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Journal Articles

  1. Whitfield, K.E. & Edwards, C.L. (2011). Mentoring special populations. Educational Gerontology, 37(5), 422-439.
  2. Whitfield, Angel, J., & Wong, R. (2011). Biobehavioral aspects of health and aging in people of Mexican Origin. Journal of Health and Aging, 23(7), 1019-1026.
  3. Kennedy, S.W., Allaire, J.C., Gamaldo, A.A., & Whitfield, K.E (In Press). Race differences in intellectual control beliefs and cognitive functioning. Experimental Aging Research.
  4. Baker, T.A., Buchanan, N.T., Small, B.J., Hines, R.D., & Whitfield, K.E. (In Press). Identifying the relationship between chronic pain, depression, and life satisfaction in older African Americans. Research on Aging.
  5. Ayotte, B. A., Allaire, J. C., & Whitfield, K. E. (In Press). Understanding within- group variability of everyday cognition in older African American adults: A MIMIC model approach. Experimental Aging Research.
  6. Whitfield, K.E., Bogart, L., Revenson, T., & France, C. (In Press). Introduction to the special section on health disparities. Annals of Behavioral Medicine.
  7. Feliu, M., Crawford, R., Edwards, L., Wellington, C., Wood, M., Whitfield, K., Edwards, C.L. (2011). Neurocognitive Testing and Functioning in Adults With Sickle Cell Disease. Hemoglobin, 35(5-6), 476-484.
  8. Thorpe, R., Szanton, S. Allaire, J.A., Clay, O., & Whitfield, K.E. (2011). Correlates of mobility limitation in African Americans. . Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences, 66a(11), 1258-1263.
  9. Sims, R. C., Whitfield, K. E., Ayotte, B. J., Gamaldo, A. A., Edwards, C. L., & Allaire, J. C. (2011). Subjective memory in older African Americans. Experimental Aging Research., 37(2), 220-240.
  10. Reddy, S., Edwards, C.L., Wood, M., O’Garo, K., Morgan, K., Edwards, L., Wellington, C., McDougald, C., Feliu, M., McNeil, J., Whitfield, K. (2011). Body Image and Pain in Adult Patients with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD).. Journal of African American Studies, 15, 115-119.
  11. Heard, E., Whitfield, K.E., Edwards, C.L., Bruce, M.A., & Beech, B.M. (2011). Mediating effects of social support on the relationship between perceived stress, depression and hypertension in African Americans. Journal of National Medical Association, 103, 116-122.
  12. Gonzales, H.M, Tarraf, W., Whitfield, K.E., Vega, W.A (2010). The epidemiology of major depression and ethnicity in the United States.. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 44, 1043-1051.
  13. Aiken-Morgan, A.T., Sims, R. & Whitfield, K.E. (2010). Cardiovascular health and education as sources of individual variability in cognitive aging among African Americans. Journal of Aging and Health, 22(4), 477-503.
  14. Szanton, S.L., Thorpe, R.J., Whitfield, K.E. (2010). Life-course financial strain and health in African-Americans.. Social Science and Medicine, 71(2), 259-265.
  15. Whitfield, K.E., Allaire, J., Gamaldo, A. & Bischel, J. (2010). Factor structure of cognitive ability measures in African American elders.. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 25(3), 271-284.
  16. Bruce, M.A., Beech, B.M., Edwards, C.L., Sims, M., Whitfield, K.E., Gilbert, K., Crook, E.D. (2010). Weight Status and High Blood Pressure among Low-income African-American Men. American Journal of Men’s Health, 1-6. [doi]
  17. Wellington, C., Edwards, C.L., McNeil, J., Wood, M., Crisp, B., Feliu, M., Byrd, G., McDougald, C., Edwards, L., Whitfield, K. (2010). Somatization in the conceptualization of Sickle Cell Disease (SCD). Journal of the National Medical Association, 102, 1079-1083.
  18. Gamaldo, A. A., Allaire, J. C., & Whitfield, K. E. (2010). Exploring the within-person coupling of sleep and cognition in older African Americans. Psychology and Aging, 25, 851-857.
  19. Whitfield, K., Jonassaint, C., Brandon, D., Stanton, M., Sims, M., Bennett, G., Salva, J., & Edwards, C.L. (2010). Does John Henryism Mediate the Relationship Between Personality and Cardiovascular Health in African Americans?. Journal of the National Medical Association, 102, 95-100.
