J Douglas Coatsworth
Biographic Data
| ID | 103499 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Douglas Coatsworth |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Douglas |
| FAMILY NAME | Coatsworth |
| SIGNATURE | COATSWORTH J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0306-2760 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 452 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Rural and urban variation in mobile health substance use disorder treatment mechanisms and efficacy
Residents of rural areas face significant barriers to substance use disorder (SUD) treatment, including poor access, stigma, lack of confidentiality, and distrust of mental health services, which may inhibit treatment engagement. Mobile health (mHealth) approaches offer personalized, private, and easily accessible SUD treatment for rural residents, but differences in treatment mechanisms and efficacy across rural and urban regions are unknown. Th…
Young Adults Advancing Through the Stages of Change: A Mediational Analysis of Cannabis Use Disorder Treatment
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The Stages of Change (SoC) model explains addictive behavior change through 5 stages: precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance. Limited evidence exists from randomized controlled trials testing the SoC model in Cannabis Use Disorder (CUD) treatments. The aim of this study was to test the indirect effects of Peer Network Counseling- text (PNC-txt), a text-message delivered motivational interv…
Depressive and Anxiety Symptoms Moderate Cannabis Use Disorder Treatment Effects: A Randomized Clinical Trial with Young Adults
A Methodological Case Example of Capturing Social-Spatial Effects on Behavioral Health Treatment Outcomes
Urban and Rural Differences in the Efficacy of a Mobile Health Depression Treatment for Young Adults
Depression among young adults represents a growing health problem in the U.S., but access to effective treatment remains a challenge. Mobile health (mHealth) approaches promise to deliver accessible and effective depression treatment; however, questions remain regarding how mHealth depression treatment efficacy may vary geographically based on urban and rural environmental contexts. The present study addresses this knowledge gap by leveraging dat…
Environmental Impacts on Behavioral Health Interventions: The Moderating Effect of Neighborhood Deprivation on a Mobile Health Treatment for Depression
Relatively little scholarly attention has been given to incorporating geographic principles into investigations of behavioral health intervention efficacy—where, and why, a behavioral health intervention might be more effective in one place versus another. We address this research gap by leveraging data from a randomized controlled trial in a post-hoc analysis to investigate whether socioeconomic deprivation in the residential neighborhood modera…
Predicting Self-Medication with Cannabis in Young Adults with Hazardous Cannabis Use
Using cannabis to reduce psychological and physical distress, referred to as self-medication, is a significant risk factor for cannabis use disorder. To better understand this high-risk behavior, a sample of 290 young adults (ages 18-25; 45.6% female) were recruited from two U.S. universities in January and February of 2020 to complete a survey about their cannabis use and self-medication. Results: seventy-six percent endorsed using cannabis to r…
Reducing Risk for Adolescent Substance Misuse with Text-Delivered Counseling to Adolescents and Parents
Background: Text-delivered prevention programs provide unique opportunities to deliver substance use prevention interventions to at-risk populations. Methods: A pilot randomized controlled trial was conducted to test the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of a 4-week, automated personalized text-messaging prevention program, designed to reduce risk factors and increase protective factors associated with adolescent substance use …
Residential Greenspace and Urban Adolescent Substance Use: Exploring Interactive Effects with Peer Network Health, Sex, and Executive Function
While urban greenspace is increasingly recognized as important to mental health, its role in substance use is understudied. This exploratory study investigates the interaction of greenspace with peer network health, sex, and executive function (EF) in models of substance use among a sample of disadvantaged, urban youth. Adolescents and their parents were recruited from a hospital in the mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. Residential greenspace at th…
Neighborhood disadvantage moderates the effect of a mobile health intervention on adolescent depression
Development and properties of the parental support of leisure exploration measure
