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1.	Frazier, Cleothia G.
1.	Social Integration During Midlife and Beyond: An Examination of How Social Roles and Work Affect Sleep Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, Vanderbilt University, 2021. Also: https://ir.vanderbilt.edu/handle/1803/16643 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Vanderbilt University Keyword(s): Depression (see also CESD); Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Shift Workers; Sleep; Social Roles Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Current research increasingly shows that sleep is an important factor that is associated with a variety of health and well-being outcomes. Guided by role theory, stress process, the life course perspective, and intersectionality, this three-paper dissertation examines how one's attachment to society through social roles and work have implications for sleep health among adults during mid to late life. Paper One uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Cohort (NLSY79) (N=3,364), to examine the effect of social roles on sleep duration and sleep quality at age 50. Two competing hypotheses are tested -- role strain (i.e., multiple roles harm health) and role enhancement (i.e., multiple roles benefit health). Variation by race-gender group status is also investigated. Findings show support for both role strain and role enhancement. There is also evidence that role accumulation is associated with a larger reduction in sleep quality for White men, compared to Black men and women. Paper Two also uses the NLSY79 (N=5,652) to investigate the associations between shift work, depressive symptoms, and self-rated health. This study also considers whether sleep mediates these associations. The results show that working a non-day shift increases the odds of reporting poor self-rated health, but not depressive symptoms. The effect of shift work on depressive symptoms is mediated by hours of sleep during the week and insomnia, but only insomnia mediates the association between shift work and poor self-rated health. Paper Three examines how labor force status and transitions to retirement affect insomnia in older adults. Data used for this study are from waves 2006 and 2014 of the Health and Retirement Study (N=8,556). Findings show that older adults who are retired and who transitioned from part-time to retirement experience increased insomnia compared full-time workers. Moderating effects are found for Black and White women. These findings contribute to a sociological understanding of sleep by elucidating that societal integration contributes to and maintains stratified hierarchies that influence differences in sleep health for adults in midlife and older ages.
	Bibliography Citation Frazier, Cleothia G. Social Integration During Midlife and Beyond: An Examination of How Social Roles and Work Affect Sleep. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, Vanderbilt University, 2021..

2.	Hearne, Brittany Nicole
2.	The Effect of Parenting Styles and Depressive Symptoms on Young Adult's Educational Attainment M.A. Thesis, Department of Sociology, Vanderbilt University, 2015 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Vanderbilt University Keyword(s): Depression (see also CESD); Educational Attainment; Parenting Skills/Styles; Racial Differences Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. In this research, I consider whether the impact of parenting during middle and late adolescence is directly connected to educational attainment in young adulthood or whether the influence of parenting is better understood as indirectly affecting educational progress through mental health. Parenting styles are predominantly divided along two orthogonal dimensions in the relevant literature -- responsiveness/ supportiveness versus demanding/controlling (e.g., Maccoby and Martin 1983). These two dimensions are further divided into four categories-- uninvolved parenting, permissive parenting, authoritative parenting, and authoritarian parenting (e.g., Maccoby and Martin 1983; Baumrind 1991; Spera 2005), which are the types of parenting I consider. Variations in the characteristics of these four parenting styles are connected to whether youth perform well in school (Spera 2005).
	Bibliography Citation Hearne, Brittany Nicole. The Effect of Parenting Styles and Depressive Symptoms on Young Adult's Educational Attainment. M.A. Thesis, Department of Sociology, Vanderbilt University, 2015.

3.	Tyndall, Benjamin D.
3.	Neighborhood Perceptions and Well-being across the Early Life Course Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, Vanderbilt University, 2016 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Vanderbilt University Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Cohabitation; Depression (see also CESD); Discipline; Neighborhood Effects; Parent-Child Interaction; Pearlin Mastery Scale; Punishment, Corporal; Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) (see Self-Esteem) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Disordered neighborhoods have been consistently linked with worse well-being for resident children compared to those who live in more advantaged neighborhoods. Though this finding is robust across studies, less is known about how neighborhood characteristics translate into poor psychosocial function in children and how these effects endure throughout childhood. In this paper, I examine one possible process linking disordered neighborhoods to child distress through neighborhood effects on maternal well-being and parent-child relationships. Using four waves of nationally representative parent and child data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth – 1979 and Child samples, I estimate structural equation models that suggest disordered neighborhoods increase child distress in several ways. First, disordered neighborhoods are associated with increased maternal distress which in turn is associated with increased mother child arguments. I also find that mothers in disordered neighborhoods punish their children more frequently. Increased mother-child arguments and punishments are both associated with higher levels of child distress across multiple waves of data. These findings demonstrate how structural inequalities at the neighborhood-level and the negative consequences they have for interpersonal relationships can create deleterious effects throughout childhood
	Bibliography Citation Tyndall, Benjamin D. Neighborhood Perceptions and Well-being across the Early Life Course. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, Vanderbilt University, 2016.

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