Harvey L Nicholson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3792131 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harvey L Nicholson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harvey L |
| FAMILY NAME | Nicholson |
| SIGNATURE | NICHOLSON H L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2831-8814 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 165 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Covid-19 Racial Discrimination and Substance Use among Asian Americans by Gender
Inter-minority Relations
Rising anti-Asian racism and the recent police killings of unarmed Black people have called attention to how Asian and Black Americans experience racism and how they perceive one another. Using data from a recent national sample of Asian (n = 1078) and Black Americans (n = 367), we explored socio-demographic (demographic, socioeconomic, political, and immigration) as well as group-relevant predictors of intergroup attitudes between Asian and Blac…
“I am African American”
BACKGROUND: Research remains mixed on whether racial-ethnic self-designation impacts psychological health and well-being among Americans of African descent. Existing studies mainly use non-representative samples to address this question. Some scholars argue that Black people who express an African-centered identity should experience improved mental health because it enhances one's sense of self. However, what role self-designation may have on dep…
Pan-African identity, psychological well-being, and mental health among African Americans
Studies show that racial and ethnic identity can significantly improve mental health and well-being among marginalized ethnoracial groups who experience racism and discrimination. However, the relationships between Pan-African identity, psychological well-being, and mental health have received less attention. Using a national sample of African American adults, I examine whether Pan-African identity impacts psychological well-being and self-rated …
Mapping Anti-Asian Xenophobia
Using national data from Project Implicit, the authors examine state-level variations in implicit and explicit bias against Asian Americans held by non–Asian Americans ( n = 196,678) from 2018 to 2022. The authors also explore state-level sociodemographic correlates of both types of bias. The findings reveal considerable heterogeneity in implicit and explicit bias across states. Moreover, Republican and swing states had higher levels of implicit …
Health literacy and uptake of annual physical checkups among emerging adults in the United States
Public health literature is replete with evidence on the determinants of preventive healthcare utilization. However, gap exists in the relationship between health literacy, a key social determinant of health, and annual physical checkups, especially among younger adults in the United States. This age group is one of the least likely to utilize such services for screening and prevention of diseases, which can have a significant impact on their lon…
Exploring Your Family Roots”
Examining the Relationship between Discrimination and Prescription Drug Misuse
Background: Research shows that substance use may be a way individuals cope with psychosocial stressors. Less is known about whether discrimination contributes to prescription drug misuse. Methods: Using a national sample of Black Americans, we examined whether two psychosocial stressors (i.e., everyday and lifetime major discrimination) were associated with lifetime prescription drug misuse (i.e., opioids, tranquilizers, sedatives, or stimulants…
Education and polypharmacy
Objective We examine the association between college education and the number of medications used/misused in the past year. We also consider the possibility of differential socioeconomic returns to health for racial/ethnic minorities. Methods The data come from the 2015–2019 National Survey on Drug Use and Health ( n = 144,589). Results In accordance with human capital theory, we found that, in the full sample and white subsample, college educati…
Unequal Returns of Employment on Self-Rated Health
Predicting group consciousness among Asian Americans
Identifying factors linked to the development of group consciousness is important toward bettering our understanding of group formation processes among marginalized ethnoracial groups. This study examines predictors of group consciousness among Asians and Asian Americans in the United States, focusing on numerous dimensions of this concept, including linked fate, panethnic group identification, and four specific sources of perceived group commona…
Feelings of closeness toward Asian Americans
Using data from a national sample, I examine Blacks’ feelings of closeness toward Asians in the United States. More specifically, I explore the following: (1) perceived closeness toward Asians, (2) correlates of perceived closeness, and (3) ethnic and national/cultural origin differences in perceived closeness. Results show that feelings of closeness toward Asians are rather similar between African Americans, Jamaicans, Haitians, Spanish-speaking…
Prescription Drug Misuse among African Americans and Afro Caribbeans
BACKGROUND: The misuse of prescription medications is an understudied topic among the non-Hispanic Black population in the U.S. Even less is known about the prevalence and correlates of misuse among African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans, despite documented differences in their substance use behaviors. OBJECTIVES: We aimed to examine the prevalence and correlates of lifetime prescription drug misuse among African Americans and Afro Caribbeans usin…
Urban upbringing and psychiatric disorders in the United States
BACKGROUND: Studies that link urbanicity to mental health are mixed depending on outcome and context. More research is needed to examine whether the urban upbringing effect holds true across racial populations in a large and diverse country like the United States. METHODS: We analyzed two large datasets that were administered contemporaneously with similar methods: The National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R, Whites) and the National Surve…
Parental Educational Attainment, the Superior Temporal Cortical Surface Area, and Reading Ability among American Children
