Deborah J Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 3791815 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deborah J Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deborah J |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES D J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5168-9245 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 183 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Multimethod assessment of parenting strategies for managing early adolescents' social media use
Parents influence their children's media habits, yet parenting research has lagged behind the growing influence of social media. This study characterized how parents perceive and implement social media-specific strategies with early adolescents. A total of 102 parents of adolescents (ages 12-15), recruited from primary care clinics and online advertisements, completed baseline assessments, including parent-child interaction tasks and qualitative …
The Efficacy of Technology-Enhanced Behavioral Parent Training for Families With Low Income: Do Parent-Centered Profiles Moderate Treatment Outcomes
A randomized controlled trial of technology‐enhanced behavioral parent training: Sustained parent skill use and child outcomes at follow‐up
BACKGROUND: Early-onset (3-8 years old) disruptive behavior disorders (DBDs) have been linked to a range of psychosocial sequelae in adolescence and beyond, including delinquency, depression, and substance use. Given that low-income families are overrepresented in statistics on early-onset DBDs, prevention and early-intervention targeting this population is a public health imperative. The efficacy of Behavioral Parent Training (BPT) programs such…
Helping the noncompliant child: An updated assessment of program costs and cost-effectiveness
Individual- and Family-Level Correlates of Socio-Emotional Functioning among African American Youth from Single-Mother Homes: A Compensatory Resilience Model
The majority of research on African American adolescents raised in single-mother homes has focused on externalizing problems, with less attention to other facets of socio-emotional functioning. Using a compensatory resilience approach, the current study examined risk and protective factors at the family (maternal warmth, monitoring, psychological control) and youth (ethnic identity and religiosity) levels as predictors of depressive symptoms, hop…
Parent–Adolescent Socialization of Social Class in Low‐Income White Families: Theory, Research, and Future Directions
The formative role of social class in the United States has long been a focus of fields such as economics, history, and political science. Yet, little psychological theory or data are available to guide our understanding of what messages regarding social class are transmitted within and across generations and how those transmissions are most likely to occur. As a launching point for such work, we focus this initial contextual and largely theoreti…
Parenting Adolescents in an Increasingly Diverse World: Defining, Refining, and Extending Theory and Research
This introduction to the Special Issue on Parenting Adolescents in an Increasingly Diverse World explores how increasing population diversity may provide a context for changes in the parenting of adolescents. In this issue, authors (1) explore the context for asking questions about parenting adolescents and diversity, (2) consider parents, adolescents, and parenting in different diversity contexts, and (3) reflect on crosscutting themes. Two arti…
Synthesizing a Special Issue on Parenting Adolescents in an Increasingly Diverse World
Our goal is to identify integrative themes in this special issue on "Parenting Adolescents in an Increasingly Diverse World". Specifically, we identify themes that may generalize largely from studies of marginalized families to guide American families more broadly as youth navigate an increasingly diverse world. We describe three broad diversity socialization goals that may foster greater intercultural maturity in youth. These include helping you…
The relationships between religiosity and youth internalizing symptoms in African American parent–adolescent dyads
Possible predictive coprocesses such as maternal influence on adolescent religious choices and identity formation are explored in the context of adolescent internalizing symptomatology. (PsycINFO Database Record
Should Child Obesity be an Issue for Child Protective Services? A Call for More Research on this Critical Public Health Issue
Given the lasting effects on adolescent and adult health, childhood obesity is a major public health issue. The relatively slow progress toward the prevention and treatment of childhood obesity, however, has prompted leaders in both academic and practice sectors to advocate for what may be considered a radical intervention approach, to conceptualize extreme child obesity as an issue of child maltreatment. Advocates of this approach suggest that t…
Neighborhood context and adjustment in African American youths from single mother homes: The intervening role of hopelessness
African American youths from single mother homes are more likely to live in neighborhoods characterized by greater risk and fewer resources than youth from two parent homes or European American youths; in turn, such adverse conditions are associated with increased adjustment problems. Despite this well-established vulnerability, relatively little is known about variables linking neighborhood context to youth adjustment. With the aim of identifyin…
Integrating a family-focused approach into child obesity prevention: Rationale and design for the My Parenting SOS study randomized control trial
ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT00998348
The Relation of Harsh and Permissive Discipline with Child Disruptive Behaviors: Does Child Gender Make a Difference in an At-Risk Sample
Supportive Non‐Parental Adults and Adolescent Psychosocial Functioning: Using Social Support as a Theoretical Framework
Supportive Non-Parental Adults (SNPAs), or non-parental adults who provide social support to youth, are present in the lives of many adolescents; yet to date, a guiding framework for organizing the existing literature on the provision of support provided by multiple types of SNPAS, such as teachers, natural mentors, and extended family members, as well as to inform future research efforts, is lacking. The aim of the current paper is to utilize th…
Predictors of Coparenting Relationship Quality in African American Single Mother Families: An Ecological Model
Nonmarital coparents, or adults who assist mothers with childrearing, play a significant role in the lives of African American single mothers and their children. Yet relatively little research has examined correlates of the quality of the coparenting relationship in these families. Using a broad ecological framework, the current study examined correlates of maternal-report of coparenting relationship quality in a sample of 242 low-income African …
Adolescent alcohol use in context: The role of parents and peers among African American and European American youth
African American youth are less likely to use alcohol than their European American counterparts; however, the greater consequences of use for African American youth highlight the need for greater research attention to this group. Two social contexts that have been linked with adolescent alcohol use are parents and peers, yet these studies have rarely included African American youth or failed to examine potential racial differences. This study exa…
Harsh Discipline and Child Problem Behaviors: The Roles of Positive Parenting and Gender
Maternal HIV/Aids and depressive symptoms among inner-city African American youth: The role of maternal depressive symptoms, mother-child relationship quality, and child coping
This study was designed to examine interactions between psychosocial risk (i.e., maternal depressive symptoms) and protective (i.e., child coping skills and mother-child relationship quality) correlates of depressive symptoms among inner-city African American children of mothers with and without HIV/AIDS. Two primary hypotheses were tested: (a) whether these correlates interact differently in HIV-infected and noninfected samples and (b) whether c…
Self-Regulation and Conduct Problems Among Low-Income African American Youth From Single-Mother Homes: The Roles of Perceived Neighborhood Context and Child Gender
The present study examines perceived neighborhood context and gender as moderators of the relation between self-regulation and conduct problems among low-income African American youth (7 to 15 years old; 50% girls) from single-mother homes. Mother-child dyads (N = 277) provided ratings of self-regulation, neighborhood resources and risks, and aggression and other conduct problems. Analyses revealed a significant three-way interaction among self-r…
Knowledge of Maternal HIV/Aids and Child Adjustment: The Moderating Role of Children’s Relationships with their Mothers
Coparent Support and Conflict in African American Single Mother-Headed Families: Associations With Maternal and Child Psychosocial Functioning
Predictors of Self-Reported Physical Symptoms in Low-Income, Inner-City African American Women: The Role of Optimism, Depressive Symptoms, and Chronic Illness
In this study we examined the association of optimism and depressive symptoms with self-reported physical symptoms in 241 low-income, inner-city African American women with or without a chronic illness (HIV). Although optimism was not a unique predictor of self-reported physical symptoms over and above depressive symptoms, optimism interacted with depressive symptoms and health status. In the community sample, but not the chronically ill sample, …
Partner Abuse and HIV Infection: Implications for Psychosocial Adjustment in African American Women
African American Children's Adjustment: The Roles of Maternal and Teacher Depressive Symptoms
This study examined the unique and interactive roles of mother and teacher depressive symptoms in child adjustment in 277 African American single mother-headed families, as well as whether the associations differed depending on the age and gender of the child. Findings revealed a significant association between maternal depressive symptoms and child depressive symptoms in girls, but not boys. Moreover, the combination of higher levels of both mot…
Psychosocial Adjustment of African American Children in Single-Mother Families: A Test of Three Risk Models
Three models of risk were examined for 277 African American children from single-mother-headed homes: cumulative, additive, and indirect models. Risk factors were mother-reported community risks, inadequate income, maternal depressive symptoms, and inadequate parenting. Child-reported internalizing and externalizing difficulties served as dependent measures of adjustment. Whereas the cumulative risk model identified a subset of children within th…
Harsh Discipline and Child Problem Behaviors: The Roles of Positive Parenting and Gender
Supportive Non‐Parental Adults and Adolescent Psychosocial Functioning: Using Social Support as a Theoretical Framework
