Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Columbia University
671 Papers
8.1K Citations
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn is an academic researcher from Columbia University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Child development & Poison control. The author has an hindex of 137, co-authored 664 publications. Previous affiliations of Jeanne Brooks-Gunn include Washington University in St. Louis & Johns Hopkins University.
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The planning of pregnancy among low-income women in central Harlem
Marie C. McCormick,Jeanne Brooks-Gunn,Thomasine Shorter,Claudina Y. Wallace,John H. Holmes,Margaret C. Heagarty,Margaret C. Heagarty,Margaret C. Heagarty +7 more
TL;DR: The results provide little support for the lack of planning of pregnancy as an indicator of risk in a low-income population and suggest that improvement of perinatal outcome must involve more broadly based interventions that are not confined to the periconceptional period.
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Screening and diagnosing handicapped infants
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn,Michael Lewis +1 more
TL;DR: Competence and performance are not always the same; this is especially true for the handicapped; a disability in one skill may mask competence in another, so that performance and competence are highly discrepant.
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Co-occurring eating and depressive problems: an 8-year study of adolescent girls.
TL;DR: Analyses suggest that girls with depressive problems (with and without co-occurring eating problems) experience impairments in peer and family relationships; girls with high scores on both problems have poor adjustment across several domains.
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Methodological issues in the study of divergent views of the family.
TL;DR: This chapter has taken on the question of how best to look at these divergences, and how different methods and statistical techniques may yield similar or different information regarding divergent views.
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Cohort reconstruction: which infants can be restudied at school age?
Marie C. McCormick,Judith Baker,Jeanne Brooks-Gunn,JoAnna Turner,Kathryn Workman-Daniels,George J. Peckham +5 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that cohort reconstruction is feasible with response rates comparable to some prospective studies with ongoing cohort maintenance, and the role of a tracing agency is discussed.