Melissa S. Jones, Ashleigh C. Anderson, Annabelle H. Bailey, Mara J. Erickson, John P. Hoffmann
{"title":"Two Sides of Childhood: How Adverse and Positive Childhood Experiences Shape Adolescent Substance Use","authors":"Melissa S. Jones, Ashleigh C. Anderson, Annabelle H. Bailey, Mara J. Erickson, John P. Hoffmann","doi":"10.1177/00221465261457836","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465261457836","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the independent and interactive effects of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and positive childhood experiences (PCEs) on adolescent substance use. Guided by resilience theory, we analyze data from the 2024 Florida Youth Substance Abuse Survey, a representative sample of 18,962 high school students. Negative binomial regression models indicate that greater ACE exposure is significantly associated with increased substance use, whereas greater PCE exposure is associated with decreased substance use. Although the interaction between ACEs and PCEs is statistically significant, analyses of predicted counts and average marginal effects suggest that the moderating effect is modest rather than strongly protective. PCEs decrease overall substance use but do not substantially attenuate the association between ACE exposure and substance use. These findings clarify how compensatory and buffering processes operate differently in shaping adolescent health behavior.","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":"5 4 1","pages":"221465261457836"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2026-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148429226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Immigrant Generation and Depressive Symptom Trajectories from Early Adolescence to Midlife: Evidence from Add Health.","authors":"Daniel E Adkins, Eda G Christensen, Kim Korinek","doi":"10.1177/00221465261450449","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00221465261450449","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Using 20,771 participants from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, we examined depressive symptom trajectories by immigrant generation from adolescence to midlife. Depressive symptoms were assessed across five waves using a validated four-item Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression scale. Linear mixed effects models with a quintic polynomial age trajectory indicated that first- and second-generation immigrants reported higher adolescent symptoms than third-plus-generation peers (first generation: <i>b</i> = .433, <i>p</i> < .001; second generation: <i>b</i> = .476, <i>p</i> < .001) but experienced steeper declines in their 20s (first generation: <i>b</i> = -.030, <i>p</i> < .001; second generation: <i>b</i> = -.027, <i>p</i> < .001). By their 30s, both immigrant generations had fewer symptoms than third-plus-generation peers. Sociodemographic adjustment partially explained the immigrant adolescent disadvantage, whereas the immigrant adult advantage persisted. Depressive symptom disparities thus reverse across the life course, underscoring the need for developmentally and context-sensitive models of immigrant mental health.</p>","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"221465261450449"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148165277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Removing the Shroud: Revealing Cause of Death Patterns among Adults with Down Syndrome and Alzheimer's Disease.","authors":"Julia M Finan, Scott D Landes, Margaret A Turk","doi":"10.1177/00221465261450455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465261450455","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Examination of cause of death patterns among disabled people is shrouded by death patterns in the general population. To remove this shroud, we focus on multiple causes of death (MCOD) comorbidity patterns between decedents with and without Down syndrome with Alzheimer's disease or unspecified dementia. Using 2005 to 2019 U.S. MCOD data, we examined comorbidity profiles of adults with (N = 7,936) and without (N = 4,593,118) Down syndrome using the broadest International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) \"List of 113 Selected Causes of Death\" (selected cause groups) of death classification scheme as well as the ICD-10 \"Specific Conditions\" (specific causes). Comparison of these classification schemes revealed that the use of selected cause groups veiled comorbidities common among adults with Down syndrome-choking-related deaths, seizures and hypothyroidism. Results from this study underscore the necessity to change cause of death classifications schemes and/or the reporting of this information to account for differences and to mitigate data inequities.</p>","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"221465261450455"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148165484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is Acculturation the Culprit? Acculturative Discordance and Immigrants' Later-Life Health.","authors":"Leafia Zi Ye","doi":"10.1177/00221465261450447","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465261450447","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Immigrants have similar or higher disability levels than the U.S.-born in later life, which is puzzling given they have a health advantage upon arrival. A popular explanation is that acculturation harms health, but existing evidence is mixed. This study constructs multidimensional acculturation measures (linguistic, residential, marital, civic) using the American Community Survey (N = 958,211) and examines their associations with disability. I find that immigrants indeed lose their health advantage over the U.S.-born between ages 65 and 80, but most acculturation measures predict lower rather than higher disability. Instead, I propose and find evidence for a theory of <i>acculturative discordance</i>, where (1) net of demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, immigrants who are acculturated on some dimensions but not acculturated on others have poorer health and (2) minoritized immigrants experience discordance between their <i>behavioral inclusion</i> into the U.S. society and exposure to <i>structural exclusion</i> and receive more disadvantaged health returns to acculturation than non-Hispanic White immigrants.</p>","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"221465261450447"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148152083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhe Meredith Zhang, Qi Li, Cynthia Colen, Rin Reczek
