Northern Illinois University
Department of Psychology
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

NIU graduate student names are bolded.

2025

Ball, F. C., White, A. M., Younce, J. A., and Wu, K. D. (2025). Factor structure and measurement invariance of the Penn Inventory of Scrupulosity-Revised (PIOS-R) across Christian, Jewish, and Muslim groups. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 100930.

Cole, T. A., Ong, L. E., Carsten, B., Tappenden, P. C., Reffi, A. N., and Orcutt, H. K. (2025). Trauma typologies and internalizing psychopathology: A hierarchical perspective on the unique role of congruent and incongruent criterion a stressors. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice and Policy, 10.1037/tra0001873. Advance online publication.

Flentje, A., Ceja, A., Dilley, J. W., Lisha, N. E., Cloitre, M., Artime, T. M., Shumway, M., Einhorn, L., Edward, D., Ong, L., Lubensky, M. E., Neilands, T. B., Obedin-Maliver, J., and Lunn, M. R. (2025). Trauma symptoms, minority stress, and substance use: Implications for trauma treatment in sexual and gender minority communities. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity.

Hill, S. B., Cole, T. A., Wu, K. D., Ellem, B., Taylor, D., and Orcutt, H. K. (2025). A factor analytic study of the Trauma Symptoms of Discrimination Scale. Traumatology.

Jennings, K.E., Piper, M.E., Kling, J.L., Bruner, A., and Brooker, R. J. (2024). Maternal symptoms of prenatal depression predict context-incongruent negative emotion in infants. Emotion, 24(8), 1998-2003.

Jessen, A.K. and Lilly, M.M. (2025). The impact of social support on world assumptions and PTSD symptoms in a sample of public safety communicators. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy.

Katsikas, M. J., Kennedy, M. C., Tappenden, P. C., Cole, T. A., and Orcutt, H. K. (2025). Potentially morally injurious events and posttraumatic symptomatology: The role of experiential avoidance. Traumatology.

Keane, J. N., and Shelleby, E. C. (2024). Routines and warmth as protective factors on the relation between housing instability and child outcomes. Journal of Family Psychology, 38(8), 1146– 1157.

Larkin, K., and Shelleby, E. C. (2025). Testing the dimensional model of adversity and psychopathology: The mediating roles of executive functioning and emotion regulation. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology.

McManus, J. L., White, A., Harmon, S., and Herriges, C. (2025). Remembrance, rebellion, or racism: Associations between beliefs about the Confederate flag’s symbolism and political affiliations, and racist attitudes. Journal of Advanced Research in Social Sciences, 8(2), 58–84.

Ong, L.E., Ramirez, G. and Woodward, S.H. (2025). Evidence of physical deconditioning during psychiatric hospitalization in a Veteran sample. General Hospital Psychiatry.

Rosansky, J.A., Gracey, E.J, Chilton, R., Janzow, G., Prigerson, H.G., and Schuman-Olivier, Z. (2025). A hidden crisis: Associations between overdose bereavement, substance use, and mental health symptoms. Journal of Loss and Trauma.

Rosenfeld, E.A., Malek, N., Lockett, M., Edward, D., Hooper, V., Harper, K.L., Herbitter, C., Thompson, S.M., Ceja, A., Saty, M., Chang., C.J., Collazo, E.N., Ong, L., Stave, C., Cudd., A., O'Reilley and A., Livingston, N.A. (in press). Queering trauma treatment: Protocol for a scoping review of PTSD and minority stress interventions for LGBTQIA+ adults. Discover Psychology.

Schaeffer EA., Osterlund Oltmanns JR., Meyer E., Campbell N., Lake R., and Wallace D. (2025). Longitudinal Evaluation of open field and string-pulling behaviors in mice. Behavioral Brain Research.

Valentiner, D. P., and Jones, D. A. (2025). Chapter 5 – Anxiety Disorders. In Segal, D. L. (Eds.), Diagnostic interview. Springer.

Verfaellie, M., Patt, V., Lafleche, G., Jones, D., Vasterling J. (2025). Choosing certainty over risk: Associations of PTSD symptom severity with memory sampling during experiential decision making. Journal of Anxiety Disorders.

