J Benjamin Hinnant
Biographic Data
| ID | 4815545 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Benjamin Hinnant |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Hinnant |
| SIGNATURE | HINNANT J B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Auburn University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6643-8257 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Childhood adversity and sex trafficking experiences linked to economic and psychological outcomes for U.S. survivors of commercial sexual exploitation
This investigation highlights the diverse and individualized needs of survivors of commercial sexual exploitation, indicating that tailored interventions are essential for addressing the complex interplay of childhood adversity, trafficking experiences, and recovery trajectories
Sleeping through the ages: Developmental trajectories of actigraphy-derived sleep–wake patterns across adolescence and emerging adulthood
Sleep is a fundamental domain of development and has important implications for other key aspects of adaptation. Little is known about normative changes in sleep across adolescence and emerging adulthood and whether the change is linear or nonlinear. We examined growth trajectories of sleep across 9 years of development and individual differences in trajectories according to participants' race/ethnicity and sex assigned at birth. During each wave…
Assessing the nutrition knowledge, beliefs, and behaviors of food pantry managers: Implications for healthier food environments
Introduction: Food pantry managers play a key role in determining the food environment of the pantry, which can influence their clients' dietary composition. However, their impact on pantry food environments remains understudied. We sought to understand food pantry managers' nutrition knowledge, beliefs, and behaviors (KBBs) in this study. Methods: We surveyed 47 Alabama food pantry managers' nutrition KBBs from November 2022 to November 2023. Va…
Impact of School Gardens on Nutrition Education Among Limited‐Income Communities in Alabama
BACKGROUND: We sought to determine the impact of school gardens and nutrition education on student fruit and vegetable consumption from limited-income communities in Alabama. METHODS: Third grade students at 99 Alabama schools with and without gardens on-site were randomized to receive either nutrition education or to a wait-list control group. Multi-level models were used to assess the effects of treatment and control with and without school gar…
Vaping Education: A Two-Year Study Examining Health Literacy and Behaviors in a Southeastern State
Electronic nicotine delivery systems (vapes) are the most used nicotine products among U.S. adolescents, with usage increasing significantly from 2017 to 2019. School-based prevention programs are a critical strategy for curbing youth vaping. This study utilized a retrospective pre/post survey to evaluate the effectiveness of a two-year school-based vaping prevention program utilizing a condensed version of the Stanford University Tobacco Prevent…
Discrimination, sleep, and physical health: Moderation by respiratory sinus arrythmia reactivity
Discrimination (unfair treatment due to group membership) is relatively common among adolescents and has been linked to poor sleep and physical health. Individual differences in physiological functioning may moderate these associations. A sample of 323 youth (48% boys, 52% girls; 58.5% White, 40.9% Black, Mage = 17.38 years, SD = 10.18 months) participated. Adolescents reported on discrimination and health, wore actigraphs to measure sleep, and c…
Examining the Intersections of Family Risk, Foster Care, and Outcomes for Commercially Sexually Exploited Children
Purpose: When individuals under the age of 18 are victimized by sex trafficking, it is termed commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) in the United States. It is suggested that a history of engagement with the foster care system is one of the leading risk factors for CSEC. However, it is possible that it is the very factors that facilitate engagement with the foster care system (e.g., neglect, abuse, etc.) that establish vulnerability f…
Developmental stasis, sensitivity, and disturbance: Linking concepts to analytic methods using impulsivity and alcohol use
The goals of this article are to (a) describe and contrast conceptual characteristics of periods of developmental sensitivity, disturbance, and stasis, and (b) translate these concepts to testable analytic models with an example dataset. Although the concept of developmental sensitivity is widely known, the concepts of developmental stasis and disturbance have received less attention. We first define the concepts and their principles and then, us…
The legacy of harsh parenting: Enduring and sleeper effects on trajectories of externalizing and internalizing symptoms
Guided by developmental models examining the legacy of childhood caregiving environments, we examined the longitudinal pattern of associations between harsh parenting and children's internalizing and externalizing symptoms across late childhood to late adolescence. Participants included 199 youth (48.7% female, 65.3% White, 32.2% Black, 2.5% biracial) and their mothers and fathers from a diverse range of socioeconomic backgrounds. The study utili…
Relationship between family income and trajectories of adjustment in adolescence: Sleep and physical activity as moderators
INTRODUCTION: Youth from lower-income families experience adjustment problems at higher rates than higher-income peers. While adolescents have little control over family income, they do have some agency over their sleep and physical activity, two factors that have been shown to mitigate the risk of maladjustment. To test this, sleep and physical activity were examined as moderators of the longitudinal relationship between family income (indexed b…
