1992 — 1996 |
Powers, Sally |
N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
The Family and Community Context of Adolescent Development @ University of Massachusetts Amherst
ABSTRACT This research will increase our understanding of longitudinal change in adaptive and maladaptive development of adolescents and the relation of this change to family behavior patterns. The relation between adolescent functioning and family behaviors will be examined with a two-phase sampling design. The first phase is an epidemiological survey of the relation between family processes and adolescent functioning in a community population of adolescents from nine working-class, rural towns in New England. The second phase selects for intensive study a subsample of 100 families of adolescents chosen for their representativeness of the larger community population. The adolescents in the larger community sample and the families from the subsample will be studied at two times points two years apart in order to examine longitudinal change. The epidemiological survey phase tests hypotheses about the relation of family factors to adolescent outcome in a large, well-defined population. The intensive study of the representative subsample delineates specific family behavior patterns that are associated with varying longitudinal trajectories of adolescent adaptation. This intensive second phase uses methods of direct observation of family behavior patterns as well as standardized questionnaires and tests to assess all family members' functioning. This research will increase our understanding of the relationship between adolescent functioning and family behaviors.
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2000 — 2002 |
Powers, Sally I |
R01Activity Code Description: To support a discrete, specified, circumscribed project to be performed by the named investigator(s) in an area representing his or her specific interest and competencies. |
Test of a Biopsychosocial Model of Adolescent Depression @ University of Massachusetts Amherst
DESCRIPTION: (adapted from Investigator's abstract) This study will test a biophysical model of factors hypothesized to contribute to the gender difference in the prevalence of adolescent depression. Attempts to understand depression and the reasons for its increased prevalence for females typically focuses on one of the three major types of variables: cognitive, socio-cultural, or biological. Lack of more comprehensive perspectives integrating these factors obstructs our understanding of this important disorder. The model tested in this project integrates interpersonal, socio-cultural, cognitive and biological variables to explain gender differences in depressive symptoms in late adolescence. Variables include: interpersonal variables of observed behavioral coping during a conflict negotiation task; cognitive variables of negative attributions and perceptions regarding interpersonal relations; socio-cultural variables of personality dimensions commonly assumed as indicators of gender roles and gender socialization; and biological variables of temperament and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis functioning. Two hundred older adolescents, age 18 to 20 years, will participate in the study along with their romantic partner (total N = 400). The study has a short-term longitudinal design, enabling examination of the relevance of the variables to existing symptomatology and diagnoses as well as to trajectories of change in symptoms and diagnoses over a 6-month period. At time 1, couples will complete a variety of self-report measures and interact together in a videotaped conflict negotiation task. Psychophysiological reactions to the interpersonal behavioral coping used in the negotiation task will also be obtained. Psychological symptoms and clinical diagnoses will be assessed at both time 1 and time 2.
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0.958 |
2012 — 2016 |
Bhatia, Surita R. (co-PI) [⬀] Petersen, Sandra L [⬀] Powers, Sally I |
R25Activity Code Description: For support to develop and/or implement a program as it relates to a category in one or more of the areas of education, information, training, technical assistance, coordination, or evaluation. |
University of Massachusetts Imsd @ University of Massachusetts Amherst
DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) Initiative for Maximizing Student Development is to significantly increase the number of underrepresented minority (URM) doctoral students who complete Ph.D. degrees and postdoctoral fellowships, and become leaders in biomedical and behavioral science research. To accomplish this goal, our aims are to: 1) Enhance recruitment of well-prepared URM students for Ph.D. programs by nurturing existing partnerships with minority-serving institutions through new collaborative research initiatives. Our Partners in Research program will bring URM Partner faculty and undergraduates to laboratories at UMass for extended summer visits and our Partner Visiting Professors will bring Partner faculty back to UMass for year-long sabbaticals. In addition, UMass faculty and senior IMSD doctoral students will present seminars and workshops at Partner Institutions. Other recruiting initiatives will include an IMSD Graduate Preview Weekend at UMass and national promotion of our IMSD. 2) Enhance retention and preparation of IMSD Scholars through stage-specific funding, mentoring and professional development activities at the Transition, Achieving Candidacy and Beyond the Doctorate Stages. 3) Develop, reward and disseminate models for fostering an environment of inclusiveness. Our program will be led by five research-active faculty PIs who are well positioned to engage their colleagues in IMSD activities. In addition, our IMSD is strongly supported by the Provost who will sponsor an annual Diversity Conference to discuss progress, problems and new strategies for diversifying the biomedical and behavioral graduate student body and faculty.
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