Jamie Booth
Biographic Data
| ID | 3804147 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jamie Booth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jamie |
| FAMILY NAME | Booth |
| SIGNATURE | BOOTH J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1730-4284 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 35 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A better fit
There is growing interest in empowering learners to use and critique data due to its rising influence in society. Educational approaches that foster critical uses of data and appeal to a diverse range of learners can more broadly and equitably prepare active data-literate citizens. We develop and explore a role framework intended to support the different processes of critical data literacy and motivate learners with different disciplinary backgro…
Using EMA to examine the role of emotion regulation and supportive space in protecting Black youth when exposed to racism
Testing the Feasibility and Acceptability of Geographic Ecological Momentary Assessments Among Black Youth Living in Neighborhoods Impacted by Community Violence
Exploring bereavement processes among BLACK adolescent male CO-Victims of homicide
Teaching to Tech
Professional interests and social problems demand social work practitioners who can “harness technology for social good.” Although the field has acknowledged the need to train social workers to use technology in practice, existing scholarship has tested few models for doing so. This article describes and tests an information and communication technology-enhanced course for macropractice. Results from a quasi-experimental test of the technology-en…
Using EMA to explore the role of Black adolescents' experiences in activity spaces in momentary negative emotion and marijuana use
Discrimination and Rejection
Latino gay and bisexual men (GBM) may experience discrimination attributed to their sexual orientation and ethnicity, necessitating an examination of their experiences from an intersectional lens. While relationships between discrimination and the internalization of those messages have been previously researched, less is known about experiencing discrimination attributed to different identities and its relationships with discrete attributions of …
Examination of the Relationship Between Daily Perceptions of Collective Efficacy and Marijuana Use Among Black Youth
Neighborhood-level collective efficacy protects Black youth from substance use; however, neighborhood research does not account for the entirety of adolescents' exposure or their perceptions of space which may be critical to understanding the role of context in substance use. To address this limitation, the SPIN Project recruited 65 Black adolescents ( M( SD) = 15.32(1.06)) to complete four brief surveys each day for a month describing their perc…
Using Ecological Momentary Assessments to Understand Black Youths’ Experiences of Racism, Stress, and Safety
Anti-Black racism, both interpersonal and systemic, is pervasive. Individual- and neighborhood-level expressions of anti-Black racism have been explored in many studies; however, Black youths' experiences of racism across routine activity locations have not been examined as extensively. To address this gap, a Youth Research Advisory Board (YRAB) recruited 75 Black youths (M (SD) = 15.53 (1.77)), living in a segregated neighborhood (93% African Am…
Exploring the Impact of Racism on Black Youth
The role of bilingualism in Latino youth experiences of acculturation stress when living in an emerging Latino community
Latino youth experience unique stressors as they navigate two cultural contexts. While a substantial amount of research has been conducted investigating Latino youths’ experiences of acculturation, most have been conducted in cities with a substantial Latino community, with less research focusing on emerging communities, or areas with small, but growing cultural communities. The aim of this study was to understand Latino youths’ experiences of ac…
Decomposing the Healthy Immigrant Effect
R U connected? Engaging youth in designing a mobile application for facilitating community organizing and engagement
2021). R U connected? Engaging youth in designing a mobile application for facilitating community organizing and engagement. Journal of Community Practice: Vol. 29, Digital Organizing: Definitions, Applications, Methods and Ethics, pp. 257-279
An Examination of the Patterns of Substance Use in Activity Spaces and Their Relationship to Problematic Use
During adolescence, adolescents are given more freedom to independently interact with a variety of social contexts. The eco-developmental model suggests that the activity spaces where adolescents spend their time affect substance-use behaviors beyond peer influences, and that the relationships may differ based on the adolescent's demographic characteristics. This study examines adolescent patterns of reported substance use across activity spaces …
Political Climate, Discrimination, and Mental Health
In the last presidential election, Latino populations were the target of prejudicial language and discriminatory rhetoric. Experiences of discrimination may impact adolescent mental health, but little is known about the impact of the election cycle on Latino youth perceptions of discrimination and related emotional outcomes. The aim of this study was to understand Latino youths’ experiences, emotional reactions, and coping responses to discrimina…
Relations among Perceptions of Neighborhood Cohesion and Control and Parental Monitoring across Adolescence
Assessing the role of ethnic enclaves in the relationship between neighborhood conditions and participation in neighborhood-focused activism among Latinos in Chicago
