Selected Publications

* Denotes current/former trainee

Coffelt, N.L., Forehand, R., Olson, A.L., Jones, D.J., Gaffney, C.A., & Zens, M.S. (in press). A
longitudinal examination of the link between parent alcohol problems and youth drinking: The
moderating roles of parent and child gender. Addiction.

Forehand, R., Olson, A.L., McKee, L., Roland,E., Coffelt, N., Massari, C., Jones, D.J., Gaffney, C.A., & Zens, M.S. (in press). Harsh discipline and child problem behaviors: The role of positive parenting and child gender. Journal of Family Violence.

Jones, D.J., O’Connell, C.,*, Foster, S.,* & Forehand, G *. (in press).The stability of self-reported
physical symptoms in African American mothers and their impact on children. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment.

Jones, D.J., Olson, A., Forehand, R., Gaffney, C.A., Zens, M.S., & Bau, J.J.(in press). A family based randomized control trial to prevent adolescent alcohol and tobacco use: The moderating roles of positive parenting and adolescent gender. Behavior Therapy.

Jones, D.J., Foster, S*., Forehand, G.*, & O’Connell, C * (2005). Neighborhood violence and psychosocial adjustment in low-income urban African American children: Physical symptoms as a marker of distress. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 14. 237-259.

Jones, D.J., Dorsey, S., Forehand, R., Foster, S *., Armistead, L., & Brody, G. (2005).
Co-parent support and conflict in African American single mother-headed families: Associations with mother and child adjustment. Journal of Family Violence,3, 141-150.

Jones, D.J., Forehand, R., O’Connell, C *., Brody, G., & Armistead, L. (2005). Neighborhood violence and maternal monitoring in African American Single Mother-Headed Families: An examination of the moderating role of social support. Behavior Therapy, 36, 25-34.

Jones, D.J., O’Connel, C *., Gound, M., Heller, L., & Forehand, R. (2004). Predictors of self-
reported physical symptoms in low income, inner-city African American women: The role of optimism, depressive symptoms, and chronic illness. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 28, 112-121.

Jones, D.J., Beach, S.R.H., Forehand, R., & Foster, S *. (2003). Stressful life events and perceived
health in HIV-infected African American women: The Role of family stress and depressive
symptoms. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 26, 577-599.

Jones, D.J., Forehand, R., Brody, G., & Armistead, L. (2003). Parental monitoring in African
American single mother-headed families: An ecological approach to the identification of predictors. Behavior Modification, 27, 435-457.

Forehand, R., & Jones, D.J. (2003). Neighborhood violence and coparenting conflict: Interactive
influences on psychosocial adjustment of children living in inner-city environments. Journal of
Abnormal Child Psychology, 31, 591-604.

Jones, D. J., Shaffer, A. Forehand, R., Brody, G., & Armistead, L. (2003). Coparenting
conflict, in single-mother headed families: Do parenting skills serve as a mediator or
moderator of children’s psychosocial adjustment? Behavior Therapy, 34, 259-272.

Jones, D.J., Beach, S.R.H., Forehand, R., and the Family Health Project Research Group (2003). Partner psychological and physical abuse and HIV-infection: Implications for Psychosocial Adjustment in African American Women. Journal of Family Violence, 18,257-268.

Jones, D.J., & Forehand, G *., (2003). Stability of children’s internalizing and externalizing
problems: A longitudinal study of African American girls and boys. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 12, 215-227.

Jones, D.J., Bromberger, J., Sutton-Tyrrell, K., & Matthews, K.A., (2003). Lifetime history
of depression and carotid atherosclerosis in middle-aged women. Archives of
Psychiatry, 60, 153-160.

Forehand, R., & Jones, D.J. (2002). The stability of parenting: A longitudinal analysis of Inner-city
African -American mothers. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 11, 455-467.

Forehand, R., Jones, D.J., Kotchick, B.A., Armistead, L., Morse, E., Morse, P.S., & Stock,
M. (2002). Non-infected children of HIV-infected mothers: A four year longitudinal study of child psychosocial adjustment and parenting. Behavior Therapy, 33, 579- 600.

Forehand, R., Jones, D.J., Brody, G. H., Armistead, L., & the Family Health Project Research
Group (2002). Mother depressive symptoms and child psychosocial adjustment in African American single-mother headed families: Additive and moderating effects of teacher depressive symptoms? Journal of Marriage and the Family, 64, 1012-1023.

Jones, D.J., Forehand, R., Brody, G.H., & Armistead, L. (2002). Positive parenting and child
psychosocial adjustment of inner-city single parent African American families: The role of optimism. Behavior Modification, 26, 464-481.

Jones, D.J., Forehand, R., Brody, G., Armistead, L, & the Family Health Project Research
Group. (2002). Psychosocial adjustment of African American children in single-mother families: A test of three risk models. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 64, 105-115.

Jones, D.J., Beach, S.R.H., Forehand, R., & the Family Health Project Research Group (2001).
Disease status in African American single-mothers with HIV/AIDS: The role of depressive symptoms. Health Psychology, 20, 417-423.

Beach, S.R.H., Whitaker, D., Jones, D.J., & Tesser, A. (2001). When does performance
feedback prompt complementarity in romantic relationships? Personal Relationships, 8, 231-248.

Jones, D.J., Beach, S.R.H., Forehand, R., & the Family Health Project Research Group (2001).
HIV-infection and depressive symptoms: An investigation of African American single-mothers. AIDS Care, 13, 343-350.

Jones, D.J., Forehand, R., Neary, E., & the Family Health Project Research Group (2001).
Family transmission of depressive symptoms: Replication across Caucasian and African American mother-child dyads. Behavior Therapy, 32,123-138.

Jones, D.J., Beach, S.R.H., & Forehand, R. (2001). Stress generation in intact community
families: Depressive symptoms, family functioning, and implications for adolescent adjustment. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 18, 443-462.

Shaffer, A., Jones, D.J., Kotchick, B.A., Forehand, R., & the Family Health Project Research
Group (2001). Telling the Children: Disclosure of Maternal HIV Infection and its Effects on Child Psychosocial Adjustment. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 10, 301-313.

Jones, D.J., Forehand, R., & Beach, S.R.H. (2000). Maternal and paternal parenting during early
adolescence: The role of parenting style in forecasting later young adult psychosocial functioning. Journal of Adolescence, 35, 513-530.

Katz, J., Jones, D.J., & Beach, S.R.H. (2000). Distress and aggression during dating conflict: A
test of the coercion hypothesis. Personal Relationships, 7, 391-402.

Weist, M.D., Paskewitz, D.A., Jackson, C., & Jones, D.J. (1998). Self-reported delinquent
behaviors and psychosocial functioning in inner-city teenagers: A brief report. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 28, 241-248.

Beach, S.R.H., Tesser, A., Fincham, F.D., Jones, D.J., Johnson, D., & Whitaker, D.J. (1998).
Pleasure and pain in doing well together: An investigation of performance related affect in close relationships. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 923-938.