Student Presentations 2020-2026
NIU student names are bolded.
2026
Jatoi, F., Sadek, S.J., Pittman, L. (2026, April). The Role of Ethnic Identity in the Relationship Between Racial Discrimination and Psychological Symptoms. Poster will be presented at the Society for Research on Adolescence 2026 Biennial Meeting. Toronto, Canada.
Salemy, C., Shelleby, E.C., Larkin, K., Piper. M., (2026, April). The Protective Role of Parental Monitoring on Adolescent Delinquency. Poster will be presented at the Midwest Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
Zielinski, N., and Pittman, L. D. (2026, April). Associations Between Mother-Child Communication and Internalizing Symptoms Among Emerging Adult Immigrants: Acculturation as a Moderator.
Poster will be presented at the Society for Research on Adolescence, Toronto, Canada.
Zielinski, N., and Pittman, L. D. (2026, April). Navigating Two Worlds: How Cultural Sense of Community Shapes the Link Between Parent Communication and Self-Esteem in Polish-American Adolescents. Poster will be presented at the Society for Research on Adolescence, Toronto, Canada.
2025
Davis, B. and Orcutt, H. (April, 2025). Attention and psychological functioning within the dissociative subtype of PTSD. Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
Davis, B. and Orcutt, H. (April, 2025). Trauma centrality and the role of explicit and implicit measures.
Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
Dobbs, H., Hoffman, D., Horodyski, A., Lilly, M. (2025, September). How Alexithymia Impacts the Association Between Interpersonal Trauma and Somatization. International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Baltimore, MD.
Horodyski, A.M., Piper, M.E., Dobbs, H.F., Hoffman, D.M. and Lilly, M.M. (2025, September 17-20).
The Association Between PTSS, Peritraumatic Dissociation, and Somatization in First Responders. International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Baltimore, MD
Jankowski, A. N., Jones, D., Valentiner, D. P. (2025, November 20-23). Shyness mindset, Asian identity statuses, and experiential avoidance: Fixed mindset makes stereotypes more threatening.
Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA.
Jatoi, F., Dubuclet, C.M., Pittman, L.D. (2025, June 6-7). Coping with Discrimination among Youth of Color: Links to Maternal Warmth and Racial/Ethnic Socialization. Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology Conference, Chicago, Il.
Philip, J. S. and Pittman, L. D. (2025, November). Race-Based Stressors and Racial Trauma: The Moderating Role of Parental Racial Socialization. Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA.
Piper, M.E., Shelleby, E.C., Bartlett, C.A., and Pittman, L.D. (2025, May 1-3). The relationship between maternal parenting stress and active coping during the COVID-19 pandemic. Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Sadek, S.J., Jatoi, F., Pittman, L. (2025, November). The Role of Ethnic Identity in the Relationship Between Racial Discrimination and Clinical Anger. Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Annual Convention. New Orleans, LA.
Salemy, C., Ellis, B.H., Awada, S.R., Miller, A. (2025, November). Community Perceptions of Public Health Violence Prevention Initiatives: Potential for Early Action or Missed Engagement Opportunities. Midwest ECO Conference, Chicago, IL.
White, A. M., Ebert, K. R., Mangen, K. H., Wu, K. D. (2025, November). Examining the impact of heterosexist experiences on the relationship between LGBTQ+ identity and OC symptom dimensions. Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies; New Orleans, LA.
2024
Ball, F. C., Bogdanovich, A., Olson, E. K., White, A. M., and Wu, K. D. (2024, November 14-17).
Inferential confusion and intolerance of uncertainty interact to predict OC symptoms. Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA.
Ball, F. C., White, A. M., and Wu, K. D. (2024, November 14-17). Accounting for depressive symptoms in the study of intolerance of uncertainty and obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA.
Bartlett, C., and Shelleby, E.C. (April 2024). COVID-19, Parents' educational involvement, and children's approaches to learning. Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
Bogdanovich, A., Wu, K. D., Olson, E. K., and Ball, F. C., (2024, November 14-17). Differential relations between inferential confusion and OC symptom dimensions as measured by the DOCS. Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA.
