Jane Rafferty
Biographic Data
| ID | 126105 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane Rafferty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Rafferty |
| SIGNATURE | RAFFERTY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mississippi State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8625-2687 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Racial socialization across the life course: Insights From Three Countries
Indigenous, migrant, and minoritized racial/ethnic peoples experience pervasive racism. Racism prompts families to prepare children for these experiences through racial socialization. In this paper we analyse data from eleven focus groups with 60 Indigenous and minoritized racial/ethnic older people in the UK, the US, and Aotearoa/NZ to explore how racial discrimination over the life course influences racial socialization. Examining experiences r…
Persistence, Impairment, Disability and Unmet Treatment of Lifetime and 12-Month Anxiety Disorders in Black Men and Women, 50 Years of Age and Older
Objectives: To examine anxiety disorders in aging Black adults. Methods: Using nationally representative data from the National Survey of American Life, we estimated lifetime/12-month prevalence of anxiety disorders in Black men and women, age 50+ ( N = 1561). Disorder-specific persistence and severity, functional impairment, and mental health service utilization were investigated using multivariate regressions. Results: Black men and women who m…
Prevalence, Severity and Burden of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Black Men and Women Across the Adult Life span
Objectives: To examine post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among Black adults in younger, middle, and older ages. Methods: Using nationally representative data from the National Survey of American Life, we estimated lifetime and 12-month prevalence of PTSD in Black men and women ages 18-34, 35-49, and 50+. We determined PTSD persistence and severity by age group, then associations of PTSD with socio-economic status, chronic stress, and racial d…
Mechanisms of Cardiometabolic Health Outcomes and Disparities: What Characteristics of Chronic Stressors are Linked to HPA-Axis Dysregulation
Objectives: Chronic stressors are associated with cardiometabolic health conditions and disparities. Mechanisms linking stressors and health remain poorly understood. Methods: Two cohort studies (Cardiac Rehabilitation And The Experience [CREATE] and Tracking Risk Identification for Adult Diabetes [TRIAD]) with harmonized variables were used to examine relationships between six types of chronic stressors in adulthood and Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Ad…
Self-Regulatory Coping Behaviors and Stress Reactivity: Exploring the Environmental Affordance Model of Health Disparities
Health-harming and health-promoting SRCB are inter-related. Specific behaviors, rather than groupings as health-harming versus -promoting, are related to HPA stress reactivity
Tabulating experiences of racism and racial discrimination across the life course
Indigenous, migrant, racial, and ethnic minority group members report experiences of racism that are lifelong and damaging. To understand the context that shapes these experiences, we developed a tabular approach to analyzing focus group interviews of life course experiences of racism. The approach was grounded in critical realism and narrative analysis. Using these foundations, stories of personal experiences of racism were understood to provide…
Geographic Variation in Reproductive Health Among the Black Population in the US: An Analysis of Nativity, Region of Origin, and Division of Residence
Reverse Engineering Stone Atlatl Dart Points
Reverse engineering provides a way, in the absence of contemporary documentation, to deduce from physical principles the functional traits of artifacts. Constraints on atlatl dart point design serve as the principles to explain the discard of 46 whole points at the Cork site, 22OK746, a Middle Woodland occupation in north-central Mississippi. Because many of the points likely were jam-hafted, the dart–arrow index of Hildebrandt and King, rather t…
Stress, self-regulation, and context: Evidence from the health and retirement survey
Health-related behaviors, such as smoking, alcohol use, exercise, and diet, are major determinants of physical health and health disparities. However, a growing body of experimental research in humans and animals also suggests these behaviors can impact the ways our bodies respond to stress, such that they modulate (that is, serve as a means to self-regulate or cope with) the deleterious impact of stressful experiences on mental health. A handful…
Sourcing galena from a Middle Woodland habitation site in northeast Mississippi
Galena has been recovered mostly in mortuary contexts – burial mounds, burial caves, and associated mortuary facilities – from Middle Woodland sites in the Southeast. Three small pieces of galena from the Cork site (22OK746) in northeast Mississippi came from midden deposits at a site with no mound or burials. Lead isotope analysis was used to source the samples to the Central Missouri-Tri-State-North Arkansas region. Isotopes provide an excellen…
