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
  • *Francis, S. E., Manley, S., & Doyle, S. (2019). A psychometric evaluation of the Revised Childhood Anxiety Index (CASI-R) in a child and adolescent sample. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 41, 677-691. 
  • *Francis, S. E., Noël, V. A., & Ryan, S. L. (2019). A systematic review of the factor structure of anxiety sensitivity among children: Current status and recommendations for future directions. Child & Youth Care Forum, 48, 603-632. 

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)
  • Durham, T. A., Byllesby, B. M., & Elhai, J. D., & Wang, L. (2022). Latent profile analysis of PTSD and dissociation, and relations with anger. Current Psychology, 41, 1595-1602.
  • Christ, N. M., Byllesby, B. M., & Elhai, J. D. (2022). The effect of cognitive-affective factors on PTSD and alcohol use symptoms: An investigation on rumination, suppression, and reappraisal. Substance Use and Misuse, 57, 2053-2062.
  • *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.

Excessive Technology Use and Anxiety
  • *Hallauer, C. J., Rooney, E. A., Billieux, J., Hall, B. J., & Elhai, J. D. (2022). Mindfulness mediates relations between anxiety with problematic smartphone use severity. Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace, 16(1), 4.
  • Savci, M., Tekin, A., & Elhai, J. D. (2022). Prediction of problematic social media use (PSU) using machine learning approaches. Current Psychology, 41, 2755-2764.
  • *Wang, Y., Yang, H., Montag, C., & Elhai, J. D. (2022). Boredom proneness and rumination mediate relationships between depression and anxiety with problematic smartphone use severity. Current Psychology, 41, 1587-1597.
  • Elhai, J. D., Sapci, O., Yang, H., Amialchuk, A., Rozgonjuk, D., & Montag, C. (2021). Objectively-measured and self-reported smartphone use in relation to surface learning, procrastination, academic productivity, and psychopathology symptoms in college students. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, 3, 912-921.
  • *Elhai, J. D., Rozgonjuk, D., Alghraibeh, A. M., & Yang, H. (2021). Disrupted daily activities from interruptive smartphone notifications: Relations with depression and anxiety severity and the mediating role of boredom proneness. Social Science Computer Review, 39, 20-37.