Leisure figures prominently in adolescent identity work. This paper tested the psychometric properties and validity of a new measure, Parental Support of Leisure Exploration (PSLE). We used three distinct samples: college undergraduates (n = 409, M age 19.4), high school students (n = 70, M age 16.8), and middle school students (n = 126, M age 14.05). Factor analysis indicated two factors: encouragement of autonomous exploration and parental cont…
Learning to BREATHE “Plus”: A Multi-Modal Adaptive Supplement to an Evidence-Based Mindfulness Intervention for Adolescents
Incorporating technological supplements into existing group mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs), particularly for use with adolescents, is an important next step in the implementation of MBIs. Yet there is little available content. Herein we present the development and content of a technological supplement for MBIs, which incorporates multiple technological elements to support (a) skill transfer from the group MBI to daily life, (b) the establ…
Protective factors that mitigate the indirect risk of combat exposure upon meaning in life: A longitudinal study of student veterans
Combat is associated with worse health status, in turn limiting student veterans' life meaning. This supports an expanded conception of combat-related risk, in which the effect of combat upon positive outcomes is emphasized. Findings indicate that the proposed protective factors may mitigate combat-related risk. We discuss implications for research and practice. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
Changes in Mindful Parenting: Associations With Changes in Parenting, Parent–Youth Relationship Quality, and Youth Behavior
Findings illustrate how changes in mindful parenting are associated with proximal changes that could lead to reduced youth behavior problems (e.g., aggression or substance use) and provide additional evidence for the contribution that mindfulness activities can make to standard parent training
Understanding How Mindful Parenting May Be Linked to Mother–Adolescent Communication
Integrating mindfulness with parent training: Effects of the mindfulness-enhanced strengthening families program
There is growing support for the efficacy of mindfulness training with parents as an intervention technique to improve parenting skills and reduce risk for youth problem behaviors. The evidence, however, has been limited to small scale studies, many with methodological shortcomings. This study sought to integrate mindfulness training with parents into the Strengthening Families Program: For Parents and Youth 10-14 (SFP 10-14), an empirically-vali…
Adolescent Future Orientation: The Role of Identity Discovery in Self-Defining Activities and Context in Two Rural Samples
This study, using data from two samples of rural adolescents, examined how identity experiences in a self-defining activity and perception of access to opportunities were related to four dimensions of adolescent future orientation and whether the relationship between identity experiences in a self-defining activity buffered the effects of limited opportunities on future orientation. Adolescents' identity experiences in a self-defining activity em…
Patterns of place‐based self‐regulation and associated mental health of urban adolescents
Efforts to simultaneously address adolescent self‐regulation, activity space (routine locations), and mental health represent a promising social ecological approach aimed at understanding the lives and development of urban youth. This type of examination of contextual influences on self‐regulation is considered an important area of developmental research, yet one that is understudied (McCabe, Cunnington, & Brooks‐Gunn, 2004 ). Little is known abo…
A Model of Mindful Parenting: Implications for Parent–Child Relationships and Prevention Research
This paper introduces a model of "mindful parenting" as a framework whereby parents intentionally bring moment-to-moment awareness to the parent-child relationship. This is done by developing the qualities of listening with full attention when interacting with their children, cultivating emotional awareness and self-regulation in parenting, and bringing compassion and nonjudgmental acceptance to their parenting interactions. First, we briefly out…
Pilot Study to Gauge Acceptability of a Mindfulness-Based, Family-Focused Preventive Intervention
The purpose of the present study was to conduct a test of acceptability of a new model for family-focused drug prevention programs for families of early adolescents. An existing evidence-based behavioral intervention, the Strengthening Families Program: For Parents and Youth 10-14 (SFP), was adapted to include concepts and activities related to mindfulness and mindful parenting (an extension of mindfulness to the interpersonal domain of parent-ch…
Individual and Issue‐Specific Differences in Parental Knowledge and Adolescent Disclosure in Chile, the Philippines, and the United States
