J G Grzywacz
Biographic Data
| ID | 8964 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J G Grzywacz |
| GIVEN NAMES | J G |
| FAMILY NAME | Grzywacz |
| SIGNATURE | GRZYWACZ J G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wake Forest University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2308-7781 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 80 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 526 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 80 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Understanding marital stability through work–family experiences in proximal and distal contexts: Comparing United States and Japan
Cultural meaning of education and parents' involvement in education: Perspectives of immigrant Latinos
Work as a Social Determinant of Racial Health Inequalities
Interdisciplinary research posits that work is a social determinant of health contributing to racial inequalities in death, disease, and well-being amongst Black individuals in the United States. This study aims to advance research by integrating two theoretical frameworks (Warr's Vitamin Model and Assari's "differential exposure" and "differential gain" mechanisms) to investigate the role of work in eudemonic well-being. We included a nationally…
Parenting, Pesticides and Adolescent Psychological Adjustment: A Brief Report
Pesticides used to control insects, such as pyrethroids, are neurotoxicants, yet adolescent researchers often overlook their potential role in adolescent psychological adjustment. This brief report is guided by bioecological theory and considers the possible independent and interactive effects of environmental pyrethroid pesticide exposure for adolescent depressive symptoms. Self-reported adolescent appraisals of the parent-child relationship and…
A Longitudinal Examination of Work–Family Balance among Working Mothers in the United States: Testing Bioecological Theory
A Conceptual Model of Work-Family Balance Among Qatari Adults
Work-family balance is shrouded in conceptual ambiguity and WEIRD (western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic) understanding, which impedes scientific advancement and subsequent practical solutions. This qualitative study constructs a conceptual model of work-family balance among Qatari adults. Based on grounded theory methods, in-depth interview data from 20 Qatari adults (10 women and 10 men) indicated that work-family balance mean…
Work, Stressors, and Psychosocial Adjustment of Undocumented Guatemalan Adolescents in United States Agriculture: A Mixed‐Methods Approach
This research focused on undocumented male Guatemalan migrant adolescents' experiences and stressors in United States agriculture. Study 1 applied a phenomenological method to explore work-life experiences of Guatemalan minors (n = 10) aged 15-17 (M age = 16.4). Findings highlighted three themes (1) "Just keep pushing forward," (2) "It feels ugly but that's life," and (3) "I have to do everything on my own." Using a separate sample, Study 2 exami…
Longitudinal Stability of Work–Family Enrichment and its Association With Well-Being and Personality Traits
Are higher levels of work-family enrichment a consequence or manifestation of certain personality traits and individuals' psychological functioning? Using random intercept cross-lagged panel models, this study examined the hypothesized stability of work-to-family enrichment (WFE) and family-to-work enrichment (FWE) over two 10-year intervals, the extent to which the within-person changes of WFE and FWE are associated with personality traits and p…
On the Biopsychosocial Costs of Alienated Labor
Data from the national, longitudinal Mid-Life in the US (MIDUS) study were used to examine work alienation and its relationship to biological health as well as psychological and social functioning. The alienation measure focuses on the autonomy and creativity the work provides. We hypothesized that alienated work would have negative associations with each of the three domains: in biology, higher 'allostatic load' (biological dysregulation); in ps…
Assessing the Extreme Loneliness of Immigrant Farmworkers
Immigrant farmworkers in the United States are a vulnerable population who often face uncertain legal standing, fewer financial and health-related resources, and higher exposure to work hazards. This article focuses on the loneliness-the subjective experience of social isolation-of immigrant farmworker communities, analyzes the social patterning of loneliness in this population, and estimates its association with self-rated health. Data come from…
The Role of Private Religious Practices, Spiritual Mindfulness, and Years Since Loss on Perceived Growth in Widowed Adults
The influence of daily spiritual experiences and gender on subjective well-being over time in cancer survivors
Cancer survivors are at risk for poor subjective well-being, but the potential beneficial effect of daily spiritual experiences is unknown. Using data from the second and third wave of the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) study, we examined the extent to which daily spiritual experiences at baseline moderate the association between subjective well-being at baseline and approximately 10 years later in cancer survivors ( n = 288). Regression an…