Latinos in the US often settle in ethnic enclave neighborhoods, which research and theory suggests have residents who are less engaged in neighborhood activism. However, we know little about the relationship between living in a Latino ethnic enclave compared to other types of neighborhoods and engaging in neighborhood-focused activism among Latinos. This study, therefore, investigates whether both neighborhood organizational resources and neighbo…
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Vol. 46 No. 4
Beyond the Cultural Competence Paradigm and contradictory tensions stemming from the multiple identities that constitute each person and community.It also demonstrated the ways in which structural conditions such as chronic poverty, language barriers, and vulnerability to immigration control are tied to gender, race, and class, categories that would later expand across other identities as the concept of intersectionality rapidly diffused across m…
Cognitive and Emotional Outcomes of Latino Threat Narratives in News Media
Objective: Although negative news portrayals can influence attitudes and beliefs about immigrants, little is known about how different types of threat narratives influence Americans’ emotions and perceptions of Latino immigrants specifically. This study examines cognitive and emotional responses to Latino threat narratives in the news media. Method: We conducted an online experiment using a posttest-only randomized design to assess participants’ …
Structurally Competent Social Work Research
Structural competence, recently introduced in the medical literature, has always been present in social work’s approach to addressing social problems. To achieve structural competence, in medicine and in social work, an evidence base for the structural determinants of social problems and interventions is needed. Social work researchers have made some strides in developing an evidence base to inform a structurally competent practice by employing s…
Neighborhood disadvantage, residents' distress, and online social communication
This study aims to examine the role of place‐based online social communications in buffering the relationship between neighborhood disadvantage and psychological distress using geo‐located Twitter feeds. We collected 1,981,802 geo‐tagged tweets posted within the physical boundaries of 78 neighborhoods located in Pittsburgh for 16 consecutive months, beginning July 15, 2013. Psychological distress was measured using sentiments expressed in tweets,…
Examining the Relationship Between Level of Participation in Community Gardens and their Multiple Functions
Participation in community gardens improves health and well-being; however, few studies examine how often individuals need to participate to achieve these outcomes. This study examined the relationship between levels of participation in community gardens and health behaviors, psychological well-being, and perceptions of the community by surveying regular, occasional, and noncommunity garden participants in a disadvantage neighborhood (N = 115). R…
Barrios, ghettos, and residential racial composition
Measuring well-being among children and adolescents in the public behavioral health system
The Role of Disadvantaged Neighborhood Environments in the Association of John Henryism With Hypertension and Obesity
OBJECTIVE: The John Henryism hypothesis proposes that high-effort, active coping in impoverished, low-resource environments is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, but a lower risk of disease in a high-resource environment. To test this hypothesis, we examined the association of John Henryism Active Coping (JHAC) with objectively measured neighborhood disadvantages and the relationship to hypertension (including systolic […
Cultural Adaptation of Interventions in Real Practice Settings
This article provides an overview of some common challenges and opportunities related to cultural adaptation of behavioral interventions. Cultural adaptation is presented as a necessary action to ponder when considering the adoption of an evidence-based intervention with ethnic and other minority groups. It proposes a roadmap to choose existing interventions and a specific approach to evaluate prevention and treatment interventions for cultural r…
Acculturation and Life Satisfaction Among Immigrant Mexican Adults
The numbers of Mexican Americans living in the United States, many of whom are first generation immigrants, are increasing. The process of immigration and acculturation can be accompanied by stress, as an individual attempts to reconcile two potentially competing sets of norms and values and to navigate a new social terrain. However, the outcomes of studies investigating the relationship between levels of acculturation and well-being are mixed. T…
The Parent–child Acculturation Gap, Parental Monitoring, and Substance Use in Mexican Heritage Adolescents in Mexican Neighborhoods of the Southwest U.S
A sample of 206 Mexican‐heritage 7th‐grade adolescents attending predominantly Mexican‐heritage schools in Arizona was assessed on their linguistic acculturation, perceived parental monitoring, and substance use. One of their parents also reported on their own parental level of acculturation. While greater parental acculturation predicted greater marijuana use, the acculturation gap (child's level of acculturation over and above that of the paren…
Familias
The results are promising and add to growing evidence that interventions tailored to the cultural characteristics and environments of parents and their children can strengthen positive parenting
Perceived Neighborhood Safety and Psychological Distress
