Kathryn E Grant
Biographic Data
| ID | 107908 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathryn E Grant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathryn E |
| FAMILY NAME | Grant |
| SIGNATURE | GRANT K E |
| AFFILIATIONS | DePaul University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 189 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Life After the Storm: An Examination of Bereavement and Posttraumatic Growth Among Urban Adolescents
Although the challenges of bereavement among adolescents are well-documented, there is potential for loss to foster growth, development, and positive psychological changes during this developmental period. To examine this possibility, 408 adolescents (46.6% male; 53.4% female) in grades 6-12 from three urban schools were surveyed about their experiences with bereavement and posttraumatic growth (PTG), along with several hypothesized moderators: t…
What We Bring to the Table: An Examination of the Developing Relationship Between Youth Mentees and Their College Mentors
Mentoring programs are a popular approach for supporting youth through relationships with adult mentors, but few mentoring studies have included the mentor perspective. The present study comprised 80 undergraduate mentors ( M age = 19.83, 52.5% White, 76.3% female) and elementary‐aged mentees ( M age = 10.61, 91.3% Black, 53.8% female). Mentee and mentor perceptions of the mentoring relationship and their other adult social supports were assessed…
Black Adolescent Self-Perceptions: The Roles of Ethnic Identity and Stress Exposure
Latinx adolescents' trust in adults: A precursor to psychological well‐being via mentoring relational quality and self‐esteem
This study aimed to test a longitudinal model of trust in adults and psychological well-being among Latinx adolescents, a population that has received little attention in the trust literature. The participants were urban, low-income Latinx (N = 294) students at two urban, Midwestern high schools who indicated they had at least one natural mentor in 9th grade. Participants completed surveys at two-time points, in 9th and 10th grade, and responded …
Mental health interventions for African children: A meta-analytic review
Overcoming exposure to complex stressors: An examination of protective coping mechanisms for low-income urban African American youth
Trauma Intervention in Sub-Saharan African Children: A Systematic Literature Review
Sub-Saharan Africa is a part of the world that is highly affected by a large number of atrocities, causing a myriad of financial, physical health, and mental health consequences. Yet, unfortunately, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), this is also the part of the world that is least served by mental health services. In response, the WHO has created mandates to increase mental health resources and capacity in all countries. Researche…
The impact of social support on adolescent coping in the context of urban poverty
Findings suggest that youth require adult support to effectively make use of a range of coping strategies and that avoidance is the sole effective strategy for youth without support. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
The Costs and Benefits of Active Coping for Adolescents Residing in Urban Poverty
Mediating Effects of Parent–Child Relationships and Body Image in the Prediction of Internalizing Symptoms in Urban Youth
A Prospective Comparison of Moderating Relationships among Stressors, Hopelessness, and Internalizing Symptoms in Low-Income Urban Youth with Asthma
Posttraumatic growth among children and adolescents: A systematic review
Intervening Processes in the Relationship Between Neighborhood Characteristics and Psychological Symptoms in Urban Youth
The present study tested for mediators of the relation between neighborhood risk characteristics and internalizing and externalizing symptoms in a sample of 1,120 low-income urban adolescents. Results indicate that a composite of census tract variables predicted both internalizing and externalizing symptoms in this sample. Stressful life events and exposure to violence mediated the relation between neighborhood risk and aggression, delinquency, a…
How social and cultural contexts shape the development of coping: Youth in the inner city as an example
Because the patterns of coping shown by children and youth depend on the particular types and levels of stress they face, it is difficult to understand or study coping, or to promote it in interventions, unless coping is conceptualized as embedded within the overall ecology of stressful conditions, including the demands and resources that influence the use, utility, and impact of coping
The Roles of Stress and Coping in Explaining Gender Differences in Risk for Psychopathology Among African American Urban Adolescents
This study used self-report symptom inventories administered in school classrooms to examine relations among gender, psychological symptoms, stress, and coping in 1,200 low-income African American urban early adolescents. Girls reported more symptoms than boys, accounted for by higher internalizing symptoms. Boys reported more stress than girls, particularly major events, controllable events, exposure to violence, and sexual stressors. Boys in ga…
Stress, Religious Coping Resources, and Depressive Symptoms in an Urban Adolescent Sample
