Research by Center Scholars and Affiliates 2023-24
COVID-19
Chen, J.A., et al. (2023). COVID-19-related direct and vicarious racial discrimination: Associations with psychological distress among U.S. college students. Journal of Affective Disorders, 325, 747-754
Choi, K. et al. (2023). Associations of Psychological Resilience to Trauma with Somatic Symptoms and COVID-19 Infection Over Two Years. Biological Psychiatry, 93 (9)
Choi, K., et al. (2023). Social support and depression during a global crisis. Nature Mental Health, 1, 428-435
Duncan, D.T., Kawachi, I., and Morse, S.S. (2024). The Social Epidemiology of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Oxford University Press
Hernandez, R., et al. (2024). Economic, Psychological, and Emotional Well-Being of Pregnant Women During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health
Kawachi, I. (2024). Income Inequality and COVID-19, in Duncan, D., Kawachi, I., and Morse, S. (2024). The Social Epidemiology of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Oxford University Press, USA
Kawachi, I. et al. (2023). Socioeconomic inequalities of Long COVID: a retrospective population-based cohort study in the United Kingdom. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1-11
Lerner, J., and Kawachi, I., et al. (2023). In COVID-19 health messaging, loss framing increases anxiety with little-to-no concomitant benefits: experimental evidence from 84 countries. Affective Science, 3 (3): 577-602
Michaels, D., Wagner, G.R., and Ryan, L. (2023). Lessons From COVID-19 for Protecting Workers in the Next Pandemic. JAMA Network
Nishimi, K., Choi, K., et al. (2023). Psychological Resilience to Trauma and Risk for COVID-19 Infection and Somatic Symptoms Over Two Years. Psychosomatic Medicine
Patel, V., Choi, K., et al. (2024). Patterns and correlates of mental healthcare utilization during the COVID-19 pandemic among individuals with pre-existing mental disorder. PLOS One
Patel, V., Fancourt, D., Furukawa, T.A., and Kola, L. (2023). Reimagining the journey to recovery: The COVID-19 pandemic and global mental health. PLoS Medicine, 20(4)
Patel, V., et al. (2023). Feasibility and Acceptability of a Remote Stepped Care Mental Health Program for Adolescents during the COVID-19 Pandemic in India. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Peter, J., et al. (2023). Associations between greenness and predicted COVID-19–like illness incidence in the United States and the United Kingdom. Environmental Epidemiology, 7(1): 244
Rastogi, R., Cerda, I.H., Ibrahim, A., Chen, J.A., Stevens, C., and Liu, C.H. (2023). Long COVID and psychological distress in young adults: Potential protective effect of a prior mental health diagnosis. Journal of Affective Disorders, 340, 639-648
Digital Health Assessments and Interventions
Chakraborty, S., Gui, M., Gerosa, T., and Marciano, L. (2024). Testing the validity of the smartphone pervasiveness scale for adolescents with self-reported objective smartphone use data. Digital Health, 10: 1-9
Huffman, J.C., Healy, B.C., Jacobson, L., Harnedy, L.E., Bell, M., Carillo, A., and Celano, C.M. (2023). Development and testing of an adaptive text message intervention to promote psychological well-being and reduce cardiac risk: Methods and process-related outcomes of the Text4Health controlled clinical pilot trial. Current Psychology
Koenen, K.C., et al. (2023). Use of serial smartphone-based assessments to characterize diverse neuropsychiatric symptom trajectories in a large trauma survivor cohort. Translational Psychiatry, 13 (4)
Marciano, L., Vocaj, E., Bekalu, M.A., La Tona, A., Rocchi, G., and Viswanath, K. (2023). The Use of Mobile Assessments for Monitoring Mental Health in Youth: Umbrella Review. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 25
Patel, V., et al. (2024). Scaling up the task-sharing of psychological therapies: A formative study of the PEERS smartphone application for supervision and quality assurance in rural India. Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health, 11(20), 1–11
Patel, V., et al. (2024). Designing an App to Support Measurement-Based Peer Supervision of Frontline Health Workers Delivering Brief Psychosocial Interventions in Texas: Multimethod Study. JMIR Formative Research, 8
Patel, V., et al. (2023). Developing knowledge-based psychotherapeutic competencies in non-specialist providers: A pre-post study with a nested randomized controlled trial of a coach-supported versus self-guided digital training course for a problem-solving psychological intervention in India. Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health, 10 (e87): 1-12