Impact of Work Schedule, Race, and Psychological Distress among Impoverished Mothers
Objective We tested the relationships among work schedule, race, and psychological distress in impoverished working mothers. Methods Baseline data from a longitudinal cohort study of impoverished mothers (N = 285) were analyzed. The Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) was utilized to measure levels of psychological distress. Multivariate models including interactions between work schedule and race were used. Results Results indicate that mothers workin…
Household Food Security Discordance Among Latino Adolescents and Parents
Discordant reports of Latino household food security suggest the burden of unequal access to sufficient foods may be underestimated. Discordant reports may follow from cultural values that may encourage adolescents to keep hunger from their parents
Getting Under the Skin: Children’s Health Disparities as Embodiment of Social Class
Psychosocial factors associated with depressive symptoms among Latina immigrants living in a new arrival community
Stressors among Hispanic adults from immigrant families in the United States: Familismo as a context for ambivalence
Hispanic adults from immigrant families described several situations in which competing views of familismo likely influenced the interpretation of unanticipated stressors. (PsycINFO Database Record
Intensive Mothering Beliefs Among Full-Time Employed Mothers of Infants
This study examined the degree to which 205 full-time employed mothers of infants endorsed intensive mothering beliefs (IMB), the stability of IMB, and contextual correlates of IMB. Results suggested that full-time employed mothers in this study did not endorse IMB, on average, but that endorsement varied for specific domains of IMB for the total sample and by mothers' education. Global IMB scores did not change from 4 to 16 months postpartum, wi…
Profiles of Food Security for US Farmworker Households and Factors Related to Dynamic of Change
Objectives. We recruited 248 farmworker families with preschool-aged children in North Carolina and examined food security indicators over 24 months to identify food security patterns and examine the dynamic of change over time. Methods. Participants in the Niños Sanos study, conducted 2011 to 2014, completed quarterly food security assessments. Based on responses to items in the US Household Food Security Survey Module, we identified different s…
Interpersonal and social correlates of depressive symptoms among Latinas in farmworker families living in North Carolina
Little research is available about the mental health of Latina women in farmworker families living in the southern United States, where Latino immigrants are relatively recent arrivals. This study examined interpersonal correlates (family conflict, family's outward orientation, and perceived discrimination) and social correlates (residential mobility and economic insecurity) of depressive symptoms and of meeting a threshold of depressive symptoms…
Unreliable item or inconsistent person? A study of variation in health beliefs and belief-anchors to biomedical models
The reliability of an item designed to measure health belief is often confounded with response consistency at the person level. The study applied contemporary measurement methods to an inventory of common sense beliefs about diabetes and used a sample of N = 563 adults with diabetes to test the hypothesis that individuals whose beliefs are congruent with a biomedical model are more consistent in their responses. Item-level analysis revealed that …
Work organization, job insecurity, and occupational health disparities
BACKGROUND: Changes in employment conditions in the global economy over the past 30 years have led to increased job insecurity and other work organization hazards. These hazards may play a role in creating and sustaining occupational health disparities by socioeconomic position, gender, race, ethnicity, and immigration status. METHODS: A conceptual model was developed to guide the review of 103 relevant articles or chapters on the role of work or…
Latino Mothers in Farmworker Families’ Beliefs About Preschool Children’s Physical Activity and Play
Evaluating Job Demands and Control Measures for Use in Farm Worker Health Surveillance
Housing and Neighborhood Characteristics and Latino Farmworker Family Well-Being
Defining and conceptualizing workplace flexibility
We first compare and contrast current conceptualizations of workplace flexibility in order to arrive at a definition in harmony with its contemporary use: 'the ability of workers to make choices influencing when, where, and for how long they engage in work-related tasks'. Next, we situate workplace flexibility in its theoretical contexts to provide researchers with a clearer understanding of what workplace flexibility is, what its mechanisms of o…
Is work—family balance more than conflict and enrichment
This study deepens our theoretical and practical understanding of work—family balance, defined as the ‘accomplishment of role-related expectations that are negotiated and shared between an individual and his/her role-related partners in the work and family domains’ (Grzywacz & Carlson, 2007: 458). We develop a new measure of work—family balance and establish discriminant validity between it, work—family conflict, and work—family enrichment. Furth…
