the relationship between affiliation and power-related life…
Policy, School Structure, and Sociodemographic Effects on Statewide High School Dropout Rates
This article examines the effects of state policy, sociodemographic composition, and school structure on high school dropout rates in 1980. The findings support a mediating model in which state fiscal resources are transformed by school systems to improve retention. Of the policy variables considered, total educational expenditures per students' average daily attendance is a significant determinant of school structure and exerts the largest indir…
The Effects of Community Structure on Opportunities for Interracial Contact
Blau's (1977) macrostructural theory builds on the assumption that social structure affects intergroup relations. This relationship depends upon the opportunity for intergroup contact. Previous tests of Blau's theory, however, treat opportunity as an unmeasured construct. P*, as a measure of opportunity for intergroup contact, not only enables a test of that assumption, but also merges general sociological principles with specific middle-range on…
The Prevalence and Consequences of Exposure to Violence among African-American Youth
Exposure to violence and presence of depression among low-income, African-American youth.
The Impact of Psychosocial Resources on Caregiver Burden and Depression
This article uses a psychosocial resources model to examine the distress process for a sample of 110 primary caregivers of geriatric outpatients. Two versions of the psychosocial resources model are tested—the mediation/deterioration and buffering model. For both models, we assess the role of social support and internal locus of control (mastery) in reducing the negative impact that life stressors have on caregiver burden and depressive symptomat…
Fighting Among America's Youth
Using three nationally representative, stratified samples of youth, this paper examines health-comprising behavior (fighting) using a risk and protective factors model. In addition, the interplay between risk and protective factors is explored in an attempt to specify their precise role in acting as either mediators or buffers in the risk-taking process. Regression results indicate some similarities among the three samples and the general model's…
Class Differences in Racial Attitudes
Class differences in racial attitudes among blacks were examined using the 1979-1980 National Survey of Black Americans (NSBA). We examined two perspectives-class realignment and ethnic competition-as possible explanations for attitudinal differences between middle- and lower-class blacks. The majority of our findings supported the ethnic competition perspective which predicts a more critical attitude among middle- than lower-class blacks toward …
Reorganizing Organizing
(1999). Reorganizing Organizing: Immigrant Labor in North America Interview with New York Taxi Workers' Alliance. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 169-182
Dangerous places
The association between exposure to violence and symptoms of mental health problems among 161 homeless adults in a mid-sized Southern metropolitan area was examined. Results indicated a significant relationship between witnessing violence and the reporting of mental health symptoms; no relationship was found between criminal victimization and symptom reporting. Implications for clinical practice and social policy are discussed
Unhealthy Places
Does class matter? SES and psychosocial health among Hungarian adolescents
Life Chances and Choices
A Weberian lifestyles approach is employed to examine differences in quality of life among the homeless. Using a systematic random sample of 161 homeless people in a mid-sized, Southern metropolitan area, the study focuses on the impact of life chances and social choices on aspects of quality of life in this severely challenged population. Regression results show that a number of life chance and social choice variables affect general and domain-s…
Placing” Health in an Urban Sociology
Central to urban sociology is the assumption that place matters. Yet, urban sociology has virtually ignored the role of place in understanding a critical aspect of personal and collective well–being—health. This article attempts to synthesize major sociological theories of health, within an urban ecological framework, in an effort to provide insight into how the distinct spatial qualities of neighborhoods impact the health risks, beliefs, and beh…
Depressive symptomatology among Hungarian youth
Psychosocial risk and protective factors were examined to assess their influence on depressive symptomatology in a sample of Hungarian youth. Self-esteem and being happy with school were significant protective factors; older girls (ages 16-20) reported the highest depression scores, and these scores varied significantly by self-reported problem behavior. These findings are discussed in the context of their clinical and practical implications for …
Depressive Symptomatology, Exposure to Violence, and the Role of Social Capital Among African American Adolescents
Focusing on the role of capital as both personal and social resources for adolescents, the authors examined depressive symptomatology among a sample of 10- to 18-year-old African American youths (N=1,538). In addition to gender and age differences, adolescents exposed to threatening environments (school, neighborhood, home) reported more depressive symptoms. Social capital had a significant inverse relationship with adolescent depression; self-es…
Social Capital and Adolescent Violent Behavior
This study explores the relationship between social capital and adolescent violent behaviors for a national sample of secondary school students (N = 4,834). Cross-sectional data from The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health were used to evaluate multivariate models examining the family school and neighborhood correlates of violent behaviors. Results demonstrate the importance of social capital factors across domains as significant res…
Social assets and mental distress among the homeless
Bullying and Depressive Symptomatology Among Low-Income, African–American Youth
Social inequalities in adolescent depression
AIMS: Interpersonal theory suggests relationships between socio-economic status (SES) and adolescent psychopathology mediated by negative parenting. This study examines the role of perceived parental social support and optimism in understanding adolescents' depression and self-rated health among a sample of Hungarian youth. METHODS: Using a self-administered questionnaire, data (N = 881) were collected from high-school students (14-20 years old) …
Risks, Assets, and Negative Health Behaviors Among Arkansas’ Hispanic Adolescents
This study examined the relationship between risk, assets, and negative health behaviors among a large sample of Hispanic adolescents. Data were collected from over 1,000 Hispanic youth in grades 6, 8, 10, and 12 attending school in a moderate size school district in Northwest Arkansas. Logistic regression models examined the variation in the odds of youth engaging in negative health behaviors (antisocial or drug use). Within the context of a ris…
Psychology (43 works) · Medicine (33 works) · Environmental health (27 works) · Psychiatry (23 works) · Sociology (23 works) · Clinical Psychology (19 works) · Demography (17 works) · Geography (16 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (16 works) · Developmental psychology (15 works)