Jacqueline S Mattis
Biographic Data
| ID | 77607 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacqueline S Mattis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jacqueline S |
| FAMILY NAME | Mattis |
| SIGNATURE | MATTIS J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6714-9163 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 485 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Young, purposed, and Black: Understanding purpose in low‐income, urban‐residing Black adolescents
Part of the identity-formation process in adolescence includes acquiring a purpose. Although purpose is developmentally adaptive, it may be particularly valuable for Black adolescents who are navigating the complexities of development in high-stress, under-resourced environments. However, little is known about the individual and contextual factors associated with purpose among Black, urban-residing youth from low-income communities. This study us…
Gender, race, and space: A qualitative exploration of young Black women's perceptions of urban neighborhoods
How people think and feel about their neighborhood impacts the way they think of themselves and their futures. These linkages are especially important to understand in the case of urban‐residing young Black women. Researchers know very little about what contributes to young Black adults' urban neighborhood perceptions and often rely on “expert” definitions of markers of neighborhood quality. These definitions and subsequent explorations of reside…
Black Emerging Adults’ Critical Consciousness and Perceived Neighborhood Quality
We examine the relations between critical consciousness and perceptions of neighborhood quality (PNQ) in the context of social positions among young Black adults in the U.S. ( n = 524 ; μ age = 26.4; SD = 3.29). Multigroup structural equation modeling revealed that social identities, such as age and income, were positively related to PNQ for Black women. Critical reflection and critical agency were positively related to PNQ for Black men and crit…
Black adolescent altruism: Exploring the role of racial discrimination and empathy
Black girls report more altruism and empathy than Black boys. • Black boys report more racial discrimination than Black girls. • Empathy and racial discrimination positively relate to Black adolescents’ altruism. • Measurement invariance analyses suggest measures are invariant across genders. • Multigroup analyses suggested no significant gender differences . We examine whether empathy and racial discrimination occurring in schools and communitie…
Contextualizing black emerging adults' perceptions of neighborhood quality
The ways in which Black emerging adults perceive and evaluate their neighborhoods may be impacted by a host of social and political factors that interplay with their social identities, the social identities of other urban residents, and their time in the area. Early literature on Black emerging adults' perceived neighborhood quality (PNQ) tended to make comparisons to White people and to focus disproportionately on the perceptions of low‐income B…
I didn't know who to talk to”: Black college men’s sources and descriptions of social support
Young Black men face unique interpersonal challenges throughout their time on college campuses, as they are forced to navigate anticipated developmental stressors (e.g., academic adjustment), coupled with race-specific microaggressions and structural forms of harm. Still, members of this group remain underrepresented in higher education, and their lived experiences have been neglected within existing men’s studies research. Therefore, carefully e…
The power of faith: Racial discrimination and religiosity among Black American men
Black men's faith is a relevant contributor to their prosocial action. Religious institutions and psychologists can work collaboratively in supporting this positive trajectory. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)
Dismantling the master's house: Decolonizing “Rigor” in psychological scholarship
The purported goal of social science research is to develop approaches and applications to the psychological study of social issues that allow us to know, accurately and inclusively, the lived experiences of all human beings. However, our current theoretical and methodological tools, while perceived as “objective,” were founded on ahistorical and context‐eliminating perspectives that privilege research designs and analytic strategies that reflect…
Color him father: Generative parenting among low-income, urban-residing, coresidential Black fathers
No Crystal Stair: Predictors of Pessimism Among Black Men
