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Kathryn E. Grant

Kathryn E. Grant

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Psychology

D-Index
36
Citations
10526
World Ranking
9337
National Ranking
4936

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Kathryn E. Grant is affiliated with DePaul University in the United States and works primarily within the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences. Their research spans several subfields including Clinical Psychology, Safety Research, Social Psychology, Education, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's work covers multiple topics related to child and adolescent development and mental health. These main topics include:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Youth Development and Social Support
  • Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research

Kathryn E. Grant has published in several academic journals, with frequent contributions to the following venues:

  • Journal of Community Psychology
  • Children and Youth Services Review
  • Mental health and physical activity
  • Journal of Youth and Adolescence
  • OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying

Recent published papers include:

  • "Overcoming exposure to complex stressors: An examination of protective coping mechanisms for low-income urban African American youth" (2020), Children and Youth Services Review
  • "Latinx adolescents' trust in adults: A precursor to psychological well-being via mentoring relational quality and self-esteem" (2021), Journal of Community Psychology
  • "Mental health interventions for African children: A meta-analytic review" (2021), Children and Youth Services Review
  • "Sports participation, frequency, and competence differentially impact youth depressive, anxious, and somatic symptoms: Gender, neighborhood, and sports type effects" (2023), Mental health and physical activity
  • "Black Adolescent Self-Perceptions: The Roles of Ethnic Identity and Stress Exposure" (2023), Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Kathryn E. Grant has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • David L. DuBois
  • Jocelyn Smith Carter
  • Bernadette Sánchez
  • Emma K. Adam
  • Molly Cory

In 2016, the scientist was recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA).

Best Publications

  • Depression in adolescence.

    Anne C. Petersen;Bruce E. Compas;Jeanne Brooks-Gunn;Mark Stemmler

  • Stressors and Child and Adolescent Psychopathology: Moving From Markers to Mechanisms of Risk

    Kathryn E. Grant;Bruce E. Compas;Alice F. Stuhlmacher;Audrey E. Thurm

  • Adolescent stress and coping: Implications for psychopathology during adolescence.

    Bruce E. Compas;Pamela G. Orosan;Kathryn E. Grant

  • Stressors and child and adolescent psychopathology: Evidence of moderating and mediating effects.

    Kathryn E. Grant;Bruce E. Compas;Audrey E. Thurm;Susan D. McMahon

  • Stressors and child and adolescent psychopathology: measurement issues and prospective effects.

    Kathryn E. Grant;Bruce E. Compas;Audrey E. Thurm;Susan D. McMahon

  • When Mom or Dad Has Cancer: Markers of Psychological Distress in Cancer Patients, Spouses, and Children

    Bruce E. Compas;Nancy L. Worsham;JoAnne E. Epping-Jordan;Kathryn E. Grant

  • Posttraumatic growth among children and adolescents: a systematic review

    David A. Meyerson;Kathryn E. Grant;Jocelyn Smith Carter;Ryan P. Kilmer

  • Stress and psychopathology in children and adolescents: is there evidence of specificity?

    Susan D. McMahon;Kathryn E. Grant;Bruce E. Compas;Audrey E. Thurm

  • Taxonomy, assessment, and diagnosis of depression during adolescence.

    Bruce E. Compas;Sydney Ey;Kathryn E. Grant

  • Protective Factors Affecting Low-Income Urban African American Youth Exposed to Stress

    Kathryn E. Grant;Jeffrey H. O’koon;Trina H. Davis;Nicola A. Roache

  • Stress and anxious-depressed symptoms among adolescents: searching for mechanisms of risk.

    Kathryn E. Grant;Bruce E. Compas

  • Postpartum depression and child development: An investigation of mothers and fathers as sources of risk and resilience

    Michelle G. Carro;Kathryn E. Grant;Ian H. Gotlib;Bruce E. Compas

  • School‐Based Mental Health and Behavioral Programs for Low‐Income, Urban Youth: A Systematic and Meta‐Analytic Review

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  • Urban adolescent stress and hopelessness.

    Dana Landis;Noni K. Gaylord-Harden;Sara L. Malinowski;Kathryn E. Grant

  • Gender differences in rates of depressive symptoms among low-income, urban, African American youth: A test of two mediational hypotheses

    Kathryn E. Grant;Aoife L. Lyons;Jo-Ann S. Finkelstein;Kathryn M. Conway

  • The Roles of Stress and Coping in Explaining Gender Differences in Risk for Psychopathology Among African American Urban Adolescents

    Ginger Apling Carlson;Kathryn E. Grant

  • Exposure to violence and parenting as mediators between poverty and psychological symptoms in urban African American adolescents.

    Kathryn E. Grant;Anthony McCormick;LaShaunda Poindexter;Tandra Simpkins

  • Violence and Vigilance: The Acute Effects of Community Violent Crime on Sleep and Cortisol

    Jennifer A. Heissel;Patrick T. Sharkey;Gerard Torrats-Espinosa;Kathryn Grant

  • Coping patterns of African American adolescents: a confirmatory factor analysis and cluster analysis of the Children's Coping Strategies Checklist.

    Noni K. Gaylord-Harden;Polly Gipson;Gi Shawn Mance;Kathryn E. Grant

  • Suppressor effects in coping research with African American adolescents from low-income communities.

    Noni K. Gaylord-Harden;Jamila A. Cunningham;Grayson N. Holmbeck;Kathryn E. Grant

  • Stress and Somatic Complaints in Low-Income Urban Adolescents

    Linda K. Reynolds;Linda K. Reynolds;Jeffrey H. O'Koon;Jeffrey H. O'Koon;Eros Papademetriou;Sylvia Szczygiel;Sylvia Szczygiel

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce E. Compas
Bruce E. Compas Vanderbilt University
Emma K. Adam
Emma K. Adam Northwestern University
Susan D. McMahon
Susan D. McMahon DePaul University
Audrey Thurm
Audrey Thurm National Institutes of Health
David Dubois
David Dubois University of Illinois at Chicago
Patrick H. Tolan
Patrick H. Tolan University of Virginia
Edith Chen
Edith Chen Northwestern University
Sharon F. Lambert
Sharon F. Lambert George Washington University
Joseph R. Ferrari
Joseph R. Ferrari DePaul University
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn Columbia University

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