Kevin M. Fitzpatrick
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University Professor
Also affiliated: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2019); Society for Neuroscience (2009); United States Department of Justice (2011); United States Bureau of Reclamation (2015); University of British Columbia (2009–2016); University of Szeged (2013–2019); University of Alabama at Birmingham (1989–2005); University at Albany, State University of New York (1984); Institute of Mental Health (2013); Michael Smith Health Research BC (2009); Kelvin Nanotechnology (United Kingdom) (2011); East–West University (2014); Institute of Criminology (2018); BC Children's Hospital (2009–2018); Metropolitan Asian Family Services (2012); Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (2023); Child and Family Research Institute (2013–2014); University of Wales (1996)
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Biography and Research Information
OverviewAI-generated summary
Kevin M. Fitzpatrick's research program investigates the complex interplay between social factors, behavioral patterns, and mental health outcomes across diverse populations. His work has examined the influence of social support on adolescent mental health in Jordan, the relationship between smartphone addiction, sleep insufficiency, and cognitive decline among medical students, and the impact of online self-disclosure and social media addiction on depression in Hungarian university students. Fitzpatrick has also studied the effects of social vulnerabilities and place-level disadvantage on food insecurity and negative mental health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S.
His research extends to global health issues, including an examination of vaccine acceptance patterns across 23 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting that barriers to vaccination were not solely driven by vaccine hesitancy. Fitzpatrick's collaborations include work with Grant Drawve and Michael Niño at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, and Caitlin Tidwell and Don E. Willis at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, resulting in multiple shared publications. He maintains an active lab website and leads a research group. Fitzpatrick is recognized as a highly cited researcher, with a documented h-index of 41 and over 7,000 citations across more than 190 publications.
Metrics
- h-index: 41
- Publications: 194
- Citations: 7,102
Selected Publications
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Associations of food insecurity with gestational weight gain: findings from 10 PRAMS study sites (2016-2021) (2026)
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Cultivating change through environmental dynamics: School-based sustainability education as a catalyst for youth agency (2026)
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Race, Place, and Unequal Health (2025)
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Race, Place, and Unequal Health (2025)
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Feeling Good or Doing Good? Stemming the Food Insecurity Tide (2024)
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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)
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Place Still Matters: Social Vulnerabilities, Place-Level Disadvantage, and Food Insecurity during COVID-19 (2023)
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Context, Proximity, and Individual Risk for Early-Pandemic Fear of Covid-19 Infection: A Multilevel Analysis of American Adults in March 2020 (2022)
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Social and psychological resources and COVID-19 related fear, threat and worry (2022)
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Social Differences in Health Behaviours among Jordanian Adolescents (2022)
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Examining disparities in the early adoption of Covid-19 personal mitigation across family structures (2022)
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Relationships Among Depression, Online Self-Disclosure, Social Media Addiction, and Other Psychological Variables Among Hungarian University Students (2022)
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Problematic alcohol use history among persons experiencing homelessness in Northwest Arkansas (2022)
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Social and behavioral vulnerability, pregnancy, and negative mental health outcomes in the U.S. during the Covid-19 pandemic (2022)
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Risk of disordered eating in emerging adulthood: Media, body and weight-related correlates among Hungarian female university students (2021)
Collaboration Network
Top Collaborators
- Social and behavioral vulnerability, pregnancy, and negative mental health outcomes in the U.S. during the Covid-19 pandemic
- The Barrier to Vaccination Is Not Vaccine Hesitancy: Patterns of COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance over the Course of the Pandemic in 23 Countries
- Social and psychological resources and COVID-19 related fear, threat and worry
- Place Still Matters: Social Vulnerabilities, Place-Level Disadvantage, and Food Insecurity during COVID-19
- Examining disparities in the early adoption of Covid-19 personal mitigation across family structures
Showing 5 of 8 shared publications
- Social support and adolescent mental health and well-being among Jordanian students
- 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
- Relationships Among Depression, Online Self-Disclosure, Social Media Addiction, and Other Psychological Variables Among Hungarian University Students
- Social Differences in Health Behaviours among Jordanian Adolescents
- Risk of disordered eating in emerging adulthood: Media, body and weight-related correlates among Hungarian female university students
Showing 5 of 6 shared publications
- Place Still Matters: Social Vulnerabilities, Place-Level Disadvantage, and Food Insecurity during COVID-19
- Examining disparities in the early adoption of Covid-19 personal mitigation across family structures
- Context, Proximity, and Individual Risk for Early-Pandemic Fear of Covid-19 Infection: A Multilevel Analysis of American Adults in March 2020
- Individual, Context, and Space: Using Spatial Approaches for Understanding Unequal Social and Psychological Fallout of COVID-19
- Place Still Matters: Social Vulnerabilities, Place-Level Disadvantage, and Food Insecurity during COVID-19
- Feeling Good or Doing Good? Stemming the Food Insecurity Tide
- Race, Place, and Unequal Health
- Race, Place, and Unequal Health
- Social support and adolescent mental health and well-being among Jordanian students
- Social Differences in Health Behaviours among Jordanian Adolescents
- A sex-stratified multiple regression on Jordanian adolescents’ life satisfaction using different elements of school climate
- Social and psychological resources and COVID-19 related fear, threat and worry
- Examining disparities in the early adoption of Covid-19 personal mitigation across family structures
- Problematic alcohol use history among persons experiencing homelessness in Northwest Arkansas
- 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
- Relationships Among Depression, Online Self-Disclosure, Social Media Addiction, and Other Psychological Variables Among Hungarian University Students
- Risk of disordered eating in emerging adulthood: Media, body and weight-related correlates among Hungarian female university students
- Social and behavioral vulnerability, pregnancy, and negative mental health outcomes in the U.S. during the Covid-19 pandemic
- The Barrier to Vaccination Is Not Vaccine Hesitancy: Patterns of COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance over the Course of the Pandemic in 23 Countries
- The Barrier to Vaccination Is Not Vaccine Hesitancy: Patterns of COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance over the Course of the Pandemic in 23 Countries
- Context, Proximity, and Individual Risk for Early-Pandemic Fear of Covid-19 Infection: A Multilevel Analysis of American Adults in March 2020
- Social and behavioral vulnerability, pregnancy, and negative mental health outcomes in the U.S. during the Covid-19 pandemic
- The Barrier to Vaccination Is Not Vaccine Hesitancy: Patterns of COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance over the Course of the Pandemic in 23 Countries
- Place Still Matters: Social Vulnerabilities, Place-Level Disadvantage, and Food Insecurity during COVID-19
- Feeling Good or Doing Good? Stemming the Food Insecurity Tide
- The Barrier to Vaccination Is Not Vaccine Hesitancy: Patterns of COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance over the Course of the Pandemic in 23 Countries
- The Barrier to Vaccination Is Not Vaccine Hesitancy: Patterns of COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance over the Course of the Pandemic in 23 Countries
- The Barrier to Vaccination Is Not Vaccine Hesitancy: Patterns of COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance over the Course of the Pandemic in 23 Countries
- Problematic alcohol use history among persons experiencing homelessness in Northwest Arkansas
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