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Overview

Frederick X. Gibbons is affiliated with the University of Connecticut in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines primarily within social sciences and medicine.

The main fields of study associated with their work include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Medicine

Their subfields of study cover:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Molecular Biology
  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
  • Applied Psychology
  • Physiology

Key topics explored in their research are:

  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Smoking Behavior and Cessation
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving

Notable recent papers by Frederick X. Gibbons include:

  • The effects of social adversity, discrimination, and health risk behaviors on the accelerated aging of African Americans: Further support for the weathering hypothesis (2020, Social Science & Medicine)
  • Racial Discrimination, Inflammation, and Chronic Illness Among African American Women at Midlife: Support for the Weathering Perspective (2020, Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities)
  • Measuring the biological embedding of racial trauma among Black Americans utilizing the RDoC approach (2021, Development and Psychopathology)
  • The Prototype-Willingness Model (2020, The Wiley Encyclopedia of Health Psychology)
  • The Effect of Tobacco Smoking Differs across Indices of DNA Methylation-Based Aging in an African American Sample: DNA Methylation-Based Indices of Smoking Capture These Effects (2020, Genes)

The research has been frequently published in the following venues:

  • Social Science & Medicine
  • Development and Psychopathology
  • Genes
  • Epigenetics
  • Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations include:

  • Steven R. H. Beach
  • Meg Gerrard
  • Robert A. Philibert
  • Ronald L. Simons
  • Man-Kit Lei

Best Publications

  • Meta-analysis of the relationship between risk perception and health behavior: the example of vaccination.

    Noel T. Brewer;Gretchen B. Chapman;Frederick X. Gibbons;Meg Gerrard

  • Individual differences in social comparison: Development of a scale of social comparison orientation

    Frederick X. Gibbons;Bram P. Buunk

  • Social comparison: The end of a theory and the emergence of a field

    Abraham P. Buunk;Frederick X. Gibbons

  • A dual-process approach to health risk decision making: The prototype willingness model

    Meg Gerrard;Frederick X. Gibbons;Amy E. Houlihan;Michelle L. Stock

  • Perceived Discrimination and the Adjustment of African American Youths: A Five-Year Longitudinal Analysis With Contextual Moderation Effects

    Gene H. Brody;Yi Fu Chen;Velma McBride Murry;Xiaojia Ge

  • Reasoned action and social reaction: Willingness and intention as independent predictors of health risk.

    Frederick X. Gibbons;Meg Gerrard;Hart Blanton;Daniel W. Russell

  • Predicting young adults' health risk behavior.

    Frederick X. Gibbons;Meg Gerrard

  • The Influence of Neighborhood Disadvantage, Collective Socialization, and Parenting on African American Children's Affiliation with Deviant Peers

    Gene H Brody;Xiaojia Xiaojia Ge;Rand Conger;Frederick X Gibbons

  • Perceived Discrimination and Substance Use in African American Parents and Their Children: A Panel Study.

    Frederick X. Gibbons;Meg Gerrard;Michael J. Cleveland;Thomas A. Wills

  • Relation Between Perceived Vulnerability to HIV and Precautionary Sexual Behavior

    Meg Gerrard;Frederick X. Gibbons;Brad J. Bushman

  • Risk perceptions: assessment and relationship to influenza vaccination.

    Neil D. Weinstein;Abbie Kwitel;Kevin D. McCaul;Renee E. Magnan

  • When better-than-others compare upward : Choice of comparison and comparative evaluation as independent predictors of academic performance

    Hart Blanton;Bram P. Buunk;Frederick X. Gibbons;Hans Kuyper

  • A longitudinal study of the reciprocal nature of risk behaviors and cognitions in adolescents: what you do shapes what you think, and vice versa.

    Meg Gerrard;Frederick X. Gibbons;Alida C. Benthin;Robert M. Hessling

  • Health, coping, and wellbeing: Perspectives from social comparison theory

    Abraham (Bram) Buunk;F.X Gibbons

  • A Social Reaction Model of Adolescent Health Risk

    Frederick X. Gibbons;Meg Gerrard;David J. Lane

  • The Strong African American families program: Translating research into prevention programming

    Gene H. Brody;Velma McBride Murry;Meg Gerrard;Frederick X. Gibbons

  • Social comparison and depression: company's effect on misery.

    Frederick X. Gibbons

  • Racial Discrimination, Ethnic-Racial Socialization, and Crime: A Micro-sociological Model of Risk and Resilience

    Callie Harbin Burt;Ronald L. Simons;Frederick X. Gibbons

  • Adolescent Self-Consciousness: Longitudinal Age Changes and Gender Differences in Two Cohorts

    Jane L. Rankin;David J. Lane;Frederick X. Gibbons;Meg Gerrard

  • Self-Attention and Behavior: A Review and Theoretical Update

    Frederick X. Gibbons

Frequent Co-Authors

Meg Gerrard
Meg Gerrard University of Connecticut
Ronald L. Simons
Ronald L. Simons University of Georgia
Gene H. Brody
Gene H. Brody University of Georgia
Steven R. H. Beach
Steven R. H. Beach University of Georgia
Velma McBride Murry
Velma McBride Murry Vanderbilt University
Thomas Ashby Wills
Thomas Ashby Wills University of Hawaii at Manoa
Carolyn E. Cutrona
Carolyn E. Cutrona Iowa State University
Abraham P. Buunk
Abraham P. Buunk University of Groningen
Bram P. Buunk
Bram P. Buunk University of Groningen
Hart Blanton
Hart Blanton Texas A&M University

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