Benita Jackson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3595030 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benita Jackson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benita |
| FAMILY NAME | Jackson |
| SIGNATURE | JACKSON B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Smith College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6313-0812 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Neighborhood Threat of Eviction over Time and Risk of Preterm Birth in Black American Women
Everyday Discrimination and Its Predictors in the Masala Study
Discrimination, Racial/Ethnic Identity, and Substance Use Among Latina/os
Findings suggest differential associations for type of discrimination and outcome and that the role of racial/ethnic identity is gender-specific for smoking, appearing particularly detrimental for Latino men reporting high levels of racial/ethnic identity
Experimental Evidence That Low Social Status Is Most Toxic to Well-Being When Internalized
What makes low social status toxic to well-being? To internalize social status is to believe the self is responsible for it. We hypothesized that the more people internalize low subjective social status, the more their basic psychological needs are thwarted. Experiment 1 randomly assigned participants to imagine themselves in low, middle, or high social status and assessed their subjective social status internalization by independent ratings. The…
Low Social Status Markers
Thinking Fat and Feeling Blue
Essentialism and the cultural psychology of gender in extreme son preference communities in India
Using a cultural ecological framework, the authors examined key psychological antecedents of a pressing public health problem in Tamilnadu, India: the persistence of extreme forms of female neglect including female infanticide and feticide. Community-based respondents (N = 798) were recruited from Tamilnadu, a south Indian state, from villages with highly male biased sex ratios. Study 1 examined beliefs about behavioral gender transgressions in t…
Idealized cultural beliefs about gender
Motivations to eat
Readings in the psychology of gender
Mediators of the Gender Difference in Rumination
Rumination is engaging in a passive focus on one's symptoms of distress and on the possible causes and consequences of these symptoms. Women are more likely than men to engage in rumination. This study examined whether gender differences in the following beliefs would mediate the gender difference in rumination: the controllability of emotions, the appropriateness of rumination as a coping strategy, responsibility for the emotional tone of relati…
Results of the Expanded Program on Immunization in the Macedonian Refugee Camps
Objectives. This report summarizes the results of the Macedonian refugee camps' Expanded Program on Immunization. Methods. Government agencies and nongovernmental organizations implemented an immunization program consisting of 3 mass vaccination campaigns in each of the 7 camps. Before the second mass campaign, weekly immunization clinics were initiated in each camp. Children younger than 48 months were immunized against 8 antigens according to a…
Mediators of the Gender Difference in Rumination
Rumination is engaging in a passive focus on one's symptoms of distress and on the possible causes and consequences of these symptoms. Women are more likely than men to engage in rumination. This study examined whether gender differences in the following beliefs would mediate the gender difference in rumination: the controllability of emotions, the appropriateness of rumination as a coping strategy, responsibility for the emotional tone of relati…
Motivations to eat
Discrimination, Racial/Ethnic Identity, and Substance Use Among Latina/os
Findings suggest differential associations for type of discrimination and outcome and that the role of racial/ethnic identity is gender-specific for smoking, appearing particularly detrimental for Latino men reporting high levels of racial/ethnic identity
Low Social Status Markers
Readings in the psychology of gender
Idealized cultural beliefs about gender
Thinking Fat and Feeling Blue
Mediators of the Gender Difference in Rumination
Rumination is engaging in a passive focus on one's symptoms of distress and on the possible causes and consequences of these symptoms. Women are more likely than men to engage in rumination. This study examined whether gender differences in the following beliefs would mediate the gender difference in rumination: the controllability of emotions, the appropriateness of rumination as a coping strategy, responsibility for the emotional tone of relati…
Results of the Expanded Program on Immunization in the Macedonian Refugee Camps
Objectives. This report summarizes the results of the Macedonian refugee camps' Expanded Program on Immunization. Methods. Government agencies and nongovernmental organizations implemented an immunization program consisting of 3 mass vaccination campaigns in each of the 7 camps. Before the second mass campaign, weekly immunization clinics were initiated in each camp. Children younger than 48 months were immunized against 8 antigens according to a…
Readings in the psychology of gender
Motivations to eat
Essentialism and the cultural psychology of gender in extreme son preference communities in India
Using a cultural ecological framework, the authors examined key psychological antecedents of a pressing public health problem in Tamilnadu, India: the persistence of extreme forms of female neglect including female infanticide and feticide. Community-based respondents (N = 798) were recruited from Tamilnadu, a south Indian state, from villages with highly male biased sex ratios. Study 1 examined beliefs about behavioral gender transgressions in t…
Idealized cultural beliefs about gender
Thinking Fat and Feeling Blue
Low Social Status Markers
Experimental Evidence That Low Social Status Is Most Toxic to Well-Being When Internalized
What makes low social status toxic to well-being? To internalize social status is to believe the self is responsible for it. We hypothesized that the more people internalize low subjective social status, the more their basic psychological needs are thwarted. Experiment 1 randomly assigned participants to imagine themselves in low, middle, or high social status and assessed their subjective social status internalization by independent ratings. The…
Discrimination, Racial/Ethnic Identity, and Substance Use Among Latina/os
Findings suggest differential associations for type of discrimination and outcome and that the role of racial/ethnic identity is gender-specific for smoking, appearing particularly detrimental for Latino men reporting high levels of racial/ethnic identity
Neighborhood Threat of Eviction over Time and Risk of Preterm Birth in Black American Women
Everyday Discrimination and Its Predictors in the Masala Study
Psychology (10 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Population (4 works) · Psychiatry (4 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (4 works)