V Volpe
Biographic Data
| ID | 53112 |
|---|---|
| NAME | V Volpe |
| GIVEN NAMES | V |
| FAMILY NAME | Volpe |
| SIGNATURE | VOLPE V |
| AFFILIATIONS | North Carolina State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0679-1160 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 122 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Online racism, online mental health engagement, depression, and suicide risk among Asian American and Pacific Islander and Black American emerging adults
Introduction: Recent studies suggest that exposure to racist online interactions and content may be associated with depressive symptoms and suicide risk among racially minoritized individuals. Despite the hate and violence easily encountered online, individuals use social media platforms to engage with their mental health concerns and seek support. Hence, the current study aimed to explore whether online mental health engagement would buffer the …
Structural Barriers to Healthy Food and High-Sugar Consumption in Black Young Adult Women: The Mediating Role of Internal Health Locus of Control
BACKGROUND: Consistent overconsumption of high-sugar food and beverages (HSFB)-defined as consuming more than 25 g of added sugars per day [1]-is a health risk factor for Black young adult women in the United States. A diet high in added sugar can increase women's likelihood of developing chronic conditions, like obesity, for which they are already at a high risk. Research often focuses on individual-level contributors to this eating behavior; ho…
Assessing Measurement Invariance in Allostatic Load between Black and White Adolescents
These initial results underscore the importance of testing assumptions about measurement invariance before comparing levels of AL between Black and White adolescents. Research assessing AL during adolescence may help clarify researchers' and clinicians' understanding of the interplay between early life adversity, puberty, and stress-related biomarkers that contribute to AL. This construct may facilitate more effective identification and predictio…
How healthy is she? Perceptions of the physical healthiness of Black women by skin tone and perceiver race
Shrunken and Recolored: Young Black American Women's Double Consciousness Body Image, Online Victimization, and Photo Editing
In digital spaces, Black women's natural physical characteristics are marginalized by racially biased photo-editing technologies. This has implications for Black women who are vulnerable to appearance concerns at the intersections of dual pressures to adhere to white and culturally specific body and appearance ideals (i.e., double consciousness body image). In this cross-sectional online survey-based study, we applied aspects of the tripartite in…
Screenshots to Document Online Racism
Racism evolves over time, adapting to new contexts such as online spaces, where anonymity enables widespread expression of racist views. Researchers have developed measures of online racism, but these measures can overlook the nuanced context in which online racism occurs. Research using digital qualitative methods may help uncover insights into experiences of online racism, its impacts, and strategies to mitigate its effects. This protocol descr…
Online health information searching and health advertisement exposure among Black young adult social media users
Black young adults go online frequently and comprise a large proportion of digital consumers, with implications for their health. Yet their engagement with online health information and advertising is not well understood. In this descriptive mixed-methods study, Black young adults from the United States ( N = 179; mean age = 23.27) completed an online survey (February to March 2022). They reported searching for health information and seeing healt…
Tweet Stimuli Set for Content about Black People (TSS-CBP): Development and testing of stimuli to assess the impacts of online race-related content
Allostatic Load in Childhood, Adolescence, and Young Adulthood: Are Assumptions of Measurement Invariance Warranted
OVERVIEW: Allostatic load represents the cumulative toll of chronic mobilization of the body's stress response systems, as indexed by biomarkers. Higher levels of stress and disadvantage predict higher levels of allostatic load, which, in turn, predict poorer physical and mental health outcomes. To maximize the efficacy of prevention efforts, screening for stress- and disadvantage-associated health conditions must occur before middle age-that is,…
Campus racial climate and impostor phenomenon among Black college students: The mediating roles of social anxiety and self-esteem
Negative appraisals of campus racial climate (CRC) have been associated with diverse negative psychosocial and academic outcomes among Black college students. However, mechanisms that explain the association between CRC and suboptimal well-being indicators have been seldom explored. Further, examinations of the psychosocial and academic implications of CRC appraisals across different institutions of higher education (i.e., predominately White ins…
