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The impact of Yoga upon young adult cancer survivorsCrystal L Park
University of Connecticut, USA Electronic address
Complement Ther Clin Pract 19:77-82. 2013..Results suggest that yoga use is more commonly used by cancer survivors with greater resources. Understanding more about the use of yoga by cancer survivors may facilitate the development and promotion of yoga-based interventions...- Is religious coping related to better quality of life following acute myocardial infarction?Crystal L Park
Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 06269 1020, USA
J Relig Health 51:1337-46. 2012..These results suggest that religious coping appears to be maladaptive in dealing with acute MI, perhaps because this type of recovery requires more active forms of coping... - Expanding coping goodness-of-fit: religious coping, health locus of control, and depressed affect in heart failure patientsCrystal L Park
Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Box 1020, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
Anxiety Stress Coping 25:137-53. 2012.... - Estimated longevity and changes in spirituality in the context of advanced congestive heart failureCrystal L Park
Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, 06269 1020, USA
Palliat Support Care 6:3-11. 2008.... - Meaning making and psychological adjustment following cancer: the mediating roles of growth, life meaning, and restored just-world beliefsCrystal L Park
Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 76:863-75. 2008..The authors conclude with clinical implications and suggestions for future research... - Positive and negative health behavior changes in cancer survivors: a stress and coping perspectiveCrystal L Park
Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs 06269, USA
J Health Psychol 13:1198-206. 2008.... - Pathways to posttraumatic growth versus posttraumatic stress: coping and emotional reactions following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacksCrystal L Park
Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269 1020, USA
Am J Orthopsychiatry 78:300-12. 2008..Comparison of models suggested that emotions are both outcomes of and motivators for coping and that patterns of coping and emotions relate differentially to posttraumatic stress and posttraumatic growth... - Religiousness/spirituality and health behaviors in younger adult cancer survivors: does faith promote a healthier lifestyle?Crystal L Park
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
J Behav Med 32:582-91. 2009..The findings suggest that aspects of R/S may play important and different roles in the lifestyle choices of cancer survivors... 
Self-identity after cancer: "survivor", "victim", "patient", and "person with cancer"Crystal L Park
Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
J Gen Intern Med 24:S430-5. 2009..Living through cancer often involves developing new identities which may strongly influence well-being and relationships with care providers, yet little is currently known about these post-cancer identities...- Post-traumatic growth: finding positive meaning in cancer survivorship moderates the impact of intrusive thoughts on adjustment in younger adultsCrystal L Park
University of Connecticut, CT 06269 1020, USA
Psychooncology 19:1139-47. 2010..We examined whether post-traumatic growth would moderate the impact of intrusive thoughts on a range of dimensions of well-being in a sample of younger adult survivors of various types of cancer... - Making sense of the meaning literature: an integrative review of meaning making and its effects on adjustment to stressful life eventsCrystal L Park
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269 1020, USA
Psychol Bull 136:257-301. 2010..This article concludes with specific suggestions for future research... - Illness centrality, disclosure, and well-being in younger and middle-aged adult cancer survivorsCrystal L Park
Psychology Department, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
Br J Health Psychol 16:880-9. 2011..The present study examined centrality of cancer and well-being along with the potential moderation effect of disclosure... 
Coping, meaning in life, and quality of life in congestive heart failure patientsCrystal L Park
Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
Qual Life Res 17:21-6. 2008....- Relationships between psychosocial factors and health behavior change in cancer survivors: an integrative reviewCrystal L Park
Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs 06269 1020, USA
Ann Behav Med 34:115-34. 2007..However, little is known about the roles that psychosocial factors play in facilitating or inhibiting these changes. A better understanding of health behavior change will allow the development of more effective interventions... - Drinking to cope among college students: prevalence, problems and coping processesCrystal L Park
Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs 06269 1020, USA
J Stud Alcohol 63:486-97. 2002.... - Introduction to the special section: growth following highly stressful life events--current status and future directionsCrystal L Park
Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 74:791-6. 2006..The authors end with suggestions for future research... - Death without God: religious struggle, death concerns, and depression in the terminally illDonald Edmondson
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
Psychol Sci 19:754-8. 2008.... - Associations of positive and negative life changes with well-being in young and middle-aged adult cancer survivorsCrystal L Park
Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA
Psychol Health 27:412-29. 2012..Detailed measurement of both positive and negative changes - as well as lack of change - is important to advance understanding of cancer's impact on survivors... - Deconstructing spiritual well-being: existential well-being and HRQOL in cancer survivorsDonald Edmondson
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
Psychooncology 17:161-9. 2008..Religious well-being was not predictive of HRQOL... - Anger toward God: social-cognitive predictors, prevalence, and links with adjustment to bereavement and cancerJulie J Exline
