Christina Kamis
Biographic Data
| ID | 238523 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christina Kamis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christina |
| FAMILY NAME | Kamis |
| SIGNATURE | KAMIS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6652-5454 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Life Course Depressive Symptoms: Do Peer Network Ties Buffer or Amplify?
Childhood adversity affects life course mental health, but patterns may differ across adversity exposures or across social experiences that buffer or amplify risks of adversity. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health ( N = 7,597), we join the life course perspective with social networks and the stress process model to explore the relationships between adverse childhood experiences, peer networks, and depress…
Cumulative neighborhood disadvantage and racial and geographic disparities in epigenetic aging
Living in a socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhood is associated with worse health. However, the biological pathways underpinning this association remain unclear. Using 1388 adults from Researching Epigenetics, Weathering and Residential Disadvantage (REWARD), an ancillary study to the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW), we examined the contribution of cumulative neighborhood disadvantage across the life course to racial and geographi…
How does life course exposure to contextual disadvantage accelerate biological aging? The role of psychological symptoms
Objectives Recent research has found that life course exposure to contextual socioeconomic disadvantage may accelerate biological aging, providing key insight into an upstream driver of health disparities. However, questions about the intervening mechanisms remain. We examine the role of psychological symptoms in the direct and indirect relationships between cumulative neighborhood disadvantage and accelerated biological aging. Methods We leverag…
Gendered Social Chains of Risk: Pathways of Childhood Maltreatment, Adolescent Peer Networks, and Depressive Symptoms
Childhood maltreatment is a serious stressor affecting mental health directly and indirectly through relationships, creating social chains of risk. Adolescent peers are one key relationship in the early life course, but whether peer networks mediate associations between maltreatment and mental health or if such pathways differ by gender remains unclear. We conduct path analysis on survey data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to …
Associations between Configurations of Childhood Adversity and Adult Mental Health Disorder Outcomes
The life course perspective and cumulative inequality theory suggest that childhood adversity, occurring during a sensitive period of the life course, can have long-term consequences for adult mental health and well-being. Yet, the long-term influence of adversity on adult outcomes may depend on both the features of adverse childhood experiences (e.g., the number, type, and co-occurrence of adversities) as well as the outcome assessed. Using late…
Linking sequences of exposure to residential (dis)advantage, individual socioeconomic status, and health
Life course theories suggest that the relationship between residential (dis)advantage and health is best understood by examining the ordering and duration of cumulative exposures across the life course. This study employs sequence and cluster analysis on two decades of residential histories linked to the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin to define typologies of exposure to residential (dis)advantage and use these typologies to predict self-rated …
To make and keep friends: The role of health status in adolescent network tie formation and persistence
Pathways from peers to mental health: Adolescent networks, role attainment, and adult depressive symptoms
Empirical evidence on structural racism as a driver of racial inequities in Covid-19 mortality
Objective This study contributes to the literature by empirically testing the extent to which place-based structural racism is a driver of state-level racial inequalities in COVID-19 mortality using theoretically-informed, innovative approaches. Methods CDC data are used to measure cumulative COVID-19 death rates between January 2020 and August 2022. The outcome measure is a state-level Black-White (B/W) ratio of age-adjusted death rates. We use …
Who Does Cohesion Benefit? Race, Gender, and Peer Networks Associated with Adolescent Depressive Symptoms
Parental Death and Mid-adulthood Depressive Symptoms: The Importance of Life Course Stage and Parent's Gender
Traditional theories of grief suggest that individuals experience short-term increases in depressive symptoms following the death of a parent. However, growing evidence indicates that effects of parental bereavement may persist. Situating the short- and long-term effects of parental death within the life course perspective, we assess the combined influence of time since loss and life course stage at bereavement on mental health for maternal and p…
The Long-Term Impact of Parental Mental Health on Children’s Distress Trajectories in Adulthood