Necessary, burdensome, or threatening? Awareness of Black–White disparities in health care access and self-rated health for Black and White Americans
6,449) who responded to the national American Health Values Survey (2015-2016) to test associations between awareness of Black-White inequities in health care and self-rated health. Accurate awareness of health care inequities was associated with 47% higher odds of poorer self-rated health for Black individuals. Inaccurate awareness was associated with 36% higher odds of poorer self-rated health for White individuals. Accurate awareness may be ad…
To social distance or to not social distance? Covid-19 social impact and safety profiles, social determinants, and mental health of Black adults
593) to construct profiles and test associations between profiles, social determinants, and mental health. Black adults in the low visitation safety profile had worse mental health than those in the high home safety profile. Older, retired, and insured Black adults were less likely to be impacted by COVID-19. Both the impact of COVID-19 on social networks and perceptions of safety of engaging with others are important for Black adults' mental hea…
Young Black American Women's Social Media Use and Online Victimization
Despite young Black women's high rates of social media use and risks for victimization at the nexus of sexism and racism, the relationship between these variables remains under researched in this segment. We surveyed 354 Black American women aged 18-30 to explore the associations between two aspects of social media use-time spent daily on social media platforms (i.e., Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, Tumblr, Twitter, and YouTube) and type o…
Intersections of Racial/Ethnic and Religious Identities on Bodily Well-Being for Black College-Attending Emerging Adults
How We Get Free: Graduate Training as an Opportunity for Equitable Participation and Liberation
In this conceptual article, we assert that psychology should be transformed to adopt the explicit goal of working toward the liberation of people oppressed by society rather than striving for mere equality. To achieve such a transformation, it is necessary to reenvision graduate training in psychology. Graduate training in psychology is an important vehicle by which psychologists can become prepared to use research and practice to eradicate inequ…
Finding the bright side: Positive online racial experiences, racial identity, and activism for Black young adults
Examining Exposure to Messaging, Content, and Hate Speech from Partisan News Social Media Posts on Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
We investigated the content of liberal and conservative news media Facebook posts on race and ethnic health disparities. A total of 3,327,360 liberal and conservative news Facebook posts from the United States (US) from January 2015 to May 2022 were collected from the Crowd Tangle platform and filtered for race and health-related keywords. Qualitative content analysis was conducted on a random sample of 1750 liberal and 1750 conservative posts. P…
Gendered Racial Microaggressions and Emotional Eating for Black Young Adult Women: The Mediating Roles of Superwoman Schema and Self-Compassion
Black young adult women's stress experiences are shaped by intersecting racism and sexism. To respond to this stress, some Black young adult women engage in emotional eating, which may threaten their health. Yet processes in the association between gendered racial microaggressions and emotional eating for Black young adult women remain unclear. In the current study, we used cross-sectional online survey data from a 2021 national investigation of …
Now I just need something sweet: Racism, emotional eating, and health among African Americans
Too Manly and Too Straight? Perceived Sexual Orientation of Black and White Men and Women
Using data from an online survey assessing perceptions of 12 target1 photos of Black and White males2 and females, the current study examined a moderated mediation model of sexual orientation perceptions (N = 310). Results indicated that perceived masculinity/femininity was not a mediator in the association between target gender and perceived sexual orientation. Black male targets were perceived to be more heterosexual than White male targets, Bl…
Policy Brief
Not Just Time on Social Media: Experiences of Online Racial/Ethnic Discrimination and Worse Sleep Quality for Black, Latinx, Asian, and Multi-racial Young Adults
Centering the Heterogeneity of Black Adolescents' Experiences: Guidance for Within‐Group Designs among African Diasporic Communities
Despite notable improvements in theory and methods that center the lived experiences of Black adolescents, White supremacy endures in developmental science. In this article, we focus on one methodological manifestation of White supremacy—sampling decisions that assume Black adolescents are a homogeneous group. We examine overlooked concerns about within‐group designs with Black adolescents, such as the erasure of some African diasporic communitie…
Affect reactivity and lifetime racial discrimination among Black college students: The role of coping
