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Overview

Kenneth I. Maton is affiliated with the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the Social Sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Safety Research, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Education, Gender Studies, and Information Systems.

The topics that Kenneth I. Maton's work covers include:

  • Career Development and Diversity
  • Diversity and Career in Medicine
  • Medical Education and Admissions
  • Higher Education Research Studies
  • Youth Development and Social Support
  • Diverse Approaches in Healthcare and Education Studies
  • Education, Safety, and Science Studies

Some of their recent publications include:

  • "Baseline Characteristics of the 2015-2019 First Year Student Cohorts of the NIH Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity (BUILD) Program," 2020, Ethnicity & Disease
  • "Introduction to Research: A Scalable, Online Badge Implemented in Conjunction with a Classroom-Based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) that Promotes Students Matriculation into Mentored Undergraduate Research," 2020, PubMed
  • "RELATIONSHIPS AMONG SENSE OF COMMUNITY, SCIENCE SELF-EFFICACY, AND SCIENCE IDENTITY FOR FEMALE MEYERHOFF SCHOLARS: IMPLICATIONS FOR PATHWAYS TO BROADENING THE WORKFORCE IN STEM," 2023, Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering
  • "Relationships among Sense of Community, Science Self-Efficacy, and Science Identity for Female Meyerhoff Scholars: Implications for Pathways to Broadening the Workforce in STE," 2022, Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering
  • "Replicating Meyerhoff for inclusive excellence in STEM," 2025, UNC Libraries

Kenneth I. Maton has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering
  • Ethnicity & Disease
  • PubMed
  • UNC Libraries

Coauthors who have collaborated on multiple occasions with Kenneth I. Maton include:

  • William R. LaCourse
  • Laura E. Ott
  • Mariano R. Sto. Domingo
  • Rupsha Singh
  • Eileen Harrington

Best Publications

  • Empowering community settings: agents of individual development, community betterment, and positive social change.

    Kenneth I. Maton

  • The stress-buffering role of spiritual support: Cross-sectional and prospective investigations.

    Kenneth I. Maton

  • Organizational characteristics of empowering community settings: A multiple case study approach

    Kenneth I. Maton;Deborah A. Salem

  • African American college students excelling in the sciences: College and postcollege outcomes in the Meyerhoff Scholars Program

    Kenneth I. Maton;Freeman A. Hrabowski;Carol L. Schmitt

  • Beating the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African American Males

    Freemen A. Hrabowski;Kenneth I. Maton;Geoffrey L. Greif

  • Making a difference: the social ecology of social transformation.

    Kenneth I. Maton

  • A longitudinal study of stress-buffering effects for urban African-American male adolescent problem behaviors and mental health

    Marc A. Zimmerman;Jesus Ramirez-Valles;Kinga M. Zapert;Kenneth I. Maton

  • Religion as a Community Resource for Well‐Being: Prevention, Healing, and Empowerment Pathways

    Kenneth I. Maton;Elizabeth A. Wells

  • Resilience Among Urban African American Male Adolescents: A Study of the Protective Effects of Sociopolitical Control on Their Mental Health

    Marc A. Zimmerman;Jesus Ramírez-Valles;Kenneth I. Maton

  • Social support, relationship quality, and well-being among pregnant adolescents.

    Wendy Stevenson;Kenneth I. Maton;Douglas M. Teti

  • Investing in Children, Youth, Families, and Communities: Strengths-Based Research and Policy

    Kenneth I. Maton;Cynthia J. Schellenbach;Bonnie J. Leadbeater;Andrea L. Solarz

  • Increasing the number of African American PhDs in the sciences and engineering: a strengths-based approach.

    Kenneth I. Maton;Freeman A. Hrabowski Iii

  • Social support, organizational characteristics, psychological well-being, and group appraisal in three self-help group populations

    Kenneth I. Maton

  • Family structure and psychosocial correlates among urban African-American adolescent males.

    Marc A. Zimmerman;Deborah A. Salem;Kenneth I. Maton

  • Coordinated community intervention for domestic abusers : Intervention system involvement and criminal recidivism

    Christopher M. Murphy;Peter H. Musser;Kenneth I. Maton

  • Meaningful involvement in instrumental activity and well-being: studies of older adolescents and at risk urban teen-agers.

    Kenneth I. Maton

  • Cultural specificity of support sources, correlates and contexts: Three studies of African‐American and Caucasian youth

    Kenneth I. Maton;Douglas M. Teti;Kathleen M. Corns;Catherine C. Vieira-Baker

  • Outcomes and Processes in the Meyerhoff Scholars Program: STEM PhD Completion, Sense of Community, Perceived Program Benefit, Science Identity, and Research Self-Efficacy.

    Kenneth I. Maton;Tiffany S. Beason;Surbhi Godsay;Mariano R. Sto. Domingo

  • Community Settings as Buffers of Life Stress? Highly Supportive Churches, Mutual Help Groups, and Senior Centers

    Kenneth I. Maton

  • Meyerhoff Scholars Program: a strengths-based, institution-wide approach to increasing diversity in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

    Kenneth I. Maton;Shauna A. Pollard;Tatiana V. McDougall Weise;Freeman A. Hrabowski

  • The STEM Pipeline: The Role of Summer Research Experience in Minority Students' Ph.D. Aspirations

    Matea Pender;Dave E. Marcotte;Mariano R. Santo Domingo;Kenneth I. Maton

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc A. Zimmerman
Marc A. Zimmerman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Kenneth I. Pargament
Kenneth I. Pargament Bowling Green State University
Bonnie J. Leadbeater
Bonnie J. Leadbeater University of Victoria
Douglas M. Teti
Douglas M. Teti Pennsylvania State University
Irwin N. Sandler
Irwin N. Sandler Arizona State University
Edward Seidman
Edward Seidman New York University
Julian Rappaport
Julian Rappaport University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Daniel P. Keating
Daniel P. Keating University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Teresa E. Seeman
Teresa E. Seeman University of California, Los Angeles
Philip J. Farabaugh
Philip J. Farabaugh University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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