Patel, V., et al. (2023). Digital Interventions for Common Mental Disorders in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Viswanath, K., et al. (2023). Implementation and scaling-up of an effective mHealth intervention to increase adherence to triage of HPV-positive women (ATICA study): perceptions of health decision-makers and health-care providers. Boston Medical Center Health Services Research
Environment
Chen, N., Hu, C., Iyer, H., James, P., Dickerman, B., Mucci, L., and Nethery, R. (2024). Neighborhood greenness and long-term physical and psychosocial quality of life among prostate cancer survivors in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study. Environmental Research, 262(1)
Denckla, C.A, Kubzansky, L.D., Koenen, K.C., et al. (2024). A systematic review of the effects of chronic, slow-onset climate change on mental health. Nature mental health
James, P., et al. (2024). Greenness and Hospitalization for Cardiorespiratory Diseases in Brazil. Environmental Health Perspectives, 132 (6)
James, P., et al. (2024). Associations of street-view greenspace with Parkinson’s disease hospitalizations in an open cohort of elderly US Medicare beneficiaries. Environment International,188
James, P., et al. (2024). Abstract MP76: Street View Greenspace Exposures and Cardiovascular Health Among Children – Evidence From Project Viva. AHA Journals
James, P., et al. (2024). Abstract P394: Associations of Street-View Greenspace Exposure With Cardiovascular Health (Life’s Essential 8) Among Women in Midlife. AHA Journals
Jimenez, M., Wagner, M., Laden, F., Hart, J., Grodstein, F., and James, P. (2024). Residential Greenness and Late-Life Cognitive Decline among Nurses’ Health Study Participants. Environmental Health Perspectives
Patel, V., et al. (2024). Advancing disability-inclusive climate research and action, climate justice, and climate-resilient development. The Lancet: Planetary Health, 8: 4, E242-E255
Schwartz, J., et al. (2023). Air pollution and age-dependent changes in emotional behavior across early adolescence in the U.S. Environmental Research
Flourishing
Cowden, R.G., et al. (2024). Do Forgiveness Campaign Activities Improve Forgiveness, Mental Health, and Flourishing? International Journal of Public Health, 69
Kuo, C.T., and Kawachi, I. (2023). Relative deprivation and human flourishing: how do upward income comparisons affect health, happiness and life satisfaction? Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
Williams, D.R., et al. (2024). Pathways to Flourishing: The Roles of Self- and Divine Forgiveness in Mitigating the Adverse Effects of Stress and Substance Use among Adults in Trinidad and Tobago. MDPI, 15(9)
Health Communications
Douglas-Durham, E., Tan, A., Emmons, K., and Viswanath, K. (2024). The Relationship Between News Coverage of COVID-19 Misinformation and Online Search Behavior. Health Communication
Galmarini, E., Marciano, L., and Schulz, P.J. (2024). The effectiveness of visual-based interventions on health literacy in health care: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Health Services Research, 24 (718)
Health Equity
Adzrago, D., Williams, D.R., and Williams, F. (2024). Multiple chronic diseases and psychological distress among adults in the United States: the intersectionality of chronic diseases, race/ethnicity, immigration, sex, and insurance coverage. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
Chen, R., Byrd, D., Whitfield, K., and Williams, D.R. (2024). Associations of Major Lifetime and Everyday Discrimination with Cognitive Function among Middle-Aged and Older Adults. Ethnicity and Disease, 34 (3): 137–144
Cerda, I.H., Macaranas, A.R., Liu, C.H., Chen, J.A. (2023). Strategies for Naming and Addressing Structural Racism in Immigrant Mental Health. American Journal of Public Health, 13 (S1), S72-S79
Dawes, D.E., Holden, K.B., and Williams, D.R. (2023). Health Equity: African Americans and Public Health. The American Public Health Association
Grodstein, F., et al. (2024). Everyday Discrimination is Associated with Higher Odds of Hospitalizations among Older African Americans. The Journals of Gerontology: Series A
Kalita, A., Carton-Rossen, N., Joeph, L., Chhetri, D., and Patel, V. (2023). The Barriers to Universal Health Coverage in India and the Strategies to Address Them: A Key Informant Study. Annals of Global Health, 89 (1)
