Molly A Martins
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 78135 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Molly A Martins |
| PRENOMES | Molly A |
| SOBRENOME | Martins |
| ASSINATURA | MARTINS M A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6024-761X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 257 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1999 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Gender Differences in Employed Parents' Self‐Rated Health During Covid ‐19 School Closures in an Affluent US Community
We examine whether the timing and duration of COVID-19 school closures during fall 2020 and winter 2020/21 are associated with employed parents' self-rated health compared to non-parents and parents unexposed to closures. Data comes from a longitudinal survey of 227 employed parents of school-aged children and 497 employed community residents without minor children in an affluent, semi-rural mid-Atlantic county. School closure exposure is measure…
Community-Based Organizations Leading Research Efforts
Adoption and Discontinuance of Innovation Packages
The past decades have seen growing interest and application of interventions targeting the change of multiple behaviors at once. We advance this work by using the diffusion of innovations theory (DOI) to consider constellations of behaviors as innovation packages: multiple innovations that are logically related, interdependent in their use or effects, and often promoted as a set (Rogers, 2003). In addition, we embraced DOI’s focus on behavioral d…
Extending the Theory of Normative Social Behavior
Novel, public behaviors, such as masking, should be susceptible to normative influence. This paper advances the theory of normative social behavior by considering a new set of moderators of normative influence — superdiffuser traits — and by clarifying the antecedents and consequences of exposure to collective norms. We use data from a two-wave survey of a cohort living in one U.S. county during the pandemic (N = 913) to assess normative effects …
The Causal Effect of Increasing Area-Level Income on Birth Outcomes and Pregnancy-Related Health
Income is positively correlated with pregnancy health and birth outcomes, but the causal evidence for this association is limited. Leveraging a natural experiment based on the Pennsylvania boom economy created by the extraction of natural gas from the Marcellus Shale geological formation, we test whether area-level income gains impact birth outcomes (birth weight, gestational length, and preterm birth) and pregnancy health (prepregnancy and prena…
Association between neighborhood disadvantage and children's oral health outcomes in urban families in the Chicago area
Purpose The prevalence of childhood caries in urban Chicago, compared with national and state data, indicates that neighborhood context influences oral health. Our objective was to delineate the influence of a child's neighborhood on oral health outcomes that are predictive of caries (toothbrushing frequency and plaque levels). Methods Our study population represents urban, Medicaid-enrolled families in the metropolitan Chicago area. Data were ob…
The relative contributions of adiposity and activity levels to physical performance in children with excess weight
OBJECTIVE: This study examined predictors of physical performance, a key aspect of quality of life, in children with excess weight. METHODS: Participants were 269 children aged 6-12 years with a body mass index above the 85th percentile. Children completed a standardized physical performance task capturing lower extremity strength, balance, and gait speed. Height, weight, and waist circumference were objectively measured, and daily moderate-vigor…
Longitudinal study of an emerging Covid-19 stigma
Mixed-methods Analysis of Adults Likely versus Unlikely to Get a Covid-19 Vaccination
Objectives: This mixed-methods study compared perspectives of those 'very likely' versus 'very unlikely' to receive a hypothetical COVID-19 vaccine. Methods: We used an explanatory, sequential, mixed- methods design to analyze quantitative data from a rural Pennsylvania sample. Of the 976 participants, 67 selected 'very unlikely' to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Responses to open-ended questions: "What worries you the most about the COVID 19 pandemic…
Behind Closed Doors
The present work studies how community health workers (CHWs) perform the role of educator and how this relates to the implementation of other CHW roles, skills, and qualities. Prior studies on this topic have relied on interviews or focus groups rather than analysis of CHW interactions. We conducted a thematic analysis of 24 transcripts of conversations occurring between CHWs and participants during home visits as part of the Mexican American Tri…
Gas-Patch dads
The aim of this study was to take a more inclusive approach to understanding gas-extraction employment and its intersection with family life and community by also examining the experiences of fathers who do not work directly on an oil and gas rig but who are subcontracted to work for the gas industry, often as truck drivers or in construction trades. We analyzed data from semi-structured interviews with fathers who held any Marcellus Shale gas ex…
