Martha E Wadsworth
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 148685 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Martha E Wadsworth |
| PRENOMES | Martha E |
| SOBRENOME | Wadsworth |
| ASSINATURA | WADSWORTH M E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5319-2937 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 430 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1968 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Utilizing sociocultural identity to cope with poverty-related stress
Cultural identity affirmation, pride, and belongingness are known to protect youth from negative outcomes in the face of uncontrollable stress such as discrimination, economic hardship, and community violence. Scholars have argued that racial, cultural, and other social identities serve as important coping resources , encouraging active coping and the use of social support and mitigating the impact of stress for marginalized youth. The Building a…
Perceived Racial Discrimination, Poverty-Related Stress, Civic Efficacy, and Psychological Problems in Low Socioeconomic Preadolescents
This study examined the intersecting experiences of perceived racial discrimination, poverty-related stress (PRS), and civic efficacy with psychological functioning in preadolescents. The sample consisted of 129 low-income, racially and ethnically diverse preadolescents. Hierarchical linear regression analyses found that perceived racial discrimination and PRS were associated with greater psychological problems, as reported by parents and youth. …
Coping with poverty-related stress
Individual Differences in Adolescent Coping
Reducing the Biological and Psychological Toxicity of Poverty‐related Stress
This proof‐of‐concept study tests the initial efficacy of the Building a Strong Identity and Coping Skills (Ba SICS ) intervention, a selective prevention of internalizing problems program for early adolescents exposed to high levels of poverty‐related stress. Eighty‐four early adolescents ( M age = 11.36 years) residing in very low‐income neighborhoods were randomized to receive the 16‐session intervention ( n = 44) or to an assessment‐only cont…
Neither antecedent nor consequence
Impact of psychophysiological stress-response systems on psychological development
This Special Section showcases cutting-edge, theory-driven research, which elucidates how multiple physiologic stress-response systems and neural networks that support social behavior operate together to affect psychological processes across from infancy to adolescence. The 8 papers included in the Special Section represent cutting-edge efforts to understand how multiple physiological systems jointly influence behavior. They raise new questions, …
Exploring the Role of Ethnic Identity in Family Functioning Among Low-Income Parents
The majority of research on ethnic identity (EI) has highlighted its role in mitigating risks associated with racial discrimination; however, discrimination is only one of many stressors that ethnic minority individuals face. The current study examined the relationships between EI, emotional distress, and the parent–child relationship among ethnically diverse, low-income parents. Results indicated significant associations between EI and emotional…
Longitudinal Associations of Language Brokering and Parent-Adolescent Closeness in Immigrant Latino Families
Language brokering is a common practice for Latino youth with immigrant parents. Yet little is known about how youth’s feelings about this responsibility contribute to the parent-adolescent relationship. In this study, we examined the longitudinal associations between language brokering attitudes and parent-adolescent closeness in a sample of Latino early adolescents ( n = 813, Maget1 = 12.32, SDt1 = .59), while taking into account language broke…
Cultural adaptation of a family strengthening intervention for low-income Spanish-speaking families
Best Practices in Conceptualizing and Measuring Social Class in Psychological Research
An extensive body of research has documented the relation between social class, as indexed by socioeconomic status (SES) and subjective social status (SSS), and a host of outcomes, including physical and mental health, academic achievement, and educational attainment. Yet, there remains ambiguity regarding how best to conceptualize and measure social class. This article clarifies definitional and measurement issues related to the assessment of SE…
Socioeconomic status, neighborhood disadvantage, and poverty-related stress
Preliminary Efficacy of an Intervention to Reduce Psychosocial Stress and Improve Coping in Low-Income Families
This article reports pre-post intervention results from a randomized controlled trial evaluating the initial efficacy of a couples-based intervention aimed at teaching skills for coping with stress and improving relationship skills in a sample of 173 ethnically diverse low-income co-resident mothers and fathers who were raising at least one child together. Couples were randomly assigned to one of three interventions or to an assessment-only contr…
Adolescents Coping with Poverty-Related Family Stress
Coping with Terrorism
This study examined age and gender differences and similarities in stress responses to September 11th. Adolescents, young adults, and adults reported using a variety of strategies to cope with the terrorist attacks including acceptance, positive thinking, and emotional expression. In addition, involuntary stress responses such as physio-logical arousal, rumination, and emotional numbing were common. A number of age trends emerged, showing increas…
