Robert J Taylor
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Robert Joseph Taylor is the Sheila Feld Collegiate Professor of Social Work. He is a Faculty Associate with the Program for Research on Black Americans at the Institute for Social Research and the Center for Afro-American and African Studies. He also is affiliated with the Center for Research on Race, Religion and Health. Professor Taylor has published extensively on the informal social support networks (i.e., family, friends, and church members) of adult and elderly Black Americans. He has been Principal Investigator of several grants from the National Institute on Aging which examine the role of religion in the lives of Black and White elderly adults. He has edited two books Family Life in Black America (1997) and Aging in Black America (1993) with James S. Jackson and Linda M. Chatters. He is the editor of African American Research Perspectives and has been on several editorial boards including the Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, Journal of Marriage and the Family, Family Relations, and Review of Religious Research.
- Jun Sung Hong, Dong Ha Kim, Dorothy L. Espelage, Robert J Taylor, Dexter R. Voisin, Crecendra Boone. 2024. Subtypes of Bullying and Friends? Delinquency: Is Religiosity a Moderator?. Review of Religious Research 66(2):101-126.
- Meredith O. Hope, Ann W. Nguyen, Robert J Taylor, Linda Chatters. 2024. Correlates of Spirituality among African American and Black Caribbean Emerging Adults. Religions 15(3):341.
- Harry O. Taylor, Kazumi Tsuchiya, Ann W. Nguyen, Robert J Taylor. 2024. The impact of subjective, interpersonal, and structural social isolation on the mental health of African Americans and Black Caribbeans. Social Work in Mental Health
- Nguyen, Ann W., Taylor, Harry Owen, Robert J Taylor, Ambroise, Alexis Z., Hamler, Tyrone, Qin, Weidi, Linda Chatters. 2024. The role of subjective, interpersonal, and structural social isolation in 12-month and lifetime anxiety disorders. BMC Public Health 24(1):1-10.
- Harry Owen Taylor, Robert J Taylor, Kazumi Tsuchiya, Linda Chatters. 2024. Social Isolation, Self-Rated Health, and Self-Rated Oral Health among African Americans. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 35(1):18-36.
- Hans Oh, Connor Martz, Karen D. Lincoln, Robert J Taylor, Enrique Neblett, David Chae. 2023. Depression impairment among young adult college students: exploring the racial paradox. Ethnicity & Health 28(6):932-941.
- Taylor, Robert J, Chatters, Linda M, Forsythe-Brown, Ivy , Mouzon, Dawne M, Keith, Verna M, Chae, David H. 2019. Prevalence and correlates of everyday discrimination among black Caribbeans in the United States: the impact of nativity and country of origin. Ethnicity & Health 24(5):463-483.
- Taylor, Robert J, Chatters, Linda M, Taylor, Harry O. 2019. Race and Objective Social Isolation: Older African Americans, Black Caribbeans, and Non-Hispanic Whites. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B
- Taylor, Robert J, Woodward, Amanda T. 2019. Factors associated with the use of social workers for assistance with lifetime and 12-month behavioral health disorders. Social Work in Health Care
- Taylor, Robert J, Lincoln, Karen D, Ailshire, Jennifer , Nguyen, Ann , Govia, Ishtar , Ifatunji, Mosi Adesina. 2019. Profiles of sleep and depression risk among Caribbean Blacks. Ethnicity & Health :1-19.