The Risks and Consequences of Skipping Meals for Low-Income Mothers
Children With Uncontrolled Asthma
Community Health Worker Asthma Interventions for Children
Objectives. To compare asthma control for children receiving either community health worker (CHW) or certified asthma educator (AE-C) services. Methods. The Asthma Action at Erie Trial is a comparative effectiveness trial that ran from 2016 to 2019 in Cook County, Illinois. Participants (aged 5‒16 years with uncontrolled asthma) were randomized to 10 home visits from clinically integrated asthma CHWs or 2 in-clinic sessions from an AE-C. Results.…
What is the causal effect of income gains on youth obesity? Leveraging the economic boom created by the Marcellus Shale development
Are Feminine Body Weight Norms Different for Black Students or in Black Schools? Girls' Weight-Related Peer Acceptance across Racialized School Contexts
Adolescent girls with overweight or obesity are less socially integrated than their thinner peers. We examine racial-ethnic differences in girls' weight-related friendship patterns, especially noting Black-white distinctions given their different norms about the ideal feminine form. We also test whether schools with more Black students see diminished weight-related differences in peer integration for all girls and/or for Black girls. Using 1994-1…
Does mothers' employment affect adolescents' weight and activity levels? Improving our empirical estimates
Women's lives are marked by complex work and family routines - routines that have implications for their children's health. Prior research suggests a link between mothers' work hours and their children's weight, but few studies investigate the child health implications of increasingly common work arrangements, such as telecommuting and flexible work schedules. We examine whether changes in mothers' work arrangements are associated with changes in…
The Role of Time Use Behaviors in the Risk of Obesity among Low-Income Mothers
Childhood Asthma Disparities in Chicago
We conducted a needs assessment to develop an evidence-based, locally tailored asthma care implementation plan for high-risk children with asthma in Chicago. Our team of health policy experts, clinicians, researchers, and designers included extensive stakeholder engagement (N = 162) in a mixed-methods community needs assessment. Results showed the lines of communication and collaboration across sectors were weak; caregivers were the only consiste…
Integration of mental health services into an innovative health care delivery model for children with chronic conditions
Mothers' Time and Relationship With Their Adolescent Children
We investigate whether the anticipated risks of increasing maternal work hours for mother-adolescent relationships differ across family structures: Do intensive mothering norms exacerbate these risks particularly for mothers in two-parent biological families or does their partners' greater involvement significantly mitigate these risks? We predict mothers' accessible time, engaged time, and the quality of their relationship with their adolescent …
Dietary Assimilation among Mexican Children in Immigrant Households
Immigrant health assimilation is often framed as a linear, individualistic process. Yet new assimilation theory and structural theories of health behavior imply variation in health assimilation as immigrants and their families interact with different US social institutions throughout the day. We test this idea by analyzing how two indicators of dietary assimilation-food acculturation and healthy eating-vary throughout the day as Mexican children …
Race, Immigration, and Exogamy among the Native-born
Did rising immigration levels change racial and ethnic exogamy patterns for young adults in the United States? Adding local demographics to Qian and Lichter's national results, the authors examine the relationship between the sizes of the local immigrant populations in urban and rural areas and U.S.-born individuals' exogamy patterns in heterosexual unions, controlling for the areas' racial compositions. Using 2000 census race, ethnicity, and nat…
Is socioeconomic incorporation associated with a healthier diet? Dietary patterns among Mexican-origin children in the United States
Mexican American Trial of Community Health Workers
Objectives. We assessed whether community health workers (CHWs) could improve glycemic control among Mexican Americans with diabetes. Methods. We recruited 144 Mexican Americans with type 2 diabetes between January 2006 and September 2008 into the single-blinded, randomized controlled Mexican American Trial of Community Health Workers (MATCH) and followed them for 2 years. Participants were assigned to either a CHW intervention, delivering self-m…
Feeding her children, but risking her health
Family structure and the intergenerational transmission of educational advantage
