Pamela Black
Biographic Data
| ID | 4117925 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pamela Black |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pamela |
| FAMILY NAME | Black |
| SIGNATURE | BLACK P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8921-7729 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Gender Differences in Facebook Addiction as a Coping Response to Social Stressors and Poor Self-Confidence
The Threat Appraisal and Coping Theory suggests that when individuals perceive social stressors from important interpersonal relationships (family, friends, romance), and when they have poor self-confidence, they may display the coping behavior of seeking social support, including that provided by social media platforms such as Facebook. However, individuals who perceive intense social stressors and have poor self-confidence may use Facebook to t…
Perceived Powerlessness as a Mediator between Life Stressors and Deviant Behaviors
The Threat Appraisal and Coping Theory suggest that when facing life stressors, individuals may perceive that they are powerless to change them, which may prompt "maladaptive coping" deviant behaviors. The present study examined the relationship between 5 types of deviant behavior and perceived powerlessness, and whether powerlessness served as a mediator between life stressors and deviance. Money stress and powerlessness increased risk for watch…
Workplace Deviance as a Possible 'Maladaptive Coping' Behavior Displayed in Association with Workplace Stressors
The Threat Appraisal and Coping Theory suggests that in response to environmental stressors, individuals sometimes display "maladaptive coping" behaviors that may vent frustration immediately but worsen later psychosocial well-being. For example, employees exposed to workplace stressors may vent their frustration with workplace deviance including intentional poor performance, abuse of organizational resources, disrespect, and disruption of co-wor…
Do painkillers serve as “hillbilly heroin” for rural adults with high levels of psychosocial stress
Nonmedical use of painkillers has increased in recent years, with some authors suggesting that painkillers serve as "hillbilly heroin": a drug chosen by rural adults to cope with psychosocial stresses in their lives. The present study compared rural and urban adults for their reported use of 5 drugs during the past year (painkillers, marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin) and for associations between these 5 drugs and their reported psychos…
Is Fifty Really the New Thirty? The Stigma of Age as a Form of Strain and its Role in Drug and Alcohol Abuse and Dependence by Women
Aging bodies stigmatize women. The effects of stigma, health issues, goal disappointment, and a combination of age and minority group status, overwhelm older women’s coping strategies, leading to maladaptive behaviors. General strain theory posits a relationship between negative stimuli and deviant behavior. Advancing age and age-related stigma reflect this strain. This study explores the relationship between strain and substance abuse or depende…
Cultural Transmission and Crime
This entry discusses theories that focus on the origins of crime as a function of value conflict between dominant and subordinate cultures. These theories address the role of lower‐class socialization in the development of delinquent behavior, the effect of an inequitable opportunity structure, and violent subcultures.
Still Dazed and Confused
National drug use surveys show the baby boom generation using marijuana in record numbers. We test hypotheses based on social learning, rational choice, and strain theories to explain marijuana use among adults aged 50–64 with an intersectional lens to consider racial and gender group differences. Social learning perspectives, pointing to pro-marijuana attitudes and norms acquired through culture, and rational choice approaches, in which marijuan…
Who's the Man? Fragile Masculinities, Consumer Masculinities, and the Profiles of Sex Work Clients
Some research on male clients of female prostitutes argues that clients are simply seeking unemotional sexual release or looking for wild and varied sexual experiences. Yet other sex workers portray clients as lonely, vulnerable, and desiring of emotional connection with women. Rather than view this as an 'either-or' scenario-in which all clients fit one profile-we construct two dichotomous models of masculinity for clients and explore their atti…
Policing Diverse Communities
Using data from the Impact of Community Policing Training and Program Implementation on Police Personnel in Arizona, 1995–1998 (N = 1,449), this study looks at gender and ethnicity differences in orientations toward nontraditional policing styles and self-assessment of ability to police diverse communities. We hypothesized that minority and female officers would be more open to nontraditional (community-oriented policing and problem-solving polic…
Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) Students' Prior Sexual Abuse Victimization
This paper reports findings of an exploratory study surveying 61 students about their prior child sexual abuse victimization. Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) students were surveyed at the beginning and end of a child abuse course and results indicated that 19.7 % of the students reported being sexually abused during childhood. Results also indicated that taking a child abuse course may increase BSW students' self‐awareness regarding prior victimiza…
Who's the Man? Fragile Masculinities, Consumer Masculinities, and the Profiles of Sex Work Clients
Some research on male clients of female prostitutes argues that clients are simply seeking unemotional sexual release or looking for wild and varied sexual experiences. Yet other sex workers portray clients as lonely, vulnerable, and desiring of emotional connection with women. Rather than view this as an 'either-or' scenario-in which all clients fit one profile-we construct two dichotomous models of masculinity for clients and explore their atti…
Perceived Powerlessness as a Mediator between Life Stressors and Deviant Behaviors
The Threat Appraisal and Coping Theory suggest that when facing life stressors, individuals may perceive that they are powerless to change them, which may prompt "maladaptive coping" deviant behaviors. The present study examined the relationship between 5 types of deviant behavior and perceived powerlessness, and whether powerlessness served as a mediator between life stressors and deviance. Money stress and powerlessness increased risk for watch…
Is Fifty Really the New Thirty? The Stigma of Age as a Form of Strain and its Role in Drug and Alcohol Abuse and Dependence by Women
Aging bodies stigmatize women. The effects of stigma, health issues, goal disappointment, and a combination of age and minority group status, overwhelm older women’s coping strategies, leading to maladaptive behaviors. General strain theory posits a relationship between negative stimuli and deviant behavior. Advancing age and age-related stigma reflect this strain. This study explores the relationship between strain and substance abuse or depende…
