Ellice Kang
Biographic Data
| ID | 234129 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ellice Kang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ellice |
| FAMILY NAME | Kang |
| SIGNATURE | KANG E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Howard University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7857-2656 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Cultural formation and determinants of HIV stigma among a minority group in Southwest China
Deeply ingrained cultural beliefs shape how HIV is framed and stigmatized, particularly among rural minoritized communities such as the Yi-Nuosu of Liangshan, China. This parallel-convergent mixed-methods study investigated the sociocultural formation and determinants of HIV-related stigma among Yi-Nuosu minorities. We conducted qualitative interviews with 19 Yi-Nuosu participants to understand local beliefs about the HIV-illness course and perce…
Place Security and Mental Health
Reclaiming humanity together
After the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, many grassroots initiatives in Rwanda have focused on reconciliation. The current study examined the relationships between survivor readiness to reconcile and génocidaire shame, guilt, and self‐forgiveness and survivor traumatic stress, desire for outgroup interaction, and beliefs about outgroup members. Survivors ( n = 45) and their direct perpetrators ( n = 46) who participated as a dyad in a local pea…
Stepping in and up to meet community needs
The current study uplifts the efforts of community‐based college access and success programs (CAS) to support the college preparation, matriculation, and persistence of underserved students during COVID‐19. Fifty‐eight CAS across the United States completed an online survey that gathered information about organizational demographics, COVID‐19 challenges, responses to challenges, and communication with constituents and funding needs during COVID‐1…
Livelihood intervention and mental well-being among women living with HIV in Delhi
Poverty-alleviation programmes aimed to improved mental well-being among persons living with HIV (PLWH) in low and middle income countries have underscored the importance of understanding how and why such programmes work. We present findings from a six-month ethnographic process evaluation of Kiran, an economic livelihood programme locally designed to improve mental well-being among women affected by HIV in Delhi, India. In addition to benefits o…
Integrating Cultural Beliefs About Illness in Counseling With Refugees
Researchers have suggested that people with refugee status have heightened rates of western-defined psychiatric symptoms. Following this evidence, treatments have been adapted with the intent to foster culturally competent service provision for members of refugee communities. Absent in this research is attention to how clinicians address diverse beliefs about illness constructed within the cultures of refugee individuals. As such, even adapted tr…
Navigating Stigma Trajectory and Mental Health Among Young Adults Living with Perinatal HIV in New York City
Is outgroup prejudice passed down generationally in Rwanda after the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi
Ethnoracial patterns of violence in Guatemala
The current study empirically tests the relationship between homicide rates and the population of indigenous Mayans at the municipal level in Guatemala. Using data from the most recent Guatemalan Census (2018) and independently aggregated national police data on homicides, we also propose models of possible pathways for the relationship between the ethnoracial composition of municipal population and homicide rates. Due to consistent non-normal di…
A choir or cacophony? Sample sizes and quality of conveying participants' voices in phenomenological research
Misunderstandings about qualitative methods, whether phenomenological or otherwise, are prevalent in social science research. Such misunderstandings leave researchers, reviewers, and editors less equipped to conduct or evaluate this method. Evaluation of phenomenology is especially complicated given the different variants that exist and the need for flexibility within these studies. Methodologists have created guides for conducting specific varia…
If we build it, they will come
A Winding Road to Peace Building
This longitudinal study examined outcomes of a local peace-building intervention that applied principles of intergroup contact to promote reconciliation between génocidaires and survivors whom they have directly harmed during the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Individual interviews were conducted with 46 génocidaires and 45 survivors whom they have directly harmed during the genocide at 7-time points over the course of their 22-month …
Conservative protestants and engagement with sexual minorities living with HIV