Socioeconomic Status and Health: A Micro-level Analysis o Exposure and Vulnerability to Daily Stressors
This study examines the interconnections among education-as a proxy for socioeconomic status-stress, and physical and mental health by specifying differential exposure and vulnerability models using data from The National Study of Daily Experiences (N = 1,031). These daily diary data allowed assessment of the social distribution of a qualitatively different type of stressor than has previously been examined in sociological stress research-daily s…
Schedule flexibility and stress: Linking formal flexible arrangements and perceived flexibility to employee health
Despite widespread public appeals, the evidence base linking worker health to workplace flexibility remains weak. The goal of this study was to improve understanding of the potential health benefit of promoting schedule flexibility at work. Using data from several businesses across a variety of industries (N=19,704), this study tested hypothesized associations among employee participation in formal flexible work arrangements, perceived flexibilit…
Work, Family, and Mental Health: Testing Different Models of Work-Family Fit
Using family resilience theory, this study examined the effects of work-family conflict and work-family facilitation on mental health among working adults to gain a better understanding of work-family fit. Data from the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS) were used to compare different combinations of work-family conflict and work-family facilitation. Results suggest that family to work facilitation is a family pro…
Social Inequalities and Exercise during Adulthood: Toward an Ecological Perspective
Grounded in ecological theory, this study examines the association among participation in regular vigorous exercise and social status, aspects of prominent life settings, interactions between life settings, and more proximal individual resources and processes using data from the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States (N = 3,032). Among women, a higher level of earnings was associated with more vigorous exercise, yet those wom…
Evaluating Short-Form Versions of the CES-D for Measuring Depressive Symptoms Among Immigrants From Mexico
This article examines the feasibility of using a short-form version of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies–Depression Scale (CES-D) in community mental health research with Mexican immigrants. Several features of three published short versions of the CES-D were examined using data combined from seven diverse Mexican immigrant samples from across the United States ( N= 685). Results indicate that published short-form versions of the CES-D are rel…
Family, Work, Work-Family Spillover, and Problem Drinking During Midlife
Using ecological theory as a theoretical framework, this study systematically examined the associations between multiple dimensions of family relationship quality, work characteristics, work-family spillover, and problem drinking among a national sample of employed, midlife adults (n= 1,547). Multivariate analyses confirmed that work and family microsystem factors were associated with problem drinking above and beyond individual characteristics. …
Good jobs" to "bad jobs: Replicated Evidence of an Employment Continuum From Two Large Surveys
The work-family challenge and mental health: Experiences of Mexican immigrants
The work–family literature is dominated by studies of white middle-class workers. In this study, we sought to expand this focus by examining work–family issues from the perspective of Mexicans who have immigrated to the USA within the past five years. Using data from qualitative in-depth interviews (N = 22) and quantitative structured interviews (N = 150), we documented the work–family experiences associated with immigration, and we examined the …
Acculturation and Conflict in Mexican Immigrants’ Intimate Partnerships: The Role of Women’s Labor Force Participation
This study explores women's workforce participation as a potential agent for acculturation, and how it shapes conflict dynamics within intimate partnerships among Mexican immigrants. Analysis of in-depth interview data from 20 immigrant Mexican women and men believed to be in violent relationships indicated that women's employment following migration created several sources of intracouple conflict by challenging gender-based norms and behaviors s…
Stressors among Hispanic adults from immigrant families in the United States: Familismo as a context for ambivalence
Hispanic adults from immigrant families described several situations in which competing views of familismo likely influenced the interpretation of unanticipated stressors. (PsycINFO Database Record
Family Solidarity and Health Behaviors: Evidence From the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States
Guided by social control theory and an adapted version of Bengtson and Roberts's model of intergenerational solidarity, this study used data from the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS), with respondents ( N=3,485) ages 25 to 74, to examine the associations between multiple dimensions of family solidarity (affectual, normative, associational, functional, structural) and seven behaviors advocated to promote health. …
