Research
Listed below are some of the areas that the Anxiety and Stress Lab faculty have examined.
* Papers marked with an asterisk included a student advisee co-author at the time of submission (the student's name is underlined).
Anxiety Sensitivity
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Self-Management and Coping
Technology Use and Anxiety
* Papers marked with an asterisk included a student advisee co-author at the time of submission (the student's name is underlined).
Anxiety Sensitivity
- Francis, S. E. (2014). The role of parental anxiety sensitivity in parent reports of child anxiety in treatment seeking families. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 19, 111-124.
- *Noël, V. A., Lewis, K. M., Francis, S. E., & Mezo, P. G. (2013). Relationships between the multiple dimensions of anxiety sensitivity and symptoms of anxiety and depression in men and women. Journal of Cognitive and Behavioral Psychotherapies, 13, 333-353.
- *Noël, V., & Francis, S. E. (2011). A meta-analytic review of the role of child anxiety sensitivity in child anxiety. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 39, 721-733.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
- *Levine, J.C., Fleming, R., Piedmont, J.I., Cain, S.M., & Chen, W. (2016). Heart rate variability and generalized anxiety disorder during laboratory-induced worry and aversive imagery. Journal of Affective Disorders, 205, 207-215.
- *Levine, J.C., Fleming, R., Piedmont, J.I., & Cain, S.M. Emotion Regulation and Three Hour Ambulatory Cardiovascular Activity in Generalized Anxiety Disorder. in prep.
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Cao, X., Wang, L., Cao, C., Fang, R., Chen, C., Hall, B. J., & Elhai, J. D. (2020). Depicting the associations between different forms of psychopathology in trauma-exposed adolescents. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 29, 827-837.
- *Christ, N. M., Contractor, A. A., Wang, X., & Elhai, J. D. (in press). The mediating effect of rumination between PTSD symptoms and anger reactions. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice and Policy.
- *Tull, M.T., Forbes, C.N., Weiss, N.H., & Gratz, K.L. (in press). An investigation of the effect of trauma script exposure on risk-taking among patients with substance use disorders and posttraumatic stress disorder. Journal of Anxiety Disorders.
- *Vidaña, A.G., Forbes, C.N., Gratz, K.L., & Tull, M.T. (2020). The influence of posttraumatic stress disorder and recurrent major depression on risk-taking propensity following trauma script exposure among patients with substance use disorders. Addictive Behaviors, 102, 106181.
Self-Management and Coping
- Francis, S. E., Mezo, P. G., & Fung, S. L. (2012). Self-control training in children: A review of interventions for anxiety and depression and the role of parental involvement. Psychotherapy Research, 22, 220-238.
- Mezo, P. G., & Francis, S. E. (2012). Modeling the interrelationship of learned resourcefulness, self-management, and affective symptomatology. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 34, 11-21.
Technology Use and Anxiety
- *Elhai, J. D., Gallinari, E. F., Rozgonjuk, D., & Yang, H. (2020). Depression, anxiety and fear of missing out as correlates of social, non-social and problematic smartphone use. Addictive Behaviors, 105, 106335.
- Elhai, J. D., Yang, H., Rozgonjuk, D., & Montag, C. (2020). Using machine learning to model problematic smartphone use severity: The significant role of fear of missing out. Addictive Behaviors, 103, 106261.
- *Elhai, J. D., Rozgonjuk, D., Alghraibeh, A. M., Levine, J. C., Alafnan, A. A., Aldraiweesh, A. A., Aljooma, S. S., & Hall, B. J. (2020). Excessive reassurance seeking mediates relations between rumination and problematic smartphone use. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 84, 137-155.
