Bridget J Goosby
Biographic Data
| ID | 104453 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bridget J Goosby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bridget J |
| FAMILY NAME | Goosby |
| SIGNATURE | GOOSBY B J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nebraska–Lincoln |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1762-2888 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 299 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Accumulating disadvantage: Mechanisms linking discrimination histories and adolescent health
Research has documented the pervasive impact of discrimination on adolescents' mental health, but its impact on physical health at this time in the life course is less understood. The present study fills this gap by investigating how accumulating experiences of peer-perpetrated discrimination across adolescence impact general health and whether unhealthy behaviors (i.e., substance use, poor sleep, lack of exercise) serve as an explanatory mediati…
Everywhere and every day: The impact of navigating racialization on Black German children’s mental health
Racism is a key social determinant of health that generates racial disparities in mental and physical health, including anxiety and depression, beginning early in life. Yet, the everyday mechanisms through which racialization, including microaggressions, institutionalized, and internalized racism, affect human development are not well understood, particularly outside of the United States. This study examines how racialization influences family-le…
I Just Really Like Us”: A Mixed Methods Social Network Analysis of the Longstanding Support Networks of Black Women Faculty
Don’t Let it Get in the Way of Work”: Black Women Academics’ Navigation of Romantic Relationships
Inflammation and minority stress: A moderated mediation model of childhood adversity and mental health in young men who have sex with men
Death of a Parent, Racial Inequities, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Early toMid-adulthood
Black Americans experience the death of a parent much earlier in the life course than White Americans on average. However, studies have not considered whether the cardiovascular health consequences of early parental death vary by race. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, we explore associations between early parental death and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in early to mid-adulthood (N = 4,193). We fi…
The Uterus Keeps the Score: Black Women Academics' Insights and Coping with Uterine Fibroids
Few studies examine how high-achieving Black women navigate chronic reproductive health morbidities. Black women are disproportionately more likely to experience uterine fibroids, with earlier onset and more severe symptoms. This study leverages a national mixed-methods data set of Black women academics to examine how they describe symptomatic fibroids impacting their careers and lives. We find that participants (1) actively coped by engaging in …
Active Inference and Social Actors: Towards a Neuro-Bio-Social Theory of Brains and Bodies in Their Worlds
Although research including biological concepts and variables has gained more prominence in sociology, progress assimilating the organ of experience, the brain, has been theoretically and technically challenging. Formal uptake and assimilation have thus been slow. Within psychology and neuroscience, the traditional brain, which has made brief appearances in sociological research, is a “bottom–up” processor in which sensory signals are passed up t…
The Immune System Is a Complex System: Inflammatory Morbidity and Systemic Racism
This article examines the relationship between social inequity and the immune system, emphasizing some of the many ways that systemic racism and other forms of marginalization can undermine health. Of much sociological concern, chronic stressors increase inflammation and consequent susceptibility to health morbidities and, ultimately, mortality by burdening marginalized group members in ways that adversely affect immune regulation and functioning…
Structural racism in primary schools and changes in epigenetic age acceleration among Black and White youth
A Network Approach to Assessing the Relationship between Discrimination and Daily Emotion Dynamics
Discrimination-health research has been critiqued for neglecting the endogeneity of reports of discrimination to negative affect and the multidimensionality of mental health. To address these challenges, we model discrimination’s relationship to multiple psychological variables without directional constraints. Using time-dense data to identify associational network structures allows for joint testing of the social stress hypothesis, prominent in …
Debt Stress, College Stress: Implications for Black and Latinx Students’ Mental Health
In the Flow of Life: Capturing Affective Socializing Dynamics Using a Wearable Sensor and Intensive Daily Diaries
Interpersonal socializing is important to many sociological outcomes, but assessing the affective dynamics within interactional contexts is extremely challenging methodologically. As a first step toward capturing socializing and affective outcomes concurrently, this pilot study ( n = 118) combines intensive daily surveys with a wearable sensor that tracked affective arousal. This approach allowed the operationalization of affect along its two pri…
Intimate partner violence, circulating glucose, and non-communicable Disease: Adding insult to injury
