Maury Nation
Biographic Data
| ID | 3428009 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maury Nation |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maury |
| FAMILY NAME | Nation |
| SIGNATURE | NATION M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vanderbilt University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 301 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Panarchy as a Framework for Exploring Racial Disparities in School Discipline
Structural and social determinants of inequities in violence risk: A review of indicators
There is disproportionate risk for violence conditioned on inequities due to race, socioeconomic status, gender, and where people live. Consequently, some communities are more vulnerable to violence and its repercussions than other communities. This study aims to share indicators that might be useful for violence prevention researchers interested in measuring structural or social determinants that position communities for differential risk of exp…
Structural marginalization and violence: Advancing research on how community structure contributes to violence and violence prevention
Social and Structural Determinants of Health and Youth Violence: Shifting the Paradigm of Youth Violence Prevention
Addressing the problems of urban education: An ecological systems perspective
Many urban school districts have been beset by a variety of problems including low achievement, high dropout, and disciplinary referral rates. Frequently, efforts to improve urban education are focused on interventions at the student, school, or district level. However, urban scholars recognize that many of these problems are embedded in urban poverty and related issues, including residential racial segregation, housing and food insecurity, and h…
Practices for Improving Secondary School Climate: A Systematic Review of the Research Literature
School climate has received increased attention in education policy and, in response, educators are seeking strategies to improve the climates of their middle and high schools. However, there has been no comprehensive synthesis of the empirical evidence for what works in school climate improvement. This article constitutes a systematic review of programs and practices with empirical support for improving school climate. It defines school climate …
Student Civic Participation and School Climate: Associations at Multiple Levels of the School Ecology
Research suggests that youth civic participation predicts desirable outcomes for engaged individuals, but less is known about the benefits of individual participation that accrue to schools as a whole. The present study investigates whether students’ individual and collective participation predict students’ perceptions of school climate. We examine survey and administrative data from 4,947 students from 11 middle schools. Using multilevel modelin…
Community engagement: Universities’ roles in building communities and strengthening democracy
Many universities are making concerted efforts to engage their communities as part of their effort to strengthen democratic principles and processes. These initiatives have included faculty and students assuming both traditional and novel roles to promote community engagement, with varying degrees of success. This article examines university engagement strategies through the lenses of community psychology and community development to identify cha…
How Do Varying Types of Youth Civic Engagement Relate to Perceptions of School Climate
The purpose of this study was to investigate a) the relations between different types of civic behaviors and middle school students' perceptions of school climate, and b) the compositional effects of student civic engagement on setting-level school climate perceptions. Using a sample of 4,073 students in 11 public schools from a southeastern state, multilevel regression analyses found that, in general, civic behaviors were positively associated w…
The Role Played by the Family in Shaping Early and Middle Adolescent Civic Responsibility
Adopting a multi-informant methodology, the current study examines the relative influence of multiple parental characteristics (civic responsibility, encouragement of civic action, parent-youth closeness) on adolescents’ civic responsibility (local and global). The participants were 384 early and middle adolescents (47.9% male), randomly selected from an Italian city (mean age = 13.6; SD = 1.63), and one parent for each adolescent. The results sh…
Contextualizing the “Behavior Gap”: Student Prosocial Behavior and Racial Composition in Urban Middle Schools
Encouraging student prosocial behavior (PSB) is a challenge for urban middle schools. The issue of student behavior is a racialized one, as Black students generally evince more negative behavioral outcomes than their White peers. This racial “behavior gap” may be conditional on the school environment. This study examines how one element of the school environment—racial composition—affects PSB, drawing on a sample that includes approximately 2,000…
The Longitudinal Effects of Residential Mobility on the Academic Achievement of Urban Elementary and Middle School Students
