M K Grace
Biographic Data
| ID | 57060 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M K Grace |
| GIVEN NAMES | M K |
| FAMILY NAME | Grace |
| SIGNATURE | GRACE M K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hamilton College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1226-7680 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Gender Differences in Depressive Symptoms Revisited
This study advances the perspective that prevailing structural explanations for women's elevated depressive symptoms relative to men can be complemented by social psychological insights regarding anticipatory stressors or people's worries about the future. Using national survey data (n = 1,810), we find that women are more likely than men to worry about future victimization, discrimination, bereavement, and economic security. Although to a much l…
Contrasting public and healthcare worker perspectives on the denial of medical care to trans people in the United States
Racialized exposure to multiple Covid-19 deaths and their consequences for mental health
Into the Unknown
A growing literature examines anticipatory stressors or the worries people have about the future that may or may never occur. Drawing on data collected as part of two national surveys (N = 3,834), this study formalizes a scale of anticipatory stress tapping into future-oriented worries about economic security, traumatic events, and discrimination. Results indicate that both personal and vicarious stress exposure predict greater anticipatory stres…
Racial-ethnic Differences in Anticipatory Stress about Covid-19 Mortality
The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected the health of people of color in the United States. In this study, we use national survey data ( n = 1,844) to examine racial-ethnic variation in people’s worries about COVID-19 mortality and the mechanisms that underlie these differences. Consistent with stress theory, we find that Black and Latinx respondents are more likely than Whites to worry about the possibility that they, a romantic pa…
Medical Authority, Trans Exceptionalism, and Americans' Willingness to Believe Claims of Inadequate Training as Justification for the Denial of Care to Trans People
Trans people's gender identity is frequently cited as a source of health care denial, even when it has no bearing on their symptom presentation. A latent belief among health care workers that trans people are fundamentally different from cis people is deeply implicated in the finding that between one fifth and one third of trans people have been denied care because of their gender identity. In this study, the authors use data from a nationally re…
The Contributions of Social Stressors and Coping Resources to Psychological Distress Among Those Who Experienced Furlough or Job Loss Due to Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic precipitated a global economic recession resulting in widespread unemployment and worker furloughs. Using national survey data (n = 2,000), this study examines whether and how employment-based discrepancies in financial strains, anticipatory stressors, and personal coping resources contribute to elevated psychological distress among those who experienced involuntary job displacement due to COVID-19. Disaggregating displaced …
Psychosocial Coping Resources and the Toll of Covid-19 Bereavement
The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a bereavement crisis unparalleled in a generation, with devastating consequences for the mental health of those who lost a loved one to the virus. Using national survey data ( n = 2,000) containing detailed information about people’s experiences of pandemic-related stressors, coping resources, and mental health, in this study we examine whether and how three psychosocial coping resources—mastery, self-esteem, and …
Factors Affecting Public Opinion on the Denial of Healthcare to Transgender Persons
Between one-fifth and a third of people who are transgender have been refused treatment by a medical provider due to their gender identity. Yet, we know little about the factors that shape public opinion on this issue. We present results from a nationally representative survey experiment ( N = 4,876) that examines how common justifications issued by providers for the denial of healthcare, and the race and gender identity of the person being denie…
Covid-19 bereavement, depressive symptoms, and binge drinking
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused the death of over half a million Americans, leaving in its wake widespread grief and despair. Using national survey data (n = 1998) and a treatment-weighting strategy, this study examines how COVID-19 bereavement associates with depressive symptoms and binge drinking. After adjustment for non-random exposure to COVID-19 bereavement, I find that respondents who have lost someone close to them to the virus report gr…
“They Understand What You’re Going Through”
Past research demonstrates that experientially similar others—people who have confronted the same stressor or who occupy the same social role—are uniquely equipped to provide empathic understanding and tailored coping strategies to individuals navigating comparable, taxing circumstances. Using the case of premedical education, fixed-effects regression analyses of egocentric network data (N = 286) indicate that premeds whose support networks inclu…
Status Variation in Anticipatory Stressors and Their Associations with Depressive Symptoms
