A B Barr
Biographic Data
| ID | 6845 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A B Barr |
| GIVEN NAMES | A B |
| FAMILY NAME | Barr |
| SIGNATURE | BARR A B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3105-2703 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 211 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Race, Gender, and Juvenile Determinism: A Mixed Methods Approach to Understanding Punishment Attitudes Toward Juvenile Offenders
This article examines intersections of race and gender in young adults’ attitudes toward juvenile offenders. Using original survey data, we first replicate a quantitative model testing race and gender differences in support of punitive treatment for juvenile offenders. We then use qualitative interview data to understand how young adults reconcile their own past offending with deterministic beliefs in racialized and gendered ways. Our findings in…
Pathway Out of School, Social Bonds, and Criminal Involvement Across Emerging Adulthood
Dropping out of high school has long been associated with increased crime, yet the causal nature of this link is questionable. We use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 to test whether dropout is causally related to crime across emerging adulthood. We examine how the association between dropout and crime varies by whether a student was primarily “pushed” or “pulled” out of school and whether continued disengagement with conv…
Beyond pain presence: The impact of multisite pain and pain interference on cognitive functioning among middle-aged and older adults
The mere presence of chronic pain may not significantly affect cognitive function, but having multi-site pain could be a risk factor for cognitive decline in later life. Addressing multi-site pain and/or pain interference in psychosocial dimensions may help protect cognitive health
Avert the ICY Feeling: Bhanu Kapil and Performing the Life of a Poet in White Spaces
Beginning with the conclusion of Alan Davies' 2013 essay ‘Notes on Conceptualism', this article analyses the written works and performances of British-Indian poet Bhanu Kapil to ask what it takes to make ‘habitable space' for a poet or a poem, and what it means to live the ‘life of a poet' - particularly in the presumed white spaces of contemporary US and UK poetry scenes. I argue that Kapil activates performance to gain temporary access to the p…
Adult children's education, parental cognitive health, and the role of selection
Juvenile School Discipline and Well-Being Among College-Educated Emerging Adults
Amidst a decline in exclusionary school discipline, the current study asks how a more holistic set of school discipline practices are associated with emerging adult well-being. We use original survey data from over 700 college-educated emerging adults to show that this sample can be categorized into three groups with unique school disciplinary histories—those who received minimal discipline, those who received primarily school-managed discipline,…
Racial discrimination and the weathering of nonmarital relationships
Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of perceived racial discrimination on the satisfaction and dissolution of different-gender, nonmarital relationships among African American young adults. Background: Racial discrimination has proven detrimental to relationship quality among married couples. Racial disparities in relationship processes begin long before marriages form, however. Racial discrimination may also weather and…
Adult Children’s Influence on Parental Well-Being
Population aging and widening disparities in healthy aging have increased attention to the social determinants of health and healthy aging. Unfortunately, our emphasis on the social determinants of health in adulthood has lacked the same intergenerational lens that is prominent in research focused earlier in the life course. Our research finds that having a college-educated adult child benefits parents’ health and well-being, particularly for dis…
Racial discrimination and health among two generations of African American couples
Gender Differences in the Dating Experiences of African American Young Adults: The Challenge of Forming Romantic Relationships Within the Context of Power Imbalance
Past research has documented that structural factors produce a skewed dating market in African American communities that advantages men over women. Using data collected from a sample of 495 African American young adults (55.8% women, Mage = 22), we tested the idea that African American men can be more selective when choosing dating partners than their female counterparts due to their power advantage. Consonant with this hypothesis, our results in…
To be real for you: Acousmatic cyborgs, asexuality, and becoming human
Figured as either subhuman, superhuman, or too nearly human, cyborgs in cinema are often used as a vehicle for expressing anxieties about the instability of “real” humanity as a position. Their representations in film reveal the broader cultural logics that are used to define humanity. These logics often rely on demonstrating social and emotional learning that centers the experience of (especially hetero)sexual attraction and desire, which is opp…
Youth Adversities Amplify the Association between Adult Stressors and Chronic Inflammation in a Domain Specific Manner: Nuancing the Early Life Sensitivity Model
Testing Life Course Models Whereby Juvenile and Adult Adversity Combine to Influence Speed of Biological Aging
The present study extends prior research on the links between social adversity and aging by employing more comprehensive measures of adversity and a new gene expression index of aging. Hierarchical regression and 20 years of data from a sample of 381 black Americans were used to test models regarding the impact of social adversity on speed of aging. Consistent with the early life sensitivity model, early adversity continued to predict accelerated…
Discrimination, segregation, and chronic inflammation: Testing the weathering explanation for the poor health of Black Americans