Residential stability matters to a young person’s educational development, and the present housing crisis has disrupted the residential stability of many families. This study uses latent growth-curve modeling to examine how changing residences affects math and reading achievement from third through eighth grade among a sample of urban elementary and middle-school students. Results show that residential moves in the early elementary years have a n…
Neighborhood Poverty and Adolescent Development
This article provides a comprehensive review of studies conducted over the past decade on the effects of neighborhood and poverty on adolescent normative and nonnormative development. Our review includes a summary of studies examining the associations between neighborhood poverty and adolescent identity development followed by a review of studies addressing both direct and indirect linking among neighborhood poverty to academic achievement as wel…
Levels of Community Engagement in Youth Violence Prevention: The Role of Power in Sustaining Successful University‐Community Partnerships
Previous research indicates that communities can be engaged at various levels in research to reduce youth violence. In this paper, we argue that the method of power sharing among partners is a central factor distinguishing different levels of engagement. Using cases from the Nashville Urban Partnership Academic Center of Excellence, we identify community initiation and community collaboration as distinct approaches to community engaged violence p…
Violent behavior and unfairness in school: Multilevel analysis of Italian schools
This study examines the role of school unfairness in predicting violent behavior among Italian early adolescents. Hierarchical linear modeling was used to examine the relations between individual (demographics, psychosocial and relational characteristics, and perception of procedural and relational school unfairness), and class characteristics (mean school unfairness and socioeconomic status) and students' violent behavior. Data were analyzed usi…
A Community-Based Participatory Approach to Youth Development and School Climate Change: The Alignment Enhanced Services Project
AES offers a method for engaging the stakeholders in addressing critical issues related to youth development and school climate
Social capital, safety concerns, parenting, and early adolescents' antisocial behavior
This study explores the relations between neighborhood social capital (neighbor support and social climate), safety concerns (fear of crime and concern for one's child), parenting (solicitation and support), and adolescent antisocial behavior in a sample of 952 parents (742 mothers) and 588 boys and 559 girls from five middle schools (sixth through eighth grades) in a midsize Italian city. In structural equation models, social capital is strongly…
Parenting and antisocial behavior: A model of the relationship between adolescent self-disclosure, parental closeness, parental control, and adolescent antisocial behavior
This study used data collected from a sample of 840 Italian adolescents (418 boys; M age = 12.58) and their parents (657 mothers; M age = 43.78) to explore the relations between parenting, adolescent self-disclosure, and antisocial behavior. In the hypothesized model, parenting practices (e.g., parental monitoring and control) have direct effects on parental knowledge and antisocial behavior. Parenting style (e.g., parent-child closeness), on the…
Concentrated disadvantage in urban neighborhoods: Psychopolitical validity as a framework for developing psychology‐related solutions
Psychology and community psychologists have been only peripherally involved in studying the sociopolitical factors including power differentials and resource inequities that are at the heart of the connection the between neighborhood conditions and individual well‐being. In this article, the author describes how the concept of psychopolitical validity provides community psychologists a framework for reconceptualizing the research on the effects o…
Bullying in school and adolescent sense of empowerment: An analysis of relationships with parents, friends, and teachers
We explore the development of bullying and victimization in school by investigating 11‐, 13‐ and 15‐year‐olds' sense of interpersonal empowerment with parents, friends and teachers. A national sample of 4386 male and female students from 243 middle and secondary schools in Italy were surveyed. Boys were more likely than girls to be bullies and more likely to have been a bully/victim. Victimization and the likelihood of being both a bully and a vi…
Civic participation and the development of adolescent behavior problems
This study assessed the links between civic participation and adolescent behavior problems (bullying, physical fighting, and alcohol and tobacco use), and whether civic engagement could be a moderator of the negative effects of parent/family detachment. Participants were 7,097 11‐, 13‐, and 15‐year‐olds (48.6% girls) in a region of Northern Italy. Twenty percent were involved in some level of civic participation, the majority of which was faith‐b…
What works in prevention: Principles of effective prevention programs
The high prevalence of drug abuse, delinquency, youth violence, and other youth problems creates a need to identify and disseminate effective prevention strategies. General principles gleaned from effective interventions may help prevention practitioners select, modify, or create more effective programs. Using a review-of-reviews approach across 4 areas (substance abuse, risky sexual behavior, school failure, and juvenile delinquency and violence…