Conservative Protestants in the United States have historically distanced themselves from gay men, lesbians, and transgender persons living with HIV based largely on fears of moral contamination which are propagated by disgust. We argue how disgust can implicitly reify social divides that engender condemnation and subjugation. However, we will propose that it is achievable to safeguard the traditional tenets of sexuality and gender among conserva…
Caregiver perceptions of environment moderate relationship between neighborhood characteristics and language skills among youth living with perinatal HIV and uninfected youth exposed to HIV in New Yor…
Despite the increased recognition of how neighborhood conditions bear on cognitive and academic outcomes, no studies have examined the influences of objective and subjective neighborhood indices on specific areas of cognitive functioning among youth living with perinatal HIV (PHIV). In the United States (US), this is of particular concern as HIV has disproportionately affected African American youth living in economically disadvantaged and racial…
Development and Initial Validation of the Therapist Hope for Clients Scale
Hope is a critical component of therapeutic change. However, hope does not singularly emanate from clients. Therapists’ hope for their clients represents a specific therapeutic factor that may impact clinical outcomes. Currently no measure exists to assess the uniqueness of therapist’s hope in therapy with specific clients. Our purpose in this study was to develop and initially validate the Therapist Hope for Clients Scale (THCS). Participants ( …
Poverty indicators and mental health functioning among adults living with HIV in Delhi, India
Poor mental health functioning among persons living with HIV (PLHIV) has gained considerable attention particularly in low-income countries that disproportionately carry the global HIV/AIDS burden. Fewer studies, however, have examined the relationship between poverty indicators and mental health among PHLIV in India. Based on this cross-sectional study of 196 HIV-seropositive adults who received medical services at Shalom AIDS Project in Delhi, …
Exposure to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and survivor attitudes toward génocidaires
This cross-sectional study examined predictors of attitudes and relatedness toward génocidaires among survivors of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.A survey of 448 eligible adults in selected households from 5 districts in Rwanda was conducted in 2013-2014.Structural equation modeling (SEM) techniques were used to test the theorized relationships among age, gender, exposure to genocide events, stressors attributed to the genocide, traumatic stress, an…
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (hiv) Stigma
Recent scholarship has conceptually reframed hiv -related stigma as a social rather than individual process that perpetuates and sustains relations of power that devalues persons living with hiv ( plhiv ). If hiv -stigma is perpetuated by social relationships that are embedded in socio-economic and political structures that insidiously exclude plhiv , and less by ‘spoiled’ individual identity, how does the widely referenced doctrine of the imago …
Faith-Based Hiv Care and Prevention in Chinese Immigrant Communities
Ethnic churches attended by first generation Chinese immigrants are uniquely positioned to address emerging HIV prevention and care needs within the Chinese community at-large. Efforts to develop faith-based HIV programs necessitate identifying how HIV intersects with the sinicization of Christianity within Chinese churches. This article will review the process of contextualizing HIV within theological and cultural frameworks that are meaningful …
Civic/sanctuary orientation and HIV involvement among Chinese immigrant religious institutions in New York City
Using data from a study of Chinese immigrant religious institutions in New York City (primarily Christian and Buddhist), this paper explores why some religious institutions are more inclined than others to be involved in HIV-related work. Although numerous factors are likely to play a role, we focus on organisations' differing views on social engagement as an explanatory factor. We hypothesise that religious institutions that value social engagem…
Disadvantaged neighborhood influences on depression and anxiety in youth with perinatally acquired human immunodeficiency virus
Children living with perinatal HIV illness (PHIV+) disproportionately reside in disadvantaged neighborhoods and contend with persistent mental health challenges. This study examined the influences of disadvantaged residential neighborhood on anxiety and depression, and potential resources that buffer against internalizing problems when youths were exposed to neighborhood stressors. Multilevel analysis of 196 PHIV+ and 129 perinatally HIV‐exposed …
A Prospective Study of the Onset of Sexual Behavior and Sexual Risk in Youth Perinatally Infected with HIV