Analyzing data from the 2015-2016 Indian Demographic and Health Survey (N = 41,768), we investigate how women's circulating glucose varies with the severity of intimate partner violence (IPV) they have experienced in the last year and how their likelihoods of corresponding noncommunicable diseases vary with IPV severity in their lifetime. Consistent with a physiological stress response, women who have recently experienced severe IPV exhibit highe…
Mental Health Outcomes of Discrimination among College Students on a Predominately White Campus: A Prospective Study
Racial discrimination is a social stressor harmful to mental health. In this paper, we explore the links between mental health and interpersonal discrimination-related social events, exposure to vicarious racism via social media, and rumination on racial injustices using a daily diary design. We utilize data from a racially diverse sample of 149 college students with 1,489 unique time observations at a large, predominantly white university. Resul…
Perceived Discrimination and Adolescent Sleep in a Community Sample
Sleep is a key restorative process, and poor sleep is linked to disease and mortality risk. The adolescent population requires more sleep on average than adults but are most likely to be sleep deprived. Adolescence is a time of rapid social upheaval and sensitivity to social stressors including discrimination. This study uses two weeks of daily e-diary measures documenting discrimination exposure and concurrent objective sleep indicators measured…
Discrimination, Sleep, and Stress Reactivity: Pathways to African American-White Cardiometabolic Risk Inequities
Grandparents' Education and Infant Health: Pathways Across Generations
Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing survey linked to respondents' medical records (N = 2,870), this study examines the association between grandparents' education and birth outcomes and explores potential pathways underlying this relationship. Results show that having a grandfather with less than a high school education was associated with a 93 gram reduction in birth weight, a 59% increase in the odds of low birth weight, an…
Do adolescent risk behaviors mediate health and school bullying? Testing the stress process and general strain frameworks
Birth weight, early life course BMI, and body size change: Chains of risk to adult inflammation
Life course SES and cardiovascular risk: Heterogeneity across race/ethnicity and gender
Perceived discrimination and markers of cardiovascular risk among low‐income A frican A merican youth
OBJECTIVES: Our study examines the relationship between perceived discrimination and levels of C-reactive protein and blood pressure in low-income youth ages 10-15 years old. METHODS: Data were collected from 10 to 15 year old focal children and their mothers. Face-to-face interviews were implemented to collect data on stressors including experiences of everyday discrimination from youth. High sensitivity CRP in dried blood spot samples and diast…
Hard Times and Heart Break: Linking Economic Hardship and Relationship Distress
We used the Fragile Families and Child Well-Being Study to examine an integrated mediational model linking economic hardship to relationship distress. Depressive symptoms, partner's discord, parenting stress, and coparenting are combined into a joint model linking economic hardship to relationship distress among mothers and fathers in intimate relationships. Although economic hardship is significantly associated with each mediating factor, only d…
The Transgenerational Consequences of Discrimination on African‐American Health Outcomes
Disparities in African American health remain pervasive and persist transgenerationally. There is a growing consensus that both structural and interpersonal racial discrimination are key mechanisms affecting African American health. The Biopsychosocial Model of Racism as a Stressor posits that the persistent stress of experiencing discrimination take a physical toll on the health of African Americans and is ultimately manifested in the onset of i…
Early Life Course Pathways of Adult Depression and Chronic Pain
Applying cumulative inequality theory, this study examines the extent to which childhood socioeconomic disadvantage and maternal depression increase the risk of major depression and chronic pain in U.S. working-aged adults. Further, I assess whether low socioeconomic status amplifies the risk of adult depression and/or pain. Using data from the 2003 National Comorbidity Survey Replication ( N=4339), I find that socioeconomic disadvantage and mate…
The Transgenerational Consequences of Discrimination on African‐American Health Outcomes
Disparities in African American health remain pervasive and persist transgenerationally. There is a growing consensus that both structural and interpersonal racial discrimination are key mechanisms affecting African American health. The Biopsychosocial Model of Racism as a Stressor posits that the persistent stress of experiencing discrimination take a physical toll on the health of African Americans and is ultimately manifested in the onset of i…
School racial composition and race/ethnic differences in early adulthood health
Mental Health Outcomes of Discrimination among College Students on a Predominately White Campus: A Prospective Study