We surveyed low-income urban adolescents about their total exposure to urban stressors and their use of religious coping resources, specifically in the areas of social support, spiritual support, and community service opportunities provided by their congregations. Additionally, we assessed their current levels of depressive symptomatology. Among females, the relationship between stress and depressive symptoms was moderated by the use of spiritual…
Stressors and child and adolescent psychopathology: Evidence of moderating and mediating effects
Gender differences in early risk factors for adolescent depression among low-income urban children
One component of a model by Nolen-Hoeksema and Girgus, who propose that risk factors for adolescent depression are more common in girls than in boys during childhood, was tested with 85 low-income, urban, African American and Latino kindergarten through fourth grade children who completed inventories of depression, stress, attributional style, gender role, and body image. Endorsing two of three predicted risk factors, girls reported slightly poor…
Stressors and Child and Adolescent Psychopathology: Measurement Issues and Prospective Effects
This article reviews existing research on the association between stressors and symptoms of psychopathology in children and adolescents with a focus on measurement issues and prospective effects. The first half of the article focuses on the measurement of stressors, emphasizing checklists and interviews. Available measures of stressful experiences are reviewed and critiqued. Results of this review reveal both substantial progress (i.e., developme…
Psychological Symptoms Affecting Low-Income Urban Youth
Rates and cooccurrence of internalizing and externalizing syndromes were examined in a sample of 1,520 low-income urban early adolescents. Results indicate higher rates of clinically elevated internalizing and externalizing symptoms in this sample relative to normative data. In particular, both boys and girls were more likely to score in the clinical range on the broad-band internalizing and externalizing subscales of the Youth Self-Report and on…
Gender Differences in Rates of Depressive Symptoms Among Low-Income, Urban, African American Youth: A Test of Two Mediational Hypotheses
Integrating Psychological Research on Girls with Feminist Activism: A Model for Building a Liberation Psychology in the United States
A liberation psychology is needed to bridge the gap between psychology's focus on individual distress and broad social forces that foster such distress. We offer a model for bridging this gap by focusing on a specific area of psychology (psychological research on girls) and a specific social movement (feminist activism). Psychological research on girls and feminist activism share the common goal of improving the lives of girls and women. However,…
Stressors and child and adolescent psychopathology: Moving from markers to mechanisms of risk
In the first half of this review, the authors critically evaluate existing research on the association between stressors and symptoms of psychopathology in children and adolescents. This analysis reveals (a) problems with conceptualizations of stress, (b) variability in measurement of stressors, and (c) lack of theory-driven research. To address these problems, the authors propose a general conceptual model of the relation between stressors and c…
Gender schema and prostate cancer: Veterans' cultural model of masculinity
Coming to terms with disease, chronic illness, and aging may be challenging for men who adhere to an inflexible gender schema. In this study of elder U.S. veterans' ideas about masculinity, we find that prostate cancer patients reaffirm a strongly moral normalizing discourse about "being a man" yet tend to separate roles and values from male physical and sexual attributes. Using systematic data collection methods taken from cognitive anthropology…
Stress and Somatic Complaints in Low-Income Urban Adolescents
Stressors and child and adolescent psychopathology: Moving from markers to mechanisms of risk
In the first half of this review, the authors critically evaluate existing research on the association between stressors and symptoms of psychopathology in children and adolescents. This analysis reveals (a) problems with conceptualizations of stress, (b) variability in measurement of stressors, and (c) lack of theory-driven research. To address these problems, the authors propose a general conceptual model of the relation between stressors and c…
Protective Factors Affecting Low-Income Urban African American Youth Exposed to Stress
Individual (coping strategies), family (parent/child relationships), and community-based (religious involvement) variables were examined as potential protective factors for 224 low-income urban sixth-through eighth-grade African American adolescents. Each of those variables was examined as a moderator, and analyses were conducted to determine whether the association between stress and psychological symptoms was attenuated for youth endorsing posi…
Taxonomy, assessment, and diagnosis of depression during adolescence
Research on depressive phenomena during adolescence has focused on 3 separate constructs: depressed mood, depressive syndromes, and depressive disorders. Approaches to the assessment, taxonomy, and diagnosis of these 3 conceptualizations are reviewed. Each of the approaches is represented by different assessment tools measuring related but distinct aspects of depressive phenomena. The constructs share a common set of symptoms reflecting negative …
