Ronald Pitner
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 101955 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ronald Pitner |
| NOMBRES | Ronald |
| APELLIDO | Pitner |
| FIRMA | PITNER R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of South Carolina |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0930-3545 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Perceived stress, self-esteem, and everyday discrimination
< .001, explaining 63% of the total variance. Furthermore, stress, discrimination, and self-esteem were significantly associated with depressive symptoms. These findings highlight the importance of systematic screening and assessment for contextual factors, such as discrimination and stress, that influence depressive symptoms. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved)
An Empirical Test of Gentrification-Induced Social and Cultural Displacement and Place Identity
“Take a Mental Break”
Given the repeated police killings of unarmed Black people and their increasing visibility because of recent technological advances, Black people are especially vulnerable to adverse mental health effects. However, little is known about how they attempt to cope with these incidents or how their efforts may affect their mental health. Informed by trauma theory and stress, appraisal, and coping theory, this study used semi-structured in-depth inter…
Racial Discrimination and Mental Health
Multiple contextual factors influence the relationship between race and anxiety. In particular, anxiety increases with lower rates of self-esteem and income. Conversely, anxiety increases with higher rates of stress, discrimination, and depressive symptoms. Social workers should consider each of these factors when treating patients presenting with symptoms of anxiety
Black and Blue
Because repeated incidents of police violence against unarmed Black people are increasingly visible, as a result of technological advances, there is growing need to understand their potentially traumatic mental health effects for other Black people. This narrative review provides an overview of critical race theory, the stress, appraisal, and coping theory, trauma theory, racial trauma theory, and emotional contagion theory to develop an integrat…
Am I Next
There is little research that explores the experiences of Black people exposed to police killings of other unarmed Blacks, despite the fact these incidents repeatedly and disproportionately affect this population. While some quantitative studies have examined the impacts of police violence exposure on mental health in recent years, there remains a dearth of in-depth qualitative research exploring the processes through which chronic exposures to p…
Neighborhood tenure mixing
In this brief report, neighborhood tenure mixing is defined as the proportion of owner-occupied versus renter-occupied properties in a neighborhood. The current study examined the association between the proportion of neighborhood tenure mixing, neighborhood crime, and the physical conditions of the neighborhood environment (i.e., incivilities, territoriality, and built environment). Fourteen trained raters (i.e., 7 dyads) used the Revised Block …
Conceptualizing Gentrification-Induced Social and Cultural Displacement and Place Identity Among Longstanding Black Residents
Scholars have increasingly recognized the sociocultural impacts of gentrification on Black residents. However, the gentrification literature lacks a theoretical model on the nuanced ways gentrification socially and culturally displaces longstanding Black residents. Limited attention has been given to factors that moderate social and cultural displacement. This article introduces a Theoretical Model of Gentrification-Induced Social and Cultural Di…
Innovating Methodologies for Examining Gentrification-Induced Social and Cultural Displacement
Gentrification has been identified as a phenomenon that involves impacts on space and place. Particularly, gentrification's social and cultural impacts involve disrupted meanings residents associate with spaces. Although space and place dynamics of gentrification have been well-documented, gentrification research has primarily involved traditional quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches. These traditional approaches have not fully…
Examining Historical and Contemporary Policing Disparities in the Black Community
An alarming number of unarmed Black men and women have been killed by police in the United States. Though research suggests that police violence is not a new phenomenon in Black communities in the United States, several shocking high-profile incidents of unarmed Black people killed by police in recent years have catapulted this problem more sharply into our nation's consciousness. Despite recent efforts to engage in critical discourse about polic…
A gender-specific model of trauma and victimization in incarcerated women
Trauma, victimization and risk factors associated with women's pathways to crime have been widely discussed. The focus of this manuscript is on trauma and victimization's role in the development of negative trauma related cognitions in the lives of incarcerated women. To improve post release adjustment it is imperative to understand how trauma experienced prior to incarceration [PIT-pre-incarceration trauma] and trauma associated with the prison …
Examining the Relationship Between Diversity Exposure and Students’ Color-Blind Racial Attitudes and Awareness of Racial Oppression