Members of structurally disadvantaged social groups report more frequent exposure to a variety of negative life events and chronic strains, yet little research has examined whether similar patterns exist for anticipatory stressors, or challenging circumstances that loom as potential threats in the future. This study uses data collected as part of a national survey of college seniors (N = 995) to examine how anticipatory stress regarding economic …
Occupational Heterogeneity in Healthcare Workers' Misgivings about Organizational Change
Past research on organizational change has explored how workers embrace change in some scenarios, resist it in others, and in some cases, subtly circumvent change efforts by feigning conformity. What remains unclear is the role of occupations in explaining workers' responses to change. Using survey data ( N = 226) and in-depth interviews with workers ( N = 33) in a neonatal intensive care unit as it transitioned from a multiple-occupancy ward des…
Occupational variation in burnout among medical staff
Parting ways
Friend or frenemy? Experiential homophily and educational track attrition among premedical students
Subjective social status and premedical students' attitudes towards medical school
Social Foundations of Health Care Inequality and Treatment Bias
It is widely assumed that the use of medical care will lead to improvements in health, yet questions remain about the medical system's contributions to health disparities. In this review, we examine these issues with a specific focus on how health care systems may actually generate or exacerbate health disparities. We review current knowledge about inequality and bias in the health care system, including the epidemiology of such patterns and thei…
Ties Received, Support Perceived
Research on the association between social relationships and mental health tends to draw from either the social network or stress process tradition. In this study we review the central tenets of these theoretical perspectives and the key empirical work of each. Employing data from the Teamwork, Clinical Culture, and Change (T3C) in the NICU Study (N = 231), we use the case of mental health among medical staff members to test the relationships amo…
The Perceived Benefits of a Preparing Future Faculty Program and Its Effect on Job Satisfaction, Confidence, and Competence
The training of effective instructors and future faculty members is a critical component of doctoral programs in sociology. Many universities and departments have instituted a single course, course sequence, or certification program dedicated to the preparation of future academic faculty. This article evaluates the efficacy of one such program, and asks two questions: (1) What are the most useful aspects of the Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) prog…
Gendered Uncertainty and Variation in Physicians’ Decisions for Coronary Heart Disease
Nonmedical factors and diagnostic certainty contribute to variation in clinical decision making, but the process by which this occurs remains unclear. We examine how physicians’ interpretations of patient sex-gender affect diagnostic certainty and, in turn, decision making for coronary heart disease. Data are from a factorial experiment of 256 physicians who viewed 1 of 16 video vignettes with different patient-actors presenting the same symptoms…
Butorphanol effects on feeding and neuropeptide Y gene expression in the rat
The effect of orexin A on food intake and spontaneous physical activity in the paraventricular nucleus and ventral tegmental area
Chronic sucrose intake reduces satiety-related activity in hypothalamic oxytocin neurons
Effects of opioids in subjects trained to discriminate 22 from 2h food deprivation
Social Foundations of Health Care Inequality and Treatment Bias
It is widely assumed that the use of medical care will lead to improvements in health, yet questions remain about the medical system's contributions to health disparities. In this review, we examine these issues with a specific focus on how health care systems may actually generate or exacerbate health disparities. We review current knowledge about inequality and bias in the health care system, including the epidemiology of such patterns and thei…
Status Variation in Anticipatory Stressors and Their Associations with Depressive Symptoms
Members of structurally disadvantaged social groups report more frequent exposure to a variety of negative life events and chronic strains, yet little research has examined whether similar patterns exist for anticipatory stressors, or challenging circumstances that loom as potential threats in the future. This study uses data collected as part of a national survey of college seniors (N = 995) to examine how anticipatory stress regarding economic …
Subjective social status and premedical students' attitudes towards medical school
Factors Affecting Public Opinion on the Denial of Healthcare to Transgender Persons
Between one-fifth and a third of people who are transgender have been refused treatment by a medical provider due to their gender identity. Yet, we know little about the factors that shape public opinion on this issue. We present results from a nationally representative survey experiment ( N = 4,876) that examines how common justifications issued by providers for the denial of healthcare, and the race and gender identity of the person being denie…
Occupational variation in burnout among medical staff
Friend or frenemy? Experiential homophily and educational track attrition among premedical students