Supportive Non-Parental Adults (SNPAs), or non-parental adults who provide social support to youth, are present in the lives of many adolescents; yet to date, a guiding framework for organizing the existing literature on the provision of support provided by multiple types of SNPAS, such as teachers, natural mentors, and extended family members, as well as to inform future research efforts, is lacking. The aim of the current paper is to utilize th…
Pleasure and pain in doing well, together: An investigation of performance-related affect in close relationships
In a series of four studies, the self-evaluation maintenance (SEM) model is used to predict peoples' self-reported affective responses to doing better or worse than their partners. Both self-protective reactions to comparison (i.e., those predicted by the original SEM model) and empathic reactions to the partner's response (i.e., those predicted by the extended SEM model) were obtained. In addition, as predicted on the basis of both models, compa…
Psychosocial Adjustment of African American Children in Single-Mother Families: A Test of Three Risk Models
Three models of risk were examined for 277 African American children from single-mother-headed homes: cumulative, additive, and indirect models. Risk factors were mother-reported community risks, inadequate income, maternal depressive symptoms, and inadequate parenting. Child-reported internalizing and externalizing difficulties served as dependent measures of adjustment. Whereas the cumulative risk model identified a subset of children within th…
Coparent Support and Conflict in African American Single Mother-Headed Families: Associations With Maternal and Child Psychosocial Functioning
Stress Generation in Intact Community Families: Depressive Symptoms, Perceived Family Relationship Stress, and Implications for Adolescent Adjustment
The family stress generation process was examined, as was the role of family stress generation in adolescent adjustment. Participants were mothers ( n = 119), fathers ( n = 96), and adolescents ( n = 119) from intact, community families. Assessments were conducted at two points during adolescence, separated by one year. Mother's initial depressive symptoms generated perceived stress in both her marital and mother-adolescent relationship a year la…
Self-Regulation and Conduct Problems Among Low-Income African American Youth From Single-Mother Homes: The Roles of Perceived Neighborhood Context and Child Gender
The present study examines perceived neighborhood context and gender as moderators of the relation between self-regulation and conduct problems among low-income African American youth (7 to 15 years old; 50% girls) from single-mother homes. Mother-child dyads (N = 277) provided ratings of self-regulation, neighborhood resources and risks, and aggression and other conduct problems. Analyses revealed a significant three-way interaction among self-r…
The relationships between religiosity and youth internalizing symptoms in African American parent–adolescent dyads
Possible predictive coprocesses such as maternal influence on adolescent religious choices and identity formation are explored in the context of adolescent internalizing symptomatology. (PsycINFO Database Record
Neighborhood context and adjustment in African American youths from single mother homes: The intervening role of hopelessness
African American youths from single mother homes are more likely to live in neighborhoods characterized by greater risk and fewer resources than youth from two parent homes or European American youths; in turn, such adverse conditions are associated with increased adjustment problems. Despite this well-established vulnerability, relatively little is known about variables linking neighborhood context to youth adjustment. With the aim of identifyin…
The Relation of Harsh and Permissive Discipline with Child Disruptive Behaviors: Does Child Gender Make a Difference in an At-Risk Sample
Predictors of Coparenting Relationship Quality in African American Single Mother Families: An Ecological Model
Nonmarital coparents, or adults who assist mothers with childrearing, play a significant role in the lives of African American single mothers and their children. Yet relatively little research has examined correlates of the quality of the coparenting relationship in these families. Using a broad ecological framework, the current study examined correlates of maternal-report of coparenting relationship quality in a sample of 242 low-income African …
African American Children's Adjustment: The Roles of Maternal and Teacher Depressive Symptoms
This study examined the unique and interactive roles of mother and teacher depressive symptoms in child adjustment in 277 African American single mother-headed families, as well as whether the associations differed depending on the age and gender of the child. Findings revealed a significant association between maternal depressive symptoms and child depressive symptoms in girls, but not boys. Moreover, the combination of higher levels of both mot…
Helping the noncompliant child: An updated assessment of program costs and cost-effectiveness
Synthesizing a Special Issue on Parenting Adolescents in an Increasingly Diverse World
Our goal is to identify integrative themes in this special issue on "Parenting Adolescents in an Increasingly Diverse World". Specifically, we identify themes that may generalize largely from studies of marginalized families to guide American families more broadly as youth navigate an increasingly diverse world. We describe three broad diversity socialization goals that may foster greater intercultural maturity in youth. These include helping you…