Unearthing the Past to Forge the Future: Colin Mackenzie, the Early Colonial State, and the Comprehensive Survey of India
Cooking Pots as Burial Urns
Large ceramic vessels used as burial urns occasionally have been found in Late Mississippian/protohistoric contexts in Alabama and Mississippi. Ethnohistorical documents suggest that large vessels were used for cooking in a domestic context. A systematic examination of three urns from east-central Mississippi shows multiple uses prior to their final deposition with burials. Vessel size analysis of a temporal sequence of sherds from midden context…
Enhancing Parenting Skills Among Nonresident African American Fathers as a Strategy for Preventing Youth Risky Behaviors
This study evaluated the effectiveness of a theoretically based, culturally specific family intervention designed to prevent youth risky behaviors by influencing the parenting attitudes and behaviors of nonresident African American fathers and the parent–child interactions, intentions to avoid violence, and aggressive behaviors of their preadolescent sons. A sample of 158 intervention and 129 comparison group families participated. ANCOVA results…
The Deadly Politics of Giving: Exchange and Violence at Ajacan, Roanoke, and Jamestown by Seth Mallios
Urban and Rural African American Female Caregivers' Family Reunion Participation
This study examined reunion participation among 256 urban and 265 rural African American female caregivers of older African Americans. A majority of caregivers reported having reunions and reported favorably about their function. Logistic regression results indicated that for urban caregivers, reporting young children, as compared to not reporting young children, and reporting two or more helpers with caregiving, as compared to reporting no other…
Determining Duration at Prehistoric Sites: Short-Term Sedentary Settlement at Josey Farm NE Mississippi
Frequency and duration of site use can be studied through analysis of artifact clusters and by using careful chronological arguments. Four occupations were discerned at the Josey Farm site (220k793) in Oktibbeha County, NE Mississippi: Late Archaic, Middle Mississippian, and early and late Protohistoric periods, ranging in date from 1000 B.C. to A.C. 1650. Two of these represent small, short-term sedentary habitation such as seen elsewhere on upl…
Determining Duration at Prehistoric Sites: Short-Term Sedentary Settlement at Josey Farm, NE Mississippi
Janet Rafferty, Determining Duration at Prehistoric Sites: Short-Term Sedentary Settlement at Josey Farm, NE Mississippi, Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 28, No. 3/4 (Autumn - Winter, 2001), pp. 347-366
Applying Evolutionary Archaeology: A Systematic Approach . Michael J. O'Brien , R. Lee Lyman
Nature Conservation in England and Germany 1900–70: Forerunner of Environmental Protection
Nature plays a significant role in the discussion for and against modernism, which got under way from the late eighteenth century onwards. The rationalists of the Enlightenment considered not only human nature, but also the whole uncultivated realm of nature beyond, that of the animals and plants, as wild and dangerous. It should, according to them, be tamed for the benefit of mankind and put to use. Thus they laid the ideological foundations tha…
Increasing coping resources at work: A field experiment to increase social support, improve work team functioning, and enhance employee mental health
Correlational studies have identified worksite coping resources such as social support and perceived control, and have suggested a positive role for such resources in employee stress processes. However, little experimental evidence has demonstrated the causal role of worksite coping resources in improving mental health, nor how worksite coping resources can be enhanced. This paper reports the results of a field experiment intended to provide such…
Gradual or Step-Wise Change: The Development of Sedentary Settlement Patterns in Northeast Mississippi
Culture historians working on the Archaic and Woodland periods in eastern North America have adopted an essentialist view of settlement-subsistence relations, while processual archaeologists often have employed concepts emphasizing transformational relations to characterize settlement-pattern change. Selectionist theory uses detailed examination of variability in explaining change. Seven variables measured on a sequence of seriated Archaic and Wo…
Cross-cultural comparison of attitudes toward welfare-state programs: Path analysis with log-linear models
The Archaeological Record on Sedentariness: Recognition, Development, and Implications
Sex bias and language
Conservation Archeology at SIU Is More Than Just Archeology
Enhancing Parenting Skills Among Nonresident African American Fathers as a Strategy for Preventing Youth Risky Behaviors
This study evaluated the effectiveness of a theoretically based, culturally specific family intervention designed to prevent youth risky behaviors by influencing the parenting attitudes and behaviors of nonresident African American fathers and the parent–child interactions, intentions to avoid violence, and aggressive behaviors of their preadolescent sons. A sample of 158 intervention and 129 comparison group families participated. ANCOVA results…