Comprehensive Quality Programming and Accountability: Eight Essential Strategies for Implementing Successful Prevention Programs
Urban neighborhoods and mental health: Psychological contributions to understanding toxicity, resilience, and interventions
Urban neighborhoods and mental health: Psychological contributions to understanding toxicity, resilience, and interventions
The psychological consequences of living in urban neighborhoods are described by using examples related to 3 models of neighborhood characteristics. These models highlight the impact of physical, structural, and social characteristics on various types of mental health outcomes. In addition, the characteristics of individuals and neighborhoods that encourage resilience to negative outcomes are discussed. Finally, examples of how psychology can con…
What works in prevention: Principles of effective prevention programs
The high prevalence of drug abuse, delinquency, youth violence, and other youth problems creates a need to identify and disseminate effective prevention strategies. General principles gleaned from effective interventions may help prevention practitioners select, modify, or create more effective programs. Using a review-of-reviews approach across 4 areas (substance abuse, risky sexual behavior, school failure, and juvenile delinquency and violence…
Neighborhood Poverty and Adolescent Development
This article provides a comprehensive review of studies conducted over the past decade on the effects of neighborhood and poverty on adolescent normative and nonnormative development. Our review includes a summary of studies examining the associations between neighborhood poverty and adolescent identity development followed by a review of studies addressing both direct and indirect linking among neighborhood poverty to academic achievement as wel…
The Longitudinal Effects of Residential Mobility on the Academic Achievement of Urban Elementary and Middle School Students
Residential stability matters to a young person’s educational development, and the present housing crisis has disrupted the residential stability of many families. This study uses latent growth-curve modeling to examine how changing residences affects math and reading achievement from third through eighth grade among a sample of urban elementary and middle-school students. Results show that residential moves in the early elementary years have a n…
Parenting and antisocial behavior: A model of the relationship between adolescent self-disclosure, parental closeness, parental control, and adolescent antisocial behavior
This study used data collected from a sample of 840 Italian adolescents (418 boys; M age = 12.58) and their parents (657 mothers; M age = 43.78) to explore the relations between parenting, adolescent self-disclosure, and antisocial behavior. In the hypothesized model, parenting practices (e.g., parental monitoring and control) have direct effects on parental knowledge and antisocial behavior. Parenting style (e.g., parent-child closeness), on the…
Bullying in school and adolescent sense of empowerment: An analysis of relationships with parents, friends, and teachers
We explore the development of bullying and victimization in school by investigating 11‐, 13‐ and 15‐year‐olds' sense of interpersonal empowerment with parents, friends and teachers. A national sample of 4386 male and female students from 243 middle and secondary schools in Italy were surveyed. Boys were more likely than girls to be bullies and more likely to have been a bully/victim. Victimization and the likelihood of being both a bully and a vi…
Levels of Community Engagement in Youth Violence Prevention: The Role of Power in Sustaining Successful University‐Community Partnerships
Previous research indicates that communities can be engaged at various levels in research to reduce youth violence. In this paper, we argue that the method of power sharing among partners is a central factor distinguishing different levels of engagement. Using cases from the Nashville Urban Partnership Academic Center of Excellence, we identify community initiation and community collaboration as distinct approaches to community engaged violence p…
Social capital, safety concerns, parenting, and early adolescents' antisocial behavior
This study explores the relations between neighborhood social capital (neighbor support and social climate), safety concerns (fear of crime and concern for one's child), parenting (solicitation and support), and adolescent antisocial behavior in a sample of 952 parents (742 mothers) and 588 boys and 559 girls from five middle schools (sixth through eighth grades) in a midsize Italian city. In structural equation models, social capital is strongly…
Civic participation and the development of adolescent behavior problems
This study assessed the links between civic participation and adolescent behavior problems (bullying, physical fighting, and alcohol and tobacco use), and whether civic engagement could be a moderator of the negative effects of parent/family detachment. Participants were 7,097 11‐, 13‐, and 15‐year‐olds (48.6% girls) in a region of Northern Italy. Twenty percent were involved in some level of civic participation, the majority of which was faith‐b…