Several studies have reported a relation between race-related stressors and the poor health of Black Americans. Such findings raise questions regarding the mediating biological mechanisms that might account for this link. The present study investigated elevated systemic inflammation, a factor shown to be a strong predictor of chronic illness and mortality in all ethnic populations, as a possible factor. Using 7 waves of data from the Family and C…
Politics of Respectability, Colorism, and the Terms of Social Exchange in Family Research
In this article, we consider the utility of social exchange theory when centering the material and cultural realities of people and families of color. We draw on critical race and intersectionality scholarship to argue that this work challenges some of the core assumptions of social exchange theory (while reifying others) and offers novel avenues of inquiry and expanded foci for family researchers employing a social exchange framework. We illustr…
Sharing the Burden of the Transition to Adulthood: African American Young Adults' Transition Challenges and Their Mothers' Health Risk
For many African American youth, the joint influences of economic and racial marginalization render the transition to stable adult roles challenging. We have gained much insight into how these challenges affect future life chances, yet we lack an understanding of what these challenges mean in the context of linked lives. Drawing on a life course framework, this study examines how young African Americans' experiences across a variety of salient do…
Marital Beliefs Among African American Emerging Adults: The Roles of Community Context, Family Background, and Relationship Experiences
The current study explores multiple contexts of development-community, family, and relationship-that predict African American emerging adults' marital beliefs. Findings suggest that nonmarital relationship experiences and childhood community contexts are robust and independent predictors of marital beliefs. The important role of childhood community context found here suggests that communities may not only be indicative of opportunity structure in…
An index of the ratio of inflammatory to antiviral cell types mediates the effects of social adversity and age on chronic illness
Childhood/Adolescent stressors and allostatic load in adulthood: Support for a calibration model
Adapting to Family Setbacks: Malleability of Students' and Parents' Educational Expectations
Ambitions that students and their parents set during their adolescence have significance across the life course. It is yet unclear, however, how these expectations respond to changing family circumstances. In this work, we examine how negative family economic shocks affect educational expectations for students and their parents by using two theoretical perspectives – status attainment and adopt-adapt models. Further, we move beyond these debates …
Economic hardship and biological weathering: The epigenetics of aging in a U.S. sample of black women
Family socioeconomic status, family health, and changes in students' math achievement across high school: A mediational model
Innovative Education? A Test of Specialist Mimicry or Generalist Assimilation in Trends in Charter School Specialization Over Time
By most media accounts, charter schools are innovative schools. But little empirical work interrogates this idea. We examine the growth and decline of specialist charter school mission statements as one indicator of innovation. In line with theories of resource partitioning, we find that specialist charter school missions-those asserting innovation with regards to populations served, curricula utilized, and/or educational focus-have become increa…
Nonmarital Relationships and Changing Perceptions of Marriage Among African American Young Adults
Cohabitation has become increasingly widespread over the past decade. Such trends have given rise to debates about the relation between cohabitation and marriage in terms of what cohabitation means for individual relationship trajectories and for the institution of marriage more generally. Using recent data from a sample of almost 800 African Americans and fixed effects modeling procedures, in the present study the authors shed some light on thes…
Incorporating Routine Activities, Activity Spaces, and Situational Definitions Into the Social Schematic Theory of Crime
Simons and Burt's (2011) social schematic theory (SST) of crime posits that adverse social factors are associated with offending because they promote a set of social schemas (i.e., a criminogenic knowledge structure) that elevates the probability of situational definitions favorable to crime. This study extends the SST model by incorporating the role of contexts for action. Furthermore, the study advances tests of the SST by incorporating a measu…
Economic hardship and biological weathering: The epigenetics of aging in a U.S. sample of black women
Sharing the Burden of the Transition to Adulthood: African American Young Adults' Transition Challenges and Their Mothers' Health Risk
For many African American youth, the joint influences of economic and racial marginalization render the transition to stable adult roles challenging. We have gained much insight into how these challenges affect future life chances, yet we lack an understanding of what these challenges mean in the context of linked lives. Drawing on a life course framework, this study examines how young African Americans' experiences across a variety of salient do…
Discrimination, segregation, and chronic inflammation: Testing the weathering explanation for the poor health of Black Americans
Several studies have reported a relation between race-related stressors and the poor health of Black Americans. Such findings raise questions regarding the mediating biological mechanisms that might account for this link. The present study investigated elevated systemic inflammation, a factor shown to be a strong predictor of chronic illness and mortality in all ethnic populations, as a possible factor. Using 7 waves of data from the Family and C…