2.15, 68.6% female) completed an online questionnaire that included measures of racial discrimination, coping, and demographics. They then attended a laboratory visit during which their affective responses to a stress task were collected. Regression analyses indicated an interaction between lifetime racial discrimination and social support coping on arousal reactivity in response to acute racial discrimination. For individuals who reported low le…
Anti-racism activism among Black adolescents and emerging adults: Understanding the roles of racism and anticipatory racism-related stress
This study examines associations between individual racism, anticipatory racism-related stress, and anti-racism activism among Black adolescents (n = 443; M age = 15.6; 57.4% female) and emerging adults (n = 447; M age = 23.8; 77.6% female). The authors tested competing hypotheses about associations between individual racism and anti-racism activism on anticipatory racism-related stress. Findings indicated anticipatory racism-related stress may b…
Impostor Phenomenon and Psychological Well-Being: The Moderating Roles of John Henryism and School Racial Composition Among Black College Students
The impostor phenomenon (IP), or erroneous cognitions of intellectual incompetence, is a risk factor for poor psychological adjustment among Black emerging adults. Grounded in Lazarus and Folkman's Stress and Coping Framework, the current study investigated John Henryism's active coping and institutional racial composition as moderators of the association between IP and indicators of psychological well-being among 266 Black students (77% women; M…
Racial Discrimination and Acute Physiological Responses Among Black Young Adults: The Role of Racial Identity
Anti-Black Structural Racism Goes Online: A Conceptual Model for Racial Health Disparities Research
Anti-Black racism is an established social determinant of racial health disparities in the United States. Although the majority of research on racism examines in-person individual-level experiences, a majority of Americans engage online and may therefore be exposed to racism directly or indirectly in online contexts. Research suggests that the structural technological features of online contexts may be especially powerful in perpetuating and enac…
Bringing psychological science to bear on racial health disparities: The promise of centering Black health through a critical race framework
State-Level Sexism and Gender Disparities in Health Care Access and Quality in the United States
In this investigation, we examined the associations between state-level structural sexism-a multidimensional index of gender inequities across economic, political, and cultural domains of the gender system-and health care access and quality among women and men in the United States. We linked administrative data gauging state-level gender gaps in pay, employment, poverty, political representation, and policy protections to individual-level data on…
Easier said than done”: A qualitative investigation of Black emerging adults coping with multilevel racism
Implications for practice, policy, and programming to support the mental health of Black emerging adults are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)
Anti-racism activism among Black adolescents and emerging adults: Understanding the roles of racism and anticipatory racism-related stress
This study examines associations between individual racism, anticipatory racism-related stress, and anti-racism activism among Black adolescents (n = 443; M age = 15.6; 57.4% female) and emerging adults (n = 447; M age = 23.8; 77.6% female). The authors tested competing hypotheses about associations between individual racism and anti-racism activism on anticipatory racism-related stress. Findings indicated anticipatory racism-related stress may b…
State-Level Sexism and Women’s Health Care Access in the United States: Differences by Race/Ethnicity, 2014–2019
Objectives. To quantify racial/ethnic differences in the relationship between state-level sexism and barriers to health care access among non-Hispanic White, non-Hispanic Black, and Hispanic women in the United States. Methods. We merged a multidimensional state-level sexism index compiled from administrative data with the national Consumer Survey of Health Care Access (2014–2019; n = 10 898) to test associations between exposure to state-level s…
Is Hard Work and High Effort Always Healthy for Black College Students: John Henryism in the Face of Racial Discrimination
Differences in exposure to racial discrimination and in coping mechanisms can shape physiological health among emerging adults. This study, grounded in the Biopsychosocial Model, examines whether John Henryism active coping moderates the relation between exposure to racial discrimination and blood pressure in Black college students ( N = 128, M age = 19.33) attending a predominantly White institution. Analyses showed that John Henryism moderated …
Now I just need something sweet: Racism, emotional eating, and health among African Americans
Ethnic identity in Arab Americans: Gender, Religious Upbringing, and Age Differences
