• The Complex Relationship between Pain Intensity and Physical Functioning in Fibromyalgia: The Mediating Role of Depression 

  Steiner, Jennifer L.; Bigatti, Silvia M.; Slaven, James E.; Ang, Dennis C. (Journal of Applied Biobehavioral Research, 2017)

  Fibromyalgia (FM) is typically associated with the experience of diffuse pain and physical impairment.Depression also commonly co-exists in patients with FM, and has been correlated with pain intensity and physical ...
• Religiosity and Spirituality as Resiliency Resources: Moderation, Mediation, or Moderated Mediation? 

  Reutter, Kirby K.; Bigatti, Silvia M. (Wiley, 2014-03-04)

  A growing body of literature indicates a modestly positive association between religiosity and spirituality as predictors of psychological health (anxiety and depression), suggesting they serve as personal resiliency ...
• Methods and Descriptive Epidemiology of Services Provided by Athletic Trainers in High Schools: The National Athletic Treatment, Injury and Outcomes Network Study 

  Kerr, Zachary Y.; Dompier, Thomas P.; Dalton, Sara L.; Miller, Sayers John; Hayden, Ross; Marshall, Stephen W. (National Athletic Trainers' Association, 2015-12)

  CONTEXT: Research is limited on the extent and nature of the care provided by athletic trainers (ATs) to student-athletes in the high school setting. OBJECTIVE: To describe the methods of the National Athletic ...
• Association between concussion and mental health in former collegiate athletes 

  Kerr, Zachary Y.; Evenson, Kelly R.; Rosamond, Wayne D.; Mihalik, Jason P.; Guskiewicz, Kevin M.; Marshall, Stephen W. (Springer, 2014-12)

  BACKGROUND: The existing research on the association between concussion and mental health outcomes is largely limited to former professional athletes. This cross-sectional study estimated the association between recurrent ...
• Totemism and Long-Term Evolutionary Success 

  Palmer, Craig T.; Begley, Ryan O.; Coe, Kathryn (APA, 2015-11)

  This paper proposes that the clan Totemism existing in many traditional cultures, and described as religious by many ethnographers, provides evidence about the early evolutionary function of religion in the sense that it ...
• Acceptability and Feasibility of a Meaning-Based Intervention for Patients With Advanced Cancer and Their Spouses A Pilot Study 

  Wagner, Christina D.; Johns, Shelley; Brown, Linda F.; Hanna, Nasser; Bigatti, Silvia M. (Sage, 2016)

  Background: Constructing meaning in cancer leads to improved psychosocial outcomes for patients and survivors. Aim: We tested the feasibility and preliminary efficacy of a meaning-based intervention for couples. ...
• The Role of Online Social Support in Supporting and Educating Parents of Young Children With Special Health Care Needs in the United States: A Scoping Review 

  DeHoff, Beth A.; Staten, Lisa K.; Rodgers, Rylin Christine; Denne, Scott C. (JMIR Publications, 2016)

  Background: When parents of young children with special health care needs (CSHCN) receive their child’s diagnosis, they encounter information they may not understand, emotions they may not know how to cope with, and questions ...
• Using Rituals for Intervention Refinement 

  Keller, C.; Coe, Kathryn; Shaibi, G. (2016)

  In this paper we propose a culture-based health promotion/disease prevention intervention model. This model, which is family-based, incorporates a life course perspective, which involves the identification of individual ...
• Can Science lead us to a Definition of Art? 

  Coe, Kathryn (Firenze University Press, 2013)

  For approximately two thousand years, human thinkers have been attempting to define a behaviour, referred to as art, that humans have been practicing for tens of thousands of years. Defining this term has proved to be ...
• Ancestor Worship and the Longevity of Chinese Civilization 

  Coe, Kathryn; Begley, Ryan O. (Brill, 2016)

  Although an impressive body of literature is devoted to the practice of venerating ancestors in China and other places, there is little agreement on what ancestor worship is, where it is practiced, and whether it is an ...
• Reconceptualizing the Human Social Niche: How It Came to Exist and How It Is Changing 

  Palmer, Craig T.; Coe, Kathryn; Steadman, Lyle B. (The University of Chicago Press, 2016-04-04)

  In this paper we present a reconceptualization of the social dimension of the human niche and the evolutionary process that brought it into existence. We agree with many other evolutionary approaches that a key aspect of ...
• Longitudinal relationships between fatigue and depression in cancer patients with depression and/or pain 

  Brown, Linda F.; Rand, Kevin L.; Bigatti, Silvia M.; Stewart, Jesse C.; Theobald, Dale E.; Wu, Jingwei; Kroenke, Kurt (American Psychological Association, 2013-12)

  OBJECTIVE: Fatigue is one of the most common and debilitating symptoms reported by cancer patients, yet relatively little is understood about its etiology. Recently, as researchers have begun to focus attention on ...
• Diversity in times of austerity: Documenting resistance in the academy 

  Moscowitz, David; Jett, Terri; Carney, Terri; Leech, Tamara G.J.; Savage, Ann (2014-05)

  What happens to feminism in the university is parallel to what happens to feminism in other venues under economic restructuring: while the impoverished nation is forced to cut social services and thereby send women back ...
• Empowerment-Based Positive Youth Development: A New Understanding of Healthy Development for African American Youth 

  Travis, Raphael Jr.; Leech, Tamara G.J. (2014-03)

  A shift occurred in research about adolescents in the general population. Research is moving away from deficits toward a resilience paradigm and understanding trajectories of positive youth development. This shift has been ...
• Political competition, relative deprivation, and perceived threat: a research note on anti-Christian violence in India 

  Bauman, Chad; Leech, Tamara G.J. (2012)

  A preliminary subnational statistical analysis of violence against Christians in contemporary India, this article suggests that whereas the data provide very little support for simple, demographic explanations of this ...
• The Significance of Race for Neighborhood Social Cohesion: Perceived Difficulty of Collective Action in Majority Black Neighborhoods 

  Hobson-Prater, Tara; Leech, Tamara G.J. (2012-03)

  This article explores William Julius Wilson’s contentions about community cultural traits by examining racial differences in middle class neighborhoods’ levels of social cohesion. Specifically, we explore the perceived ...
• Everything's Better in Moderation: Young Women's Gender Role Attitudes and Risky Sexual Behavior 

  Leech, Tamara G.J. (2010-05)

  Purpose This study examines the association between gender role attitudes and risky sexual behavior among young women. Previous studies have posed seemingly contradictory arguments: that either traditional attitudes or ...
• A Community Conversation on Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenting Services: Networks of Support, Gatekeepers to Care, and Non-Compulsory Fathering in a Black Urban Community 

  Leech, Tamara G.J.; Adams, Elizabeth A.; Littlefield, Marci (2014)

  This study employed Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) methods to document needs and capacity around adolescent pregnancy and parenting in one predominately Black, low-income urban community. Using an iterative ...
• Subsidized Housing, Public Housing, and Adolescent Violence and Substance Use 

  Leech, Tamara G.J. (2010-06)

  This study examines the separate relationships of public housing residence and subsidized housing residence to adolescent health risk behavior. Data include 2,530 adolescents aged 14 to 19 who were children of the National ...
• The Community Action Framework in Practice: An Illustration Based on the Ready by 21 Coalition of Austin/Travis County 

  Travis, Raphael Jr.; Leech, Tamara G.J. (2011-08)

  The field of positive youth development has expanded focus from articulating and measuring desired manifestations of positive well-being to assembling the environmental conditions known to promote these desired outcomes. ...

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