DR. DIONNE PATRICIA STEPHENS

Peer Reviewed Articles

Stephens, D. P., Eaton, A. & *Boyd, B. (2017). Hispanic College Men's Perceptions of Appropriate Strategies for Initiating Sexual Intercourse with Women. Sex Roles. DOI: 10.1007/s11199-016-0709-8

Stephens, D. P., Thomas, T. L. & Tamir. (2017). Factors motivating HPV vaccine uptake among vaccinated and non- vaccinated Hispanic young adult women. Hispanic Healthcare International.

Stephens, D. P., Thomas, T. L. & Eaton, A. (2017). Identifying Health beliefs influencing Hispanic college men’s willingness to vaccinate against HPV. American Journal of Sexuality Education.

Kennedy, S. M. & Stephens, D. P. (2017). Hispanic Parents’ Conflict Tactics Influence on College Women’s Verbal Aggression Victimization. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences , DOI: 10.1177/0739986317690836.

*Pierre- Victor, D., Page, T., Trepka, M., Stephens, D. P., Li, T., & Madhivanan, P. (2017). Impact of Louisiana's Vacine School- Entry Mandate on Human Papillomavirus Vaccination among 13- 17 year old Females. Health Education & Behavior.

Stephens, D. P. & Eaton, A. (2016). Social networks influencing urban Black girls’ interpretations of Chris Brown’s violence against Rihanna. Journal of Black Psychology.

Eaton, A. & Stephens, D. P. (2016). Using the theory of planned behavior to examine beliefs about verbal sexual coercion among urban Black adolescents. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.

Tamir, H., Stephens, D. P. & Levitt, M. (2016). Cross-sex versus same-sex experience and relationship satisfaction: Addressing diverse social networks among Orthodox Jews. Mental Health Religion & Culture, 19, 587-599

*Pierre- Victor, D., Page, T., Trepka, M., Stephens, D. P., Li, T., & Madhivanan, P. (2016). Impact o f Virginia's Vacine School- Entry Mandate on Human Papillomavirus Vaccination among 13- 17 year old Females. Journal of Women's Health. doi:10.1089/jwh.2016.5869.

*Oramas, L., Stephens, D. P., & Whiddon, M. (2015). The influence of parental conflict resolution strategies on Hispanic college women’s experiences with verbal aggression. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 1- 21.

Stephens, D. P. & Eaton, A. (2014). Masculinity scripts and heterosexual Hispanic college men's perceptions of female initiated sexual coercion. Psychology of Men and Masculinity, 15, 387- 396.

Stephens, D. P. & Thomas, T. L. (2014). Social networks influencing Hispanic women's HPV vaccine uptake decision making process. Women’s Reproductive Health, 1, 120- 137.

Stephens, D. P. & Thomas, T. L. (2013). Cultural values influencing immigrant Haitian mothers’ decision to vaccinate daughters’ against human papillomavirus. Journal of Black Psychology, 39, 168 - 180.

*Bluming, A., Thomas, T., & Stephens, D. P. (2013). Researching and Respecting the Intricacies of Isolated Communities. Journal of Rural Nursing and Health Care, 13 (2), 23-34.

Schwartz, S., Benet-Martínez, V., Knight, G., Unger, J., Zamboanga, B., Des Rosiers, S., Stephens, D. P., Huang, S., & Szapocznik, J. (2013) Effects of Language of Assessment on the Measurement of Acculturation: Measurement Equivalence and Cultural Frame Switching. Psychological Assessment, 26, 100- 114.

Stephens, D. P. & Thomas, T. L. (2012). The influence of skin color on heterosexual emerging adult Black women’s dating preference beliefs. Journal Feminist Family Therapy, 24, 291- 315.

Stephens, D. P., & Fernandez, P. (2012). The role of skin color on Hispanic women’s perceptions of attractiveness. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 34, 77- 94.

Stephens, D. P. & Fernandez, P. (2012). Ni Pardo, in Prieto: Influence of parental skin color messaging on emerging adult Hispanic women’s dating beliefs. Women & Therapy: Special Issue on Latinas and Latin America, 35, 4-18.

Stephens, D. P., & Thomas, T. (2011). Hispanic women’s expectations of campus- based health clinics addressing sexual health concerns. American Journal of Sexuality Education, 6, 260- 280.

Thomas, T. L, Stephens D. P. & **Blanchard, B. (2010). Hip Hop, Health and HPV: Using wireless technology to increase Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Uptake. . The Journal for Nurse Practitioners, 6, 464- 474.

Thomas, T. L., & Stephens, D. P. (2009). Young women speak: Why we seek health care and what we need from our providers. Journal of the Florida Medical Association, 108, 18- 26.

Stephens, D. P., & Few, A. L. (2007). Hip Hop honeys or video hos: African American preadolescents' understandings of popular culture-based female sexual scripts. Sexuality & Culture, 11, 48- 69.

Stephens, D. P., & Few, A. L. (2007). The effects of images in Hip Hop on early adolescents’ attitudes toward physical attractiveness and relationships. Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 56, 251- 264.

Phillips, L. D., *Reddik- Morgan, K., & Stephens, D. P. (2005). Oppositional consciousness within an oppositional realm: Feminism and womanism in Hip Hop, 1976- 2004. Journal of African American History, 90, 19- 32.

Stephens, D. P., & Phillips, L. D. (2005). Integrating Black Feminist Thought into conceptual frameworks of African American adolescent women’s sexual scripting processes. Sexualities, Evolution & Gender, 7, 37- 55.

Few, A. L., Stephens, D. P., & Rouse- Arnette, M. (2003). Sister to sister talk: Transcending boundaries in qualitative research with Black women. Family Relations, 52, 205- 215.

Stephens, D. P., & Phillips, L. D. (2003). Freaks, gold diggers, divas, and dykes: The sociohistorical development of adolescent African American women’s sexual scripts. Sexuality & Culture, 7, 3- 47.

Stephens, D. P. (2000). Putting sisters in the center: Using Womanist theory and Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model of human development to examine young African American women’s sexual education processes. Abafazi Journal, 2, 59- 71.

* graduate student author, ** undergraduate student author

Book Chapters

Stephens, D. P. (2012). The influence of mainstream Hip Hop’s female sexual scripts on African American women’s dating relationship experiences (pp. 69-83) In M. Paludi (Ed.) The Psychology of Love. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.

Stephens, D. P., Patil, V., & Thomas, T. L. (2012). STI prevention & control for women globally: A reproductive justice approach to understanding women’s experiences (pp. 117- 144). In J. Chrisler (Ed.) Reproductive Justice: A Global Concern. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Publishing.

Stephens, D. P., Phillips, L.D. & Few, A. L. (2009). Examining African American female adolescent sexuality within mainstream Hip Hop culture using a womanist- ecological model of human development (pp. 160- 174). In S. Loyd, A. Few and K. Allen (Eds.) Handbook of Feminist Theory, Methods and Praxis in Family Studies. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

* graduate student author, ** undergraduate student author