The Roles of Stress and Coping in Explaining Gender Differences in Risk for Psychopathology Among African American Urban Adolescents
This study used self-report symptom inventories administered in school classrooms to examine relations among gender, psychological symptoms, stress, and coping in 1,200 low-income African American urban early adolescents. Girls reported more symptoms than boys, accounted for by higher internalizing symptoms. Boys reported more stress than girls, particularly major events, controllable events, exposure to violence, and sexual stressors. Boys in ga…
Gender Differences in Rates of Depressive Symptoms Among Low-Income, Urban, African American Youth: A Test of Two Mediational Hypotheses
Gender, Body Image, and Depressive Symptoms among Low‐Income African American Adolescents
The present study tested for gender differences in depression and body image among a sample of 6th–8th grade low‐income African American adolescents. Gender differences were found, with adolescent girls more likely to report both depressive symptoms and poor body image. The most frequently endorsed body image concern for both boys and girls was the desire to lose weight, with approximately half of the girls in this sample reporting they would lik…
Psychological Symptoms Affecting Low-Income Urban Youth
Rates and cooccurrence of internalizing and externalizing syndromes were examined in a sample of 1,520 low-income urban early adolescents. Results indicate higher rates of clinically elevated internalizing and externalizing symptoms in this sample relative to normative data. In particular, both boys and girls were more likely to score in the clinical range on the broad-band internalizing and externalizing subscales of the Youth Self-Report and on…
Gender schema and prostate cancer: Veterans' cultural model of masculinity
Coming to terms with disease, chronic illness, and aging may be challenging for men who adhere to an inflexible gender schema. In this study of elder U.S. veterans' ideas about masculinity, we find that prostate cancer patients reaffirm a strongly moral normalizing discourse about "being a man" yet tend to separate roles and values from male physical and sexual attributes. Using systematic data collection methods taken from cognitive anthropology…
Intervening Processes in the Relationship Between Neighborhood Characteristics and Psychological Symptoms in Urban Youth
The present study tested for mediators of the relation between neighborhood risk characteristics and internalizing and externalizing symptoms in a sample of 1,120 low-income urban adolescents. Results indicate that a composite of census tract variables predicted both internalizing and externalizing symptoms in this sample. Stressful life events and exposure to violence mediated the relation between neighborhood risk and aggression, delinquency, a…
Integrating Psychological Research on Girls with Feminist Activism: A Model for Building a Liberation Psychology in the United States
A liberation psychology is needed to bridge the gap between psychology's focus on individual distress and broad social forces that foster such distress. We offer a model for bridging this gap by focusing on a specific area of psychology (psychological research on girls) and a specific social movement (feminist activism). Psychological research on girls and feminist activism share the common goal of improving the lives of girls and women. However,…
A Prospective Comparison of Moderating Relationships among Stressors, Hopelessness, and Internalizing Symptoms in Low-Income Urban Youth with Asthma
Stress, Religious Coping Resources, and Depressive Symptoms in an Urban Adolescent Sample
We surveyed low-income urban adolescents about their total exposure to urban stressors and their use of religious coping resources, specifically in the areas of social support, spiritual support, and community service opportunities provided by their congregations. Additionally, we assessed their current levels of depressive symptomatology. Among females, the relationship between stress and depressive symptoms was moderated by the use of spiritual…
Stress and Somatic Complaints in Low-Income Urban Adolescents
Overcoming exposure to complex stressors: An examination of protective coping mechanisms for low-income urban African American youth
The impact of social support on adolescent coping in the context of urban poverty
Findings suggest that youth require adult support to effectively make use of a range of coping strategies and that avoidance is the sole effective strategy for youth without support. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
Mediating Effects of Parent–Child Relationships and Body Image in the Prediction of Internalizing Symptoms in Urban Youth
Gender differences in early risk factors for adolescent depression among low-income urban children
One component of a model by Nolen-Hoeksema and Girgus, who propose that risk factors for adolescent depression are more common in girls than in boys during childhood, was tested with 85 low-income, urban, African American and Latino kindergarten through fourth grade children who completed inventories of depression, stress, attributional style, gender role, and body image. Endorsing two of three predicted risk factors, girls reported slightly poor…
Adolescent stress and coping: Implications for psychopathology during adolescence
Depression in adolescence.