Still Dazed and Confused
National drug use surveys show the baby boom generation using marijuana in record numbers. We test hypotheses based on social learning, rational choice, and strain theories to explain marijuana use among adults aged 50–64 with an intersectional lens to consider racial and gender group differences. Social learning perspectives, pointing to pro-marijuana attitudes and norms acquired through culture, and rational choice approaches, in which marijuan…
Workplace Deviance as a Possible 'Maladaptive Coping' Behavior Displayed in Association with Workplace Stressors
The Threat Appraisal and Coping Theory suggests that in response to environmental stressors, individuals sometimes display "maladaptive coping" behaviors that may vent frustration immediately but worsen later psychosocial well-being. For example, employees exposed to workplace stressors may vent their frustration with workplace deviance including intentional poor performance, abuse of organizational resources, disrespect, and disruption of co-wor…
Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) Students' Prior Sexual Abuse Victimization
This paper reports findings of an exploratory study surveying 61 students about their prior child sexual abuse victimization. Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) students were surveyed at the beginning and end of a child abuse course and results indicated that 19.7 % of the students reported being sexually abused during childhood. Results also indicated that taking a child abuse course may increase BSW students' self‐awareness regarding prior victimiza…
Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) Students' Prior Sexual Abuse Victimization
This paper reports findings of an exploratory study surveying 61 students about their prior child sexual abuse victimization. Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) students were surveyed at the beginning and end of a child abuse course and results indicated that 19.7 % of the students reported being sexually abused during childhood. Results also indicated that taking a child abuse course may increase BSW students' self‐awareness regarding prior victimiza…
Policing Diverse Communities
Using data from the Impact of Community Policing Training and Program Implementation on Police Personnel in Arizona, 1995–1998 (N = 1,449), this study looks at gender and ethnicity differences in orientations toward nontraditional policing styles and self-assessment of ability to police diverse communities. We hypothesized that minority and female officers would be more open to nontraditional (community-oriented policing and problem-solving polic…
Who's the Man? Fragile Masculinities, Consumer Masculinities, and the Profiles of Sex Work Clients
Some research on male clients of female prostitutes argues that clients are simply seeking unemotional sexual release or looking for wild and varied sexual experiences. Yet other sex workers portray clients as lonely, vulnerable, and desiring of emotional connection with women. Rather than view this as an 'either-or' scenario-in which all clients fit one profile-we construct two dichotomous models of masculinity for clients and explore their atti…
Cultural Transmission and Crime
This entry discusses theories that focus on the origins of crime as a function of value conflict between dominant and subordinate cultures. These theories address the role of lower‐class socialization in the development of delinquent behavior, the effect of an inequitable opportunity structure, and violent subcultures.
Still Dazed and Confused
National drug use surveys show the baby boom generation using marijuana in record numbers. We test hypotheses based on social learning, rational choice, and strain theories to explain marijuana use among adults aged 50–64 with an intersectional lens to consider racial and gender group differences. Social learning perspectives, pointing to pro-marijuana attitudes and norms acquired through culture, and rational choice approaches, in which marijuan…
Is Fifty Really the New Thirty? The Stigma of Age as a Form of Strain and its Role in Drug and Alcohol Abuse and Dependence by Women
Aging bodies stigmatize women. The effects of stigma, health issues, goal disappointment, and a combination of age and minority group status, overwhelm older women’s coping strategies, leading to maladaptive behaviors. General strain theory posits a relationship between negative stimuli and deviant behavior. Advancing age and age-related stigma reflect this strain. This study explores the relationship between strain and substance abuse or depende…
Do painkillers serve as “hillbilly heroin” for rural adults with high levels of psychosocial stress
Nonmedical use of painkillers has increased in recent years, with some authors suggesting that painkillers serve as "hillbilly heroin": a drug chosen by rural adults to cope with psychosocial stresses in their lives. The present study compared rural and urban adults for their reported use of 5 drugs during the past year (painkillers, marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin) and for associations between these 5 drugs and their reported psychos…
Perceived Powerlessness as a Mediator between Life Stressors and Deviant Behaviors
The Threat Appraisal and Coping Theory suggest that when facing life stressors, individuals may perceive that they are powerless to change them, which may prompt "maladaptive coping" deviant behaviors. The present study examined the relationship between 5 types of deviant behavior and perceived powerlessness, and whether powerlessness served as a mediator between life stressors and deviance. Money stress and powerlessness increased risk for watch…
Workplace Deviance as a Possible 'Maladaptive Coping' Behavior Displayed in Association with Workplace Stressors
The Threat Appraisal and Coping Theory suggests that in response to environmental stressors, individuals sometimes display "maladaptive coping" behaviors that may vent frustration immediately but worsen later psychosocial well-being. For example, employees exposed to workplace stressors may vent their frustration with workplace deviance including intentional poor performance, abuse of organizational resources, disrespect, and disruption of co-wor…
Gender Differences in Facebook Addiction as a Coping Response to Social Stressors and Poor Self-Confidence
The Threat Appraisal and Coping Theory suggests that when individuals perceive social stressors from important interpersonal relationships (family, friends, romance), and when they have poor self-confidence, they may display the coping behavior of seeking social support, including that provided by social media platforms such as Facebook. However, individuals who perceive intense social stressors and have poor self-confidence may use Facebook to t…
Psychology (10 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Coping (psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Stressor (4 works)