Arab Americans constitute a diverse, sizeable ethnic minority in the United States. However, limited research has examined the content of Arab American ethnic identity and whether this ethnic identity differs by demographic factors. In the present study, we developed measures of Arab American ethnic identity and cultural practice, and assessed differences in those variables by gender, religious affiliation (Muslim, Christian), and age. Arab Ameri…
Enriching the Africana soul”: Black college students’ lived experiences with affinity housing at a predominately White institution
Gendered Racial Microaggressions and Emotional Eating for Black Young Adult Women: The Mediating Roles of Superwoman Schema and Self-Compassion
Black young adult women's stress experiences are shaped by intersecting racism and sexism. To respond to this stress, some Black young adult women engage in emotional eating, which may threaten their health. Yet processes in the association between gendered racial microaggressions and emotional eating for Black young adult women remain unclear. In the current study, we used cross-sectional online survey data from a 2021 national investigation of …
Sociodemographic risk, parenting, and executive functions in early childhood: The role of ethnicity
Too Manly and Too Straight? Perceived Sexual Orientation of Black and White Men and Women
Using data from an online survey assessing perceptions of 12 target1 photos of Black and White males2 and females, the current study examined a moderated mediation model of sexual orientation perceptions (N = 310). Results indicated that perceived masculinity/femininity was not a mediator in the association between target gender and perceived sexual orientation. Black male targets were perceived to be more heterosexual than White male targets, Bl…
Cognitive flexibility and the health of Black college-attending young adults experiencing interpersonal racial discrimination
This study examined the utility of cognitive flexibility for the health of college-attending Black young adults facing chronic interpersonal racial discrimination in a sample of 218 healthy students attending a predominantly White university in the southeastern United States. Path and simple slope analysis indicated that cognitive flexibility moderated the association between racial discrimination and waist circumference but not depressive sympto…
Longitudinal relations between skin tone and self-esteem in African American girls
We examined developmental changes in self-esteem from late childhood to late adolescence in African American girls ( N = 124), comparing skin tone groups. Girls completed a measure of self-esteem when they were in Grades 5, 7, 10, and 12, and in Grade 12 their skin tone was rated on a 3-point scale (1 = Light, 2 = Medium, 3 = Dark). Girls with lighter skin reported higher self-esteem than dark and medium-toned girls in Grades 5 and 7, and their s…
Campus racial climate and impostor phenomenon among Black college students: The mediating roles of social anxiety and self-esteem
Negative appraisals of campus racial climate (CRC) have been associated with diverse negative psychosocial and academic outcomes among Black college students. However, mechanisms that explain the association between CRC and suboptimal well-being indicators have been seldom explored. Further, examinations of the psychosocial and academic implications of CRC appraisals across different institutions of higher education (i.e., predominately White ins…
Young Black American Women's Social Media Use and Online Victimization
Despite young Black women's high rates of social media use and risks for victimization at the nexus of sexism and racism, the relationship between these variables remains under researched in this segment. We surveyed 354 Black American women aged 18-30 to explore the associations between two aspects of social media use-time spent daily on social media platforms (i.e., Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, Tumblr, Twitter, and YouTube) and type o…
Gender discrimination and women's HPA activation to psychosocial stress during the postnatal period
Stress due to discrimination may contribute to physiological dysregulation and health risk during the postnatal period. This study examined longitudinal associations between gender discrimination and women's cortisol responses to subsequent stress. Mothers ( N = 79) reported gender discrimination and completed mother-infant stress tasks with saliva sampling for cortisol at 6, 12, and 18 months postnatal. Multilevel modeling results indicated more…
Colour for well-being: Exploring adult learners’ responses to utilizing colour as a therapeutic tool
This article reports on a pilot project that explored the use of ‘colour’ as a therapeutic intervention that can be used to enhance a sense of personal well-being in adults experiencing mild to moderate mental health problems. The project was designed, delivered and evaluated by an occupational therapist with extensive experience in the therapeutic use of colour within complementary therapy. Over a nine-week period, individuals attending the prog…