While a growing body of literature has established a relationship between "disordered" neighborhoods and psychological distress, less is known about the specific mechanisms at work. Using data collected in the 2008 Arizona Health Survey (N = 4,196), hierarchal linear regression was conducted to assess both the independent effect of perception of neighborhood safety on psychological distress, as well as the mediating effects of powerlessness, soci…
Using Ecological Momentary Assessments to Understand Black Youths’ Experiences of Racism, Stress, and Safety
Anti-Black racism, both interpersonal and systemic, is pervasive. Individual- and neighborhood-level expressions of anti-Black racism have been explored in many studies; however, Black youths' experiences of racism across routine activity locations have not been examined as extensively. To address this gap, a Youth Research Advisory Board (YRAB) recruited 75 Black youths (M (SD) = 15.53 (1.77)), living in a segregated neighborhood (93% African Am…
Preventing violence in disadvantaged communities
Violence is a critical health issue that compromises the strength of communities and permanently damages the lives of individuals and families. The impact of violence on health and well-being is particularly devastating in disadvantaged and minority communities, leading to negative health outcomes, including premature death. However, research suggests that communities can prevent violence and negative health outcomes by developing collective effi…
Exploring the Impact of Racism on Black Youth
R U connected? Engaging youth in designing a mobile application for facilitating community organizing and engagement
2021). R U connected? Engaging youth in designing a mobile application for facilitating community organizing and engagement. Journal of Community Practice: Vol. 29, Digital Organizing: Definitions, Applications, Methods and Ethics, pp. 257-279
Discrimination and Rejection
Latino gay and bisexual men (GBM) may experience discrimination attributed to their sexual orientation and ethnicity, necessitating an examination of their experiences from an intersectional lens. While relationships between discrimination and the internalization of those messages have been previously researched, less is known about experiencing discrimination attributed to different identities and its relationships with discrete attributions of …
Cognitive and Emotional Outcomes of Latino Threat Narratives in News Media
Objective: Although negative news portrayals can influence attitudes and beliefs about immigrants, little is known about how different types of threat narratives influence Americans’ emotions and perceptions of Latino immigrants specifically. This study examines cognitive and emotional responses to Latino threat narratives in the news media. Method: We conducted an online experiment using a posttest-only randomized design to assess participants’ …
Barrios, ghettos, and residential racial composition
Using EMA to explore the role of Black adolescents' experiences in activity spaces in momentary negative emotion and marijuana use
Assessing the role of ethnic enclaves in the relationship between neighborhood conditions and participation in neighborhood-focused activism among Latinos in Chicago
Latinos in the US often settle in ethnic enclave neighborhoods, which research and theory suggests have residents who are less engaged in neighborhood activism. However, we know little about the relationship between living in a Latino ethnic enclave compared to other types of neighborhoods and engaging in neighborhood-focused activism among Latinos. This study, therefore, investigates whether both neighborhood organizational resources and neighbo…
Examining the Relationship Between Level of Participation in Community Gardens and their Multiple Functions
Participation in community gardens improves health and well-being; however, few studies examine how often individuals need to participate to achieve these outcomes. This study examined the relationship between levels of participation in community gardens and health behaviors, psychological well-being, and perceptions of the community by surveying regular, occasional, and noncommunity garden participants in a disadvantage neighborhood (N = 115). R…
Measuring well-being among children and adolescents in the public behavioral health system
Examining the Interaction of Daily Hassles Across Ecological Domains on Substance Use and Delinquency Among Low-Income Adolescents of Color
The increased risk for substance use and delinquency among adolescents of color has been partially attributed to increased exposure to daily hassles. Although a certain number of hassles are normative, especially among family and peers, adolescents of color experience more stressors in their neighborhood or directly related to fewer resources than their White counterparts. These hassles may interact across ecological systems to impact behavioral …
Using Gis to Describe Risk and Neighborhood‐level Factors Associated With Substance Abuse Treatment Outcomes
Neighborhood‐level geographic factors may put individuals at risk of developing substance abuse problems. The purpose of this descriptive study was to assess the spatial distribution of risk in Buffalo, New York. The study serves as an example of how neighborhood geographical markers can be used to determine areas with elevated risk that may lead providers to better target and address substance use disorder prevalence in communities. Results show…
Examination of the Relationship Between Daily Perceptions of Collective Efficacy and Marijuana Use Among Black Youth
Neighborhood-level collective efficacy protects Black youth from substance use; however, neighborhood research does not account for the entirety of adolescents' exposure or their perceptions of space which may be critical to understanding the role of context in substance use. To address this limitation, the SPIN Project recruited 65 Black adolescents ( M( SD) = 15.32(1.06)) to complete four brief surveys each day for a month describing their perc…
