NIU Trauma Study Findings

Publications

Reddy, M. R., Seligowski, A. V., Rabenhorst, M. M., & Orcutt, H. K. (in press). Expressive writing and posttraumatic stress in college women following a mass shooting, Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice and Policy.

Miron, L. R., Orcutt, H. K., & Kumpula, M. J. (in press). Differential predictors of transient stress ​versus posttraumatic stress disorder: Evaluating risk following targeted mass violence. Behavior Therapy.

Orcutt, H. K., Bonanno, G. A., Hannan, S. M., & Miron, L. R. (2014). Prospective trajectories of posttraumatic stress in college women following a campus mass shooting. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 27, 1-8.

Bardeen, J. R., Kumpula, M. J., & Orcutt, H. K. (2013). Emotion regulation difficulties as a prospective predictor of posttraumatic stress symptoms following a mass shooting. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 27, 188-196.

Bardeen, J. R., Fergus, T. A., & Orcutt, H. K. (2012). An examination of the latent structure of the difficulties in emotion regulation scale. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 34, 382-392.

Mercer, K. B., Orcutt, H. K., Quinn, J. F., Fitzgerald, C. A., Conneely, K. N., Barfield, R. T., Gillespie, C. F., & Ressler, K. J. (2012). Acute- and post-traumatic stress symptoms in a prospective gene X environment study of a university campus shooting. Archives of General Psychiatry, 69, 89-97.

Littleton, H., Kumpula, M., & Orcutt, H. (2011). Posttraumatic symptoms following a campus shooting: The role of psychosocial resource loss. Violence & Victims, 26, 461-476.

Fergus, T. A., Rabenhorst, M. M., Orcutt, H. K., & Valentiner, D. P. (2011). Reactions to trauma research among women recently exposed to a campus shooting. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 24, 596-600.

Kumpula, M. J.,Orcutt, H.K., Bardeen, J. R., & Varkovitzky, R. L. (2011). Experiential avoidance and peritraumatic dissociation as prospective predictors of posttraumatic stress symptoms among college women following a campus shooting. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 120, 617-627.

Orcutt, H., & Littleton, Heather (2010). Implementing and managing a quick-response research project: Advice from researchers responding to the tragedies at Virginia Tech and North Illinois University. Traumatic StressPoints, 24(1), 5-6.

Stephenson, K. L., Valentiner, D. P., Kumpula, M. J., & Orcutt, H. K. (2009). Anxiety sensitivity and post-trauma stress symptoms in female undergraduates following a campus shooting. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 22, 489-496.