Perceived parental knowledge and adolescents' disclosure to parents were predicted from parental warmth and monitoring and adolescents' disclosure, agreement, and beliefs about obligation to obey and parental legitimacy ( N =698 Chilean, Filipino, and U.S. 13–20‐year‐olds). The correlates of knowledge are similar in all three countries, but the relative strength of the correlations differs. Global agreement was associated with greater knowledge. …
The effects of autonomy-supportive coaching, need satisfaction, and self-perceptions on initiative and identity in youth swimmers
This study tested a sequential process model linking youth sport coaching climates (perceived coach behaviors and perceived need satisfaction) to youth self-perceptions (perceived competence and global self-esteem) and youth development outcomes (initiative, identity reflection, identity exploration). A sample of 119 youth between the ages of 10 and 18 who participated in a community-directed summer swim league completed questionnaires over the c…
Parenting and Neighborhood Predictors of Youth Problem Behaviors Within Hispanic Families: The Moderating Role of Family Structure
This study examined the influence of family and neighborhood contexts on Hispanic youth problem behavior. The effects of parents' perceptions of neighborhood context and parenting practices on problem behavior were examined in 167 one-parent ( n = 75) and two-parent ( n = 92) families. Results from multigroup path analyses showed significant main effects of perceived neighborhood context on parenting practices and on youth problem behavior and si…
Faith‐placed parenting intervention
Collaboration with religious institutions is recommended as a frontier for prevention science. Little is known about the effectiveness of programs currently disseminated by churches. This pilot program investigated potential advantages and disadvantages of university collaborations in faith settings, by implementing the Staying Connected with Your Teen parenting program ( N =13 parents) in a single congregation. The mixed‐method assessment includ…
Consistency of Fear of Failure Score Meanings Among 8- to 18-Year-Old Female Athletes
Fear of failure (FF) energizes individuals to avoid failure because of the learned aversive consequences of failing (e.g., shame). Although FF is socialized in childhood, little is known about the meaning of scores from FF measures used with children and adolescents. This study addresses that void by establishing a preliminary nomological network for FF scores from a younger population than has previously been studied. Girls ( N = 97) aged 8 to 1…
The development of competence in favorable and unfavorable environments: Lessons from research on successful children
Individual and Issue‐Specific Differences in Parental Knowledge and Adolescent Disclosure in Chile, the Philippines, and the United States
Perceived parental knowledge and adolescents' disclosure to parents were predicted from parental warmth and monitoring and adolescents' disclosure, agreement, and beliefs about obligation to obey and parental legitimacy ( N =698 Chilean, Filipino, and U.S. 13–20‐year‐olds). The correlates of knowledge are similar in all three countries, but the relative strength of the correlations differs. Global agreement was associated with greater knowledge. …
A person-centered and ecological investigation of acculturation strategies in Hispanic immigrant youth
Understanding the processes of acculturation in ethnic minority populations is one of the central tasks of crosscultural research. Addressing challenges of theory, methods, and application in acculturation research requires ongoing advancements in methods and theoretical and model development. The current study was designed to explain a person-centered approach to investigating acculturation and biculturalism and to illustrate this method with a …
Preventing Substance Abuse in Hispanic Immigrant Adolescents: An Ecodevelopmental, Parent-Centered Approach
This article discusses the challenges that Hispanic immigrant families face and reviews the potential negative consequences of these challenges for Hispanic adolescents. The article outlines the theoretical background, goals, and intervention components of Familias Unidas, a substance-abuse-prevention program for poor immigrant Hispanic adolescents and their parents. Familias Unidas is an ecodevelopmentally based, parent-centered intervention del…
Integrating mindfulness with parent training: Effects of the mindfulness-enhanced strengthening families program
There is growing support for the efficacy of mindfulness training with parents as an intervention technique to improve parenting skills and reduce risk for youth problem behaviors. The evidence, however, has been limited to small scale studies, many with methodological shortcomings. This study sought to integrate mindfulness training with parents into the Strengthening Families Program: For Parents and Youth 10-14 (SFP 10-14), an empirically-vali…
