Edward D Scott
Biographic Data
| ID | 912872 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward D Scott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward D |
| FAMILY NAME | Scott |
| SIGNATURE | SCOTT E D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Houston |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8427-0109 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Strength-based and culturally grounded approaches to supporting young Black men’s mental health
Research on young Black men’s mental health has often been shaped by deficit-oriented frameworks that emphasize pathology while obscuring cultural strengths and structural context. This paper advances a strength-based, culturally grounded perspective by synthesizing interdisciplinary literature on the social, cultural, and ecological factors shaping young Black men’s mental health. Rather than positioning young Black men as problems to be managed…
Examining the Link Between Critical Thinking, In-School Racial Discrimination, and Perceptions of Future College-Going Beliefs
Youth from racial minority backgrounds frequently report encountering racial discrimination within their school. These experiences can create additional barriers to their pursuit of higher education. This study explored whether critical thinking can protect and enhance youth college aspirations despite discrimination. We examined whether critical thinking protects against the impact of racial discrimination on beliefs about future college plans i…
Political Imagination as a Black Family Process
Black parents have long nurtured their daughters’ dreams through affirmation, advocacy, and culturally rooted care. Yet, little research has examined how Black parents’ hopes for Black girls reflect political imagination. Drawing on sociopolitical development and the Black radical tradition, this study explored how Black parents imagined more just futures for their daughters and for Black girls more broadly. Using Black storytelling and quilting …
Predictors of Assumed “Bad” Behavior
Bias influencing teachers’ classroom management is increasingly clear, but the circumstances that influence the likelihood of relying on those biases are less understood. This study employed Classification and Regression Tree (CART) analysis, resulting in four models examining how teachers’ appraisals of first‐grade students’ externalizing problem behaviors are influenced by students’ demographics and teachers’ assessments of objective and subjec…
Family as a Pathway to Suicidal Behaviors Through Depression Symptoms and Internalized Homophobia
Research consistently highlights how systemic and social factors can adversely impact mental health, and the potential buffering effects of family support, yet raced sexual minorities are vastly underrepresented among these studies. As rates of suicide increase among Black people and remain high among men and those in gender and sexually diverse communities, this study sought to examine to relationships between family dynamics and suicidality amo…
Understanding Adolescents’ Civic Identity From a Narrative Perspective
For a more comprehensive understanding of adolescents’ civic development, research is needed that explicitly examines civic identity and how it develops. Drawing on narrative identity theory and methodology, we qualitatively and quantitatively described adolescents’ civic identity using written narratives from a racially/ethnically, socioeconomically, and geographically diverse sample of 1,013 adolescents. We applied theoretically-derived narrati…
Black Students' Mental Help-Seeking Processes During College Matriculation
The present study examined how Black students' pre-college beliefs and perceptions of mental health services were linked to their help-seeking behaviors, both within and beyond college counseling services. Using semi-structured interview data and consensual qualitative research methods (CQR), we examined the experiences of 48 Black college women and men (ages 18 -22) sampled from two universities. We identified the following four themes: (a) pre-…
We need to see action”
Sometimes I Wish I Was a Girl, ’Cause They Do Shit Like Cry”
Social-emotional learning (SEL) is important for academic and social success, yet responsive SEL for Black youth remains underexamined. The current study analyzed focus groups to investigate how Black boys ( N = 10) in an urban middle school think about emotion and its regulation. Results revealed that participants negotiate tension between emotion expression and control; they argued that inhibition of emotions in public was essential, but they d…
Conferring Kinship
This case study examined the way an adolescent Black boy extended his kinship network as a part of navigating and demonstrating agency in mentoring relationships with nonparental adults. We purposively selected one participant, Bodos, from the sample of a larger mixed-method study involving youth, aged 12 to 18 years, in the southeastern United States. Drawing on narrative methodology, we used a holistic-content approach to analyze Bodos’ respons…
Black Students' Mental Help-Seeking Processes During College Matriculation
The present study examined how Black students' pre-college beliefs and perceptions of mental health services were linked to their help-seeking behaviors, both within and beyond college counseling services. Using semi-structured interview data and consensual qualitative research methods (CQR), we examined the experiences of 48 Black college women and men (ages 18 -22) sampled from two universities. We identified the following four themes: (a) pre-…
