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Dr. Barton’s research has been featured on numerous national and international outlets, including:
Publications
For a complete list of Dr. Barton’s publications, please view his CV on his faculty webpage.
2023
Barton, A. W., Gong, Q., Guttman, S. E., & Doss, B. D. (in press). Trajectories of perceived gratitude and change following relationship interventions: A randomized controlled trial with lower-income, help-seeking couples. Behavior Therapy. Publication in process.
Barton, A. W., Larsen, N. B., Gong, Q., & Stanley, S. M. (2023). Family resiliency in the aftermath of COVID-19 pandemic: A latent profile analysis. Journal of Marriage & Family. Advance online publication. doi: http://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12929
Barton, A. W., Jenkins, A. I. C., Gong, Q., Sutton, N. C., & Beach, S.R.H. (2023). The protective effects of perceived gratitude and expressed gratitude for relationship quality among African American couples. Journal of Social & Personal Relationships, 40(5), 1622-1644. doi: 10.1177/02654075221131288
Barton, A. W., Gong, Q., Stanley, S. M., & Rhoades, G. K. (2023). Changes in couple, parenting, and individual functioning following participation in the Family Expectations program. Journal of Marital & Family Therapy. 49(1), 169-185. doi: 10.1111/jmft.12613
2022
Barton, A. W., Yu, T., Gong, Q., Miller, G. E., Chen, E., & Brody, G. H. (2022). Childhood Poverty, Immune Cell Aging, and African Americans’ Insulin Resistance: A Prospective Study. Child Development. Child Development. 93(5), 1616-1624. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13795
Barton, A. W., Gong, Q., Sutton, N. C., Davis, J. P., & Smith, D. C. (2022). Adolescent substance use and individual beliefs that drug use is wrong: A statewide epidemiological study. Substance Use & Misuse, 67(4), 640-648. doi: 10.1080/10826084.2022.2034877
Barton, A. W., Lavner, J. A., Sutton, N. C., McNeil Smith, S., & Beach, S.R.H (2022). African Americans’ relationship quality and depressive symptoms: A longitudinal investigation of the Marital Discord Model. Journal of Family Psychology, 36(7). 1061-1072. doi: 10.1037/fam0000967
2021
Barton, A. W., Lavner, J. A., Hawrilenko, M. J., & Doss, B. (2021). Trajectories of Relationship and Individual Functioning Among Waitlisted Couples for an Online Relationship Intervention. Family Process, 60. 1233-1248. doi: 10.1111/famp.12691
Lavner, J. A., Barton, A. W., Adesogan, O., & Beach, S. R. H. (2021). Family-centered prevention buffers the effect of financial strain on parenting interactions, reducing youth conduct problems in African American families. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. 89(9), 783–791. doi.org: 10.1037/ccp0000680
Brody, G., Yu, T., Chen, E., Miller, G. E., Barton, A. W. & Kogan, S. M. (2021). Family-Centered Prevention Effects on the Association Between Racial Discrimination and Mental Health in Black Adolescents: Secondary Analysis of 2 Randomized Clinical Trials. JAMA Network Open, 4(3). doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.1964
Barton, A. W., Reinhart, C.A., Campbell, C. C., Smith, D. C., & Albarracin, D. (2021). Opioid use at the transition to emerging adulthood: A latent class analysis of non-medical use of prescription opioids and heroin use. Addictive Behaviors, 114,. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2020.106757
Barton, A. W., Lavner, J. A., & Beach, S. R. H. (2021). Can interventions that strengthen couples’ relationships confer additional benefits for their health? A randomized controlled trial with African American couples. Prevention Science, 22, 386–396. doi:10.1007/s11121-020-01175-7
Barton, A. W., Koester, B. D., Fujimoto, E. M., & Fiese, B. H. (2021). The complexities of family mealtimes in the 21st century: A latent profile analysis. Appetite, 157. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2020.105009
2020
Lavner, J. A., Barton, A. W., & Beach, S. R. H. (2020). Direct and indirect effects of a couple-focused preventive intervention on children’s outcomes: A randomized controlled trial with African American families. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 88, 696–707. doi:10.1037/ccp0000589
Barton, A. W., Hatch, S. G., & Doss, B. D. (2020). If you host it online, who will (and will not) come? Individual and partner enrollment in a web-based intervention for distressed couples. Prevention Science, 21, 830-840. doi: /10.1007/s11121-020-01121-7.
