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| Edith ChenSummaryAffiliation: Washington University School of Medicine Country: USA Publications
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Pain-sensitive temperament: does it predict procedural distress and response to psychological treatment among children with cancer?E Chen
Department of Psychology, Washington University, Campus Box 1125, St Louis, MO 63130 4899, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 25:269-78. 2000....- Development of the cognitive appraisal and understanding of social events (CAUSE) videosEdith Chen
Department of Psychology, Washington University, Campus 1125, One Brookings Drive, St Louis, Missouri 63130, USA
Health Psychol 22:106-10. 2003.... - Predictors of repeat hospitalizations in children with asthma: the role of psychosocial and socioenvironmental factorsEdith Chen
Department of Psychology, Washington University, Campus Box 1125, One Brookings Drive, St Louis, Missouri 63130, USA
Health Psychol 22:12-8. 2003..These findings could help guide future interventions targeted at the subgroup of children who represent a high proportion of asthma hospitalizations... - Socioeconomic differences in children's health: how and why do these relationships change with age?Edith Chen
Department of Psychology, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri 63130, USA
Psychol Bull 128:295-329. 2002..Finally, the authors proposed a developmental approach to exploring mechanisms that link SES and child health... - Cardiovascular reactivity during social and nonsocial stressors: do children's personal goals and expressive skills matter?Edith Chen
Department of Psychology, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri 63130, USA
Health Psychol 21:16-24. 2002..Personal strivings and expressive skills do matter for understanding cardiovascular responses in children... - Children's memories for painful cancer treatment procedures: implications for distressE Chen
Washington University, Department of Psychology, St Louis, MO 63130, USA
Child Dev 71:933-47. 2000..These results indicate that children's memories play an important role in their experience of distress during repeated stressful events... - Socioeconomic status, stress, and immune markers in adolescents with asthmaEdith Chen
Washington University, St. Louis Children's Hospital, St. Louis, MO, USA
Psychosom Med 65:984-92. 2003..Our findings also suggest that psychological stress and control beliefs may provide one explanation for links between SES and immune responses in childhood asthma... - Measuring stress resilience and coping in vulnerable youth: the Social Competence InterviewCraig K Ewart
Center for Health and Behavior, Department of Psychology, 430 Huntington Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244 2340, USA
Psychol Assess 14:339-52. 2002..low affiliation/control). High SCI expressiveness and self-defensive striving create a critical-aggressive social impact, which is correlated with increased hostility and anger... - The relationship of psychologic stress with childhood asthmaGordon R Bloomberg
Division of Allergy and Pulmonary Medicine, Washington University Medical School, St Louis Children s Hospital, One Children s Place, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Immunol Allergy Clin North Am 25:83-105. 2005..Psychologic issues are important in the patient with severe asthma. The mind-body paradigm that links psychologic stress to disease is necessary when considering the global evaluation of childhood asthma... 
Chronic stress, salivary cortisol, and alpha-amylase in children with asthma and healthy childrenJutta M Wolf
University of British Columbia, Department of Psychology, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
Biol Psychol 78:20-8. 2008..This dichotomy emphasizes the different biological effects of chronic stress depending on illness status...- Interpretations of ambiguous social situations and cardiovascular responses in adolescentsEdith Chen
University of British Columbia, Department of Psychology, Vancouver, Canada
Ann Behav Med 34:26-36. 2007..Previous research has documented effects of ambiguous outcome social situations on individual differences in cardiovascular reactivity in laboratory contexts... - Trajectories of socioeconomic status across children's lifetime predict healthEdith Chen
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 W Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z4
Pediatrics 120:e297-303. 2007..This study tested how various models of childhood socioeconomic status (accumulation, change, variability, and critical periods of family income) would predict health outcomes at a final time point in childhood... 
The role of the social environment in children and adolescents with asthmaEdith Chen
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 176:644-9. 2007..Biopsychosocial models of asthma have been proposed in the literature, but few empirical tests of social factors at various levels of influence have been conducted...- Parent psychological states predict changes in inflammatory markers in children with asthma and healthy childrenJutta M Wolf
University of British Columbia, Department of Psychology, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Brain Behav Immun 22:433-41. 2008..These changes in inflammatory makers may represent one biological mechanism underlying the association between parental distress and child asthma morbidity... - Stress and inflammation in exacerbations of asthmaEdith Chen
University of British Columbia, Department of Psychology, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4
Brain Behav Immun 21:993-9. 2007..Empirical evidence for this model is reviewed, and conclusions and future research directions are discussed... - Socioeconomic status and inflammatory processes in childhood asthma: the role of psychological stressEdith Chen
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
J Allergy Clin Immunol 117:1014-20. 2006..Although social environment variables such as socioeconomic status (SES) have been linked to childhood asthma, little is known about the psychobiological mechanisms underlying this relationship... - Life stress and diminished expression of genes encoding glucocorticoid receptor and beta2-adrenergic receptor in children with asthmaGregory E Miller
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:5496-501. 2006..To the extent that it diminishes sensitivity to the antiinflammatory properties of glucocorticoids or the bronchodilatory properties of beta-agonists, this process could explain the increased asthma morbidity associated with stress... - Impact of socioeconomic status on physiological health in adolescents: an experimental manipulation of psychosocial factorsEdith Chen
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Psychosom Med 69:348-55. 2007..To examine the effects of a brief psychosocial manipulation on physiological responses to laboratory stress in lower and higher socioeconomic status (SES) adolescents... - Socioeconomic status and health in adolescents: the role of stress interpretationsEdith Chen
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Child Dev 75:1039-52. 2004..Results suggest that the larger social environment helps explain how adolescents approach new social situations, which in turn has implications for adolescent physical health... - Written disclosure of experiences with racial discrimination and antibody response to an influenza vaccineCinnamon Stetler
