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| Jerry M SulsSummaryAffiliation: University of Iowa Country: USA Publications
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Efficacy of smoking-cessation interventions for young adults: a meta-analysisJerry M Suls
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Am J Prev Med 42:655-62. 2012..This meta-analysis investigated the efficacy of smoking-cessation programs for this population...- Heart disease occurs in a biological, psychological, and social matrix: cardiac risk factors, symptom presentation, and recovery as illustrative examplesJerry Suls
Department of Psychology, Spence Laboratories, University of Iowa, Iowa, 52242, USA
Ann Behav Med 41:164-73. 2011..quot;Cabling" across biological, psychological, and social variables is considered as a transformative strategy for medicine and the other health-related disciplines... 
The daily life of the garden-variety neurotic: reactivity, stressor exposure, mood spillover, and maladaptive copingJerry Suls
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, IA 52242, USA
J Pers 73:1485-509. 2005..g., Agreeableness) are associated with hyperreactivity to particular kinds of problems. The research demonstrates how daily process research can provide insight about classic problems in the field of individual differences...- Anger, anxiety, and depression as risk factors for cardiovascular disease: the problems and implications of overlapping affective dispositionsJerry Suls
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Psychol Bull 131:260-300. 2005..The overlap among the 3 negative dispositions also leaves open the possibility that a general disposition toward negative affectivity may be more important for disease risk than any specific negative affect... - Evolution of the biopsychosocial model: prospects and challenges for health psychologyJerry Suls
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Health Psychol 23:119-25. 2004.... - Pluralistic ignorance and college student perceptions of gender-specific alcohol normsJerry Suls
University Iowa, Dept of Psychology, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Health Psychol 22:479-86. 2003..A male student (vs female student) expressing concerns about alcohol was believed to experience greater difficulties fitting in (Experiment 4). Implications for peer influence and drug use intervention are discussed... - Ability evaluation by proxy: role of maximal performance and related attributes in social comparisonRene Martin
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242 1407, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 82:781-91. 2002..However, related attribute information was disregarded when proxy's maximum effort was unambiguous. Results were consistent with the proxy comparison model of ability self-evaluation (L. Wheeler, R. Martin, & J. Suls, 1997)... - Egocentrism, event frequency, and comparative optimism: when what happens frequently is "more likely to happen to me"John R Chambers
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 29:1343-56. 2003..Path analyses provided additional support for egocentrism, and systematic cases of comparative pessimism were observed as predicted by the egocentric-processes account... 
Depressive symptomatology, rather than neuroticism, predicts inflated physical symptom reports in community-residing womenM Bryant Howren
Center for Research in the Implementation of Innovative Strategies in Practice, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
Psychosom Med 71:951-7. 2009..To examine the roles of depressive symptomatology and neuroticism/negative affect (N/NA) on common physical symptom reporting in a sample of community residents...- Global self-esteem in relation to structural models of personality and affectivityDavid Watson
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242 1407, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 83:185-97. 2002..82) and Study 3 (r = -.86). Taken together, the data suggest that global self-esteem measures define one end of a bipolar continuum, with trait indicators of depression defining the other... - Cultural differences in unrealistic optimism and pessimism: the role of egocentrism and direct versus indirect comparison measuresJason P Rose
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 34:1236-48. 2008..S. sample was more unrealistically optimistic than the Japanese sample. The authors discuss how these results might influence the interpretation of previous findings on culture and self-enhancement... - Online hysterectomy support: characteristics of Website experiencesMali Bunde
Department of Psychology and College of Nursing, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242, USA
Cyberpsychol Behav 10:80-5. 2007..017) to be most helpful. Thirty-nine percent indicated that something on the site was unhelpful. The website seems to accomplish the provision of positive informational support; however, this site was not always seen as helpful... - Hystersisters online: social support and social comparison among hysterectomy patients on the internetMali Bunde
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 52242, USA
Ann Behav Med 31:271-8. 2006..The Internet has become a popular source of health information for patients with a variety of medical concerns; however, research examining patient interactions on the Internet has been limited... - Introduction to the special section on the future of health psychologyTimothy W Smith
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Health Psychol 23:115-8. 2004..In every case, the future holds a variety of important challenges and opportunities in research, practice, training, and policy... - Associations of depression with C-reactive protein, IL-1, and IL-6: a meta-analysisM Bryant Howren
Department of Psychology, The University of Iowa, 11 Seashore Hall East, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Psychosom Med 71:171-86. 2009..To assess the magnitude and direction of associations of depression with C-reactive protein (CRP), interleukin (IL)-1, and IL-6 in community and clinical samples... - Self-esteem, construal, and comparisons with the self, friends, and peersJerry Suls
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 82:252-61. 2002..HSEs seemed to take advantage of ambiguity more consistently to present favorable self-views; people with low self-esteem used ambiguity to favor their friends but were reluctant to minimize their own faults... - A comparison of physical activity in men and women with cardiac disease: do gender roles complicate recovery?Mary Jenson
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242, USA
Women Health 37:31-48. 2003..The concentrated domestic activity assumed by women early in recovery may pose a risk of complications... - Are cholesterol and depression inversely related? A meta-analysis of the association between two cardiac risk factorsJu Young Shin
College of Nursing, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Ann Behav Med 36:33-43. 2008..Cholesterol and depression are both cardiac risk factors, but the direction and magnitude of the association between these risk factors is unclear... - A quantitative analysis of the relationship between the Cook-Medley Hostility Scale and traditional coronary artery disease risk factorsJames Bunde
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Spence Labs, Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1407, USA
Health Psychol 25:493-500. 2006..On the basis of available evidence, researchers might give attention to obesity, insulin resistance, damaging health behaviors, and SES as potential contributing factors in understanding the association between Ho Scale scores and CAD... - How do female and male cardiac patients and their spouses share responsibilities after discharge from the hospital?Katherine Lemos
University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242, USA
Ann Behav Med 25:8-15. 2003..In contrast, among women, the correlations between symptoms and activities were more complex and suggested that female patients might not be heeding signs of overexertion... - Assessment and treatment of depression in patients with cardiovascular disease: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Working Group ReportKarina W Davidson
Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 622 W 168th St, PH9 Center, Room 941, New York, NY 10032, USA
Psychosom Med 68:645-50. 2006..The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute convened an interdisciplinary working group of experts to develop recommendations for the assessment and treatment of depression in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD)...
Research Grants
- Coping and Social Comparison in Elderly Cardiac PatientsJerry Suls; Fiscal Year: 2006..Although the present research focuses on adaptation to cardiac disease, results should also be relevant and exportable to older adults that are coping with other chronic illnesses. ..