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K. A. S. Wickrama
CURRICULUM VITA
Kandauda (K. A. S.) Wickrama, Ph.D.
Tel: 706-542-4926(Office), 678-661-0454(home)
CURRENT POSITION
Professor
Department of Human Development and Family Science
Adjunct Professor
Department of Sociology
The University of Georgia
Georgia Athletic Association endowed professor of Family Consumer Science
Fellow, Institute for Behavioral Research
University of Georgia
MAJOR FIELD OF RESEARCH
i. Social determinants of health and health inequality across the life course.
ii. Racial/ethnical inequalities in mental and physical health of children and adults.
iii. International development and health
iv. Application of advanced statistical methods to social epidemiology
NATIONAL AWARDS
2013 Rural Sociology Best Paper Award given by the Rural Sociological Society (RSS) - 2013 Annual Meeting, New York City, NY.
2004 Reuben Hill Research and Theory Award given by the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) for the outstanding research paper in 2003 that best addresses an issue important to family scholars and has theory enhancing characteristics.
1997 Reuben Hill Research and Theory Award given by the National Council
on Family Relations (NCFR) for outstanding research paper in 1996.
OTHER AWARDS or HONORS
2014 Faculty Focus appearance in UGA web page
2013 Georgia Athletic Association Endowed Professorship
2009 Career Achievement in Research Award – College of Human Sciences,
Iowa State University
1985 Recipient of the award for best scientific manuscript
Ministry of Education Services – Sri Lanka
1981 Recipient of NORAD fellowship award given by Norwegian Government.
EDUCATION
1992 Ph.D., Iowa State University, Sociology
Major areas: Research methods, social organizations
Minor areas: Statistics
Graduate studies in Bio-statistics
Minor areas: International development
1985 Advanced studies in rural research and rural policy
Institute for International Development
University of Sussex, England
1982 Advanced studies in tropical agricultural development
University of Reading, England
PUBLICATIONS
Books
2016
Wickrama, K. A. S., Lee, T. K., O’Neal, C. W. & Lorenz, F. O. (2016). Higher-Order Growth Curves and Mixture Modeling with Mplus: A Practical Guide, Routledge, NY.
Journal Articles
Currently In Revision (R & R) and Under Review
Wickrama, K. A. S., O’Neal, C. W. & Lorenz, F.O. (In Review). Marital Processes Linking
Personal Vulnerabilities and Mental Health Across the Middle Years, Journal of Marriage & Family
Kim, J., & Wickrama K.A.S. (In review). Predictors of change in postnatal depression
and implication for parenting behavior: A growth curve analysis,Journal of Child and Family Studies.
Bryant, V., Wickrama, K. A. S., O’Neal, C. W. Lorenz, F. O. (In review). Marital
Relationships and Health-Promoting Behaviors of Middle-Aged Wives and Husbands: A
Dyadic Analysis, Family Issues.
Lemacks, J., Ralston, P.A., Ilich, J.Z., Cocai, C., O’Neal, C. W., Wickrama, K. A. S., &
Harris, C. M (In review).Identifying Mid-life and Older African American “Health Champions,” Health Education Research Journal.
Journal Articles (Published or In Press)
2017
Wickrama, K. A.S. Kolpeck, E., O’Neal. C. W., Beach. S.& Neppl, T. (2017).