Experiences of Sexual Assault and Financial Stability: Sense of Control as a Potential Mechanism
This investigation utilized the Midlife in the United States Survey ( N = 3,258) to assess the relationships between sexual assault, sense of control, and financial stability. Age of first sexual assault and sexual assault revictimization were also considered in analyses of sexual assault survivors' data. Results revealed consistent associations between experiences of sexual assault and revictimization with lower financial stability and suggest t…
Multifinality, equifinality, and fanning: Developmental concepts and statistical implications
Multifinality, equifinality, and fanning are important developmental concepts that emphasize understanding interindividual variability in trajectories over time. However, each concept implies that there are points in a developmental window where interindividual variability is more limited. We illustrate the multifinality concept under manipulations of variance in starting points, using both normal and zero-inflated simulated data. Results indicat…
Resting high-frequency heart rate variability moderates the association between early-life adversity and body adiposity
This study investigates resting high-frequency heart rate variability as a moderator of the association between early-life adversity and two measures of body adiposity. Data were collected from 149 young adults attending a large university in the Midwestern United States ( M age = 18.8 years; 45% black; 55% white; 56% female). Self-reported early-life adversity was associated with greater waist-to-height ratio and body mass index. The strength of…
Dynamic patterns of marital conflict: Relations to trajectories of adolescent adjustment
The deleterious effects of marital conflict on youth outcomes are well-documented in both cross-sectional and longitudinal studies. To date, longitudinal studies have focused on repeated measures of youths' outcomes and the temporal dynamics of marital conflict have largely been ignored. Marital conflict changes over time as contextual and relationship characteristics change, and these patterns of change may provide unique predictive power in acc…
Codevelopment Between Key Personality Traits and Alcohol Use Disorder From Adolescence Through Young Adulthood
OBJECTIVE: Personality traits related to negative emotionality and low constraint are strong correlates of alcohol use disorder (AUD), but few studies have evaluated the prospective interplay between these traits and AUD symptoms from adolescence to young adulthood. METHOD: The Minnesota Twin Family Study (N = 2,769) was used to examine the developmental interplay between AUD symptoms and three personality measures of constraint, negative emotion…
Deviant Peer Behavior and Adolescent Delinquency: Protective Effects of Inhibitory Control, Planning, or Decision Making
We examined relations between adolescent perceptions of deviant peer behavior and delinquency as moderated by inhibitory control, planning, and decision making in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development at age 15 (N = 991). Adolescents reported perceptions of deviant peer behavior. Inhibitory control, planning, and decision making were assessed behaviorally. Delinquency …
Marital conflict and trajectories of adolescent adjustment: The role of autonomic nervous system coordination
The present study investigates how coordination between stress responsivity of the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) and sympathetic nervous system (SNS) moderates the prospective effects of marital conflict on internalizing and externalizing symptoms across adolescence. Although an important avenue for psychophysiological research concerns how PNS and SNS responses jointly influence adjustment in the context of stress, these processes have ra…
Sleep and cognitive functioning in childhood: Ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and sex as moderators
We examined children's sleep at age 9 as a predictor of developmental trajectories of cognitive performance from ages 9 to 11 years. The effects of sleep on cognition are not uniform and thus we tested race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status (SES), and sex as moderators of these associations. At the first assessment, 282 children aged 9.44 years (52% boys, 65% European American [EA], 35% African American [AA]) participated. Two more waves of data co…
Adaptive patterns of stress responsivity: A preliminary investigation
The adaptive calibration model (ACM) is an evolutionary-developmental theory of individual differences in stress responsivity. In this article, we tested some key predictions of the ACM in a middle childhood sample (N = 256). Measures of autonomic nervous system activity across the sympathetic and parasympathetic branches validated the 4-pattern taxonomy of the ACM via finite mixture modeling. Moreover, the 4 patterns of responsivity showed the p…
Skin conductance level reactivity moderates the association between harsh parenting and growth in child externalizing behavior
Skin conductance level reactivity (SCLR) was examined as a moderator of the association between harsh parenting at age 8 years and growth in child externalizing behavior from age 8 to age 10 (N = 251). Mothers and fathers provided reports of harsh parenting and their children's externalizing behavior; children also provided reports of harsh parenting. SCLR was assessed in response to a socioemotional stress task and a problem-solving challenge ta…
The longitudinal relations of teacher expectations to achievement in the early school years.