Social scientists have paid scant attention to factors relating to pessimism among Black American men. Drawing from Fankl’s existentialist framework, this study explored the association between life stress, everyday racism, existential well-being (EWB), religiosity and self-reported pessimism among a community sample of Black men ( n = 147). Regression analysis revealed that life stress was positively associated with pessimism, while EWB was nega…
Parenting Together: Understanding the Shared Context of Positive Parenting Among Low-Income Black Families
This study examined the relations between family demographics and positive parenting dimensions among urban-residing, low-income, Black caregiving dyads. Participants were 100 co-caregivers affiliated with a Head Start program and reporting on 50 preschool-aged children. Given that the parenting context for the caregiver pairs was not independent, multilevel dyadic analysis was employed to determine demographic predictors of positive parenting di…
Dealing with discrimination: Parents’ and adolescents’ racial discrimination experiences and parenting in African American families
The results indicate that parenting may depend on both parents' and adolescents' racial discrimination experiences and characteristics. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
Where Our Bright Star Is Cast: Religiosity, Spirituality, and Positive Black Development in Urban Landscapes
Social science research offers a particular, narrow view of the lived experiences of Black urban-residing people. When the religious and spiritual lives of Black urban residents are viewed through this narrow lens, the diversity of religious and spiritual experiences and the connections between everyday life and positive outcomes, such as compassion, hope, liberation, joy, etc., become flattened, doing a disservice to the very people whose experi…
Media representations of popular culture figures and the construction of Black masculinities
The present study explores the construction of masculinity among young Black men. Of central concern is young Black men’s subjective reflections on the role that popular culture and media have in informing how they understand and define their ideas of masculinity. The study uses interview data from a larger pilot study, the Young Black Men, Masculinities, and Mental Health Project, where participants sought to elucidate perceptions of the interse…
Profiles of culturally salient positive parenting practices among urban-residing Black Head Start families
Findings underscore the importance of conducting within-group studies that examine variability across ethnocultural groups identified as belonging to the same racial group. Indeed, there was variation in the manifestations of positive parenting within and across the ethnic groups included in this study (i.e., African Americans and Caribbean immigrants) that can inform future research and practice. (PsycINFO Database Record
Buried hatchets, marked locations: Forgiveness, everyday racial discrimination, and African American men’s depressive symptomatology
Everyday racial discrimination (ERD) is linked to pronounced depressive symptomatology among African American men. Yet, many African American men do not experience depressive symptoms following ERD exposure often because they use positive coping strategies that offset its effects. Granting forgiveness is 1 coping strategy associated with less depression. However, extant findings about the mental health benefits of forgiveness are somewhat mixed a…
What Would I Know About Mercy? Faith and Optimistic Expectancies Among African Americans
Natural Mentors, Racial Pride, and Academic Engagement Among Black Adolescents: Resilience in the Context of Perceived Discrimination
The current study examined the potential of relational closeness in the natural mentoring relationships (NMRs) of Black students to counter and protect against the noxious effects of school-based discrimination on academic engagement. The study sample included 663 Black students between the ages of 12 and 19 ( M = 14.96 years, SD = 1.81 years), all reporting a natural mentor. Approximately half of participants were female (53%). Participants were…
Factors Predicting Volunteer Engagement Among Urban-Residing African American Women
Research has shown that urban-residing African American women engage in volunteer work at impressive rates. However, few studies have empirically assessed the factors that account for volunteerism within this population. This study explores the relationship between demographic variables, early religious involvement, current religious involvement, empathy, perspective taking, and volunteer engagement among African American women residing in a larg…
Faith and the sacred in African American life.
