Letha A Chadiha

Biographic Data

ID92141
NAMELetha A Chadiha
GIVEN NAMESLetha A
FAMILY NAMEChadiha
SIGNATURECHADIHA L A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Michigan
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS47
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1993
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
H-INDEX4

  • The Importance of Mentoring Faculty Members of Color in Schools of Social Work

    Letha A Chadiha, María P Aranda et al.ARTICLEJournal of Teaching in Social Work2014Cited by: 1References: 5

    Mentoring has received little attention in the social work literature. The career advancement needs, and the importance of mentoring faculty members of color, have not been adequately addressed, nor have mentoring strategies. This article includes a review of the literature, a definition of mentoring, benefits of mentoring for mentors and mentees, and discussion of the need and importance of mentoring junior faculty members of color in schools an…

  • The Relationship of Social Support to African American Caregivers’ Help-Seeking for Emotional Problems

    Joseph G Pickard, Megumi Inoue et al.ARTICLESocial Service Review2011Cited by: 6References: 4

    This study analyzes whether social support serves as a link to or substitute for formal services among African American female caregivers seeking help with emotional problems. It also analyzes other determinants of help-seeking. It relies on data from the Black Rural and Urban Caregivers Mental Health and Functioning Study and is guided by a modified version of the behavioral model of health services use. Using hierarchical binary logistic regres…

  • Predicting the Influence of Social Resources on African American Wife and Daughter Caregivers' Depressive Symptoms

    Open AccessPhilip A Rozario, Letha A Chadiha et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family Issues2008Cited by: 1References: 39

    This study-on 100 African American wife and 258 daughter primary caregivers - uses a contextual approach in its examination of the relationship between social resources and caregiver depressive symptoms. At the bivariate level, significant differences in certain key characteristics of primary caregivers and care receivers underscore the generational differences between the caregiver samples. Using separate ordinary least squares regression models…

  • Urban and Rural African American Female Caregivers' Family Reunion Participation

    Letha A Chadiha, Julie Miller-Cribbs et al.ARTICLEMarriage & Family Review2005References: 22

    This study examined reunion participation among 256 urban and 265 rural African American female caregivers of older African Americans. A majority of caregivers reported having reunions and reported favorably about their function. Logistic regression results indicated that for urban caregivers, reporting young children, as compared to not reporting young children, and reporting two or more helpers with caregiving, as compared to reporting no other…

  • Involving Rural, Older African Americans and Their Female Informal Caregivers in Research

    Open AccessLetha A Chadiha, Nancy Morrow-Howell et al.ARTICLEJournal of Aging and Health2004Cited by: 3

    Knowledge about the involvement of rural, older African Americans and recruitment of their female informal caregivers in research is essential to understanding recruitment successes and pitfalls in ethnic minority research

  • Empowering African American Women Informal Caregivers: A Literature Synthesis and Practice Strategies

    Letha A Chadiha, Perri Adams et al.ARTICLESocial Work2004Cited by: 15

    Through a synthesis of literature on caregiving, empowerment, social inequalities, and racial disparities in health and income, the authors built an argument for African American women caregivers' vulnerability to powerlessness and the applicability of an empowerment approach to social work practice with these caregivers. The article discusses two realities of African American women caregivers' experiences (strong coping and vulnerability) and tw…

  • Newlywed's Narrative Themes: Meaning in the First Year of Marriage for African American and White Couples

    Letha A Chadiha, Joseph Veroff et al.ARTICLEJournal of Comparative Family…1998Cited by: 7

    This study addresses the meaning of marriage in the first year through themes in joint narratives told by 343 African American and White urban newlyweds in first marriages. Controlling for spouses' education, household income, years lived together prior to marriage, premarital parental status, and length of narrative in logistic regression analysis, the authors found no significant differences between African American and White newlyweds on child…

  • Skin deep: Black women and white women write about race

    Open AccessLetha A ChadihaARTICLEChildren and Youth Services Review1996

  • Predicting Marital Quality with Narrative Assessments of Marital Experience

    Joseph Veroff, Lynne Sutherland et al.ARTICLEJournal of Marriage and the Family1993Cited by: 14

    Etude sur le mariage et la qualite des relations conjugales a partir de l'analyse longitudinale des premieres annees de mariage des couples. L'etude montre que la facon dont les couples construisent leur realite maritale prefigure leur bien-etre marital. Quatre hypotheses sont ainsi testees et discutees