Sex Differences in Associations Between Subjective Social Status and C-Reactive Protein in Young Adults
OBJECTIVE: In middle-aged and older samples, perceived subjective socioeconomic status (SSS) is a marker of social rank that is associated with elevated inflammation and cardiovascular disease risk independent of objective indicators of SES (oSES). Whether SSS is uniquely associated with elevated inflammation during young adulthood and whether these linkages differ by sex have not been studied using a nationally representative sample of young adu…
Sociodemographic risk, parenting, and executive functions in early childhood: The role of ethnicity
Is Hard Work and High Effort Always Healthy for Black College Students: John Henryism in the Face of Racial Discrimination
Differences in exposure to racial discrimination and in coping mechanisms can shape physiological health among emerging adults. This study, grounded in the Biopsychosocial Model, examines whether John Henryism active coping moderates the relation between exposure to racial discrimination and blood pressure in Black college students ( N = 128, M age = 19.33) attending a predominantly White institution. Analyses showed that John Henryism moderated …
Racial Discrimination and Acute Physiological Responses Among Black Young Adults: The Role of Racial Identity
Early growth in expressive communication and behavior problems: Differential relations by ethnicity
Bringing psychological science to bear on racial health disparities: The promise of centering Black health through a critical race framework
Longitudinal relations between skin tone and self-esteem in African American girls
We examined developmental changes in self-esteem from late childhood to late adolescence in African American girls ( N = 124), comparing skin tone groups. Girls completed a measure of self-esteem when they were in Grades 5, 7, 10, and 12, and in Grade 12 their skin tone was rated on a 3-point scale (1 = Light, 2 = Medium, 3 = Dark). Girls with lighter skin reported higher self-esteem than dark and medium-toned girls in Grades 5 and 7, and their s…
A mixed methods investigation of Black college-attending emerging adults’ experiences with multilevel racism
19.36; 62.7% female) reported their recent experiences using a quantitative measure and their worst experiences via a qualitative open-ended response, which were analyzed via convergent parallel design. The results indicated that a majority of reported worst experiences had an institutional-level component. Although the quantitative measure of recent experiences corresponded with reports of individual-level worst experiences, the institutional- a…
Impostor Phenomenon and Psychological Well-Being: The Moderating Roles of John Henryism and School Racial Composition Among Black College Students
The impostor phenomenon (IP), or erroneous cognitions of intellectual incompetence, is a risk factor for poor psychological adjustment among Black emerging adults. Grounded in Lazarus and Folkman's Stress and Coping Framework, the current study investigated John Henryism's active coping and institutional racial composition as moderators of the association between IP and indicators of psychological well-being among 266 Black students (77% women; M…
Black adolescents’ anticipatory stress responses to multilevel racism: The role of racial identity
442). We also examined whether three dimensions of racial identity, centrality, private regard, and public regard, moderate those relationships. We found that more experiences of racism at each level were related to greater anticipatory racism-related stress responses, measured as more cognitive activation of racial stressors, appraisal of coping strategies, and anticipation of future racism. We also found that some relationships between experien…
Black–white racial disparities in Covid-19: Awareness and framing of decision-making rationales
Black–White racial disparities in COVID-19 have received much media attention. Yet the degree to which laypeople are aware of these disparities and support equitable ventilator allocation remains unclear. This mixed methods study investigated laypeople’s awareness and the rationales they provided for ventilator allocation. Adults from the United States (N = 249) participated in the study in April 2020. They selected between photos of two people i…
Enriching the Africana soul”: Black college students’ lived experiences with affinity housing at a predominately White institution
Easier said than done”: A qualitative investigation of Black emerging adults coping with multilevel racism
Implications for practice, policy, and programming to support the mental health of Black emerging adults are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)
State-Level Sexism and Women’s Health Care Access in the United States: Differences by Race/Ethnicity, 2014–2019
Objectives. To quantify racial/ethnic differences in the relationship between state-level sexism and barriers to health care access among non-Hispanic White, non-Hispanic Black, and Hispanic women in the United States. Methods. We merged a multidimensional state-level sexism index compiled from administrative data with the national Consumer Survey of Health Care Access (2014–2019; n = 10 898) to test associations between exposure to state-level s…
