{"title":"Editorial Acknowledgment of Reviewers","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/00221465251391245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465251391245","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145651542","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":"Internalized Sexism and Well-Being in the United States.","authors":"Matthew A Andersson, Anastasia N McSwain","doi":"10.1177/00221465241305586","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00221465241305586","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although structural sexism in state-level institutions is harmful to women's and men's health, less is known about how micro-level structural sexism relates to well-being. Using the 2017 and 2021 Gallup Values and Beliefs of the American Public surveys (N = 1,501 in 2017; N = 1,248 in 2021), we investigate diverse approaches to internalized sexism. Although we find no significant associations with self-rated health, gender traditionalism is linked to greater depressive and anxiety symptoms for women and men, providing the first population evidence for its universal harm in the United States. Although benevolent sexism shows no associations with mental well-being, hostile sexism is linked to greater symptoms among men. A diminished sense of mastery consistently accounts for these relationships, showing promise as a potential mechanism. These findings are suppressed by political conservatism and religious involvement, both of which lead to reporting greater-rather than diminished-well-being.</p>","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"511-530"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143069580","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":"Living with(out) Citizenship: The Impact of Naturalization on Mortality Risk among U.S. Immigrants.","authors":"Thoa V Khuu, Jennifer Van Hook, Kendal L Lowrey","doi":"10.1177/00221465241310347","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00221465241310347","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In recent decades, naturalization rates among U.S. immigrants have surged as many seek citizenship to regain lost rights and protections. However, the impact of naturalization on immigrants' life outcomes, such as health, remains underexplored in academic research. Challenges arising from selection processes complicate the interpretation of any observed health disparities between naturalized citizens and noncitizens. To address this gap, we link restricted-use data from the 2000 U.S. census to individual Social Security records on citizenship change and death, enabling a 20-year observation of naturalization and mortality. Results from discrete-time hazard analysis of mortality risk reveals a significant protective health effect from naturalization, which increases in magnitude among long-term naturalized citizens. The effect is particularly strong across older ages and among groups with lower education, refugee entry status, Hispanic origin, and health limitations. These findings suggest that naturalization represents an important but stratifying source of institutional support for socially vulnerable immigrants.</p>","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"430-451"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12266103/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143069582","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":"Cultural Authority and (Non) Compliance with Public Health Directives: The Effect of Legitimacy and Values on Behavior during the COVID-19 Pandemic.","authors":"Kate Hawks","doi":"10.1177/00221465241312696","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00221465241312696","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>During the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, the success of public health authorities' strategies to curb the spread of the virus hinged on individuals' voluntary compliance with their directives. This study considers how two components of the cultural authority of public health influenced compliance with health guidelines during the pandemic: (1) individuals' views of public health officials as legitimate and (2) the shared value of health. I also examine the influence of other basic values, alongside health, on pandemic behavior. Data come from an original survey of 1,356 U.S. adults collected online in spring 2022. Findings reveal the pivotal role of perceived legitimacy of public health authorities in motivating compliance, even when considering perceived threat of the virus, political orientation, and other contextual factors. Results provide insight into why people complied with health guidelines by indicating how variation in individuals' value priorities influenced behavior.</p>","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"547-566"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143054246","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":"The Hormone Medicated Self: Women’s Perceptions of Synthetic Hormones and Authenticity across the Life Course","authors":"Golda Kaplan","doi":"10.1177/00221465251391832","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465251391832","url":null,"abstract":"Although some people feel that medication reveals a more authentic version of themselves, others question whether medication alters their true personality and behavior. Interrogating these effects occurs at all ages, yet knowing and defining oneself also represents a milestone toward becoming an adult. How do individuals conceptualize the relationship between medication and authenticity at different life stages? I examine perceptions of hormonal contraception and menopausal hormone therapies to answer this question. In interviews with 60 cisgender women across the United States, I find that younger women conceptualized hormonal contraception in emerging adulthood as a threat to knowing and being their authentic self. Meanwhile, women in midlife largely understood hormones used during perimenopause and menopause to recover authenticity. I argue that life stage interacts with how women perceive the effects of synthetic hormones. These findings emphasize the importance of the pursuit of authenticity for patterns of medication use more broadly.","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145619628","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":"Policy Brief: Living with(out) Citizenship","authors":"Thoa V. Khuu, Jennifer Van Hook, Kendal L. Lowrey","doi":"10.1177/00221465251391250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465251391250","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145610927","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":"Seeing