Perinatally HIV-infected (PHIV+) youth are surviving into adolescence and young adulthood. Understanding the sexual development of PHIV+ youth is vital to providing them with developmentally appropriate HIV-prevention programs. Using pooled data (N = 417) from two longitudinal studies focused on HIV among youth (51% female; 39% HIV+) and their caregivers (92% female; 46% HIV+), the rate of sexual onset during adolescence across four youth-caregiv…
Multiple Dimensions of HIV Stigma and Psychological Distress Among Asians and Pacific Islanders Living With HIV Illness
The “Demon Plague” and Access to Care Among Asian Undocumented Immigrants Living with HIV Disease in New York City
A choir or cacophony? Sample sizes and quality of conveying participants' voices in phenomenological research
Misunderstandings about qualitative methods, whether phenomenological or otherwise, are prevalent in social science research. Such misunderstandings leave researchers, reviewers, and editors less equipped to conduct or evaluate this method. Evaluation of phenomenology is especially complicated given the different variants that exist and the need for flexibility within these studies. Methodologists have created guides for conducting specific varia…
A Winding Road to Peace Building
This longitudinal study examined outcomes of a local peace-building intervention that applied principles of intergroup contact to promote reconciliation between génocidaires and survivors whom they have directly harmed during the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Individual interviews were conducted with 46 génocidaires and 45 survivors whom they have directly harmed during the genocide at 7-time points over the course of their 22-month …
Exposure to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and survivor attitudes toward génocidaires
This cross-sectional study examined predictors of attitudes and relatedness toward génocidaires among survivors of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.A survey of 448 eligible adults in selected households from 5 districts in Rwanda was conducted in 2013-2014.Structural equation modeling (SEM) techniques were used to test the theorized relationships among age, gender, exposure to genocide events, stressors attributed to the genocide, traumatic stress, an…
A Prospective Study of the Onset of Sexual Behavior and Sexual Risk in Youth Perinatally Infected with HIV
Perinatally HIV-infected (PHIV+) youth are surviving into adolescence and young adulthood. Understanding the sexual development of PHIV+ youth is vital to providing them with developmentally appropriate HIV-prevention programs. Using pooled data (N = 417) from two longitudinal studies focused on HIV among youth (51% female; 39% HIV+) and their caregivers (92% female; 46% HIV+), the rate of sexual onset during adolescence across four youth-caregiv…
Disadvantaged neighborhood influences on depression and anxiety in youth with perinatally acquired human immunodeficiency virus
Children living with perinatal HIV illness (PHIV+) disproportionately reside in disadvantaged neighborhoods and contend with persistent mental health challenges. This study examined the influences of disadvantaged residential neighborhood on anxiety and depression, and potential resources that buffer against internalizing problems when youths were exposed to neighborhood stressors. Multilevel analysis of 196 PHIV+ and 129 perinatally HIV‐exposed …
Is outgroup prejudice passed down generationally in Rwanda after the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi
Ethnoracial patterns of violence in Guatemala
The current study empirically tests the relationship between homicide rates and the population of indigenous Mayans at the municipal level in Guatemala. Using data from the most recent Guatemalan Census (2018) and independently aggregated national police data on homicides, we also propose models of possible pathways for the relationship between the ethnoracial composition of municipal population and homicide rates. Due to consistent non-normal di…
If we build it, they will come
Development and Initial Validation of the Therapist Hope for Clients Scale
Hope is a critical component of therapeutic change. However, hope does not singularly emanate from clients. Therapists’ hope for their clients represents a specific therapeutic factor that may impact clinical outcomes. Currently no measure exists to assess the uniqueness of therapist’s hope in therapy with specific clients. Our purpose in this study was to develop and initially validate the Therapist Hope for Clients Scale (THCS). Participants ( …
The “Demon Plague” and Access to Care Among Asian Undocumented Immigrants Living with HIV Disease in New York City
Multiple Dimensions of HIV Stigma and Psychological Distress Among Asians and Pacific Islanders Living With HIV Illness
Faith-Based Hiv Care and Prevention in Chinese Immigrant Communities