This cross-sectional study surveyed graduate-level social work and undergraduate psychology students (N = 409) at a large university to explore the association of diversity exposure (diversity of undergraduate institution, diversity of childhood neighborhood, previous diversity courses), and color-blind racial attitudes and awareness of racial oppression. White students scored significantly higher on level of color-blind racial attitudes compared…
Spatial Dimensions of Social Capital
The neighborhood context affects social capital, yet scholars do not adequately account for the dynamic nature of the social spaces people occupy in measuring social capital. Research has focused on neighborhood effects as though the neighborhood space is fixed across all inhabitants without regard for the ways individuals define their neighborhoods considering their own spatial location and social interactions. Using a neighborhood–level social …
Effective Treatments of Late-Life Depression in Long-Term Care Facilities
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify effective treatment to manage the depression of older residents. Methods: Using Klein and Bloom’s criteria, we analyzed the number of subjects, designs and methodologies, residential types, intervention types and duration of treatment, standardized measures, and findings. Data searches were conducted to classify empirical studies and to review empirical literature published from 2007 to 2014. A s…
Using Photovoice to Develop a Grounded Theory of Socio-Environmental Attributes Influencing the Health of Community Environments
In this study, we used a community-based participatory research (CBPR) method, ‘photovoice’, to engage eighteen residents living in public housing in an examination of person-in-environment factors perceived to facilitate or hinder health and well-being. Five socio-environmental constructs emerged as key factors that contribute to the health and well-being of public-housing community environments: (i) place attachment, (ii) collective efficacy, (…
When Deficits are Misplaced
Putting Context Into a Cultural Perspective
In this study, we examined what contextual factors influence adolescents' judgments and reasoning about spousal retribution. Adolescents were drawn from Central and Northern Israel and consisted of 2,324 Arab and Jewish students (Grades 7-11). The study was set up in a 2 (Arab/Jewish respondent) × 2 (spousal retribution scenarios) factorial design. Our findings suggest that societal and cultural norms may be more powerful contextual variables tha…
The Role of Critical Consciousness in Multicultural Practice
Given the strengths of developing critical consciousness in multicultural practice, why do roadblocks persist? This article examines how the strengths of developing critical consciousness in multicultural practice can paradoxically become its limitation. Literatures from counseling psychology, clinical psychology, social psychology, social work, feminist theory, and critical theory are integrated in a discussion of the various components and stre…
Ecological Approaches to Mental Health Consultation with Teachers on Issues Related to Youth and School Violence
Ron Avi Astor, Ronald O. Pitner, Brent B. Duncan, Ecological Approaches to Mental Health Consultation with Teachers on Issues Related to Youth and School Violence, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 65, No. 3, Educating Children in a Violent Society, Part I (Summer, 1996), pp. 336-355
Am I Next
There is little research that explores the experiences of Black people exposed to police killings of other unarmed Blacks, despite the fact these incidents repeatedly and disproportionately affect this population. While some quantitative studies have examined the impacts of police violence exposure on mental health in recent years, there remains a dearth of in-depth qualitative research exploring the processes through which chronic exposures to p…
Using Photovoice to Develop a Grounded Theory of Socio-Environmental Attributes Influencing the Health of Community Environments
In this study, we used a community-based participatory research (CBPR) method, ‘photovoice’, to engage eighteen residents living in public housing in an examination of person-in-environment factors perceived to facilitate or hinder health and well-being. Five socio-environmental constructs emerged as key factors that contribute to the health and well-being of public-housing community environments: (i) place attachment, (ii) collective efficacy, (…
Examining Historical and Contemporary Policing Disparities in the Black Community
An alarming number of unarmed Black men and women have been killed by police in the United States. Though research suggests that police violence is not a new phenomenon in Black communities in the United States, several shocking high-profile incidents of unarmed Black people killed by police in recent years have catapulted this problem more sharply into our nation's consciousness. Despite recent efforts to engage in critical discourse about polic…
Spatial Dimensions of Social Capital
The neighborhood context affects social capital, yet scholars do not adequately account for the dynamic nature of the social spaces people occupy in measuring social capital. Research has focused on neighborhood effects as though the neighborhood space is fixed across all inhabitants without regard for the ways individuals define their neighborhoods considering their own spatial location and social interactions. Using a neighborhood–level social …