Increasing coping resources at work: A field experiment to increase social support, improve work team functioning, and enhance employee mental health
Correlational studies have identified worksite coping resources such as social support and perceived control, and have suggested a positive role for such resources in employee stress processes. However, little experimental evidence has demonstrated the causal role of worksite coping resources in improving mental health, nor how worksite coping resources can be enhanced. This paper reports the results of a field experiment intended to provide such…
Gradual or Step-Wise Change: The Development of Sedentary Settlement Patterns in Northeast Mississippi
Culture historians working on the Archaic and Woodland periods in eastern North America have adopted an essentialist view of settlement-subsistence relations, while processual archaeologists often have employed concepts emphasizing transformational relations to characterize settlement-pattern change. Selectionist theory uses detailed examination of variability in explaining change. Seven variables measured on a sequence of seriated Archaic and Wo…
Cross-cultural comparison of attitudes toward welfare-state programs: Path analysis with log-linear models
Nature Conservation in England and Germany 1900–70: Forerunner of Environmental Protection
Nature plays a significant role in the discussion for and against modernism, which got under way from the late eighteenth century onwards. The rationalists of the Enlightenment considered not only human nature, but also the whole uncultivated realm of nature beyond, that of the animals and plants, as wild and dangerous. It should, according to them, be tamed for the benefit of mankind and put to use. Thus they laid the ideological foundations tha…
Sex bias and language
Persistence, Impairment, Disability and Unmet Treatment of Lifetime and 12-Month Anxiety Disorders in Black Men and Women, 50 Years of Age and Older
Objectives: To examine anxiety disorders in aging Black adults. Methods: Using nationally representative data from the National Survey of American Life, we estimated lifetime/12-month prevalence of anxiety disorders in Black men and women, age 50+ ( N = 1561). Disorder-specific persistence and severity, functional impairment, and mental health service utilization were investigated using multivariate regressions. Results: Black men and women who m…
Prevalence, Severity and Burden of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Black Men and Women Across the Adult Life span
Objectives: To examine post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among Black adults in younger, middle, and older ages. Methods: Using nationally representative data from the National Survey of American Life, we estimated lifetime and 12-month prevalence of PTSD in Black men and women ages 18-34, 35-49, and 50+. We determined PTSD persistence and severity by age group, then associations of PTSD with socio-economic status, chronic stress, and racial d…
Mechanisms of Cardiometabolic Health Outcomes and Disparities: What Characteristics of Chronic Stressors are Linked to HPA-Axis Dysregulation
Objectives: Chronic stressors are associated with cardiometabolic health conditions and disparities. Mechanisms linking stressors and health remain poorly understood. Methods: Two cohort studies (Cardiac Rehabilitation And The Experience [CREATE] and Tracking Risk Identification for Adult Diabetes [TRIAD]) with harmonized variables were used to examine relationships between six types of chronic stressors in adulthood and Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Ad…
Geographic Variation in Reproductive Health Among the Black Population in the US: An Analysis of Nativity, Region of Origin, and Division of Residence
Racial socialization across the life course: Insights From Three Countries
Indigenous, migrant, and minoritized racial/ethnic peoples experience pervasive racism. Racism prompts families to prepare children for these experiences through racial socialization. In this paper we analyse data from eleven focus groups with 60 Indigenous and minoritized racial/ethnic older people in the UK, the US, and Aotearoa/NZ to explore how racial discrimination over the life course influences racial socialization. Examining experiences r…
Self-Regulatory Coping Behaviors and Stress Reactivity: Exploring the Environmental Affordance Model of Health Disparities
Health-harming and health-promoting SRCB are inter-related. Specific behaviors, rather than groupings as health-harming versus -promoting, are related to HPA stress reactivity
Reverse Engineering Stone Atlatl Dart Points
Reverse engineering provides a way, in the absence of contemporary documentation, to deduce from physical principles the functional traits of artifacts. Constraints on atlatl dart point design serve as the principles to explain the discard of 46 whole points at the Cork site, 22OK746, a Middle Woodland occupation in north-central Mississippi. Because many of the points likely were jam-hafted, the dart–arrow index of Hildebrandt and King, rather t…
Sourcing galena from a Middle Woodland habitation site in northeast Mississippi