Life Course Patterns of Concurrent Trajectories of BMI and Affective Symptoms of Rural Mothers: Socioeconomic Antecedents and Disease Outcomes in Later Life.The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, gbx121, https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbx121
Lee, T. K., Wickrama, K. A. S., & O’Neal, C. W. (2017). Application of Latent Growth Curve Analysis With Categorical Responses in Social Behavioral Research. Structural Equation Modeling
Wickrama, K. A. S., O’Neal, C. W. & Holmes, C. (2017). Towards a
Heuristic Research Framework Linking Early Socioeconomic Adversity and Youth Disease Risk: An Integrative Review of Existing Research. Adolescent Research Review, 1(2), 1-19, doi.org/10.1007/s40894-017-0054-3
Wickrama, K. A. S., O’Neal, C. W. & Lee, T. K (2017). Explaining the Influence of Early Cumulative Adversity on Young Adults’ Cardio-Metabolic Disease Risk: A Genetically-Amplified Life Course Process. Developmental Psychopathology, 3(29), 1-13. doi:10.1017/S0954579417000542
Wickrama, K. A. S., Bae, DaYoung & O’Neal, C. W (2017). Explaining the
Association between Early Cumulative Socioeconomic Adversity and Young Adults’
Diabetic Risk: Physiological, Psychological, and Behavioral Mechanisms. Journal of
Youth & Adolescence, 46(1), 1-14, doi:10.1007/s10964-017-0639-y
Wickrama, K. (K. A. S.), O’Neal, C. W., & Lorenz, F. O. (2017, March 30). The Decade-Long
Effect of Work Insecurity on Husbands’ and Wives’ Midlife Health Mediated by Anxiety: A Dyadic Analysis. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/ocp0000084
Bryant, V., Wickrama, K. A. S., O’Neal, C. W. & Lorenz, F. O. (2017). Family Hostility
And Depressive Symptoms in Middle-Aged Couples: Moderating Effect of Marital Integration. Journal of Family Psychology, 31(2), 61-75. doi.org/10.1037/fam0000306
Hui-Chin Hsu, Wickrama, K. A. S. (2017). Maternal Life Stress and Health During the
First 3 Years Postpartum. Maternal & Child Health, 57(5). 1-18. doi.org/10.1080/03630242.2017.1316344
Bae, DaYoung & Wickrama, K.A.S. (2017). Parental Rejection Sensitizes the Effect of
Stressful Life Events on Young Adults’ Cardio-Metabolic Disease Risk: Further Amplification by 5-HTTLPR Polymorphism. Journal of Youth & Adolescence, 46(5), 1137-1148.
Lee, T. K., Wickrama, K. A. S., Oshri, A., & Kwon, J. (2017). Antecedents and consequences
of transition patterns of depressive symptoms from adolescence to young adulthood: A life course investigation. British Journal of Developmental Psychology. 35(3), 332-345. doi:10.1111/bjdp.12189
Oshri, A., Kogan, S. M., Kwon, J., Wickrama, K. A. S., VanderBroek, A., & Palmer. (2017)
Impulsivity as a Mechanism Linking Child Abuse and Neglect, and Substance Use in Adolescence and Adulthood. Development and Psychopathology, 29(3), 1-14 . doi.org/10.1017/S0954579417000943
Lee, T. K., Wickrama, K. A. S., & O’Neal, C. W. (2017). Identifying Diverse Life
Transition Patterns from Adolescence to Young Adulthood: The Influence of Early Socioeconomic Context, Social Science Research.
Pei-Fen L., Wickrama, K. A. S . & Sarah. W (2017). Marital Enqing and Depression in Taiwanese Couples: The Mediating Role of Active and Passive Sacrifice, Family and Marriage Review.
Wickrama, K. A. S., Bryant, V., O’Neal, C. W. & Lorenz, F. O. (2017). Chronic Work
Adversity and the Progression of Depressive Symptoms in Middle-Aged Husbands and Wives: The Moderating Role of Spousal Support, Journal of Aging & Health.
Bryant, V., & Wickrama, K. A. S. (2017). Adverse Work Experiences and Marital Outcomes
of Husbands and Wives in Middle Years: Mediating Role of Self-Esteem. Journal of Personal Relations.
Arnold, A. L., Lucier-Greer, M., Manccini, J. A., Ford, J. L & Wickrama, K. A. S. (2017). How
Family Structure and Processes Interrelate: The Case of Adolescent Mental Health and Academic Success in Military Families. Journal of Family Issues, 38(6) 858-879. DOI: 10, 1177/0192513x16616849.
Ralston, P.A., Ilich, J.Z, Wickrama, K. A. S., (In Press) Lower Life Satisfaction, Active Coping and
Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Older African Americans. Journal of Behavioral Medicine.
2016
Wickrama, K. A. S., O’Neal, C. W. & Lee, T. K., (2016). Early socioeconomic adversity,
youths’ developmental pathways and young adults’ mental health: An investigation of
early life course. Journal of Emerging Adulthood,1-13, DOI: 10.1177/2167696815627250 .
Wickrama, K. A. S., Bae, DaYoung & O’Neal, C. W (2016). Black-white disparity in
young adults’ disease risk: An investigation of variation in the vulnerability of black young adults to early and later socioeconomic adversity, Journal of Adolescent Health, 59, 209-214..