There is relatively little research on the role of teacher expectations in the early school years or on the importance of teacher expectations as a predictor of future academic achievement. The current study investigated these issues in the reading and mathematic domains for young children. Data from nearly 1,000 children and families at first, third, and fifth grades were included. Child sex and social skills emerged as consistent predictors of …
Adaptive patterns of stress responsivity: A preliminary investigation
The adaptive calibration model (ACM) is an evolutionary-developmental theory of individual differences in stress responsivity. In this article, we tested some key predictions of the ACM in a middle childhood sample (N = 256). Measures of autonomic nervous system activity across the sympathetic and parasympathetic branches validated the 4-pattern taxonomy of the ACM via finite mixture modeling. Moreover, the 4 patterns of responsivity showed the p…
Skin conductance level reactivity moderates the association between harsh parenting and growth in child externalizing behavior
Skin conductance level reactivity (SCLR) was examined as a moderator of the association between harsh parenting at age 8 years and growth in child externalizing behavior from age 8 to age 10 (N = 251). Mothers and fathers provided reports of harsh parenting and their children's externalizing behavior; children also provided reports of harsh parenting. SCLR was assessed in response to a socioemotional stress task and a problem-solving challenge ta…
Marital conflict and trajectories of adolescent adjustment: The role of autonomic nervous system coordination
The present study investigates how coordination between stress responsivity of the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) and sympathetic nervous system (SNS) moderates the prospective effects of marital conflict on internalizing and externalizing symptoms across adolescence. Although an important avenue for psychophysiological research concerns how PNS and SNS responses jointly influence adjustment in the context of stress, these processes have ra…
Deviant Peer Behavior and Adolescent Delinquency: Protective Effects of Inhibitory Control, Planning, or Decision Making
We examined relations between adolescent perceptions of deviant peer behavior and delinquency as moderated by inhibitory control, planning, and decision making in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development at age 15 (N = 991). Adolescents reported perceptions of deviant peer behavior. Inhibitory control, planning, and decision making were assessed behaviorally. Delinquency …
The legacy of harsh parenting: Enduring and sleeper effects on trajectories of externalizing and internalizing symptoms
Guided by developmental models examining the legacy of childhood caregiving environments, we examined the longitudinal pattern of associations between harsh parenting and children's internalizing and externalizing symptoms across late childhood to late adolescence. Participants included 199 youth (48.7% female, 65.3% White, 32.2% Black, 2.5% biracial) and their mothers and fathers from a diverse range of socioeconomic backgrounds. The study utili…
Dynamic patterns of marital conflict: Relations to trajectories of adolescent adjustment
The deleterious effects of marital conflict on youth outcomes are well-documented in both cross-sectional and longitudinal studies. To date, longitudinal studies have focused on repeated measures of youths' outcomes and the temporal dynamics of marital conflict have largely been ignored. Marital conflict changes over time as contextual and relationship characteristics change, and these patterns of change may provide unique predictive power in acc…
Sleep and cognitive functioning in childhood: Ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and sex as moderators
We examined children's sleep at age 9 as a predictor of developmental trajectories of cognitive performance from ages 9 to 11 years. The effects of sleep on cognition are not uniform and thus we tested race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status (SES), and sex as moderators of these associations. At the first assessment, 282 children aged 9.44 years (52% boys, 65% European American [EA], 35% African American [AA]) participated. Two more waves of data co…
The longitudinal relations of teacher expectations to achievement in the early school years.
