This proposal seeks five years of continued support for the Center for Family Research in Rural Mental Health (P50-MH48l65) at Iowa State University. The past four years of funding have enabled Center scientists to conduct a number of informative research projects and pilot studies that now lead to a proposed set of interrelated investigations directed toward understanding mechanisms of risk and resilience for mental disorders (e.g., depression, substance abuse, conduct disorders) for adults and children in truly disadvantaged rural populations. Building upon earlier findings from analyses related to the Family Stress Model, we propose three interrelated research projects that will examine sociocultural variations in risk, resilience, and vulnerability: (l) in the rural South and Midwest, (2) across a variety of family structures that reflect the natural ecology of children's development, (3) across the continuum of rural experience from the smallest villages to rural population centers, (4) in African-American and European-American families, and (5) in relation to community characteristics that increase or decrease risk for mental disorder under conditions of economic disadvantage. The results of these projects will have immediate applied significance in terms of designing community prevention programs that are socioculturally sensitive and that can target mechanisms related to risk and resilience ranging from community social networks to family interaction processes to individual dispositions and behaviors. In addition to these three major projects, we propose to pilot test a multi-component community prevention program derived from findings related to the Family Stress Model, conduct methodological investigations that can improve statistical strategies for risk and prevention research, and to assist in the development of faculty research related to rural mental health. We also request continuing support for research infrastructure, support that has considerably improved the capacity for rural mental health research in Iowa and collaborating research sites across the nation.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Type
Specialized Center (P50)
Project #
5P50MH048165-09
Application #
2675018
Study Section
Child/Adolescent Risk and Prevention Review Committee (CAPR)
Project Start
1990-09-30
Project End
2000-08-31
Budget Start
1998-09-30
Budget End
1999-08-31
Support Year
9
Fiscal Year
1998
Total Cost
Indirect Cost
Name
Iowa State University
Department
Social Sciences
Type
Schools of Arts and Sciences
DUNS #
City
Ames
State
IA
Country
United States
Zip Code
50011
Gordon Simons, Leslie; Sutton, Tara E; Shannon, Sarah et al. (2018) The Cost of Being Cool: How Adolescent Pseudomature Behavior Maps onto Adult Adjustment. J Youth Adolesc 47:1007-1021
Evans, Sara Z; Simons, Leslie Gordon; Simons, Ronald L (2016) Factors that Influence Trajectories of Delinquency Throughout Adolescence. J Youth Adolesc 45:156-71
Barr, Ashley Brooke; Simons, Ronald L (2015) Different dimensions, different mechanisms? Distinguishing relationship status and quality effects on desistance. J Fam Psychol 29:360-70
Schofield, Thomas J; Conger, Rand D; Neppl, Tricia K (2014) Positive parenting, beliefs about parental efficacy, and active coping: three sources of intergenerational resilience. J Fam Psychol 28:973-8
Simons, Ronald L; Barr, Ashley B (2014) SHIFTING PERSPECTIVES: COGNITIVE CHANGES PARTIALLY MEDIATE THE IMPACT OF ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS ON DESISTANCE FROM CRIME. Justice Q 31:793-821
Lei, Man-Kit; Simons, Ronald L; Simons, Leslie Gordon et al. (2014) Gender equality and violent behavior: how neighborhood gender equality influences the gender gap in violence. Violence Vict 29:89-108
Kwon, Josephine A; Wickrama, K A S (2014) Linking family economic pressure and supportive parenting to adolescent health behaviors: two developmental pathways leading to health promoting and health risk behaviors. J Youth Adolesc 43:1176-90
Lei, Man-Kit; Simons, Ronald L; Edmond, Mary Bond et al. (2014) The effect of neighborhood disadvantage, social ties, and genetic variation on the antisocial behavior of African American women: a multilevel analysis. Dev Psychopathol 26:1113-28
Lee, Tae Kyoung; Wickrama, K A S; Simons, Leslie Gordon (2013) Chronic family economic hardship, family processes and progression of mental and physical health symptoms in adolescence. J Youth Adolesc 42:821-36
Landor, Antoinette M; Simons, Leslie Gordon; Simons, Ronald L et al. (2013) Exploring the impact of skin tone on family dynamics and race-related outcomes. J Fam Psychol 27:817-26

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