Kino, S., Aida, J., Kondo, K., and Kawachi, I. (2023). Do disasters exacerbate socioeconomic inequalities in health among older people? International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
Lawrence, J. and Kawachi, I. (2023). Institutional Experiences of Racial Discrimination and Cognitive Function: Instrumental Variable Analysis. Innovation in Aging, 7 (1): 616
Mateo, C.M., Furtado, K., Plaisime, M.V., and Williams, D.R. (2024). The Sociopolitical Context of the Unequal Treatment Report: Then and Now. Urban Institute
Mbewu, A., Williams, D.R., Moletsane, R., and Reddy, P. (2024). Striking racial inequities in health persist in South Africa. BMJ, 385, q834
Patel, V. (2023). The right to mental health. The Lancet, Perspectives: The Art of Medicine, 402 (10411), 1412-1413
Peters, S.E., Wagner, G.R., et al. (2024). Adding injury to insult: Unfair treatment at work and occupational injury among hospital patient-care workers. American Journal of Industrial Medicine
Qureshi, F., Denckla, C., and Boehm, J.K. (2024). Positive epidemiology, revisited: The case for centering human rights and economic justice. American Journal of Epidemiology
Ramadhan, S., et al. (2023). The role of small, locally-owned businesses in advancing community health and health equity: a qualitative exploration in a historically Black neighborhood in the USA. Critical Public Health
Ramanadhan, S., et al. (2023). Using Participatory Implementation Science to Advance Health Equity. Annual Review of Public Health, 45
Rastogi, R., Woolverton, A., Lee, R., Yip, T., Stevens, C., Chen, J., and Liu, C. (2024). Microaggression and discrimination exposure on young adult anxiety, depression, and sleep. Journal of Affective Disorders, 363: 141-151
Singla, D.R., Schleider, J.L., and Patel, V. (2023). Democratizing Access to Psychological Therapies: Innovations and the Role of Psychologists. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 91 (11), 623-625
Williams, D.R., et al. (2024). Discrimination in Medical Settings across Populations: Evidence from the All of Us Research Program. American Journal of Preventive Medicine
Williams, D.R., et al. (2023). Addressing health inequities for children in immigrant families: Psychologists as leaders and links across systems. American Psychologist, 78 (2), 173–185
Williams, D.R., et al. (2024). Addressing Structural Racism Through Public Policy Advocacy: A Policy Statement From the American Heart Association. American Heart Association Journal
Lifestyle
Finkelstein-Fox, L., Park, E., et al. (2023). Healthy lifestyle behaviors among a diverse population of early posttreatment adolescent and young adult (AYA) survivors participating in a virtual stress management program. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 41 (16)
James, P., et al. (2023). Abstract 52: Using Smartphone-Based Digital Phenotyping to Understand Lifestyle and Behavioral Risks of Cardiometabolic Diseases: The Beiwe Smartphone Sub-Study of Nurses’ Health Study 3 and Growing Up Today Study. Circulation, 147
Loneliness
Berkman, L., Chen, Y., Kim, E., et al. (2023). Are loneliness and social isolation equal threats to health and well-being? An outcome-wide longitudinal approach. SSM—Population Health
Kim, E.S., et al. (2024). The silent epidemic of loneliness: identifying the antecedents of loneliness using a lagged exposure-wide approach. Psychological Medicine, 1–14
Smith, R., Holt-Lunstad, J., and Kawachi, I. (2023). Benchmarking social isolation, loneliness and smoking: challenges and opportunities for public health. American Journal of Epidemiology
Soh, Y., Kawachi, I., Kubzansky, L.D., Berkman, L.F., and Tiemeier, H. (2024). Chronic loneliness and the risk of incident stroke in middle and late adulthood: a longitudinal cohort study of U.S. older adults. eClinical Medicine, The Lancet
Yoshida, K., Honda, K., Goto, A., and Kawachi, I. (2024). Collateral Health Effects of Loneliness Care in Japan. Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology
Mental Health
Chen, J.A., et al. (2024). Mental health help-seeking willingness among U.S. college students: A resilience factor associated with many sexual minority identities. Psychiatry Research
Craske, M.G., Herzalleh, M.M., Nusslock, R., Patel, V. (2023). From neural circuits to communities: an integrative multidisciplinary roadmap for global mental health. Nature Mental Health, 1, 12-24
Kawachi, I., et al. (2024). Pet Attachment and Anxiety and Depression in Middle-Aged and Older Women. JAMA Network Open, 7(8)