Wickrama, K. A. S., O’Neal, C. W. & Lee, T. K . (2016). The Health Impact of
Upward Mobility: Does Socioeconomic Attainment Make Youth More Vulnerable to
Stressful Circumstances? Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 45:271-285.DOI 10.1007/s10964-15-0397-7.
Kim, J., & Wickrama, K. A. S. (2016). Maternal social status, early health capital, and young adults’ economic attainment: Early life course investigation, Social Science Research, 61, 266-277.
Wickrama, T., Wickrama, K. A. S., Banford, A., & Lambert. (2016). PTSD symptoms among Tsunami exposed mothers in Sri Lanka: The role of disaster exposure, culturally-specific coping strategies and recovery efforts, Anxiety, Stress and Coping, doi./10.1080/10615806.2016.1271121.
Lee, T. K., Wickrama, K. A. S., & O’Neal, C. W. (Accepted in 2016). Social stratification of generalized internalizing symptoms trajectories and young adult social outcomes: A second-order growth mixture analysis. Journal of Affective Disorder, 208,375-383, DOI/10.1016/j.jad.2016.08.037.
Lee, S., Wickrama, K. A. S., Futris, T., & Manicni, J. A. (2016). Linking work control to depressive symptoms through intrapersonal and marital processes. Family Issues1-23,
DOI: 10.1177/0192513X16663252.
Simons., L. G., Wickrama, K. A. S., Lee, T., & Conger, R. D. (2016). Testing family stress and family investment explanations for conduct problems among African American adolescents, Journal of Marriage and Family 78(2), 498-515, DOI:10.1111/jomf.12278.
Cuii, M., Gordon, M., & Wickrama, K. A. S. (2016). Romantic relationship experiences of adolescents and young adults: The role of mothers’ relationship history, of Journal of Family Issue, 37, 1458-1480, DOI: 10.1177/0192513X14540158.
Hagues, R., Bae, D. & Wickrama, K. A. S. (2016). Mediational pathways connecting secondary
education and age at marriage to maternal mortality: A comparison between developing and developed countries, Women & Health. DOI:10.1080/03630242.2016.1159266
Oshri, A., Carlson, M., Kwon, J., A. Zeichner, & Wickrama, K. A. S. (2016). Development growth
trajectories of self-esteem in adolescence: Associations with Child Neglect and Drug Use in Young Adulthood, Journal of Youth & Adolescence. DOI:10.1007/s10964-016-0483-5
Barr, A. B, Sutton, T. E, Simons, L. G, & Wickrama, K. A. S, & Lorenz, F. O. (2016). Romantic
relationship transitions and changes in health among rural, white young Adults, Journal of Family Psychology, doi.org/10.1037/fam0000207.
2015
Simons, L. G., Wickrama, K. A. S., Lee, T. C., Conger, R., Cutrona, C., & Landers-Potts, M.
(2015). Testing Family Stress and Family Investment Explanations for Conduct Problems Among African American Adolescents, Journal of Marriage and Family. DOI: 10.1111/jomf.12278
Hui-Chin Hsu, Wickramam, K. A. S. (2015). Linking family economic hardship to
early child health: An investigation of mediating pathways. Journal of Maternal and Child Health. Advanced online publication. doi 10.1007/s10995-015-1784-0
Wickrama, K. A. S., & O’Neal, C. W. & Lee, T. K. (2015). Early socioeconomic adversity,
youth positive development, and young adults’ cardio-metabolic disease risk, Health Psychology, Advanced online publication. doi: 10.1037/hea0000208
Wickrama, K. A. S., Lee, T. K., & O’Neal, C. W. (2015). Stressful life experiences in
adolescence and cardiometabolic risk factors in young adulthood, Journal of Adolescent Health, 56, 456-463.
Wickrama, K. A. S., Lee, T. K., O’Neal, C. W. & Kwon, J. (2015). Stress and resource
pathways connecting early socioeconomic adversity to young adults’ physical health risk, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 44(5), 1109-1124.
Wickrama, K. A. S., & O’Neal, C. W. (2015). The socioeconomic pathways leading to romantic
relationship outcomes: A genetically informed early life course investigation. Journal of Research on Adolescence, Advanced online publication. doi:10.1111/jora.12207.