The Contributions of Social Stressors and Coping Resources to Psychological Distress Among Those Who Experienced Furlough or Job Loss Due to Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic precipitated a global economic recession resulting in widespread unemployment and worker furloughs. Using national survey data (n = 2,000), this study examines whether and how employment-based discrepancies in financial strains, anticipatory stressors, and personal coping resources contribute to elevated psychological distress among those who experienced involuntary job displacement due to COVID-19. Disaggregating displaced …
Parting ways
The Perceived Benefits of a Preparing Future Faculty Program and Its Effect on Job Satisfaction, Confidence, and Competence
The training of effective instructors and future faculty members is a critical component of doctoral programs in sociology. Many universities and departments have instituted a single course, course sequence, or certification program dedicated to the preparation of future academic faculty. This article evaluates the efficacy of one such program, and asks two questions: (1) What are the most useful aspects of the Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) prog…
Gendered Uncertainty and Variation in Physicians’ Decisions for Coronary Heart Disease
Nonmedical factors and diagnostic certainty contribute to variation in clinical decision making, but the process by which this occurs remains unclear. We examine how physicians’ interpretations of patient sex-gender affect diagnostic certainty and, in turn, decision making for coronary heart disease. Data are from a factorial experiment of 256 physicians who viewed 1 of 16 video vignettes with different patient-actors presenting the same symptoms…
Occupational Heterogeneity in Healthcare Workers' Misgivings about Organizational Change
Past research on organizational change has explored how workers embrace change in some scenarios, resist it in others, and in some cases, subtly circumvent change efforts by feigning conformity. What remains unclear is the role of occupations in explaining workers' responses to change. Using survey data ( N = 226) and in-depth interviews with workers ( N = 33) in a neonatal intensive care unit as it transitioned from a multiple-occupancy ward des…
Medical Authority, Trans Exceptionalism, and Americans' Willingness to Believe Claims of Inadequate Training as Justification for the Denial of Care to Trans People
Trans people's gender identity is frequently cited as a source of health care denial, even when it has no bearing on their symptom presentation. A latent belief among health care workers that trans people are fundamentally different from cis people is deeply implicated in the finding that between one fifth and one third of trans people have been denied care because of their gender identity. In this study, the authors use data from a nationally re…
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Effects of opioids in subjects trained to discriminate 22 from 2h food deprivation
Chronic sucrose intake reduces satiety-related activity in hypothalamic oxytocin neurons
Butorphanol effects on feeding and neuropeptide Y gene expression in the rat
The effect of orexin A on food intake and spontaneous physical activity in the paraventricular nucleus and ventral tegmental area
Gendered Uncertainty and Variation in Physicians’ Decisions for Coronary Heart Disease
Nonmedical factors and diagnostic certainty contribute to variation in clinical decision making, but the process by which this occurs remains unclear. We examine how physicians’ interpretations of patient sex-gender affect diagnostic certainty and, in turn, decision making for coronary heart disease. Data are from a factorial experiment of 256 physicians who viewed 1 of 16 video vignettes with different patient-actors presenting the same symptoms…
The Perceived Benefits of a Preparing Future Faculty Program and Its Effect on Job Satisfaction, Confidence, and Competence
The training of effective instructors and future faculty members is a critical component of doctoral programs in sociology. Many universities and departments have instituted a single course, course sequence, or certification program dedicated to the preparation of future academic faculty. This article evaluates the efficacy of one such program, and asks two questions: (1) What are the most useful aspects of the Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) prog…
Ties Received, Support Perceived
Research on the association between social relationships and mental health tends to draw from either the social network or stress process tradition. In this study we review the central tenets of these theoretical perspectives and the key empirical work of each. Employing data from the Teamwork, Clinical Culture, and Change (T3C) in the NICU Study (N = 231), we use the case of mental health among medical staff members to test the relationships amo…
Social Foundations of Health Care Inequality and Treatment Bias
It is widely assumed that the use of medical care will lead to improvements in health, yet questions remain about the medical system's contributions to health disparities. In this review, we examine these issues with a specific focus on how health care systems may actually generate or exacerbate health disparities. We review current knowledge about inequality and bias in the health care system, including the epidemiology of such patterns and thei…
Subjective social status and premedical students' attitudes towards medical school
Friend or frenemy? Experiential homophily and educational track attrition among premedical students
Occupational variation in burnout among medical staff
Parting ways
Status Variation in Anticipatory Stressors and Their Associations with Depressive Symptoms
