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Marc A. Zimmerman is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within the social sciences and psychology, with significant contributions focused on health, sociology and political science, clinical psychology, general health professions, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

Their work primarily addresses topics such as gun ownership and violence research, suicide and self-harm studies, crime patterns and interventions, injury epidemiology and prevention, homelessness and social issues, bullying, victimization, and aggression, as well as intimate partner and family violence.

Recent publications by Zimmerman include:

  • Parental Educational Attainment and Social Environment of Urban Public Schools in the U.S.: Blacks' Diminished Returns (2020), Children
  • Racial Disparities in Child Exposure to Firearm Violence Before and During COVID-19 (2022), American Journal of Preventive Medicine
  • Longitudinal pathway from violence exposure to firearm carriage among adolescents: The role of future expectation (2020), Journal of Adolescence
  • Place-Based Diminished Returns of Parental Educational Attainment on School Performance of Non-Hispanic White Youth (2020), Frontiers in Education
  • Adolescent Adverse Childhood Experiences and Risk of Adult Intimate Partner Violence (2020), American Journal of Preventive Medicine

They frequently publish in venues such as the American Journal of Community Psychology, Journal of School Violence, Preventive Medicine, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, and Abstracts.

Zimmerman has collaborated closely with several co-authors, including Justin E. Heinze, Rebecca M. Cunningham, Patrick M. Carter, Rebeccah L. Sokol, and Hsing-Fang Hsieh.

Best Publications

  • ADOLESCENT RESILIENCE: A Framework for Understanding Healthy Development in the Face of Risk

    Stevenson Fergus;Marc A. Zimmerman

  • Psychological empowerment: Issues and illustrations

    Marc A. Zimmerman

  • Empowerment theory, research, and application

    Douglas D. Perkins;Marc A. Zimmerman

  • Citizen participation, perceived control, and psychological empowerment.

    Marc A. Zimmerman;Julian Rappaport

  • Empowerment theory: Psychological, organizational, and community levels of analysis.

    Marc A. Zimmerman

  • Health Education and Community Empowerment: Conceptualizing and Measuring Perceptions of Individual, Organizational, and Community Control

    Barbara A. Israel;Barry Checkoway;Amy J. Schulz;Marc A. Zimmerman

  • Racial identity, racial discrimination, perceived stress, and psychological distress among African American young adults.

    Robert M. Sellers;Cleopatra H. Caldwell;Karen H. Schmeelk-Cone;Marc A. Zimmerman

  • Taking aim on empowerment research: On the distinction between individual and psychological conceptions

    Marc A. Zimmerman

  • Racial identity and academic attainment among African American adolescents.

    Tabbye M. Chavous;Debra Hilkene Bernat;Karen Schmeelk-Cone;Cleopatra H. Caldwell

  • Resiliency Research: Implications for Schools and Policy

    Marc A. Zimmerman;Revathy Arunkumar

  • Further explorations in empowerment theory: An empirical analysis of psychological empowerment

    Marc A. Zimmerman;Barbara A. Israel;Amy J. Schulz;Barry Checkoway

  • Natural Mentors and Adolescent Resiliency: A Study with Urban Youth

    Marc A. Zimmerman;Jeffrey B. Bingenheimer;Paul C. Notaro

  • Toward a theory of learned hopefulness: A structural model analysis of participation and empowerment.

    Marc A. Zimmerman

  • A Typology of Youth Participation and Empowerment for Child and Adolescent Health Promotion

    Naima T. Wong;Marc A. Zimmerman;Edith A. Parker

  • A Longitudinal Study of Self-Esteem: Implications for Adolescent Development

    Marc A. Zimmerman;Laurel A. Copeland;Laurel A. Copeland;Jean Thatcher Shope;Terry E. Dielman

  • Adolescent Resilience: Promotive Factors That Inform Prevention

    Marc A. Zimmerman;Sarah A. Stoddard;Andria B. Eisman;Cleopatra H. Caldwell

  • Resiliency Theory A Strengths-Based Approach to Research and Practice for Adolescent Health

    Marc A. Zimmerman

  • Beyond the individual: toward a nomological network of organizational empowerment.

    N. Andrew Peterson;Marc A. Zimmerman

  • Racial Discrimination and Racial Identity as Risk or Protective Factors for Violent Behaviors in African American Young Adults

    Cleopatra Howard Caldwell;Laura P. Kohn-Wood;Karen H. Schmeelk-Cone;Tabbye M. Chavous

  • Empowerment theory for rehabilitation research: Conceptual and methodological issues.

    Marc A. Zimmerman;Seth Warschausky

Frequent Co-Authors

Maureen A. Walton
Maureen A. Walton University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Cleopatra H. Caldwell
Cleopatra H. Caldwell University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
José A. Bauermeister
José A. Bauermeister University of Pennsylvania
Stephen T. Chermack
Stephen T. Chermack University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Alison L. Miller
Alison L. Miller University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Kenneth I. Maton
Kenneth I. Maton University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Tabbye M. Chavous
Tabbye M. Chavous University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
David Córdova
David Córdova University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Robert M. Sellers
Robert M. Sellers University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Robert A. Zucker
Robert A. Zucker University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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