Social and Structural Determinants of Health and Youth Violence: Shifting the Paradigm of Youth Violence Prevention
The Role Played by the Family in Shaping Early and Middle Adolescent Civic Responsibility
Adopting a multi-informant methodology, the current study examines the relative influence of multiple parental characteristics (civic responsibility, encouragement of civic action, parent-youth closeness) on adolescents’ civic responsibility (local and global). The participants were 384 early and middle adolescents (47.9% male), randomly selected from an Italian city (mean age = 13.6; SD = 1.63), and one parent for each adolescent. The results sh…
Community engagement: Universities’ roles in building communities and strengthening democracy
Many universities are making concerted efforts to engage their communities as part of their effort to strengthen democratic principles and processes. These initiatives have included faculty and students assuming both traditional and novel roles to promote community engagement, with varying degrees of success. This article examines university engagement strategies through the lenses of community psychology and community development to identify cha…
Addressing the problems of urban education: An ecological systems perspective
Many urban school districts have been beset by a variety of problems including low achievement, high dropout, and disciplinary referral rates. Frequently, efforts to improve urban education are focused on interventions at the student, school, or district level. However, urban scholars recognize that many of these problems are embedded in urban poverty and related issues, including residential racial segregation, housing and food insecurity, and h…
Contextualizing the “Behavior Gap”: Student Prosocial Behavior and Racial Composition in Urban Middle Schools
Encouraging student prosocial behavior (PSB) is a challenge for urban middle schools. The issue of student behavior is a racialized one, as Black students generally evince more negative behavioral outcomes than their White peers. This racial “behavior gap” may be conditional on the school environment. This study examines how one element of the school environment—racial composition—affects PSB, drawing on a sample that includes approximately 2,000…
Concentrated disadvantage in urban neighborhoods: Psychopolitical validity as a framework for developing psychology‐related solutions
Psychology and community psychologists have been only peripherally involved in studying the sociopolitical factors including power differentials and resource inequities that are at the heart of the connection the between neighborhood conditions and individual well‐being. In this article, the author describes how the concept of psychopolitical validity provides community psychologists a framework for reconceptualizing the research on the effects o…
Student Civic Participation and School Climate: Associations at Multiple Levels of the School Ecology
Research suggests that youth civic participation predicts desirable outcomes for engaged individuals, but less is known about the benefits of individual participation that accrue to schools as a whole. The present study investigates whether students’ individual and collective participation predict students’ perceptions of school climate. We examine survey and administrative data from 4,947 students from 11 middle schools. Using multilevel modelin…
Violent behavior and unfairness in school: Multilevel analysis of Italian schools
This study examines the role of school unfairness in predicting violent behavior among Italian early adolescents. Hierarchical linear modeling was used to examine the relations between individual (demographics, psychosocial and relational characteristics, and perception of procedural and relational school unfairness), and class characteristics (mean school unfairness and socioeconomic status) and students' violent behavior. Data were analyzed usi…
Panarchy as a Framework for Exploring Racial Disparities in School Discipline
A Community-Based Participatory Approach to Youth Development and School Climate Change: The Alignment Enhanced Services Project
AES offers a method for engaging the stakeholders in addressing critical issues related to youth development and school climate
Comprehensive Quality Programming and Accountability: Eight Essential Strategies for Implementing Successful Prevention Programs
Urban neighborhoods and mental health: Psychological contributions to understanding toxicity, resilience, and interventions
Urban neighborhoods and mental health: Psychological contributions to understanding toxicity, resilience, and interventions
The psychological consequences of living in urban neighborhoods are described by using examples related to 3 models of neighborhood characteristics. These models highlight the impact of physical, structural, and social characteristics on various types of mental health outcomes. In addition, the characteristics of individuals and neighborhoods that encourage resilience to negative outcomes are discussed. Finally, examples of how psychology can con…
What works in prevention: Principles of effective prevention programs
