John Eckenrode
Biographic Data
| ID | 92126 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Eckenrode |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Eckenrode |
| SIGNATURE | ECKENRODE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3580-4749 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 380 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Evaluating the evidence for youth outcomes in 4-H: A scoping review
An illustration of how program implementers can use population-specific analyses to facilitate the selection of evidence-based home visiting programs
Given that effective home visiting (HV) programs targeting at-risk families impact different outcomes and associations between risk factors and outcomes may vary across populations, program implementers should evaluate population-specific risk-outcome associations in order to interventions that are most likely to benefit families in target communities. We used data collected in a rural community in upstate New York (i.e., Elmira) and three standa…
Income Inequality and Child Maltreatment in the United States
OBJECTIVE: To examine the relation between county-level income inequality and rates of child maltreatment. METHODS: Data on substantiated reports of child abuse and neglect from 2005 to 2009 were obtained from the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System. County-level data on income inequality and children in poverty were obtained from the American Community Survey. Data for additional control variables were obtained from the American Communi…
Nonsuicidal Self-Injury as a Gateway to Suicide in Young Adults
Longitudinal Associations Between Teen Dating Violence Victimization and Adverse Health Outcomes
OBJECTIVE: To determine the longitudinal association between teen dating violence victimization and selected adverse health outcomes. METHODS: Secondary analysis of Waves 1 (1994-1995), 2 (1996), and 3 (2001-2002) of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, a nationally representative sample of US high schools and middle schools. Participants were 5681 12- to 18-year-old adolescents who reported heterosexual dating experiences at Wav…
A New Measure for Assessing Youth Program Participation
Participation in after‐school programs is an important lever to improve adolescents’ health and well‐being; however, well‐defined measurement of the quality of participation in these programs is limited. The present study validated a newly designed measure of participation in a sample of urban youth enrolled in community‐based after‐school programs. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were used to test the structure of the 20‐item Tiffan…
Long-term Effects of Prenatal and Infancy Nurse Home Visitation on the Life Course of Youths: 19-Year Follow-up of a Randomized Trial
Objective To examine the effect of prenatal and infancy nurse home visitation on the life course development of 19-year-old youths whose mothers participated in the program. Design Randomized trial. Setting Semirural community in New York. Participants Three hundred ten youths from the 400 families enrolled in the Elmira Nurse-Family Partnership program. Intervention Families received a mean of 9 home visits (range, 0-16) during pregnancy and 23 …
Patterns of Problem Behavior in Relation to Thriving and Precocious Behavior in Late Adolescence
Self-injurious Behaviors in a College Population
OBJECTIVE. The goal was to assess the prevalence, forms, demographic and mental health correlates of self-injurious behaviors in a representative college sample. METHODS. A random sample of undergraduate and graduate students at 2 northeastern US universities were invited to participate in an Internet-based survey in the spring of 2005. Thirty-seven percent of the 8300 invited participants responded. RESULTS. The lifetime prevalence rate of havin…
The virtual cutting edge: The Internet and adolescent self-injury
The 2 studies reported here use observational data from message boards to investigate how adolescents solicit and share information related to self-injurious behavior. Study 1 examines the prevalence and nature of these message boards, their users, and most commonly discussed topics. Study 2 was intended to explore the correlations between content areas raised for discussion. Both studies were intended to shed light on the role of message boards …
Pathways to Intergenerational Adolescent Childbearing in a High-Risk Sample
Previous research indicates that children of adolescent mothers are more likely to experience an adolescent birth than are children of older mothers. Using a longitudinal sample of 293 high-risk mothers and their 19-year-old children, we investigated mediators of the intergenerational pattern of adolescent childbearing. Results from multigroup path models indicate that the intergenerational effect is (a) significant for children of unmarried moth…
Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect With a Program of Nurse Home Visitation: The Limiting Effects of Domestic Violence
CONTEXT: Home visitation to families with young children has been promoted as an effective way to prevent child maltreatment, but few studies have examined the conditions under which such programs meet this goal. OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether the presence of domestic violence limits the effects of nurse home visitation interventions in reducing substantiated reports of child abuse and neglect. DESIGN: Fifteen-year follow-up study of a randomi…
