Jennifer A Epstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 4089114 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer A Epstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer A |
| FAMILY NAME | Epstein |
| SIGNATURE | EPSTEIN J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Efficacy, Self-Derogation, and Alcohol Use Among Inner-City Adolescents: Gender Matters
Social Competence and Substance Use Among Rural Youth: Mediating Role of Social Benefit Expectancies of Use
Competence skills help deter smoking among inner city adolescents
Adolescent smoking prevention programmes often teach refusal skills in order to help youth resist peer pressure to smoke. The present findings suggest that teaching general competence skills as well may help to reduce smoking because youth with better personal efficacy and decision making skills are better able to implement smoking refusal strategies
Methods to Decrease Attrition in Longitudinal Studies with Adolescents
A summary of methods to decrease attrition in longitudinal school-based studies conducted with adolescents beginning junior high schools or middle schools is presented. These include collection of contact information about students, additional days to collect data from absentee students, data collection in new high schools once students graduate from junior high schools or middle schools, sending questionnaires by mail, and conducting telephone o…
Methods to Decrease Attrition in Longitudinal Studies With Adolescents
Psychosocial predictors of cigarette smoking among adolescents living in public housing developments
These findings suggest that smoking prevention approaches targeted at these young people should increase their awareness of social pressures to smoke, correct misperceptions about the prevalence of smoking among friends, and teach relevant psychosocial skills
Marijuana use among minority youths living in public housing developments
Psychological and psychosocial adjustment of HIV-infected gay/bisexual men: Disease stage comparisons
The association between HIV disease progression (asymptomatic, symptomatic, AIDS) and mental health and psychosocial adjustment was examined among 144 men living in the New York City metropolitan area who had sex with men. While mean levels of mental health reported by the men did not differ by disease stage, mean levels of psychosocial adjustment did, with asymptomatic participants reporting significantly higher levels of adjustment on average, …
Reliability of Social and Personal Competence Measures for Adolescents
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Reliability of Social and Personal Competence Measures for Adolescents
Five newly developed social and personal competence measures had high internal consistency (alphas ranged from .73 to .89) based on a sample of 5287 seventh grade students
Ethnic-Racial Differences in Psychological Stress Related to Gay Lifestyle among Hiv-Positive Men
To examine whether there were any ethnic-racial differences among 144 HIV-infected gay men (47 Caucasian, 48 African-American, and 49 Puerto Rican) on psychological stressors related to the gay lifestyle, responses to the Gay Lifestyle Hassles scale were analyzed. The African-American and Puerto Rican men reported significantly higher scores on frequency of Gay Lifestyle Hassles and cumulated severity of Gay Lifestyle Hassles over-all than Caucas…
Validation of an Acculturation Measure for Hispanic Adolescents
Based on the continuing growth and youthfulness of the Hispanic population in the United States, valid cultural measures are needed for Hispanic adolescents. Hispanics living in this country experience acculturation or cultural change during their exposure to American culture. A matched sample of 994 Hispanic students and their parents completed acculturation measures. Scores on a 10-item acculturation scale completed by the adolescents' parents …
Psychological and psychosocial adjustment of HIV‐infected gay/bisexual men: Disease stage comparisons
The association between HIV disease progression (asymptomatic, symptomatic, AIDS) and mental health and psychosocial adjustment was examined among 144 men living in the New York City metropolitan area who had sex with men. While mean levels of mental health reported by the men did not differ by disease stage, mean levels of psychosocial adjustment did, with asymptomatic participants reporting significantly higher levels of adjustment on average, …
Lying in everyday life
Determinants of Intentions of Junior High School Students to Become Sexually Active and Use Condoms: Implications for Reduction and Prevention of Aids Risk
The purpose of this study was to examine factors associated with young adolescents' increased risk for AIDS. A multiethnic sample of 303 seventh-grade students in three schools in the greater New York area completed questionnaires assessing their basic demographic characteristics (gender and ethnicity), AIDS knowledge, substance use (cigarette smoking, alcohol use), and decision-making skills. AIDS knowledge, substance use, decision-making skills…
Acculturation, Beliefs about Aids, and Aids Education among New York City Hispanic Parents
The authors interviewed 100 Hispanic parents in the language of their choice (Spanish or English) to explore their beliefs aboutAIDSandAIDS education. The authors assessed the relationship between acculturation (language preference) and beliefs about AIDS and sources of information aboutAIDS. In addition, they examined parents'beliefs about AIDS and their level of acculturation as predictors of what parents believed students should learn about AI…
Responses of the Socially Anxious to the Prospect of Interpersonal Evaluation
We predicted that socially anxious people who are faced with the prospect of an interpersonal evaluation will act in an inhibited and withdrawn way Subjects who scored low or high on a measure of social anxiety told four stories about themselves to an interviewer In the anticipated‐evaluation condition, the subjects learned that after they had told their stories, the interviewer would tell them her impressions of them In the control condition, no…
Lying in everyday life
Marijuana use among minority youths living in public housing developments
Acculturation, Beliefs about Aids, and Aids Education among New York City Hispanic Parents
The authors interviewed 100 Hispanic parents in the language of their choice (Spanish or English) to explore their beliefs aboutAIDSandAIDS education. The authors assessed the relationship between acculturation (language preference) and beliefs about AIDS and sources of information aboutAIDS. In addition, they examined parents'beliefs about AIDS and their level of acculturation as predictors of what parents believed students should learn about AI…