Does intergenerational mobility shape psychological distress? Sorokin revisited
Family structure and income inequality in families with children, 1976 to 2000
Using 24 years of data from the March supplements to the Current Population Survey and detailed categories of family structure, including cohabiting unions, I assess the contribution of changes in family structure to the dramatic rise in family income inequality. Between 1976 and 2000, family structure shifts explain 41% of the increase in inequality, but the influence of family structure change is not uniform within this period or across racial-…
Is socioeconomic incorporation associated with a healthier diet? Dietary patterns among Mexican-origin children in the United States
Race, Immigration, and Exogamy among the Native-born
Did rising immigration levels change racial and ethnic exogamy patterns for young adults in the United States? Adding local demographics to Qian and Lichter's national results, the authors examine the relationship between the sizes of the local immigrant populations in urban and rural areas and U.S.-born individuals' exogamy patterns in heterosexual unions, controlling for the areas' racial compositions. Using 2000 census race, ethnicity, and nat…
Social stratification and adolescent overweight in the United States
The Intergenerational Correlation in Weight
According to behavioral genetics research, the intergenerational correlation in weight derives solely from shared genetic predispositions, but complete genetic determinism contradicts the scientific consensus that social and behavioral change underlies the modern obesity epidemic. To address this conundrum, this article utilizes sibling data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and extends structural equation sibling models t…
The Image in the Mirror and the Number on the Scale
Double jeopardy and health congruency theories suggest that adolescents' joint experience of their weight and weight perceptions are associated with depressive symptoms, but each theory offers a different prediction about which adolescents are at greatest risk. This study investigates the proposed associations and the applicability of both theoretical perspectives using data from 6,557 male and 6,126 female National Longitudinal Study of Adolesce…
Equal Weights but Different Weight Perceptions among US Adolescents
We investigate sex and race/ethnic differences in adolescents' perceptions of the same objectively measured weight in a nationally representative US sample. At the same BMI z-score, girls perceive themselves as heavier than boys. Regardless of sex and relative to Whites, African-Americans perceive the same BMI z-score as leaner and Native Americans are more likely to perceive objectively heavier weights as 'about the right weight'. Asian boys con…
Dietary Assimilation among Mexican Children in Immigrant Households
Immigrant health assimilation is often framed as a linear, individualistic process. Yet new assimilation theory and structural theories of health behavior imply variation in health assimilation as immigrants and their families interact with different US social institutions throughout the day. We test this idea by analyzing how two indicators of dietary assimilation-food acculturation and healthy eating-vary throughout the day as Mexican children …
Mothers' Time and Relationship With Their Adolescent Children
We investigate whether the anticipated risks of increasing maternal work hours for mother-adolescent relationships differ across family structures: Do intensive mothering norms exacerbate these risks particularly for mothers in two-parent biological families or does their partners' greater involvement significantly mitigate these risks? We predict mothers' accessible time, engaged time, and the quality of their relationship with their adolescent …
Adolescent Weight and Depressive Symptoms
Objective. Adolescent weight and depressive symptoms are serious population health concerns in their own right and as they relate to each other. This study asks whether relationships between weight and depressive symptoms vary by sex and race/ethnicity because both shape experiences of weight and psychological distress. Methods. Results are based on multivariate analyses of National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) data. Resul…
The Effects of Acculturation on Asthma Burden in a Community Sample of Mexican American Schoolchildren
Objectives. We sought to determine whether low acculturation among Mexican American caregivers protects their children against asthma. Methods. Data were obtained from an observational study of urban pediatric asthma. Dependent variables were children’s diagnosed asthma and total (diagnosed plus possible) asthma. Regression models were controlled for caregivers’ level of acculturation, education, marital status, depression, life stress, and socia…
The Risks and Consequences of Skipping Meals for Low-Income Mothers
Community Health Worker Asthma Interventions for Children