Cultural Identity, Explanatory Style, and Depression in Navajo Adolescents
This study investigated the interrelationships among cultural identity, explanatory style, and depression in Navajo adolescents. A total of 332 (197 female, 135 male) Navajo adolescents completed 7 self-report measures. These data were used to create, via structural equation modeling, a series of factor models and full structural models. Analyses indicated that current factor structures for explanatory style and depression are adequate for use wi…
Coping and responses to stress in Navajo adolescents
This study tested the factor structure of coping and stress responses in Navajo adolescents and examined the reliability and validity of the Responses to Stress Questionnaire (RSQ; Connor‐Smith, Compas, Wadsworth, Thomsen, & Saltzman, 2000) with this population. Confirmatory factor analyses revealed that a correlated five‐factor model of stress responses using the five factors of the RSQ fit the data well for this group of adolescents. The factor…
Coping with Family Conflict and Economic Strain
This study tested two models of family economic problems and adolescent psychological adjustment. Using adolescents’ survey data and information regarding school lunch program enrollment, the associations among family SES, perceived economic strain, family conflict, and coping responses were examined in a sample of 364 adolescents from rural New England. Two theoretical models were tested using structural equation modeling — one tested coping as …
Coping with stress during childhood and adolescence
Progress and issues in the study of coping with stress during childhood and adolescence are reviewed. Definitions of coping are considered, and the relationship between coping and other aspects of responses to stress (e.g., temperament and stress reactivity) is described. Questionnaire, interview, and observation measures of child and adolescent coping are evaluated with regard to reliability and validity. Studies of the association of coping wit…
Responses to stress in adolescence
The development of a measure of coping and involuntary stress responses in adolescence is described. The Responses to Stress Questionnaire (RSQ) reflects a conceptual model that includes volitional coping efforts and involuntary responses to specific stressful events or specified domains of stress. The psychometric characteristics of the RSQ were examined across 4 domains of stress in 3 samples of adolescents and parent reports obtained in 2 samp…
The persisting effect of unemployment on health and social well-being in men early in working life
Secular Changes in the Association of Parental Divorce and Children's Educational Attainment - Evidence from Three British Birth Cohorts
This article examines the secular trends in the overall association of parental divorce (or separation) and children's educational attainment at school-leaving age during the period spanning a quarter of a century since the second world war in Britain. The study presents a reanalysis of data from the three British birth cohorts which studied children born in 1946, 1958 and 1970. Equivalent educational attainment at the different time points is de…
Health and social precursors of unemployment in young men in Great Britain
OBJECTIVE: To identify health and socioeconomic factors in childhood that are precursors of unemployment in early adult life and to examine the hypothesis that young men who become unemployed are more likely to have accumulated risks to health during childhood. DESIGN: Longitudinal birth cohort study. The amount of unemployment experienced in early adult life up to age 32 years was the outcome measure used. Exposure measures to indicate vulnerabi…
Burden of disability in a post war birth cohort in the UK
STUDY OBJECTIVE--To report the prevalence of physical disability in a national sample of 43 year old men and women, and examine the relationship between disability and the consumption of hospital care. To assess the contribution of childhood health and social circumstances to the risk of adult disability, and the socioeconomic consequences of disability. DESIGN--The assessment of disabilities of physical movement was based on criteria developed b…
Growth, maturation and body composition
Coping with stress during childhood and adolescence
Progress and issues in the study of coping with stress during childhood and adolescence are reviewed. Definitions of coping are considered, and the relationship between coping and other aspects of responses to stress (e.g., temperament and stress reactivity) is described. Questionnaire, interview, and observation measures of child and adolescent coping are evaluated with regard to reliability and validity. Studies of the association of coping wit…
Socioeconomic status, neighborhood disadvantage, and poverty-related stress
Coping with Family Conflict and Economic Strain
This study tested two models of family economic problems and adolescent psychological adjustment. Using adolescents’ survey data and information regarding school lunch program enrollment, the associations among family SES, perceived economic strain, family conflict, and coping responses were examined in a sample of 364 adolescents from rural New England. Two theoretical models were tested using structural equation modeling — one tested coping as …