Partner Abuse and HIV Infection: Implications for Psychosocial Adjustment in African American Women
Self-Reported Delinquent Behavior and Psychosocial Functioning in Inner-City Teenagers: A Brief Report
Pleasure and pain in doing well, together: An investigation of performance-related affect in close relationships
In a series of four studies, the self-evaluation maintenance (SEM) model is used to predict peoples' self-reported affective responses to doing better or worse than their partners. Both self-protective reactions to comparison (i.e., those predicted by the original SEM model) and empathic reactions to the partner's response (i.e., those predicted by the extended SEM model) were obtained. In addition, as predicted on the basis of both models, compa…
Distress and aggression during dating conflict: A test of the coercion hypothesis
Research with clinically depressed and maritally discordant couples suggests that women's distressed behaviors function to suppress their partners' subsequent aggressive responses. We applied this coercion hypothesis to a nonclinical sample of dating couples (N = 288). We further examined whether these effects were gender‐specific, and whether distressed and aggressive behaviors differ within physically violent versus nonviolent relationships. Wo…
HIV infection and depressive symptoms: An investigation of African American single mothers
Risk for depressive symptoms among HIV-infected African American single mothers (n = 96), relative to demographically matched non-infected single mothers (n = 120), was examined, using both self-report and clinician-rated scales of depression. Assessment of depressive symptoms occurred at two points separated by one year. Findings revealed that HIV-infected mothers were at greater risk for depressive symptoms at both assessments, regardless of me…
When does performance feedback prompt complementarity in romantic relationships
Two studies addressed five issues concerning complementarity in romantic relationships and suggest that complementarity deserves a new look. Dating couples ( N = 28 couples) and married couples ( N = 43). were given performance feedback to assess effects on self and perceived partner relevance. We found that comparison with a partner but not comparison with a stranger prompted complementarity (Study 1). Comparison resulted in complementarity and …
Stress Generation in Intact Community Families: Depressive Symptoms, Perceived Family Relationship Stress, and Implications for Adolescent Adjustment
The family stress generation process was examined, as was the role of family stress generation in adolescent adjustment. Participants were mothers ( n = 119), fathers ( n = 96), and adolescents ( n = 119) from intact, community families. Assessments were conducted at two points during adolescence, separated by one year. Mother's initial depressive symptoms generated perceived stress in both her marital and mother-adolescent relationship a year la…
African American Children's Adjustment: The Roles of Maternal and Teacher Depressive Symptoms
This study examined the unique and interactive roles of mother and teacher depressive symptoms in child adjustment in 277 African American single mother-headed families, as well as whether the associations differed depending on the age and gender of the child. Findings revealed a significant association between maternal depressive symptoms and child depressive symptoms in girls, but not boys. Moreover, the combination of higher levels of both mot…
Psychosocial Adjustment of African American Children in Single-Mother Families: A Test of Three Risk Models
Three models of risk were examined for 277 African American children from single-mother-headed homes: cumulative, additive, and indirect models. Risk factors were mother-reported community risks, inadequate income, maternal depressive symptoms, and inadequate parenting. Child-reported internalizing and externalizing difficulties served as dependent measures of adjustment. Whereas the cumulative risk model identified a subset of children within th…
Partner Abuse and HIV Infection: Implications for Psychosocial Adjustment in African American Women
Predictors of Self-Reported Physical Symptoms in Low-Income, Inner-City African American Women: The Role of Optimism, Depressive Symptoms, and Chronic Illness
In this study we examined the association of optimism and depressive symptoms with self-reported physical symptoms in 241 low-income, inner-city African American women with or without a chronic illness (HIV). Although optimism was not a unique predictor of self-reported physical symptoms over and above depressive symptoms, optimism interacted with depressive symptoms and health status. In the community sample, but not the chronically ill sample, …
Coparent Support and Conflict in African American Single Mother-Headed Families: Associations With Maternal and Child Psychosocial Functioning
Knowledge of Maternal HIV/Aids and Child Adjustment: The Moderating Role of Children’s Relationships with their Mothers
Harsh Discipline and Child Problem Behaviors: The Roles of Positive Parenting and Gender
Maternal HIV/Aids and depressive symptoms among inner-city African American youth: The role of maternal depressive symptoms, mother-child relationship quality, and child coping
This study was designed to examine interactions between psychosocial risk (i.e., maternal depressive symptoms) and protective (i.e., child coping skills and mother-child relationship quality) correlates of depressive symptoms among inner-city African American children of mothers with and without HIV/AIDS. Two primary hypotheses were tested: (a) whether these correlates interact differently in HIV-infected and noninfected samples and (b) whether c…
