Maxine Thompson

North Carolina State University | NCSU · Department of Sociology & Anthropology

The Charleston Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church (AMEC) survivors’ forgiveness of the racially motivated shootings prompted our research of the association between religion, discrimination-related anger, and psychological distress among black Americans. Using the first representative national sample of Caribbean black Americans, the Nation...

This article spotlights racial microaggressions as relevant for understanding delinquency and the race gap in offending among middle-schoolers. In doing so, we draw on an emerging body of delinquency research rooted in general strain theory that demonstrates the emotional and behavioral tolls of face-to-face discrimination. We contend that this bod...

Background In the United States, disparities in health literacy parallel disparities in health outcomes. Our research contributes to how diverse indicators of social inequalities (i.e., objective social class, relational social class, and social resources) contribute to understanding disparities in health literacy. Methods We analyze data on respon...

The rate of HIV infection among African-Americans is disproportionately high compared to other racial groups. Previous research suggests that health literacy is an underlying factor to explain disparities in the prevalence and incidence of HIV. How behavioral precursors, such as self-efficacy, influenced HIV testing attitudes has received far less...

Research on skin-tone bias has focused primarily on intraracial inequality with little attention to skin-tone inequality across ethnoracial groups. We engage the debate over the color line by considering the independent, simultaneous, and interactive impacts of skin tone and self-identified race on educational performance. Analyses of National Long...

Studies in the U.S. often find that black women report more subclinical depression and psychological distress than whites or black males. Scholars argue that these disparities arise from the intersection of race, gender, and social class that converge in unique ways to place Black women at higher risk of poverty and its associated stressors that ch...

This research examines two factors that have an impact on the self-esteem of African Americans and whites: religion and socioeconomic status (SES). Using data from the National Survey of Families and Households, we find that for whites, belief in the Bible (i.e., that it is the literal word of God) and self-identifying as fundamentalist were signif...

As universities become more involved in real-world problems that affect racial and ethnic communities, university members are identifying strategies to effectively work with culturally diverse community partners. The Communities and Health Disparities Project described in this article is an example of collaborative scholarship that engages the univ...

The rate of HIV infection among African Americans is disproportionately higher than for other racial groups in the United States. Previous research suggests that low level of health literacy (HL) is an underlying factor to explain racial disparities in the prevalence and incidence of HIV/AIDS. The present research describes a community and universi...

Drawing on the stress paradigm and using data from the Duke Mental Health Study, this paper investigates the links between violence by and against persons with severe mental illness and their caregivers' financial burden (e.g., number of financial contributions and perceived financial strain). In addition to violence, substance use and medication n...

One of the current debates in the literature on aging inmates asks, what is the most efficient housing/health care model for this "special needs" population? State and federal correctional systems place elderly inmates either in specialized segregated housing units away from the general inmate population, consolidate elderly inmates in housing unit...

Using data from the National Survey of Black Americans, this study examines the way in which gender socially constructs the importance of skin tone for evaluations of self-worth and self-competence. Skin tone has negative effects on both self-esteem and self-efficacy but operates in different domains of the self for men and for women. Skin color is...

The purpose of this study was to identify contextual factors that affect the ability of caregivers to provide necessary supports to mentally ill individuals. Context was defined here as the socially patterned arrangements of peoples' everyday lives and the social and cultural meanings attached to them. Three contextual areas of caregiver burden wer...

A large “notch,” or non-monotonic feature, appears in measured toroidal velocity profiles of the carbon impurity in the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) [Plasma Phys. Controlled Fusion 26, 11 (1984)], centered near the radius of strongest ion temperature gradient. This is explained as a consequence of radial momentum transport dominated by anomal...

Chromosome numbers were counted for 90 Rubus cultivars and selections maintained at the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, National Clonal Germplasm Repository, Corvallis, Ore. To my knowledge, 37 of the counts are new, including five that are corrections of previously published counts, 30 that are confirmations of numbers th...

The confinement and heating of supershot plasmas are significantly enhanced with tritium beam injection relative to deuterium injection in the TokamakFusion Test Reactor [Plasma Phys. Controlled Fusion26, 11 (1984)]. The global energy confinement and local thermal transport are analyzed for deuterium and tritium fueled plasmas to quantify their dep...

A review of measurements of ion heat transport in Ohmic and beam-heated plasmas is given. A study of ion heat transport in Ohmic TFTR plasma is also reported. (AIP)

Reflecting the increasingly national character of magnetic fusion experiments, the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) now supports off-site real-time collaboration in the experimental program. Two types of remote access are supported. Observers can obtain up-to-date information on the purpose and progre...

The capability of controlling a diagnostic subsystem and interactively participating in the experimental program on Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) from a remote site has been developed and demonstrated on the TFTR BES experiment. Interactive communications are established from multiscreen remote workstations at the University of Wisconsin to th...

H-Modes obtained through transitions from the supershot regime have been studied on TFTR. The characteristics of these H-modes are similar to those found on other tokamaks with one main exception, the density prof:des can be highly peaked. In the best cases the enhanced confinement in the core of the initial supershot is retained in the H-mode phas...

This article examines how parent configuration (two-parent, mother-extended, or solo-mother) and number of siblings affect first graders’ conformity to the student role as measured by their absences, latenesses, and conduct marks. The article builds on earlier studies by examining the different living arrangements of single parents and by directly...

This study examines the relationship between changing family living arrangements and psychological well-being of childrearing women when judged in concert with persistent life strains, stressful life events, and social support mechanisms. Using longitudinal data (N=833) on childrearing women in an urban black neighborhood in Chicago, our findings i...

This paper employs a large representative sample of Baltimore first graders to examine the effects of various household configurations on children's cognitive performance. Separate analyses are presented for blacks and whites. Using a school process model that is similar to those employed at the secondary level, the analyses show that household com...

Research has failed to support the assumption that the academic difficulties of many minority and low-SES youth are due to their "outsider" standing relative to the middle-class culture that dominates schools. This study suggests that this proposition exaggerates the cultural hegemony of educational operations. Data on children in the first grade o...

Little is known about how family members respond to teenage childbearing and mothering. This paper explores the influence of family and peer resources on adaptation to teenage motherhood. Several sources of support are considered separately in order to determine whether they all contribute similarly to psychological wellbeing. Data from a survey of...

The Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) employs feedback control systems for four plasma parameters, i.e. for plasma current, for plasma major radius, for plasma vertical position, and for plasma density. The plasma current is controlled by adjusting the rate of change of current in the Ohmic Heating (OH) coil system. Plasma current is continuously...

The study presented here was designed to further the understanding of black student performance in biracial, academic settings. The purpose of the research was to assess the association between black students' perceptions of prejudice among white instructors and grade deflection (discrepancy between grade expected and grade received) in the respect...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1982. Leaves 277-313 have not been filmed at the authors request. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 314-331). Microfilm.