Robert E Roberts
Biographic Data
| ID | 3710128 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert E Roberts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert E |
| FAMILY NAME | Roberts |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTS R E |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 61 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1517 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 61 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
The Prospective Association between Sleep Deprivation and Depression among Adolescents
STUDY OBJECTIVES: To examine the prospective, reciprocal association between sleep deprivation and depression among adolescents. DESIGN: A community-based two-wave cohort study. SETTING: A metropolitan area with a population of over 4 million. PARTICIPANTS: 4,175 youths 11-17 at baseline, and 3,134 of these followed up a year later. MEASUREMENTS: Depression is measured using both symptoms of depression and DSM-IV major depression. Sleep deprivati…
An economic analysis of the in-prison therapeutic community model on prison management costs
Physical activity and overweight among adolescents on the Texas-Mexico border
Nearly one-third of the students in both Matamoros and the LRGV are at risk for overweight or are overweight. Implementation of interventions on healthful dietary choices and participation in physical education classes and sports teams are essential for reducing the extremely high prevalence of overweight among students on both sides of the Texas/Mexico border
The cost benefits of providing community-based correctional services: An evaluation of a statewide parole program in California
How Families Still Matter: A Longitudinal Study of Youth in Two Generations
1. Families, generations, and achievement orientations of youth 2. Models and methods of intergenerational influences 3. The changing contexts of family life since the 1960s 4. Educational and occupational aspirations of youth across generations 5. Self-esteem: self-confidence and self-deprecation of youth 6. Value orientations: youth's individualism and materialism across generations 7. Continuity and change in family influences across generatio…
Stress within a bicultural context for adolescents of Mexican descent
Folkman and Lazarus's theory of stress and coping was used to develop a measure assessing the perceived stress within a bicultural context. Middle school students of Mexican descent (N = 881) reported their perceived stress from intergenerational acculturation gaps, within-group discrimination, out-group discrimination, and monolingual stress. Although immigrant youths reported more total number of stressors, U.S.-born youths reported more stress…
The Impact of Multiple Dimensions of Ethnic Identity on Discrimination and Adolescents’ Self‐Estees
The rejection‐identification model is investigated with multiple dimensions of ethnic identity in a sample of Mexican American youth. It is hypothesized that more perceived discrimination will be associated with higher ethnic identity in general, but that the multiple dimensions of ethnic identity will be associated differentially with discrimination. Higher perceived discrimination will be associated with more ethnic exploration and less ethnic …
Functioning of Adolescents With Symptoms of Disturbed Sleep
Ethnocultural variables and attitudes toward cultural socialization of children
Ethnocultural variables and attitudes toward cultural socialization of children
Cultural socialization is the transmission of cultural values and norms to one's children. The current study presents a new scale to assess parental socialization attitudes to both the U.S. American culture and the Latino culture. The scale is based on a social cognitive model of cultural socialization and cultural values of independence and interdependence. It was hypothesized that individuals who have lower acculturation, more recent generation…
Prospective Data on Sleep Complaints and Associated Risk Factors in an Older Cohort
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study is to provide data on the prevalence of insomnia and hypersomnia among older persons, the stability of these sleep complaints over time, and factors associated with disturbed sleep, in particular age. METHOD: Data on symptoms of insomnia and hypersomnia were examined for the 1994 to 1995 cohort of the Alameda County Study. In addition to age, the effects of gender, education, marital status, chronic medical co…
The Structure of Ethnic Identity of Young Adolescents from Diverse Ethnocultural Groups
The purpose for this study was to examine the structure and construct validity of a measure of ethnic identity among young adolescents from diverse ethnic groups. Students in sixth, seventh, and eighth grades (N = 5,423) from diverse ethnic groups completed the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure (MEIM), measures of psychological well-being and a measure of salience of ethnicity. Factor analyses of data for the three largest ethnic groups (Europea…
Perception of discrimination and ethnocultural variables in a diverse group of adolescents
Despite current interest in the multi-dimensionality of culture and ethnicity there are few studies that have explored the role of discrimination with ethnocultural variables. In this study social identity theory was used as a framework to test the relation between discrimination and components of ethnic identity, and attitudes towards out-groups. A school-based survey in a large south-west metropolitan area in 1994 was undertaken with students (…
Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) as a screening instrument for depression among community-residing older adults.