Depressive symptoms among Latino farmworkers across the agricultural season: Structural and situational influences
Immigrant Latino farmworkers confront multiple challenges that threaten their mental health. Previous farmworker mental health research has relied primarily on cross-sectional study designs, leaving little opportunity to describe how farmworker mental health changes or to identify factors that may contribute to these changes. This study used prospective data obtained at monthly intervals across one 4-month agricultural season from a large sample …
Mental health in immigrants from nontraditional receiving sites
The mental health of Latinos immigrating to nontraditional settlements may be compromised by limited contextual resources. Stressors and strengths related to anxiety and depression were examined among 150 Mexican adults (45.3% women) in nontraditional areas. Normative stress was associated with anxiety (beta = .24) after controlling for depression. Normative and acculturative stressors were associated with depression after controlling for anxiety…
Age, Race, and Ethnicity in the Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Health Self-Management: Evidence from the 2002 National Health Interview Survey
Objectives: Determine if complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use for treating existing conditions and for health maintenance differs by age and ethnicity. Methods: Data from the 2002 National Health Interview Survey were used to operationalize distinct types of CAM in terms of (a) no use, (b) use for treatment only, (c) use for prevention only, and (d) use for both treatment and prevention. Differences in CAM use by age and ethnicity wer…
Work Safety Climate, Musculoskeletal Discomfort, Working While Injured, and Depression Among Migrant Farmworkers in North Carolina
Objectives. This analysis described Latino migrant farmworkers’ work safety climate and its association with musculoskeletal discomfort, working while injured or ill, and depressive symptoms. Methods. Data were from a cross-sectional survey of 300 farmworkers conducted in North Carolina in 2009. Generalized estimating equations models were used to investigate the association of work safety climate with health and safety outcomes. Results. Farmwor…
Herbal Remedy Use as Health Self-Management Among Older Adults
A complex set of factors is associated with the inclusion of herbs in the health self-management of older adults, with cultural and personal resources being extremely important
Interpersonal and social correlates of depressive symptoms among Latinas in farmworker families living in North Carolina
Little research is available about the mental health of Latina women in farmworker families living in the southern United States, where Latino immigrants are relatively recent arrivals. This study examined interpersonal correlates (family conflict, family's outward orientation, and perceived discrimination) and social correlates (residential mobility and economic insecurity) of depressive symptoms and of meeting a threshold of depressive symptoms…
Intensive Mothering Beliefs Among Full-Time Employed Mothers of Infants
This study examined the degree to which 205 full-time employed mothers of infants endorsed intensive mothering beliefs (IMB), the stability of IMB, and contextual correlates of IMB. Results suggested that full-time employed mothers in this study did not endorse IMB, on average, but that endorsement varied for specific domains of IMB for the total sample and by mothers' education. Global IMB scores did not change from 4 to 16 months postpartum, wi…
Work Organization and Health Among Immigrant Women: Latina Manual Workers in North Carolina
Objectives. We sought to describe work organization attributes for employed immigrant Latinas and determine associations of work organization with physical health, mental health, and health-related quality of life. Methods. We conducted a cross-sectional survey with 319 employed Latinas in western North Carolina (2009–2011). Measures included job demands (heavy load, awkward posture, psychological demand), decision latitude (skill variety, job co…
Complementary Therapy Use and Health Self-Management Among Rural Older Adults
Understanding how older adults include sets of complementary therapies in their health self-management is important for improving their health care resources, expectations, awareness, and priorities
Nutritional strategies of Latino farmworker families with preschool children: Identifying leverage points for obesity prevention
Socioeconomic Status and Health Among Californians: An Examination of Multiple Pathways
Health inequalities manifest as a gradient, rather than as a distinction between “haves” and “have nots.” Therefore, eliminating health inequalities will require targeting interventions at segments of the entire population, not just particular subgroups at the disadvantaged end of the social hierarchy. Developing such interventions, however, has been stymied by an unclear understanding of how socioeconomic status (SES) influences health. The lite…