Racial discrimination is a social stressor harmful to mental health. In this paper, we explore the links between mental health and interpersonal discrimination-related social events, exposure to vicarious racism via social media, and rumination on racial injustices using a daily diary design. We utilize data from a racially diverse sample of 149 college students with 1,489 unique time observations at a large, predominantly white university. Resul…
Life course SES and cardiovascular risk: Heterogeneity across race/ethnicity and gender
Discrimination, Sleep, and Stress Reactivity: Pathways to African American-White Cardiometabolic Risk Inequities
Hard Times and Heart Break: Linking Economic Hardship and Relationship Distress
We used the Fragile Families and Child Well-Being Study to examine an integrated mediational model linking economic hardship to relationship distress. Depressive symptoms, partner's discord, parenting stress, and coparenting are combined into a joint model linking economic hardship to relationship distress among mothers and fathers in intimate relationships. Although economic hardship is significantly associated with each mediating factor, only d…
Poverty Duration, Maternal Psychological Resources, and Adolescent Socioemotional Outcomes
This study seeks to assess the impact of maternal psychological well-being on the depression and anxiety levels and social withdrawal in a sample of young African American and Caucasian adolescents between the ages of 10 and 14 ( N = 854) using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 child sample. Analyses using structural equation modeling found (a) that the duration of time mothers spend in poverty strongly predicts maternal ma…
Early Life Course Pathways of Adult Depression and Chronic Pain
Applying cumulative inequality theory, this study examines the extent to which childhood socioeconomic disadvantage and maternal depression increase the risk of major depression and chronic pain in U.S. working-aged adults. Further, I assess whether low socioeconomic status amplifies the risk of adult depression and/or pain. Using data from the 2003 National Comorbidity Survey Replication ( N=4339), I find that socioeconomic disadvantage and mate…
Adolescent Loneliness and Health in Early Adulthood
The health consequence of loneliness in the early life course is an understudied topic in the sociological literature. Using data from Waves 1-3 of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we examine pre-disease pathways in the relationship between adolescent loneliness and early adult health. Our results indicate that loneliness during adolescence is associated with diagnosed depression, poorer adult self-rated health, and metabolic…
Birth weight, early life course BMI, and body size change: Chains of risk to adult inflammation
Effect of School Racial Composition on Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms from Adolescence Through Early Adulthood
Perceived Discrimination and Adolescent Sleep in a Community Sample
Sleep is a key restorative process, and poor sleep is linked to disease and mortality risk. The adolescent population requires more sleep on average than adults but are most likely to be sleep deprived. Adolescence is a time of rapid social upheaval and sensitivity to social stressors including discrimination. This study uses two weeks of daily e-diary measures documenting discrimination exposure and concurrent objective sleep indicators measured…
Birth Weight, Math and Reading Achievement Growth: A Multilevel Between-Sibling, Between-Families Approach
We used multilevel covariance structure analysis to study the relationship between birth weight, family context and youth math and reading comprehension growth from approximately ages 5 through 14 within and between families. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Child Sample, we examined the relationship between birth weight and subsequent academic achievement growth disparities, distinguishing between birth weight and other …
The differential contributions of teen drinking homophily to new and existing friendships: An empirical assessment of assortative and proximity selection mechanisms
Birth weight, cognitive development, and life chances: A comparison of siblings from childhood into early adulthood
Structural racism in primary schools and changes in epigenetic age acceleration among Black and White youth
Ethnic Differences in Family Stress Processes Among African-Americans and Black Caribbeans
Grandparents' Education and Infant Health: Pathways Across Generations
Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing survey linked to respondents' medical records (N = 2,870), this study examines the association between grandparents' education and birth outcomes and explores potential pathways underlying this relationship. Results show that having a grandfather with less than a high school education was associated with a 93 gram reduction in birth weight, a 59% increase in the odds of low birth weight, an…
Do adolescent risk behaviors mediate health and school bullying? Testing the stress process and general strain frameworks
Active Inference and Social Actors: Towards a Neuro-Bio-Social Theory of Brains and Bodies in Their Worlds
Although research including biological concepts and variables has gained more prominence in sociology, progress assimilating the organ of experience, the brain, has been theoretically and technically challenging. Formal uptake and assimilation have thus been slow. Within psychology and neuroscience, the traditional brain, which has made brief appearances in sociological research, is a “bottom–up” processor in which sensory signals are passed up t…
