Sara E Pollard
Biographic Data
| ID | 4103165 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara E Pollard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara E |
| FAMILY NAME | Pollard |
| SIGNATURE | POLLARD S E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Texas |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Self-Criticism and Depressive Symptoms: Mediating Role of Self-Compassion
Self-compassion is gaining recognition as a resilience factor with implications for positive mental health. This study investigated the role of self-compassion in alleviating the effect of self-criticism on depressive symptoms. Participants were 147 urban, low-income African Americans with a recent suicide attempt. They were administered measures of self-criticism, depressive symptoms, and self-compassion. Results from this cross-sectional invest…
A Comparison of White and Hispanic Women's Stories of Adjustment to the Birth of a Child
As part of a larger project designed to inform prevention and treatment of postpartum depression and promote positive mother–child relationships in diverse families, this study describes personal stories of postnatal adjustment from 14 White and 9 Hispanic women recruited from prenatal care clinics. Qualitative interviews conducted in the mothers’ primary language (English or Spanish) were analyzed using a modified grounded theory content‐analysi…
Assessing Attitudes toward Grandparents Raising Their Grandchildren
This article describes the assessment of attitudes toward grandparent caregivers held by noncaregiving grandparents. Six hundred two grandparents not currently caring for grandchildren completed an 18-item measure of such attitudes. This attitude scale was both internally consistent and multidimensional in nature. Attitudes were more positive for grandparents reporting previous experience caring for a grandchild and such attitudes were in part pr…
A meta‐analysis of home visiting programs: Moderators of improvements in maternal behavior
A meta‐analysis of home visiting programs for at‐risk families ( K = 35, N = 6,453) examined differences in the effects of programs on maternal behavior. On average, programs with more frequent visitation had higher success rates. The frequency of home visits explained significant variance of effect sizes among studies in the United States, with two visits per month predicting a small, substantive effect. Intensive programs or programs with at le…
A meta‐analysis of home visiting programs: Moderators of improvements in maternal behavior
A meta‐analysis of home visiting programs for at‐risk families ( K = 35, N = 6,453) examined differences in the effects of programs on maternal behavior. On average, programs with more frequent visitation had higher success rates. The frequency of home visits explained significant variance of effect sizes among studies in the United States, with two visits per month predicting a small, substantive effect. Intensive programs or programs with at le…
Assessing Attitudes toward Grandparents Raising Their Grandchildren
This article describes the assessment of attitudes toward grandparent caregivers held by noncaregiving grandparents. Six hundred two grandparents not currently caring for grandchildren completed an 18-item measure of such attitudes. This attitude scale was both internally consistent and multidimensional in nature. Attitudes were more positive for grandparents reporting previous experience caring for a grandchild and such attitudes were in part pr…
A Comparison of White and Hispanic Women's Stories of Adjustment to the Birth of a Child
As part of a larger project designed to inform prevention and treatment of postpartum depression and promote positive mother–child relationships in diverse families, this study describes personal stories of postnatal adjustment from 14 White and 9 Hispanic women recruited from prenatal care clinics. Qualitative interviews conducted in the mothers’ primary language (English or Spanish) were analyzed using a modified grounded theory content‐analysi…
A meta‐analysis of home visiting programs: Moderators of improvements in maternal behavior
A meta‐analysis of home visiting programs for at‐risk families ( K = 35, N = 6,453) examined differences in the effects of programs on maternal behavior. On average, programs with more frequent visitation had higher success rates. The frequency of home visits explained significant variance of effect sizes among studies in the United States, with two visits per month predicting a small, substantive effect. Intensive programs or programs with at le…
Assessing Attitudes toward Grandparents Raising Their Grandchildren
This article describes the assessment of attitudes toward grandparent caregivers held by noncaregiving grandparents. Six hundred two grandparents not currently caring for grandchildren completed an 18-item measure of such attitudes. This attitude scale was both internally consistent and multidimensional in nature. Attitudes were more positive for grandparents reporting previous experience caring for a grandchild and such attitudes were in part pr…
A Comparison of White and Hispanic Women's Stories of Adjustment to the Birth of a Child
As part of a larger project designed to inform prevention and treatment of postpartum depression and promote positive mother–child relationships in diverse families, this study describes personal stories of postnatal adjustment from 14 White and 9 Hispanic women recruited from prenatal care clinics. Qualitative interviews conducted in the mothers’ primary language (English or Spanish) were analyzed using a modified grounded theory content‐analysi…
Self-Criticism and Depressive Symptoms: Mediating Role of Self-Compassion
Self-compassion is gaining recognition as a resilience factor with implications for positive mental health. This study investigated the role of self-compassion in alleviating the effect of self-criticism on depressive symptoms. Participants were 147 urban, low-income African Americans with a recent suicide attempt. They were administered measures of self-criticism, depressive symptoms, and self-compassion. Results from this cross-sectional invest…
Psychology (4 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (2 works) · Clinical Psychology (2 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (2 works) · Psychiatry (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Aging and Gerontology Research (1 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (1 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (1 works)