  20. Tan, E. J., Tanner, E., Seeman, T., Frick, K., Xue, Q.L., Carlson, M., Wang, T., Rebok, G.W., McGill, S., Whitfield, K.E., Fried, L.P. (2010). Marketing Public Health through Older Adult Volunteering: Experience CorpsR as a Social Marketing Intervention. American Journal of Public Health, 100(4), 727-734.
  21. Gamaldo, A. A., Allaire, J. C., Sims, R. C., & Whitfield, K. E. (2010). Assessing mild cognitive impairment among older African Americans. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. [doi]
  22. Aiken-Morgan, A.T., Marsiske, M., Dzierzewski, J., Jones, R.N., Whitfield, K. E., Johnson, K.E. & Cresci, M. (2010). Race-related cognitive test bias in the ACTIVE study: A MIMIC Model Approach. Experimental Aging Research., 36(4), 426-452.
  23. Whitfield, K.E., Yao, X., Vogler, G.P., Hayward, M.D., Boomer, K., & Vandenbergh. D.J. (2009). Analysis of candidate genes and hypertension in African American adults. Journal of Ethnicity and Disease, 19, 18-22.
  24. Whitfield, K.E., Kiddoe, J.M., Gamaldo, A., Andel, R., & Edwards, C.L. (2009). Concordance rates for cognitive impairment among older African American Twins. Alzheimer’s and Disease, 5(3), 276-279.
  25. Allaire, J., Gamaldo, A., Sims, R., Ayotte, B. A., & Whitfield, K. E. (2009). Mild cognitive impairment and objective instrumental everyday functioning: The Everyday Cognition Battery Memory Test. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 57, 120-125.
  26. Sims, R.C., Allaire, J. A., Gamaldo, A., Edwards, C.L., & Whitfield, K.E. (2009). An examination of dedifferentiation in cognition among African-American older adults. Journal of Cross-cultural Gerontology, 24(2), 193-208.
  27. Thorpe, R.J., Szanton, S.L., & Whitfield, K.E. (2009). Association between lung function and disability in African Americans. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 63, 541-545.
  28. Edwards, C.L., Green, M., Wellington, C.C., Muhammad, M., Wood, M., Feliu, M., Edwards, L., Hill, L., Sollers, J.J., Barksdale, C., Robinson, E.L., McDougald, C.S. Abrams, M., Whitfield, K.E., Byrd, G., Hubbard, B., Cola, M., DeCastro, L., & McNeil, J (2009). Depression, suicidal ideation and attempts in Black patients with sickle cell disease. Journal of National Medical Association, 101(11), 1090-1095.
  29. Fernandez-Ballesteros R., Frensch, P.A., Hofer, S.M. Cortis-Park, D., Pinquart, M., Silbereisen, R.K., Staudinger, U.M., Wahl, H., & Whitfield, K.E. (2009). Declaration on the Quality of Life for Older Adults: Closing the Gap Between Scientific Knowledge and Intervention. European Psychologist, 14(1), 90-91.
  30. Fernandez-Ballesteros R., Frensch, P.A., Hofer, S.M. Cortis-Park, D., Pinquart, M., Silbereisen, R.K., Staudinger, U.M., Wahl, H., & Whitfield, K.E. (2009). Declaration on the Quality of Life for Older Adults: Closing the Gap Between Scientific Knowledge and Intervention. International Journal of Psychology, 41(1), 79-80.
  31. Fernandez-Ballesteros R., Frensch, P.A., Hofer, S.M. Cortis-Park, D., Pinquart, M., Silbereisen, R.K., Staudinger, U.M., Wahl, H., & Whitfield, K.E. (2009). Declaration on the Quality of Life for Older Adults: Closing the Gap Between Scientific Knowledge and Intervention. European Journal of Ageing, 6, 49-50.
  32. O’Connell, C., Edwards, C.L., Pearce, M., Wachholtz, A.B., Wood., M., Muhammad, M., Leach-Beale, B., Shelby, R., McDougald, C., Harrison, M.O., Feliu, M., Edwards, L., Whitfield, K.E., Merritt, M., Wellington, C., Byrd, G., McNeil, J.C., Edmonds, H., Robinson, E. (2009). Religious coping and pain associated with sickle cell disease: Exploration of a non-linear model.. Journal of African American Studies, 13(1), 1-13.
  33. McDougald, C., Edwards, C.L., Wood, M., Wellington, C., Feliu, M., O’Garo, K., EdwardsL., Robinson, E., Whitfield, K., Eaton, S., Morgan, K., Byrd, G., Sollers, J., Cola, M., O’Connell, C. (2009). Coping as predictors of psychiatric morbidity and pain in patients with sickle cell disease (SCD). Journal of African American Studies, 13, 47-62.