Marciano, L., Vocaj, E., Bekalu, M.A., La Tona, A., Rocchi, G., and Viswanath, K. (2023). The Use of Mobile Assessments for Monitoring Mental Health in Youth: Umbrella Review. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 25
Mathur, S., Michelson, D., Shetty, T., Patel, V., and Field, A.P. (2023). Knowledge Of Problem Solving (KOPS) scale: Design and evaluation of a scalable competency measure for a common practice element in task-shared youth mental health interventions
Millstein, R.A., Harnedy, L., Thorndike, A.N., Kim, S., Castillo, C., Park, E.R., Healy, B.C., and Huffman, J.C. (2023). Abstract P511: Physical Activity, Medical, and Mental Health Outcomes of a Pilot Multilevel Intervention for People With Metabolic Syndrome. Circulation, 147
Nadkarni, A., Hanlon, C., and Patel, V. (2023). Mental Health Care Models in Low-and Middle-Income Countries. Tasman’s Psychiatry, 1-47
Ng., A., Gruenewald, T., Juster, R., and Trudel-Fitzgerald, C. (2024). Affect regulation and allostatic load over time. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 169
Papola, D., Barbui, C., and Patel, V. (2023). Leave no one behind: Rethinking policy and practice at the national level to prevent mental disorders. Mental Health & Prevention, 33
Park, E.R., et al. (2023). Treatment-related changes in insomnia, anticipatory pleasure, and depression symptoms: A proof-of-concept study with cancer survivors. Sleep Medicine
Patel, V., et al. (2024). Adolescent engagement in a stepped care, transdiagnostic mental health intervention delivered in Indian schools. Discover Psychology, 4:43
Patel, V., et al. (2024). Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a community intervention in enhancing access to care and improving clinical outcomes for depression: a protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial in India. Trials, 25 (569)
Patel, V., et al. (2024). The Effects of Mental Health Interventions on Labor Market Outcomes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Patel, V., et al. (2023). Transforming mental health systems globally: principles and policy recommendations. The Lancet, Health Policy, 402 (10402), 656-666
Patel, V., et al. (2023). Interventions to increase help-seeking for mental health care in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review. PLOS Global Public Health
Patel, V., et al. (2023). We are everyone’s ASHAs but who’s there for us?” a qualitative exploration of perceptions of work stress and coping among rural frontline workers in Madhya Pradesh, India. Social Science & Medicine
Patel, V., et al. (2023). Developing knowledge-based psychotherapeutic competencies in non-specialist providers: A pre-post study with a nested randomized controlled trial of a coach-supported versus self-guided digital training course for a problem-solving psychological intervention in India. Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Patel, V., et al. (2023). Dismantling and personalising task-sharing psychosocial interventions for common mental disorders: a study protocol for an individual participant data component network meta-analysis. BMJ Open
Patel, V., et al. (2023). ESSENCE: An Implementation Research Program to Scale Up Depression Care in Rural Communities. Psychiatry Online
Renjhen, R., Tajuria, G., Lamahewa, K., Sumathipala, A., and Patel, V. (2024). International Representation in Psychiatric Literature: Has the Trend Changed? Review of 11 Leading Psychiatric Journals. Archives of Psychiatry Research, 60:1
Sampson, L., Kubzansky, L.D., Koenen, K.C. (2023). The Missing Piece: A Population Health Perspective to Address the U.S. Mental Health Crisis. MIT Press Direct, Daedalus, 152 (4): 24-44
Mental Health Linked to Physical Health
Chen, Y., Okereke, O., Kim, E.S., Tiemeier, H., Kubzansky, L.D., and Vanderweele, T.J. (2024). Gratitude and Mortality Among Older US Female Nurses. JAMA Psychiatry
Celano, C.M., et al. (2024). Psychosocial predictors of health behavior adherence in heart-failure patients with comorbid depression: a secondary analysis of the Hopeful Heart trial. BMC Psychology
Côté, A., Miquelon, P., and Trudel-Fitzgerald, C. (2024). Physical Activity, Sedentary Time, and Psychosocial Functioning among Adults with Cancer: A Scoping Review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 21(2), 225
Hernandez, R., et al. (2024). Depressive Symptoms, Antidepressants, and Clinical Outcomes in Chronic Kidney Disease: Findings from the CRIC Study. Kidney Medicine, 6(4)