Prenatal and Infancy Home Visitation by Nurses: Recent Findings
This article describes a 20-year program of research on the Nurse Home Visitation Program, a model in which nurses visit mothers beginning during pregnancy and continuing through their children's second birthdays to improve pregnancy outcomes, to promote children's health and development, and to strengthen families' economic self-sufficiency. The results of two randomized trials (one in Elmira, New York, and the second in Memphis, Tennessee) are …
Understanding Abusive Families: An Ecological Approach to Theory and Practice
Part One: An Introduction to Basic Concepts . 1. The Meaning of Maltreatment (James Garbarino, John Eckenrode). 2. The Scope and History of Child Abuse and Neglect (Frank Barry, Patrick Collins). 3. The Community Context of Child Abuse and Neglect (James Garbarino, Frank Barry). 4. Disturbances in Relationships: Parenting, Family Development, and Child Maltreatment (Kerry Bolger, Marney Thomas, John Eckenrode). Part Two: Special Issues. 5. The El…
Long-term Effects of Nurse Home Visitation on Children's Criminal and Antisocial Behavior: 15-Year Follow-up of a Randomized Controlled Trial
CONTEXT: A program of home visitation by nurses has been shown to affect the rates of maternal welfare dependence, criminality, problems due to use of substances, and child abuse and neglect. However, the long-term effects of this program on children's antisocial behavior have not been examined. OBJECTIVE: To examine the long-term effects of a program of prenatal and early childhood home visitation by nurses on children's antisocial behavior. DES…
Reducing risks for antisocial behavior with a program of prenatal and early childhood home visitation
Risk factors for conduct disorder, antisocial behavior, and violence are reviewed and related to the known effects of a program of prenatal and early childhood home visitation. The program reduced three domains of risk for the development of problem behavior. The effects include: (a) a reduction in maternal substance abuse during pregnancy; (b) a reduction in child maltreatment; and (c) a reduction in family size, closely spaced pregnancies, and …
The promise of home visitation: Results of two randomized trials
Two randomized trials of prenatal and infancy home visitation conducted in semirural and urban areas are described and their results presented. The studies provide consistent findings that nurse home visitors can improve women's health related behaviors, qualities of infant caregiving, and can help women improve their own life-course development (reflected in behaviors such as rates of subsequent pregnancies and births, and receipt of welfare). T…
The role of work identity in women's adjustment to divorce
A study of the role of employment in the divorce adjustment of 40 women found work identity to be associated with higher self-esteem and lower distress. Four established components of work identity--meaningfulness, social interaction/support, productivity, and positive distraction--were assessed via qualitative analyses; links among various life contexts were examined; and postdivorce changes explored. Results support the role of work identity in…
The epidemiology of child abuse: Findings from the Second National Incidence and Prevalence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect
The epidemiology of child abuse was investigated with data from the Second National Incidence and Prevalence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect. A statistical comparison of incidence rates suggested that age, family income, and ethnicity were risk factors for both sexual abuse and physical abuse, but county metrostatus was not. Gender was a risk factor for sexual abuse but not for physical abuse. A logistic regression analysis showed that ethnicity…
School performance and disciplinary problems among abused and neglected children
This study investigated the relationship of child abuse and neglect to academic achievement and discipline problems in a school-age population. A representative community sample of 420 maltreated children in kindergarten through Grade 12 were matched with 420 nonmaltreated children in the same community
The Social Context of Coping
Gender Differences in the Costs and Benefits of Peer Relationships During Adolescence
The purpose of this study was to examine gender differences in the impact of social stress and social support on adolescents' emotional well-being. Forty-eight males and 70 females in Grades 7 through 11 were administered a questionnaire containing scales measuring self-esteem, depression, social suppor4 and social stress. Females reported greater depression, lower self-esteem, and greater problem-focused support than did males. There were no sig…
Social relationships, personality, and anxiety during a major stressful event
Stress between Work and Family
Stress Between Work and Family
School performance and disciplinary problems among abused and neglected children
This study investigated the relationship of child abuse and neglect to academic achievement and discipline problems in a school-age population. A representative community sample of 420 maltreated children in kindergarten through Grade 12 were matched with 420 nonmaltreated children in the same community
Social ties: Subgroup differences in costs and benefits