Doing Good and Feeling Good Among African Americans: Subjective Religiosity, Helping, and Satisfaction
Previous studies of religion's role in the connection between helping and well-being among African Americans have examined this relationship from a stress and coping theoretical standpoint, perpetuating a deficit model of positive functioning. In an effort to develop the literature, the authors approached the study of these relationships from a role identity theoretical standpoint, and a fulfillment perspective within a community sample of Africa…
If It Wasn’t for the Church: ” Organizational Religiosity and Informal Community Helping among African American Adults
Researching and Facilitating African American Global Volunteerism
There has been little theoretical or empirical study regarding the factors that promote or thwart international service among African American adults. A review of the extant research on international volunteerism highlights factors that may facilitate or inhibit international service among African Americans. Religion can play a role in promoting African American volunteerism generally, and international service specifically. Building on existing …
Use of ministers for a serious personal problem among African Americans: Findings from the National Survey of American Life
This study examined use of ministers for assistance with a serious personal problem within a nationally representative sample of African Americans (National Survey of American Life-2001-2003). Different perspectives on the use of ministers-social stratification, religious socialization, and problem-oriented approach-were proposed and tested using logistic regression analyses with demographic, religious involvement, and problem type factors as pre…
Seeking Help from Clergy Among Black Caribbeans in the United States
Religion and Spirituality in the Meaning-Making and Coping Experiences of African American Women: A Qualitative Analysis
This qualitative study examines the ways in which African American women use religion/spirituality to cope and to construct meaning in times of adversity. Content analysis of the narratives of a sample of African American women respondents ( n = 23) revealed a set of eight nonoverlapping themes that explicate religiosity/spirituality's role in meaning-making and coping. Findings suggest that religion/spirituality help women to (1) interrogate and…
Subjective Religiosity among African Americans: A Synthesis of Findings from Five National Samples
Demographic correlates of subjective religiosity are examined using data from five large national probability samples (i.e., Americans Changing Lives, n = 3,617; General Social Survey, n = 26,265; Monitoring the Future, n = 16,843; National Black Election Survey, n = 1,151; and National Survey of Black Americans, n = 2,107). In analyses of data involving both Black and White respondents, race emerges as a strong and consistent predictor of variou…
African American Women's Definitions of Spirituality and Religiosity
These two qualitative studies explore the meanings of spirituality for African American women and the distinctions that women make between spirituality and religiosity. In Study 1, content analyses of women's (N = 128) written narratives reveal 13 categories of meaning that are assigned to spirituality. In Study 2, indepth interviews with a subsample of women (N = 21) reveal three key differences between religiosity and spirituality. First, where…
A relational framework for the study of religiosity and spirituality in the lives of African Americans
Religiosity and spirituality are defining features of African American life. However, within psychology, research on African American religiosity and spirituality has proceeded without benefit of a conceptual framework. This paper labors toward a framework that examines the roles of religion and spirituality in the development and maintenance of social relationships. We review empirical research on the role of religion and spirituality in the liv…
Being a Man About It: Manhood Meaning Among African American Men
The Pond You Fish In Determines the Fish You Catch: Exploring Strategies for Qualitative Data Collection
Qualitative research has increased in popularity among social scientists. While substantial attention has been given to various methods of qualitative analysis, there is a need to focus on strategies for collecting diverse forms of qualitative data. In this article, the authors discuss four sources of qualitative data: participant observation, interviews, physical data, and electronic data. Although counseling psychology researchers often use int…
Religion and African American Political Life
Religion is a central force in the lives of the overwhelming majority of African Americans. However, psychology has been conspicuously silent about the role of religion in African American political life. This work endeavors to challenge the longstanding argument that religiosity promotes an escapist, apolitical stance among African Americans. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which our understanding of the link between religion and Afr…
Natural Mentors, Racial Pride, and Academic Engagement Among Black Adolescents: Resilience in the Context of Perceived Discrimination
The current study examined the potential of relational closeness in the natural mentoring relationships (NMRs) of Black students to counter and protect against the noxious effects of school-based discrimination on academic engagement. The study sample included 663 Black students between the ages of 12 and 19 ( M = 14.96 years, SD = 1.81 years), all reporting a natural mentor. Approximately half of participants were female (53%). Participants were…
