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How bad is it? Suicidality in the middle of the COVID‐19 pandemic

Kevin M. Fitzpatrick, Casey Harris, Grant Drawve

Suicide and Life‐Threatening Behavior > 50 > 6 > 1241 - 1249

Objective The current paper examines the intersection between social vulnerability, individual risk, and social/psychological resources with adult suicidality during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Method Data come from a national sample (n = 10,368) of U.S. adults. Using an online platform, information was gathered during the third week of March 2020, and post‐stratification weighted to proportionally...

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Living in the midst of fear: Depressive symptomatology among US adults during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Kevin M. Fitzpatrick, Casey Harris, Grant Drawve

Depression and Anxiety > 37 > 10 > 957 - 964

Background The current study examines interrelationships between social vulnerability, individual stressors, social and psychological resources, and depressive symptomatology among US adults during the current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic. Methods Using an online survey platform, a poststratified (by age, gender, race, income, and geography), representative sample (n = 10,368 adults)...

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How Positive Is Their Future? Assessing the Role of Optimism and Social Support in Understanding Mental Health Symptomatology among Homeless Adults

Kevin M. Fitzpatrick

Stress and Health > 33 > 2 > 92 - 101

Optimism has been noted as a primary protective factor in understanding mental health symptomatology in clinical and non‐clinical settings. Any exploration of optimism has been absent in understanding mental health outcomes among homeless people. This study, using intensive interviews with 168 homeless adults in Northwest Arkansas, examines the role that social support and optimism play in lessening...

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UNDERSTANDING COMMUNITY CONNECTEDNESS AMONG HOMELESS ADULTS

Kevin M. Fitzpatrick

Journal of Community Psychology > 45 > 3 > 426 - 435

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Psychosocial factors as mediators of food insecurity and weight status among middle school students

Don E. Willis, Kevin M. Fitzpatrick

Appetite > 2016 > 103 > C > 236-243

Research regarding the association between food insecurity and weight status among youth has produced mixed results. However, few studies on this topic have utilized data that includes survey responses from children themselves regarding their experience with food insecurity. This study was undertaken to examine the association between food insecurity and weight status among youth, as well as the potential...

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Bullying and Depressive Symptomatology Among Low-Income, African–American Youth

Kevin M. Fitzpatrick, Akilah Dulin, Bettina Piko

Journal of Youth and Adolescence > 2010 > 39 > 6 > 634-645

Utilizing a risk and protective factors approach, this research examined the relationship between self-reported depressive symptomatology, group membership (bully, victim, bully–victim) risks, and protection among a sample of African–American youths. Self-report data were collected in spring, 2002. Youth in grades 5–12 were sampled (n = 1,542; 51% female) from an urban school district in the Southeast...

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What makes a difference? Understanding the role of protective factors in Hungarian adolescents’ depressive symptomatology

Bettina Franciska Piko, Eszter Kovacs, Kevin M. Fitzpatrick

European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry > 2009 > 18 > 10 > 617-624

Depressive symptomatology contributes to morbidity and mortality across the life course. Among factors predicting adolescent depressive symptomatology, it has become increasingly important to identify factors that prevent or minimize it, i.e., protective factors. This study examines protective factors operating in three contextual domains (parental, school-related and individual) that hold promise...

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A risk and protective factors framework for understanding youth’s externalizing problem behavior in two different cultural settings

Bettina F. Piko, Kevin M. Fitzpatrick, Darlene R. Wright

European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry > 2005 > 14 > 2 > 95-103

Objective The main goal of the study was to analyze youth’s externalizing problem behaviors based on a risk and protective factors framework in two different cultural settings. Method Data were collected among secondary school students in Szeged, Hungary (N=1240) and in Birmingham, AL, USA (N=1538). The self-administered questionnaires contained items on youth’s externalizing problem behaviors...

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Substance use, religiosity, and other protective factors among Hungarian adolescents

Bettina F. Piko, Kevin M. Fitzpatrick

Addictive Behaviors > 2004 > 29 > 6 > 1095-1107

A number of risk factors have emerged as important correlates of adolescent substance use. In addition, research continues to focus on which factors act as mediators protecting adolescents from negative outcomes. One of these protective factors is religiosity, and the focus of this paper is to examine its role in the life of adolescents in postsocialist Hungary, where active religious participation...

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Without protection: substance use among Hungarian adolescents in high-risk settings

Bettina F. Piko, Kevin M. Fitzpatrick

Journal of Adolescent Health > 2002 > 30 > 6 > 463-466

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Does class matter? SES and psychosocial health among Hungarian adolescents

Bettina Piko, Kevin M. Fitzpatrick

Social Science & Medicine > 2001 > 53 > 6 > 817-830

Previous research finds a significant relationship between socioeconomic inequalities and health status; individuals with lower income, education, and occupational prestige have and report more health problems. Interestingly, this relationship is not consistent across the life cycle; health differences among adolescents across socioeconomic groups are not as clearly defined. Using data (n=1039) on...

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Exposure to Violence and Posttraumatic Stress Symptomatology Among Abortion Clinic Workers

Kevin M. Fitzpatrick, Michele Wilson

Journal of Traumatic Stress > 1999 > 12 > 2 > 227-242

The intent of this study was to examine the relationship between exposure to abortion clinic violence, either as a victim or witness, and the reporting of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms among clinic employees. Semi-structured interviews with 71 clinic workers from eight abortion clinics in a Southeastern state were used for analyses. Findings showed that as victims, clinic workers experienced moderate forms of violence and witnessed greater variety and numbers of violent acts. Twenty-one percent of the sampled workers reported symptoms similar to the syndrome described in the DSM-IIIR/DSM-IV classification for PTSD. A multivariate analysis showed that even when controlling for significant life circumstances and stressors outside the clinic setting, witnessing violence was a significant predictor of PTSD symptomatology....

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Aggression and Environmental Risk Among Low-Income African-American Youth

Kevin M. Fitzpatrick

Journal of Adolescent Health > 1997 > 21 > 3 > 172-178

Purpose: This study examined the extent to which individual, family, and environmental factors discriminated between aggressive and nonaggressive African-American youth.Methods: One hundred fifty African-American boys and girls from eight housing communities in a medium sized Alabama central city were surveyed. From this nonrandom sample, information was collected concerning respondents' demographics,...

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