Members of structurally disadvantaged social groups report more frequent exposure to a variety of negative life events and chronic strains, yet little research has examined whether similar patterns exist for anticipatory stressors, or challenging circumstances that loom as potential threats in the future. This study uses data collected as part of a national survey of college seniors (N = 995) to examine how anticipatory stress regarding economic …
Occupational Heterogeneity in Healthcare Workers' Misgivings about Organizational Change
Past research on organizational change has explored how workers embrace change in some scenarios, resist it in others, and in some cases, subtly circumvent change efforts by feigning conformity. What remains unclear is the role of occupations in explaining workers' responses to change. Using survey data ( N = 226) and in-depth interviews with workers ( N = 33) in a neonatal intensive care unit as it transitioned from a multiple-occupancy ward des…
Covid-19 bereavement, depressive symptoms, and binge drinking
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused the death of over half a million Americans, leaving in its wake widespread grief and despair. Using national survey data (n = 1998) and a treatment-weighting strategy, this study examines how COVID-19 bereavement associates with depressive symptoms and binge drinking. After adjustment for non-random exposure to COVID-19 bereavement, I find that respondents who have lost someone close to them to the virus report gr…
“They Understand What You’re Going Through”
Past research demonstrates that experientially similar others—people who have confronted the same stressor or who occupy the same social role—are uniquely equipped to provide empathic understanding and tailored coping strategies to individuals navigating comparable, taxing circumstances. Using the case of premedical education, fixed-effects regression analyses of egocentric network data (N = 286) indicate that premeds whose support networks inclu…
Psychosocial Coping Resources and the Toll of Covid-19 Bereavement
The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a bereavement crisis unparalleled in a generation, with devastating consequences for the mental health of those who lost a loved one to the virus. Using national survey data ( n = 2,000) containing detailed information about people’s experiences of pandemic-related stressors, coping resources, and mental health, in this study we examine whether and how three psychosocial coping resources—mastery, self-esteem, and …
Factors Affecting Public Opinion on the Denial of Healthcare to Transgender Persons
Between one-fifth and a third of people who are transgender have been refused treatment by a medical provider due to their gender identity. Yet, we know little about the factors that shape public opinion on this issue. We present results from a nationally representative survey experiment ( N = 4,876) that examines how common justifications issued by providers for the denial of healthcare, and the race and gender identity of the person being denie…
The Contributions of Social Stressors and Coping Resources to Psychological Distress Among Those Who Experienced Furlough or Job Loss Due to Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic precipitated a global economic recession resulting in widespread unemployment and worker furloughs. Using national survey data (n = 2,000), this study examines whether and how employment-based discrepancies in financial strains, anticipatory stressors, and personal coping resources contribute to elevated psychological distress among those who experienced involuntary job displacement due to COVID-19. Disaggregating displaced …
Racial-ethnic Differences in Anticipatory Stress about Covid-19 Mortality
The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected the health of people of color in the United States. In this study, we use national survey data ( n = 1,844) to examine racial-ethnic variation in people’s worries about COVID-19 mortality and the mechanisms that underlie these differences. Consistent with stress theory, we find that Black and Latinx respondents are more likely than Whites to worry about the possibility that they, a romantic pa…
Medical Authority, Trans Exceptionalism, and Americans' Willingness to Believe Claims of Inadequate Training as Justification for the Denial of Care to Trans People
Trans people's gender identity is frequently cited as a source of health care denial, even when it has no bearing on their symptom presentation. A latent belief among health care workers that trans people are fundamentally different from cis people is deeply implicated in the finding that between one fifth and one third of trans people have been denied care because of their gender identity. In this study, the authors use data from a nationally re…
Racialized exposure to multiple Covid-19 deaths and their consequences for mental health
Into the Unknown
A growing literature examines anticipatory stressors or the worries people have about the future that may or may never occur. Drawing on data collected as part of two national surveys (N = 3,834), this study formalizes a scale of anticipatory stress tapping into future-oriented worries about economic security, traumatic events, and discrimination. Results indicate that both personal and vicarious stress exposure predict greater anticipatory stres…
Psychology (24 works) · Medicine (17 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Clinical Psychology (10 works) · Psychiatry (9 works) · Mental health (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Stressor (7 works)