Leslie R Brody
Biographic Data
| ID | 196202 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leslie R Brody |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leslie R |
| FAMILY NAME | Brody |
| SIGNATURE | BRODY L R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4622-040X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Advancing the Next Generation of Research on Self-Silencing and Depression: A Narrative Review and Synthesis of Three Decades of Research
Silencing the self theory (Jack, 1991) proposed that women’s traditional gender roles and social inequality foster the formation of specific cognitive/relational schemas that direct their behaviors toward ensuring safe, secure relationships and avoiding conflict and loss. These schemas create a vulnerability to depression by implicitly encouraging women to silence their thoughts and feelings, prioritize others’ needs, and judge themselves through…
Distress and Satisfaction in Women Who Perceive that Their Male Partners Use Pornography: The Roles of Attitude, Religious Commitment and Conservative Religiosity
Qualitative studies suggest that women's attitudes and religiosity have an important role in their experience of their male partners' pornography use, but these factors have not been adequately studied. The present study examined the contributions of perceived frequency of male partners' solitary pornography use (PFREQ), women's attitudes toward their partners' pornography use, conservative religiosity, and religious commitment to women's pornogr…
Feasibility and Acceptability of a Program to Promote Positive Affect, Well-Being and Gender Empowerment in Black Women Living with HIV
The Costs of Silencing the Self and Divided Self in the Context of Physical Abuse, Racial/Ethnic Identity, and Medication Adherence in Women Living with HIV
Abuse, nocturnal stress hormones, and coronary heart disease risk among women with HIV
This study investigated the relationships among abuse, nocturnal levels of cortisol and norepinephrine (NE), and coronary heart disease (CHD) risk as measured by the Framingham risk score among women with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Participants (n = 53) from the Chicago Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS), a longitudinal prospective cohort study initiated in 1994, were enrolled in this study during 2012. At WIHS baseline and annual foll…
Does Marriage Matter? Marital Status, Family Processes, and Psychological Distress Among Latino Men and Women
This study examined the association between marital status and psychological distress among Latinos in the United States, with attention to the impact of gender and family processes (family support, family cohesion, family cultural conflict, and family burden). Analyses were conducted using the National Latino and Asian American Study (NLAAS). The sample was a national randomized stratified probability sample ( N = 2,554). For the entire sample, …
Abuse and Resilience in Relation to Haart Medication Adherence and HIV Viral Load Among Women with HIV in the United States
Abuse is highly prevalent among HIV+ women, leading to behaviors, including lower adherence to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) that result in poor health outcomes. Resilience (functioning competently despite adversity) may buffer the negative effects of abuse. This study investigated how resilience interacted with abuse history in relation to HAART adherence, HIV viral load (VL), and CD4+ cell count among a convenience sample of 138 …
Resilience Moderates the Association Between Childhood Sexual Abuse and Depressive Symptoms Among Women with and At-Risk for HIV
Gender Roles and Mental Health in Women With and at Risk for HIV
Predominantly low-income and African American women from the same community, HIV-infected ( n = 100; HIV+) and uninfected ( n = 42; HIV-), were assessed on reported gender roles in sexual and other close relationships-including levels of self-silencing, unmitigated communion, and sexual relationship power-at a single recent study visit during 2008-2012. Recent gender roles were investigated in relation to depressive symptoms and health-related qu…
Resilience Among Women with HIV: Impact of Silencing the Self and Socioeconomic Factors
Critical Consciousness, Racial and Gender Discrimination, and HIV Disease Markers in African American Women with HIV
Linguistic Predictors of Mindfulness in Written Self-Disclosure Narratives
This study investigated whether relative changes in cognitive, emotion, temporal, and self-reference word frequencies in repeated narratives predicted improvements in mindfulness skills (i.e., nonjudgmental acceptance of present-moment experiences, observing and describing present stimuli, and acting with awareness) subsequent to narrative self-disclosure. Participants wrote repeated narratives of traumatic or daily events over 3 days. Mindfulnes…
The effects of power imbalances and gender on autobiographical memory