Getting Under the Skin: Children’s Health Disparities as Embodiment of Social Class
Family Solidarity and Health Behaviors: Evidence From the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States
Guided by social control theory and an adapted version of Bengtson and Roberts's model of intergenerational solidarity, this study used data from the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS), with respondents ( N=3,485) ages 25 to 74, to examine the associations between multiple dimensions of family solidarity (affectual, normative, associational, functional, structural) and seven behaviors advocated to promote health. …
Reconceptualizing the work–family interface: An ecological perspective on the correlates of positive and negative spillover between work and family
Family, Work, Work-Family Spillover, and Problem Drinking During Midlife
Using ecological theory as a theoretical framework, this study systematically examined the associations between multiple dimensions of family relationship quality, work characteristics, work-family spillover, and problem drinking among a national sample of employed, midlife adults (n= 1,547). Multivariate analyses confirmed that work and family microsystem factors were associated with problem drinking above and beyond individual characteristics. …
Social Inequalities and Exercise during Adulthood: Toward an Ecological Perspective
Grounded in ecological theory, this study examines the association among participation in regular vigorous exercise and social status, aspects of prominent life settings, interactions between life settings, and more proximal individual resources and processes using data from the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States (N = 3,032). Among women, a higher level of earnings was associated with more vigorous exercise, yet those wom…
Work–Family Spillover and Daily Reports of Work and Family Stress in the Adult Labor Force
Work–family research employing nationally representative samples and multiple methods of data collection is uncommon. We used data from two affiliated national surveys to examine the distribution of work–family spillover among working adults. The National Study of Daily Experiences ( n = 741 ), an 8‐day daily diary study using a subsample of the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS; N = 2,130 ), allowed work–family s…
Socioeconomic Status and Health Among Californians: An Examination of Multiple Pathways
Health inequalities manifest as a gradient, rather than as a distinction between “haves” and “have nots.” Therefore, eliminating health inequalities will require targeting interventions at segments of the entire population, not just particular subgroups at the disadvantaged end of the social hierarchy. Developing such interventions, however, has been stymied by an unclear understanding of how socioeconomic status (SES) influences health. The lite…
Good jobs" to "bad jobs: Replicated Evidence of an Employment Continuum From Two Large Surveys
Work, Family, and Mental Health: Testing Different Models of Work-Family Fit
Using family resilience theory, this study examined the effects of work-family conflict and work-family facilitation on mental health among working adults to gain a better understanding of work-family fit. Data from the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS) were used to compare different combinations of work-family conflict and work-family facilitation. Results suggest that family to work facilitation is a family pro…
Toward Health Promotion: Physical and Social Behaviors in Complete Health
Interventions targeting social behaviors may yield similar gains to complete health as physical behaviors
Socioeconomic Status and Health: A Micro-level Analysis o Exposure and Vulnerability to Daily Stressors
This study examines the interconnections among education-as a proxy for socioeconomic status-stress, and physical and mental health by specifying differential exposure and vulnerability models using data from The National Study of Daily Experiences (N = 1,031). These daily diary data allowed assessment of the social distribution of a qualitatively different type of stressor than has previously been examined in sociological stress research-daily s…
The Impact of Job Characteristics on Work-to-Family Facilitation: Testing a Theory and Distinguishing a Construct
This study used objective measures of job characteristics appended to the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS), self-reported job characteristics, and an individual resource characteristic (orientation toward personal growth) to test a theory of work-family facilitation. Results indicated that resource-rich jobs enable work-to-family facilitation. A higher level of work-to-family facilitation was reported by individ…
Measuring the positive side of the work–family interface: Development and validation of a work–family enrichment scale
Leaving Family for Work: Ambivalence and Mental Health Among Mexican Migrant Farmworker Men
Age, Race, and Ethnicity in the Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Health Self-Management: Evidence from the 2002 National Health Interview Survey
