Tracy Nichols
Biographic Data
| ID | 4631412 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tracy Nichols |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tracy |
| FAMILY NAME | Nichols |
| SIGNATURE | NICHOLS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0151-3572 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Using Poetic Assemblage to Trouble Stigma Associated With Perinatal Drug Use
The concept of assemblage has a long history in both the arts and social sciences. Assemblage thinking is particularly useful for critical scholars to engage with complex phenomena, such as drug use and stigma. Analytic methods that support assemblage thinking through the construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction of data-based assemblages are needed. This paper describes a qualitative analytic method, poetic assemblage, that merges the art…
Narrative Disruption
Narcofeminism Storyshare is an iterative storyshare model developed by NC Survivors Union, a harm reduction and advocacy organization led by directly impacted people, that uses autobiographical story development by women and gender diverse people who use drugs to disrupt stigmatizing societal narratives, achieve healing for individuals and communities, and spark organizing and structural change. We describe the theoretical frameworks behind Narco…
Social Stigma and Perinatal Substance Use Services
People who are diagnosed with a substance use disorder can experience stigmatizing interactions with health and social service providers, which may decrease both quality and continuity of care. For women with a substance-exposed pregnancy (SEP), this stigma can increase exponentially. Stigmatizing interactions can be difficult to identify due to social sanctions against expressing stigmatizing attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors and because stigma …
Relational and Partner-Specific Factors Influencing Black Heterosexual Women’s Initiation of Sexual Intercourse and Orgasm Frequency
We Can’t Step Back
One of the fastest emerging global public health crises is the rapid increase in the population of forcibly displaced people, known as refugees. Refugee women, particularly, are at a greater disadvantage due to their social positioning related to gender norms, language barriers, and lack of resources. They are also more likely to experience structural and situational stressors. Despite myriad negative factors, studies show refugee women employ re…
Testing the Association Between Traditional and Novel Indicators of County-Level Structural Racism and Birth Outcomes among Black and White Women
You have to put your children’s needs first or you’re really not a good mother
Black mothers provide a disproportionate share of unpaid and informal health care support to others, internal and external to their households. In addition, black women experience a disproportionate burden of chronic disease and healthrelated risk factors. Despite these trends, few studies have examined the impact of daily mothering on women’s self-care practices. Embodiment, an ecosocial theory applied to health disparities research, describes a…
Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Age
Few studies have examined disparities in adverse birth outcomes and compared contributing socioeconomic factors specifically between African-American and White teen mothers. This study examined intersections between neighborhood socioeconomic status (as defined by census-tract median household income), maternal age, and racial disparities in preterm birth (PTB) outcomes between African-American and White teen mothers in North Carolina. Using a li…
Trajectories of aggression, delinquency, and substance use across middle school among urban, minority adolescents
This study evaluated bidirectional associations between substance use, aggression, and delinquency across sixth, seventh, and eighth grades using data available from a large study of urban minority youth ( n = 2,931). Group‐based trajectory analysis revealed trajectories of aggression, delinquency, and substance use which support the existence of both adolescent‐limited and life‐course persistent offenders. In addition, a pattern of decreasing ag…
Is Sensation Seeking a Stable Trait or Does it Change Over Time
Refusal Skill Ability
Ways to Say No
A Longitudinal Examination of Family, Friend, and Media Influences on Competent Versus Problem Behaviors Among Urban Minority Youth
This article examines family, friend, and media influences on competent and problem behaviors in a sample of 1,174 urban minority youth followed over 6th, 7th, and 8th grades. Students completed annual surveys at their schools. Each of the contextual factors investigated was significantly associated with concurrent aggression and delinquency as well as changes in these outcomes over time. In contrast, parental monitoring was most often significan…
Sixth Graders’ Conflict Resolution in Role Plays with a Peer, Parent, and Teacher
Maternal Influences on Smoking Initiation Among Urban Adolescent Girls
This study examined associations between maternal social influences to smoke and girls' early smoking behaviors. Data were collected separately from 450 urban minority girls (65.7% Black, 21.5% Latina, and 12.8% other) and their mothers on smoking frequency as well as demographic and social factors hypothesized to promote smoking. Results showed perception of mothers' smoking to be associated with girls' early smoking behaviors, whereas mothers' …
Testing the Association Between Traditional and Novel Indicators of County-Level Structural Racism and Birth Outcomes among Black and White Women
Trajectories of aggression, delinquency, and substance use across middle school among urban, minority adolescents
This study evaluated bidirectional associations between substance use, aggression, and delinquency across sixth, seventh, and eighth grades using data available from a large study of urban minority youth ( n = 2,931). Group‐based trajectory analysis revealed trajectories of aggression, delinquency, and substance use which support the existence of both adolescent‐limited and life‐course persistent offenders. In addition, a pattern of decreasing ag…
Is Sensation Seeking a Stable Trait or Does it Change Over Time
Social Stigma and Perinatal Substance Use Services
People who are diagnosed with a substance use disorder can experience stigmatizing interactions with health and social service providers, which may decrease both quality and continuity of care. For women with a substance-exposed pregnancy (SEP), this stigma can increase exponentially. Stigmatizing interactions can be difficult to identify due to social sanctions against expressing stigmatizing attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors and because stigma …
Relational and Partner-Specific Factors Influencing Black Heterosexual Women’s Initiation of Sexual Intercourse and Orgasm Frequency
You have to put your children’s needs first or you’re really not a good mother
Black mothers provide a disproportionate share of unpaid and informal health care support to others, internal and external to their households. In addition, black women experience a disproportionate burden of chronic disease and healthrelated risk factors. Despite these trends, few studies have examined the impact of daily mothering on women’s self-care practices. Embodiment, an ecosocial theory applied to health disparities research, describes a…