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Int J Behav Med 13:60-8. 2006..The attributional ambiguity sometimes associated with racism may inhibit the benefits of disclosure interventions for these types of stressors... - Edith Chen: award for distinguished scientific early career contributions to psychologyEdith Chen
Am Psychol 59:707-9. 2004 - Exposure to violence and cardiovascular and neuroendocrine measures in adolescentsRama Murali
University of British Columbia, British Columbia, V6T 1Z4 Canada
Ann Behav Med 30:155-63. 2005..CONCLUSIONS: The findings illustrate that being a victim of violence has more pervasive biological consequences than witnessing violence and that the accumulation of stressful experiences has the greatest effect on biological markers... - Socioeconomic status and health behaviors in adolescence: a review of the literatureMargaret D Hanson
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4
J Behav Med 30:263-85. 2007..The goal of this review was to determine the direction of associations between SES and health behaviors during the period of adolescence... - Chronic traffic-related air pollution and stress interact to predict biologic and clinical outcomes in asthmaEdith Chen
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Environ Health Perspect 116:970-5. 2008..Previous research has documented effects of both physical and social environmental exposures on childhood asthma. However, few studies have considered how these two environments might interact to affect asthma... - Does the social environment contribute to asthma?Edith Chen
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada
Immunol Allergy Clin North Am 28:649-64, x. 2008..Future research will need to take into account the impact of the social environment to develop more comprehensive models of asthma pathogenesis... - The temporal relationships between sleep, cortisol, and lung functioning in youth with asthmaMargaret D Hanson
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
J Pediatr Psychol 33:312-6. 2008..This study tested the directionality of the association between sleep and health outcomes in youth with asthma... - Unfavorable socioeconomic conditions in early life presage expression of proinflammatory phenotype in adolescenceGregory Miller
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Psychosom Med 69:402-9. 2007..Unfavorable socioeconomic status (SES) circumstances early in life are associated with heightened vulnerability to respiratory and cardiovascular diseases in adulthood. However, little is known about mechanisms underlying this phenomenon... - What do trajectories of childhood socioeconomic status tell us about markers of cardiovascular health in adolescence?Teresa J Marin
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4
Psychosom Med 70:152-9. 2008.... - A functional genomic fingerprint of chronic stress in humans: blunted glucocorticoid and increased NF-kappaB signalingGregory E Miller
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Biol Psychiatry 64:266-72. 2008..Chronic stressors are known to increase vulnerability to medical illness, but the mechanisms underlying this phenomenon are poorly understood... - Developing measures of symptom perception for children with asthmaEdith Chen
J Allergy Clin Immunol 119:248-50. 2007 - Commentary: the role of memory in managing children's distress during medical proceduresEdith Chen
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
J Pediatr Psychol 31:862-4. 2006 - Understanding health disparities: the role of race and socioeconomic status in children's healthEdith Chen
University of British Columbia, Department of Psychology, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Am J Public Health 96:702-8. 2006..We sought to determine whether childhood health disparities are best understood as effects of race, socioeconomic status (SES), or synergistic effects of the two... - Symptom perception in childhood asthma: the role of anxiety and asthma severityEdith Chen
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Health Psychol 25:389-95. 2006..These results suggest that anxiety plays a role when children's symptoms are mild, whereas medical variables such as severity play a role in perception of changes in asthma symptomatology as bronchoconstriction worsens... - Perceived control and immune and pulmonary outcomes in children with asthmaMelissa Joy Griffin
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Psychosom Med 68:493-9. 2006..CONCLUSION: These results suggest that psychological processes such as perceived control may play an important role in asthma-related biological processes among children with asthma... - Socioeconomic status, race, and body mass index: the mediating role of physical activity and sedentary behaviors during adolescenceMargaret D Hanson
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
J Pediatr Psychol 32:250-9. 2007..To assess how sociodemographic and activity behaviors contribute to adolescent body mass index (BMI)... - Neighborhood, family, and subjective socioeconomic status: How do they relate to adolescent health?Edith Chen
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Health Psychol 25:704-14. 2006..These findings suggest the importance of understanding influences at the individual, family, and neighborhood levels for optimally targeting interventions to reduce health disparities earlier in life... - Issues in exploring variation in childhood socioeconomic gradients by age: a response to Case, Paxson, and VoglEdith Chen
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vacouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4
Soc Sci Med 64:762-4. 2007 - Socioeconomic status and substance use behaviors in adolescents: the role of family resources versus family social statusMargaret D Hanson
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
J Health Psychol 12:32-5. 2007..Family financial resources were a stronger predictor of substance use than family status. Programs aimed at reducing teen substance use should be aware of these risk factors when developing substance use interventions... - Stress on the dance floor: the cortisol stress response to social-evaluative threat in competitive ballroom dancersNicolas Rohleder
Dresden University of Technology
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 33:69-84. 2007..group competition). These findings support the notion of a social self-preservation system that is physiologically responsive to threats to the social self... - If it goes up, must it come down? Chronic stress and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis in humansGregory E Miller
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia UBC, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Psychol Bull 133:25-45. 2007..Finally, HPA activity is shaped by a person's response to the situation; it increases with subjective distress but is lower in persons with posttraumatic stress disorder... - Socioeconomic status and health: do gradients differ within childhood and adolescence?Edith Chen
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Soc Sci Med 62:2161-70. 2006..These patterns are important to understand for optimally timing interventions to reduce SES disparities in US children's health...