  34. Szanton, S.L., Thorpe, R.J., & Whitfield, K.E. (2009). Do educational differences account for health differences in African American twins?. PLoS ONE, 4(10).
  35. Whitfield, K.E., Edwards, C.L., Brandon, D., & McDougald, C. (2008). The genetic and environmental influences on depressive symptoms by age and gender in African American twins.. Journal of Aging and Mental Health, 12(2), 221-227.
  36. Aiken, A., Marsiske, M., & Whitfield, K.E. (2008). Characterizing and explaining differences in cognitive test performance between African American and European American older adults.. Experimental Aging Research, 34(1), 80-100.
  37. Kiddoe, J.M., Whitfield, K.E., Andel, R., & Edwards, C.L. (2008). Evaluating measures of cognitive impairment among African Americans.. Journal of Aging and Mental Health, 12(4), 488-493.
  38. Edwards, C.L., Bennett, G.G., Wolin, K.Y., Johnson, S., Fowler, S., Whitfield, K., Askew, S., MacKinnon, D., McDougald, C., Hubbard, R., Wellington, C., Feliu, M., Robinson, E. (2008). Misestimation of Peer Tobacco Use: Understanding Diparities in Tobacco Use.. Journal of the National Medical Association, 100(3), 299-302.
  39. Feliu, M., Edwards, C.L., Sudhakar, S., McDougald, C., Raynor, R., Johnson, S., Byrd, G.,Whitfield, K., Jonassaint , C., Romero, H., Edwards, L., Wellington, C., & Logue, P.E. (2008). Neuropsychological Effects and Attitudes in Patients Following Electroconvulsive Therapy.. Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, 4(3).
  40. Whitfield, K.E., Allaire, J., Aiken-Morgan, A.T., Gamaldo, A. Sims, R., & Edwards, C.L. (2008). Blood pressure and memory in older African Americans., 18(2), 181-186.
  41. Edwards, C.L., Feliu, M., Johnson, S., Edwards, L., Wellington, C., McDougald, C., Reeves,A.N., Cobb, A., Whitfield, K.E., & Rogers, L. (2008). Beyond Sepsis, Pain, and Disfigurement: The Case of Psychological Reactions to Chemical Burn in a Patient with Extensive Psychiatric History., 12(3), 243-265.
  42. O’Connell, C., Edwards, C.L., Pearce, M., Wachholtz, A.B., Wood., M., Muhammad, M., Leach-Beale, B., Shelby, R., McDougald, C., Harrison, M.O., Feliu, M., Edwards, L., Whitfield, K.E., Merritt, M., Wellington, C., Byrd, G., McNeil, J.C., Edmonds, H. & Robinson, E. , (2008). Religious Coping and Pain Associated With Sickle Cell Disease: Exploration of a Non-linear Model.. Journal of African American Studies, 13(1).
  43. Gamaldo, A. A., Allaire, J. C., & Whitfield, K. E. (2008). The relationship between reported problems falling asleep and cognition among African American elderly.. Research on Aging, 30, 752-767.
  44. Edwards, C.L., Green, M., Wellington, C.C., Muhammad, M., Wood, M., Feliu, M., Edwards, L., Hill, L., Sollers, J.J., Barksdale, C., Robinson, E.L., McDougald, C.S. Abrams, M. Whitfield, K.E., Byrd, G., Hubbard, B., Cola, M., DeCastro, L., & McNeil, J. (2008). Depression, suicidal ideation and attempts in Black patients with sickle cell disease (SCD). Journal of National Medical Association, 100(11).
  45. Whitfield, K.E., Allaire, J., Belue, R., & Edwards, C.L. (2008). Are comparisons the answer to understanding behavioral aspects of aging in racial and ethnic groups?. Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences,, 63B(5), P301-308.
  46. Whitfield, K.E., King, G., Moller, S., Edwards, C., Nelson, T., & Vandenberg, D. (2007). Concordance rates for smoking among African American twins. Journal of the National Medical Association, 99, 213-217.
  47. Allaire, J., Tamez, E., & Whitfield, K.E. (2007). FEV and cognition among African Americans. Journal of Aging and Health, 19(1), 106-122.
  48. Saczynski, J., Rebook, G.W., Whitfield, K.E., & Plude, D.L. (2007). Spontaneous production and use of mnemonic strategies in older adults. Experimental Aging Research, 33, 273-294.