Intersectional Identities and the Politics of Altruistic Care in a Low-Income, Urban Community
Religiosity, Optimism, and Pessimism Among African Americans
It generally is accepted that religiosity is associated with increased optimism and decreased pessimism. However, the empirical link between religiosity and optimistic and pessimistic expectancy outcomes remains underexamined. This study explored the association between early and current organizational religiosity, subjective religiosity and spirituality, positive and negative perceived relationship with God, and dispositional optimism and pessim…
The Social Production of Altruism: Motivations for Caring Action in a Low‐Income Urban Community
Contemporary social science paints a bleak picture of inner‐city relational life. Indeed, the relationships of low‐income, urban‐residing Americans are represented as rife with distress, violence and family disruption. At present, no body of social scientific work systematically examines the factors that promote loving or selfless interactions among low‐income, inner‐city American individuals, families and communities. In an effort to fill that g…
What Would I Know About Mercy? Faith and Optimistic Expectancies Among African Americans
The Importance of Cultural Competence in Ministering to African American Victims of Domestic Violence
This article describes an ecophenomenological model of domestic violence that helps to conceptualize the ways in which various contextual factors inform the experiences of African American victims of partner violence. The implications of this model for the culturally competent treatment of African American victims of partner abuse are discussed, as is the issue of violence as an outgrowth of an African American male entitlement dysfunction. The a…
Media representations of popular culture figures and the construction of Black masculinities
The present study explores the construction of masculinity among young Black men. Of central concern is young Black men’s subjective reflections on the role that popular culture and media have in informing how they understand and define their ideas of masculinity. The study uses interview data from a larger pilot study, the Young Black Men, Masculinities, and Mental Health Project, where participants sought to elucidate perceptions of the interse…
Masculinity Ideology and Forgiveness of Racial Discrimination among African American Men: Direct and Interactive Relationships
Color him father: Generative parenting among low-income, urban-residing, coresidential Black fathers
Where Our Bright Star Is Cast: Religiosity, Spirituality, and Positive Black Development in Urban Landscapes
Social science research offers a particular, narrow view of the lived experiences of Black urban-residing people. When the religious and spiritual lives of Black urban residents are viewed through this narrow lens, the diversity of religious and spiritual experiences and the connections between everyday life and positive outcomes, such as compassion, hope, liberation, joy, etc., become flattened, doing a disservice to the very people whose experi…
Ecological Predictors of Traumatic Stress Symptoms in Caucasian and Ethnic Minority Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence
Traumatic stress symptoms were assessed for 218 children ages 5 to 13 following exposure to intimate partner violence: 33% of Caucasian and 17% of minority children were diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder. A risk and protective factors model was used to predict traumatic stress symptoms. For Caucasian children, the best predictors were mothers' mental health and low self-esteem. For minority children, the amount of violence, mothers' lo…
Seeking Help from Clergy Among Black Caribbeans in the United States
Dismantling the master's house: Decolonizing “Rigor” in psychological scholarship
The purported goal of social science research is to develop approaches and applications to the psychological study of social issues that allow us to know, accurately and inclusively, the lived experiences of all human beings. However, our current theoretical and methodological tools, while perceived as “objective,” were founded on ahistorical and context‐eliminating perspectives that privilege research designs and analytic strategies that reflect…
If It Wasn’t for the Church: ” Organizational Religiosity and Informal Community Helping among African American Adults
Parenting Together: Understanding the Shared Context of Positive Parenting Among Low-Income Black Families
This study examined the relations between family demographics and positive parenting dimensions among urban-residing, low-income, Black caregiving dyads. Participants were 100 co-caregivers affiliated with a Head Start program and reporting on 50 preschool-aged children. Given that the parenting context for the caregiver pairs was not independent, multilevel dyadic analysis was employed to determine demographic predictors of positive parenting di…
Doing Good and Feeling Good Among African Americans: Subjective Religiosity, Helping, and Satisfaction