There is relatively little research on the role of teacher expectations in the early school years or on the importance of teacher expectations as a predictor of future academic achievement. The current study investigated these issues in the reading and mathematic domains for young children. Data from nearly 1,000 children and families at first, third, and fifth grades were included. Child sex and social skills emerged as consistent predictors of …
Skin conductance level reactivity moderates the association between harsh parenting and growth in child externalizing behavior
Skin conductance level reactivity (SCLR) was examined as a moderator of the association between harsh parenting at age 8 years and growth in child externalizing behavior from age 8 to age 10 (N = 251). Mothers and fathers provided reports of harsh parenting and their children's externalizing behavior; children also provided reports of harsh parenting. SCLR was assessed in response to a socioemotional stress task and a problem-solving challenge ta…
Adaptive patterns of stress responsivity: A preliminary investigation
The adaptive calibration model (ACM) is an evolutionary-developmental theory of individual differences in stress responsivity. In this article, we tested some key predictions of the ACM in a middle childhood sample (N = 256). Measures of autonomic nervous system activity across the sympathetic and parasympathetic branches validated the 4-pattern taxonomy of the ACM via finite mixture modeling. Moreover, the 4 patterns of responsivity showed the p…
Sleep and cognitive functioning in childhood: Ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and sex as moderators
We examined children's sleep at age 9 as a predictor of developmental trajectories of cognitive performance from ages 9 to 11 years. The effects of sleep on cognition are not uniform and thus we tested race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status (SES), and sex as moderators of these associations. At the first assessment, 282 children aged 9.44 years (52% boys, 65% European American [EA], 35% African American [AA]) participated. Two more waves of data co…
Codevelopment Between Key Personality Traits and Alcohol Use Disorder From Adolescence Through Young Adulthood
OBJECTIVE: Personality traits related to negative emotionality and low constraint are strong correlates of alcohol use disorder (AUD), but few studies have evaluated the prospective interplay between these traits and AUD symptoms from adolescence to young adulthood. METHOD: The Minnesota Twin Family Study (N = 2,769) was used to examine the developmental interplay between AUD symptoms and three personality measures of constraint, negative emotion…
Deviant Peer Behavior and Adolescent Delinquency: Protective Effects of Inhibitory Control, Planning, or Decision Making
We examined relations between adolescent perceptions of deviant peer behavior and delinquency as moderated by inhibitory control, planning, and decision making in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development at age 15 (N = 991). Adolescents reported perceptions of deviant peer behavior. Inhibitory control, planning, and decision making were assessed behaviorally. Delinquency …
Marital conflict and trajectories of adolescent adjustment: The role of autonomic nervous system coordination
The present study investigates how coordination between stress responsivity of the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) and sympathetic nervous system (SNS) moderates the prospective effects of marital conflict on internalizing and externalizing symptoms across adolescence. Although an important avenue for psychophysiological research concerns how PNS and SNS responses jointly influence adjustment in the context of stress, these processes have ra…
Dynamic patterns of marital conflict: Relations to trajectories of adolescent adjustment
The deleterious effects of marital conflict on youth outcomes are well-documented in both cross-sectional and longitudinal studies. To date, longitudinal studies have focused on repeated measures of youths' outcomes and the temporal dynamics of marital conflict have largely been ignored. Marital conflict changes over time as contextual and relationship characteristics change, and these patterns of change may provide unique predictive power in acc…
Resting high-frequency heart rate variability moderates the association between early-life adversity and body adiposity
This study investigates resting high-frequency heart rate variability as a moderator of the association between early-life adversity and two measures of body adiposity. Data were collected from 149 young adults attending a large university in the Midwestern United States ( M age = 18.8 years; 45% black; 55% white; 56% female). Self-reported early-life adversity was associated with greater waist-to-height ratio and body mass index. The strength of…
Multifinality, equifinality, and fanning: Developmental concepts and statistical implications
Multifinality, equifinality, and fanning are important developmental concepts that emphasize understanding interindividual variability in trajectories over time. However, each concept implies that there are points in a developmental window where interindividual variability is more limited. We illustrate the multifinality concept under manipulations of variance in starting points, using both normal and zero-inflated simulated data. Results indicat…
Relationship between family income and trajectories of adjustment in adolescence: Sleep and physical activity as moderators
INTRODUCTION: Youth from lower-income families experience adjustment problems at higher rates than higher-income peers. While adolescents have little control over family income, they do have some agency over their sleep and physical activity, two factors that have been shown to mitigate the risk of maladjustment. To test this, sleep and physical activity were examined as moderators of the longitudinal relationship between family income (indexed b…
