R. Jay Turner
Harvie Branscomb Distinguished Professor of Sociology Emeritus
Affiliated Professor and Psychiatric Director, Center for Research on Health Disparities
What is the role and significance of social factors for physical and mental health?
Persistently observed health disparities across race, socioeconomic status, sex, marital status and nativity raise the question of what it is about one’s social location that matters for physical and mental health. The unequal suffering and the huge social and economic costs of these disparities command attention to the identification of their socially or programmatically modifiable determinants. In order to answer these questions, I have examined in several papers the significance of differential exposure to social stress.
Specializations
Health Disparities; Stress Process; Social Stratification
Representative Publications
Turner, R. Jay. 2013. “Understanding Health Disparities: The Relevance of the Stress Process Model.” Society and Mental Health: Forthcoming.
Turner, R. Jay., Donald A. Lloyd, and John Taylor. 2006. “Stress Burden, Drug Dependence, and the Hispanic Nativity Paradox.” Drug and Alcohol Dependence 83(1): 79-89.
Turner R. Jay., Donald A. Lloyd, and John Taylor. 2006. “Physical Disability and Mental Health: An Epidemiology of Psychiatric and Substance Disorders.” Rehabilitation Psychology 51(3): 214-223.
Turner, R. Jay, John Taylor, and Karen Van Gundy. 2004. “Personal Resources and Depression in the transition to Adulthood: Ethnic Comparisons.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 45(1): 34-52.
Turner, R. Jay. 2003. “The Pursuit of Socially Modifiable Contingencies in Mental Health.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 44(1): 1-17.