{"title":"Policy Brief.","authors":"Zhe Meredith Zhang, Qi Li, Cynthia Colen, Rin Reczek","doi":"10.1177/00221465261444786","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00221465261444786","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"155"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147845921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Race, Network Socioeconomic Status, and Health: Are There Black-White Differences in the Health Returns of Having Higher-Educated Network Ties?","authors":"Nicholas C Smith","doi":"10.1177/00221465261444404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465261444404","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Does having ties to people of higher socioeconomic status (SES) yield differential health returns for Black and White people? Guided by the social network perspective, theories of social capital, and the diminishing returns hypothesis, this study uses a stratified probability sample of Indiana residents (N = 2,416) and egocentric network methods to examine this question. Findings reveal significant racial heterogeneity in the nature and magnitude of the association between network SES (operationalized by network members' education levels) and health. Among White respondents, having higher-SES ties was consistently salubrious. Among Black respondents, results were more complex and heterogeneous: Higher network SES was associated with improved self-rated health but not with improvements in resting heart rate or body mass index. These findings support the notion of diminishing health returns of network SES among Black respondents-specifically for physiological health but not for subjective health. Theoretical and methodological implications of these findings are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"221465261444404"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148007414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rebuilding Lives: The Intersection of Reintegration and Psychological Distress after Incarceration for Genocide.","authors":"Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira, Jason Schnittker","doi":"10.1177/00221465261441173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465261441173","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article explores the reentry and reintegration of Rwandans who were incarcerated for genocide. Previous research indicates that these individuals are experiencing psychological distress, and we analyze the determinants of this distress in this study. Specifically, we assess three waves of longitudinal data following 185 Rwandans whom we interviewed before their release and approximately four months and one year afterward. We find that psychosocial distress generally improved after completing one's sentence. Such improvement can be explained through securing a livelihood, (re)establishing social relationships, and feeling politically integrated. All three pathways have much stronger relationships with the well-being of those who participated in more severe crimes, who also saw starker improvements than those who engaged in less serious crimes. These findings suggest a region-β paradox wherein people cope better when anticipating more severe circumstances, including the difficulties of reentering a society where one is regarded as a <i>genocidaire</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"221465261441173"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147984172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Menopause: A Sociological Review.","authors":"Ann V Bell, Asia Friedman","doi":"10.1177/00221465261446317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465261446317","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Menopause affects millions of individuals and is a sociologically compelling topic, cross-cutting the subfields of medicine, gender, body, family, and work. Yet to date, little sociological research examines the process. Indeed, menopause is the least studied female reproductive event among pregnancy, childbirth, and menstruation. Thus, in this article, we review the existing social scientific research on menopause in an effort to expose what remains to be studied. Our review begins with literature on the social construction of menopause. We then explore studies of how social meanings shape experiences of menopause. As our analysis reveals, sociologists have a clear picture of the medicalization of menopause and how medical meanings shape experiences. Yet the nuances of this construction are less clear, including how menopausal experiences vary and how menopause relates to the reproductive life course broadly. We conclude by highlighting these and other gaps in the sociological understanding of menopause.</p>","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"221465261446317"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147984216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How \"Clocking in\" Ages Us: An Examination of Work History, Work Quality, and Accelerated Epigenetic Aging in Older Adulthood.","authors":"Mateo P Farina, Rachel Donnelly, Jessica D Faul","doi":"10.1177/00221465261432569","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00221465261432569","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Consistent employment, especially secure, high-wage employment, has well-documented associations with lower risk of later-life morbidity and mortality, and accelerated biological aging may underlie these associations. Although research evaluating employment and accelerated epigenetic aging is growing, questions remain about the implications of chronic work-related exposures for accelerated aging. This study uses longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the 2016 HRS Venous Blood Study (n = 3,000) to evaluate how work-related experiences throughout midlife are associated with accelerated epigenetic aging. Results show that a history of not working for pay and a history of poor work quality (i.e., job insecurity, insufficient work hours, low wages) among workers in midlife are associated with accelerated epigenetic aging in later life. Symptoms of depression and health behaviors partially attenuate these associations. Overall, findings suggest that chronic work-related exposures are critical yet overlooked antecedents of accelerated aging.</p>","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"221465261432569"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13485300/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147788395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sleep Tight, Don't Fight? Daily Sleep Quality and Marital Strain in Same- and Different-Sex Marriages in the United States.","authors":"Asya Saydam,Jaime Hsu","doi":"10.1177/00221465261438048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465261438048","url":null,"abstract":"Sleep is a critical health behavior that often varies by gender, and most partnered adults sleep with a significant other. Despite growing research on sleep health, little is known about how daily sleep within couples shapes marital dynamics, especially across same- and different-sex relationships. This study uses dyadic diary data from 378 mid- to later-life couples in the United States (N = 756) to examine how respondents' and partners' daily sleep quality are each associated with daily marital strain and whether these associations vary by gender and couple type. Respondent sleep quality predicts lower marital strain for all couple types except for men married to women. Spousal sleep quality is also associated with reduced strain but only for women in different-sex marriages. These women appear uniquely affected by both their own and their partner's sleep, highlighting the importance of dyadic and gender-relational perspectives in understanding links between sleep and relationship dynamics.","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":"32 1","pages":"221465261438048"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147719630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}