The efficacy of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) as a screener for clinical depression was examined in a sample of 1,005 community-residing adults (age range = 50-96). Presence of a depressive disorder was determined by diagnostic interview. Analyses revealed that neither age, gender, cognitive impairment, functional impairment, physical disease, nor social desirability had a significant negative effect on the psychom…
Ethnocultural Differences in Prevalence of Adolescent Depression
Data from an ethnically diverse sample of middle school (Grades 6–8) students ( n = 5,423) are analyzed for ethnic differences in major depression. The point prevalence of major depression was 8.4% without and 4.3% with impairment. Data were sufficient to calculate prevalences for nine ethnic groups. Prevalences adjusted for impairment ranged from 1.9% for youths of Chinese descent to 6.6% for those of Mexican decent. African and Mexican American…
Ethnic identity and acculturation in a young adult Mexican‐origin population
The relations among ethnic identity, measured by the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure (MEIM) and acculturation, as measured by the Acculturation Rating Scale-II (ARSMA-11) were studied in 1,367 freshmen college students, 87% of whom were of Mexican origin. The results strongly support the concept that ethnic identity and acculturation are related but separate processes. Ethnic identity scores were found to be highest in first generation, less a…
Ethnic identity and acculturation in a young adult Mexican-origin population
The relations among ethnic identity, measured by the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure (MEIM) and acculturation, as measured by the Acculturation Rating Scale-II (ARSMA-11) were studied in 1,367 freshmen college students, 87% of whom were of Mexican origin. The results strongly support the concept that ethnic identity and acculturation are related but separate processes. Ethnic identity scores were found to be highest in first generation, less a…
Relations of Depression, Acculturation, and Socioeconomic Status in a Latino Sample
This study investigated the relations among depression, acculturation, and socioeconomic status (SES) in a young-adult Latino sample. Data were obtained from 1,271 Latino first-year college students; 89% self-labeled as either Mexican American or Hispanic, and 11% as Mexican National. Symptoms of depression were compared for various acculturation levels, and bicultural groups with controls for SES and gender. The Acculturation Rating Scale for Me…
Power/Knowledge and Discredited Identities: Media Representations of Herpes
Popular press accounts of genital herpes (herpes simplex virus-II) are presented as sites for the production of symbolic stigma. Close readings of 141 magazine articles about HSV-II explore the discursive practices that constituted herpetic as a discredited identity. The article critiques these stigmatizing practices on two levels: (1) as inscriptions of dominant administrative, moral, and scientific ideologies, and (2) as constituting a conceptu…
Affective Ties to Parents in Early Adulthood and Self-Esteem Across 20 Years
Do relations with parents during the transition from adolescence to adulthood have long-term consequences for self-esteem? We addressed this question with 20-year panel data from 273 youths (age 16-26 at baseline) who participated in the University of Southern California Longitudinal Study of Generations. We found that youths who reported stronger affective ties to parents reported greater self-esteem at baseline and at 17- and 20-year follow-ups…
Age differences among Japanese on the center for epidemiologic studies depression scale: An ethnocultural perspective on somatization
Adolescent psychopathology: II. Psychosocial risk factors for depression.
Reliability and Validity of a Brief Measure of Loneliness with Anglo-American and Mexican American Adolescents
This article focuses on the operating characteristics of an eight-item loneliness scale developed by the second author. Data from a sample of 2,600 Mexican American and Anglo-American middle school students indicate the scale, the RULS-8, has good reliability and validity. Cronbach's alpha was .87 for Mexican American and .90 for Anglo-American students. Principal components factor analysis yielded one factor accounting for 55.5% of the variance,…
Adolescent psychopathology: I. Prevalence and incidence of depression and other DSM-III—R disorders in high school students.