Understanding How Mindful Parenting May Be Linked to Mother–Adolescent Communication
The effects of autonomy-supportive coaching, need satisfaction, and self-perceptions on initiative and identity in youth swimmers
This study tested a sequential process model linking youth sport coaching climates (perceived coach behaviors and perceived need satisfaction) to youth self-perceptions (perceived competence and global self-esteem) and youth development outcomes (initiative, identity reflection, identity exploration). A sample of 119 youth between the ages of 10 and 18 who participated in a community-directed summer swim league completed questionnaires over the c…
Parenting and Neighborhood Predictors of Youth Problem Behaviors Within Hispanic Families: The Moderating Role of Family Structure
This study examined the influence of family and neighborhood contexts on Hispanic youth problem behavior. The effects of parents' perceptions of neighborhood context and parenting practices on problem behavior were examined in 167 one-parent ( n = 75) and two-parent ( n = 92) families. Results from multigroup path analyses showed significant main effects of perceived neighborhood context on parenting practices and on youth problem behavior and si…
Neighborhood disadvantage moderates the effect of a mobile health intervention on adolescent depression
Changes in Mindful Parenting: Associations With Changes in Parenting, Parent–Youth Relationship Quality, and Youth Behavior
Findings illustrate how changes in mindful parenting are associated with proximal changes that could lead to reduced youth behavior problems (e.g., aggression or substance use) and provide additional evidence for the contribution that mindfulness activities can make to standard parent training
Adolescent Future Orientation: The Role of Identity Discovery in Self-Defining Activities and Context in Two Rural Samples
This study, using data from two samples of rural adolescents, examined how identity experiences in a self-defining activity and perception of access to opportunities were related to four dimensions of adolescent future orientation and whether the relationship between identity experiences in a self-defining activity buffered the effects of limited opportunities on future orientation. Adolescents' identity experiences in a self-defining activity em…
Faith‐placed parenting intervention
Collaboration with religious institutions is recommended as a frontier for prevention science. Little is known about the effectiveness of programs currently disseminated by churches. This pilot program investigated potential advantages and disadvantages of university collaborations in faith settings, by implementing the Staying Connected with Your Teen parenting program ( N =13 parents) in a single congregation. The mixed‐method assessment includ…
Development and properties of the parental support of leisure exploration measure
Leisure figures prominently in adolescent identity work. This paper tested the psychometric properties and validity of a new measure, Parental Support of Leisure Exploration (PSLE). We used three distinct samples: college undergraduates (n = 409, M age 19.4), high school students (n = 70, M age 16.8), and middle school students (n = 126, M age 14.05). Factor analysis indicated two factors: encouragement of autonomous exploration and parental cont…
Patterns of place‐based self‐regulation and associated mental health of urban adolescents
Efforts to simultaneously address adolescent self‐regulation, activity space (routine locations), and mental health represent a promising social ecological approach aimed at understanding the lives and development of urban youth. This type of examination of contextual influences on self‐regulation is considered an important area of developmental research, yet one that is understudied (McCabe, Cunnington, & Brooks‐Gunn, 2004 ). Little is known abo…
The Structure and Coherence of Competence from Childhood Through Adolescence
Ann S. Masten, J. Douglas Coatsworth, Jennifer Neemann, Scott D. Gest, Auke Tellegen, Norman Garmezy, The Structure and Coherence of Competence from Childhood Through Adolescence, Child Development, Vol. 66, No. 6 (Dec., 1995), pp. 1635-1659
Brief structural/strategic family therapy with African and Hispanic high-risk youth
Brief Strategic/Structural Family Therapy was implemented as an indicated prevention intervention to reduce the likelihood that African American and Hispanic youth initiated drug use. The intervention was designed to impact two important risk factors for initiation, namely behavior problems and poor family functioning. One hundred twenty-two youth, 12–14 years of age and exhibiting behavior problems, were assigned within a basic one-group pretest…
The development of competence in favorable and unfavorable environments: Lessons from research on successful children
An ecodevelopmental framework for organizing the influences on drug abuse: A developmental model of risk and protection.
