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Steven R. H. Beach is affiliated with the University of Georgia in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, with significant contributions in social sciences, psychology, and medicine. The subfields in which they publish frequently include sociology and political science, clinical psychology, health, molecular biology, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

Their main research topics cover a diverse range of issues, focusing particularly on health disparities and outcomes, racial and ethnic identity research, epigenetics and DNA methylation, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, attachment and relationship dynamics, birth, development, and health, and early childhood education and development.

Steven R. H. Beach has authored several recent papers:

  • "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)
  • "Intimate Relationships and Depression: Searching for Causation in the Sea of Association" (2021, Annual Review of Clinical Psychology)
  • "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)
  • "Religiosity and joint activities of husbands and wives in enduring marriages." (2020, Psychology of Religion and Spirituality)
  • "Longitudinal Effects of Racial Discrimination on Depressive Symptoms Among Black Youth: Between- and Within-Person Effects" (2021, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry)

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Man-Kit Lei
  • Justin A. Lavner
  • Ronald L. Simons
  • Robert A. Philibert
  • Sierra Carter

The venues in which Steven R. H. Beach publishes most often include:

  • Social Science & Medicine
  • Journal of Family Psychology
  • Genes
  • Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
  • Family Process

Best Publications

  • Research on the Nature and Determinants of Marital Satisfaction: A Decade in Review

    Thomas N. Bradbury;Frank D. Fincham;Steven R. H. Beach

  • Depression in Marriage: A Model for Etiology and Treatment

    Steven R. H. Beach;Evelyn Sandeen;K. Daniel O'Leary;David H. Barlow

  • CONFLICT IN MARRIAGE: Implications for Working with Couples

    Frank D. Fincham;Steven R. H. Beach

  • Forgiveness and conflict resolution in marriage.

    Frank D. Fincham;Steven R. H. Beach;Joanne Davila

  • Marital Satisfaction and Depression: Different Causal Relationships for Men and Women?

    Frank D Fincham;Steven R.H Beach;Gordon T Harold;Lori N. Osborne

  • Marriage in the New Millennium: A Decade in Review

    Frank D. Fincham;Steven R. H. Beach

  • 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

  • Forgiveness in Marriage: Implications for Psychological Aggression and Constructive Communication

    Frank D. Fincham;Steven R. H. Beach

  • Depression and Excessive Reassurance-Seeking

    Thomas E. Joiner;Gerald I. Metalsky;Jennifer Katz;Steven R. H. Beach

  • Forgiveness in Marriage: Current Status and Future Directions

    Frank D. Fincham;Judith A. Hall;Steven R. H. Beach

  • Transformative processes in marriage: An analysis of emerging trends.

    Frank D. Fincham;Scott M. Stanley;Steven R. H. Beach

  • 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

  • Marital therapy: a viable treatment for depression and marital discord.

    K. D. O'leary;S. R. H. Beach

  • Treating depression in the context of marital discord: Outcome and predictors of response of marital therapy versus cognitive therapy*

    Steven R.H. Beach;K. Daniel O'Leary

  • Validity of self-reports of marital violence

    Ileana Arias;Steven R. H. Beach

  • Marital therapy in the treatment of depression: toward a third generation of therapy and research

    Steven R.H. Beach;Frank D. Fincham;Jennifer Katz

  • Perceived Discrimination Among African American Adolescents and Allostatic Load: A Longitudinal Analysis With Buffering Effects

    Gene H. Brody;Man Kit Lei;David H. Chae;Tianyi Yu

  • Confluence of Self-Esteem Regulation Mechanisms: On Integrating the Self-Zoo

    Abraham Tesser;Nicole Crepaz;Jon C. Collins;David Cornell

  • Attribution Processes in Distressed and Nondistressed Couples: 4. Self-Partner Attribution Differences

    Frank D. Fincham;Steven R. Beach;Donald H. Baucom

  • Marital and family processes in depression: A scientific foundation for clinical practice.

    Steven R. H. Beach

Frequent Co-Authors

Gene H. Brody
Gene H. Brody University of Georgia
Frank D. Fincham
Frank D. Fincham Florida State University
Ronald L. Simons
Ronald L. Simons University of Georgia
Frederick X. Gibbons
Frederick X. Gibbons University of Connecticut
Steven M. Kogan
Steven M. Kogan University of Georgia
Jennifer Katz
Jennifer Katz SUNY Geneseo
James MacKillop
James MacKillop McMaster University
Abraham Tesser
Abraham Tesser University of Georgia
Meg Gerrard
Meg Gerrard University of Connecticut
Mark A. Whisman
Mark A. Whisman University of Colorado Boulder

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