Horodyski, A. M., Tappenden, P. C., Valentine, J., Jessen, A., and Lilly, M. M (2024, November 14- 17). A longitudinal analysis of peritraumatic distress, anger, and emotion dysregulation on PTSD symptoms in 911 telecommunicators. Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA.
Hughes, E.R., Dombrowski, K.M., Bujtor, S., Hoffman, D., LaPorte, N., Gualano, F.M., Kelly, J., Vital, V., Boychuk, M., and Bowles, S.V. (2024). The perception of stressors on performance in military recruiting. APA 2024 – Division 19 Society for Military Psychology.
Jessen, A., Valentine, J., and Lilly, M. M (2024, November 14-17). The impact of world assumptions on social support and PTSD symptoms in 911 telecommunicators. Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA.
Katsikas, M.J., Ong, L.E., and Orcutt, H.K. (September, 2024). The role of self-compassion as a moderator between childhood abuse types and risky sexual behaviors. 40th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Boston, MA.
Kaye, J. R., Ung, S. D., Olson, E. K., Bridgett, D. J. (2024). Links between infant surgency, toddler impulsivity, and toddler ADHD symptoms. The International Congress of Infant Studies in Glasgow, Scotland.
Olson, E. K., Teller, J., Bogdanovich, A., and Wu, K. D. (2024, November 14-17). Understanding the moderating role of intolerance of uncertainty in obsessive-compulsive symptoms and distress. Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA.
Ong, L.E., Cole, T.A. and Orcutt, H.K. (September, 2024). Embodied sense of self as mediator in the relationship of childhood abuse types to distress and fear. 40th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Boston, MA.
Philip, J. S. and Pittman, L. D. (2024, April 18-20). Parental predictors of ethnic identity and acculturation among children of immigrants [poster presentation]. Society for Research on Adolescence, Chicago, IL.
Piper, M., Larkin, K., Pittman, L. D., Shelleby, L. and Bridgett, D. (2024, November 14-17). Evaluating parental relationship consensus, satisfaction, and cohesion in the relation between parental stress and child psychopathology: A parallel mediation model. Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA.
Piper, M., Shelleby, E., Pittman, L. D., and Bridgett, D. J. (2024, April 18-20). Child behavior and maternal internalizing: Indirect associations through parenting stress [poster presentation]. Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
Tappenden, P. C., Valentine, J., Horodyski, A. M., Jessen, A., and Lilly, M. M (2024, November 14- 17). Probing the relationship between PMIE exposure, occupational social support, and alcohol use in a sample of first responders. Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA.
Teller, J., Olson, E. K., Bogdanovich, A., and Wu, K. D. (2024, November 14-17).
Responsibility/overestimation of threat moderates the association between washing symptoms and checking compulsions. Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA.
Valentine, J., Jessen, A., Katsikas, M., Tappenden, P. C., Horodyski, A. M., and Lilly, M. M (2024, November 14-17). Experiences of discrimination, COVID-19 stress, and racial trauma in college students. Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA.
White, A. M., Ball, F. C., Mangen, K. H., and Wu, K. D. (2024, November 14-17). Fear-of-self mediates relationship between LGBTQ+ identity and OC symptoms. Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA.
Zielinski, N., and Pittman, L. D. (2024, April 18-20). Psychological outcomes among immigrant emerging adults: Reexamining the bidimensional acculturation model in the context of discrimination [poster presentation]. Society for Research on Adolescence, Chicago, IL.
Zolinski, S. K., Pittman, L. D., and Kaur, K. (2024, April 18-20). Indirect pathways through maternal psychological distress and parenting on the association between intimate partner violence and adolescent delinquent behavior [poster presentation]. Society for Research on Adolescence, Chicago, IL.
2023
Ball, F. C., Teller, J., White, A. M., and Wu, K. D. (2023, November 15-19). Measurement invariance of the OCI-12 across racial and ethnic groups. [poster presentation]. Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Seattle, WA.