Self-Regulation and Conduct Problems Among Low-Income African American Youth From Single-Mother Homes: The Roles of Perceived Neighborhood Context and Child Gender
The present study examines perceived neighborhood context and gender as moderators of the relation between self-regulation and conduct problems among low-income African American youth (7 to 15 years old; 50% girls) from single-mother homes. Mother-child dyads (N = 277) provided ratings of self-regulation, neighborhood resources and risks, and aggression and other conduct problems. Analyses revealed a significant three-way interaction among self-r…
Adolescent alcohol use in context: The role of parents and peers among African American and European American youth
African American youth are less likely to use alcohol than their European American counterparts; however, the greater consequences of use for African American youth highlight the need for greater research attention to this group. Two social contexts that have been linked with adolescent alcohol use are parents and peers, yet these studies have rarely included African American youth or failed to examine potential racial differences. This study exa…
Predictors of Coparenting Relationship Quality in African American Single Mother Families: An Ecological Model
Nonmarital coparents, or adults who assist mothers with childrearing, play a significant role in the lives of African American single mothers and their children. Yet relatively little research has examined correlates of the quality of the coparenting relationship in these families. Using a broad ecological framework, the current study examined correlates of maternal-report of coparenting relationship quality in a sample of 242 low-income African …
Integrating a family-focused approach into child obesity prevention: Rationale and design for the My Parenting SOS study randomized control trial
ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT00998348
The Relation of Harsh and Permissive Discipline with Child Disruptive Behaviors: Does Child Gender Make a Difference in an At-Risk Sample
Supportive Non‐Parental Adults and Adolescent Psychosocial Functioning: Using Social Support as a Theoretical Framework
Supportive Non-Parental Adults (SNPAs), or non-parental adults who provide social support to youth, are present in the lives of many adolescents; yet to date, a guiding framework for organizing the existing literature on the provision of support provided by multiple types of SNPAS, such as teachers, natural mentors, and extended family members, as well as to inform future research efforts, is lacking. The aim of the current paper is to utilize th…
Neighborhood context and adjustment in African American youths from single mother homes: The intervening role of hopelessness
African American youths from single mother homes are more likely to live in neighborhoods characterized by greater risk and fewer resources than youth from two parent homes or European American youths; in turn, such adverse conditions are associated with increased adjustment problems. Despite this well-established vulnerability, relatively little is known about variables linking neighborhood context to youth adjustment. With the aim of identifyin…
Should Child Obesity be an Issue for Child Protective Services? A Call for More Research on this Critical Public Health Issue
Given the lasting effects on adolescent and adult health, childhood obesity is a major public health issue. The relatively slow progress toward the prevention and treatment of childhood obesity, however, has prompted leaders in both academic and practice sectors to advocate for what may be considered a radical intervention approach, to conceptualize extreme child obesity as an issue of child maltreatment. Advocates of this approach suggest that t…
The relationships between religiosity and youth internalizing symptoms in African American parent–adolescent dyads
Possible predictive coprocesses such as maternal influence on adolescent religious choices and identity formation are explored in the context of adolescent internalizing symptomatology. (PsycINFO Database Record
Parent–Adolescent Socialization of Social Class in Low‐Income White Families: Theory, Research, and Future Directions
The formative role of social class in the United States has long been a focus of fields such as economics, history, and political science. Yet, little psychological theory or data are available to guide our understanding of what messages regarding social class are transmitted within and across generations and how those transmissions are most likely to occur. As a launching point for such work, we focus this initial contextual and largely theoreti…
Parenting Adolescents in an Increasingly Diverse World: Defining, Refining, and Extending Theory and Research
This introduction to the Special Issue on Parenting Adolescents in an Increasingly Diverse World explores how increasing population diversity may provide a context for changes in the parenting of adolescents. In this issue, authors (1) explore the context for asking questions about parenting adolescents and diversity, (2) consider parents, adolescents, and parenting in different diversity contexts, and (3) reflect on crosscutting themes. Two arti…
Psychology (30 works) · Developmental psychology (25 works) · Clinical Psychology (22 works) · Psychiatry (20 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (17 works) · Clinical Psychology (17 works) · Medicine (16 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · African american (10 works) · Psychosocial (9 works)