Anti-Black Structural Racism Goes Online: A Conceptual Model for Racial Health Disparities Research
Anti-Black racism is an established social determinant of racial health disparities in the United States. Although the majority of research on racism examines in-person individual-level experiences, a majority of Americans engage online and may therefore be exposed to racism directly or indirectly in online contexts. Research suggests that the structural technological features of online contexts may be especially powerful in perpetuating and enac…
Cognitive flexibility and the health of Black college-attending young adults experiencing interpersonal racial discrimination
This study examined the utility of cognitive flexibility for the health of college-attending Black young adults facing chronic interpersonal racial discrimination in a sample of 218 healthy students attending a predominantly White university in the southeastern United States. Path and simple slope analysis indicated that cognitive flexibility moderated the association between racial discrimination and waist circumference but not depressive sympto…
Policy Brief
Not Just Time on Social Media: Experiences of Online Racial/Ethnic Discrimination and Worse Sleep Quality for Black, Latinx, Asian, and Multi-racial Young Adults
Centering the Heterogeneity of Black Adolescents' Experiences: Guidance for Within‐Group Designs among African Diasporic Communities
Despite notable improvements in theory and methods that center the lived experiences of Black adolescents, White supremacy endures in developmental science. In this article, we focus on one methodological manifestation of White supremacy—sampling decisions that assume Black adolescents are a homogeneous group. We examine overlooked concerns about within‐group designs with Black adolescents, such as the erasure of some African diasporic communitie…
Affect reactivity and lifetime racial discrimination among Black college students: The role of coping
2.15, 68.6% female) completed an online questionnaire that included measures of racial discrimination, coping, and demographics. They then attended a laboratory visit during which their affective responses to a stress task were collected. Regression analyses indicated an interaction between lifetime racial discrimination and social support coping on arousal reactivity in response to acute racial discrimination. For individuals who reported low le…
Anti-racism activism among Black adolescents and emerging adults: Understanding the roles of racism and anticipatory racism-related stress
This study examines associations between individual racism, anticipatory racism-related stress, and anti-racism activism among Black adolescents (n = 443; M age = 15.6; 57.4% female) and emerging adults (n = 447; M age = 23.8; 77.6% female). The authors tested competing hypotheses about associations between individual racism and anti-racism activism on anticipatory racism-related stress. Findings indicated anticipatory racism-related stress may b…
Gender discrimination and women's HPA activation to psychosocial stress during the postnatal period
Stress due to discrimination may contribute to physiological dysregulation and health risk during the postnatal period. This study examined longitudinal associations between gender discrimination and women's cortisol responses to subsequent stress. Mothers ( N = 79) reported gender discrimination and completed mother-infant stress tasks with saliva sampling for cortisol at 6, 12, and 18 months postnatal. Multilevel modeling results indicated more…
Ethnic identity in Arab Americans: Gender, Religious Upbringing, and Age Differences
Arab Americans constitute a diverse, sizeable ethnic minority in the United States. However, limited research has examined the content of Arab American ethnic identity and whether this ethnic identity differs by demographic factors. In the present study, we developed measures of Arab American ethnic identity and cultural practice, and assessed differences in those variables by gender, religious affiliation (Muslim, Christian), and age. Arab Ameri…
State-Level Sexism and Gender Disparities in Health Care Access and Quality in the United States
In this investigation, we examined the associations between state-level structural sexism-a multidimensional index of gender inequities across economic, political, and cultural domains of the gender system-and health care access and quality among women and men in the United States. We linked administrative data gauging state-level gender gaps in pay, employment, poverty, political representation, and policy protections to individual-level data on…
Psychology (37 works) · Medicine (21 works) · Sociology (21 works) · Social Psychology (16 works) · Gender Studies (15 works) · Racism (14 works) · Developmental psychology (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (13 works) · Gender Studies (11 works)