2024

Cole, T. A., Dubuclet, C., Valentine, J. N., Meyer, E., and Orcutt, H. K. (2024). Assessing the mediating role of emotion regulation and experiential avoidance within a PTSD and racial trauma framework. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 16(2), 254-261.

Darnell, B. C., Lee, S. R., Despotes, A. M., Jones, D. A., and Valentiner, D. P. (2024). Metacognition as a mediator for posttraumatic stress symptoms following childhood stressful life events: An examination of the construct validity of the Metacognitions Questionnaire-Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Psychological Reports, 128(6), 4332-4358.

Ellis, R. A., Meyer, E., Cole, T. A., and Orcutt, H. K. (2024). The dynamic relationship of negative emotional content in the context of trauma-focused writing interventions on improvements in cognitive reappraisal: A pilot study. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy 16(Suppl 3), S611–S619.

Keane, J.N. and Shelleby, E.C. (2024). Routines and warmth as protective factors on the relation between housing instability and child outcomes. Journal of Family Psychology, 38(8), 1146–1157.

Laman-Maharg, B., Valentiner, D. P., Szöllös, S., and Mounts, N. S. (2024). Experiential avoidance, post- traumatic stress symptoms, and academic impairment. Psychological Reports. 128(6), 4258- 4272.

Ong, L. E., Speicher, S., Villasenor, D., Kim, J., Jacobs, A., Macia, K. S., and Cloitre, M. (2024). Brief Peer-Supported Web-Based Skills Training in Affective and Interpersonal Regulation (BPS webSTAIR) for Trauma-Exposed Veterans in the Community: Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 26,e52130.

2023

Awada, S.R., Shelleby, E.C., Alfonso, D., and Keane, J. (2023). Differential mechanisms linking early childhood violence exposure and social/environmental deprivation to adolescent conduct problems. Journal of Family Violence, 40,541–553.

Ellis, R. A., Darnell, B. C., and Orcutt, H. K. (2023). Comparing telehealth Written Exposure Therapy to trauma-focused expressive writing in undergraduates: A proof-of-concept trial. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 36(6), 1157-1166.

Ellis, R. A., and Orcutt, H. K. (2023). The indirect effect of avoidant motives for sex on the pathways from childhood maltreatment to risky sex behaviors. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 38(21-22), 11337-11355.

Flannery, A. J., Awada, S. R., and Shelleby, E. C. (2023). Influences of maternal parenting stress on child behavior problems: Examining harsh and positive parenting as mediators. Journal of Family Issues, 44(5), 1215-1236.

Martinez-Snyder, A.E., Valentiner, D.P. and Mick, C.R. (2023) Measures of anxiety disorder symptoms in adolescents. Child Psychiatry and Human Development.

Reffi, A. N., Kalmbach, D. A., Cheng, P., Tappenden, P., Valentine, J., Drake, C. L., Pigeon, W. R., Pickett, M., and Lilly, M. M. (2023). Fear of sleep in first responders: associations with trauma types, psychopathology, and sleep disturbances, SLEEP Advances, 4(1), zpad053.

Szőllős, S., Valentiner, D. P., Kingzette, A., Ellem, B., Mounts, N. S., Vilma, T., Britt, M. A. (2023). Reassurance seeking test behavior and exam performance. Personality and Individual Differences, 202, 111953.

Tappenden, P. C., Cole, T. A., Valentine, J. N., and Lilly, M. M. (2023). Examining the psychometric properties of the expressions of moral injury scale in a sample of first responders. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 16(8), 1319-1328.

2022

Awada, S.R., Ellis, R.A., Shelleby, L., and Orcutt, H. K. (2022). Gender differences in callous unemotional trait profiles in an undergraduate sample. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma, 31, 888-909.

Cares, S. R., Younce, J. A., Mangen, K. H., Winder, J. R., Fergus, T. A., and Wu, K. D. (2022). I am worried: Do the PSWQ and PSWQ-R display measurement invariance across four racial groups? Assessment, 29(6),1320-1330.