This study investigated the effects of power, gender, and gender of partner on content (agency and communal themes) and structure (differentiated and integrated cognitive style) of autobiographical memories for previous power experiences. The results showed that assigned power affected memory content, with helpers including more communal themes in their memories. Gender also affected memory structure, with females structuring memories in a more i…
The Effects of Social Roles and Personality Motives on Autobiographical Memory
Gender, Emotion, and the Family
Ego development, self-perception, and self-complexity in adolescence: A study of female psychiatric inpatients
A study of two groups of female psychiatric inpatients, differing in level of ego development, explored domains of self-perception that best predicted global self-worth and symptom clusters that best predicted second-order factors of self perception. Findings revealed quantitative and qualitative differences in self-complexities, and more positive self-perceptions among the higher ego-level group in scholastic competence, job competence, and beha…
The socialization of gender differences in emotional expression: Display rules, infant temperament, and differentiation
The socialization of gender differences in emotional expression is a complex process, and has some surprising, even counter-intuitive aspects. For example, I will present data to show that even when parents socialize their sons and daughters in the same ways, such as with equal levels of nurturance, their sons and daughters may respond with different patterns of emotional expression. In this chapter, I will focus my discussion of emotion socializ…
Gender, Emotion, and the Family
Gender and Emotion: Beyond Stereotypes
Stereotypes about gender and emotional expression tend to be imprecise and misleading. They fail to acknowledge situational, individual, and cultural variations in males' and females' emotional expressiveness. They also tend to generalize across emotional intensity and frequency, as well as across different modalities of emotional expression, e.g. verbal vs. behavioral modalities. Moreover, they tend to exaggerate the extent of gender differences…
Gender differences in anger and fear as a function of situational context
Gender, gender role identity, and children's reported feelings toward the same and opposite sex
Gender differences in emotional development: A review of theories and research
Theories, data, methodological and conceptual problems concerning the study of gender differences in the development of defenses, emotional expression, recognition, and experiences are reviewed Data indicate gender differences in several areas of emotional functioning, including nonverbal sensitivity, expressiveness, self‐reports of anger, fear, and sadness, the quality of defenses, and cognitive correlates of recognition abilities Studies sugges…
Sex and age variations in the quality and intensity of children's emotional attributions to hypothetical situations
Habituation–dishabituation to speech in the neonate
Habituation-dishabituation to speech in the neonate
Harvard UniversityA counterbalanced between-groups design with repeated measures was used todemonstrate that both male and female neonates would habituate and dishabituateto repeated and novel speech sounds. Twenty-four full-term newborns with a birthweight greater than 2,400 grams and a mean age of 72.2 hours served as subjectsin a head-turning sound-localization task. The results clearly indicated the reliableoccurrence of two basic processes i…
Gender and Emotion: Beyond Stereotypes
Stereotypes about gender and emotional expression tend to be imprecise and misleading. They fail to acknowledge situational, individual, and cultural variations in males' and females' emotional expressiveness. They also tend to generalize across emotional intensity and frequency, as well as across different modalities of emotional expression, e.g. verbal vs. behavioral modalities. Moreover, they tend to exaggerate the extent of gender differences…
Resilience Among Women with HIV: Impact of Silencing the Self and Socioeconomic Factors
Gender differences in anger and fear as a function of situational context
Gender Roles and Mental Health in Women With and at Risk for HIV
Predominantly low-income and African American women from the same community, HIV-infected ( n = 100; HIV+) and uninfected ( n = 42; HIV-), were assessed on reported gender roles in sexual and other close relationships-including levels of self-silencing, unmitigated communion, and sexual relationship power-at a single recent study visit during 2008-2012. Recent gender roles were investigated in relation to depressive symptoms and health-related qu…
Gender, gender role identity, and children's reported feelings toward the same and opposite sex
The Costs of Silencing the Self and Divided Self in the Context of Physical Abuse, Racial/Ethnic Identity, and Medication Adherence in Women Living with HIV
Sex and age variations in the quality and intensity of children's emotional attributions to hypothetical situations
Distress and Satisfaction in Women Who Perceive that Their Male Partners Use Pornography: The Roles of Attitude, Religious Commitment and Conservative Religiosity
