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Stats Make Me Cry is owned and operated by Jeremy J. Taylor, MA. While Jeremy's background is in Clinical Psychology (current PhD candidate at DePaul University), he has consulted on dissertations for a variety of disciplines, including: Nursing, Business Management, Marketing, Education, Information Systems, Finance, and more. Still early in his career, Jeremy has provided consultation on more than 30 different dissertation or graduate research projects.  In his own research, he continues to build a resume of authored and co-authored publications (listed below) that span a variety of interests. You can view some of the types of analysis that Jeremy may provide help for HERE! 

President: Jeremy J. Taylor, MS
American Statistical Association Member

Jeremy's Professional Publications

Fowler, P. J., Taylor, J. J., & Rufa, A. K. (2011).  Housing services for child welfare-involved families: An initial evaluation using observational data. Child Welfare, 90 (2), 107-126. 

Taylor, J. J., Grant, K. E., Irsheid, S., & Meyerson, D. A. (2010) Peer and family support as moderators of the relationship between stress and symptoms in low-income urban youth. Preparing for journal submission. 

Gaylord-Harden, N.K.,  Taylor, J. J., Campbell, C. L., Kesselring, C. M., & Grant, K. E. (2009). Maternal Attachment and Depressive Symptoms in Urban Adolescents: The Influence of Coping Strategies and Gender, Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 38, 1-12. 

Grant, K. E., McCormick, A., Poindexter, L., Simpkins, T., Janda, C. M., Thomas, K. J., Campbell, A., Carleton, R., & Taylor, J. J., (2005).  Exposure to violence and parenting as mediators between poverty and psychological symptoms in urban African American adolescents.  Journal of Adolescence, 28, 507-521.

Grant, K. E., Taylor, J. J., & Thompson, S. (2008). Stressors and mental health problems in childhood and adolescence. In R. Contrada & A. Baum (Eds.). Handbook of Stress Science. Springer Publishing.

Grant, K. E., McMahon, S. D., Duffy, S. N., & Taylor, J. J. (In Press). Book Chapter: Stress. In B. Brown & M. Prinstein (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Adolescence. Academic Press

Davis, T., Grant, K. E., Taylor, J. J., Nathanson, A., Barrett, E., & Sokolowski, C. (2010).  Stressful life experiences and peer externalizing behavior as mediators of the relation between reduced family support and externalizing symptoms in low-income urban youth.  Manuscript submitted for publication.

Grant, K. E.,  Thomas, K. J., Carlson, G. C., Gipson, P. Y., Mance, G. A., Smith Carter, J., Carleton, R. A., Taylor, J. J., Carothers, K. J., Ford, R. E., Sajous-Brady, D. L., Cardemil, E. V., & Lambert, S. F. (2010).  Why aren’t low-income urban youth more depressed:  A test of two hypotheses.  Manuscript submitted for publication.

Carleton, R., Grant, K.E., Campbell, A., Thomas, K., Mance, G., & Taylor, J. J. (Manuscript under preparation.).  Specificity of cognitive predictors for depression in urban youth.  

Grant, K. E., Carleton, R. A., Taylor, J. J., Meyerson, D., Cosentino, S., Sharko, M., Noorian, N., & Behling, S. (Manuscript under preparation).  Protective factors that break the link between stressors and psychological symptoms in adolescents.  

Grant, K. E., Westerholm, R., Farahmand, F., Taylor, J. J., Gipson, P. Y., Mance, G., A., & Sajous-Brady, D. L. (Manuscript under preparation).  The manifestation of depression in urban youth exposed to chronic stress.  

Jeremy's Symposia and Presentations

Taylor, J. J., Grant, K.E., Amrhein, K, Carter, J (March, 2010). Does the Context of Urban Poverty Affect the Manifestation of Depression: Examining the Factor Structure of the Children's Depression Inventory in a Sample of Low-income Urban Youth.  Symposium presented at the biennial conference of the Society for Research on Adolescence, Philadelphia, PA.

Taylor, J. J., Grant, K. E., Ford-Paz, R., Farahmand, F., Carter, Smith, Meyerson, D. A., et al.,  (November, 2009). Testing the Universality of Risk Factors for Psychopathology in Highly Stressed Youth, Symposiumpresented at the annual convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, New York, NY.

Irsheid, S., Taylor, J. J., & Grant, K. E., (June, 2010). Examining the moderating effects of a two-parent household and ethnicity on the link between coping and depression in low-income urban youth. Paper to be presented at the annual conference for the Society for Prevention Research, Denver, CO. 

Grant, K. E. & Taylor, J. J. (March, 2007).  Stressors and developmental psychopathology:  Conceptualization and measurement issues.  Paper presented at the biennial convention of the Society for Research on Child Development, Boston, MA.

Grant, K. E., Westerholm, R. I., Farahmand, F. K., & Taylor, J. J., (March, 2006).  The manifestation of depression in low-income urban youth.   Paper presented at the biennial convention of the Society for Research on Adolescence, San Francisco, CA.   

Malinowski, S., Taylor, J. J., Grant, K. E., & Farahmand, F. K. (March, 2006).  Exploring mediation in the relationship between chronic stress and externalizing symptoms in low-income urban youth. Poster presented at the biennial convention of the Society for Research on Adolescence, San Francisco, CA.