Caradec, J. R., Keane, J., Pittman, L. D., Bridgett, D. J., and Shelleby, E. (2023, March 23-35). Coparenting: Possible explanatory mechanism between pandemic stress and children's psychological symptoms [poster presentation]. Society for Research on Child Development, Salt Lake City, UT.
Davis, B., and Orcutt, H. K. (November, 2023). Dissociation and psychological inflexibility: Examining a path model of distress in trauma exposed undergraduates. Poster presented at the 39th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Los Angeles, CA
Ellis, R.A., Meyer, E., Cole, T.C. and Orcutt, H.K. (2023, April). The dynamic relationship of expressing negative emotions in the context of trauma-focused writing interventions for PTSD on improvements in emotion regulation. In N. Weiss (discussant), Understanding emotion-related risk factors for PTSD and comorbid concerns: Roles of emotional vulnerabilities, coping, and emotion regulation. Symposium presented at the Annual Meeting of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, Washington, DC.
Graham, A., and Valentiner, D. P. (2023, November 15-19). Self-concept clarity mediates the relationship between emotion differentiation and social anxiety [poster presentation]. Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Seattle, WA.
Hill, S.B. and Orcutt, H. K. (November, 2023). Guilt and shame as predictors of psychopathology among women with history of childhood emotional abuse. Poster presented at the 39th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Los Angeles, CA.
Jones, D., Valentiner, D. P., Taylor, D., and Graham, A. (2023, November 15-19). Self-concept clarity as a protective factor among women and sexual minorities [poster presentation]. Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Seattle, WA.
Katsikas, M.J., Kennedy, M., Tappenden, P., and Orcutt, H.K. (November, 2023). Moral injury and PTSD symptomatology: The moderating role of experiential avoidance. Poster presented at the 57th Annual Meeting for the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Seattle, WA.
Kaur, K., Larkin, K., Pittman, L. D., Shelleby, E., and Bridgett, D. J. (2023, March 23-35). Maternal depression transmission through CHAOS [poster presentation]. Society for Research on Child Development, Salt Lake City, UT.
Kaye, J. R., Ung, S. D, Dubuclet, C. M., Bridgett, D. J., Pittman, L. D., Shelleby, E. C. (2023, March 23-35). Association between pandemic stress and parenting behaviors: Mediating role of
parenting stress [poster presentation]. Society for Research on Child Development, Salt Lake City, UT.
Kennedy, M., and Orcutt, H. K. (November 2023). The role of emotion dysregulation and childhood emotional abuse in depression, anxiety, and stress: A path analysis. Poster presented at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Seattle, WA.
Larkin, K., Kaye, J., Kaur, K., Keane, J., Barrett, C., Pittman, L. D., Bridgett, D. J., and Shelleby, E. (2023, March 23-35). Protective role of positive experiences in the association between pandemic interruption stress and parenting stress [poster presentation]. Society for Research on Child Development, Salt Lake City, UT.
Matthiesen, D., Davis, B., and Orcutt, H. K. (November, 2023). Attentional constructs as predictors of PTSD symptoms. Poster presented at the 39th annual meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Los Angeles, CA.
Meyer, E. A., Kennedy, M., and Orcutt, H. K. (November, 2023). Emotional abuse as a predictor of IDAS-II Distress Subscale: The mediating role of experiential avoidance. Poster presented at the 39th annual meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Los Angeles, CA.
Mick, C., Caradec, J., Szöllös, S., Mounts, N., Pittman, L.D., and Valentiner, D. (2023, March 3-35).
Parental psychological control and child anxiety: A meta-analysis. [poster presentation]. Society for Research on Child Development, Salt Lake City, UT.
Mick, C., R., Martinez-Snyder, A. E., and Valentiner, D. P. (2023, November 15-19). A comparison of the SCARED, SCAS, and YAM-5 in the assessment of adolescent anxiety. [poster presentation]. Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Seattle, WA.
Philip, J. S. and Pittman, L. D. (2023, March 23-35). Racial-ethnic socialization practices: Gender and ethnic group differences and links to psychological symptoms [poster presentation]. Society for Research on Child Development, Salt Lake City, UT.