Initial Engagement in Parent-Centered Preventive Interventions: A Family Systems Perspective
Familias Unidas: A Family-Centered Ecodevelopmental Intervention to Reduce Risk for Problem Behavior among Hispanic Adolescents
Ecodevelopmental Correlates of Behavior Problemsin Young Hispanic Females
Guided by ecodevelopmental theory (Szapocznik & Coatsworth, 1999), this study investigated the influence of multiple social ecological levels (microsystem, mesosystem, macrosystem), domains (family, school, peers), and processes (support, conflict) on the development of externalizing and internalizing behavior problems in a sample of 150 middle-school age Hispanic females. Support and conflict in the family microsystem showed the strongest and mo…
Change Processes in Family Therapy with Hispanic Adolescents
Changes in within-session family interaction patterns were examined over the course of Brief Strategic Family Therapy with Hispanic adolescents referred for treatment of behavior problems. Family structure and conflict resolution style were examined at four points in therapy. Participants were 4 Hispanic adolescents and their families that received a full dose of family therapy. Families were selected from a large sample of families that particip…
Familias Unidas: The Efficacy of an Intervention to Promote Parental Investment in Hispanic Immigrant Families
Preventing Substance Abuse in Hispanic Immigrant Adolescents: An Ecodevelopmental, Parent-Centered Approach
This article discusses the challenges that Hispanic immigrant families face and reviews the potential negative consequences of these challenges for Hispanic adolescents. The article outlines the theoretical background, goals, and intervention components of Familias Unidas, a substance-abuse-prevention program for poor immigrant Hispanic adolescents and their parents. Familias Unidas is an ecodevelopmentally based, parent-centered intervention del…
Salient and Emerging Developmental Tasks in the Transition to Adulthood
Drawing on data from a normative sample of 205 children tracked into adulthood, this study examined the predictive links from 3 salient (friendship, academic, conduct) and 2 emerging (work, romantic) developmental tasks during the transition years around age 20 to adult adaptation 10 years later. Results (a) confirm the utility of salient developmental tasks for predicting adult success, (b) suggest that emerging domains have limited long-term pr…
A person-centered and ecological investigation of acculturation strategies in Hispanic immigrant youth
Understanding the processes of acculturation in ethnic minority populations is one of the central tasks of crosscultural research. Addressing challenges of theory, methods, and application in acculturation research requires ongoing advancements in methods and theoretical and model development. The current study was designed to explain a person-centered approach to investigating acculturation and biculturalism and to illustrate this method with a …
Self-Defining Activities, Expressive Identity, and Adolescent Wellness
This study examined the relations among activity participation, expressive identity, and wellness in a sample of 115 high school students. Results indicated that most adolescents identify several activities as self-defining. Within-person variation in identity scores across self-selected activities was substantially greater than between-person variability. Mean level identity scores were not statistically different across activity types, but boys…
Retaining Ethnic Minority Parents in a Preventive Intervention: The Quality of Group Process
Patterns of Retention in a Preventive Intervention with Ethnic Minority Families
Consistency of Fear of Failure Score Meanings Among 8- to 18-Year-Old Female Athletes
Fear of failure (FF) energizes individuals to avoid failure because of the learned aversive consequences of failing (e.g., shame). Although FF is socialized in childhood, little is known about the meaning of scores from FF measures used with children and adolescents. This study addresses that void by establishing a preliminary nomological network for FF scores from a younger population than has previously been studied. Girls ( N = 97) aged 8 to 1…
Coaching Behaviors Associated With Changes in Fear of Failure: Changes in Self‐Talk and Need Satisfaction as Potential Mechanisms