Arnold, A. L., Lucier-Greer, M., Mancini, J. A., Ford, J. L., & Wickrama, K. A. S. (2015). How familystructures and processes interrelate: The case of adolescent mental health and academic success in military families, Family Issues.
Lemacks, J. L., Ilich, J. Z., Liu, P-Y., Shin, H., Raltson, P. A., Cui, M., & Wickrama, K. A. S. Dietary influence on calcitropic hormones and adiposity in Caucasian and African American postmenopausal women assessed by structural equation modeling (SEM), AIMS Public Health.
2014
Landers-Potts, M., Wickrama, K.A.S., Simons, L. G., Chen, Y., Gibbons, R., Cutrona, C.,
Simons, R. & Conger, R. (2014). An extension and moderational analysis of the family stress model focusing on African American adolescents. Journal of Family Relations, 64, 233-248.
Lucier-Greer, M., O’Neal, C. W., Arnold, A. L., Mancini, J. A., & Wickrama, K. A. S. (2014). Adolescent mental health and academic functioning: Empirical support for contrasting models of risk and vulnerabilities. Military Medicine, 179(11), 1279-1287.
Wickrama, K.A.S., O’Neal, C. W & Oshri, A. (2014). Are stressful developmental processes of youths leading to health problems amplified by genetic polymorphisms? The case of body mass index. Journal of Youth Adolescence, 43(7). 1096-1109.
Wickrama, K.A.S., Kwon, J. A., Oshri, A., & Lee, T. K. (2014). Early socioeconomic adversity and young adult physical illness: The role of body mass index and depressive symptoms, Journal of Adolescent Health, 55 (4), 556-563.
Bae, D., & Wickrama, K. A. S. (2014). Family socioeconomic status and academic
achievement among Korean adolescents: Mediating role of family process and
adolescents’ time-use patterns. The Journal of Early Adolescence. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s10964-013-0060-0
Bae, D., & Wickrama, K. A. S., & O’Neal, C. W. (2014). Social consequences of early socioeconomic adversity and youth BMI trajectories: Gender and race/ethnicity differences. Journal of Adolescence, 37(6), 883-892.
Cui, M., Gordon, M., & Wickrama, K.A.S. (2014). Romantic relationship experiences of adolescents and young adults: The role of mothers’ relationship history. Journal of Family Issues, Advance online publication. doi: 10.1177/0192513X14540158
Kim, J., & Wickrama, K.A.S. (2014). Mothers’ working status and infant development: Mediational processes. Journal of Family Issues, 35 (11), 1473-1496.
Kwon, J. A., & Wickrama, K. A. S. (2014). Linking family economic pressure and
supportive parenting to adolescent health behaviors: Two developmental pathways leading to health promoting and health risk behaviors. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 43 (7), 1176-1190. doi: 10.1007/s10964-013-0060-0
Li, P-F. & Wickrama, K. A. S. (2014). Stressful life events, marital satisfaction, and marital
management skills of Taiwanese couples. Family Relations, 63, 193-205.
O’Neal, C. W., Wickrama, K.A.S., Ralston, P. A., Ilich, J. Z., Harris, C. M., Coccia, C., Young- Clark, I., & Lemacks, J. (2014). Examining change in social support and fruit and vegetable consumption in African American adults. The Journal of Nutrition, Health & Aging, 18, 13- 25.
Ralston, P. A., Lemacks, J., Wickrama, K. A. S., Young-Clark, I., Coccia, C., Ilich, J. Z.,
Harris, C., M., Brickler-Hart, C., Battle, A., & O’Neal, C. W. (2014). Reducing
cardiovascular disease risk in older African Americans: A church-based longitudinal
intervention project at baseline. Contemporary Clinical Trials, 38 (1), 69-81. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2014.03.003
Sutton, T. E., Simons, L. G., Wickrama, K. A. S., & Futris, T. (2014). The intergenerational
transmission of violence: Examining roles of insecure attachment and destructive
disagreement beliefs. Violence and Victims, 29 (4), 670-687.
2013
O'Neal, C. W., Wickrama, K. A. S., Ralston, P. A., Ilich, J. Z., Harris, C. M., Coccia, C., Young-Clark, I., & Lemacks, J. (2013). Health insurance, psychological processes, and older African Americans’ use of preventive care. Journal of Health Psychology. doi: 10.1177/1359105312474911