Social ties can be stressful as well as supportive. Are these opposing effects linked, and can they help explain subgroup differences in the efficacy of social support? These questions were applied to data on social support in response to stressful life events. The subjects were 314 women randomly chosen from the registration list of a neighborhood health center in Boston. The data were from the initial interviews of a larger study. The findings …
The virtual cutting edge: The Internet and adolescent self-injury
The 2 studies reported here use observational data from message boards to investigate how adolescents solicit and share information related to self-injurious behavior. Study 1 examines the prevalence and nature of these message boards, their users, and most commonly discussed topics. Study 2 was intended to explore the correlations between content areas raised for discussion. Both studies were intended to shed light on the role of message boards …
The mobilization of social supports: Some individual constraints
The effects of two dispositional variables, locus of control and help-seeking beliefs, as well as sociodemographic variables, on the mobilization of social supports were examined in this study. With a sample of 308 women users of a neighborhood health center, information was gathered regarding social support contacts following stressful events occurring within the previous year. Results confirmed the importance of the two dispositional variables,…
Prenatal and Infancy Home Visitation by Nurses: Recent Findings
This article describes a 20-year program of research on the Nurse Home Visitation Program, a model in which nurses visit mothers beginning during pregnancy and continuing through their children's second birthdays to improve pregnancy outcomes, to promote children's health and development, and to strengthen families' economic self-sufficiency. The results of two randomized trials (one in Elmira, New York, and the second in Memphis, Tennessee) are …
Impact of chronic and acute stressors on daily reports of mood
This research compares the relative impact of major life events, chronic stressors, and minor daily stressors on daily reports of mood. Analyses are based on daily diary data combined with interview data derived from a longitudinal study of 96 women sampled from the population of persons using the services of a neighborhood health center in Boston. The most important direct determinants of mood were found to be concurrent daily stressors and phys…
Social relationships, personality, and anxiety during a major stressful event
Linking person and context in the daily stress process
In this study we combined daily diary data with interview data to investigate individual differences in the impact of stressful daily events on mood. Using a sample of 96 women in an urban community, we examined perceived neighborhood quality and major life events as possibly potentiating the effects of stressful daily events, and we viewed social supports as potentially buffering this daily process. Results confirmed that the presence of chronic…
Pathways to Intergenerational Adolescent Childbearing in a High-Risk Sample
Previous research indicates that children of adolescent mothers are more likely to experience an adolescent birth than are children of older mothers. Using a longitudinal sample of 293 high-risk mothers and their 19-year-old children, we investigated mediators of the intergenerational pattern of adolescent childbearing. Results from multigroup path models indicate that the intergenerational effect is (a) significant for children of unmarried moth…
Stress and the Utilization of Health Services: A Time Series and Cross-Sectional Analysis
Steven L. Gortmaker, John Eckenrode, Susan Gore, Stress and the Utilization of Health Services: A Time Series and Cross-Sectional Analysis, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 23, No. 1 (Mar., 1982), pp. 25-38
Gender Differences in the Costs and Benefits of Peer Relationships During Adolescence
The purpose of this study was to examine gender differences in the impact of social stress and social support on adolescents' emotional well-being. Forty-eight males and 70 females in Grades 7 through 11 were administered a questionnaire containing scales measuring self-esteem, depression, social suppor4 and social stress. Females reported greater depression, lower self-esteem, and greater problem-focused support than did males. There were no sig…
The epidemiology of child abuse: Findings from the Second National Incidence and Prevalence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect
The epidemiology of child abuse was investigated with data from the Second National Incidence and Prevalence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect. A statistical comparison of incidence rates suggested that age, family income, and ethnicity were risk factors for both sexual abuse and physical abuse, but county metrostatus was not. Gender was a risk factor for sexual abuse but not for physical abuse. A logistic regression analysis showed that ethnicity…
A New Measure for Assessing Youth Program Participation
Participation in after‐school programs is an important lever to improve adolescents’ health and well‐being; however, well‐defined measurement of the quality of participation in these programs is limited. The present study validated a newly designed measure of participation in a sample of urban youth enrolled in community‐based after‐school programs. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were used to test the structure of the 20‐item Tiffan…
