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| SUZANNE SEGERSTROMSummaryAffiliation: University of Kentucky Country: USA Publications
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Dispositional optimism and coping: a meta-analytic reviewLise Solberg Nes
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0044, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Rev 10:235-51. 2006..Meta-analytic findings also indicate that optimists may adjust their coping strategies to meet the demands of the stressors at hand, and that the optimism-coping relationship is strongest in English-speaking samples...- Psychological stress and the human immune system: a meta-analytic study of 30 years of inquirySuzanne C Segerstrom
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA
Psychol Bull 130:601-30. 2004..loss). Subjective reports of stress generally did not associate with immune change. In some cases, physical vulnerability as a function of age or disease also increased vulnerability to immune change during stressors... - Optimism and immunity: do positive thoughts always lead to positive effects?Suzanne C Segerstrom
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, 115 Kastle Hall, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Brain Behav Immun 19:195-200. 2005..The mixed immunological correlates of optimism may explain why it does not consistently predict better disease outcomes... - Heart rate variability reflects self-regulatory strength, effort, and fatigueSuzanne C Segerstrom
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, 115 Kastle Hall, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Psychol Sci 18:275-81. 2007..HRV appears to index self-regulatory strength and effort, making it possible to study these phenomena in the field as well as the lab... - Optimism, goal conflict, and stressor-related immune changeS C Segerstrom
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, 115 Kastle Hall, Lexington, Kentucky 40506 0044, USA
J Behav Med 24:441-67. 2001..The results replicated in the Study 2 sample of law students (n = 22) using delayed-type hypersensitivity testing. Optimists may be subject to short-term physiological costs in their persistence to gain long-term rewards... - Caregiving, repetitive thought, and immune response to vaccination in older adultsSuzanne C Segerstrom
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, 115 Kastle Hall, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Brain Behav Immun 22:744-52. 2008..Results generally support beneficial effects of neutral repetitive thought and detrimental effects of negative repetitive thought, but those effects may be reduced or even reversed depending on life circumstances... - Social networks and immunosuppression during stress: relationship conflict or energy conservation?Suzanne C Segerstrom
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, 115 Kastle Hall, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Brain Behav Immun 22:279-84. 2008..Ecological models would predict that temporary immunosuppression is less harmful to health in the long run than loss of social resources... - How does optimism suppress immunity? Evaluation of three affective pathwaysSuzanne C Segerstrom
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA
Health Psychol 25:653-7. 2006..Alternative pathways include effort or self-regulatory depletion... - Identifying immune traits and biobehavioral correlates: generalizability and reliability of immune responses in rhesus macaquesSuzanne C Segerstrom
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
Brain Behav Immun 20:349-58. 2006.... - Individual differences, immunity, and cancer: lessons from personality psychologySuzanne C Segerstrom
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, 115 Kastle Hall, Lexington 40506 0044, USA
Brain Behav Immun 17:S92-7. 2003..Responses to this challenge included research designs that improved reliability and accounted for both person and situation in an interactionist model. Both responses are relevant to current research in personality, immunity, and health... - A multidimensional structure for repetitive thought: what's on your mind, and how, and how much?Suzanne C Segerstrom
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 85:909-21. 2003..In Study 3, valence and purpose of RT descriptions by women in a breast cancer prevention trial (N=62) predicted concurrent affect and psychological and physical well-being... - Gender differences in delayed-type hypersensitivity response: effects of stress and coping in first-year law studentsSarah McQueary Flynn
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Brain Behav Immun 23:672-6. 2009..These results indicate that active coping may be less efficacious for women than for men in law school, which in turn may limit women's opportunities to attenuate negative effects of law school... - Effect of stimulus type and worry on physiological response to fearJay O Castaneda
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, 115 Kastle Hall, Lexington, KY 40506-0044, USA
J Anxiety Disord 18:809-23. 2004..The results suggest that factors, such as the type of fear stimulus and the type of physiological measures used, are vital in understanding the reasons for and the limits of fear activation... - Self-regulatory deficits in fibromyalgia and temporomandibular disordersLise Solberg Nes
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
Pain 151:37-44. 2010.... - When is enough measurement, enough? Generalizability of primate immunity over timeSuzanne C Segerstrom
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Brain Behav Immun 23:986-92. 2009..Sex and rearing condition (early, brief maternal separation) did not substantially affect generalizability, although females tended to generate more stable results than did males... - Optimistic expectancies and cell-mediated immunity: the role of positive affectSuzanne C Segerstrom
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, 115 Kastle Hall, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Psychol Sci 21:448-55. 2010..This dynamic relationship between expectancies and immunity has positive implications for psychological interventions to improve health, particularly those that increase positive affect... - Resources, stress, and immunity: an ecological perspective on human psychoneuroimmunologySuzanne C Segerstrom
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, 115 Kastle Hall, Lexington, KY, 40506 0044, USA
Ann Behav Med 40:114-25. 2010..In conclusion, ecological models may aid in understanding the relationship between stress and immunity... - Executive functions, self-regulation, and chronic pain: a reviewLise Solberg Nes
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, 115 Kastle Hall, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Ann Behav Med 37:173-83. 2009..Self-regulation appears to rely on executive cognitive functions, and the current review, therefore, sought to draw attention to the impact of self-regulatory capacity and executive functions on chronic pain... - The dynamics of quality of life in ALS patients and caregiversAbbey R Roach
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, 115 Kastle Hall, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Ann Behav Med 37:197-206. 2009..g., personality or demographics), or idiosyncratic effects (e.g., life events unrelated to the disease). Furthermore, effects may differ for patients and caregivers; physical decline may impact the caregiver more than the patient... - The structure and health correlates of trait repetitive thought in older adultsSuzanne C Segerstrom
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Psychol Aging 25:505-15. 2010..Although RT has not been extensively investigated in older adults, it appears to play an important role in their subjective health... - Engagement and arousal: optimism's effects during a brief stressorLise Solberg Nes
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 31:111-20. 2005..The results support the notion that the increased engagement that arises from optimism may lead to short-term physiological costs... - Psychological health in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosisAlyssa J Averill
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506, USA
Amyotroph Lateral Scler 8:243-54. 2007.... - Stress management, finding benefit, and immune function: positive mechanisms for intervention effects on physiologyJulienne E Bower
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
J Psychosom Res 56:9-11. 2004
Research Grants
- Repetitive Thought, Stress, and Immunity in Older AdultsSUZANNE SEGERSTROM; Fiscal Year: 2009..This research will test whether thought styles such as worry put older adults at greater risk. This knowledge could be used to identify and intervene with the most at-risk individuals. ..
- Repetitive Thought, Stress, and Immunity in Older AdultsSUZANNE SEGERSTROM; Fiscal Year: 2007..This research will test whether thought styles such as worry put older adults at greater risk. This knowledge could be used to identify and intervene with the most at-risk individuals. ..
- ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, OPTIMISM, AND CELLULAR IMMUNITYSUZANNE SEGERSTROM; Fiscal Year: 2005....
- Repetitive Thought, Stress, and Immunity in Older AdultsSuzanne C Segerstrom; Fiscal Year: 2010..This research will test whether thought styles such as worry put older adults at greater risk. This knowledge could be used to identify and intervene with the most at-risk individuals. ..