Black and Blue
Because repeated incidents of police violence against unarmed Black people are increasingly visible, as a result of technological advances, there is growing need to understand their potentially traumatic mental health effects for other Black people. This narrative review provides an overview of critical race theory, the stress, appraisal, and coping theory, trauma theory, racial trauma theory, and emotional contagion theory to develop an integrat…
A gender-specific model of trauma and victimization in incarcerated women
Trauma, victimization and risk factors associated with women's pathways to crime have been widely discussed. The focus of this manuscript is on trauma and victimization's role in the development of negative trauma related cognitions in the lives of incarcerated women. To improve post release adjustment it is imperative to understand how trauma experienced prior to incarceration [PIT-pre-incarceration trauma] and trauma associated with the prison …
Putting Context Into a Cultural Perspective
In this study, we examined what contextual factors influence adolescents' judgments and reasoning about spousal retribution. Adolescents were drawn from Central and Northern Israel and consisted of 2,324 Arab and Jewish students (Grades 7-11). The study was set up in a 2 (Arab/Jewish respondent) × 2 (spousal retribution scenarios) factorial design. Our findings suggest that societal and cultural norms may be more powerful contextual variables tha…
Ecological Approaches to Mental Health Consultation with Teachers on Issues Related to Youth and School Violence
Ron Avi Astor, Ronald O. Pitner, Brent B. Duncan, Ecological Approaches to Mental Health Consultation with Teachers on Issues Related to Youth and School Violence, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 65, No. 3, Educating Children in a Violent Society, Part I (Summer, 1996), pp. 336-355
An Empirical Test of Gentrification-Induced Social and Cultural Displacement and Place Identity
Ecological Approaches to Mental Health Consultation with Teachers on Issues Related to Youth and School Violence
Ron Avi Astor, Ronald O. Pitner, Brent B. Duncan, Ecological Approaches to Mental Health Consultation with Teachers on Issues Related to Youth and School Violence, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 65, No. 3, Educating Children in a Violent Society, Part I (Summer, 1996), pp. 336-355
The Role of Critical Consciousness in Multicultural Practice
Given the strengths of developing critical consciousness in multicultural practice, why do roadblocks persist? This article examines how the strengths of developing critical consciousness in multicultural practice can paradoxically become its limitation. Literatures from counseling psychology, clinical psychology, social psychology, social work, feminist theory, and critical theory are integrated in a discussion of the various components and stre…
When Deficits are Misplaced
Putting Context Into a Cultural Perspective
In this study, we examined what contextual factors influence adolescents' judgments and reasoning about spousal retribution. Adolescents were drawn from Central and Northern Israel and consisted of 2,324 Arab and Jewish students (Grades 7-11). The study was set up in a 2 (Arab/Jewish respondent) × 2 (spousal retribution scenarios) factorial design. Our findings suggest that societal and cultural norms may be more powerful contextual variables tha…
Using Photovoice to Develop a Grounded Theory of Socio-Environmental Attributes Influencing the Health of Community Environments
In this study, we used a community-based participatory research (CBPR) method, ‘photovoice’, to engage eighteen residents living in public housing in an examination of person-in-environment factors perceived to facilitate or hinder health and well-being. Five socio-environmental constructs emerged as key factors that contribute to the health and well-being of public-housing community environments: (i) place attachment, (ii) collective efficacy, (…
Spatial Dimensions of Social Capital
The neighborhood context affects social capital, yet scholars do not adequately account for the dynamic nature of the social spaces people occupy in measuring social capital. Research has focused on neighborhood effects as though the neighborhood space is fixed across all inhabitants without regard for the ways individuals define their neighborhoods considering their own spatial location and social interactions. Using a neighborhood–level social …
Effective Treatments of Late-Life Depression in Long-Term Care Facilities
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify effective treatment to manage the depression of older residents. Methods: Using Klein and Bloom’s criteria, we analyzed the number of subjects, designs and methodologies, residential types, intervention types and duration of treatment, standardized measures, and findings. Data searches were conducted to classify empirical studies and to review empirical literature published from 2007 to 2014. A s…
Examining the Relationship Between Diversity Exposure and Students’ Color-Blind Racial Attitudes and Awareness of Racial Oppression
This cross-sectional study surveyed graduate-level social work and undergraduate psychology students (N = 409) at a large university to explore the association of diversity exposure (diversity of undergraduate institution, diversity of childhood neighborhood, previous diversity courses), and color-blind racial attitudes and awareness of racial oppression. White students scored significantly higher on level of color-blind racial attitudes compared…