Using six waves of data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (2007-2017) and the Childhood Retrospective Circumstances Study (2014) (N = 3,240), this paper estimates how childhood experiences with parental mental health problems shape trajectories of children’s distress in adulthood. Findings indicate that those who experience poor parental mental health have consistently greater distress than their non-exposed counterparts throughout adulthoo…
Overcrowding and Covid-19 mortality across U.S. counties: Are disparities growing over time
A growing line of research underscores that sociodemographic factors may contribute to disparities in the impact of COVID-19. Further, stages of disease theory suggests that disparities may grow as the pandemic unfolds and more advantaged areas are better able to apply growing knowledge and mitigation strategies. In this paper, we focus on the role of county-level household overcrowding on disparities in COVID-19 mortality in U.S. counties. We ex…
The Long-Term Impact of Childhood Disability on Mental Health Trajectories in Mid- to Late-Life
Findings suggest that childhood disability has long-term implications for life course mental health
Immigration and health among non-Hispanic whites: The impact of arrival cohort and region of birth
The Long Arm of Social Integration: Gender, Adolescent Social Networks, and Adult Depressive Symptom Trajectories
Peer connections in adolescence shape mental health in ways that differ by gender. However, it is unclear whether this association has an enduring impact on life course mental health. Using growth models with survey data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health Waves I-IV, N = 13,821, 51% white, 49% male), we examine how two dimensions of social integration during adolescence-popularity and sociality-predict …
The Long Arm of Social Integration: Gender, Adolescent Social Networks, and Adult Depressive Symptom Trajectories
Peer connections in adolescence shape mental health in ways that differ by gender. However, it is unclear whether this association has an enduring impact on life course mental health. Using growth models with survey data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health Waves I-IV, N = 13,821, 51% white, 49% male), we examine how two dimensions of social integration during adolescence-popularity and sociality-predict …
Immigration and health among non-Hispanic whites: The impact of arrival cohort and region of birth
Parental Death and Mid-adulthood Depressive Symptoms: The Importance of Life Course Stage and Parent's Gender
Traditional theories of grief suggest that individuals experience short-term increases in depressive symptoms following the death of a parent. However, growing evidence indicates that effects of parental bereavement may persist. Situating the short- and long-term effects of parental death within the life course perspective, we assess the combined influence of time since loss and life course stage at bereavement on mental health for maternal and p…
Who Does Cohesion Benefit? Race, Gender, and Peer Networks Associated with Adolescent Depressive Symptoms
Gendered Social Chains of Risk: Pathways of Childhood Maltreatment, Adolescent Peer Networks, and Depressive Symptoms
Childhood maltreatment is a serious stressor affecting mental health directly and indirectly through relationships, creating social chains of risk. Adolescent peers are one key relationship in the early life course, but whether peer networks mediate associations between maltreatment and mental health or if such pathways differ by gender remains unclear. We conduct path analysis on survey data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to …
The Long-Term Impact of Childhood Disability on Mental Health Trajectories in Mid- to Late-Life
Findings suggest that childhood disability has long-term implications for life course mental health
Immigration and health among non-Hispanic whites: The impact of arrival cohort and region of birth
The Long Arm of Social Integration: Gender, Adolescent Social Networks, and Adult Depressive Symptom Trajectories
Peer connections in adolescence shape mental health in ways that differ by gender. However, it is unclear whether this association has an enduring impact on life course mental health. Using growth models with survey data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health Waves I-IV, N = 13,821, 51% white, 49% male), we examine how two dimensions of social integration during adolescence-popularity and sociality-predict …
The Long-Term Impact of Parental Mental Health on Children’s Distress Trajectories in Adulthood
Using six waves of data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (2007-2017) and the Childhood Retrospective Circumstances Study (2014) (N = 3,240), this paper estimates how childhood experiences with parental mental health problems shape trajectories of children’s distress in adulthood. Findings indicate that those who experience poor parental mental health have consistently greater distress than their non-exposed counterparts throughout adulthoo…
Overcrowding and Covid-19 mortality across U.S. counties: Are disparities growing over time
A growing line of research underscores that sociodemographic factors may contribute to disparities in the impact of COVID-19. Further, stages of disease theory suggests that disparities may grow as the pandemic unfolds and more advantaged areas are better able to apply growing knowledge and mitigation strategies. In this paper, we focus on the role of county-level household overcrowding on disparities in COVID-19 mortality in U.S. counties. We ex…