Cares, S. R., Mangen, K. H., and Wu, K. D. (2022). An examination of the Sentence Task through in-person and online administrations. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 32, 100703.

Kochanova, K., Pittman, L. D., and McNeela, L. (2022). Parenting stress and child externalizing and internalizing problems among low-income families: Exploring transactional associations. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 53(1), 76-88.

Ogg, J., Shelleby, E.C., Santuzzi, A., Wendel, M., Alfonso, D., Corning, E.C., and Rogers, M. (2022). Examining daily parent involvement in mothers of children with ADHD using electronic diaries. Journal of School Psychology, 91, 195-208.

Pittman, L.D., Brendle, C. R., and Ioffe, M. (2022). Quality and quantity of grandparent contact: Associations with late adolescents’ psychological adjustment. Journal of Family Issues.

Reffi, A. N., Ellis, R. A., Darnell, B. C., and Orcutt, H. K. (2022). Mental health service utilization following a campus mass shooting: The role of pre-shooting emotion dysregulation and posttraumatic cognitions. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 14, 151-160.

Shelleby, E., Pittman, L. D., Bridgett, D. J., Keane, J., Zolinksi, S., and Caradec, J. (2022). Associations between COVID-19 pandemic stress and financial concerns and parent and child functioning. Journal of Family Psychology, 36(6), 932–942.

2021

Awada, S.R. and Shelleby, E.C. (2021). Bidirectional associations between child conduct problems and parenting practices in early childhood. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 30(11), 2705-2717.

Awada, S.R. and Shelleby, E.C. (2021). Increases in maternal education and child behavioral and academic outcomes. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 30(7), 1813-1830.

Crouch, J. L., Davila, A. L., Holzman, J. B., Hiraoka, R., Rutledge, E., Bridgett, D. J., Milner, J. S., and Skowronski, J. J. (2021). Perceived executive functioning in parents at risk for child physical abuse. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36, 8874-8884.

Dadouch, Z., and Lilly, M. M. (2021). Post-trauma psychopathology in journalists: The influence of institutional betrayal and world assumptions. Journalism Practice, Advance online publication.

Despotes, A. M., Darnell, B. C., Lee, S. R., and Valentiner, D. P. (2021). Past adversity and obsessive- compulsive symptoms: The mediating roles of posttraumatic cognitions and posttraumatic stress symptoms. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 28, 100613.

Ellis, R.A., Awada, S.R., Orcutt, H.K., and Shelleby, L. (2021) Childhood maltreatment and risky substance use behaviors: The mediating roles of posttraumatic stress symptomatology and callous unemotional traits. Substance Use and Misuse, 56, 388-

Flannery, A.J., Awada, S.R., and Shelleby, E.C. (2021). Influences of maternal parenting stress on child behavior problems: Examining harsh and positive parenting as mediators. Journal of Family Issues.

Himmerich, S.J., and Orcutt, H.K. (2021). Examining a brief self-compassion intervention for emotion regulation in individuals with exposure to trauma. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 13, 907-910.

Kochanova, K., Pittman, L. D., and Pabis, J. (2021). Parenting stress, parenting, and adolescent externalizing problems. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 30, 2141-2154.

Pinciotti, C. M., and Orcutt, H. K. (2021). Reappraisal bias and sexual assault victimization: Testing the utility of a computerized intervention for negative post-assault support experiences. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 35, 330-347.

Pinciotti, C. M., and Orcutt, H. K. (2021). Understanding gender differences in rape victim blaming: The power of social influence and just world beliefs. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36(1–2), 255–275.

Pinciotti, C. M., and Orcutt, H. K. (2021). Institutional betrayal: Who is most vulnerable? Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36, 5036-5054.

Pinciotti, C. M., and Orcutt, H. K. (2021). Obsessive-compulsive symptoms in sexual minorities. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, 8, 487-495.

Reffi, A. N., Pinciotti, C. M., and Orcutt, H. K. (2021). Psychometric properties of the Institutional Betrayal Questionnaire, Version 2: Evidence for a two-factor model. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36, 5659-5684.