Psychometric Properties of Scales for the Measurement of Psychosocial Variables Associated with Depression in Adolescence 1
In preparation for a community-based study of depression in adolescence, several pilot studies were conducted with samples of adolescents. The purpose of these studies was to evaluate the reliability and association with depression of several instruments when used with older (14- to 18-year-old) adolescents. These instruments included measures of cognitions, body image, self-esteem, self-awareness, social interactions with peers and family, socia…
Intergenerational Solidarity in Aging Families: An Example of Formal Theory Construction
The Structure of Ethnic Identity of Young Adolescents from Diverse Ethnocultural Groups
The purpose for this study was to examine the structure and construct validity of a measure of ethnic identity among young adolescents from diverse ethnic groups. Students in sixth, seventh, and eighth grades (N = 5,423) from diverse ethnic groups completed the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure (MEIM), measures of psychological well-being and a measure of salience of ethnicity. Factor analyses of data for the three largest ethnic groups (Europea…
Stress within a bicultural context for adolescents of Mexican descent
Folkman and Lazarus's theory of stress and coping was used to develop a measure assessing the perceived stress within a bicultural context. Middle school students of Mexican descent (N = 881) reported their perceived stress from intergenerational acculturation gaps, within-group discrimination, out-group discrimination, and monolingual stress. Although immigrant youths reported more total number of stressors, U.S.-born youths reported more stress…
The Impact of Multiple Dimensions of Ethnic Identity on Discrimination and Adolescents’ Self‐Estees
The rejection‐identification model is investigated with multiple dimensions of ethnic identity in a sample of Mexican American youth. It is hypothesized that more perceived discrimination will be associated with higher ethnic identity in general, but that the multiple dimensions of ethnic identity will be associated differentially with discrimination. Higher perceived discrimination will be associated with more ethnic exploration and less ethnic …
Ethnocultural Differences in Prevalence of Adolescent Depression
Data from an ethnically diverse sample of middle school (Grades 6–8) students ( n = 5,423) are analyzed for ethnic differences in major depression. The point prevalence of major depression was 8.4% without and 4.3% with impairment. Data were sufficient to calculate prevalences for nine ethnic groups. Prevalences adjusted for impairment ranged from 1.9% for youths of Chinese descent to 6.6% for those of Mexican decent. African and Mexican American…
Relations of Depression, Acculturation, and Socioeconomic Status in a Latino Sample
This study investigated the relations among depression, acculturation, and socioeconomic status (SES) in a young-adult Latino sample. Data were obtained from 1,271 Latino first-year college students; 89% self-labeled as either Mexican American or Hispanic, and 11% as Mexican National. Symptoms of depression were compared for various acculturation levels, and bicultural groups with controls for SES and gender. The Acculturation Rating Scale for Me…
Intergenerational Solidarity in Families: Untangling the Ties That Bind
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Symptoms of depression in adolescence: A comparison of Anglo, African, and Hispanic Americans
Prevalence of treated and untreated psychiatric disorders in three ethnic groups
Relationships with Parents, Self-Esteem, and Psychological Well-Being in Young Adulthood
What are the psychological benefits of close parent-child relations for sons and daughters who have reached adulthood? We apply identity theory to formulate hypotheses concerning potential contributions of parent-child affection to filial self-esteem and well-being in young adulthood. We expect that the immediate psychological benefits of such affection will depend on the psychological salience of the filial identity. Competing «adult» work, mari…
Sex Differences in Depression Reexamined
This study uses data from a survey conducted in 1974 to compare rates of depressive symptoms among married couples (N = 752) differentiated by the traditional or nontraditional sex-role relationship (division of labor) in the family. Wives reported more symptoms of depression than husbands in both nontraditional (in which both husband and wife work) and traditional relationships. Within-sex analyses show that the employment status of the wife has…
Affective Ties to Parents in Early Adulthood and Self-Esteem Across 20 Years
Do relations with parents during the transition from adolescence to adulthood have long-term consequences for self-esteem? We addressed this question with 20-year panel data from 273 youths (age 16-26 at baseline) who participated in the University of Southern California Longitudinal Study of Generations. We found that youths who reported stronger affective ties to parents reported greater self-esteem at baseline and at 17- and 20-year follow-ups…
Prevalence of Psychological Distress among Mexican Americans
Data are presentedfrom sample surveys conducted in 1974 (N = 3,119) and 1975 (N = 657) in Alameda County, California, comparing psychological distress among Mexican Americans, blacks, and Anglos. Measures of psychological distress include satisfaction with leisure, marriage, and job, reported happiness, positive and negative affect, and reported episodes of emotional problems and chronic nervous trouble. Based on crude prevalence rates, there are…
Minority Group Status and Fertility Revisited