The Long-Term Impact of Childhood Disability on Mental Health Trajectories in Mid- to Late-Life
Findings suggest that childhood disability has long-term implications for life course mental health
Empirical evidence on structural racism as a driver of racial inequities in Covid-19 mortality
Objective This study contributes to the literature by empirically testing the extent to which place-based structural racism is a driver of state-level racial inequalities in COVID-19 mortality using theoretically-informed, innovative approaches. Methods CDC data are used to measure cumulative COVID-19 death rates between January 2020 and August 2022. The outcome measure is a state-level Black-White (B/W) ratio of age-adjusted death rates. We use …
Who Does Cohesion Benefit? Race, Gender, and Peer Networks Associated with Adolescent Depressive Symptoms
Parental Death and Mid-adulthood Depressive Symptoms: The Importance of Life Course Stage and Parent's Gender
Traditional theories of grief suggest that individuals experience short-term increases in depressive symptoms following the death of a parent. However, growing evidence indicates that effects of parental bereavement may persist. Situating the short- and long-term effects of parental death within the life course perspective, we assess the combined influence of time since loss and life course stage at bereavement on mental health for maternal and p…
To make and keep friends: The role of health status in adolescent network tie formation and persistence
Pathways from peers to mental health: Adolescent networks, role attainment, and adult depressive symptoms
Associations between Configurations of Childhood Adversity and Adult Mental Health Disorder Outcomes
The life course perspective and cumulative inequality theory suggest that childhood adversity, occurring during a sensitive period of the life course, can have long-term consequences for adult mental health and well-being. Yet, the long-term influence of adversity on adult outcomes may depend on both the features of adverse childhood experiences (e.g., the number, type, and co-occurrence of adversities) as well as the outcome assessed. Using late…
Linking sequences of exposure to residential (dis)advantage, individual socioeconomic status, and health
Life course theories suggest that the relationship between residential (dis)advantage and health is best understood by examining the ordering and duration of cumulative exposures across the life course. This study employs sequence and cluster analysis on two decades of residential histories linked to the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin to define typologies of exposure to residential (dis)advantage and use these typologies to predict self-rated …
Cumulative neighborhood disadvantage and racial and geographic disparities in epigenetic aging
Living in a socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhood is associated with worse health. However, the biological pathways underpinning this association remain unclear. Using 1388 adults from Researching Epigenetics, Weathering and Residential Disadvantage (REWARD), an ancillary study to the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW), we examined the contribution of cumulative neighborhood disadvantage across the life course to racial and geographi…
How does life course exposure to contextual disadvantage accelerate biological aging? The role of psychological symptoms
Objectives Recent research has found that life course exposure to contextual socioeconomic disadvantage may accelerate biological aging, providing key insight into an upstream driver of health disparities. However, questions about the intervening mechanisms remain. We examine the role of psychological symptoms in the direct and indirect relationships between cumulative neighborhood disadvantage and accelerated biological aging. Methods We leverag…
Gendered Social Chains of Risk: Pathways of Childhood Maltreatment, Adolescent Peer Networks, and Depressive Symptoms
Childhood maltreatment is a serious stressor affecting mental health directly and indirectly through relationships, creating social chains of risk. Adolescent peers are one key relationship in the early life course, but whether peer networks mediate associations between maltreatment and mental health or if such pathways differ by gender remains unclear. We conduct path analysis on survey data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to …
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Life Course Depressive Symptoms: Do Peer Network Ties Buffer or Amplify?
Childhood adversity affects life course mental health, but patterns may differ across adversity exposures or across social experiences that buffer or amplify risks of adversity. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health ( N = 7,597), we join the life course perspective with social networks and the stress process model to explore the relationships between adverse childhood experiences, peer networks, and depress…
Health disparities and outcomes (12 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Mental health (9 works) · Life course approach (8 works) · Psychiatry (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Young adult (5 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (4 works)