  49. González, H.M., Whitfield, K.E., West, B.T., Lichtenberg, P.A., Williams, D.R., & Jackson, J.S. (2007). Modified-Symbol Digit Modalities Test for African Americans, Caribbean Black Americans and Non-Latino Whites: Nationally Representative Normative Data from the National Survey of American Life. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 22(5), 605-613.
  50. Savla, J.S., Davey, A., Costa, P.T., & Whitfield, K.E. (2007). Replicating the five-factor model with African-American older adults. Personality and Individual Differences, 43, 1278-1288.
  51. Edwards, C.L., Raynor, R., Feliu, M., McDougald, C., Johnson, S., Schmechel, D., Wood, M., Bennett, G.G., Saurona, P., Bonner, M., Wellington, C., DeCastro, L. M., Whitworth, E., Abrams, M., Logue, P., Edwards, L., Martinez, S., Whitfield, K.E. (2007). Early cerebral damage and adult neuropsychological functioning: Neuropsychological assessment, neuroimaging, and early neurocognitive evaluation in patients with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD).. Neuropsychologic Disease and Treatment, 3(6), 705-709.
  52. Pells, J., Edwards, C.L., McDougald, C., Wood, M., Barksdale, C., Jonassaint, J. Leach-Beale, B., Byrd, G., Mathis, M., Harrison, M.O., Feliu, M., Edwards, L.Y., Whitfield, K., Rogers, L. (2007). Gender Differences in Fear of Movement (Kinesiophobia) and Pain-Related Outcomes in Patients With Sickle Cell Disease (SCD). Clinical Journal of Pain, 23(8), 707-713.
  53. Aiken, A., Marsiske, M., & Whitfield, K.E. (In Press). Characterizing and explaining differences in cognitive test performance between African American and European American older adults. Experimental Aging Research.
  54. Merritt, M., Bennett, G.G., Edwards, C.L., & Whitfield, K.E. (In Press). Perceived racism and cardiovascular reactivity and recovery to stress among Black men: Potential psychosocial mechanisms. Journal of Minority Issues and Economic Development: Special Issue on Men.
  55. Whitfield, K.E., Edwards, C.L., Brandon, D., & McDougald, C. (In Press). The genetic and environmental influences on depressive symptoms by age and gender in African American twins. Journal of Mental Health and Mental Health..
  56. Kiddoe, J.M., Whitfield, K.E., Andel, R., & Edwards, C.L. (In Press). Evaluating measures of cognitive impairment among African Americans. Journal of Mental Health and Aging.
  57. Whitfield, K.E., Brandon, D.T., Robinson, E., Bennett, G., Merritt, M., Edwards, C.L. (2006). Sources of Variability in John Henryism. Jounral of the National Medical Association, 98(4), 641-647.
  58. Whitfield, K.E., Angel, J., Burton, L., & Hayward, M. (2006). Diversity, disparities and inequalities in aging: Implications for Policy. Public Policy and Aging Report, 16(3), 16-22.
  59. Allaire, J., Tamez, E., & Whitfield, K.E. (2006). FEV and cognition among African Americans. Journal of Aging and Health.
  60. Edwards, C.L., Whitfield, K., Sudhakar, S., Pearce, M., Byrd, G., Wood, M., Feliu, M., Leach-Beale, B., DeCastro, L., Whitworth, E., Abrams, M., Jonassaint, J., Harrison, M.O., Mathis, M., Scott, L., Johnson, S., Durant, L., Holmes, A., Presnell, K., Bennett, G.G., Shelby, R., Robinson, E. (2006). Parental Substance Abuse, Reports of Chronic Pain, and Coping in Adult Patients with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD). Journal of the National Medical Association, 98(3), 420-428.
  61. Nelson, T.L., Brandon, D.T., Wiggins, S.A., & Whitfield, K.E. (2006). Genetic and environmental influences among body fat and blood pressure in African American twins?. International Journal of Obesity, 30, 243-250.
  62. Edwards, C.L., Primm, A., Johnson, S., Feliu, M., O'Garo, K., Bennett, G., Harrison, O., (2006). Reconsideration of the Training of Psychiatrists and Mental Health Professionals: Helping to Make Soup. Journal of the National Medical Association, 98(9), 1498-1500.
  63. Baker, TA & Whitfield, KE. (2006). The association of physical functioning and chronic pain in older Blacks: An exploratory study identifying psychosocial and health predictors. Journal of the National Medical Association, 97(7), 1114-1120.