Galena has been recovered mostly in mortuary contexts – burial mounds, burial caves, and associated mortuary facilities – from Middle Woodland sites in the Southeast. Three small pieces of galena from the Cork site (22OK746) in northeast Mississippi came from midden deposits at a site with no mound or burials. Lead isotope analysis was used to source the samples to the Central Missouri-Tri-State-North Arkansas region. Isotopes provide an excellen…
Unearthing the Past to Forge the Future: Colin Mackenzie, the Early Colonial State, and the Comprehensive Survey of India
Cooking Pots as Burial Urns
Large ceramic vessels used as burial urns occasionally have been found in Late Mississippian/protohistoric contexts in Alabama and Mississippi. Ethnohistorical documents suggest that large vessels were used for cooking in a domestic context. A systematic examination of three urns from east-central Mississippi shows multiple uses prior to their final deposition with burials. Vessel size analysis of a temporal sequence of sherds from midden context…
Changes in Friendship Status as a Function of Reinforcement
Conservation Archeology at SIU Is More Than Just Archeology
Sex bias and language
The Archaeological Record on Sedentariness: Recognition, Development, and Implications
Cross-cultural comparison of attitudes toward welfare-state programs: Path analysis with log-linear models
Gradual or Step-Wise Change: The Development of Sedentary Settlement Patterns in Northeast Mississippi
Culture historians working on the Archaic and Woodland periods in eastern North America have adopted an essentialist view of settlement-subsistence relations, while processual archaeologists often have employed concepts emphasizing transformational relations to characterize settlement-pattern change. Selectionist theory uses detailed examination of variability in explaining change. Seven variables measured on a sequence of seriated Archaic and Wo…
Increasing coping resources at work: A field experiment to increase social support, improve work team functioning, and enhance employee mental health
Correlational studies have identified worksite coping resources such as social support and perceived control, and have suggested a positive role for such resources in employee stress processes. However, little experimental evidence has demonstrated the causal role of worksite coping resources in improving mental health, nor how worksite coping resources can be enhanced. This paper reports the results of a field experiment intended to provide such…
Nature Conservation in England and Germany 1900–70: Forerunner of Environmental Protection
Nature plays a significant role in the discussion for and against modernism, which got under way from the late eighteenth century onwards. The rationalists of the Enlightenment considered not only human nature, but also the whole uncultivated realm of nature beyond, that of the animals and plants, as wild and dangerous. It should, according to them, be tamed for the benefit of mankind and put to use. Thus they laid the ideological foundations tha…
Determining Duration at Prehistoric Sites: Short-Term Sedentary Settlement at Josey Farm NE Mississippi
Frequency and duration of site use can be studied through analysis of artifact clusters and by using careful chronological arguments. Four occupations were discerned at the Josey Farm site (220k793) in Oktibbeha County, NE Mississippi: Late Archaic, Middle Mississippian, and early and late Protohistoric periods, ranging in date from 1000 B.C. to A.C. 1650. Two of these represent small, short-term sedentary habitation such as seen elsewhere on upl…
Determining Duration at Prehistoric Sites: Short-Term Sedentary Settlement at Josey Farm, NE Mississippi
Janet Rafferty, Determining Duration at Prehistoric Sites: Short-Term Sedentary Settlement at Josey Farm, NE Mississippi, Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 28, No. 3/4 (Autumn - Winter, 2001), pp. 347-366
Applying Evolutionary Archaeology: A Systematic Approach . Michael J. O'Brien , R. Lee Lyman
Urban and Rural African American Female Caregivers' Family Reunion Participation
This study examined reunion participation among 256 urban and 265 rural African American female caregivers of older African Americans. A majority of caregivers reported having reunions and reported favorably about their function. Logistic regression results indicated that for urban caregivers, reporting young children, as compared to not reporting young children, and reporting two or more helpers with caregiving, as compared to reporting no other…
The Deadly Politics of Giving: Exchange and Violence at Ajacan, Roanoke, and Jamestown by Seth Mallios
Enhancing Parenting Skills Among Nonresident African American Fathers as a Strategy for Preventing Youth Risky Behaviors
This study evaluated the effectiveness of a theoretically based, culturally specific family intervention designed to prevent youth risky behaviors by influencing the parenting attitudes and behaviors of nonresident African American fathers and the parent–child interactions, intentions to avoid violence, and aggressive behaviors of their preadolescent sons. A sample of 158 intervention and 129 comparison group families participated. ANCOVA results…