Huffman, J., et al. (2023). Association of Depression and Cardiovascular Disease. The American Journal of Medicine
Kim, E.S., Wilkinson, R., Okuzono, S.S., Chen, Y., Shiba, K., Cowden, R.G., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2024). Positive affect during adolescence and health and well-being in adulthood: An outcome-wide longitudinal approach. PLOS Medicine
Koenen, K.C., et al. (2024). Probing the neurocardiac circuit in trauma and posttraumatic stress. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 176: 173-181
Murchland, A., Koenen, K., and Hayes-Larson, E. (2024). The link between traumatic experiences and health in late life: challenges and opportunities for US-based longitudinal aging cohorts. American Journal of Epidemiology
Ng, A. E., Kubzansky, L. D., Guimond, A.-J., and Trudel-Fitzgerald, C. (2024). Are there sociodemographic-specific associations of coping with heart disease and diabetes incidence? Health Psychology
Patel, V., et al. (2023). The relationship between physical and mental health: an update from the WPA Working Group on Managing Comorbidity of Mental and Physical Health. World Psychiatry, 22 (1), 169-70
Qureshi, F., Kubzansky, L., Chen, Y., Soo, J., Kim, E., Lloyd-Jones, D., and Boehm, J.K. (2024). Associations between positive affect and physical activity from young adulthood to midlife: A 25-year prospective study. Health Psychology, 43(10), 730–738
Salinas, J., et al. (2024). The association between levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor and comorbid depression in patients with cardiovascular disease: The Framingham Heart Study. Psychiatry Clinical Neuroscience
Schwartz, J., et al. (2023). Psychological stress and epigenetic aging in older men: The VA normative aging study. Translational Medicine of Aging
Trudel‑Fitzgerald, C., Guimond, A.-J., and Kubzansky, L. D. (2024). Emotion regulation and cardiovascular health. In Gross, J.J., and Ford, B. Q. (Eds.), Handbook of emotion regulation (3rd ed., pp. 465–473). The Guilford Press.
Wang, K., Rees, V.W., Dorison, C.A., Kawachi, I., and Lerner, J. (2024). The role of positive emotion in harmful health behavior: Implications for theory and public health campaigns. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 121 (28)
Mind-Body Medicine
Allende, S., Cramer, H., Wayne, P., and Lauche, R. (2023). Investigating Inter- and Intra-individual Differences in Tai Chi Practice Time, Pain, and Mood Among Participants with Chronic Nonspecific Neck Pain: Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine
Hernandez, R., et al. (2023). Feasibility and impact of a remote moderate-intensity yoga intervention on stress and executive functioning in working adults: a randomized controlled trial. Journal of Behavioral Medicine
Hoeppner, B., et al. (2023). A Randomized Controlled Trial of Community-Delivered Heated Hatha Yoga for Moderate-to-Severe Depression. The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
Perez, G.K., Park, E.R., et al. (2024). Development and feasibility of a virtual, synchronous mind-body resiliency intervention for fathers of children and youth with special healthcare needs. Brain Behavior and Immunity Integrative, 5
Loewenthal, J., Berning, M.J., Wayne, P.M., Eckstrom, E., and Orkaby, A.R. (2023). Holistic frailty prevention: The promise of movement-based mind-body therapies. Aging Cell
Wayne, P.M., Yeh, G.Y., et al. (2024). Cardiorespiratory Effects of Tai Chi Versus Walking: Exploratory Data from the LEAP Trial. Journal of Clinical Exercise Physiology, 13 (2), 52–60
Wayne, P.M., Yeh, G.Y., et al. (2023). Understanding the dynamics of inflammatory mediators in response to mind-body movement therapies (MBMTs): A systematic review and meta-analysis of studies in healthy subjects. Brain Behavior and Immunity Integrative, 2
Wayne, P.M., et al. (2023). Long-term Tai Chi practice in older adults is associated with “younger” functional abilities. Aging Cell
Wayne, P.M., et al. (2023). The impact of yoga on aging physiology: A review. The Journal of Nutrition, Health, and Aging
Yeh, G., Wayne, P., and Mehta, D. (2024). High Tech and Soft Touch: Mind–Body Medicine and Technology Can Be Co-Evolutionary Forces. Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine, 30(8)
Yeh, G., et al. (2024). Key Components of Qigong for People With Multiple Sclerosis: A Survey of Clinicians, Researchers, and Instructors. Global Advances in Integrative Medicine and Health, 13: 1–12
