The applicant is requesting five years of funding through the Mentored Career Development Award for New Minority Faculty (K01) to enhance his conceptual, methodological, and quantitative skills for research examining relations between individual/family/environmental factors and psychosocial and physiological outcomes in African American youth. The applicant's strong background of academic and research training in psychophysiology, coupled with his clinical psychology training, provides an excellent foundation for this work. The proposed goals of this Career Development Award including increasing knowledge base in early life-course development, multivariate analyses, and emerging psychophysiological techniques, and developing a conceptual model that synthesizes the child/adolescent developmental and psychophysiological literatures will allow the applicant to pursue multilevel systematic studies of biopsychosocial outcomes in African American youth. The research plan for this award complements the proposed training activities by proposing a longitudinal research project. This project is consistent with the working conceptual model that will be used to guide the research program of the applicant. It is hypothesized that the cumulative risk associated with these factors will be related positively to cardiovascular functioning, externalizing behavior, internalizing behavior, school code violations, and school absences at both Time-1 and Time-2. This cumulative risk is also expected to be negatively related to social competence, academic competence, and academic achievement at both Time-1 and Time-2. Alternatively, the cumulative protection associated with individual, family, and environmental factors is expected to be negatively related to cardiovascular functioning, externalizing behavior, internalizing behavior, school code violations, and school absences at both, Time-1 and Time-2. This cumulative protection is also hypothesized to be positively related to social competence, academic competence, and academic achievement at Time-1 and Time-2. Further, the cumulative risk-biopsychosocial outcome relations will be moderated by cumulative protection at both Time-1 and Time-2. The primary analytic strategy will involve multivariate regression modeling. This proposed research represents a critical next step in understanding how the processes associated with individual, familial, and environmental stimuli are relate to biopsychosocial outcomes that may have long-term implications for psychological and physical health among Africa American youth.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Type
Research Scientist Development Award - Research & Training (K01)
Project #
1K01MH001867-01
Application #
6086609
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZMH1-BRB-N (01))
Program Officer
Muehrer, Peter R
Project Start
2000-08-20
Project End
2005-05-01
Budget Start
2000-08-20
Budget End
2001-05-31
Support Year
1
Fiscal Year
2000
Total Cost
$120,213
Indirect Cost
Name
Wayne State University
Department
Psychology
Type
Schools of Arts and Sciences
DUNS #
City
Detroit
State
MI
Country
United States
Zip Code
48202
Clark, Rodney; Benkert, Ramona A; Flack, John M (2006) Violence exposure and optimism predict task-induced changes in blood pressure and pulse rate in a normotensive sample of inner-city black youth. Psychosom Med 68:73-9
Clark, Rodney; Benkert, Ramona A; Flack, John M (2006) Large arterial elasticity varies as a function of gender and racism-related vigilance in black youth. J Adolesc Health 39:562-9
Clark, Rodney; Gochett, Philip (2006) Interactive effects of perceived racism and coping responses predict a school-based assessment of blood pressure in black youth. Ann Behav Med 32:1-9
Clark, Rodney (2006) Interactive but not direct effects of perceived racism and trait anger predict resting systolic and diastolic blood pressure in black adolescents. Health Psychol 25:580-5
Clark, Rodney (2006) Perceived racism and vascular reactivity in black college women: moderating effects of seeking social support. Health Psychol 25:20-5
Clark, Rodney; Adams, Jann H (2004) Moderating effects of perceived racism on John Henryism and blood pressure reactivity in Black female college students. Ann Behav Med 28:126-31
Clark, Rodney (2003) Parental history of hypertension and coping responses predict blood pressure changes in black college volunteers undergoing a speaking task about perceptions of racism. Psychosom Med 65:1012-9
Clark, Rodney; Novak, Jeremy D; Dupree, Devin (2002) Relationship of perceived parenting practices to anger regulation and coping strategies in African-American adolescents. J Adolesc 25:373-84
Armstead, Cheryl A; Clark, Rodney (2002) Assessment of self-reported anger expression in pre- and early-adolescent African Americans: psychometric considerations. J Adolesc 25:365-71