The Immune System Is a Complex System: Inflammatory Morbidity and Systemic Racism
This article examines the relationship between social inequity and the immune system, emphasizing some of the many ways that systemic racism and other forms of marginalization can undermine health. Of much sociological concern, chronic stressors increase inflammation and consequent susceptibility to health morbidities and, ultimately, mortality by burdening marginalized group members in ways that adversely affect immune regulation and functioning…
Don’t Let it Get in the Way of Work”: Black Women Academics’ Navigation of Romantic Relationships
The Uterus Keeps the Score: Black Women Academics' Insights and Coping with Uterine Fibroids
Few studies examine how high-achieving Black women navigate chronic reproductive health morbidities. Black women are disproportionately more likely to experience uterine fibroids, with earlier onset and more severe symptoms. This study leverages a national mixed-methods data set of Black women academics to examine how they describe symptomatic fibroids impacting their careers and lives. We find that participants (1) actively coped by engaging in …
In the Flow of Life: Capturing Affective Socializing Dynamics Using a Wearable Sensor and Intensive Daily Diaries
Interpersonal socializing is important to many sociological outcomes, but assessing the affective dynamics within interactional contexts is extremely challenging methodologically. As a first step toward capturing socializing and affective outcomes concurrently, this pilot study ( n = 118) combines intensive daily surveys with a wearable sensor that tracked affective arousal. This approach allowed the operationalization of affect along its two pri…
Poverty Duration, Maternal Psychological Resources, and Adolescent Socioemotional Outcomes
This study seeks to assess the impact of maternal psychological well-being on the depression and anxiety levels and social withdrawal in a sample of young African American and Caucasian adolescents between the ages of 10 and 14 ( N = 854) using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 child sample. Analyses using structural equation modeling found (a) that the duration of time mothers spend in poverty strongly predicts maternal ma…
Birth Weight, Math and Reading Achievement Growth: A Multilevel Between-Sibling, Between-Families Approach
We used multilevel covariance structure analysis to study the relationship between birth weight, family context and youth math and reading comprehension growth from approximately ages 5 through 14 within and between families. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Child Sample, we examined the relationship between birth weight and subsequent academic achievement growth disparities, distinguishing between birth weight and other …
Birth weight, cognitive development, and life chances: A comparison of siblings from childhood into early adulthood
Ethnic Differences in Family Stress Processes Among African-Americans and Black Caribbeans
School racial composition and race/ethnic differences in early adulthood health
Effect of School Racial Composition on Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms from Adolescence Through Early Adulthood
The Small-school Friendship Dynamics of Adolescent Depressive Symptoms
Adolescence is a time when depressive symptoms and friendships both intensify. The authors ask whether friendships change in response to depressive symptoms, whether individual distress is influenced by friends’ distress, and whether these processes vary by gender. To answer these questions, the authors use longitudinal Simulation Investigation for Empirical Network Analysis models to study how changes in friendships and depressive symptoms inter…
The Transgenerational Consequences of Discrimination on African‐American Health Outcomes
Disparities in African American health remain pervasive and persist transgenerationally. There is a growing consensus that both structural and interpersonal racial discrimination are key mechanisms affecting African American health. The Biopsychosocial Model of Racism as a Stressor posits that the persistent stress of experiencing discrimination take a physical toll on the health of African Americans and is ultimately manifested in the onset of i…
Early Life Course Pathways of Adult Depression and Chronic Pain
Applying cumulative inequality theory, this study examines the extent to which childhood socioeconomic disadvantage and maternal depression increase the risk of major depression and chronic pain in U.S. working-aged adults. Further, I assess whether low socioeconomic status amplifies the risk of adult depression and/or pain. Using data from the 2003 National Comorbidity Survey Replication ( N=4339), I find that socioeconomic disadvantage and mate…
Adolescent Loneliness and Health in Early Adulthood
The health consequence of loneliness in the early life course is an understudied topic in the sociological literature. Using data from Waves 1-3 of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we examine pre-disease pathways in the relationship between adolescent loneliness and early adult health. Our results indicate that loneliness during adolescence is associated with diagnosed depression, poorer adult self-rated health, and metabolic…
The differential contributions of teen drinking homophily to new and existing friendships: An empirical assessment of assortative and proximity selection mechanisms
Perceived discrimination and markers of cardiovascular risk among low‐income A frican A merican youth