Taxonomy, assessment, and diagnosis of depression during adolescence
Research on depressive phenomena during adolescence has focused on 3 separate constructs: depressed mood, depressive syndromes, and depressive disorders. Approaches to the assessment, taxonomy, and diagnosis of these 3 conceptualizations are reviewed. Each of the approaches is represented by different assessment tools measuring related but distinct aspects of depressive phenomena. The constructs share a common set of symptoms reflecting negative …
When Mom or Dad has cancer: Markers of psychological distress in cancer patients, spouses, and children
This study assessed anxiety/depression and stress response symptoms in adult cancer patients (n = 117), spouses (n = 76), and their children (n = 110, ages 6 to 30 years old) near the patients' diagnoses to identify family members at risk for psychological maladjustment. Patients' and family members' distress was related to appraisals of the seriousness and stressfulness of the cancer but not related to objective characteristics of the disease. P…
Gender, Body Image, and Depressive Symptoms among Low‐Income African American Adolescents
The present study tested for gender differences in depression and body image among a sample of 6th–8th grade low‐income African American adolescents. Gender differences were found, with adolescent girls more likely to report both depressive symptoms and poor body image. The most frequently endorsed body image concern for both boys and girls was the desire to lose weight, with approximately half of the girls in this sample reporting they would lik…
Protective Factors Affecting Low-Income Urban African American Youth Exposed to Stress
Individual (coping strategies), family (parent/child relationships), and community-based (religious involvement) variables were examined as potential protective factors for 224 low-income urban sixth-through eighth-grade African American adolescents. Each of those variables was examined as a moderator, and analyses were conducted to determine whether the association between stress and psychological symptoms was attenuated for youth endorsing posi…
Stress and Somatic Complaints in Low-Income Urban Adolescents
Integrating Psychological Research on Girls with Feminist Activism: A Model for Building a Liberation Psychology in the United States
A liberation psychology is needed to bridge the gap between psychology's focus on individual distress and broad social forces that foster such distress. We offer a model for bridging this gap by focusing on a specific area of psychology (psychological research on girls) and a specific social movement (feminist activism). Psychological research on girls and feminist activism share the common goal of improving the lives of girls and women. However,…
Stressors and child and adolescent psychopathology: Moving from markers to mechanisms of risk
In the first half of this review, the authors critically evaluate existing research on the association between stressors and symptoms of psychopathology in children and adolescents. This analysis reveals (a) problems with conceptualizations of stress, (b) variability in measurement of stressors, and (c) lack of theory-driven research. To address these problems, the authors propose a general conceptual model of the relation between stressors and c…
Gender schema and prostate cancer: Veterans' cultural model of masculinity
Coming to terms with disease, chronic illness, and aging may be challenging for men who adhere to an inflexible gender schema. In this study of elder U.S. veterans' ideas about masculinity, we find that prostate cancer patients reaffirm a strongly moral normalizing discourse about "being a man" yet tend to separate roles and values from male physical and sexual attributes. Using systematic data collection methods taken from cognitive anthropology…
Stressors and Child and Adolescent Psychopathology: Measurement Issues and Prospective Effects
This article reviews existing research on the association between stressors and symptoms of psychopathology in children and adolescents with a focus on measurement issues and prospective effects. The first half of the article focuses on the measurement of stressors, emphasizing checklists and interviews. Available measures of stressful experiences are reviewed and critiqued. Results of this review reveal both substantial progress (i.e., developme…
Psychological Symptoms Affecting Low-Income Urban Youth
Rates and cooccurrence of internalizing and externalizing syndromes were examined in a sample of 1,520 low-income urban early adolescents. Results indicate higher rates of clinically elevated internalizing and externalizing symptoms in this sample relative to normative data. In particular, both boys and girls were more likely to score in the clinical range on the broad-band internalizing and externalizing subscales of the Youth Self-Report and on…