Innovative Education? A Test of Specialist Mimicry or Generalist Assimilation in Trends in Charter School Specialization Over Time
By most media accounts, charter schools are innovative schools. But little empirical work interrogates this idea. We examine the growth and decline of specialist charter school mission statements as one indicator of innovation. In line with theories of resource partitioning, we find that specialist charter school missions-those asserting innovation with regards to populations served, curricula utilized, and/or educational focus-have become increa…
Incorporating Routine Activities, Activity Spaces, and Situational Definitions Into the Social Schematic Theory of Crime
Simons and Burt's (2011) social schematic theory (SST) of crime posits that adverse social factors are associated with offending because they promote a set of social schemas (i.e., a criminogenic knowledge structure) that elevates the probability of situational definitions favorable to crime. This study extends the SST model by incorporating the role of contexts for action. Furthermore, the study advances tests of the SST by incorporating a measu…
Politics of Respectability, Colorism, and the Terms of Social Exchange in Family Research
In this article, we consider the utility of social exchange theory when centering the material and cultural realities of people and families of color. We draw on critical race and intersectionality scholarship to argue that this work challenges some of the core assumptions of social exchange theory (while reifying others) and offers novel avenues of inquiry and expanded foci for family researchers employing a social exchange framework. We illustr…
Adapting to Family Setbacks: Malleability of Students' and Parents' Educational Expectations
Ambitions that students and their parents set during their adolescence have significance across the life course. It is yet unclear, however, how these expectations respond to changing family circumstances. In this work, we examine how negative family economic shocks affect educational expectations for students and their parents by using two theoretical perspectives – status attainment and adopt-adapt models. Further, we move beyond these debates …
Romantic Relationships and Health among African American Young Adults: Linking Patterns of Relationship Quality over Time to Changes in Physical and Mental Health
With trends in delayed marriage, scholars have begun to explore how a wide range of romantic relationships contribute to health. Although a welcome shift, this largely cross-sectional work ignores potential (in)stability in relationship supports and stressors thought to affect health. Using Family and Community Health Study data on 634 African American young adults, we extend this work by demonstrating the value of a holistic, multidimensional as…
College aspirations and expectations among new African-American mothers in late adolescence
It is a generally accepted finding in the sociological literature as well as in public discourse that adolescent mothers are less likely than their non-parenting counterparts to graduate high school and to attend college. For several decades, however, researchers have pointed out that the implied causal process from teen motherhood to academic failure has been largely unsupported by empirical research. In fact, scholars have recently argued that …
An index of the ratio of inflammatory to antiviral cell types mediates the effects of social adversity and age on chronic illness
Childhood/Adolescent stressors and allostatic load in adulthood: Support for a calibration model
Nonmarital Relationships and Changing Perceptions of Marriage Among African American Young Adults
Cohabitation has become increasingly widespread over the past decade. Such trends have given rise to debates about the relation between cohabitation and marriage in terms of what cohabitation means for individual relationship trajectories and for the institution of marriage more generally. Using recent data from a sample of almost 800 African Americans and fixed effects modeling procedures, in the present study the authors shed some light on thes…
Testing Life Course Models Whereby Juvenile and Adult Adversity Combine to Influence Speed of Biological Aging
The present study extends prior research on the links between social adversity and aging by employing more comprehensive measures of adversity and a new gene expression index of aging. Hierarchical regression and 20 years of data from a sample of 381 black Americans were used to test models regarding the impact of social adversity on speed of aging. Consistent with the early life sensitivity model, early adversity continued to predict accelerated…
Family socioeconomic status, family health, and changes in students' math achievement across high school: A mediational model
Marriage Expectations Among African American Couples in Early Adulthood: A Dyadic Analysis
Using Family and Community Health Study data consisting of 168 unmarried, primarily African American couples, the current study sought to understand the dyadic interplay among school, work, and partner-specific marriage expectations in early adulthood. Drawing on the economic prospects, adult transitions, and work-family literatures, the authors hypothesized and found ample support that expectations to marry a romantic partner were linked not onl…
Racial discrimination and health among two generations of African American couples
Gender Differences in the Dating Experiences of African American Young Adults: The Challenge of Forming Romantic Relationships Within the Context of Power Imbalance
Past research has documented that structural factors produce a skewed dating market in African American communities that advantages men over women. Using data collected from a sample of 495 African American young adults (55.8% women, Mage = 22), we tested the idea that African American men can be more selective when choosing dating partners than their female counterparts due to their power advantage. Consonant with this hypothesis, our results in…