Narrative Disruption
Narcofeminism Storyshare is an iterative storyshare model developed by NC Survivors Union, a harm reduction and advocacy organization led by directly impacted people, that uses autobiographical story development by women and gender diverse people who use drugs to disrupt stigmatizing societal narratives, achieve healing for individuals and communities, and spark organizing and structural change. We describe the theoretical frameworks behind Narco…
We Can’t Step Back
One of the fastest emerging global public health crises is the rapid increase in the population of forcibly displaced people, known as refugees. Refugee women, particularly, are at a greater disadvantage due to their social positioning related to gender norms, language barriers, and lack of resources. They are also more likely to experience structural and situational stressors. Despite myriad negative factors, studies show refugee women employ re…
Using Poetic Assemblage to Trouble Stigma Associated With Perinatal Drug Use
The concept of assemblage has a long history in both the arts and social sciences. Assemblage thinking is particularly useful for critical scholars to engage with complex phenomena, such as drug use and stigma. Analytic methods that support assemblage thinking through the construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction of data-based assemblages are needed. This paper describes a qualitative analytic method, poetic assemblage, that merges the art…
Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Age
Few studies have examined disparities in adverse birth outcomes and compared contributing socioeconomic factors specifically between African-American and White teen mothers. This study examined intersections between neighborhood socioeconomic status (as defined by census-tract median household income), maternal age, and racial disparities in preterm birth (PTB) outcomes between African-American and White teen mothers in North Carolina. Using a li…
Maternal Influences on Smoking Initiation Among Urban Adolescent Girls
This study examined associations between maternal social influences to smoke and girls' early smoking behaviors. Data were collected separately from 450 urban minority girls (65.7% Black, 21.5% Latina, and 12.8% other) and their mothers on smoking frequency as well as demographic and social factors hypothesized to promote smoking. Results showed perception of mothers' smoking to be associated with girls' early smoking behaviors, whereas mothers' …
Sixth Graders’ Conflict Resolution in Role Plays with a Peer, Parent, and Teacher
Ways to Say No
A Longitudinal Examination of Family, Friend, and Media Influences on Competent Versus Problem Behaviors Among Urban Minority Youth
This article examines family, friend, and media influences on competent and problem behaviors in a sample of 1,174 urban minority youth followed over 6th, 7th, and 8th grades. Students completed annual surveys at their schools. Each of the contextual factors investigated was significantly associated with concurrent aggression and delinquency as well as changes in these outcomes over time. In contrast, parental monitoring was most often significan…
Refusal Skill Ability
Trajectories of aggression, delinquency, and substance use across middle school among urban, minority adolescents
This study evaluated bidirectional associations between substance use, aggression, and delinquency across sixth, seventh, and eighth grades using data available from a large study of urban minority youth ( n = 2,931). Group‐based trajectory analysis revealed trajectories of aggression, delinquency, and substance use which support the existence of both adolescent‐limited and life‐course persistent offenders. In addition, a pattern of decreasing ag…
Is Sensation Seeking a Stable Trait or Does it Change Over Time
You have to put your children’s needs first or you’re really not a good mother
Black mothers provide a disproportionate share of unpaid and informal health care support to others, internal and external to their households. In addition, black women experience a disproportionate burden of chronic disease and healthrelated risk factors. Despite these trends, few studies have examined the impact of daily mothering on women’s self-care practices. Embodiment, an ecosocial theory applied to health disparities research, describes a…
Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Age
Few studies have examined disparities in adverse birth outcomes and compared contributing socioeconomic factors specifically between African-American and White teen mothers. This study examined intersections between neighborhood socioeconomic status (as defined by census-tract median household income), maternal age, and racial disparities in preterm birth (PTB) outcomes between African-American and White teen mothers in North Carolina. Using a li…
Testing the Association Between Traditional and Novel Indicators of County-Level Structural Racism and Birth Outcomes among Black and White Women
We Can’t Step Back
One of the fastest emerging global public health crises is the rapid increase in the population of forcibly displaced people, known as refugees. Refugee women, particularly, are at a greater disadvantage due to their social positioning related to gender norms, language barriers, and lack of resources. They are also more likely to experience structural and situational stressors. Despite myriad negative factors, studies show refugee women employ re…
Relational and Partner-Specific Factors Influencing Black Heterosexual Women’s Initiation of Sexual Intercourse and Orgasm Frequency
Social Stigma and Perinatal Substance Use Services
People who are diagnosed with a substance use disorder can experience stigmatizing interactions with health and social service providers, which may decrease both quality and continuity of care. For women with a substance-exposed pregnancy (SEP), this stigma can increase exponentially. Stigmatizing interactions can be difficult to identify due to social sanctions against expressing stigmatizing attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors and because stigma …
Using Poetic Assemblage to Trouble Stigma Associated With Perinatal Drug Use
The concept of assemblage has a long history in both the arts and social sciences. Assemblage thinking is particularly useful for critical scholars to engage with complex phenomena, such as drug use and stigma. Analytic methods that support assemblage thinking through the construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction of data-based assemblages are needed. This paper describes a qualitative analytic method, poetic assemblage, that merges the art…
Narrative Disruption
Narcofeminism Storyshare is an iterative storyshare model developed by NC Survivors Union, a harm reduction and advocacy organization led by directly impacted people, that uses autobiographical story development by women and gender diverse people who use drugs to disrupt stigmatizing societal narratives, achieve healing for individuals and communities, and spark organizing and structural change. We describe the theoretical frameworks behind Narco…
Psychology (14 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Population (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works)