Experiences of Sexual Assault and Financial Stability: Sense of Control as a Potential Mechanism
This investigation utilized the Midlife in the United States Survey ( N = 3,258) to assess the relationships between sexual assault, sense of control, and financial stability. Age of first sexual assault and sexual assault revictimization were also considered in analyses of sexual assault survivors' data. Results revealed consistent associations between experiences of sexual assault and revictimization with lower financial stability and suggest t…
Examining the Intersections of Family Risk, Foster Care, and Outcomes for Commercially Sexually Exploited Children
Purpose: When individuals under the age of 18 are victimized by sex trafficking, it is termed commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) in the United States. It is suggested that a history of engagement with the foster care system is one of the leading risk factors for CSEC. However, it is possible that it is the very factors that facilitate engagement with the foster care system (e.g., neglect, abuse, etc.) that establish vulnerability f…
Developmental stasis, sensitivity, and disturbance: Linking concepts to analytic methods using impulsivity and alcohol use
The goals of this article are to (a) describe and contrast conceptual characteristics of periods of developmental sensitivity, disturbance, and stasis, and (b) translate these concepts to testable analytic models with an example dataset. Although the concept of developmental sensitivity is widely known, the concepts of developmental stasis and disturbance have received less attention. We first define the concepts and their principles and then, us…
The legacy of harsh parenting: Enduring and sleeper effects on trajectories of externalizing and internalizing symptoms
Guided by developmental models examining the legacy of childhood caregiving environments, we examined the longitudinal pattern of associations between harsh parenting and children's internalizing and externalizing symptoms across late childhood to late adolescence. Participants included 199 youth (48.7% female, 65.3% White, 32.2% Black, 2.5% biracial) and their mothers and fathers from a diverse range of socioeconomic backgrounds. The study utili…
Assessing the nutrition knowledge, beliefs, and behaviors of food pantry managers: Implications for healthier food environments
Introduction: Food pantry managers play a key role in determining the food environment of the pantry, which can influence their clients' dietary composition. However, their impact on pantry food environments remains understudied. We sought to understand food pantry managers' nutrition knowledge, beliefs, and behaviors (KBBs) in this study. Methods: We surveyed 47 Alabama food pantry managers' nutrition KBBs from November 2022 to November 2023. Va…
Impact of School Gardens on Nutrition Education Among Limited‐Income Communities in Alabama
BACKGROUND: We sought to determine the impact of school gardens and nutrition education on student fruit and vegetable consumption from limited-income communities in Alabama. METHODS: Third grade students at 99 Alabama schools with and without gardens on-site were randomized to receive either nutrition education or to a wait-list control group. Multi-level models were used to assess the effects of treatment and control with and without school gar…
Vaping Education: A Two-Year Study Examining Health Literacy and Behaviors in a Southeastern State
Electronic nicotine delivery systems (vapes) are the most used nicotine products among U.S. adolescents, with usage increasing significantly from 2017 to 2019. School-based prevention programs are a critical strategy for curbing youth vaping. This study utilized a retrospective pre/post survey to evaluate the effectiveness of a two-year school-based vaping prevention program utilizing a condensed version of the Stanford University Tobacco Prevent…
Discrimination, sleep, and physical health: Moderation by respiratory sinus arrythmia reactivity
Discrimination (unfair treatment due to group membership) is relatively common among adolescents and has been linked to poor sleep and physical health. Individual differences in physiological functioning may moderate these associations. A sample of 323 youth (48% boys, 52% girls; 58.5% White, 40.9% Black, Mage = 17.38 years, SD = 10.18 months) participated. Adolescents reported on discrimination and health, wore actigraphs to measure sleep, and c…
Childhood adversity and sex trafficking experiences linked to economic and psychological outcomes for U.S. survivors of commercial sexual exploitation
This investigation highlights the diverse and individualized needs of survivors of commercial sexual exploitation, indicating that tailored interventions are essential for addressing the complex interplay of childhood adversity, trafficking experiences, and recovery trajectories
Sleeping through the ages: Developmental trajectories of actigraphy-derived sleep–wake patterns across adolescence and emerging adulthood
Sleep is a fundamental domain of development and has important implications for other key aspects of adaptation. Little is known about normative changes in sleep across adolescence and emerging adulthood and whether the change is linear or nonlinear. We examined growth trajectories of sleep across 9 years of development and individual differences in trajectories according to participants' race/ethnicity and sex assigned at birth. During each wave…
Psychology (19 works) · Developmental psychology (13 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Injury prevention (6 works) · Poison control (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (5 works)