Objectives. To compare asthma control for children receiving either community health worker (CHW) or certified asthma educator (AE-C) services. Methods. The Asthma Action at Erie Trial is a comparative effectiveness trial that ran from 2016 to 2019 in Cook County, Illinois. Participants (aged 5‒16 years with uncontrolled asthma) were randomized to 10 home visits from clinically integrated asthma CHWs or 2 in-clinic sessions from an AE-C. Results.…
What is the causal effect of income gains on youth obesity? Leveraging the economic boom created by the Marcellus Shale development
Are Feminine Body Weight Norms Different for Black Students or in Black Schools? Girls' Weight-Related Peer Acceptance across Racialized School Contexts
Adolescent girls with overweight or obesity are less socially integrated than their thinner peers. We examine racial-ethnic differences in girls' weight-related friendship patterns, especially noting Black-white distinctions given their different norms about the ideal feminine form. We also test whether schools with more Black students see diminished weight-related differences in peer integration for all girls and/or for Black girls. Using 1994-1…
Integration of mental health services into an innovative health care delivery model for children with chronic conditions
The Role of Family Income in the Intergenerational Association of AFDC Receipt
Daughters from low-income families who did not receive Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) are compared to daughters from low-income families who did receive assistance to better account for family income in the intergenerational association of AFDC. The research models the timing of a daughter's first birth and, for those who become mothers, the number of years a daughter receives any AFDC. Women whose families received AFDC during th…
A Boomer's View of Non-Monogamy
Recent generations of lesbians have been freer than ever to invent our own culture, including relationship models. My own experiments with relationships have prompted a new definition of poly-amory which has more associations with community than with sex
A Boomer's View of Non-Monogamy
Recent generations of lesbians have been freer than ever to invent our own culture, including relationship models. My own experiments with relationships have prompted a new definition of poly-amory which has more associations with community than with sex
Amato, Paul R. And Alan Booth, a Generation Atrisk
AMATO, Paul R. and Alan BOOTH, A GENERATION ATRISK: GROWING UP IN AN ERA OF FAMILY UPHEAVAL." Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 32(3), pp. 453–454
The Role of Family Income in the Intergenerational Association of AFDC Receipt
Daughters from low-income families who did not receive Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) are compared to daughters from low-income families who did receive assistance to better account for family income in the intergenerational association of AFDC. The research models the timing of a daughter's first birth and, for those who become mothers, the number of years a daughter receives any AFDC. Women whose families received AFDC during th…
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Family structure and income inequality in families with children, 1976 to 2000
Using 24 years of data from the March supplements to the Current Population Survey and detailed categories of family structure, including cohabiting unions, I assess the contribution of changes in family structure to the dramatic rise in family income inequality. Between 1976 and 2000, family structure shifts explain 41% of the increase in inequality, but the influence of family structure change is not uniform within this period or across racial-…
The Effects of Acculturation on Asthma Burden in a Community Sample of Mexican American Schoolchildren
Objectives. We sought to determine whether low acculturation among Mexican American caregivers protects their children against asthma. Methods. Data were obtained from an observational study of urban pediatric asthma. Dependent variables were children’s diagnosed asthma and total (diagnosed plus possible) asthma. Regression models were controlled for caregivers’ level of acculturation, education, marital status, depression, life stress, and socia…
The Intergenerational Correlation in Weight
According to behavioral genetics research, the intergenerational correlation in weight derives solely from shared genetic predispositions, but complete genetic determinism contradicts the scientific consensus that social and behavioral change underlies the modern obesity epidemic. To address this conundrum, this article utilizes sibling data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and extends structural equation sibling models t…
Gender and Race/Ethnic Differences in Inaccurate Weight Perceptions Among U.S. Adolescents
Adolescent Weight and Depressive Symptoms
