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Cooper, S.M., Metzger, I. Brown, C., Avery, M., Eaddy, H., Shephard, C., &, Guthrie, B. (invited resubmision). Associations between community involvement and reduced risk behavior engagement among African American adolescents: Intrapersonal empowerment as a mediator?

Cooper, S.M. Brown, C., Metzger, I. & Guthrie, B. J. (accepted, pending revisions). Racial discrimination and the psychological adjustment of African American male and female youth: Gender variation in family and community support protective factors.

Smalls, C.P. & Cooper, S.M. (2012). Racial group regard, barrier socialization and African American adolescents' engagement:  Patterns and processes by gender. Journal of Adolescence

Guthrie, B.J., Cooper, S. M., Brown, C., & Metzger, I. (2012). Degrees of difference among minority female juvenile offenders’ psychological functioning, risk behavior engagement, and health status: A latent profile investigation. Journal of HealthCare for Poor and Underserved.

Cooper, S.M., Guthrie, B.J, Brown, C., & Metzger, I. (2011). Daily hassles and African American adolescent females’ psychological functioning: The direct and moderating role of gender role orientation. Sex Roles.

Decuir-Gunby, J., Martin, P.M., & Cooper, S.M. (2011). African American students in independent schools: Parents and schools as racial socialization agents. Urban Review.

Cooper, S. M. & McLoyd, V.C. (2011). Race-related socialization and the well-being of African American adolescents: The moderating role of mother-adolescent relationship. Journal of Research on Adolescence.

Hammond, W.P., Matthews, D., Johnson, S., Cooper, S.M., & Caldwell, C. H. (in press). The role of paternal health socialization in preadolescent African American male health behavior, beliefs, and outcomes. In K. Vaughans & W. Spielberg (Eds.). The Psychology of Black Boys and Adolescents. Praeger Publishers.

Cooper, S.M., & Smalls, C. (2010). Culturally distinctive and academic socialization: Direct and interactive relationships with African American adolescents’ academic adjustment. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 39(2), 199-212.

Rowley, S. J., Kurtz-Costes, B., & Cooper, S.M. (2010). Schooling and the development of African American children. In J. Meece & J. Eccles (Eds.), Handbook of research on schools, schooling, and human development. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Cooper, S. M.(2009). Associations between father-daughter relationship quality and the academic engagement of African American adolescent girls: Self-esteem as a mediator? Journal of Black Psychology, 35(4), 495-516.

Cooper, S.M., McLoyd, V., Wood, D., & Hardaway, C. (2008). The mental health consequences of racial discrimination for African American adolescents (pp. 278-312). In S. Quintana and C. McKown (Eds), Handbook of race, racism and the developing child. Wiley.

Reid, P., Cooper, S.M., & Banks, K. (2008). Girls to women: Developmental theory, research, and issues. Psychology of women: A handbook of issues and theories (2nd ed.) (pp. 237-270). Westport, CT US: Praeger Publishers/Greenwood Publishing Group.

Cooper, S. M. & Guthrie, B. G. (2007). Ecological influences on health-promoting and health-compromising behaviors: A socially-embedded approach to urban African American adolescent girls’ health. Family and Community Health, 30(1).

Rowley, S. J., Cooper, S.M., & Clinton, Y. C. (2005) Family and school support for healthy racial identity development in African American youth. In H. Fitzgerald, R. Zucker, & K. Freeark, (Series Eds.), Crisis in youth mental health: Volume 3. Issues for families, schools, and communities. Westport: Praeger.

Wallace, J. M., Jr., Bachman J. G., O'Malley, P. M., Schulenberg, J. E., Cooper, S. M., & Johnston, L. D. (2003). Gender and ethnic differences in smoking, drinking, and illicit drug use among American 8th, 10th and 12th grade students, 1976-2000. Addiction, 98, 225-234.

Wallace, J. M., Jr., Bachman J. G., O'Malley, P. M., Johnston, L. D., Schulenberg, J. E., & Cooper, S. M. (2002). Tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drug use: Racial and ethnic differences among U.S. high school seniors, 1976-2000. Public Health Reports 117(Supplement), 67-75.