This paper reexamines the effect of minority group status on fertility to discover the efficacy of two positions outlined by Goldscheider and Uhlenberg (1969) and Sly (1970). The problems raised focus on the definition of "ethnic group," the failure to control for the effects of age at marriage and employment status of woman in fertility analyses, and the failure to examine current as well as cumulative fertility. Results tend to support Goldsche…
Marriage, Work, and Depressive Symptoms among Mexican Americans
Sex differences in depressive symptomatology among Mexican Americans are examined using data from two sample surveys conducted in Alameda County, California, in 1975 and 1978. In both studies, women reported more depressive symptoms than men, even after controlling for the effects of age, education, and income. Among the married, the employed reported fewer depressive symptoms than the nonemployed, and controlling for the effects of employment on…
Age differences among Japanese on the center for epidemiologic studies depression scale: An ethnocultural perspective on somatization
Psychological distress and mortality: Evidence from the Alameda county study
A Comparison of Anglos and Mexican Americans on Selected Measures of Social Support
Differences between Anglos and Mexican Americans are examined for three measures of social support. Most initial ethnic differences disappeared when the effects of age, gender, education, income, and marital status were controlled. There were some differences in the pattern and magnitude of associations between measures of social support and demographic variables when analyses were stratified by ethnicity. Methodologic and substantive implication…
Further Evidence on Using a Deadline to Stimulate Responses to a Mail Survey
Journal Article Further Evidence on Using a Deadline to Stimulate Responses to a Mail Survey Get access ROBERT E. ROBERTS, ROBERT E. ROBERTS Associate Professor of Socialogy and Epidemiology Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar OWEN F. McCRORY, OWEN F. McCRORY Vice President Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar RONALD N. FORTHOFER RONALD N. FORTHOFER Associate Professor Searc…
Functioning of Adolescents With Symptoms of Disturbed Sleep
Power/Knowledge and Discredited Identities: Media Representations of Herpes
Popular press accounts of genital herpes (herpes simplex virus-II) are presented as sites for the production of symbolic stigma. Close readings of 141 magazine articles about HSV-II explore the discursive practices that constituted herpetic as a discredited identity. The article critiques these stigmatizing practices on two levels: (1) as inscriptions of dominant administrative, moral, and scientific ideologies, and (2) as constituting a conceptu…
Changes in Prevalence of Depressive Symptoms in Alameda County: Age, Period, and Cohort Trends
Trends in depression are examined using data from the Alameda County Study, a three-wave, prospective community survey covering an 18-year period (1965-1974-1983). Age-period-cohort effects in rates of depressive symptoms were analyzed using logistic regression procedures to adjust for attrition due to loss-to-follow-up and nonresponse. The results indicate the presence of all three effects. There was a marked period effect, with rates in 1974 si…
A Client Satisfaction Scale Suitable for Use with Hispanics
Data from a large-scale survey of community health center clients were analyzed to assess how a measure of client satisfaction operates when used with different ethnic populations. The eight-item version of the Client Satisfaction Questionnaire (CSQ-8) is a measure of general satisfaction with services which was developed to provide a brief, standard assessment procedure suitable for use in a wide variety of service settings. Based on the results…
The Langner items and acquiescence
Modernization and Infant Mortality in Mexico
Modernization and Economic Development in Mexico: A Factor Analytic Approach
Youthful sex offenders: An epidemiologic comparison of types∗
Comparative studies of sexual deviance among children are few in number and limited in scope (Atcheson, 1954; Cook, 1934; Doshay, 1943; McCord, 1962). For example, there have been no investigations of adolescent deviants comparable to investigations of adult sexual deviants such as those carried out by Gebhard and his associates (1962) or by Ellis and Brancale (1956). Findings from these and similar studies indicate the presence of differences-bo…
Social-Psychological Correlates of Physician Use by Economically Disadvantaged Negro Urban Residents
A longitudinal study evaluating the use of physicians was conducted using a sample of economically disadvantaged Negro urban residents. Groups differing in degree of physician contact were compared on a variety of sociopsychological measures. Initial results formed a theoretically consistent pattern and offered strong empirical support for a proposed sociopsychological model of health behavior. However, statistically controlling for age and sex h…
Modernization and Infant Mortality in Mexico
Minority Group Status and Fertility Revisited
This paper reexamines the effect of minority group status on fertility to discover the efficacy of two positions outlined by Goldscheider and Uhlenberg (1969) and Sly (1970). The problems raised focus on the definition of "ethnic group," the failure to control for the effects of age at marriage and employment status of woman in fertility analyses, and the failure to examine current as well as cumulative fertility. Results tend to support Goldsche…
The Langner items and acquiescence
Further evidence on dimensionality of the index of psychophysiological stress