Marital Beliefs Among African American Emerging Adults: The Roles of Community Context, Family Background, and Relationship Experiences
The current study explores multiple contexts of development-community, family, and relationship-that predict African American emerging adults' marital beliefs. Findings suggest that nonmarital relationship experiences and childhood community contexts are robust and independent predictors of marital beliefs. The important role of childhood community context found here suggests that communities may not only be indicative of opportunity structure in…
Teen Motherhood and Pregnancy Prototypes: The Role of Social Context in Changing Young African American Mothers’ Risk Images and Contraceptive Expectations
College aspirations and expectations among new African-American mothers in late adolescence
It is a generally accepted finding in the sociological literature as well as in public discourse that adolescent mothers are less likely than their non-parenting counterparts to graduate high school and to attend college. For several decades, however, researchers have pointed out that the implied causal process from teen motherhood to academic failure has been largely unsupported by empirical research. In fact, scholars have recently argued that …
Marriage Expectations Among African American Couples in Early Adulthood: A Dyadic Analysis
Using Family and Community Health Study data consisting of 168 unmarried, primarily African American couples, the current study sought to understand the dyadic interplay among school, work, and partner-specific marriage expectations in early adulthood. Drawing on the economic prospects, adult transitions, and work-family literatures, the authors hypothesized and found ample support that expectations to marry a romantic partner were linked not onl…
The code of the street and romantic relationships: A dyadic analysis
Since its publication, Elijah Anderson's (1999) Code of the Street thesis has found support in studies connecting disadvantage to the internalization of street‐oriented values and an associated lifestyle of violent/deviant behavior. This primary emphasis on deviance in public arenas has precluded researchers from examining the implications of the code of the street for less public arenas, such as intimate relationships. In an effort to understand…
Teen Motherhood and Pregnancy Prototypes: The Role of Social Context in Changing Young African American Mothers’ Risk Images and Contraceptive Expectations
Romantic Relationships and Health among African American Young Adults: Linking Patterns of Relationship Quality over Time to Changes in Physical and Mental Health
With trends in delayed marriage, scholars have begun to explore how a wide range of romantic relationships contribute to health. Although a welcome shift, this largely cross-sectional work ignores potential (in)stability in relationship supports and stressors thought to affect health. Using Family and Community Health Study data on 634 African American young adults, we extend this work by demonstrating the value of a holistic, multidimensional as…
Incorporating Routine Activities, Activity Spaces, and Situational Definitions Into the Social Schematic Theory of Crime
Simons and Burt's (2011) social schematic theory (SST) of crime posits that adverse social factors are associated with offending because they promote a set of social schemas (i.e., a criminogenic knowledge structure) that elevates the probability of situational definitions favorable to crime. This study extends the SST model by incorporating the role of contexts for action. Furthermore, the study advances tests of the SST by incorporating a measu…
Economic hardship and biological weathering: The epigenetics of aging in a U.S. sample of black women
Family socioeconomic status, family health, and changes in students' math achievement across high school: A mediational model
Innovative Education? A Test of Specialist Mimicry or Generalist Assimilation in Trends in Charter School Specialization Over Time
By most media accounts, charter schools are innovative schools. But little empirical work interrogates this idea. We examine the growth and decline of specialist charter school mission statements as one indicator of innovation. In line with theories of resource partitioning, we find that specialist charter school missions-those asserting innovation with regards to populations served, curricula utilized, and/or educational focus-have become increa…
Nonmarital Relationships and Changing Perceptions of Marriage Among African American Young Adults
Cohabitation has become increasingly widespread over the past decade. Such trends have given rise to debates about the relation between cohabitation and marriage in terms of what cohabitation means for individual relationship trajectories and for the institution of marriage more generally. Using recent data from a sample of almost 800 African Americans and fixed effects modeling procedures, in the present study the authors shed some light on thes…
An index of the ratio of inflammatory to antiviral cell types mediates the effects of social adversity and age on chronic illness
Childhood/Adolescent stressors and allostatic load in adulthood: Support for a calibration model
Adapting to Family Setbacks: Malleability of Students' and Parents' Educational Expectations
Ambitions that students and their parents set during their adolescence have significance across the life course. It is yet unclear, however, how these expectations respond to changing family circumstances. In this work, we examine how negative family economic shocks affect educational expectations for students and their parents by using two theoretical perspectives – status attainment and adopt-adapt models. Further, we move beyond these debates …