Qualitative studies suggest that women's attitudes and religiosity have an important role in their experience of their male partners' pornography use, but these factors have not been adequately studied. The present study examined the contributions of perceived frequency of male partners' solitary pornography use (PFREQ), women's attitudes toward their partners' pornography use, conservative religiosity, and religious commitment to women's pornogr…
Does Marriage Matter? Marital Status, Family Processes, and Psychological Distress Among Latino Men and Women
This study examined the association between marital status and psychological distress among Latinos in the United States, with attention to the impact of gender and family processes (family support, family cohesion, family cultural conflict, and family burden). Analyses were conducted using the National Latino and Asian American Study (NLAAS). The sample was a national randomized stratified probability sample ( N = 2,554). For the entire sample, …
Linguistic Predictors of Mindfulness in Written Self-Disclosure Narratives
This study investigated whether relative changes in cognitive, emotion, temporal, and self-reference word frequencies in repeated narratives predicted improvements in mindfulness skills (i.e., nonjudgmental acceptance of present-moment experiences, observing and describing present stimuli, and acting with awareness) subsequent to narrative self-disclosure. Participants wrote repeated narratives of traumatic or daily events over 3 days. Mindfulnes…
Habituation-dishabituation to speech in the neonate
Harvard UniversityA counterbalanced between-groups design with repeated measures was used todemonstrate that both male and female neonates would habituate and dishabituateto repeated and novel speech sounds. Twenty-four full-term newborns with a birthweight greater than 2,400 grams and a mean age of 72.2 hours served as subjectsin a head-turning sound-localization task. The results clearly indicated the reliableoccurrence of two basic processes i…
Sex and age variations in the quality and intensity of children's emotional attributions to hypothetical situations
Habituation–dishabituation to speech in the neonate
Habituation-dishabituation to speech in the neonate
Harvard UniversityA counterbalanced between-groups design with repeated measures was used todemonstrate that both male and female neonates would habituate and dishabituateto repeated and novel speech sounds. Twenty-four full-term newborns with a birthweight greater than 2,400 grams and a mean age of 72.2 hours served as subjectsin a head-turning sound-localization task. The results clearly indicated the reliableoccurrence of two basic processes i…
Gender differences in emotional development: A review of theories and research
Theories, data, methodological and conceptual problems concerning the study of gender differences in the development of defenses, emotional expression, recognition, and experiences are reviewed Data indicate gender differences in several areas of emotional functioning, including nonverbal sensitivity, expressiveness, self‐reports of anger, fear, and sadness, the quality of defenses, and cognitive correlates of recognition abilities Studies sugges…
Gender, gender role identity, and children's reported feelings toward the same and opposite sex
Gender differences in anger and fear as a function of situational context
Gender and Emotion: Beyond Stereotypes
Stereotypes about gender and emotional expression tend to be imprecise and misleading. They fail to acknowledge situational, individual, and cultural variations in males' and females' emotional expressiveness. They also tend to generalize across emotional intensity and frequency, as well as across different modalities of emotional expression, e.g. verbal vs. behavioral modalities. Moreover, they tend to exaggerate the extent of gender differences…
Gender, Emotion, and the Family
The socialization of gender differences in emotional expression: Display rules, infant temperament, and differentiation
The socialization of gender differences in emotional expression is a complex process, and has some surprising, even counter-intuitive aspects. For example, I will present data to show that even when parents socialize their sons and daughters in the same ways, such as with equal levels of nurturance, their sons and daughters may respond with different patterns of emotional expression. In this chapter, I will focus my discussion of emotion socializ…
Gender, Emotion, and the Family
Ego development, self-perception, and self-complexity in adolescence: A study of female psychiatric inpatients
A study of two groups of female psychiatric inpatients, differing in level of ego development, explored domains of self-perception that best predicted global self-worth and symptom clusters that best predicted second-order factors of self perception. Findings revealed quantitative and qualitative differences in self-complexities, and more positive self-perceptions among the higher ego-level group in scholastic competence, job competence, and beha…
The Effects of Social Roles and Personality Motives on Autobiographical Memory
The effects of power imbalances and gender on autobiographical memory