While parental educational attainment may improve children's superior temporal cortical surface area, promoting reading ability, this effect may be unequal across racial/ethnic groups. To minimize the racial/ethnic gap in children's brain development and school achievement, we need to address societal barriers that diminish parental educational attainment's marginal returns for middle-class minority families. Social and public policies need to go…
Prescription opioid misuse among Black and White older adults
Prescription opioid misuse remains a serious public health concern in the United States. While considerable research attention is paid to this issue, a relatively small number of studies focus specifically on older adult misuse, and even less stratify findings by race-ethnicity. The goal of this study was to identify prevalence and correlates of prescription opioid misuse among Black and White older adults (age 50+). Data used for this study (n =…
Parents’ Perceived Neighborhood Safety and Children’s Cognitive Performance
The race/ethnicity of children moderates the association between neighborhood safety and cognitive performance. This becomes more complicated, as the patterns seem to differ across race/ethnicity and cognitive domains. It is unknown whether the observed racial/ethnic variations in the effect of neighborhood safety on cognitive performance are due to neighborhood characteristics such as residential segregation. Addressing neighborhood inequalities…
When “model minorities” become “yellow peril”—Othering and the racialization of Asian Americans in the Covid‐19 pandemic
Using the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic as a case study, this paper engages with debates on the assimilation of Asian Americans into the US mainstream. While a burgeoning scholarship holds that Asians are "entering into the dominant group" or becoming "White," the prevalent practices of othering Asians and surging anti-Asian discrimination since the pandemic outbreak present a challenge to the assimilation thesis. This pape…
Perceived discrimination and mental health among African American and Caribbean Black adolescents
Objectives: Although the relationship between perceived discrimination and mental health among Black youth is well-documented, the mechanisms underlying this association remain unclear. Drawing from the stress process model, this study examines two psychosocial mediators - self-esteem and self-efficacy - in the association between perceived discrimination and mental health among African American and Caribbean Black adolescents. This research addr…
Racial Microaggressions and Self-rated Health Among Asians and Asian Americans
Strength in Numbers
Asians are now the fastest growing racial minority group in the United States. Nearly 18 million Asians and Asian Americans currently reside in the country. Approximately 44 million African Americans also live in the United States. To improve their limited social, economic, and political clout, Asians and Asian Americans in the United States (AAAUS) could benefit from the formation of mutually beneficial political alliances with African Americans…
Socioeconomic status, fundamental cause theory, and prescription opioid use behaviors
I applied Phelan et al.'s fundamental cause theory (FCT) framework to examine the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and prescription opioid use behaviors among a nationally representative sample of US adults. I also explored the mediating roles of health status and the deployment of flexible resources. Consistent with FCT, the results showed that higher SES was associated with significantly lower odds of prescription opioid use behav…
Associations Between Major and Everyday Discrimination and Self-Rated Health Among US Asians and Asian Americans
Comparing the Health of Relocated Public Housing Residents and Current Residents of a Historically Black Community
This study examined the effects of public housing relocation on the physical and mental health and overall self-reported health status of relocated residents. As a contrast, health outcomes of relocated residents were compared to residents of the larger community who did not live in public housing. The sample was drawn from a historically Black community (HBC) near central Florida. Data used for this study were collected as part of the Choices Ne…
When “model minorities” become “yellow peril”—Othering and the racialization of Asian Americans in the Covid‐19 pandemic
Using the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic as a case study, this paper engages with debates on the assimilation of Asian Americans into the US mainstream. While a burgeoning scholarship holds that Asians are "entering into the dominant group" or becoming "White," the prevalent practices of othering Asians and surging anti-Asian discrimination since the pandemic outbreak present a challenge to the assimilation thesis. This pape…
Strength in Numbers
Asians are now the fastest growing racial minority group in the United States. Nearly 18 million Asians and Asian Americans currently reside in the country. Approximately 44 million African Americans also live in the United States. To improve their limited social, economic, and political clout, Asians and Asian Americans in the United States (AAAUS) could benefit from the formation of mutually beneficial political alliances with African Americans…
Associations Between Major and Everyday Discrimination and Self-Rated Health Among US Asians and Asian Americans
Perceived discrimination and mental health among African American and Caribbean Black adolescents
Objectives: Although the relationship between perceived discrimination and mental health among Black youth is well-documented, the mechanisms underlying this association remain unclear. Drawing from the stress process model, this study examines two psychosocial mediators - self-esteem and self-efficacy - in the association between perceived discrimination and mental health among African American and Caribbean Black adolescents. This research addr…
Racial Microaggressions and Self-rated Health Among Asians and Asian Americans
Socioeconomic status, fundamental cause theory, and prescription opioid use behaviors