Cognitive‐interpersonal and motivational mechanisms may regulate relations between youth perceptions of interpersonal aspects of the social ecology and their fear‐of‐failure (FF) levels. Youth ( N =165) registered for a summer swim league rated their fear of failure at the beginning, middle, and end of the season. Extensive model comparisons indicated that youths' end‐of‐season ratings of coach behaviors could be reduced to three factors (affilia…
Addressing the Challenges and Opportunities for Today's Youth: Toward an Integrative Model and its Implications for Research and Intervention
Faith‐placed parenting intervention
Collaboration with religious institutions is recommended as a frontier for prevention science. Little is known about the effectiveness of programs currently disseminated by churches. This pilot program investigated potential advantages and disadvantages of university collaborations in faith settings, by implementing the Staying Connected with Your Teen parenting program ( N =13 parents) in a single congregation. The mixed‐method assessment includ…
A Model of Mindful Parenting: Implications for Parent–Child Relationships and Prevention Research
This paper introduces a model of "mindful parenting" as a framework whereby parents intentionally bring moment-to-moment awareness to the parent-child relationship. This is done by developing the qualities of listening with full attention when interacting with their children, cultivating emotional awareness and self-regulation in parenting, and bringing compassion and nonjudgmental acceptance to their parenting interactions. First, we briefly out…
Pilot Study to Gauge Acceptability of a Mindfulness-Based, Family-Focused Preventive Intervention
The purpose of the present study was to conduct a test of acceptability of a new model for family-focused drug prevention programs for families of early adolescents. An existing evidence-based behavioral intervention, the Strengthening Families Program: For Parents and Youth 10-14 (SFP), was adapted to include concepts and activities related to mindfulness and mindful parenting (an extension of mindfulness to the interpersonal domain of parent-ch…
Individual and Issue‐Specific Differences in Parental Knowledge and Adolescent Disclosure in Chile, the Philippines, and the United States
Perceived parental knowledge and adolescents' disclosure to parents were predicted from parental warmth and monitoring and adolescents' disclosure, agreement, and beliefs about obligation to obey and parental legitimacy ( N =698 Chilean, Filipino, and U.S. 13–20‐year‐olds). The correlates of knowledge are similar in all three countries, but the relative strength of the correlations differs. Global agreement was associated with greater knowledge. …
The effects of autonomy-supportive coaching, need satisfaction, and self-perceptions on initiative and identity in youth swimmers
This study tested a sequential process model linking youth sport coaching climates (perceived coach behaviors and perceived need satisfaction) to youth self-perceptions (perceived competence and global self-esteem) and youth development outcomes (initiative, identity reflection, identity exploration). A sample of 119 youth between the ages of 10 and 18 who participated in a community-directed summer swim league completed questionnaires over the c…
Parenting and Neighborhood Predictors of Youth Problem Behaviors Within Hispanic Families: The Moderating Role of Family Structure
This study examined the influence of family and neighborhood contexts on Hispanic youth problem behavior. The effects of parents' perceptions of neighborhood context and parenting practices on problem behavior were examined in 167 one-parent ( n = 75) and two-parent ( n = 92) families. Results from multigroup path analyses showed significant main effects of perceived neighborhood context on parenting practices and on youth problem behavior and si…
Patterns of place‐based self‐regulation and associated mental health of urban adolescents
Efforts to simultaneously address adolescent self‐regulation, activity space (routine locations), and mental health represent a promising social ecological approach aimed at understanding the lives and development of urban youth. This type of examination of contextual influences on self‐regulation is considered an important area of developmental research, yet one that is understudied (McCabe, Cunnington, & Brooks‐Gunn, 2004 ). Little is known abo…
Psychology (41 works) · Psychiatry (24 works) · Medicine (23 works) · Clinical Psychology (22 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (21 works) · Developmental psychology (21 works) · Social Psychology (20 works) · Clinical Psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Psychological intervention (10 works)