Zapolski, Z. C. B., Yu, T, Brody, G., Banks, D., & Barton, A. W. (2020). Why now? Examining antecedents for substance use initiation among African American adolescence. Development and Psychopathology, 32, 719-734. doi: 10.1017/S0954579419000713
Barton, A. W., Lavner, J. A., Stanley, S. M., Johnson, M. D., & Rhoades, G. K. (2020). “Will you complete this survey too?” Differences between individual versus dyadic samples in romantic relationship research. Journal of Family Psychology, 34, 196-203. doi: 10.1037/fam0000583
Holmes, C. H., Owens, M., Beach, S. R. H., McCormick, M., Hallowell, E., Clark, U., Barton, A. W., Brody, G., MacKillop, J., Sweet, L. (2020). Peer Influence, Frontostriatal Connectivity, and Delay Discounting in African American Emerging Adults. Brain Imaging and Behavior, 14, 155-163. doi:10.1007/s11682-018-9977-y
Johnson, M. D., Lavner, J. A., Barton, A. W., Stanley, S. M., & Rhoades, G. K. (2020). Trajectories of relationship confidence in intimate partnerships. Journal of Family Psychology, 34, 24–34. doi: 10.1037/fam0000575
2019
Lavner, J. A., Barton, A. W., & Beach, S. R. H. (2019). Improving Couples’ Relationship Functioning Leads to Improved Coparenting: A Randomized Controlled Trial with Rural African American Couples. Behavior Therapy, 50, 1016–1029. doi:10.1016/j.beth.2018.12.006
Brody, G. H., Yu, T., Nusslock, R., Barton, A. W., Miller, G. E., Chen, E., Holmes, C., McCormick, M., & Sweet, L. H (2019). Protective parenting effects on the association of poverty across adolescence with functional neural network connectivity during young adulthood. Psychological Science, 30, 1040-1049. doi.org: 10.1177/0956797619847989
Hanson, J. L., Gilmore, A., Holmes, C.J., Yu, T., Barton, A. W., Beach, S. R., Galván. A, MacKillop, J., Windle, M., Chen, E., Miller, G.E., Sweet, L.H., & Brody, G.H. (2019). A family-focused intervention influences hippocampal-prefrontal connectivity through gains in self-regulation. Child Development, 90, 1389-1401. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13154.
Barton, A. W., Brody, G. H., Yu, T., Kogan, S. M., Chen, E., & Ehrlich, K. B. (2019). The profundity of the everyday: Family routines in adolescence predict development in young adulthood. Journal of Adolescent Health, 64, 340-346. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2018.08.029
2018
Barton, A. W., Beach, S. R. H., Wells, A. C., Ingels, J. B., Corso, P. S., Sperr, M. C., Anderson, T. N., & Brody, G. H. (2018). The Protecting Strong African American Families Program: A Randomized Controlled Trial with Rural African American Couples. Prevention Science, 19, 904-913. doi: 10.1007/s11121-018-0895-4.
Lavner, J. A., Barton, A. W., Bryant, C. M., & Beach, S. R. H. (2018). Racial discrimination and relationship functioning among African American couples. Journal of Family Psychology, 32, 686–691. doi:10.1037/fam0000415
Barton, A. W., Yu, T., Brody, G. H., & Ehrlich, K. B. (2018). Childhood Poverty, Catecholamines, and Substance Use Among African American Young Adults: The Protective Effect of Supportive Parenting. Preventive Medicine, 112, 1-5. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2018.03.016
Holmes, C. H., Barton, A. W., MacKillop, J., Galván, A., Owens, M., McCormick, M. J., Yu, T., Beach, S. R. H., Brody, G. H., & Sweet, L. H. (2018). Parenting and Salience Network Connectivity among African Americans: A Protective Pathway for Health-Risk Behaviors. Biological Psychiatry, 84, 365-371. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2018.03.003
Barton, A. W., Brody, G. H., Zapolski, T. C. B., Goings, T. C., Kogan, S. M., Windle, M., & Yu, T. (2018). Trajectory Classes of Cannabis Use and Heavy Drinking among Rural African Americans: Multilevel Predictors of Class Membership. Addiction, 113, 1439-1449 doi:10.1111/add.14200