Political Climate, Discrimination, and Mental Health
In the last presidential election, Latino populations were the target of prejudicial language and discriminatory rhetoric. Experiences of discrimination may impact adolescent mental health, but little is known about the impact of the election cycle on Latino youth perceptions of discrimination and related emotional outcomes. The aim of this study was to understand Latino youths’ experiences, emotional reactions, and coping responses to discrimina…
Relations among Perceptions of Neighborhood Cohesion and Control and Parental Monitoring across Adolescence
Perceived Neighborhood Safety and Psychological Distress
While a growing body of literature has established a relationship between "disordered" neighborhoods and psychological distress, less is known about the specific mechanisms at work. Using data collected in the 2008 Arizona Health Survey (N = 4,196), hierarchal linear regression was conducted to assess both the independent effect of perception of neighborhood safety on psychological distress, as well as the mediating effects of powerlessness, soci…
Mexican adolescents' risky sexual behavior and migration intentions
Purpose The purpose of this study is to identify the association between risky sexual behaviors and migration intentions among adolescents living in Guanajuato, Mexico. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected by self‐administered questionnaires to students enrolled in an alternative schooling system in Guanajuato, Mexico, during the school year of 2006‐2007. The sample size for this study includes 538 unmarried students, 35 percent male, …
Familias
The results are promising and add to growing evidence that interventions tailored to the cultural characteristics and environments of parents and their children can strengthen positive parenting
Using Gis to Describe Risk and Neighborhood‐level Factors Associated With Substance Abuse Treatment Outcomes
Neighborhood‐level geographic factors may put individuals at risk of developing substance abuse problems. The purpose of this descriptive study was to assess the spatial distribution of risk in Buffalo, New York. The study serves as an example of how neighborhood geographical markers can be used to determine areas with elevated risk that may lead providers to better target and address substance use disorder prevalence in communities. Results show…
Acculturation and Life Satisfaction Among Immigrant Mexican Adults
The numbers of Mexican Americans living in the United States, many of whom are first generation immigrants, are increasing. The process of immigration and acculturation can be accompanied by stress, as an individual attempts to reconcile two potentially competing sets of norms and values and to navigate a new social terrain. However, the outcomes of studies investigating the relationship between levels of acculturation and well-being are mixed. T…
Long-Term Effects of the keepin’ it Real Model Program in Mexico
Cultural Adaptation of Interventions in Real Practice Settings
This article provides an overview of some common challenges and opportunities related to cultural adaptation of behavioral interventions. Cultural adaptation is presented as a necessary action to ponder when considering the adoption of an evidence-based intervention with ethnic and other minority groups. It proposes a roadmap to choose existing interventions and a specific approach to evaluate prevention and treatment interventions for cultural r…
The Parent–child Acculturation Gap, Parental Monitoring, and Substance Use in Mexican Heritage Adolescents in Mexican Neighborhoods of the Southwest U.S
A sample of 206 Mexican‐heritage 7th‐grade adolescents attending predominantly Mexican‐heritage schools in Arizona was assessed on their linguistic acculturation, perceived parental monitoring, and substance use. One of their parents also reported on their own parental level of acculturation. While greater parental acculturation predicted greater marijuana use, the acculturation gap (child's level of acculturation over and above that of the paren…
Examining the Interaction of Daily Hassles Across Ecological Domains on Substance Use and Delinquency Among Low-Income Adolescents of Color
The increased risk for substance use and delinquency among adolescents of color has been partially attributed to increased exposure to daily hassles. Although a certain number of hassles are normative, especially among family and peers, adolescents of color experience more stressors in their neighborhood or directly related to fewer resources than their White counterparts. These hassles may interact across ecological systems to impact behavioral …
The Role of Disadvantaged Neighborhood Environments in the Association of John Henryism With Hypertension and Obesity
OBJECTIVE: The John Henryism hypothesis proposes that high-effort, active coping in impoverished, low-resource environments is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, but a lower risk of disease in a high-resource environment. To test this hypothesis, we examined the association of John Henryism Active Coping (JHAC) with objectively measured neighborhood disadvantages and the relationship to hypertension (including systolic […
Preventing violence in disadvantaged communities
Violence is a critical health issue that compromises the strength of communities and permanently damages the lives of individuals and families. The impact of violence on health and well-being is particularly devastating in disadvantaged and minority communities, leading to negative health outcomes, including premature death. However, research suggests that communities can prevent violence and negative health outcomes by developing collective effi…