Discrimination, segregation, and chronic inflammation: Testing the weathering explanation for the poor health of Black Americans
Several studies have reported a relation between race-related stressors and the poor health of Black Americans. Such findings raise questions regarding the mediating biological mechanisms that might account for this link. The present study investigated elevated systemic inflammation, a factor shown to be a strong predictor of chronic illness and mortality in all ethnic populations, as a possible factor. Using 7 waves of data from the Family and C…
Politics of Respectability, Colorism, and the Terms of Social Exchange in Family Research
In this article, we consider the utility of social exchange theory when centering the material and cultural realities of people and families of color. We draw on critical race and intersectionality scholarship to argue that this work challenges some of the core assumptions of social exchange theory (while reifying others) and offers novel avenues of inquiry and expanded foci for family researchers employing a social exchange framework. We illustr…
Sharing the Burden of the Transition to Adulthood: African American Young Adults' Transition Challenges and Their Mothers' Health Risk
For many African American youth, the joint influences of economic and racial marginalization render the transition to stable adult roles challenging. We have gained much insight into how these challenges affect future life chances, yet we lack an understanding of what these challenges mean in the context of linked lives. Drawing on a life course framework, this study examines how young African Americans' experiences across a variety of salient do…
Marital Beliefs Among African American Emerging Adults: The Roles of Community Context, Family Background, and Relationship Experiences
The current study explores multiple contexts of development-community, family, and relationship-that predict African American emerging adults' marital beliefs. Findings suggest that nonmarital relationship experiences and childhood community contexts are robust and independent predictors of marital beliefs. The important role of childhood community context found here suggests that communities may not only be indicative of opportunity structure in…
Youth Adversities Amplify the Association between Adult Stressors and Chronic Inflammation in a Domain Specific Manner: Nuancing the Early Life Sensitivity Model
Testing Life Course Models Whereby Juvenile and Adult Adversity Combine to Influence Speed of Biological Aging
The present study extends prior research on the links between social adversity and aging by employing more comprehensive measures of adversity and a new gene expression index of aging. Hierarchical regression and 20 years of data from a sample of 381 black Americans were used to test models regarding the impact of social adversity on speed of aging. Consistent with the early life sensitivity model, early adversity continued to predict accelerated…
To be real for you: Acousmatic cyborgs, asexuality, and becoming human
Figured as either subhuman, superhuman, or too nearly human, cyborgs in cinema are often used as a vehicle for expressing anxieties about the instability of “real” humanity as a position. Their representations in film reveal the broader cultural logics that are used to define humanity. These logics often rely on demonstrating social and emotional learning that centers the experience of (especially hetero)sexual attraction and desire, which is opp…
Gender Differences in the Dating Experiences of African American Young Adults: The Challenge of Forming Romantic Relationships Within the Context of Power Imbalance
Past research has documented that structural factors produce a skewed dating market in African American communities that advantages men over women. Using data collected from a sample of 495 African American young adults (55.8% women, Mage = 22), we tested the idea that African American men can be more selective when choosing dating partners than their female counterparts due to their power advantage. Consonant with this hypothesis, our results in…
Adult Children’s Influence on Parental Well-Being
Population aging and widening disparities in healthy aging have increased attention to the social determinants of health and healthy aging. Unfortunately, our emphasis on the social determinants of health in adulthood has lacked the same intergenerational lens that is prominent in research focused earlier in the life course. Our research finds that having a college-educated adult child benefits parents’ health and well-being, particularly for dis…
Racial discrimination and health among two generations of African American couples
Racial discrimination and the weathering of nonmarital relationships
Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of perceived racial discrimination on the satisfaction and dissolution of different-gender, nonmarital relationships among African American young adults. Background: Racial discrimination has proven detrimental to relationship quality among married couples. Racial disparities in relationship processes begin long before marriages form, however. Racial discrimination may also weather and…
Juvenile School Discipline and Well-Being Among College-Educated Emerging Adults
Amidst a decline in exclusionary school discipline, the current study asks how a more holistic set of school discipline practices are associated with emerging adult well-being. We use original survey data from over 700 college-educated emerging adults to show that this sample can be categorized into three groups with unique school disciplinary histories—those who received minimal discipline, those who received primarily school-managed discipline,…
Psychology (24 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Developmental psychology (17 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Medicine (14 works) · Demography (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Gerontology (10 works) · Demography (8 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (8 works)