  64. Edwards, C.L., Wood, M., Robinson, E., Byrd, G., Bennett, G.G., Whitfield, K. (2006). In Response to “The Need for Logical Application-Based Extensions in Sickle Cell Disease Research Findings to Changing Lives in the Ethnic Context”.. Jounral of the National Medical Association, 98(7), 1207-1209.
  65. K.E. Whitfield, McClearn, G. (2005). Genes, environment, race, and health. American Psychologist, 60(1), 104-114.
  66. K.E. Whitfield, Allaire, J.C., & Wiggins, S.A. (2004). Relationships between health factors and everyday problem solving in African Americans. Health Psychology, 23(6), 641-644.

Books

  1. Whitfield, K.E. & Baker, T.A. (Under Contract). Handbook of Minority Aging.. Springer.
  2. K.E. Whitfield (2010). Focus on biobehavioral aspects of health in later life. Annual Review of Geriatrics and Gerontology. Springer.
  3. J. Angel, & K.E. Whitfield (March, 2007). The health of aging Hispanics: The Mexican-origin.. Springer Press.
  4. Angel, J., Kahlert, R., & Whitfield, K. (2006). Hispanic Health and Aging in a New Century.. National Alliance for Hispanic Health.
  5. K.E. Whitfield (2004). Closing the Gap: Improving the health of Minority Elders in the New Millennium.. Gerontological Society of America.

Chapters in Books

  1. Whitfield, K.E., Thorpe, R., Szanton, S. "Health disparities, social class, and aging."  Ed. Warner Schaie and Sherry Willis Elsuvier, 2011: 207-218.
  2. Whitfield, K.E., Weidner, G., Thorpe, R. J., & Edwards, C. L. "Cultural aspects of health psychology." Health Psychology 2nd edition.. Ed. A. M. Nezu, C. M., Nezu, & P. A. Geller Wiley, Accepted
  3. Whitfield, K.E., Thorpe, R., Szanton, S. "Health Disparities, Social Class, and Aging.." Psychology and Aging. Ed. Warner K. Schaie Elsuvier, 2010
  4. K.E. Whitfield "Biobehavioral Perspectives on Health in Late Life." Focus on biobehavioral perspectives on health in late life. Ed. Keith E. Whitfield Annual Review of Gerontology and GeriatricsSpringer, 2010
  5. Whitfield, K.E., Edwards, C.L., & Nelson, T. "Methods for examining complex systems of biology and behavior."  Ed. Keith E. Whitfield Annual Review of Gerontology and GeriatricsSpringer, 2010
  6. Whitfield, K.E., Bromell, L., Bennett, G.G., & Edwards. C.L. "Biobehavioral perspectives on health morbidities in late life. In Health Inequalities: Life course perspectives on late life outcomes." In Health Inequalities: Life course perspectives on late life outcomes.. Ed. Toni C. Antonucci & James S. Jackson Annual Review of Geriatrics and Gerontology.Springer, 2010: 57-76.
  7. Whitfield, K.E., Thorpe, R., Szanton, S. "Health Disparities, Social Class, and Aging." Psychology and Aging. Ed. Schaie, K.W. Elsuvier, Accepted
  8. Whitfield, K.E. & Aiken, A. "Minority populations and cognitive aging." Handbook of Cognitive Aging. Ed. S. Hofer, & D. Alwin Sage Publications, 2008: 384-398.
  9. J. Angel, & K.E. Whitfield "Setting the stage: Hispanic health and aging in the." The health of aging Hispanics: The Mexican-origin population. Ed. J. Angel & K.E. Whitfield Springer Press, March, 2007
  10. Whitfield, K.E., & Brandon, D.T "Cultural aspects of quantitative genetic investigations." Oxford Handbook of Methods in Positive Psychology. Ed. A. D. Ong & M. van Dulmen Oxford University Press, 2006
  11. Whitfield, K.E., & Nelson, T. "Twin and family methods." Neurobehavioral Genetics: Methods and Applications. Ed. P. Mormède & B.C. Jones CRC Press, 2006
  12. Burton, L.M., & Whitfield, K.E. "Health, Aging, and America’s Poor: Ethnographic Insights on Family Co-morbidity and Cumulative Disadvantage." Aging, globalization and inequality: The new critical gerontology. Ed. J. Baars, C. Phillipson, A. Walker, & D. Dannefer Baywood, 2006: 215-230.
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