The persisting effect of unemployment on health and social well-being in men early in working life
Accumulation of factors influencing respiratory illness in members of a national birth cohort and their offspring
STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aim was to investigate predictors of childhood lower respiratory tract illness in two generations, and predictors of adult lower respiratory disorders in the first generation. DESIGN--Data on respiratory health and environmental factors from a national birth cohort study were examined from birth to 36 years. Data were also collected on the parents of the subjects and on the subjects' first born offspring from birth to eight y…
Health and social precursors of unemployment in young men in Great Britain
OBJECTIVE: To identify health and socioeconomic factors in childhood that are precursors of unemployment in early adult life and to examine the hypothesis that young men who become unemployed are more likely to have accumulated risks to health during childhood. DESIGN: Longitudinal birth cohort study. The amount of unemployment experienced in early adult life up to age 32 years was the outcome measure used. Exposure measures to indicate vulnerabi…
Loss and representativeness in a 43 year follow up of a national birth cohort
STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aim was to describe rates of loss and assessment of representativeness during 43 years of a national birth cohort study. DESIGN--The study population is a class stratified random sample of all single, legitimate births that occurred during one single week in 1946; it has been studied at regular intervals, so far to 1989. MAIN RESULTS--Losses through death and emigration were comparable to those in the national population of t…
Secular Changes in the Association of Parental Divorce and Children's Educational Attainment - Evidence from Three British Birth Cohorts
This article examines the secular trends in the overall association of parental divorce (or separation) and children's educational attainment at school-leaving age during the period spanning a quarter of a century since the second world war in Britain. The study presents a reanalysis of data from the three British birth cohorts which studied children born in 1946, 1958 and 1970. Equivalent educational attainment at the different time points is de…
Social and regional differences in food and alcohol consumption and their measurement in a national birth cohort
The problem of collecting detailed dietary information on a large population scattered throughout England, Wales and Scotland was resolved by use of a 7 day dietary diary, introduced at home interviews. Information on food types and quantities was coded to provide data on a wide range of nutrients. Reported levels of iron and fibre intake were found to be particularly low in relation to current recommended daily intakes, which were more often ach…
Cultural Identity, Explanatory Style, and Depression in Navajo Adolescents
This study investigated the interrelationships among cultural identity, explanatory style, and depression in Navajo adolescents. A total of 332 (197 female, 135 male) Navajo adolescents completed 7 self-report measures. These data were used to create, via structural equation modeling, a series of factor models and full structural models. Analyses indicated that current factor structures for explanatory style and depression are adequate for use wi…
Preliminary Efficacy of an Intervention to Reduce Psychosocial Stress and Improve Coping in Low-Income Families
This article reports pre-post intervention results from a randomized controlled trial evaluating the initial efficacy of a couples-based intervention aimed at teaching skills for coping with stress and improving relationship skills in a sample of 173 ethnically diverse low-income co-resident mothers and fathers who were raising at least one child together. Couples were randomly assigned to one of three interventions or to an assessment-only contr…
Longitudinal Associations of Language Brokering and Parent-Adolescent Closeness in Immigrant Latino Families
Language brokering is a common practice for Latino youth with immigrant parents. Yet little is known about how youth’s feelings about this responsibility contribute to the parent-adolescent relationship. In this study, we examined the longitudinal associations between language brokering attitudes and parent-adolescent closeness in a sample of Latino early adolescents ( n = 813, Maget1 = 12.32, SDt1 = .59), while taking into account language broke…
Adolescents Coping with Poverty-Related Family Stress
Burden of disability in a post war birth cohort in the UK
STUDY OBJECTIVE--To report the prevalence of physical disability in a national sample of 43 year old men and women, and examine the relationship between disability and the consumption of hospital care. To assess the contribution of childhood health and social circumstances to the risk of adult disability, and the socioeconomic consequences of disability. DESIGN--The assessment of disabilities of physical movement was based on criteria developed b…
Coping and responses to stress in Navajo adolescents
This study tested the factor structure of coping and stress responses in Navajo adolescents and examined the reliability and validity of the Responses to Stress Questionnaire (RSQ; Connor‐Smith, Compas, Wadsworth, Thomsen, & Saltzman, 2000) with this population. Confirmatory factor analyses revealed that a correlated five‐factor model of stress responses using the five factors of the RSQ fit the data well for this group of adolescents. The factor…