Barton, A.W., Beach, S. R. H., Bryant, C. M., Lavner, J.A., & Brody, G. H. (2018). Stress spillover, African Americans’ couple and health outcomes, and the stress-buffering effect of family-centered prevention. Journal of Family Psychology, 32, 186-196. doi:10.1037/fam0000376
2017
Barton, A.W., Beach, S. R. H., Lavner, J.A., Bryant, C. M., Kogan, S. M., & Brody, G. H. (2017). Is Communication a Mechanism of Relationship Education Effects among Rural African Americans? Journal of Marriage and Family, 79, 1450–1461. doi:10.1111/jomf.12416
Barton, A. W., Hurt, T. R., Futris, T. G., Sheats, K., McElroy, S., & Landor, A.M. (2017). Being committed: Conceptualizations of romantic relationship commitment among low-income African American adolescents. Journal of Black Psychology, 43, 111-134. doi:10.1177/0095798415621665
Brody, G. H., Gray, J., Yu, T., Barton, A. W., Beach, S. R. H., Galván, A., MacKillop, J., Windle, M., Chen, E., Miller, G. E., & Sweet, L. H. (2017). Protective Prevention Effects on the Association of Poverty With Brain Development. JAMA Pediatrics, 171, 46-52. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2016.2988
2016
Beach, S. R. H., Barton, A. W., Lei, M. K., Mandara, J., Wells, A. C., Kogan, S. M., Brody, G. H. (2016). Decreasing Substance Use Risk Among African American Youth: Parent-based Mechanisms of Change. Prevention Science, 17 (5), 572-583. doi: 10.1007/s11121-016-0651-6.
Barton, A.W., & Bryant, C. M. (2016). Financial strain, trajectories of marital processes, and African American newlyweds’ marital instability. Journal of Family Psychology. 30, 657-664. doi:10.1037/fam0000190
Barton, A.W., Beach, S. R. H., Hurt, T.R., Fincham, F. D., Stanley, S. M., Kogan, S. M., & Brody, G. H. (2016). Determinants and Long-Term Effects of Attendance Levels in a Marital Enrichment Program for African American Couples. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 42(2), 272-287. doi: 10.1111/jmft.12126
2015
Barton, A.W., Kogan, S. M., Cho, J., & Brown, G. L. (2015). Father involvement and young, rural African American men’s engagement in substance misuse and multiple sexual partnerships. American Journal of Community Psychology, 56(3), 241-251. doi:10.1007/s10464-015-9748-5
Barton, A. W., Futris, T. G., & Nielsen, R. B. (2015). Linking financial distress to marital quality: The intermediary roles of demand/withdraw and spousal gratitude expressions. Personal Relationships, 22(3), 536-549. doi: 10.1111/pere.12094
Barton, A.W., Beach, S. R. H., Kogan, S. M., Stanley, S. M., Fincham, F. D., Hurt, T.R., & Brody, G. H. (2015). Prevention effects on trajectories of African American adolescents’ exposure to interparental conflict and depressive symptoms. Journal of Family Psychology, 29(2), 171-179. doi: 10.1037/fam0000073
2014
Barton, A.W., Futris, T. G., & Nielsen, R. B. (2014). With a little help from our friends: Couple social integration in marriage. Journal of Family Psychology, 28(6), 986-991. doi:10.1037/fam0000038
Beach, S. R. H., Barton, A. W., Lei, M. K., Brody, G. H., Kogan, S. M., Hurt, T. R., . . . Stanley, S. M. (2014). The Effect of Communication Change on Long-term Reductions in Child Exposure to Conflict: Impact of the Promoting Strong African American Families (ProSAAF) Program. Family Process, 53(4), 580-595. doi: 10.1111/famp.12085
Barton, A.W., & Bishop, R. (2014). Paradigms, processes, and values in family research. Journal of Family Theory and Review, 6(3), 241-256. doi: 10.1111/jftr.12043
Barton, A.W., Futris, T., & Bradley, R. (2014). Changes following premarital education for couples with differing degrees of future marital risk. Journal of Marital & Family Therapy, 40(2), 165-177. doi: 10.1111/jmft.12006
2011
Futris, T., Barton, A.W., Aholou, T., & Seponski, D. (2011). The Impact of PREPARE on Engaged Couples’ Behaviors, Attitudes and Relationship Quality. Journal of Couple & Relationship Therapy, 10(1), 69-86. doi: 10.1080/15332691.2011.539175