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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Gene H. Brody is affiliated with the University of Georgia in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of social sciences, psychology, and neuroscience, with a diverse exploration of clinical psychology, education, behavioral neuroscience, sociology, political science, and health subfields.

The scientist's recent publications focus on topics related to stress responses, health disparities, resilience, and childhood development. Notable papers include:

  • "Persistence of skin-deep resilience in African American adults," 2020, Health Psychology
  • "Racial discrimination and telomere shortening among African Americans: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study," 2020, Health Psychology
  • "What Are the Health Consequences of Upward Mobility?" 2021, Annual Review of Psychology
  • "Youth Who Achieve Upward Socioeconomic Mobility Display Lower Psychological Distress But Higher Metabolic Syndrome Rates as Adults: Prospective Evidence From Add Health and MIDUS," 2020, Journal of the American Heart Association
  • "Cost of resilience: Childhood poverty, mental health, and chronic physiological stress," 2022, Psychoneuroendocrinology

Frequent coauthors working alongside the scientist include Tianyi Yu, Gregory E. Miller, Edith Chen, Steven M. Kogan, and Katherine B. Ehrlich, indicating collaborative work in related research areas.

Publications are often found in journals such as JAMA Network Open, Psychoneuroendocrinology, Brain Behavior and Immunity, UNC Libraries, and Health Psychology.

The research of Gene H. Brody addresses several prominent topics including:

  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders

Gene H. Brody has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) since 2019.

Best Publications

  • Economic pressure in African American families: a replication and extension of the family stress model.

    Rand D. Conger;Lora Ebert Wallace;Yumei Sun;Ronald L. Simons

  • Maternal Resources, Parenting Practices, and Child Competence in Rural, Single-Parent African American Families

    Gene H. Brody;Douglas L. Flor

  • 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

  • SIBLING RELATIONSHIP QUALITY: Its Causes and Consequences

    Gene H. Brody

  • 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

  • Linking maternal efficacy beliefs, developmental goals, parenting practices, and child competence in rural single-parent African American families.

    Gene H. Brody;Douglas L. Flor;Nicole Morgan Gibson

  • Maternal psychological functioning, family processes, and child adjustment in rural, single-parent, African American families.

    Gene H. Brody;Douglas L. Flor

  • Prospective Effects of Marital Satisfaction on Depressive Symptoms in Established Marriages: A Dyadic Model

    Steven R. H. Beach;Jennifer Katz;Sooyeon Kim;Gene H. Brody

  • Siblings' Direct and Indirect Contributions to Child Development

    Gene H. Brody

  • Parental religiosity, family processes, and youth competence in rural, two-parent African American families.

    Gene H. Brody;Zolinda Stoneman;Douglas Flor

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

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

  • Financial Resources, Parent Psychological Functioning, Parent Co‐Caregiving, and Early Adolescent Competence in Rural Two‐Parent African‐American Families

    Gene H. Brody;Zolinda Stoneman;Douglas Flor;Chris McCrary

  • Linking parenting processes and self-regulation to psychological functioning and alcohol use during early adolescence.

    Gene H. Brody;Xiaojia Ge

  • African American Single Mothers and Children in Context: A Review of Studies on Risk and Resilience

    Velma McBride Murry;Mia S. Bynum;Gene H. Brody;Amanda Willert

  • Child temperaments, maternal differential behavior, and sibling relationships.

    Gene H. Brody;Zolinda Stoneman;Michelle Burke

  • Is Resilience Only Skin Deep?: Rural African Americans’ Socioeconomic Status–Related Risk and Competence in Preadolescence and Psychological Adjustment and Allostatic Load at Age 19

    Gene H. Brody;Tianyi Yu;Edith Chen;Gregory E. Miller

  • Joint Reading between Black Head Start Children and Their Mothers

    A. D. Pellegrini;Jane C. Perlmutter;Lee Galda;Gene H. Brody

  • Maternal perceptions of child maladjustment as a function of the combined influence of child behavior and maternal depression

    Gene H. Brody;Rex Forehand

  • Longitudinal Pathways to Competence and Psychological Adjustment among African American Children Living in Rural Single–Parent Households

    Gene H. Brody;Velma McBride Murry;Sooyeon Kim;Anita C. Brown

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven R. H. Beach
Steven R. H. Beach University of Georgia
Steven M. Kogan
Steven M. Kogan University of Georgia
Zolinda Stoneman
Zolinda Stoneman University of Georgia
Ronald L. Simons
Ronald L. Simons University of Georgia
Frederick X. Gibbons
Frederick X. Gibbons University of Connecticut
Velma McBride Murry
Velma McBride Murry Vanderbilt University
Rex Forehand
Rex Forehand University of Vermont
Gregory E. Miller
Gregory E. Miller Northwestern University
Edith Chen
Edith Chen Northwestern University
Meg Gerrard
Meg Gerrard University of Connecticut

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