Graham, A., and Valentiner, D. P. (2023, November 15-19). Self-concept clarity mediates the relationship between emotion differentiation and social anxiety [poster presentation]. Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Seattle, WA.
Szöllös, S., Graham, A., Valentiner, D. P., and Zach, C. (2023, November 15-19). Shyness conceptualization: What do we think it means to be shy? [poster presentation]. Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Seattle, WA.
Teller, J., White, A. M., Ball, F. C, and Wu, K. D. (2023, November 15-19). Race moderates the association between intolerance of uncertainty and OCD symptoms. [poster presentation]. Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Seattle, WA.
White, A. M., Ball, F. C., Teller, J., Younce, J. A., and Wu, K. D. (2023, November 15-19). Relations among religious affiliation, religiosity, and scrupulosity symptoms. [poster presentation].
Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Seattle, WA.
White, A. M., Ball, F. C., Teller, J., Younce, J. A., and Wu, K. D. (2023, November 15-19). Guilt partially mediates the effect of religiosity on scrupulosity symptoms. [poster presentation]. Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Seattle, WA.
2022
Banks, B., Ogg, J., Rogers, M., Shelleby, E.C., and Laffoon, R. (February 2022). Exploring associations between child internalizing and parent involvement in education. Poster presented at the National Association of School Psychologists 2022 Annual Convention.
Caradec, J. R., Kochanova, K., and Pittman, L. D. (2022, March). Coparenting and parental anxiety: Exploring transactional associations among families with early adolescents. Poster presented at the Society for Research on Adolescence, New Orleans, LA.
Cole, T. A., Kennedy, M., Taylor, D., Davis, B., and Orcutt, H. K. (November, 2022). Assessing the interaction between perceived discrimination and experiential avoidance within a PTSD
and racial trauma framework. Poster presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Atlanta, GA.
Ellem, B., Ellem, J. R., and Orcutt, H. K. (November, 2022). The interacting effects of maladaptive coping strategies on the relationship between CF and posttraumatic stress symptoms. Poster presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Atlanta, GA.
Ellem, B., and Orcutt, H. K. (November, 2022). The relationship between latent profiles of coping with COVID-19 and posttraumatic stress symptom severity in a trauma-exposed sample. Poster presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Atlanta, GA.
Ellem, J.R., Ellem, B.J., Ellis, R.A., and Orcutt, H.K. (November, 2022). The relationship between cognitive fusion and experiential avoidance on posttraumatic stress: A replication and extension. Poster presented at the 56th Annual Meeting for the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, New York, NY.
Flannery, A. J., Pittman, L. D., Kaur, K., Zolinski, S. K., Pabis and J. M., and Caradec, J.R. (2022, March). Coparenting among families of treatment-seeking adolescents: Associations with marital conflict and psychological adjustment. Poster presented at the Society for Research on Adolescence, New Orleans, LA.
Hill, S.B., Laman-Maharg, B., and Orcutt, H. K. (November, 2022). The nosographic structure of the trauma symptoms of discrimination scale: An exploratory network analysis. Poster presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Atlanta, GA.
Keane, J. N., Zolinski, S. K., Caradec, J. R., Shelleby, E. C., Pittman, L. D., and Bridgett, D. J. (2022, May 26-29). Parenting stress and child outcomes: The role of parenting behaviors and coparenting during the COVID-19 pandemic [poster presentation]. Association for Psychological Science conference, Chicago, IL.
Kennedy, M., and Orcutt, H. K. (November, 2022). The relationship between childhood sexual abuse, experiential avoidance, and use of sex to reduce negative affect in a sample of female undergraduates. Poster presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Atlanta, GA.
Ogg, J., Menter, K., Laffoon, R., Banks, B., Rogers, M., Santuzzi, A., and Shelleby, E.C. (November 2022). Parent Involvement in Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic. In K. Lupas and J Piscitello, J. (Chairs), The International Impact of COVID-19 on the educational, social, and
mental health functioning of children and adolescents with ADHD and related behavioral disorders. Symposium presented at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Annual Convention, New York, NY.
