Seth J. Schwartz

TL;DR: Social barriers that may impact IBD care and are disproportionately higher in non-Hispanic Blacks and Hispanics in the United States are identified and future studies should focus on implementing interventions to reduce these barriers and improve delivery of care.

TL;DR: There is a need for a better understanding of how family violence exposure puts Latino emerging adults at risk for aversive health outcomes and the use of an ecological systemic framework that examines the interactions between family, individual, and cultural systems in relation to health risk-taking behaviors is suggested.

TL;DR: In this article, student life has been characterized both as challenging and as facilitative of future success during the college years, emerging adults develop vocational competencies at the same time as they dev...

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the factor structure and convergent validity of an Italian translation of the Functions of Identity Scale (FIS) and found that the Italian version is a promising tool for assessing identity functions, although a revised version with three additional items could be useful to improve scale reliability.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated how parent-reported acculturation, perceived discrimination, and negative context of reception affect youth smoking and depressive symptoms through parent reports of familism values and parenting and found that parents' cultural experiences play important roles in their parenting, which in turn appears to influence Latino/a youth smoking.