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Overview

Douglas D. Perkins is affiliated with Vanderbilt University in the United States. Their research spans the social sciences and health professions, with a focus on community health and development, health policy implementation science, health disparities and outcomes, vaccine coverage and hesitancy, global maternal and child health, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, and urban, neighborhood, and segregation studies.

The scientist's recent publications reflect a multidisciplinary approach that addresses health, psychology, education, and social issues. Notable papers include:

  • Well-Being as Human Development, Equality, Happiness and the Role of Freedom, Activism, Decentralization, Volunteerism and Voter Participation: A Global Country-Level Study (2021) published in Frontiers in Psychology

While Douglas D. Perkins is listed as the author of the 2021 article, other closely related works in their research network include studies on COVID-19 vaccination rates, public health resources, and community education, highlighting broad thematic concerns:

  • Addressing the problems of urban education: An ecological systems perspective (2020) in Journal of Urban Affairs
  • Public Health Resources, Religion, and Freedom as Predictors of COVID-19 Vaccination Rates: A Global Study of 89 Countries (2022) in COVID
  • Community Health Resources, Globalization, Trust in Science, and Voting as Predictors of COVID-19 Vaccination Rates: A Global Study with Implications for Vaccine Adherence (2022) in Vaccines
  • Toward an Empowerment Model of Community Education in China (2022) in Adult Education Quarterly

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Douglas D. Perkins include Shadi Omidvar Tehrani, Brian D. Christens, Kimberly D. Bess, Mehmet Reha Ozgurer, and Zhang Yong. These collaborations span interdisciplinary topics closely aligned with health, community development, and education.

Their publications have appeared in a range of peer-reviewed venues such as the Journal of Urban Affairs, Frontiers in Psychology, COVID, Vaccines, and Adult Education Quarterly, illustrating a cross-sectoral interest between social sciences and health-related disciplines.

Douglas D. Perkins' main fields of study are Social Sciences and Health Professions, with subfields in General Health Professions, Health, Sociology and Political Science, Education, and Social Psychology. This diverse expertise aligns with their thematic research areas, including community health improvement, vaccine hesitancy, health policy, and urban social issues.

Best Publications

  • Empowerment theory, research, and application

    Douglas D. Perkins;Marc A. Zimmerman

  • Finding Common Ground: The Importance of Place Attachment to Community Participation and Planning

    Lynne C. Manzo;Douglas D. Perkins

  • Place Attachment in a Revitalizing Neighborhood: Individual and Block Levels of Analysis

    Barbara Brown;Douglas D Perkins;Graham Brown

  • Disruptions in Place Attachment

    Barbara B. Brown;Douglas D. Perkins

  • Participation and the social and physical environment of residential blocks: Crime and community context

    Douglas D. Perkins;Paul Florin;Richard C. Rich;Abraham Wandersman

  • Ecological Assessments of Community Disorder: Their Relationship to Fear of Crime and Theoretical Implications

    Douglas D. Perkins;Ralph B. Taylor

  • The physical-environment of street blocks and resident perceptions of crime and disorder: Implications for theory and measurement

    Douglas D. Perkins;John W. Meeks;Ralph B. Taylor

  • Democratic school climate and sense of community in school: a multilevel analysis.

    Alessio Vieno;Douglas D. Perkins;Thomas M. Smith;Massimo Santinello

  • Neighborhood Sense of Community and Social Capital

    Douglas D. Perkins;D. Adam Long

  • The physical environment of street crime: Defensible space, territoriality and incivilities.

    Douglas D. Perkins;Abraham H. Wandersman;Richard C. Rich;Ralph B. Taylor

  • CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS OF THE SENSE OF COMMUNITY INDEX AND DEVELOPMENT OF A BRIEF SCI

    D. Adam Long;Douglas D. Perkins

  • The ecology of empowerment: Predicting participation in community organizations

    Douglas D. Perkins;Barbara B. Brown;Ralph B. Taylor

  • Community Psychology Perspectives on Social Capital Theory and Community Development Practice

    Douglas D. Perkins;Joseph Hughey;Paul W. Speer

  • Incivilities, place attachment and crime: Block and individual effects

    Barbara B. Brown;Douglas D. Perkins;Graham Brown

  • Multilevel longitudinal impacts of incivilities: Fear of crime, expected safety, and block satisfaction

    Jennifer B. Robinson;Brian A. Lawton;Ralph B. Taylor;Douglas D. Perkins

  • Social support, sense of community in school, and self-efficacy as resources during early adolescence: an integrative model.

    Alessio Vieno;Massimo Santinello;Massimiliano Pastore;Douglas D. Perkins

  • Speaking truth to power: Empowerment ideology as social intervention and policy

    Douglas D. Perkins

  • Community social and place predictors of sense of community: A multilevel and longitudinal analysis

    D. Adam Long;Douglas D. Perkins

  • Bullying in school and adolescent sense of empowerment: an analysis of relationships with parents, friends, and teachers

    Maury Nation;Alessio Vieno;Douglas D. Perkins;Massimo Santinello

  • Sense of community, neighboring, and social capital as predictors of local political participation in China.

    Qingwen Xu;Douglas D. Perkins;Julian Chun Chung Chow

Frequent Co-Authors

Alessio Vieno
Alessio Vieno University of Padua
Barbara B. Brown
Barbara B. Brown University of Utah
Graham Brown
Graham Brown University of Melbourne
Ralph B. Taylor
Ralph B. Taylor Temple University
Abraham Wandersman
Abraham Wandersman University of South Carolina
Paul W. Speer
Paul W. Speer Vanderbilt University
Kenneth I. Maton
Kenneth I. Maton University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Marc A. Zimmerman
Marc A. Zimmerman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Isaac Prilleltensky
Isaac Prilleltensky University of Miami
Julian Rappaport
Julian Rappaport University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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