You, T., Leveille, S., Yeh, G., and Wayne, P. (2023). Is Tai Chi beneficial for multisite pain syndrome in older adults? Aging Clinical and Experimental Research
Mindfulness
Berryman, K., Lazar, S.W., and Hohwy, J. (2023). Do contemplative practices make us more moral? Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Joss, D., Teicher, M., and Lazar, S. (2024). Temporal Dynamics and Long-Term Effects of a Mindfulness-Based Intervention for Young Adults With Adverse Childhood Experiences. Mindfulness
Joss, D., Teicher, M.H., and Lazar, S.W. (2024). Beneficial effects of mindfulness-based intervention on hippocampal volumes and episodic memory for childhood adversity survivors. Journal of Affective Disorders Reports, 16
Lazar, S.W., et al. (2024). ENIGMA-Meditation: Worldwide consortium for neuroscientific investigations of meditation practices
Lazar, S., et al. (2023). Attenuation of Anxiety-Potentiated Startle After Treatment with Escitalopram or Mindfulness Meditation in Anxiety Disorders. Biological Psychiatry
Lu, C., Dijk, S.W., Pandit, A., Kranenburg, L., Luik, A.I., Hunink, M.G. (2023). The effect of mindfulness-based interventions on reducing stress in future health professionals: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Applied Psychology, Health and Well Being
Wayne, P.M., Yeh, G.Y., and Mehta, D.H. (2024). Through the Looking Glass: Psychedelics As a Window into Mindfulness and Mind–Body Health. Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine, 30: 1
Optimism
Boehm, J.K., Qureshi, F., Chen, Y., Soo, J., Umukoro, P., Hernandez, R., Lloyd-Jones, D., and Kubzansky, L.D. (2023). Optimism and Cardiovascular Health: Longitudinal Findings From the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study. Psychosomatic Medicine, 82(8): 774–781
Huffman, J.C., et al. (2024). Gratitude, optimism, and satisfaction with life and patient-reported outcomes in patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Psycho-Oncology, 33 (2)
Koga, H. K., Grodstein, F., Williams, D.R., Demeo, D. L., and Kubzansky, L.D. (2024). Relations of optimism and purpose in life to immune markers in aging. Journal of Psychosomatic Research
Koga, H.K., Grodstein, F., Williams, D.R., et al. (2024). Longitudinal Associations Between Optimism and Objective Measures of Physical Functioning in Women. JAMA Psychiatry
Shimomura, K., Morita, K., Huffman, J.C., and Millstein, R.A. (2023). Intraindividual Fluctuation in Optimism Under Daily Life Circumstances: A Longitudinal Study. Affective Science
Shimomura, K., Morita, K., Nishiguchi, Y., Huffman, J.C., Millstein, R.A. (2023). Intraindividual fluctuation in optimism: Development and validation of the Japanese version of the State Optimism Measure. PsyArXiv Preprints
Positive Psychology
Celano, C.M., Park, E.R., Huffman, J.C., et al. (2024). A Positive Psychology Intervention in Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Survivors (PATH): A Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial. JNCCN, 22 (2D)
Celano, C.M., Huffman, J.C., et al. (2023). Positive Psychological Well-Being in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Survivors. American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy
Hernandez, R., et al. (2023). Positive Psychological Intervention Delivered Using Virtual Reality in Patients on Hemodialysis with Comorbid Depression: Protocol and Design for the Joviality Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Research Protocols, 12
Huffman, J.C., et al. (2024). Gratitude, optimism, and satisfaction with life and patient-reported outcomes in patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Psycho-Oncology, 33 (2)
Huffman, J.C., et al. (2023). A Positive Psychology Intervention in Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Survivors (PATH) to Promote Well-Being: Randomized Controlled Feasibility and Preliminary Efficacy Trial. Blood, 142, (1): 2203
Huffman, J.C., Celano, C.M., et al. (2023). Positive psychological well-being: A novel concept for improving symptoms, quality of life, and health behaviors in irritable bowel syndrome. Neurogastroenterology and motility: the official journal of the European Gastrointestinal Motility Society
Krentzman, A., Hoeppner, S., Hoeppner, B., Barnett, N.P. (2024). A randomized feasibility study of a positive psychology journaling intervention to support recovery from substance-use disorders. Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment
Koga, H.K., Grodstein, F., Williams, D.R., et al. Longitudinal Associations Between Optimism and Objective Measures of Physical Functioning in Women. JAMA Psychiatry
Millstein, R., Huffman, J.C., Celano, C.M., et al. (2023). Positive psychological well-being and clinical characteristics in IBS: A systematic review. General Hospital Psychiatry, 81, 1-14
Millstein, R.A., Huffman, J.C., et al. (2023). Using Positive Psychology to Address Emotional Barriers to Physical Activity After Bariatric Surgery: Proof-of-Concept Trial of the Gaining Optimism After Weight Loss Surgery (GOALS) Project. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice
Saboor, S., Medina, A., and Marciano, L. (2024). Application of Positive Psychology in Digital Interventions for Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Controlled Trials. JMIR Mental Health, 11
Waldinger, R.J., et al. (2024). More organized white matter is associated with positivity bias in older adults. Brain Imaging and Behavior
Resilience
Denckla, C., et al. (2023). Resilient phenotypes among bereaved youth: a comparison of trajectory, relative, and cross-domain approaches. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 17(23)
Koenen, K., et al. (2024). Defining the r factor for post-trauma resilience and its neural predictors. Nature Mental Health
Koenen, K.C., Williams, D.R., et al. (2023). Trauma, risk, and resilience: A qualitative study of mental health in post-conflict Liberia. Transcultural Psychiatry
Kubzansky, L., Koenen, K., et al. (2024). Psychological resilience, resilient coping, and health behaviors among adults in Puerto Rico after multiple adverse events. Preventative Medicine Reports, 46
Kubzansky, L.D., Koenen, K.C., et al. (2023). Abstract MP42: Associations Between Psychological Resilience and Lifestyle Behaviors Among Adults in Puerto Rico Affected by Repeated Adverse Events. Circulation, 147
Park, E., et al. (2024). A resiliency intervention adapted for older women with HIV: Results from a pilot randomized controlled trial in the northeastern US. Journal of Health Psychology
Scoglio, A., Nishimi, K., Choi, K., Koenen, K., Sampson, L., Jha, S., and Kubzansky, L. (2024). Prior resilience to trauma & coping during the COVID-19 pandemic. PLOS One
Trudel-Fitzgerald, C., Boucher, G., Morin, C., Mondragon, P., Guimond, A-J., Nishimi, K., Choi, K.W., Denckla, C. (2023). Coping and emotion regulation: A conceptual and measurement scoping review. Canadian Psychology. Advance online publication
Trudel-Fitzgerald, C., Lee, L.O., Guimond, A-J., Chen, R., James, P., Koga, H.K., Lee, H.H., Okuzono, S.S., Grodstein, F., Rich-Edwards, J., and Kubzansky, L.D. (2023). A long and resilient life: the role of coping strategies and variability in their use in lifespan among women. Anxiety, Stress, & Coping: An International Journal
Williams, D.R., et al. (2023). Variations in risk, resilience, and protective factors for cognitive and socioemotional development among 3- to 4-year-old children in Nigeria: A multilevel modeling. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 64, 162-173
Yeh, G.Y., Park, E.R., et al. (2023). A pilot randomized controlled trial of a mind-body resiliency program for fear of cancer recurrence: Qualitative findings. JCO Oncology Practice, 19 (11)
Sense of Purpose
Kawachi, I., et al. (2023). Sense of Coherence and Incident Dementia in Older Japanese Adults: The Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
Kim, E.S., Nakamura, J.S., Strecher, V.J., Cole, S.W. (2023). Reduced Epigenetic Age in Older Adults with High Sense of Purpose in Life. The Journals of Gerontology, Series A
Koga, H.K., Grodstein, F., Williams, D.R., Buchman, A.S., and Kubzansky, L.D. (2024). Purpose in life and its association to Parkinsonism. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B
Padgett, N.R., Hanson, J., Nakamure, J.S., Ritchie-Dunham, J.L., Kim, E.S., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2023). Psychometric properties of the comprehensive measure of meaning. Measure Meaning in Life
Social Factors Linked to Mental and Physical Health
Dev, S., Griffith, J., Patel, V., and Lincoln, A. (2023). Social support and user engagement with task-shared psychological treatments in the real world: Findings from the PRIME India study. SSM- Mental Health, 4
Huffman, J., Celano, C., et al. (2023). Peer support interventions in patients with kidney failure: A systematic review. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 171
Kawachi, I. et al. (2023). Retirement and cardiovascular disease: a longitudinal study in 35 countries. International Journal of Epidemiology