Cooking Pots as Burial Urns
Large ceramic vessels used as burial urns occasionally have been found in Late Mississippian/protohistoric contexts in Alabama and Mississippi. Ethnohistorical documents suggest that large vessels were used for cooking in a domestic context. A systematic examination of three urns from east-central Mississippi shows multiple uses prior to their final deposition with burials. Vessel size analysis of a temporal sequence of sherds from midden context…
Stress, self-regulation, and context: Evidence from the health and retirement survey
Health-related behaviors, such as smoking, alcohol use, exercise, and diet, are major determinants of physical health and health disparities. However, a growing body of experimental research in humans and animals also suggests these behaviors can impact the ways our bodies respond to stress, such that they modulate (that is, serve as a means to self-regulate or cope with) the deleterious impact of stressful experiences on mental health. A handful…
Sourcing galena from a Middle Woodland habitation site in northeast Mississippi
Galena has been recovered mostly in mortuary contexts – burial mounds, burial caves, and associated mortuary facilities – from Middle Woodland sites in the Southeast. Three small pieces of galena from the Cork site (22OK746) in northeast Mississippi came from midden deposits at a site with no mound or burials. Lead isotope analysis was used to source the samples to the Central Missouri-Tri-State-North Arkansas region. Isotopes provide an excellen…
Unearthing the Past to Forge the Future: Colin Mackenzie, the Early Colonial State, and the Comprehensive Survey of India
Reverse Engineering Stone Atlatl Dart Points
Reverse engineering provides a way, in the absence of contemporary documentation, to deduce from physical principles the functional traits of artifacts. Constraints on atlatl dart point design serve as the principles to explain the discard of 46 whole points at the Cork site, 22OK746, a Middle Woodland occupation in north-central Mississippi. Because many of the points likely were jam-hafted, the dart–arrow index of Hildebrandt and King, rather t…
Tabulating experiences of racism and racial discrimination across the life course
Indigenous, migrant, racial, and ethnic minority group members report experiences of racism that are lifelong and damaging. To understand the context that shapes these experiences, we developed a tabular approach to analyzing focus group interviews of life course experiences of racism. The approach was grounded in critical realism and narrative analysis. Using these foundations, stories of personal experiences of racism were understood to provide…
Geographic Variation in Reproductive Health Among the Black Population in the US: An Analysis of Nativity, Region of Origin, and Division of Residence
Persistence, Impairment, Disability and Unmet Treatment of Lifetime and 12-Month Anxiety Disorders in Black Men and Women, 50 Years of Age and Older
Objectives: To examine anxiety disorders in aging Black adults. Methods: Using nationally representative data from the National Survey of American Life, we estimated lifetime/12-month prevalence of anxiety disorders in Black men and women, age 50+ ( N = 1561). Disorder-specific persistence and severity, functional impairment, and mental health service utilization were investigated using multivariate regressions. Results: Black men and women who m…
Prevalence, Severity and Burden of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Black Men and Women Across the Adult Life span
Objectives: To examine post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among Black adults in younger, middle, and older ages. Methods: Using nationally representative data from the National Survey of American Life, we estimated lifetime and 12-month prevalence of PTSD in Black men and women ages 18-34, 35-49, and 50+. We determined PTSD persistence and severity by age group, then associations of PTSD with socio-economic status, chronic stress, and racial d…
Mechanisms of Cardiometabolic Health Outcomes and Disparities: What Characteristics of Chronic Stressors are Linked to HPA-Axis Dysregulation
Objectives: Chronic stressors are associated with cardiometabolic health conditions and disparities. Mechanisms linking stressors and health remain poorly understood. Methods: Two cohort studies (Cardiac Rehabilitation And The Experience [CREATE] and Tracking Risk Identification for Adult Diabetes [TRIAD]) with harmonized variables were used to examine relationships between six types of chronic stressors in adulthood and Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Ad…
Self-Regulatory Coping Behaviors and Stress Reactivity: Exploring the Environmental Affordance Model of Health Disparities
Health-harming and health-promoting SRCB are inter-related. Specific behaviors, rather than groupings as health-harming versus -promoting, are related to HPA stress reactivity
Psychology (13 works) · Archaeology (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (9 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Geography (7 works) · History (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Political science (6 works)