This study investigated the effects of power, gender, and gender of partner on content (agency and communal themes) and structure (differentiated and integrated cognitive style) of autobiographical memories for previous power experiences. The results showed that assigned power affected memory content, with helpers including more communal themes in their memories. Gender also affected memory structure, with females structuring memories in a more i…
Linguistic Predictors of Mindfulness in Written Self-Disclosure Narratives
This study investigated whether relative changes in cognitive, emotion, temporal, and self-reference word frequencies in repeated narratives predicted improvements in mindfulness skills (i.e., nonjudgmental acceptance of present-moment experiences, observing and describing present stimuli, and acting with awareness) subsequent to narrative self-disclosure. Participants wrote repeated narratives of traumatic or daily events over 3 days. Mindfulnes…
Critical Consciousness, Racial and Gender Discrimination, and HIV Disease Markers in African American Women with HIV
Abuse and Resilience in Relation to Haart Medication Adherence and HIV Viral Load Among Women with HIV in the United States
Abuse is highly prevalent among HIV+ women, leading to behaviors, including lower adherence to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) that result in poor health outcomes. Resilience (functioning competently despite adversity) may buffer the negative effects of abuse. This study investigated how resilience interacted with abuse history in relation to HAART adherence, HIV viral load (VL), and CD4+ cell count among a convenience sample of 138 …
Resilience Moderates the Association Between Childhood Sexual Abuse and Depressive Symptoms Among Women with and At-Risk for HIV
Gender Roles and Mental Health in Women With and at Risk for HIV
Predominantly low-income and African American women from the same community, HIV-infected ( n = 100; HIV+) and uninfected ( n = 42; HIV-), were assessed on reported gender roles in sexual and other close relationships-including levels of self-silencing, unmitigated communion, and sexual relationship power-at a single recent study visit during 2008-2012. Recent gender roles were investigated in relation to depressive symptoms and health-related qu…
Resilience Among Women with HIV: Impact of Silencing the Self and Socioeconomic Factors
Does Marriage Matter? Marital Status, Family Processes, and Psychological Distress Among Latino Men and Women
This study examined the association between marital status and psychological distress among Latinos in the United States, with attention to the impact of gender and family processes (family support, family cohesion, family cultural conflict, and family burden). Analyses were conducted using the National Latino and Asian American Study (NLAAS). The sample was a national randomized stratified probability sample ( N = 2,554). For the entire sample, …
Abuse, nocturnal stress hormones, and coronary heart disease risk among women with HIV
This study investigated the relationships among abuse, nocturnal levels of cortisol and norepinephrine (NE), and coronary heart disease (CHD) risk as measured by the Framingham risk score among women with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Participants (n = 53) from the Chicago Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS), a longitudinal prospective cohort study initiated in 1994, were enrolled in this study during 2012. At WIHS baseline and annual foll…
The Costs of Silencing the Self and Divided Self in the Context of Physical Abuse, Racial/Ethnic Identity, and Medication Adherence in Women Living with HIV
Feasibility and Acceptability of a Program to Promote Positive Affect, Well-Being and Gender Empowerment in Black Women Living with HIV
Distress and Satisfaction in Women Who Perceive that Their Male Partners Use Pornography: The Roles of Attitude, Religious Commitment and Conservative Religiosity
Qualitative studies suggest that women's attitudes and religiosity have an important role in their experience of their male partners' pornography use, but these factors have not been adequately studied. The present study examined the contributions of perceived frequency of male partners' solitary pornography use (PFREQ), women's attitudes toward their partners' pornography use, conservative religiosity, and religious commitment to women's pornogr…
Advancing the Next Generation of Research on Self-Silencing and Depression: A Narrative Review and Synthesis of Three Decades of Research
Silencing the self theory (Jack, 1991) proposed that women’s traditional gender roles and social inequality foster the formation of specific cognitive/relational schemas that direct their behaviors toward ensuring safe, secure relationships and avoiding conflict and loss. These schemas create a vulnerability to depression by implicitly encouraging women to silence their thoughts and feelings, prioritize others’ needs, and judge themselves through…
Psychology (23 works) · Social Psychology (16 works) · Developmental psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Clinical Psychology (11 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (6 works) · Anger (5 works)