Measuring well-being among children and adolescents in the public behavioral health system
Neighborhood disadvantage, residents' distress, and online social communication
This study aims to examine the role of place‐based online social communications in buffering the relationship between neighborhood disadvantage and psychological distress using geo‐located Twitter feeds. We collected 1,981,802 geo‐tagged tweets posted within the physical boundaries of 78 neighborhoods located in Pittsburgh for 16 consecutive months, beginning July 15, 2013. Psychological distress was measured using sentiments expressed in tweets,…
Examining the Relationship Between Level of Participation in Community Gardens and their Multiple Functions
Participation in community gardens improves health and well-being; however, few studies examine how often individuals need to participate to achieve these outcomes. This study examined the relationship between levels of participation in community gardens and health behaviors, psychological well-being, and perceptions of the community by surveying regular, occasional, and noncommunity garden participants in a disadvantage neighborhood (N = 115). R…
Barrios, ghettos, and residential racial composition
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Vol. 46 No. 4
Beyond the Cultural Competence Paradigm and contradictory tensions stemming from the multiple identities that constitute each person and community.It also demonstrated the ways in which structural conditions such as chronic poverty, language barriers, and vulnerability to immigration control are tied to gender, race, and class, categories that would later expand across other identities as the concept of intersectionality rapidly diffused across m…
Cognitive and Emotional Outcomes of Latino Threat Narratives in News Media
Objective: Although negative news portrayals can influence attitudes and beliefs about immigrants, little is known about how different types of threat narratives influence Americans’ emotions and perceptions of Latino immigrants specifically. This study examines cognitive and emotional responses to Latino threat narratives in the news media. Method: We conducted an online experiment using a posttest-only randomized design to assess participants’ …
Structurally Competent Social Work Research
Structural competence, recently introduced in the medical literature, has always been present in social work’s approach to addressing social problems. To achieve structural competence, in medicine and in social work, an evidence base for the structural determinants of social problems and interventions is needed. Social work researchers have made some strides in developing an evidence base to inform a structurally competent practice by employing s…
Political Climate, Discrimination, and Mental Health
In the last presidential election, Latino populations were the target of prejudicial language and discriminatory rhetoric. Experiences of discrimination may impact adolescent mental health, but little is known about the impact of the election cycle on Latino youth perceptions of discrimination and related emotional outcomes. The aim of this study was to understand Latino youths’ experiences, emotional reactions, and coping responses to discrimina…
Relations among Perceptions of Neighborhood Cohesion and Control and Parental Monitoring across Adolescence
Assessing the role of ethnic enclaves in the relationship between neighborhood conditions and participation in neighborhood-focused activism among Latinos in Chicago
Latinos in the US often settle in ethnic enclave neighborhoods, which research and theory suggests have residents who are less engaged in neighborhood activism. However, we know little about the relationship between living in a Latino ethnic enclave compared to other types of neighborhoods and engaging in neighborhood-focused activism among Latinos. This study, therefore, investigates whether both neighborhood organizational resources and neighbo…
The role of bilingualism in Latino youth experiences of acculturation stress when living in an emerging Latino community
Latino youth experience unique stressors as they navigate two cultural contexts. While a substantial amount of research has been conducted investigating Latino youths’ experiences of acculturation, most have been conducted in cities with a substantial Latino community, with less research focusing on emerging communities, or areas with small, but growing cultural communities. The aim of this study was to understand Latino youths’ experiences of ac…
Decomposing the Healthy Immigrant Effect
R U connected? Engaging youth in designing a mobile application for facilitating community organizing and engagement
2021). R U connected? Engaging youth in designing a mobile application for facilitating community organizing and engagement. Journal of Community Practice: Vol. 29, Digital Organizing: Definitions, Applications, Methods and Ethics, pp. 257-279
An Examination of the Patterns of Substance Use in Activity Spaces and Their Relationship to Problematic Use
During adolescence, adolescents are given more freedom to independently interact with a variety of social contexts. The eco-developmental model suggests that the activity spaces where adolescents spend their time affect substance-use behaviors beyond peer influences, and that the relationships may differ based on the adolescent's demographic characteristics. This study examines adolescent patterns of reported substance use across activity spaces …
Psychology (29 works) · Sociology (21 works) · Medicine (16 works) · Social Psychology (16 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Political science (14 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (12 works) · Developmental psychology (11 works) · Psychological intervention (11 works) · Clinical Psychology (10 works)