Jane Rafferty

TL;DR: Logistic regressions by race on data from the first 2 waves of the Americans' Changing Lives Survey found that among Whites, unhealthy behaviors strengthened the relationship between stressors and meeting major-depression criteria, and among Blacks, the relationship was stronger among those who had not engaged in unhealthy behaviors than among thosewho had.

TL;DR: Hasenfeld et al. as discussed by the authors developed and tested a causal model of the determinants of public attitudes toward welfare state programs using data from the 1983 Detroit Area Study and found that the social groups supporting the welfare state are the economically and socially vulnerable who identify with social democratic values.

TL;DR: An etiologic model that integrates mental and physical health to account for counterintuitive patterning in prevalence of depression and risk of depression is evaluated, and findings are consistent with the proposed model of mental andPhysical health disparities.

TL;DR: In this paper, a theory-driven training program was designed to increase individual and group psychosocial coping resources and individuals' abilities to use those resources when coping with job demands.

TL;DR: It is concluded that transdisciplinary approaches, such as the Environmental Affordances Model, are needed to understand the origins of group-based disparities to implement effective solutions to racial and ethnic group inequalities in physical and mental health.