I applied Phelan et al.'s fundamental cause theory (FCT) framework to examine the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and prescription opioid use behaviors among a nationally representative sample of US adults. I also explored the mediating roles of health status and the deployment of flexible resources. Consistent with FCT, the results showed that higher SES was associated with significantly lower odds of prescription opioid use behav…
Predicting group consciousness among Asian Americans
Identifying factors linked to the development of group consciousness is important toward bettering our understanding of group formation processes among marginalized ethnoracial groups. This study examines predictors of group consciousness among Asians and Asian Americans in the United States, focusing on numerous dimensions of this concept, including linked fate, panethnic group identification, and four specific sources of perceived group commona…
Feelings of closeness toward Asian Americans
Using data from a national sample, I examine Blacks’ feelings of closeness toward Asians in the United States. More specifically, I explore the following: (1) perceived closeness toward Asians, (2) correlates of perceived closeness, and (3) ethnic and national/cultural origin differences in perceived closeness. Results show that feelings of closeness toward Asians are rather similar between African Americans, Jamaicans, Haitians, Spanish-speaking…
Parents’ Perceived Neighborhood Safety and Children’s Cognitive Performance
The race/ethnicity of children moderates the association between neighborhood safety and cognitive performance. This becomes more complicated, as the patterns seem to differ across race/ethnicity and cognitive domains. It is unknown whether the observed racial/ethnic variations in the effect of neighborhood safety on cognitive performance are due to neighborhood characteristics such as residential segregation. Addressing neighborhood inequalities…
Comparing the Health of Relocated Public Housing Residents and Current Residents of a Historically Black Community
This study examined the effects of public housing relocation on the physical and mental health and overall self-reported health status of relocated residents. As a contrast, health outcomes of relocated residents were compared to residents of the larger community who did not live in public housing. The sample was drawn from a historically Black community (HBC) near central Florida. Data used for this study were collected as part of the Choices Ne…
Perceived discrimination and mental health among African American and Caribbean Black adolescents
Objectives: Although the relationship between perceived discrimination and mental health among Black youth is well-documented, the mechanisms underlying this association remain unclear. Drawing from the stress process model, this study examines two psychosocial mediators - self-esteem and self-efficacy - in the association between perceived discrimination and mental health among African American and Caribbean Black adolescents. This research addr…
Racial Microaggressions and Self-rated Health Among Asians and Asian Americans
Strength in Numbers
Asians are now the fastest growing racial minority group in the United States. Nearly 18 million Asians and Asian Americans currently reside in the country. Approximately 44 million African Americans also live in the United States. To improve their limited social, economic, and political clout, Asians and Asian Americans in the United States (AAAUS) could benefit from the formation of mutually beneficial political alliances with African Americans…
Socioeconomic status, fundamental cause theory, and prescription opioid use behaviors
I applied Phelan et al.'s fundamental cause theory (FCT) framework to examine the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and prescription opioid use behaviors among a nationally representative sample of US adults. I also explored the mediating roles of health status and the deployment of flexible resources. Consistent with FCT, the results showed that higher SES was associated with significantly lower odds of prescription opioid use behav…
Associations Between Major and Everyday Discrimination and Self-Rated Health Among US Asians and Asian Americans
Prescription Drug Misuse among African Americans and Afro Caribbeans
BACKGROUND: The misuse of prescription medications is an understudied topic among the non-Hispanic Black population in the U.S. Even less is known about the prevalence and correlates of misuse among African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans, despite documented differences in their substance use behaviors. OBJECTIVES: We aimed to examine the prevalence and correlates of lifetime prescription drug misuse among African Americans and Afro Caribbeans usin…
Urban upbringing and psychiatric disorders in the United States
BACKGROUND: Studies that link urbanicity to mental health are mixed depending on outcome and context. More research is needed to examine whether the urban upbringing effect holds true across racial populations in a large and diverse country like the United States. METHODS: We analyzed two large datasets that were administered contemporaneously with similar methods: The National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R, Whites) and the National Surve…
Parental Educational Attainment, the Superior Temporal Cortical Surface Area, and Reading Ability among American Children
While parental educational attainment may improve children's superior temporal cortical surface area, promoting reading ability, this effect may be unequal across racial/ethnic groups. To minimize the racial/ethnic gap in children's brain development and school achievement, we need to address societal barriers that diminish parental educational attainment's marginal returns for middle-class minority families. Social and public policies need to go…
Prescription opioid misuse among Black and White older adults
Prescription opioid misuse remains a serious public health concern in the United States. While considerable research attention is paid to this issue, a relatively small number of studies focus specifically on older adult misuse, and even less stratify findings by race-ethnicity. The goal of this study was to identify prevalence and correlates of prescription opioid misuse among Black and White older adults (age 50+). Data used for this study (n =…