Sometimes I Wish I Was a Girl, ’Cause They Do Shit Like Cry”
Social-emotional learning (SEL) is important for academic and social success, yet responsive SEL for Black youth remains underexamined. The current study analyzed focus groups to investigate how Black boys ( N = 10) in an urban middle school think about emotion and its regulation. Results revealed that participants negotiate tension between emotion expression and control; they argued that inhibition of emotions in public was essential, but they d…
Conferring Kinship
This case study examined the way an adolescent Black boy extended his kinship network as a part of navigating and demonstrating agency in mentoring relationships with nonparental adults. We purposively selected one participant, Bodos, from the sample of a larger mixed-method study involving youth, aged 12 to 18 years, in the southeastern United States. Drawing on narrative methodology, we used a holistic-content approach to analyze Bodos’ respons…
We need to see action”
Sometimes I Wish I Was a Girl, ’Cause They Do Shit Like Cry”
Social-emotional learning (SEL) is important for academic and social success, yet responsive SEL for Black youth remains underexamined. The current study analyzed focus groups to investigate how Black boys ( N = 10) in an urban middle school think about emotion and its regulation. Results revealed that participants negotiate tension between emotion expression and control; they argued that inhibition of emotions in public was essential, but they d…
Black Students' Mental Help-Seeking Processes During College Matriculation
The present study examined how Black students' pre-college beliefs and perceptions of mental health services were linked to their help-seeking behaviors, both within and beyond college counseling services. Using semi-structured interview data and consensual qualitative research methods (CQR), we examined the experiences of 48 Black college women and men (ages 18 -22) sampled from two universities. We identified the following four themes: (a) pre-…
Predictors of Assumed “Bad” Behavior
Bias influencing teachers’ classroom management is increasingly clear, but the circumstances that influence the likelihood of relying on those biases are less understood. This study employed Classification and Regression Tree (CART) analysis, resulting in four models examining how teachers’ appraisals of first‐grade students’ externalizing problem behaviors are influenced by students’ demographics and teachers’ assessments of objective and subjec…
Family as a Pathway to Suicidal Behaviors Through Depression Symptoms and Internalized Homophobia
Research consistently highlights how systemic and social factors can adversely impact mental health, and the potential buffering effects of family support, yet raced sexual minorities are vastly underrepresented among these studies. As rates of suicide increase among Black people and remain high among men and those in gender and sexually diverse communities, this study sought to examine to relationships between family dynamics and suicidality amo…
Understanding Adolescents’ Civic Identity From a Narrative Perspective
For a more comprehensive understanding of adolescents’ civic development, research is needed that explicitly examines civic identity and how it develops. Drawing on narrative identity theory and methodology, we qualitatively and quantitatively described adolescents’ civic identity using written narratives from a racially/ethnically, socioeconomically, and geographically diverse sample of 1,013 adolescents. We applied theoretically-derived narrati…
Strength-based and culturally grounded approaches to supporting young Black men’s mental health
Research on young Black men’s mental health has often been shaped by deficit-oriented frameworks that emphasize pathology while obscuring cultural strengths and structural context. This paper advances a strength-based, culturally grounded perspective by synthesizing interdisciplinary literature on the social, cultural, and ecological factors shaping young Black men’s mental health. Rather than positioning young Black men as problems to be managed…
Examining the Link Between Critical Thinking, In-School Racial Discrimination, and Perceptions of Future College-Going Beliefs
Youth from racial minority backgrounds frequently report encountering racial discrimination within their school. These experiences can create additional barriers to their pursuit of higher education. This study explored whether critical thinking can protect and enhance youth college aspirations despite discrimination. We examined whether critical thinking protects against the impact of racial discrimination on beliefs about future college plans i…
Political Imagination as a Black Family Process
Black parents have long nurtured their daughters’ dreams through affirmation, advocacy, and culturally rooted care. Yet, little research has examined how Black parents’ hopes for Black girls reflect political imagination. Drawing on sociopolitical development and the Black radical tradition, this study explored how Black parents imagined more just futures for their daughters and for Black girls more broadly. Using Black storytelling and quilting …
Psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (4 works) · Youth Development and Social Support (4 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Mental health (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (2 works) · Clinical Psychology (2 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (2 works)