Kim, E.S., Wilkinson, R., Case, B., Cowden, R., Okuzono, S., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2024). Connected communities: Perceived neighborhood social cohesion during adolescence and subsequent health and well-being in young adulthood: An outcome-wide longitudinal approach. Journal of Community Psychology, 52 (6): 774-791
Kim, E.S., et al. (2024). A national cohort study of community belonging and its influence on premature mortality. Journal of Epidemiology & Health
Lee, H., Okuzono, S., Trudel-Fitzgerald, C., James, P., Koga, H., Sims, M., Grodstein, F., and Kubzansky, L. (2023). Social integration and risk of mortality among African-Americans: the Jackson heart study. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
Nakamura, J.S., Shiba, K., Jensen, S.M., VanderWeele, T.J., and Kim, E.S. (2023). Who Benefits From Helping? Moderators of the Association Between Informal Helping and Mortality. Annals of Behavioral Medicine
Social Media
Bekalu, M.A., Sato, T., and Viswanath, K. (2023). Conceptualizing and Measuring Social Media Use in Health and Well-being Studies: Systematic Review. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 25
Bizzotto, N., Marciano, L., de Brujin, G., and Schulz, P.J. (2023). The Empowering Role of Web-Based Help Seeking on Depressive Symptoms: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 25
Camerini, A-L., Morlino, S., and Marciano, L. (2023). Boredom and digital media use: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Computers in Human Behavior, 11
Choi, K., et al. (2023). Shared Genetic Risk in the Association of Screen Time With Psychiatric Problems in Children. JAMA Network Open
Huffman, J.C., et al. (2023). Association between social media use and health promotion among individuals with depression and anxiety: Insights from the 2017–2020 Health Information National Trends Survey. Journal of Mood and Anxiety Disorders, 1
Marciano, L, Lin, J., Sato, T., Saboor, S., and Viswanath, K. (2024). Does social media use make us happy? A meta-analysis on social media and positive well-being outcomes. SSM—Mental Health, 6
Marciano, L., et al. (2024). Safeguarding young users on social media through academic oversight. Nature Reviews Psychology
Marciano L, Saboor S. (2023). Reinventing mental health care in youth through mobile approaches: Current status and future steps. Front Psychology
Marciano, L., and Viswanath, K. (2023). Social media use and adolescents’ well-being: A note on flourishing. Frontiers in Psychology, 14
Marciano., L., Albanese, E., Viswanath, K., Camerini, A-L. (2023). The Protective Role of Social-Oriented Digital Media Use in Children’s and Adolescents’ Life Satisfaction During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Latent Growth Curve Model. European Journal of Health Communication, 4(1), Article 1
Montag, C., Marciano, L., Schulz, P.J., and Becker, B. (2023). Unlocking the brain secrets of social media through neuroscience. Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Viswanath, K., Lee, E., and Dryer, E. (2024). Communication inequalities and incomplete data hinder understanding of how social media affect vaccine uptake. BMJ, 385
Well-being
Chen, Y., Cowden, R., et al. (2023). Differences in Multi-Dimensional Well-Being Among Factory Workers: Evidence from Six Countries. Applied Research in Quality of Life
Chen, Y., Mathur, M.B., Case, B. W., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2023). Marital transitions during earlier adulthood and subsequent health and well-being in mid- to late-life among female nurses: An outcome-wide analysis. Global Epidemiology, 5
Davison, K., et al. (2023). Maternal and Paternal Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Offspring Health and Wellbeing: A Scoping Review. Maternal and Child Health Journal
Long, K., Wilkinson, R., Cowden, R.G., Chen, Y., and VanderWeele, T.J. (2024). Hope in adolescence and subsequent health and well-being in adulthood: An outcome-wide longitudinal study. Social Science & Medicine, 347
Weziak-Bialowolska, D., Lee, M.T., Bialowolski, P., McNeely, E., Chen, Y., Cowden, R.G., VanderWeele, T.J. (2023). Associations between the Importance of Well-Being Domains and the Subsequent Experience of Well-Being. Sustainability, 15 (1)
Yang, D., Kelly, E.L., Kubzansky, L.D., Berkman, L. (2023). Working from Home and Worker Well-being: New Evidence from Germany. Industrial and Labor Relations Review