Parents’ Perceived Neighborhood Safety and Children’s Cognitive Performance
The race/ethnicity of children moderates the association between neighborhood safety and cognitive performance. This becomes more complicated, as the patterns seem to differ across race/ethnicity and cognitive domains. It is unknown whether the observed racial/ethnic variations in the effect of neighborhood safety on cognitive performance are due to neighborhood characteristics such as residential segregation. Addressing neighborhood inequalities…
When “model minorities” become “yellow peril”—Othering and the racialization of Asian Americans in the Covid‐19 pandemic
Using the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic as a case study, this paper engages with debates on the assimilation of Asian Americans into the US mainstream. While a burgeoning scholarship holds that Asians are "entering into the dominant group" or becoming "White," the prevalent practices of othering Asians and surging anti-Asian discrimination since the pandemic outbreak present a challenge to the assimilation thesis. This pape…
Examining the Relationship between Discrimination and Prescription Drug Misuse
Background: Research shows that substance use may be a way individuals cope with psychosocial stressors. Less is known about whether discrimination contributes to prescription drug misuse. Methods: Using a national sample of Black Americans, we examined whether two psychosocial stressors (i.e., everyday and lifetime major discrimination) were associated with lifetime prescription drug misuse (i.e., opioids, tranquilizers, sedatives, or stimulants…
Education and polypharmacy
Objective We examine the association between college education and the number of medications used/misused in the past year. We also consider the possibility of differential socioeconomic returns to health for racial/ethnic minorities. Methods The data come from the 2015–2019 National Survey on Drug Use and Health ( n = 144,589). Results In accordance with human capital theory, we found that, in the full sample and white subsample, college educati…
Unequal Returns of Employment on Self-Rated Health
Predicting group consciousness among Asian Americans
Identifying factors linked to the development of group consciousness is important toward bettering our understanding of group formation processes among marginalized ethnoracial groups. This study examines predictors of group consciousness among Asians and Asian Americans in the United States, focusing on numerous dimensions of this concept, including linked fate, panethnic group identification, and four specific sources of perceived group commona…
Feelings of closeness toward Asian Americans
Using data from a national sample, I examine Blacks’ feelings of closeness toward Asians in the United States. More specifically, I explore the following: (1) perceived closeness toward Asians, (2) correlates of perceived closeness, and (3) ethnic and national/cultural origin differences in perceived closeness. Results show that feelings of closeness toward Asians are rather similar between African Americans, Jamaicans, Haitians, Spanish-speaking…
“I am African American”
BACKGROUND: Research remains mixed on whether racial-ethnic self-designation impacts psychological health and well-being among Americans of African descent. Existing studies mainly use non-representative samples to address this question. Some scholars argue that Black people who express an African-centered identity should experience improved mental health because it enhances one's sense of self. However, what role self-designation may have on dep…
Pan-African identity, psychological well-being, and mental health among African Americans
Studies show that racial and ethnic identity can significantly improve mental health and well-being among marginalized ethnoracial groups who experience racism and discrimination. However, the relationships between Pan-African identity, psychological well-being, and mental health have received less attention. Using a national sample of African American adults, I examine whether Pan-African identity impacts psychological well-being and self-rated …
Mapping Anti-Asian Xenophobia
Using national data from Project Implicit, the authors examine state-level variations in implicit and explicit bias against Asian Americans held by non–Asian Americans ( n = 196,678) from 2018 to 2022. The authors also explore state-level sociodemographic correlates of both types of bias. The findings reveal considerable heterogeneity in implicit and explicit bias across states. Moreover, Republican and swing states had higher levels of implicit …
Health literacy and uptake of annual physical checkups among emerging adults in the United States
Public health literature is replete with evidence on the determinants of preventive healthcare utilization. However, gap exists in the relationship between health literacy, a key social determinant of health, and annual physical checkups, especially among younger adults in the United States. This age group is one of the least likely to utilize such services for screening and prevention of diseases, which can have a significant impact on their lon…
Exploring Your Family Roots”
Inter-minority Relations
Rising anti-Asian racism and the recent police killings of unarmed Black people have called attention to how Asian and Black Americans experience racism and how they perceive one another. Using data from a recent national sample of Asian (n = 1078) and Black Americans (n = 367), we explored socio-demographic (demographic, socioeconomic, political, and immigration) as well as group-relevant predictors of intergroup attitudes between Asian and Blac…
Covid-19 Racial Discrimination and Substance Use among Asian Americans by Gender
Ethnic group (20 works) · Psychology (19 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (14 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Demography (12 works) · Logistic regression (11 works) · Psychiatry (11 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works)