OBJECTIVES: Our study examines the relationship between perceived discrimination and levels of C-reactive protein and blood pressure in low-income youth ages 10-15 years old. METHODS: Data were collected from 10 to 15 year old focal children and their mothers. Face-to-face interviews were implemented to collect data on stressors including experiences of everyday discrimination from youth. High sensitivity CRP in dried blood spot samples and diast…
Hard Times and Heart Break: Linking Economic Hardship and Relationship Distress
We used the Fragile Families and Child Well-Being Study to examine an integrated mediational model linking economic hardship to relationship distress. Depressive symptoms, partner's discord, parenting stress, and coparenting are combined into a joint model linking economic hardship to relationship distress among mothers and fathers in intimate relationships. Although economic hardship is significantly associated with each mediating factor, only d…
Birth weight, early life course BMI, and body size change: Chains of risk to adult inflammation
Life course SES and cardiovascular risk: Heterogeneity across race/ethnicity and gender
Discrimination, Sleep, and Stress Reactivity: Pathways to African American-White Cardiometabolic Risk Inequities
Grandparents' Education and Infant Health: Pathways Across Generations
Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing survey linked to respondents' medical records (N = 2,870), this study examines the association between grandparents' education and birth outcomes and explores potential pathways underlying this relationship. Results show that having a grandfather with less than a high school education was associated with a 93 gram reduction in birth weight, a 59% increase in the odds of low birth weight, an…
Do adolescent risk behaviors mediate health and school bullying? Testing the stress process and general strain frameworks
Perceived Discrimination and Adolescent Sleep in a Community Sample
Sleep is a key restorative process, and poor sleep is linked to disease and mortality risk. The adolescent population requires more sleep on average than adults but are most likely to be sleep deprived. Adolescence is a time of rapid social upheaval and sensitivity to social stressors including discrimination. This study uses two weeks of daily e-diary measures documenting discrimination exposure and concurrent objective sleep indicators measured…
Mental Health Outcomes of Discrimination among College Students on a Predominately White Campus: A Prospective Study
Racial discrimination is a social stressor harmful to mental health. In this paper, we explore the links between mental health and interpersonal discrimination-related social events, exposure to vicarious racism via social media, and rumination on racial injustices using a daily diary design. We utilize data from a racially diverse sample of 149 college students with 1,489 unique time observations at a large, predominantly white university. Resul…
Intimate partner violence, circulating glucose, and non-communicable Disease: Adding insult to injury
Analyzing data from the 2015-2016 Indian Demographic and Health Survey (N = 41,768), we investigate how women's circulating glucose varies with the severity of intimate partner violence (IPV) they have experienced in the last year and how their likelihoods of corresponding noncommunicable diseases vary with IPV severity in their lifetime. Consistent with a physiological stress response, women who have recently experienced severe IPV exhibit highe…
In the Flow of Life: Capturing Affective Socializing Dynamics Using a Wearable Sensor and Intensive Daily Diaries
Interpersonal socializing is important to many sociological outcomes, but assessing the affective dynamics within interactional contexts is extremely challenging methodologically. As a first step toward capturing socializing and affective outcomes concurrently, this pilot study ( n = 118) combines intensive daily surveys with a wearable sensor that tracked affective arousal. This approach allowed the operationalization of affect along its two pri…
Debt Stress, College Stress: Implications for Black and Latinx Students’ Mental Health
A Network Approach to Assessing the Relationship between Discrimination and Daily Emotion Dynamics
Discrimination-health research has been critiqued for neglecting the endogeneity of reports of discrimination to negative affect and the multidimensionality of mental health. To address these challenges, we model discrimination’s relationship to multiple psychological variables without directional constraints. Using time-dense data to identify associational network structures allows for joint testing of the social stress hypothesis, prominent in …
Active Inference and Social Actors: Towards a Neuro-Bio-Social Theory of Brains and Bodies in Their Worlds
Although research including biological concepts and variables has gained more prominence in sociology, progress assimilating the organ of experience, the brain, has been theoretically and technically challenging. Formal uptake and assimilation have thus been slow. Within psychology and neuroscience, the traditional brain, which has made brief appearances in sociological research, is a “bottom–up” processor in which sensory signals are passed up t…
Psychology (27 works) · Medicine (17 works) · Developmental psychology (14 works) · Clinical Psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Psychiatry (10 works) · Demography (9 works) · Gerontology (9 works)