Department of Psychology, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106 7123, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 100:129-48. 2011..Taken together, these studies suggest that anger toward God is an important dimension of religious and spiritual experience, one that is measurable, widespread, and related to adjustment across various contexts and populations... - Facets of spirituality as predictors of adjustment to cancer: relative contributions of having faith and finding meaningBetina Yanez
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 77:730-41. 2009..Findings suggest that the ability to find meaning and peace in life is the more influential contributor to favorable adjustment during cancer survivorship, although faith appears to be uniquely related to perceived cancer-related growth... - Religious struggle as a predictor of subsequent mental and physical well-being in advanced heart failure patientsCrystal L Park
Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
J Behav Med 34:426-36. 2011..Religious struggle appears to have a potentially negative impact on well-being in advanced CHF; therefore, helping patients to address issues of struggle may meaningfully lessen the personal and societal costs of CHF... - The daily stress and coping process and alcohol use among college studentsCrystal L Park
Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, 406 Babbidge Road, Box U1020, Storrs, Connecticut 06269 1020, USA
J Stud Alcohol 65:126-35. 2004.... - The relationship of coping strategies, social support, and attachment style with posttraumatic growth in cancer survivorsSteven D Schmidt
Department of Human Development and Family Studies, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269 2058, USA
J Health Psychol 17:1033-40. 2012..Insecure types of attachment and social support variables were unrelated to PTG. Regression analysis suggests that positive reframing and religion as coping strategies may mediate the relationship between secure attachment and PTG... - Religiousness/spirituality and health: a meaning systems perspectiveCrystal L Park
Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Box 1020, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
J Behav Med 30:319-28. 2007..The article concludes with suggestions for future research... - Appraisal-coping goodness of fit: a daily internet studyCrystal L Park
Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs 06269, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 30:558-69. 2004.... - Religion and spirituality in adjustment following bereavement: an integrative reviewJennifer H Wortmann
University of Connecticut, 406 Babbidge Road, Unit 1020, Storrs, CT 06269 1020
Death Stud 32:703-36. 2008..The authors conclude with a critique of the current research and directions for future research... - Coping style as a predictor of health and well-being across the first year of medical schoolCrystal L Park
Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
Health Psychol 22:627-31. 2003..This study demonstrated the utility of measuring coping style and the predictive ability of coping on physical health in a healthy sample... - Positive and negative consequences of alcohol consumption in college studentsCrystal L Park
Department of Connecticut, University of Connecticut, 406 Babbidge Road Unit 1020, Storrs, CT 06296, USA
Addict Behav 29:311-21. 2004..Finally, participants reported that their positive and negative consequences would influence their future drinking decisions in a number of different ways. Future research directions and implications for interventions are discussed... - Prospective risk factors for subsequent exposure to potentially traumatic eventsCrystal L Park
a Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
Anxiety Stress Coping 26:254-69. 2013..Subsequent dependent PTE exposure was predicted by more previous PTEs and binge drinking, and was somewhat higher in ethnic minority students. Implications for prevention efforts are discussed... - Measuring beliefs about suffering: development of the views of suffering scaleAmy Hale-Smith
Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
Psychol Assess 24:855-66. 2012..The VOSS provides a valid way to measure individuals' beliefs about suffering, allowing for inquiry into the factors that lead to various beliefs about suffering and the roles of these beliefs in adjusting to stressful life events... - Trauma and stress response among Hurricane Katrina evacueesMary Alice Mills
Department of Psychology, Clinical Division, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
Am J Public Health 97:S116-23. 2007..Data were collected that assessed acute stress disorder (ASD) prevalence and factors related to ASD symptomatology among sheltered evacuees... - Psychosocial mediation of religious coping styles: a study of short-term psychological distress following cardiac surgeryAmy L Ai
University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105 6299, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 33:867-82. 2007.... - Determinants of positive and negative consequences of alcohol consumption in college students: alcohol use, gender, and psychological characteristicsCrystal L Park
University of Connecticut, United States
Addict Behav 30:755-65. 2005..Results indicate that consequences are much more strongly related to psychological risk and protective factors than to alcohol consumption. The article concludes with a discussion of implications for intervention efforts... - Spiritual and religious involvement relate to end-of-life decision-making in patients undergoing coronary bypass graft surgeryAmy L Ai
University of Washington Health Sciences, Seattle 98105 6299, USA
Int J Psychiatry Med 38:113-32. 2008..Therefore, faith factors appear to have independent but complex effects on end-of-life decision making in middle-aged and older cardiac patients... - Possibilities of the positive following violence and trauma: informing the coming decade of researchAmy L Ai
University of Washington, USA
J Interpers Violence 20:242-50. 2005..All three have important implications for survivors of violence and trauma... - A prospective study of disordered eating among sorority and nonsorority womenKelly C Allison
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Int J Eat Disord 35:354-8. 2004..The current study examined disordered eating prospectively among sorority and nonsorority women...