Utilizing sociocultural identity to cope with poverty-related stress
Cultural identity affirmation, pride, and belongingness are known to protect youth from negative outcomes in the face of uncontrollable stress such as discrimination, economic hardship, and community violence. Scholars have argued that racial, cultural, and other social identities serve as important coping resources , encouraging active coping and the use of social support and mitigating the impact of stress for marginalized youth. The Building a…
Perceived Racial Discrimination, Poverty-Related Stress, Civic Efficacy, and Psychological Problems in Low Socioeconomic Preadolescents
This study examined the intersecting experiences of perceived racial discrimination, poverty-related stress (PRS), and civic efficacy with psychological functioning in preadolescents. The sample consisted of 129 low-income, racially and ethnically diverse preadolescents. Hierarchical linear regression analyses found that perceived racial discrimination and PRS were associated with greater psychological problems, as reported by parents and youth. …
Impact of psychophysiological stress-response systems on psychological development
This Special Section showcases cutting-edge, theory-driven research, which elucidates how multiple physiologic stress-response systems and neural networks that support social behavior operate together to affect psychological processes across from infancy to adolescence. The 8 papers included in the Special Section represent cutting-edge efforts to understand how multiple physiological systems jointly influence behavior. They raise new questions, …
Exploring the Role of Ethnic Identity in Family Functioning Among Low-Income Parents
The majority of research on ethnic identity (EI) has highlighted its role in mitigating risks associated with racial discrimination; however, discrimination is only one of many stressors that ethnic minority individuals face. The current study examined the relationships between EI, emotional distress, and the parent–child relationship among ethnically diverse, low-income parents. Results indicated significant associations between EI and emotional…
Health and Sickness
Towards Perspective in Medical Care Research
Men, Money and Medicine
Health and Sickness
Poverty and Health
Health Practice Research and Formalized Managerial Methods. Public Health Papers 51
An Introduction to Medical Sociology
Stigma in patients with early epilepsy
Forty six cases of epilepsy were identified from the National Survey of Health and Development. An index of social visibility at school was constructed from teachers' reports of survey members' behaviour at 15 years of age. For the sample as a whole this index was significantly associated with poorer educational outcomes, after adjusting for social background and measured attainment, but was not associated with poor occupational achievement. Howe…
Social and regional differences in food and alcohol consumption and their measurement in a national birth cohort
The problem of collecting detailed dietary information on a large population scattered throughout England, Wales and Scotland was resolved by use of a 7 day dietary diary, introduced at home interviews. Information on food types and quantities was coded to provide data on a wide range of nutrients. Reported levels of iron and fibre intake were found to be particularly low in relation to current recommended daily intakes, which were more often ach…
Loss and representativeness in a 43 year follow up of a national birth cohort
STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aim was to describe rates of loss and assessment of representativeness during 43 years of a national birth cohort study. DESIGN--The study population is a class stratified random sample of all single, legitimate births that occurred during one single week in 1946; it has been studied at regular intervals, so far to 1989. MAIN RESULTS--Losses through death and emigration were comparable to those in the national population of t…
Accumulation of factors influencing respiratory illness in members of a national birth cohort and their offspring
STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aim was to investigate predictors of childhood lower respiratory tract illness in two generations, and predictors of adult lower respiratory disorders in the first generation. DESIGN--Data on respiratory health and environmental factors from a national birth cohort study were examined from birth to 36 years. Data were also collected on the parents of the subjects and on the subjects' first born offspring from birth to eight y…
Passage through Crisis
Based on a study of fourteen families in which a child had contracted paralytic poliomyelitis. Passage Through Crisis: Polio Victims and Their Families, first published in 1963, was widely praised for its penetrating--and, for its time, innovative--analyses of doctor-patient communications, and for its interpreta-tion of the meaning of physical disability in American society. In his new opening essay, Davis reflects on the enduring sources of thi…
Growth, maturation and body composition
Generation differences in hospital inpatient care of children aged 1 to 5 years
