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Perceived Racial Discrimination and Marijuana Use a Decade Later; Gender Differences Among Black Youth

Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2019
Background: Researchers have reported gender differences in the association between perceived racial discrimination (PRD) and substance use including marijuana use (MU).
Shervin Assari, Shervin Assari, Shervin Assari, Ritesh Mistry, Daniel B. Lee, Cleopatra Howard Caldwell, Cleopatra Howard Caldwell, Marc A. Zimmerman, Marc A. Zimmerman   +8 more
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The Prevalence of Hypertension in a Specific Industrial Population

South African Family Practice, 1985
No abstract available.
B.C. Botha
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Baseline Body Mass Predicts Average Depressive Symptoms over the Next Two Decades for White but Not Black Older Adults

Geriatrics, 2019
Background: Although obesity and depression have a bidirectional association, this link may vary based on race. The current study tested racial variation in bidirectional links between depressive symptoms and body mass index (BMI) over 24 years of follow-
Shervin Assari
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Subjective Socioeconomic Status Moderates the Association between Discrimination and Depression in African American Youth

Brain Sciences, 2018
Background: Most of the literature on the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and health is focused on the protective effects of SES. However, a growing literature suggests that high SES may also operate as a vulnerability factor.
Shervin Assari, Brianna Preiser, Maryam Moghani Lankarani, Cleopatra H. Caldwell   +3 more
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The Notion of Pride in Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing (1949) [PDF]

Ziglôbitha, 2022
: This article studies the notion of ‘pride’ in Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing. As internal emotion, pride is not easily spotted. It is a sentiment which conceals itself through mutual exchanges between people of different social classes or people ...
Ibrahima LO & Youssoupha SENE
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Trends in Alcohol Services Utilization from 1991–1992 to 2001–2002: Ethnic Group Differences in the U.S. Population [PDF]

, 2011
Background:  During the early 1990s in the United States, changes to the provision and financing of alcohol treatment services included reductions in inpatient treatment services and in private sector spending for treatment.
Caetano, Raul, Chartier, Karen G.
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Social Determinants of Depression: The Intersections of Race, Gender, and Socioeconomic Status

Brain Sciences, 2017
Background: Despite the wealth of literature on social determinants of mental health, less is known about the intersection of these determinants. Using a nationally representative sample, this study aimed to study separate, additive, and multiplicative ...
Shervin Assari
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Dubious Data and Difficult Conversations: Review of No BS (Bad Stats): Black People Need People Who Believe in Black People Enough Not to Believe Every Bad Thing They Hear about Black People, by Ivory A. Toldson.

Numeracy, 2020
Ivory A. Toldson. 2019. No BS (Bad Stats): Black People Need People Who Believe in Black People Enough Not to Believe Every Bad Thing They Hear about Black People; (Boston, Brill). Paperback ISBN 978-90-04-39702-6. E-book ISBN 978-90-04-39704-0. Ivory A.
Joel Best
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Investigation of the Predictors of Self-rated Health of Economically Disadvantaged African American Men and Women: Evidence for Sponge Hypothesis [PDF]

International Journal of Epidemiologic Research, 2020
Background and aims: According to the sponge hypothesis, compared to men’s self-rated health (SRH), women’s SRH is more likely to reflect conditions other than chronic medical conditions (CMCs) such as psychiatric disorders (PDs).
Sharon Cobb, Shervin Assari
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Small crickets of New Zealand (Orthoptera: Grylloidea: Trigonidiidae and Mogoplistidae), with the description of two new genera and species

European Journal of Taxonomy
Crickets (Order Orthoptera, Infraorder Gryllidea) are under-represented in New Zealand, with a total of eight species identified and formally described thus far.
Danilo Hegg
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