Patterns of Problem Behavior in Relation to Thriving and Precocious Behavior in Late Adolescence
Stress and the Utilization of Health Services: A Time Series and Cross-Sectional Analysis
Steven L. Gortmaker, John Eckenrode, Susan Gore, Stress and the Utilization of Health Services: A Time Series and Cross-Sectional Analysis, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 23, No. 1 (Mar., 1982), pp. 25-38
The mobilization of social supports: Some individual constraints
The effects of two dispositional variables, locus of control and help-seeking beliefs, as well as sociodemographic variables, on the mobilization of social supports were examined in this study. With a sample of 308 women users of a neighborhood health center, information was gathered regarding social support contacts following stressful events occurring within the previous year. Results confirmed the importance of the two dispositional variables,…
Impact of chronic and acute stressors on daily reports of mood
This research compares the relative impact of major life events, chronic stressors, and minor daily stressors on daily reports of mood. Analyses are based on daily diary data combined with interview data derived from a longitudinal study of 96 women sampled from the population of persons using the services of a neighborhood health center in Boston. The most important direct determinants of mood were found to be concurrent daily stressors and phys…
Social ties: Subgroup differences in costs and benefits
Social ties can be stressful as well as supportive. Are these opposing effects linked, and can they help explain subgroup differences in the efficacy of social support? These questions were applied to data on social support in response to stressful life events. The subjects were 314 women randomly chosen from the registration list of a neighborhood health center in Boston. The data were from the initial interviews of a larger study. The findings …
Linking person and context in the daily stress process
In this study we combined daily diary data with interview data to investigate individual differences in the impact of stressful daily events on mood. Using a sample of 96 women in an urban community, we examined perceived neighborhood quality and major life events as possibly potentiating the effects of stressful daily events, and we viewed social supports as potentially buffering this daily process. Results confirmed that the presence of chronic…
Stress Between Work and Family
Gender Differences in the Costs and Benefits of Peer Relationships During Adolescence
The purpose of this study was to examine gender differences in the impact of social stress and social support on adolescents' emotional well-being. Forty-eight males and 70 females in Grades 7 through 11 were administered a questionnaire containing scales measuring self-esteem, depression, social suppor4 and social stress. Females reported greater depression, lower self-esteem, and greater problem-focused support than did males. There were no sig…
Social relationships, personality, and anxiety during a major stressful event
Stress between Work and Family
The Social Context of Coping
The epidemiology of child abuse: Findings from the Second National Incidence and Prevalence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect
The epidemiology of child abuse was investigated with data from the Second National Incidence and Prevalence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect. A statistical comparison of incidence rates suggested that age, family income, and ethnicity were risk factors for both sexual abuse and physical abuse, but county metrostatus was not. Gender was a risk factor for sexual abuse but not for physical abuse. A logistic regression analysis showed that ethnicity…
School performance and disciplinary problems among abused and neglected children
This study investigated the relationship of child abuse and neglect to academic achievement and discipline problems in a school-age population. A representative community sample of 420 maltreated children in kindergarten through Grade 12 were matched with 420 nonmaltreated children in the same community
The role of work identity in women's adjustment to divorce
A study of the role of employment in the divorce adjustment of 40 women found work identity to be associated with higher self-esteem and lower distress. Four established components of work identity--meaningfulness, social interaction/support, productivity, and positive distraction--were assessed via qualitative analyses; links among various life contexts were examined; and postdivorce changes explored. Results support the role of work identity in…
Long-term Effects of Nurse Home Visitation on Children's Criminal and Antisocial Behavior: 15-Year Follow-up of a Randomized Controlled Trial
CONTEXT: A program of home visitation by nurses has been shown to affect the rates of maternal welfare dependence, criminality, problems due to use of substances, and child abuse and neglect. However, the long-term effects of this program on children's antisocial behavior have not been examined. OBJECTIVE: To examine the long-term effects of a program of prenatal and early childhood home visitation by nurses on children's antisocial behavior. DES…
Reducing risks for antisocial behavior with a program of prenatal and early childhood home visitation