Reffi, A.N., Laman-Maharg, B., Pawirosetiko, J.S. and Lilly, M. (2021). Measuring mindfulness in emergency telecommunicators: A preliminary study of a revised observing construct. Mindfulness, 12, 2339–2353.

Seligowski, A. V., Reffi, A. N., Phillips, K. A., Orcutt, H. K., Auerbach, R. P., Pizzagalli, D. A., and Ressler, K. J. (2021). Neurophysiological responses to safety signals and the role of cardiac vagal control. Behavioural Brain Research, 396.

Valdez, C. E., London, M. J., Gregorich, S. E., and Lilly, M. M. (2021). Development and validation of the trauma-related cognitions scale. Plos One, 16(4), e0250221.

Winder, J. R., Mangen, K. H., Martinez-Snyder, A .E., and Valentiner, D. P. (2021) Anxiety sensitivity, disgust sensitivity and aversive reactions to four stimuli. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 49(2), 206-217.

2020

Awada, S.R., Corning, E.R., and Shelleby, E.C. (2020). Maternal experiences of intimate partner violence and adolescent delinquency: Pathways through parenting stress and harsh parenting behaviors. Journal of Family Trauma, Child Custody and Child Development, 17(3), 268-292.

Darnell, B. C., and Valentiner, D. P. (2020). Performance on the Multisource Interference Task moderates the relationship between trauma exposure and posttraumatic stress symptoms. Clinical Psychological Science, 8(2), 351-358.

Hannan, S. M., and Orcutt, H. K. (2020). Emotion regulation in undergraduate students with posttraumatic stress symptoms: A multi-method study. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 12, 643-650.

Himmerich, S. J., Ellis, R. A., and Orcutt, H. K. (2020). Application of PTSD alcohol expectancy symptom clusters to the four-dimensional model of PTSD: Support from moderations of the association between symptoms of posttraumatic stress and alcohol use. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 12, 347-355.

Ioffe, M., Pittman, L. D., Kochanova, K., and Pabis, J. (2020). Parent-adolescent communication influences on anxious and depressive symptoms in early adolescence. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 49(8), 1716-1730.

Leonard, K. A., Ellis, R. A., and Orcutt, H. K. (2020). Experiential avoidance as a mediator in the relationship between shame and posttraumatic stress disorder: The effect of gender. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 12, 651–658.

Lim, B. H., Hodges, M. A., and Lilly, M. M. (2020). The differential effects of insecure attachment on post- traumatic stress: A systematic review of extant findings and explanatory mechanisms. Trauma, Violence, and Abuse, 21(5), 1044-1060.

London, M. J., Mercer, M. C., and Lilly, M. M. (2020). Considering the impact of early trauma on coping and pathology to predict posttraumatic growth among 9-1-1 telecommunicators. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 35(21-22), 4709-4731.

Orcutt, H. K., Reffi, A. N., and Ellis, R. A. (2020). Experiential avoidance and PTSD. In M. Tull and N. Kimbrel (Eds.), Emotion in posttraumatic stress disorder: Etiology, assessment, neurobiology, and treatment (pp. 409–436). San Diego, CA: Elsevier.

Pinciotti, C. M., and Orcutt, H. K. (2020). It won’t happen to me: An examination of the effectiveness of defensive attribution in rape victim blaming. Violence Against Women, 26, 1059–1079.

Pinciotti, C. M. and Orcutt, H. K. (2020). Common symptom presentations in individuals with probable comorbid Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 208, 777-784.

Pittman, L. D., Cutright, N. H., McNeela, L., Awada, S., Pabis, J., and Shelleby, L. (2020). Coping strategies and psychological symptoms among children on St. Thomas in the aftermath of Hurricanes Irma and Maria. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 33, 151–160.

Younce, J. A., and Wu, K. D. (2020). Examining the relationship between religion and thought-action fusion in a Protestant sample. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 27(1), 1-7.

Valentiner, D. P., Kingzette, A. and Snyder, A. E. (2020). Reassurance seeking and spoiled answers on academic tests . Anxiety, Stress, and Coping, 33(5), 560-568.