Kevin M. Fitzpatrick Source Confirmed

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University Professor

University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

faculty

41 h-index 189 pubs 6,968 cited

Research Areas

Behavioral and Psychological Studies Child and Adolescent Health Mental Health Research Topics COVID-19 and Mental Health Health disparities and outcomes Technology Adoption and User Behaviour Social and Intergroup Psychology Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations

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Kevin M. Fitzpatrick's research investigates the complex interplay of social, behavioral, and psychological factors influencing health and well-being across diverse populations. His work has examined adolescent mental health in Jordan, exploring the impact of social support and health behaviors. He has also studied the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, including its association with social vulnerabilities, place-level disadvantage, food insecurity, and negative mental health outcomes in the U.S.

Fitzpatrick's research also delves into the psychological correlates of technology use and academic behaviors. This includes investigations into smartphone addiction, academic and bedtime procrastination, and their links to cognitive capacity decrease and sleep insufficiency among medical students. Further studies have explored the relationships among depression, online self-disclosure, social media addiction, and other psychological variables in university students, as well as the role of social comparison and online social support in social media addiction mediated by self-esteem and loneliness.

With a substantial publication record (189 publications) and a high citation count (6,968 citations), Fitzpatrick is recognized as a highly cited researcher. He maintains an active research group and collaborates with researchers at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, including Grant Drawve, Michael Niño, Caitlin Tidwell, and Don E. Willis.

Metrics

h-index: 41
Publications: 189
Citations: 6,968

Selected Publications

Race, Place, and Unequal Health (2025) DOI
Race, Place, and Unequal Health (2025) DOI
Feeling Good or Doing Good? Stemming the Food Insecurity Tide (2024) DOI
Association between impulsivity and cognitive capacity decrease is mediated by smartphone addiction, academic procrastination, bedtime procrastination, sleep insufficiency and daytime fatigue among medical students: a path analysis (2023) DOI
Place Still Matters: Social Vulnerabilities, Place-Level Disadvantage, and Food Insecurity during COVID-19 (2023) DOI
Context, Proximity, and Individual Risk for Early-Pandemic Fear of Covid-19 Infection: A Multilevel Analysis of American Adults in March 2020 (2022) DOI
Social and psychological resources and COVID-19 related fear, threat and worry (2022) DOI
Social Differences in Health Behaviours among Jordanian Adolescents (2022) DOI
Examining disparities in the early adoption of Covid-19 personal mitigation across family structures (2022) DOI
Relationships Among Depression, Online Self-Disclosure, Social Media Addiction, and Other Psychological Variables Among Hungarian University Students (2022) DOI
Problematic alcohol use history among persons experiencing homelessness in Northwest Arkansas (2022) DOI
Social and behavioral vulnerability, pregnancy, and negative mental health outcomes in the U.S. during the Covid-19 pandemic (2022) DOI
Risk of disordered eating in emerging adulthood: Media, body and weight-related correlates among Hungarian female university students (2021) DOI
A sex-stratified multiple regression on Jordanian adolescents’ life satisfaction using different elements of school climate (2021) DOI
Individual, Context, and Space: Using Spatial Approaches for Understanding Unequal Social and Psychological Fallout of COVID-19 (2021) DOI