Delores E Smith

Biographic Data

ID4085989
NAMEDelores E Smith
GIVEN NAMESDelores E
FAMILY NAMESmith
SIGNATURESMITH D E
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Tennessee at Knoxville
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS6
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1992
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX1

  • A Phenomenological Study

    Open AccessMilicia Antoinette Tedder, Dorothy E Smith et al.ARTICLEPastoral Psychology2018Cited by: 1References: 1

  • Family Violence and Aggression and Their Associations With Psychosocial Functioning in Jamaican Adolescents

    Open AccessDorothy E Smith, Delores E Smith et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family Issues2013Cited by: 1References: 24

    The purpose of the current study was to examine the relationships among selected family interaction variables and psychosocial outcomes in a sample of Jamaican adolescents. The authors hypothesized that adolescent psychosocial outcomes would be negatively associated with physical violence, verbal aggression would be more potent than physical violence, and the combined effect of all aggression and violence would be more detrimental than either for…

  • Relationships Among Selected Demographic Variables and Adolescent Psychosocial Well‐Being

    Open AccessVictor R Wilburn, Dorothy E Smith et al.ARTICLEFamily and Consumer Sciences…2009Cited by: 3References: 46

    This study investigated the relationships among self‐esteem, social competence, stress, social support (family and peer), gender, and ethnicity among urban, rural, and suburban adolescents. The participants in this study were drawn from a nationally representative sample of adolescent youth. Analyses of data revealed that there were significant relationships between self‐esteem, social competence, stress, and social support. Significant differenc…

  • Predictors of Children's Understandings of Death

    Open AccessSally B Hunter, Dorothy E Smith et al.ARTICLEOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying2008

    A child's age, cognitive ability, and exposure to death in the environment have been documented as major factors affecting the formation of a mature death concept. The present study investigated the relationships between these three factors (age, cognitive ability, and death experience) and children's understandings of death, as well as the relationship between mothers' communicative competence and children's understandings of death. Thirty-seven…

  • Violence among youth in Jamaica

    Open AccessDorothy E Smith, Delores E Smith et al.ARTICLERevista Panamericana de Salud…2007

    In 2000, Jamaica ranked third in the world in murders per capita (2). By the end of 2005, police crime data indicated a record number of annual homicides (63.0 per 100 000 inhabitants), a rate

  • Pregnancy Status, Self‐Esteem, and Ethnicity

    Open AccessDorothy E Smith, Delores E Smith et al.ARTICLEFamily and Consumer Sciences…1994Cited by: 1References: 7

    This study used the multidimensional construct of self‐esteem to investigate the relationships among pregnancy status, self‐esteem, and ethnicity. These relationships were examined in a sample of 100 pregnant/parenting and never‐pregnant African American and European American female adolescents ranging in age from 15 to 19 years. Findings indicated that, although self‐esteem and pregnancy status were associated for European American adolescents, …

  • The Educational Structure and the Self-Image of Jamaican Adolescents

    Open AccessDorothy E Smith, Delores E SmithARTICLEPsychological Reports1993

    The Offer Self-image Questionnaire was used to assess the self-image of 141 Jamaican adolescents attending three types of secondary (High, Technical, and New Secondary) schools in Jamaica. Owing to the different status given each type of school, differences among students' self-perceptions were hypothesized as a function of the type of secondary school they attended. Analysis showed significant differences on dimensions of the self-image of Jamai…

  • Relationship of Scores on Two Personality Measures

    Dorothy E Smith, Delores E SmithARTICLEPsychological Reports1992

  • Relationship of Scores on Two Personality Measures

    Open AccessDorothy E Smith, Delores E Smith et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1992

    This study investigated the relationship between self-image and creativity in late adolescence. The multidimensional Offer Self-image Questionnaire was used to assess self-image while the How Do You Think Inventory was used to measure creativity. The results were similar to investigations indicating superior socioemotional functioning among gifted adolescents. More creatively scoring subjects (n = 65) exhibited better psychosocial functioning on …