Previous studies of religion's role in the connection between helping and well-being among African Americans have examined this relationship from a stress and coping theoretical standpoint, perpetuating a deficit model of positive functioning. In an effort to develop the literature, the authors approached the study of these relationships from a role identity theoretical standpoint, and a fulfillment perspective within a community sample of Africa…
Factors Influencing Religious Non-Attendance among African American Men: A Multimethod Analysis
Jacqueline S. Mattis, Kiu Eubanks, Alix A. Zapata, Nyasha Grayman, Max Belkin, N'Jeri K. Mitchell, Sharon Cooper, Factors Influencing Religious Non-Attendance among African American Men: A Multimethod Analysis, Review of Religious Research, Vol. 45, No. 4 (Jun., 2004), pp. 386-403
The power of faith: Racial discrimination and religiosity among Black American men
Black men's faith is a relevant contributor to their prosocial action. Religious institutions and psychologists can work collaboratively in supporting this positive trajectory. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)
Subjective Religiosity among African Americans: A Synthesis of Findings from Five National Samples
Demographic correlates of subjective religiosity are examined using data from five large national probability samples (i.e., Americans Changing Lives, n = 3,617; General Social Survey, n = 26,265; Monitoring the Future, n = 16,843; National Black Election Survey, n = 1,151; and National Survey of Black Americans, n = 2,107). In analyses of data involving both Black and White respondents, race emerges as a strong and consistent predictor of variou…
The Importance of Cultural Competence in Ministering to African American Victims of Domestic Violence
This article describes an ecophenomenological model of domestic violence that helps to conceptualize the ways in which various contextual factors inform the experiences of African American victims of partner violence. The implications of this model for the culturally competent treatment of African American victims of partner abuse are discussed, as is the issue of violence as an outgrowth of an African American male entitlement dysfunction. The a…
Religiosity, volunteerism, and community involvement among African American men: An exploratory analysis
Social activists have argued that African American men must play a prominent role as volunteers in social programs that affect the African American community. Using a sample of African American men (N= 171), the present study examines the relative utility of social capital, communalism, and religiosity variables as predictors of volunteerism, membership in community-based as well as political and social justice organizations, and the number of ho…
African American Women's Definitions of Spirituality and Religiosity
These two qualitative studies explore the meanings of spirituality for African American women and the distinctions that women make between spirituality and religiosity. In Study 1, content analyses of women's (N = 128) written narratives reveal 13 categories of meaning that are assigned to spirituality. In Study 2, indepth interviews with a subsample of women (N = 21) reveal three key differences between religiosity and spirituality. First, where…
A relational framework for the study of religiosity and spirituality in the lives of African Americans
Religiosity and spirituality are defining features of African American life. However, within psychology, research on African American religiosity and spirituality has proceeded without benefit of a conceptual framework. This paper labors toward a framework that examines the roles of religion and spirituality in the development and maintenance of social relationships. We review empirical research on the role of religion and spirituality in the liv…
Religion and African American Political Life
Religion is a central force in the lives of the overwhelming majority of African Americans. However, psychology has been conspicuously silent about the role of religion in African American political life. This work endeavors to challenge the longstanding argument that religiosity promotes an escapist, apolitical stance among African Americans. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which our understanding of the link between religion and Afr…
Religion and Spirituality in the Meaning-Making and Coping Experiences of African American Women: A Qualitative Analysis
This qualitative study examines the ways in which African American women use religion/spirituality to cope and to construct meaning in times of adversity. Content analysis of the narratives of a sample of African American women respondents ( n = 23) revealed a set of eight nonoverlapping themes that explicate religiosity/spirituality's role in meaning-making and coping. Findings suggest that religion/spirituality help women to (1) interrogate and…
Factors Predicting Communal Attitudes among African American Men
This study examines the direct effects of demographic variables, religiosity, psychosocial stress variables (i.e., financial and relational stress, reported exposure to injustice), and sociostructural variables (i.e., racism) on the communal attitudes of African American men. Age and educational attainment were not systematically associated with communalism. However, there is some evidence of a negative relationship between income and communalism…
Factors Influencing Religious Non-Attendance among African American Men: A Multimethod Analysis
Jacqueline S. Mattis, Kiu Eubanks, Alix A. Zapata, Nyasha Grayman, Max Belkin, N'Jeri K. Mitchell, Sharon Cooper, Factors Influencing Religious Non-Attendance among African American Men: A Multimethod Analysis, Review of Religious Research, Vol. 45, No. 4 (Jun., 2004), pp. 386-403