Objectives: Determine if complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use for treating existing conditions and for health maintenance differs by age and ethnicity. Methods: Data from the 2002 National Health Interview Survey were used to operationalize distinct types of CAM in terms of (a) no use, (b) use for treatment only, (c) use for prevention only, and (d) use for both treatment and prevention. Differences in CAM use by age and ethnicity wer…
The work-family challenge and mental health: Experiences of Mexican immigrants
The work–family literature is dominated by studies of white middle-class workers. In this study, we sought to expand this focus by examining work–family issues from the perspective of Mexicans who have immigrated to the USA within the past five years. Using data from qualitative in-depth interviews (N = 22) and quantitative structured interviews (N = 150), we documented the work–family experiences associated with immigration, and we examined the …
Ethnic Differences in Elders' Home Remedy Use: Sociostructural Explanations
Objective: To determine if ethnic differences in elders' use of home remedies are explained by structured inequalities.Method: Dichotomous indicators of "food" and "other" home remedies were obtained from a randomly selected cohort of older adults with diabetes (N=701).Analyses evaluated if differences in availability of care, economic hardship, and health status explained ethnic differences in home remedy use.Results: Differences in residential …
Evaluating Short-Form Versions of the CES-D for Measuring Depressive Symptoms Among Immigrants From Mexico
This article examines the feasibility of using a short-form version of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies–Depression Scale (CES-D) in community mental health research with Mexican immigrants. Several features of three published short versions of the CES-D were examined using data combined from seven diverse Mexican immigrant samples from across the United States ( N= 685). Results indicate that published short-form versions of the CES-D are rel…
Exercise and Fitness
Exercise, physical activity, and fitness are distinct but interrelated concepts (Caspersen et al. 1985). Physical activity is any bodily movement produced by skeletal muscle, while exercise is planned and repeated physical activity that is structured into individuals' lives with the purpose of maintaining or improving some attribute of either health or skill (i.e., fitness). Exercise, therefore, is a subset of physical activity that is characteri…
Herbal Remedy Use as Health Self-Management Among Older Adults
A complex set of factors is associated with the inclusion of herbs in the health self-management of older adults, with cultural and personal resources being extremely important
Age, Ethnicity, and Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Health Self-Management
Drawing on models of health self-management, we develop hypotheses that age and ethnicity will modify associations among indicators of poor health and use of complementary and alternative medicine. These hypotheses are evaluated using the 2002 National Health Interview Survey with the Alternative Health Supplement. Results produced partial support for hypotheses that the effects of ailments on use of complementary and alternative medicine differ …
Evaluating Pdas for Data Collection in Family Research With Non-Professional Couples
Repeated measures designs such as daily diary methods provide flexibility for examinations of fluid phenomena. The focus of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) as data collection tools with an end of the day (EOD) diary design and a non-professional sample. Participants reported the PDA was easy to use, convenient and enhanced the privacy of their responses. The PDAs minimized data entry errors and in…
Migrant Farmworker Stress: Mental Health Implications
Context: The number of Latinos in rural regions of the United States is increasing. Little is known about factors that undermine the mental health of this segment of the rural population. Purpose: The goal of this study is to determine which stressors inherent in farmwork and the farmworker lifestyle contribute to poor mental health. Methods: An interview containing the Migrant Farmworker Stress Inventory (MFWSI) and 3 mental health scales (the P…
Measuring Job Characteristics and Mental Health Among Latino Farmworkers: Results from Cognitive Testing
Age-related Differences in the Conventional Health Care-Complementary and Alternative Medicine Link
Defining and conceptualizing workplace flexibility
We first compare and contrast current conceptualizations of workplace flexibility in order to arrive at a definition in harmony with its contemporary use: 'the ability of workers to make choices influencing when, where, and for how long they engage in work-related tasks'. Next, we situate workplace flexibility in its theoretical contexts to provide researchers with a clearer understanding of what workplace flexibility is, what its mechanisms of o…
Psychology (69 works) · Medicine (58 works) · Gerontology (38 works) · Environmental health (32 works) · Social Psychology (28 works) · Psychiatry (27 works) · Mental health (21 works) · Sociology (21 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (20 works) · Clinical Psychology (19 works)