Pabis, J. and Pittman, L. D., (2022, October). Parent training workshop for children with selective mutism: A randomized-controlled trial [poster presentation]. Selective Mutism Association (virtual).
Zolinski, S. K., Caradec, J. R., McNeela, L., Dubuclet, C., Keane, J., and Pittman, L. P. (2022, March). Patterns of coping with discrimination among ethnic minority adolescents: Examining relations to psychological outcomes. Poster presented at the Society for Research on Adolescence, New Orleans, LA.
2021
Awada, S.R., Ellis, R.A., Keane, J., Orcutt, H.K., and Shelleby, E.C. (November 2021). Community violence exposure, childhood maltreatment, and gender: Interactions of risk factors predicting PTSS, risky sex, alcohol and drug use. Poster presented at the 37th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Los Angeles, CA.
Awada, S.R. and Shelleby, E.C. (November 2021). Differential mechanisms linking early childhood violence exposure and social/environmental deprivation to adolescent conduct problems. International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.
Cares, S. R., Mangen, K.H., and Wu, K.D. (2021, November 18-21). A comparison of administration modalities of the sentence task [Poster presentation]. Fifty-fifth annual convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, New Orleans, LA.
Cutright, N. H., Pittman, L. D., and Pabis, J. (2021, November). An examination of hurricane experience, symptomology, and coping in children. Poster presented at the Caribbean Regional Conference of Psychology, St. Croix, US Virgin Islands.
Darnell, B., Ellis, R., and Lilly, M. M. (2021). Serial mediational effects of metamemory-related processes on the relationship between psychological inflexibility and prospective PTSS across three timepoints. [Poster presentation]. International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS), Virtual conference.
Dubuclet, C., Banks, B., Kaye, J., Bridgett, D. J., Pittman, L. D., and Shelleby, E. (2021, May). The relationship between maternal depressive symptoms and loneliness and their links to child depressive symptoms during COVID-19. Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Science conference held virtually.
Ellis, R.A., and Orcutt, H.K. (November, 2021). Telehealth written exposure therapy in undergraduates: Efficacy and mechanisms of change. Symposium part accepted as part of the Written Exposure Therapy: Efficacy and Increased Reach in Diverse Groups and Delivery Systems. Symposium presented at the 37th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Los Angeles, CA.
Ellis, R.A., and Orcutt, H.K. (November, 2021). Pathways from childhood maltreatment to risky sex: Investigating the mediational effects of sex to cope and sex for affirmation. Poster presented at the 37th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Los Angeles, CA.
Hauck, L.E. and Mounts, N.S. (April, 2021). Indirect effect of parent romantic behaviors on adolescent romantic competence through direct parenting practices. Poster abstract accepted for presentation at the biennial meeting of the Society of Research in Child Development, Online Conference.
Hill, S., Ellis, R. A., and Orcutt, H. (November 2021). The role of shame types in a network analysis of PTSD symptoms. Poster presented at the 37th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Los Angeles, CA.
Kaye, J. R., Caradec, J. R., Banks, B., Bridgett, D. J., Pittman, L. D., and Shelleby, E. (2021, May).
Pandemic-related stress and maternal internalizing difficulties: Is mindfulness contraindicated for mitigation? Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Science conference held virtually.
Keane, J., Abdul-Masih, M., Shelleby E.C., Awada, S.R., Herbers, J., and Banks, B. (2021, April 7-9).
Homelessness and residential mobility: Risks for later academic achievement. Poster presented at Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Convention, Virtual.
Keane, J., Awada, S.R., Ellis, R.A., Shelleby, E.C., and Orcutt, H.K. (November 2021). Latent profiles of risky behaviors, trauma exposure and psychopathology in an undergraduate sample. Poster presented at the 37th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Los Angeles, CA.
Keane, J. N., Zolinski, S., Awada, S. R., andShelleby, E. C. (November 2021). Maternal exposure to violence and child outcomes: Pathways through maternal depression and parenting behaviors. Poster presentation at the 2021 virtual International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies Annual Meeting.