Religiosity, Optimism, and Pessimism Among African Americans
It generally is accepted that religiosity is associated with increased optimism and decreased pessimism. However, the empirical link between religiosity and optimistic and pessimistic expectancy outcomes remains underexamined. This study explored the association between early and current organizational religiosity, subjective religiosity and spirituality, positive and negative perceived relationship with God, and dispositional optimism and pessim…
Being a Man About It: Manhood Meaning Among African American Men
Ethnicity, Culture, and Spiritual Development
Ecological Predictors of Traumatic Stress Symptoms in Caucasian and Ethnic Minority Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence
Traumatic stress symptoms were assessed for 218 children ages 5 to 13 following exposure to intimate partner violence: 33% of Caucasian and 17% of minority children were diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder. A risk and protective factors model was used to predict traumatic stress symptoms. For Caucasian children, the best predictors were mothers' mental health and low self-esteem. For minority children, the amount of violence, mothers' lo…
Masculinity Ideology and Forgiveness of Racial Discrimination among African American Men: Direct and Interactive Relationships
Uses of ministerial support by African Americans: A focus group study
This focus group study examines the use of ministerial support among African American adults with regard to (1) the issues taken to ministers by church members, (2) the issues not taken to ministers by church members, and (3) the factors that inform people's decisions about whether or not to seek ministerial support. Content analysis of narratives from 13 focus groups revealed significant overlap in the range of concerns for which people seek sup…
The Pond You Fish In Determines the Fish You Catch: Exploring Strategies for Qualitative Data Collection
Qualitative research has increased in popularity among social scientists. While substantial attention has been given to various methods of qualitative analysis, there is a need to focus on strategies for collecting diverse forms of qualitative data. In this article, the authors discuss four sources of qualitative data: participant observation, interviews, physical data, and electronic data. Although counseling psychology researchers often use int…
Intersectional Identities and the Politics of Altruistic Care in a Low-Income, Urban Community
The Meanings and Manifestations of Religion and Spirituality among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Adults
The Social Production of Altruism: Motivations for Caring Action in a Low‐Income Urban Community
Contemporary social science paints a bleak picture of inner‐city relational life. Indeed, the relationships of low‐income, urban‐residing Americans are represented as rife with distress, violence and family disruption. At present, no body of social scientific work systematically examines the factors that promote loving or selfless interactions among low‐income, inner‐city American individuals, families and communities. In an effort to fill that g…
Use of ministers for a serious personal problem among African Americans: Findings from the National Survey of American Life
This study examined use of ministers for assistance with a serious personal problem within a nationally representative sample of African Americans (National Survey of American Life-2001-2003). Different perspectives on the use of ministers-social stratification, religious socialization, and problem-oriented approach-were proposed and tested using logistic regression analyses with demographic, religious involvement, and problem type factors as pre…
Seeking Help from Clergy Among Black Caribbeans in the United States
If It Wasn’t for the Church: ” Organizational Religiosity and Informal Community Helping among African American Adults
Researching and Facilitating African American Global Volunteerism
There has been little theoretical or empirical study regarding the factors that promote or thwart international service among African American adults. A review of the extant research on international volunteerism highlights factors that may facilitate or inhibit international service among African Americans. Religion can play a role in promoting African American volunteerism generally, and international service specifically. Building on existing …
Faith and the sacred in African American life.
Doing Good and Feeling Good Among African Americans: Subjective Religiosity, Helping, and Satisfaction
Previous studies of religion's role in the connection between helping and well-being among African Americans have examined this relationship from a stress and coping theoretical standpoint, perpetuating a deficit model of positive functioning. In an effort to develop the literature, the authors approached the study of these relationships from a role identity theoretical standpoint, and a fulfillment perspective within a community sample of Africa…
Psychology (40 works) · Social Psychology (34 works) · Sociology (32 works) · Social Psychology (23 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (22 works) · Religiosity (16 works) · Gender Studies (15 works) · Political science (13 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (13 works) · Developmental psychology (12 works)