Objective. Adolescent weight and depressive symptoms are serious population health concerns in their own right and as they relate to each other. This study asks whether relationships between weight and depressive symptoms vary by sex and race/ethnicity because both shape experiences of weight and psychological distress. Methods. Results are based on multivariate analyses of National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) data. Resul…
Does intergenerational mobility shape psychological distress? Sorokin revisited
Equal Weights but Different Weight Perceptions among US Adolescents
We investigate sex and race/ethnic differences in adolescents' perceptions of the same objectively measured weight in a nationally representative US sample. At the same BMI z-score, girls perceive themselves as heavier than boys. Regardless of sex and relative to Whites, African-Americans perceive the same BMI z-score as leaner and Native Americans are more likely to perceive objectively heavier weights as 'about the right weight'. Asian boys con…
The Image in the Mirror and the Number on the Scale
Double jeopardy and health congruency theories suggest that adolescents' joint experience of their weight and weight perceptions are associated with depressive symptoms, but each theory offers a different prediction about which adolescents are at greatest risk. This study investigates the proposed associations and the applicability of both theoretical perspectives using data from 6,557 male and 6,126 female National Longitudinal Study of Adolesce…
Social stratification and adolescent overweight in the United States
Feeding her children, but risking her health
Family structure and the intergenerational transmission of educational advantage
Social Class and Changing Families in an Unequal America
Mexican American Trial of Community Health Workers
Objectives. We assessed whether community health workers (CHWs) could improve glycemic control among Mexican Americans with diabetes. Methods. We recruited 144 Mexican Americans with type 2 diabetes between January 2006 and September 2008 into the single-blinded, randomized controlled Mexican American Trial of Community Health Workers (MATCH) and followed them for 2 years. Participants were assigned to either a CHW intervention, delivering self-m…
Is socioeconomic incorporation associated with a healthier diet? Dietary patterns among Mexican-origin children in the United States
Race, Immigration, and Exogamy among the Native-born
Did rising immigration levels change racial and ethnic exogamy patterns for young adults in the United States? Adding local demographics to Qian and Lichter's national results, the authors examine the relationship between the sizes of the local immigrant populations in urban and rural areas and U.S.-born individuals' exogamy patterns in heterosexual unions, controlling for the areas' racial compositions. Using 2000 census race, ethnicity, and nat…
Does mothers' employment affect adolescents' weight and activity levels? Improving our empirical estimates
Women's lives are marked by complex work and family routines - routines that have implications for their children's health. Prior research suggests a link between mothers' work hours and their children's weight, but few studies investigate the child health implications of increasingly common work arrangements, such as telecommuting and flexible work schedules. We examine whether changes in mothers' work arrangements are associated with changes in…
The Role of Time Use Behaviors in the Risk of Obesity among Low-Income Mothers
Childhood Asthma Disparities in Chicago
We conducted a needs assessment to develop an evidence-based, locally tailored asthma care implementation plan for high-risk children with asthma in Chicago. Our team of health policy experts, clinicians, researchers, and designers included extensive stakeholder engagement (N = 162) in a mixed-methods community needs assessment. Results showed the lines of communication and collaboration across sectors were weak; caregivers were the only consiste…
Integration of mental health services into an innovative health care delivery model for children with chronic conditions
Mothers' Time and Relationship With Their Adolescent Children
We investigate whether the anticipated risks of increasing maternal work hours for mother-adolescent relationships differ across family structures: Do intensive mothering norms exacerbate these risks particularly for mothers in two-parent biological families or does their partners' greater involvement significantly mitigate these risks? We predict mothers' accessible time, engaged time, and the quality of their relationship with their adolescent …
Dietary Assimilation among Mexican Children in Immigrant Households
Immigrant health assimilation is often framed as a linear, individualistic process. Yet new assimilation theory and structural theories of health behavior imply variation in health assimilation as immigrants and their families interact with different US social institutions throughout the day. We test this idea by analyzing how two indicators of dietary assimilation-food acculturation and healthy eating-vary throughout the day as Mexican children …
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