Kennedy, M., Taylor, D., and Orcutt, H. (November 2021). The impact of race, sex, childhood abuse, and frequency of exposure to COVID-19 media on pandemic-related worry. Poster presented at the 37th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Los Angeles, CA.
Laman-Maharg, B., Ellis, R., Hill, S., and Orcutt, H. (November 2021). The factor structure and validity of a self-report measure of trait fear. Poster presented at the 37th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Los Angeles, CA.
Laman-Maharg, B., Ellis, R., and Orcutt, H. (November 2021). Child abuse, mental health, and covid-19: Latent profiles of undergraduate mental health across 2020. Poster presented at the 37th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Los Angeles, CA.
Leonard, K. A., Ellis, R.A., Awada, S.R., Shelleby, E.C., and Orcutt, H.K. (November 2021). Sex trafficking experiences in college students: Prevalence rate and relation to trauma exposure and psychopathology. Poster presented at the 37th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Los Angeles, CA.
Mangen, K. H., Ball, F. C., and Wu, K. D. (2021, November 18-21). Reassurance-seeking and checking in obsessive-compulsive symptoms [Poster presentation]. Fifty-fifth annual convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, New Orleans, LA.
Pabis, J., and Pittman, L.D. (2021, April). Parenting behaviors and child anxiety: The role of parent and child gender. Poster submitted presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for the Research on Child Development, Minneapolis, MN.
Szollos, S. Ellem, J., and Valentiner, D.P. (2021). The moderating role of mindfulness in the relationship between gender harassment and social anxiety safety behaviors. Poster presented at 2021 ABCT Convention.
Tahernezhadi, S., Laman-Maharg, B., and Orcutt, H. (November 2021). The value of the fear-potentiated startle paradigm in a predictive model of posttraumatic stress symptoms in a trauma-exposed population. Poster presented at the 37th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Los Angeles, CA.
Taylor, D., Kennedy, M., and Orcutt, H. (November 2021). The impact of discrimination-related trauma symptoms on global functioning of BIPOC college students during the COVID19 pandemic.
Poster presented at the 37th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Los Angeles, CA.
Ung, S., Kaye, J., and Bridgett, D.J. (2021, April). Examining bidirectionality of maternal self-efficacy and maternal parenting stress. Poster to be presented at Society for Research in Child Development (Virtual conference).
Winder, J.R., Cares, S.R., Younce, J.A., Mangen, K.H., Fergus, T.A., and Wu, K.D. (2021, November 18-21). Worry across four racial groups: A measurement invariance analysis [Poster presentation]. Fifty-fifth annual convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, New Orleans, LA.
Younce, J. A., Winder, J. R., Cares, S. R., Mangen, K. H., Fergus, T. A., and Wu, K. D. (2021, November 18-21). Measurement invariance analysis of the SCOPI across four racial groups [Poster presentation]. Fifty-fifth annual convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, New Orleans, LA.
2020
Alfonso, D., Leonard, K.A., Awada, S., Keane, J., Shelleby, E.C. (2020, March 19-21). Contextual pathways to adolescent delinquency: Poverty and collective efficacy. Poster presented at Society for Research on Adolescents in San Diego, CA. (Conference cancelled)
Awada, S.R., Alfonso, D., Shelleby, E.C. (2020, March). Developmental pathways to adolescent delinquency and depression: Psychological symptoms and verbal ability across childhood. Society for Research on Adolescence, San Diego, CA.
Awada, S.R., Corning, E.R., and Shelleby, E.C. (2020, Cancelled due to COVID-19) Maternal experienced intimate partner violence and adolescence delinquency: Pathways through parenting stress and harsh parenting. Poster presented at Society for Research on Adolescence Biennial Convention, San Diego, CA.
Awada, S.R., Ellis, R., Shelleby, E.C., and Orcutt, H. (2020, November). Characteristics of sexual perpetrators in an undergraduate population. Poster presented at International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies 36th Annual Convention, Virtual.