Ethnic churches attended by first generation Chinese immigrants are uniquely positioned to address emerging HIV prevention and care needs within the Chinese community at-large. Efforts to develop faith-based HIV programs necessitate identifying how HIV intersects with the sinicization of Christianity within Chinese churches. This article will review the process of contextualizing HIV within theological and cultural frameworks that are meaningful …
Civic/sanctuary orientation and HIV involvement among Chinese immigrant religious institutions in New York City
Using data from a study of Chinese immigrant religious institutions in New York City (primarily Christian and Buddhist), this paper explores why some religious institutions are more inclined than others to be involved in HIV-related work. Although numerous factors are likely to play a role, we focus on organisations' differing views on social engagement as an explanatory factor. We hypothesise that religious institutions that value social engagem…
Disadvantaged neighborhood influences on depression and anxiety in youth with perinatally acquired human immunodeficiency virus
Children living with perinatal HIV illness (PHIV+) disproportionately reside in disadvantaged neighborhoods and contend with persistent mental health challenges. This study examined the influences of disadvantaged residential neighborhood on anxiety and depression, and potential resources that buffer against internalizing problems when youths were exposed to neighborhood stressors. Multilevel analysis of 196 PHIV+ and 129 perinatally HIV‐exposed …
A Prospective Study of the Onset of Sexual Behavior and Sexual Risk in Youth Perinatally Infected with HIV
Perinatally HIV-infected (PHIV+) youth are surviving into adolescence and young adulthood. Understanding the sexual development of PHIV+ youth is vital to providing them with developmentally appropriate HIV-prevention programs. Using pooled data (N = 417) from two longitudinal studies focused on HIV among youth (51% female; 39% HIV+) and their caregivers (92% female; 46% HIV+), the rate of sexual onset during adolescence across four youth-caregiv…
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (hiv) Stigma
Recent scholarship has conceptually reframed hiv -related stigma as a social rather than individual process that perpetuates and sustains relations of power that devalues persons living with hiv ( plhiv ). If hiv -stigma is perpetuated by social relationships that are embedded in socio-economic and political structures that insidiously exclude plhiv , and less by ‘spoiled’ individual identity, how does the widely referenced doctrine of the imago …
Poverty indicators and mental health functioning among adults living with HIV in Delhi, India
Poor mental health functioning among persons living with HIV (PLHIV) has gained considerable attention particularly in low-income countries that disproportionately carry the global HIV/AIDS burden. Fewer studies, however, have examined the relationship between poverty indicators and mental health among PHLIV in India. Based on this cross-sectional study of 196 HIV-seropositive adults who received medical services at Shalom AIDS Project in Delhi, …
Exposure to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and survivor attitudes toward génocidaires
This cross-sectional study examined predictors of attitudes and relatedness toward génocidaires among survivors of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.A survey of 448 eligible adults in selected households from 5 districts in Rwanda was conducted in 2013-2014.Structural equation modeling (SEM) techniques were used to test the theorized relationships among age, gender, exposure to genocide events, stressors attributed to the genocide, traumatic stress, an…
Conservative protestants and engagement with sexual minorities living with HIV
Conservative Protestants in the United States have historically distanced themselves from gay men, lesbians, and transgender persons living with HIV based largely on fears of moral contamination which are propagated by disgust. We argue how disgust can implicitly reify social divides that engender condemnation and subjugation. However, we will propose that it is achievable to safeguard the traditional tenets of sexuality and gender among conserva…
Caregiver perceptions of environment moderate relationship between neighborhood characteristics and language skills among youth living with perinatal HIV and uninfected youth exposed to HIV in New Yor…
Despite the increased recognition of how neighborhood conditions bear on cognitive and academic outcomes, no studies have examined the influences of objective and subjective neighborhood indices on specific areas of cognitive functioning among youth living with perinatal HIV (PHIV). In the United States (US), this is of particular concern as HIV has disproportionately affected African American youth living in economically disadvantaged and racial…
Development and Initial Validation of the Therapist Hope for Clients Scale