The high prevalence of drug abuse, delinquency, youth violence, and other youth problems creates a need to identify and disseminate effective prevention strategies. General principles gleaned from effective interventions may help prevention practitioners select, modify, or create more effective programs. Using a review-of-reviews approach across 4 areas (substance abuse, risky sexual behavior, school failure, and juvenile delinquency and violence…
Bullying in school and adolescent sense of empowerment: An analysis of relationships with parents, friends, and teachers
We explore the development of bullying and victimization in school by investigating 11‐, 13‐ and 15‐year‐olds' sense of interpersonal empowerment with parents, friends and teachers. A national sample of 4386 male and female students from 243 middle and secondary schools in Italy were surveyed. Boys were more likely than girls to be bullies and more likely to have been a bully/victim. Victimization and the likelihood of being both a bully and a vi…
Civic participation and the development of adolescent behavior problems
This study assessed the links between civic participation and adolescent behavior problems (bullying, physical fighting, and alcohol and tobacco use), and whether civic engagement could be a moderator of the negative effects of parent/family detachment. Participants were 7,097 11‐, 13‐, and 15‐year‐olds (48.6% girls) in a region of Northern Italy. Twenty percent were involved in some level of civic participation, the majority of which was faith‐b…
Concentrated disadvantage in urban neighborhoods: Psychopolitical validity as a framework for developing psychology‐related solutions
Psychology and community psychologists have been only peripherally involved in studying the sociopolitical factors including power differentials and resource inequities that are at the heart of the connection the between neighborhood conditions and individual well‐being. In this article, the author describes how the concept of psychopolitical validity provides community psychologists a framework for reconceptualizing the research on the effects o…
Parenting and antisocial behavior: A model of the relationship between adolescent self-disclosure, parental closeness, parental control, and adolescent antisocial behavior
This study used data collected from a sample of 840 Italian adolescents (418 boys; M age = 12.58) and their parents (657 mothers; M age = 43.78) to explore the relations between parenting, adolescent self-disclosure, and antisocial behavior. In the hypothesized model, parenting practices (e.g., parental monitoring and control) have direct effects on parental knowledge and antisocial behavior. Parenting style (e.g., parent-child closeness), on the…
A Community-Based Participatory Approach to Youth Development and School Climate Change: The Alignment Enhanced Services Project
AES offers a method for engaging the stakeholders in addressing critical issues related to youth development and school climate
Social capital, safety concerns, parenting, and early adolescents' antisocial behavior
This study explores the relations between neighborhood social capital (neighbor support and social climate), safety concerns (fear of crime and concern for one's child), parenting (solicitation and support), and adolescent antisocial behavior in a sample of 952 parents (742 mothers) and 588 boys and 559 girls from five middle schools (sixth through eighth grades) in a midsize Italian city. In structural equation models, social capital is strongly…
Neighborhood Poverty and Adolescent Development
This article provides a comprehensive review of studies conducted over the past decade on the effects of neighborhood and poverty on adolescent normative and nonnormative development. Our review includes a summary of studies examining the associations between neighborhood poverty and adolescent identity development followed by a review of studies addressing both direct and indirect linking among neighborhood poverty to academic achievement as wel…
Levels of Community Engagement in Youth Violence Prevention: The Role of Power in Sustaining Successful University‐Community Partnerships
Previous research indicates that communities can be engaged at various levels in research to reduce youth violence. In this paper, we argue that the method of power sharing among partners is a central factor distinguishing different levels of engagement. Using cases from the Nashville Urban Partnership Academic Center of Excellence, we identify community initiation and community collaboration as distinct approaches to community engaged violence p…
Violent behavior and unfairness in school: Multilevel analysis of Italian schools
This study examines the role of school unfairness in predicting violent behavior among Italian early adolescents. Hierarchical linear modeling was used to examine the relations between individual (demographics, psychosocial and relational characteristics, and perception of procedural and relational school unfairness), and class characteristics (mean school unfairness and socioeconomic status) and students' violent behavior. Data were analyzed usi…
The Longitudinal Effects of Residential Mobility on the Academic Achievement of Urban Elementary and Middle School Students