STUDY OBJECTIVE--To describe differences in childhood hospital admissions at ages 1 to 5 years in two generations, and to compare the intergenerational differences in risks of admission. DESIGN--Information was taken from a longitudinal birth cohort study of a national sample and their firstborn offspring. SETTING--England, Wales, and Scotland. SUBJECTS--the 5022 birth cohort members for whom information is available from ages 1 to 5 years and th…
Burden of disability in a post war birth cohort in the UK
STUDY OBJECTIVE--To report the prevalence of physical disability in a national sample of 43 year old men and women, and examine the relationship between disability and the consumption of hospital care. To assess the contribution of childhood health and social circumstances to the risk of adult disability, and the socioeconomic consequences of disability. DESIGN--The assessment of disabilities of physical movement was based on criteria developed b…
Health and social precursors of unemployment in young men in Great Britain
OBJECTIVE: To identify health and socioeconomic factors in childhood that are precursors of unemployment in early adult life and to examine the hypothesis that young men who become unemployed are more likely to have accumulated risks to health during childhood. DESIGN: Longitudinal birth cohort study. The amount of unemployment experienced in early adult life up to age 32 years was the outcome measure used. Exposure measures to indicate vulnerabi…
The persisting effect of unemployment on health and social well-being in men early in working life
Secular Changes in the Association of Parental Divorce and Children's Educational Attainment - Evidence from Three British Birth Cohorts
This article examines the secular trends in the overall association of parental divorce (or separation) and children's educational attainment at school-leaving age during the period spanning a quarter of a century since the second world war in Britain. The study presents a reanalysis of data from the three British birth cohorts which studied children born in 1946, 1958 and 1970. Equivalent educational attainment at the different time points is de…
Responses to stress in adolescence
The development of a measure of coping and involuntary stress responses in adolescence is described. The Responses to Stress Questionnaire (RSQ) reflects a conceptual model that includes volitional coping efforts and involuntary responses to specific stressful events or specified domains of stress. The psychometric characteristics of the RSQ were examined across 4 domains of stress in 3 samples of adolescents and parent reports obtained in 2 samp…
Coping with stress during childhood and adolescence
Progress and issues in the study of coping with stress during childhood and adolescence are reviewed. Definitions of coping are considered, and the relationship between coping and other aspects of responses to stress (e.g., temperament and stress reactivity) is described. Questionnaire, interview, and observation measures of child and adolescent coping are evaluated with regard to reliability and validity. Studies of the association of coping wit…
Coping with Family Conflict and Economic Strain
This study tested two models of family economic problems and adolescent psychological adjustment. Using adolescents’ survey data and information regarding school lunch program enrollment, the associations among family SES, perceived economic strain, family conflict, and coping responses were examined in a sample of 364 adolescents from rural New England. Two theoretical models were tested using structural equation modeling — one tested coping as …
Coping with Terrorism
This study examined age and gender differences and similarities in stress responses to September 11th. Adolescents, young adults, and adults reported using a variety of strategies to cope with the terrorist attacks including acceptance, positive thinking, and emotional expression. In addition, involuntary stress responses such as physio-logical arousal, rumination, and emotional numbing were common. A number of age trends emerged, showing increas…
Cultural Identity, Explanatory Style, and Depression in Navajo Adolescents
This study investigated the interrelationships among cultural identity, explanatory style, and depression in Navajo adolescents. A total of 332 (197 female, 135 male) Navajo adolescents completed 7 self-report measures. These data were used to create, via structural equation modeling, a series of factor models and full structural models. Analyses indicated that current factor structures for explanatory style and depression are adequate for use wi…
Coping and responses to stress in Navajo adolescents
This study tested the factor structure of coping and stress responses in Navajo adolescents and examined the reliability and validity of the Responses to Stress Questionnaire (RSQ; Connor‐Smith, Compas, Wadsworth, Thomsen, & Saltzman, 2000) with this population. Confirmatory factor analyses revealed that a correlated five‐factor model of stress responses using the five factors of the RSQ fit the data well for this group of adolescents. The factor…
Adolescents Coping with Poverty-Related Family Stress
Socioeconomic status, neighborhood disadvantage, and poverty-related stress
Psychology (26 obras) · Medicine (23 obras) · Developmental psychology (16 obras) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (15 obras) · Clinical Psychology (13 obras) · Early Childhood Education and Development (11 obras) · Psychiatry (11 obras) · Sociology (10 obras) · Environmental health (9 obras) · Clinical Psychology (8 obras)