Hope is a critical component of therapeutic change. However, hope does not singularly emanate from clients. Therapists’ hope for their clients represents a specific therapeutic factor that may impact clinical outcomes. Currently no measure exists to assess the uniqueness of therapist’s hope in therapy with specific clients. Our purpose in this study was to develop and initially validate the Therapist Hope for Clients Scale (THCS). Participants ( …
A Winding Road to Peace Building
This longitudinal study examined outcomes of a local peace-building intervention that applied principles of intergroup contact to promote reconciliation between génocidaires and survivors whom they have directly harmed during the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Individual interviews were conducted with 46 génocidaires and 45 survivors whom they have directly harmed during the genocide at 7-time points over the course of their 22-month …
Livelihood intervention and mental well-being among women living with HIV in Delhi
Poverty-alleviation programmes aimed to improved mental well-being among persons living with HIV (PLWH) in low and middle income countries have underscored the importance of understanding how and why such programmes work. We present findings from a six-month ethnographic process evaluation of Kiran, an economic livelihood programme locally designed to improve mental well-being among women affected by HIV in Delhi, India. In addition to benefits o…
Integrating Cultural Beliefs About Illness in Counseling With Refugees
Researchers have suggested that people with refugee status have heightened rates of western-defined psychiatric symptoms. Following this evidence, treatments have been adapted with the intent to foster culturally competent service provision for members of refugee communities. Absent in this research is attention to how clinicians address diverse beliefs about illness constructed within the cultures of refugee individuals. As such, even adapted tr…
Navigating Stigma Trajectory and Mental Health Among Young Adults Living with Perinatal HIV in New York City
Is outgroup prejudice passed down generationally in Rwanda after the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi
Ethnoracial patterns of violence in Guatemala
The current study empirically tests the relationship between homicide rates and the population of indigenous Mayans at the municipal level in Guatemala. Using data from the most recent Guatemalan Census (2018) and independently aggregated national police data on homicides, we also propose models of possible pathways for the relationship between the ethnoracial composition of municipal population and homicide rates. Due to consistent non-normal di…
A choir or cacophony? Sample sizes and quality of conveying participants' voices in phenomenological research
Misunderstandings about qualitative methods, whether phenomenological or otherwise, are prevalent in social science research. Such misunderstandings leave researchers, reviewers, and editors less equipped to conduct or evaluate this method. Evaluation of phenomenology is especially complicated given the different variants that exist and the need for flexibility within these studies. Methodologists have created guides for conducting specific varia…
If we build it, they will come
Reclaiming humanity together
After the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, many grassroots initiatives in Rwanda have focused on reconciliation. The current study examined the relationships between survivor readiness to reconcile and génocidaire shame, guilt, and self‐forgiveness and survivor traumatic stress, desire for outgroup interaction, and beliefs about outgroup members. Survivors ( n = 45) and their direct perpetrators ( n = 46) who participated as a dyad in a local pea…
Stepping in and up to meet community needs
The current study uplifts the efforts of community‐based college access and success programs (CAS) to support the college preparation, matriculation, and persistence of underserved students during COVID‐19. Fifty‐eight CAS across the United States completed an online survey that gathered information about organizational demographics, COVID‐19 challenges, responses to challenges, and communication with constituents and funding needs during COVID‐1…
Place Security and Mental Health
Cultural formation and determinants of HIV stigma among a minority group in Southwest China
Deeply ingrained cultural beliefs shape how HIV is framed and stigmatized, particularly among rural minoritized communities such as the Yi-Nuosu of Liangshan, China. This parallel-convergent mixed-methods study investigated the sociocultural formation and determinants of HIV-related stigma among Yi-Nuosu minorities. We conducted qualitative interviews with 19 Yi-Nuosu participants to understand local beliefs about the HIV-illness course and perce…
Psychology (18 works) · Medicine (15 works) · Political science (11 works) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (10 works) · Psychiatry (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (7 works) · Mental health (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works)