Residential stability matters to a young person’s educational development, and the present housing crisis has disrupted the residential stability of many families. This study uses latent growth-curve modeling to examine how changing residences affects math and reading achievement from third through eighth grade among a sample of urban elementary and middle-school students. Results show that residential moves in the early elementary years have a n…
How Do Varying Types of Youth Civic Engagement Relate to Perceptions of School Climate
The purpose of this study was to investigate a) the relations between different types of civic behaviors and middle school students' perceptions of school climate, and b) the compositional effects of student civic engagement on setting-level school climate perceptions. Using a sample of 4,073 students in 11 public schools from a southeastern state, multilevel regression analyses found that, in general, civic behaviors were positively associated w…
The Role Played by the Family in Shaping Early and Middle Adolescent Civic Responsibility
Adopting a multi-informant methodology, the current study examines the relative influence of multiple parental characteristics (civic responsibility, encouragement of civic action, parent-youth closeness) on adolescents’ civic responsibility (local and global). The participants were 384 early and middle adolescents (47.9% male), randomly selected from an Italian city (mean age = 13.6; SD = 1.63), and one parent for each adolescent. The results sh…
Contextualizing the “Behavior Gap”: Student Prosocial Behavior and Racial Composition in Urban Middle Schools
Encouraging student prosocial behavior (PSB) is a challenge for urban middle schools. The issue of student behavior is a racialized one, as Black students generally evince more negative behavioral outcomes than their White peers. This racial “behavior gap” may be conditional on the school environment. This study examines how one element of the school environment—racial composition—affects PSB, drawing on a sample that includes approximately 2,000…
Practices for Improving Secondary School Climate: A Systematic Review of the Research Literature
School climate has received increased attention in education policy and, in response, educators are seeking strategies to improve the climates of their middle and high schools. However, there has been no comprehensive synthesis of the empirical evidence for what works in school climate improvement. This article constitutes a systematic review of programs and practices with empirical support for improving school climate. It defines school climate …
Student Civic Participation and School Climate: Associations at Multiple Levels of the School Ecology
Research suggests that youth civic participation predicts desirable outcomes for engaged individuals, but less is known about the benefits of individual participation that accrue to schools as a whole. The present study investigates whether students’ individual and collective participation predict students’ perceptions of school climate. We examine survey and administrative data from 4,947 students from 11 middle schools. Using multilevel modelin…
Community engagement: Universities’ roles in building communities and strengthening democracy
Many universities are making concerted efforts to engage their communities as part of their effort to strengthen democratic principles and processes. These initiatives have included faculty and students assuming both traditional and novel roles to promote community engagement, with varying degrees of success. This article examines university engagement strategies through the lenses of community psychology and community development to identify cha…
Addressing the problems of urban education: An ecological systems perspective
Many urban school districts have been beset by a variety of problems including low achievement, high dropout, and disciplinary referral rates. Frequently, efforts to improve urban education are focused on interventions at the student, school, or district level. However, urban scholars recognize that many of these problems are embedded in urban poverty and related issues, including residential racial segregation, housing and food insecurity, and h…
Structural and social determinants of inequities in violence risk: A review of indicators
There is disproportionate risk for violence conditioned on inequities due to race, socioeconomic status, gender, and where people live. Consequently, some communities are more vulnerable to violence and its repercussions than other communities. This study aims to share indicators that might be useful for violence prevention researchers interested in measuring structural or social determinants that position communities for differential risk of exp…
Structural marginalization and violence: Advancing research on how community structure contributes to violence and violence prevention
Social and Structural Determinants of Health and Youth Violence: Shifting the Paradigm of Youth Violence Prevention
Panarchy as a Framework for Exploring Racial Disparities in School Discipline
Psychology (19 works) · Political science (13 works) · Youth Development and Social Support (10 works) · Community Health and Development (9 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression (8 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (7 works) · Sociology (7 works)