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| J TomakaSummaryAffiliation: University of Texas at El Paso Country: USA Publications
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The relation of social isolation, loneliness, and social support to disease outcomes among the elderlyJoe Tomaka
Department of Health Promotion, University of Texas at El Paso, TX 79902, USA
J Aging Health 18:359-84. 2006..This study examined relations between social isolation, loneliness, and social support to health outcomes in a sample of New Mexico seniors...
Patterns of emotion-specific appraisal, coping, and cardiovascular reactivity during an ongoing emotional episodeMary M Herrald
Department of Psychology, University of Texas at El Paso, 79902, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 83:434-50. 2002..The results are discussed in relation to their implications for emotion theory and for psychological and physical health. Overall, the results suggest that researchers can study emotion-related issues using authentic emotional reactions...
Assertiveness predicts threat and challenge reactions to potential stress among womenJ Tomaka
Department of Psychology, University of Texas, El Paso 79968 0553, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 76:1008-21. 1999..Overall, the high assertive women's stress-related reactions indicated challenge, whereas the low assertive women's reactions indicated threat (see J. Tomaka, J. Blascovich, R. M. Kelsey, & C. L. Leitten, 1993)...
Cognitive and physiological antecedents of threat and challenge appraisalJ Tomaka
Department of Psychology, University of Texas at El Paso 79968, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 73:63-72. 1997..These studies suggest a central role for cognitive appraisal processes in elicitation of threat and challenge responses to potentially stressful situations...
Risk and protective factors among high school students on the US/Mexico borderAdriana Almodovar
Interdisciplinary Health Science Program, University of Texas at El Paso, 1101 N Campbell, El Paso, TX 79902, USA
Am J Health Behav 30:745-52. 2006..To study risk and protective factors for alcohol-related problems among high schools students in El Paso, Tex...
Cardiovascular reactivity and adaptation to recurrent psychological stress: effects of prior task exposureR M Kelsey
Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA
Psychophysiology 36:818-31. 1999..01), but not vascular reactivity, than repeated exposure groups. Thus, cardiac reactivity varied as a specific function of prior task exposure, whereas vascular reactivity varied as a general function of time...
Cardiovascular reactivity and adaptation to recurrent psychological stress: the moderating effects of evaluative observationR M Kelsey
Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA
Psychophysiology 37:748-56. 2000..The results support the dual process theory of habituation, rather than stimulus comparator theory, but only partially support cognitive appraisal theory...
The association of coping to physical and psychological health outcomes: a meta-analytic reviewJulie A Penley
Division of Social Sciences, El Paso Community College, PO Box 20500, El Paso, TX 79998 0500, USA
J Behav Med 25:551-603. 2002..However, type of health outcome (i.e., physical vs. psychological) and situational characteristics (i.e., stressor type, controllability, and duration) moderated many of the overall associations...
