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Velma McBride Murry

Velma McBride Murry

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Psychology

D-Index
57
Citations
12952
World Ranking
4027
National Ranking
2255

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Velma McBride Murry is affiliated with Vanderbilt University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Medicine, with a significant concentration in Education, Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, Safety Research, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's research topics focus on early childhood education and development, youth development and social support, racial and ethnic identity research, resilience and mental health, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, migration, health and trauma, and global health workforce issues.

Velma McBride Murry has contributed to several research publications, including:

  • Positive Youth Development in 2020: Theory, Research, Programs, and the Promotion of Social Justice (2021) in Journal of Research on Adolescence
  • Longitudinal study of the cascading effects of racial discrimination on parenting and adjustment among African American youth (2021) in Attachment & Human Development
  • Engaging Black men who have sex with men (MSM) in the South in identifying strategies to increase PrEP uptake (2022) in BMC Health Services Research
  • The Strong African American Families Program: Disrupting the Negative Consequences of Racial Discrimination Through Culturally Tailored, Family-Based Prevention (2022) in Prevention Science
  • Culture-Related Adaptive Mechanisms to Race-Related Trauma Among African American and US Latinx Youth (2022) in Adversity and Resilience Science

The researcher frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Journal of Research on Adolescence
  • Journal of Clinical and Translational Science
  • Prevention Science
  • Attachment & Human Development
  • BMC Health Services Research

Frequently collaborating co-authors include:

  • Catherine M. Gonzalez
  • Marlena Debreaux
  • Rachel Hanebutt
  • Cady Berkel
  • Dominique Bulgin

Among the recognitions received, Velma McBride Murry was inducted as a Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) in 2020.

Best Publications

  • 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

  • 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

  • Discrimination, crime, ethnic identity, and parenting as correlates of depressive symptoms among African American children: a multilevel analysis.

    Ronald L. Simons;Velma Murry;Vonnie McLoyd;Kuei Hsiu Lin

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

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

  • Direct and moderating effects of community context on the psychological well-being of African American women.

    Carolyn E. Cutrona;Daniel W. Russell;Robert M. Hessling;P. Adama Brown

  • 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

  • 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

  • Racial Discrimination as a Moderator of the Links Among Stress, Maternal Psychological Functioning, and Family Relationships

    Velma McBride Murry;P. Adama Brown;Gene H. Brody;Carolyn E. Cutrona

  • Contextual amplification of pubertal transition effects on deviant peer affiliation and externalizing behavior among African American children.

    Xiaojia Ge;Gene H. Brody;Rand D. Conger;Ronald L. Simons

  • Family communication and religiosity related to substance use and sexual behavior in early adolescence: a test for pathways through self-control and prototype perceptions.

    Thomas Ashby Wills;Frederick X. Gibbons;Meg Gerrard;Velma McBride Murry

  • Community differences in the association between parenting practices and child conduct problems

    Ronald L. Simons;Kuei-Hsiu Lin;Leslie C. Gordon;Gene H. Brody

  • Gender and families : Feminist perspectives and family research

    Greer Litton Fox;Velma McBride Murry

  • Neighborhood Poverty and Adolescent Development

    Velma McBride Murry;Cady Berkel;Noni K. Gaylord-Harden;Nikeea Copeland-Linder

  • Neighborhood disadvantage moderates associations of parenting and older sibling problem attitudes and behavior with conduct disorders in African American children

    Gene H. Brody;Xiaojia Ge;Su Yeong Kim;Velma McBride Murry

  • Examining Perceptions About Mental Health Care and Help-Seeking Among Rural African American Families of Adolescents

    Velma McBride Murry;Craig Anne Heflinger;Sarah V. Suiter;Gene H. Brody

  • Prevention Effects Moderate the Association of 5-HTTLPR and Youth Risk Behavior Initiation: Gene · Environment Hypotheses Tested via a Randomized Prevention Design

    Gene H. Brody;Steven R. H. Beach;Robert A. Philibert;Yi Fu Chen

  • A theory-based dual-focus alcohol intervention for preadolescents: the Strong African American Families Program.

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

  • It Takes a Village: Protecting Rural African American Youth in the Context of Racism

    Cady Berkel;Velma Mc Bride Murry;Tera R. Hurt;Yi Fu Chen

  • The strong African American families program: prevention of youths' high-risk behavior and a test of a model of change.

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

  • Self-Regulation and Self-Worth of Black Children Reared in Economically Stressed, Rural, Single Mother-Headed Families The Contribution of Risk and Protective Factors

    Velma McBRIDE Murry;Gene H. Brody

  • Family Ethnicity: Strength in Diversity

    Velma McBride Murry;Harriette Pipes McAdoo

Frequent Co-Authors

Gene H. Brody
Gene H. Brody University of Georgia
Frederick X. Gibbons
Frederick X. Gibbons University of Connecticut
Ronald L. Simons
Ronald L. Simons University of Georgia
Meg Gerrard
Meg Gerrard University of Connecticut
Carolyn E. Cutrona
Carolyn E. Cutrona Iowa State University
Steven M. Kogan
Steven M. Kogan University of Georgia
Rand D. Conger
Rand D. Conger University of California, Davis
Thomas Ashby Wills
Thomas Ashby Wills University of Hawaii at Manoa
Oscar A. Barbarin
Oscar A. Barbarin University of Maryland, College Park
Xiaojia Ge
Xiaojia Ge University of Minnesota

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