Gender Differences in Rates of Depressive Symptoms Among Low-Income, Urban, African American Youth: A Test of Two Mediational Hypotheses
Stressors and child and adolescent psychopathology: Evidence of moderating and mediating effects
Gender differences in early risk factors for adolescent depression among low-income urban children
One component of a model by Nolen-Hoeksema and Girgus, who propose that risk factors for adolescent depression are more common in girls than in boys during childhood, was tested with 85 low-income, urban, African American and Latino kindergarten through fourth grade children who completed inventories of depression, stress, attributional style, gender role, and body image. Endorsing two of three predicted risk factors, girls reported slightly poor…
The Roles of Stress and Coping in Explaining Gender Differences in Risk for Psychopathology Among African American Urban Adolescents
This study used self-report symptom inventories administered in school classrooms to examine relations among gender, psychological symptoms, stress, and coping in 1,200 low-income African American urban early adolescents. Girls reported more symptoms than boys, accounted for by higher internalizing symptoms. Boys reported more stress than girls, particularly major events, controllable events, exposure to violence, and sexual stressors. Boys in ga…
Stress, Religious Coping Resources, and Depressive Symptoms in an Urban Adolescent Sample
We surveyed low-income urban adolescents about their total exposure to urban stressors and their use of religious coping resources, specifically in the areas of social support, spiritual support, and community service opportunities provided by their congregations. Additionally, we assessed their current levels of depressive symptomatology. Among females, the relationship between stress and depressive symptoms was moderated by the use of spiritual…
How social and cultural contexts shape the development of coping: Youth in the inner city as an example
Because the patterns of coping shown by children and youth depend on the particular types and levels of stress they face, it is difficult to understand or study coping, or to promote it in interventions, unless coping is conceptualized as embedded within the overall ecology of stressful conditions, including the demands and resources that influence the use, utility, and impact of coping
Posttraumatic growth among children and adolescents: A systematic review
Intervening Processes in the Relationship Between Neighborhood Characteristics and Psychological Symptoms in Urban Youth
The present study tested for mediators of the relation between neighborhood risk characteristics and internalizing and externalizing symptoms in a sample of 1,120 low-income urban adolescents. Results indicate that a composite of census tract variables predicted both internalizing and externalizing symptoms in this sample. Stressful life events and exposure to violence mediated the relation between neighborhood risk and aggression, delinquency, a…
A Prospective Comparison of Moderating Relationships among Stressors, Hopelessness, and Internalizing Symptoms in Low-Income Urban Youth with Asthma
Mediating Effects of Parent–Child Relationships and Body Image in the Prediction of Internalizing Symptoms in Urban Youth
The Costs and Benefits of Active Coping for Adolescents Residing in Urban Poverty
Trauma Intervention in Sub-Saharan African Children: A Systematic Literature Review
Sub-Saharan Africa is a part of the world that is highly affected by a large number of atrocities, causing a myriad of financial, physical health, and mental health consequences. Yet, unfortunately, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), this is also the part of the world that is least served by mental health services. In response, the WHO has created mandates to increase mental health resources and capacity in all countries. Researche…
The impact of social support on adolescent coping in the context of urban poverty
Findings suggest that youth require adult support to effectively make use of a range of coping strategies and that avoidance is the sole effective strategy for youth without support. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
Psychology (27 works) · Clinical Psychology (25 works) · Developmental psychology (20 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (18 works) · Social Psychology (16 works) · Medicine (15 works) · Clinical Psychology (14 works) · Psychiatry (11 works) · Stressor (11 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (10 works)