On Marriage and Madness
Dental Care for Handicapped Children Reexamined: I. Dental Training and Treatment of the Handicapped
1) Training experience is closely related to whether or not handicapped children are treated. If practitioners attended a postgraduate pedodontic training program, or received classroom education or clinical training in the treatment of handicapped children, they are much more likely to treat such patients. (Worth noting is the fact that one fourth of the pedodontists treating handicapped children had not received postgraduate pedodontic training…
Dental Care for Handicapped Children Reexamined: Ii – Dimensions of Dental Practice
Further Evidence on Using a Deadline to Stimulate Responses to a Mail Survey
Journal Article Further Evidence on Using a Deadline to Stimulate Responses to a Mail Survey Get access ROBERT E. ROBERTS, ROBERT E. ROBERTS Associate Professor of Socialogy and Epidemiology Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar OWEN F. McCRORY, OWEN F. McCRORY Vice President Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar RONALD N. FORTHOFER RONALD N. FORTHOFER Associate Professor Searc…
Reliability of the CES-D scale in different ethnic contexts
Three Comments Received on Identifying 'Hispanic' Populations
Three Comments Received on Identifying 'Hispanic' Populations Robert E. Roberts, and Eun Sul Lee David E. Hayes-Bautista CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.70.10.1111 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Medical Care Use by Mexican-Americans: Evidence from the Human Population Laboratory Studies
Data are presented from sample surveys conducted in 1974 (N = 3,119) and 1975 (N = 657) in Alameda County, California, by the Human Population Laboratory. Mexican-Americans are compared to Anglos and blacks in terms of physician visits, dental examinations, general physical examinations, and eye examinations. Comparison of crude percentages indicates that there is very little ethnic variation in either sample regarding regular source of medical c…
Prevalence of Psychological Distress among Mexican Americans
Data are presentedfrom sample surveys conducted in 1974 (N = 3,119) and 1975 (N = 657) in Alameda County, California, comparing psychological distress among Mexican Americans, blacks, and Anglos. Measures of psychological distress include satisfaction with leisure, marriage, and job, reported happiness, positive and negative affect, and reported episodes of emotional problems and chronic nervous trouble. Based on crude prevalence rates, there are…
Sex Differences in Depression Reexamined
This study uses data from a survey conducted in 1974 to compare rates of depressive symptoms among married couples (N = 752) differentiated by the traditional or nontraditional sex-role relationship (division of labor) in the family. Wives reported more symptoms of depression than husbands in both nontraditional (in which both husband and wife work) and traditional relationships. Within-sex analyses show that the employment status of the wife has…
Mental Illness in the United States: Epidemiological Estimates
Marriage, Work, and Depressive Symptoms among Mexican Americans
Sex differences in depressive symptomatology among Mexican Americans are examined using data from two sample surveys conducted in Alameda County, California, in 1975 and 1978. In both studies, women reported more depressive symptoms than men, even after controlling for the effects of age, education, and income. Among the married, the employed reported fewer depressive symptoms than the nonemployed, and controlling for the effects of employment on…
Prevalence of treated and untreated psychiatric disorders in three ethnic groups
Medical Choice in a Mexican Village
Professor of Sociology and Epidemiology, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The University of Texas Medical School
A Client Satisfaction Scale Suitable for Use with Hispanics
Data from a large-scale survey of community health center clients were analyzed to assess how a measure of client satisfaction operates when used with different ethnic populations. The eight-item version of the Client Satisfaction Questionnaire (CSQ-8) is a measure of general satisfaction with services which was developed to provide a brief, standard assessment procedure suitable for use in a wide variety of service settings. Based on the results…
Psychological Disorders Among Chicanos
Response by Levin, et al
Response by Levin, et al Bruce Lubotsky Levin, Robert E. Roberts, and Jay H. Glasser CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.74.12.1420-a Published Online: October 07, 2011
Assessing the Client Satisfaction Questionnaire in English and Spanish
Data from a study of family service center clients are analyzed to assess how a measure of client satisfaction operates when used with different ethnic populations. The eight-item version of the Client Satisfaction Questionnaire (CSQ-8) is a measure of general satisfaction with services that was developed to provide a brief, standard assessment procedure suitable for use in a wide variety of service settings. Based on the results of this survey, …
A Comparison of Anglos and Mexican Americans on Selected Measures of Social Support
Differences between Anglos and Mexican Americans are examined for three measures of social support. Most initial ethnic differences disappeared when the effects of age, gender, education, income, and marital status were controlled. There were some differences in the pattern and magnitude of associations between measures of social support and demographic variables when analyses were stratified by ethnicity. Methodologic and substantive implication…
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