Discrimination: How Different Definitions of Discrimination Relate to Health in U.S. Adults","authors":"Lauren Valentino, Evangeline Warren","doi":"10.1177/00221465251386416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465251386416","url":null,"abstract":"Research demonstrates that perceived discrimination negatively impacts health. Yet there is conflicting evidence about how an individual’s definition of discrimination—separate from their experience of discrimination—shapes health disparities. Using a nationally representative survey experiment in which participants (N = 2,000) are asked to evaluate nine different scenarios of potential discrimination, we find that how a person labels these discrimination scenarios is significantly related to their self-rated health, even after controlling for sociodemographic factors. U.S. adults who are more likely to label the event as discrimination in cases where it is intentional have comparatively worse self-rated health, whereas those who are more likely to label discrimination in cases where it affects more powerful groups (White people, men, and the wealthy) have comparatively better self-rated health—even though they are not experiencing the discrimination themselves. We argue that these findings have important implications for how health researchers measure discrimination’s health effects.","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145583258","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}
Gideon Livingstone P. Bendicion, Augil Marie Q. Robles, Moniq Muyargas, Timoteo Balensoy, Bea Izabeaux T. Mendoza, Kiara Angela A. Sarmiento, ML Demaisip Farinas, Aron Harold G. Pamoso, Angelique Pearl Virtue P. Villasanta, Just Lynn D. Panaligan, Joseph Eleut G. Violago, Ver Reyes, Jonathan Fontilla
{"title":"The Management of Social Standing: Characterizing the Influence of HIV Stigma on HIV Talk and Testing Behavior in Philippine Key Populations Using a Grounded Theory Approach","authors":"Gideon Livingstone P. Bendicion, Augil Marie Q. Robles, Moniq Muyargas, Timoteo Balensoy, Bea Izabeaux T. Mendoza, Kiara Angela A. Sarmiento, ML Demaisip Farinas, Aron Harold G. Pamoso, Angelique Pearl Virtue P. Villasanta, Just Lynn D. Panaligan, Joseph Eleut G. Violago, Ver Reyes, Jonathan Fontilla","doi":"10.1177/00221465251388639","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465251388639","url":null,"abstract":"We characterize the way human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) stigma hinders HIV conversations and testing. Using grounded theory principles, we analyzed in-depth interviews of the experiences of select Philippine key populations (groups with high HIV burden) and their families: 19 men who have sex with men (KPM), 16 transgender women (KPW), and 16 parents of KPM/W. Results show how KPM/W protect the state of being respected by others (management of social standing), a task they engage in by strategically modulating behavior in different life domains, including when considering HIV conversations and testing. Our results specify the management of social standing as an object being threatened by stigma and as a process making KPM/W behavior susceptible to the influence of HIV stigma, even for KPM/W who may not possess the mark of positive serostatus. This raises questions about the theorizing of stigma, which traditionally has focused on the susceptibility of marked but not unmarked individuals.","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145554168","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":"Healing from Suicide: How Suicide Disclosures Can Facilitate Social Integration and Healing","authors":"Katie R. Billings","doi":"10.1177/00221465251386873","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465251386873","url":null,"abstract":"Despite rising suicide rates in the United States, we know little about how people experience suicidality and how they access healing from suicidality. Using semistructured interviews with 102 suicide survivors—those who have seriously considered and/or attempted suicide—I ask: How do suicide survivors make sense of suicide disclosures, and what generates healing from suicidality? Using a micro-sociological Durkheimian framework, these data suggest that when suicide disclosures share two elements, narrative freedom and an empathetic audience, they facilitate social integration and thereby promote healing. Narrative freedom occurs when survivors have the agency to construct their own disclosures; an empathetic audience receives disclosures with understanding. Together, these two characteristics promote a micro-sociological social integration, which, in turn, facilitates healing from suicidality. These findings contribute to the sociology of suicide by applying Durkheim’s integration at the interpersonal level and highlighting the social factors that promote healing rather than solely risk.","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145427488","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}
Bruce G Link,Ezra S Susser,Pam Factor-Litvak,Barbara A Cohn
{"title":"American Dreaming? Evaluating Trait Explanations for Health Inequalities by Race and Socioeconomic Status.","authors":"Bruce G Link,Ezra S Susser,Pam Factor-Litvak,Barbara A Cohn","doi":"10.1177/00221465251368347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465251368347","url":null,"abstract":"In the context of strong cultural beliefs associated with the American Dream, a prominent body of scholarship asserts that traits such as intelligence, self-confidence, and self-control play a pivotal role in the life course emergence of health inequalities by race and socioeconomic status (SES). We use prospectively ascertained data from approximately 50-year-old Black and White study participants (N = 605) whose mothers were recruited when pregnant with the participant. Follow-up into adulthood provided measures of cognitive and noncognitive traits, SES, and health needed to test trait explanations. Results show no evidence that traits are independently associated with adult health when SES is controlled or that they account for race or SES inequalities in health. Although the American Dream emphasizes individual traits as key factors shaping life outcomes, our results suggest the need to look elsewhere to understand why health inequalities by race and SES are such prominent social facts.","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":"137 1","pages":"221465251368347"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145339493","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}