Efficacy, Self-Derogation, and Alcohol Use Among Inner-City Adolescents: Gender Matters
Social Competence and Substance Use Among Rural Youth: Mediating Role of Social Benefit Expectancies of Use
Responses of the Socially Anxious to the Prospect of Interpersonal Evaluation
We predicted that socially anxious people who are faced with the prospect of an interpersonal evaluation will act in an inhibited and withdrawn way Subjects who scored low or high on a measure of social anxiety told four stories about themselves to an interviewer In the anticipated‐evaluation condition, the subjects learned that after they had told their stories, the interviewer would tell them her impressions of them In the control condition, no…
Determinants of Intentions of Junior High School Students to Become Sexually Active and Use Condoms: Implications for Reduction and Prevention of Aids Risk
The purpose of this study was to examine factors associated with young adolescents' increased risk for AIDS. A multiethnic sample of 303 seventh-grade students in three schools in the greater New York area completed questionnaires assessing their basic demographic characteristics (gender and ethnicity), AIDS knowledge, substance use (cigarette smoking, alcohol use), and decision-making skills. AIDS knowledge, substance use, decision-making skills…
Acculturation, Beliefs about Aids, and Aids Education among New York City Hispanic Parents
The authors interviewed 100 Hispanic parents in the language of their choice (Spanish or English) to explore their beliefs aboutAIDSandAIDS education. The authors assessed the relationship between acculturation (language preference) and beliefs about AIDS and sources of information aboutAIDS. In addition, they examined parents'beliefs about AIDS and their level of acculturation as predictors of what parents believed students should learn about AI…
Ethnic-Racial Differences in Psychological Stress Related to Gay Lifestyle among Hiv-Positive Men
To examine whether there were any ethnic-racial differences among 144 HIV-infected gay men (47 Caucasian, 48 African-American, and 49 Puerto Rican) on psychological stressors related to the gay lifestyle, responses to the Gay Lifestyle Hassles scale were analyzed. The African-American and Puerto Rican men reported significantly higher scores on frequency of Gay Lifestyle Hassles and cumulated severity of Gay Lifestyle Hassles over-all than Caucas…
Validation of an Acculturation Measure for Hispanic Adolescents
Based on the continuing growth and youthfulness of the Hispanic population in the United States, valid cultural measures are needed for Hispanic adolescents. Hispanics living in this country experience acculturation or cultural change during their exposure to American culture. A matched sample of 994 Hispanic students and their parents completed acculturation measures. Scores on a 10-item acculturation scale completed by the adolescents' parents …
Psychological and psychosocial adjustment of HIV‐infected gay/bisexual men: Disease stage comparisons
The association between HIV disease progression (asymptomatic, symptomatic, AIDS) and mental health and psychosocial adjustment was examined among 144 men living in the New York City metropolitan area who had sex with men. While mean levels of mental health reported by the men did not differ by disease stage, mean levels of psychosocial adjustment did, with asymptomatic participants reporting significantly higher levels of adjustment on average, …
Lying in everyday life
Reliability of Social and Personal Competence Measures for Adolescents
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Reliability of Social and Personal Competence Measures for Adolescents
Five newly developed social and personal competence measures had high internal consistency (alphas ranged from .73 to .89) based on a sample of 5287 seventh grade students
Psychological and psychosocial adjustment of HIV-infected gay/bisexual men: Disease stage comparisons
The association between HIV disease progression (asymptomatic, symptomatic, AIDS) and mental health and psychosocial adjustment was examined among 144 men living in the New York City metropolitan area who had sex with men. While mean levels of mental health reported by the men did not differ by disease stage, mean levels of psychosocial adjustment did, with asymptomatic participants reporting significantly higher levels of adjustment on average, …
Psychosocial predictors of cigarette smoking among adolescents living in public housing developments
These findings suggest that smoking prevention approaches targeted at these young people should increase their awareness of social pressures to smoke, correct misperceptions about the prevalence of smoking among friends, and teach relevant psychosocial skills
Marijuana use among minority youths living in public housing developments
Competence skills help deter smoking among inner city adolescents
Adolescent smoking prevention programmes often teach refusal skills in order to help youth resist peer pressure to smoke. The present findings suggest that teaching general competence skills as well may help to reduce smoking because youth with better personal efficacy and decision making skills are better able to implement smoking refusal strategies
Methods to Decrease Attrition in Longitudinal Studies with Adolescents
A summary of methods to decrease attrition in longitudinal school-based studies conducted with adolescents beginning junior high schools or middle schools is presented. These include collection of contact information about students, additional days to collect data from absentee students, data collection in new high schools once students graduate from junior high schools or middle schools, sending questionnaires by mail, and conducting telephone o…
Methods to Decrease Attrition in Longitudinal Studies With Adolescents
Social Competence and Substance Use Among Rural Youth: Mediating Role of Social Benefit Expectancies of Use
Efficacy, Self-Derogation, and Alcohol Use Among Inner-City Adolescents: Gender Matters
Psychology (17 works) · Clinical Psychology (13 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Clinical Psychology (8 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · Demography (5 works) · Environmental health (5 works) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (5 works)