Risk factors for conduct disorder, antisocial behavior, and violence are reviewed and related to the known effects of a program of prenatal and early childhood home visitation. The program reduced three domains of risk for the development of problem behavior. The effects include: (a) a reduction in maternal substance abuse during pregnancy; (b) a reduction in child maltreatment; and (c) a reduction in family size, closely spaced pregnancies, and …
The promise of home visitation: Results of two randomized trials
Two randomized trials of prenatal and infancy home visitation conducted in semirural and urban areas are described and their results presented. The studies provide consistent findings that nurse home visitors can improve women's health related behaviors, qualities of infant caregiving, and can help women improve their own life-course development (reflected in behaviors such as rates of subsequent pregnancies and births, and receipt of welfare). T…
Prenatal and Infancy Home Visitation by Nurses: Recent Findings
This article describes a 20-year program of research on the Nurse Home Visitation Program, a model in which nurses visit mothers beginning during pregnancy and continuing through their children's second birthdays to improve pregnancy outcomes, to promote children's health and development, and to strengthen families' economic self-sufficiency. The results of two randomized trials (one in Elmira, New York, and the second in Memphis, Tennessee) are …
Understanding Abusive Families: An Ecological Approach to Theory and Practice
Part One: An Introduction to Basic Concepts . 1. The Meaning of Maltreatment (James Garbarino, John Eckenrode). 2. The Scope and History of Child Abuse and Neglect (Frank Barry, Patrick Collins). 3. The Community Context of Child Abuse and Neglect (James Garbarino, Frank Barry). 4. Disturbances in Relationships: Parenting, Family Development, and Child Maltreatment (Kerry Bolger, Marney Thomas, John Eckenrode). Part Two: Special Issues. 5. The El…
Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect With a Program of Nurse Home Visitation: The Limiting Effects of Domestic Violence
CONTEXT: Home visitation to families with young children has been promoted as an effective way to prevent child maltreatment, but few studies have examined the conditions under which such programs meet this goal. OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether the presence of domestic violence limits the effects of nurse home visitation interventions in reducing substantiated reports of child abuse and neglect. DESIGN: Fifteen-year follow-up study of a randomi…
Self-injurious Behaviors in a College Population
OBJECTIVE. The goal was to assess the prevalence, forms, demographic and mental health correlates of self-injurious behaviors in a representative college sample. METHODS. A random sample of undergraduate and graduate students at 2 northeastern US universities were invited to participate in an Internet-based survey in the spring of 2005. Thirty-seven percent of the 8300 invited participants responded. RESULTS. The lifetime prevalence rate of havin…
The virtual cutting edge: The Internet and adolescent self-injury
The 2 studies reported here use observational data from message boards to investigate how adolescents solicit and share information related to self-injurious behavior. Study 1 examines the prevalence and nature of these message boards, their users, and most commonly discussed topics. Study 2 was intended to explore the correlations between content areas raised for discussion. Both studies were intended to shed light on the role of message boards …
Pathways to Intergenerational Adolescent Childbearing in a High-Risk Sample
Previous research indicates that children of adolescent mothers are more likely to experience an adolescent birth than are children of older mothers. Using a longitudinal sample of 293 high-risk mothers and their 19-year-old children, we investigated mediators of the intergenerational pattern of adolescent childbearing. Results from multigroup path models indicate that the intergenerational effect is (a) significant for children of unmarried moth…
Patterns of Problem Behavior in Relation to Thriving and Precocious Behavior in Late Adolescence
Long-term Effects of Prenatal and Infancy Nurse Home Visitation on the Life Course of Youths: 19-Year Follow-up of a Randomized Trial
Objective To examine the effect of prenatal and infancy nurse home visitation on the life course development of 19-year-old youths whose mothers participated in the program. Design Randomized trial. Setting Semirural community in New York. Participants Three hundred ten youths from the 400 families enrolled in the Elmira Nurse-Family Partnership program. Intervention Families received a mean of 9 home visits (range, 0-16) during pregnancy and 23 …
A New Measure for Assessing Youth Program Participation
Participation in after‐school programs is an important lever to improve adolescents’ health and well‐being; however, well‐defined measurement of the quality of participation in these programs is limited. The present study validated a newly designed measure of participation in a sample of urban youth enrolled in community‐based after‐school programs. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were used to test the structure of the 20‐item Tiffan…
Psychology (25 works) · Medicine (22 works) · Developmental psychology (14 works) · Psychiatry (14 works) · Clinical Psychology (13 works) · Poison control (12 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (11 works) · Environmental health (9 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Demography (7 works)