A gender-specific model of trauma and victimization in incarcerated women
Trauma, victimization and risk factors associated with women's pathways to crime have been widely discussed. The focus of this manuscript is on trauma and victimization's role in the development of negative trauma related cognitions in the lives of incarcerated women. To improve post release adjustment it is imperative to understand how trauma experienced prior to incarceration [PIT-pre-incarceration trauma] and trauma associated with the prison …
Examining Historical and Contemporary Policing Disparities in the Black Community
An alarming number of unarmed Black men and women have been killed by police in the United States. Though research suggests that police violence is not a new phenomenon in Black communities in the United States, several shocking high-profile incidents of unarmed Black people killed by police in recent years have catapulted this problem more sharply into our nation's consciousness. Despite recent efforts to engage in critical discourse about polic…
Neighborhood tenure mixing
In this brief report, neighborhood tenure mixing is defined as the proportion of owner-occupied versus renter-occupied properties in a neighborhood. The current study examined the association between the proportion of neighborhood tenure mixing, neighborhood crime, and the physical conditions of the neighborhood environment (i.e., incivilities, territoriality, and built environment). Fourteen trained raters (i.e., 7 dyads) used the Revised Block …
Conceptualizing Gentrification-Induced Social and Cultural Displacement and Place Identity Among Longstanding Black Residents
Scholars have increasingly recognized the sociocultural impacts of gentrification on Black residents. However, the gentrification literature lacks a theoretical model on the nuanced ways gentrification socially and culturally displaces longstanding Black residents. Limited attention has been given to factors that moderate social and cultural displacement. This article introduces a Theoretical Model of Gentrification-Induced Social and Cultural Di…
Innovating Methodologies for Examining Gentrification-Induced Social and Cultural Displacement
Gentrification has been identified as a phenomenon that involves impacts on space and place. Particularly, gentrification's social and cultural impacts involve disrupted meanings residents associate with spaces. Although space and place dynamics of gentrification have been well-documented, gentrification research has primarily involved traditional quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches. These traditional approaches have not fully…
“Take a Mental Break”
Given the repeated police killings of unarmed Black people and their increasing visibility because of recent technological advances, Black people are especially vulnerable to adverse mental health effects. However, little is known about how they attempt to cope with these incidents or how their efforts may affect their mental health. Informed by trauma theory and stress, appraisal, and coping theory, this study used semi-structured in-depth inter…
Racial Discrimination and Mental Health
Multiple contextual factors influence the relationship between race and anxiety. In particular, anxiety increases with lower rates of self-esteem and income. Conversely, anxiety increases with higher rates of stress, discrimination, and depressive symptoms. Social workers should consider each of these factors when treating patients presenting with symptoms of anxiety
Black and Blue
Because repeated incidents of police violence against unarmed Black people are increasingly visible, as a result of technological advances, there is growing need to understand their potentially traumatic mental health effects for other Black people. This narrative review provides an overview of critical race theory, the stress, appraisal, and coping theory, trauma theory, racial trauma theory, and emotional contagion theory to develop an integrat…
Am I Next
There is little research that explores the experiences of Black people exposed to police killings of other unarmed Blacks, despite the fact these incidents repeatedly and disproportionately affect this population. While some quantitative studies have examined the impacts of police violence exposure on mental health in recent years, there remains a dearth of in-depth qualitative research exploring the processes through which chronic exposures to p…
An Empirical Test of Gentrification-Induced Social and Cultural Displacement and Place Identity
Perceived stress, self-esteem, and everyday discrimination
< .001, explaining 63% of the total variance. Furthermore, stress, discrimination, and self-esteem were significantly associated with depressive symptoms. These findings highlight the importance of systematic screening and assessment for contextual factors, such as discrimination and stress, that influence depressive symptoms. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved)
Psychology (16 obras) · Sociology (12 obras) · Social Psychology (11 obras) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (7 obras) · Social Psychology (7 obras) · Mental health (6 obras) · Political science (6 obras) · Psychiatry (6 obras) · Criminology (5 obras) · Economic growth (5 obras)