Scyatta Wallace | |
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| Occupation | Associate Professor of Psychology |
| Awards | APA Division 35 (Psychology of Women) Early Career Award |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Yale University, Fordham University |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | St. John's University |
| Website | https://www.scyattawallace.com |
Scyatta A. Wallace is a developmental psychologist who studies how gender, race, and culture impact health outcomes of urban Black youth. In her community-based research and practice, Wallace emphasizes the importance of cultural competence and the need to diversify the workforce in health and mental health professions to better serve ethnic-minority communities.[1] Wallace is an associate professor of psychology with tenure at St. John's University.[2]
Wallace received the American Psychological Association (APA) Carolyn Payton Early Career Award from the Society for the Psychology of Women (APA, Division 35) in 2012.[3] This award was given in recognition of Wallace's co-authored paper titled Gold Diggers, Video Vixens, and Jezebels: Stereotype Images and Substance Use Among Urban African American Girl,[4] which documented higher rates of substance use in African American adolescent girls who endorsed Western standards of beauty (e.g., a preference for lighter complexion and straightened hair) as compared to those who endorsed African American standards of beauty.[5]
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- ^ "Scyatta Wallace". www.stjohns.edu. Retrieved November 21, 2020.
- ^ "Carolyn Payton Early Career Award". www.apadivisions.org. Retrieved November 21, 2020.
- ^ "APA recognizes leaders in HIV/AIDS". www.apa.org. Retrieved November 21, 2020.
- ^ Wallace, Scyatta A.; Townsend, Tiffany G.; Glasgow, Y. Marcia; Ojie, Mary Jane (2011). "Gold Diggers, Video Vixens, and Jezebels: Stereotype Images and Substance Use Among Urban African American Girls". Journal of Women's Health. 20 (9): 1315–1324. doi:10.1089/jwh.2010.2223. ISSN 1540-9996. PMID 21767152.