Awada, S.R., and Shelleby, E.C., (2020, April 11-13). Associations between maltreatment, child posttraumatic stress symptoms, and adolescent delinquency. Midwestern Psychological Society, Chicago, IL (cancelled due to COVID-19)
Caradec, J., Zolinski, S., Lahey, K., and Pittman, L. (2020, March). Parenting and anxiety among ethnic minority adolescents: Associations through ethnic identity. Poster accepted for presentation at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, San Diego, CA. (Conference cancelled).
Cares, S.R., Mangen, K. H., and Wu, K. D. (2020, November 17-22). Relationship between thought- action fusion and the sentence task. [Poster session]. Fifty-fourth annual convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
Cares, S.R., Ung, S., Atterberg, M., Viveros, P., and Bridgett, DJ. (2020, May). Association between effortful control and internalizing symptoms: Mediating role of mindfulness. Association for Psychological Science in Chicago, IL. (Conference canceled)
Corning, E., Keane, J., and Shelleby, E.C. (Cancelled due to COVID-19; May 2020). Reciprocal influences between parenting practices and child conduct problems across early and middle childhood. Accepted for presentation at the Association for Psychological Science annual convention, Chicago, IL.
Dadouch, Z., Mielock, A., and Lilly, M. M. (2020). Writing and Well-being: Comparing Varied Expressive Writing Tasks on Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms and Life Satisfaction. Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies [poster presentation]. Virtual conference.
Darnell, B.C., Ellis, R.A., and Orcutt, H.K. (November, 2020). Natural recovery from PTSS: Network analysis of symptoms at 2 and 9 months after a mass shooting. Paper presented virtually at the 36th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Atlanta, GA.
Ellis, R., Awada, S.R., Orcutt, H. and Shelleby, E.C., (2020, November). Network structure of callous unemotional traits and posttraumatic stress symptoms: Differences by callous unemotional trait variant. Poster presented at International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies 36th Annual Convention, Virtual.
Ellis, R.A., Laman-Maharg, B., and Orcutt, H.K. (November, 2020). Posttraumatic stress disorder symptom clusters do not integrate into a fear affect network analysis. Poster presented virtually at the 36th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Atlanta, GA.
Hill, S. Ellis, R.A., and Orcutt, H.K. (November, 2020). The role of vulnerability expectancies and method of intoxication in victim blaming for sexual assaults involving alcohol use. Poster presented virtually at the 36th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Atlanta, GA.
Kennedy, M., Hill, S., Himmerich, S., and Orcutt, H. (2020, November). The moderating role of positive alcohol expectancies on the relation between posttraumatic stress and alcohol use in college students. Poster presented at the 36th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.
Laman-Maharg, B., Ellis, R.A., and Orcutt, H.K. (November, 2020). The differing importance of individual PTSD symptoms across race and sex. Poster presented virtually at the 36th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Atlanta, GA.
Laman-Maharg, B.J., Winder, J.R., and Orcutt, H.K. (2020, November). A psychometric study of the NIH Toolbox Fear-Affect short form. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Virtual.
Lee, S. R., Younce, J. A., Cares, S. R., and Wu, K. D. (2020, November 21). Investigating incompleteness: A computerized approach-avoidance task for not-just-right experiences. Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies 54th Annual Convention, Philadelphia, PA.
Leonard, K.A., Alfonso, D., Awada, S.R., and Shelleby, E.C. (2020, March). Victims of childhood physical and emotional abuse, risky substance use, and the mediating effect of externalizing disorders. Society for Research on Adolescence, San Diego, CA.
Leonard, K. A., Ung, S. D., Hill, S., and Lilly, M. (2020, November 4-14). Impact of organizational support on impairment in 9-1-1 telecommunicators. Poster presented at International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, virtual.
Mangen, K. H., Cares, S. R., and Wu, K. D. (2020, November 17-22). Scrupulosity and reassurance- seeking: An examination of the association between obsessive-compulsive symptom dimensions and urges to seek reassurance in response to a behavioral task. Fifty-fourth annual convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
McNeela, L. and Pittman, L. D. (2020, April). The impact of attributional style on adolescent stress and outcomes. [Paper talk]. 92nd Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association (MPA), Chicago, IL. (Conference canceled)
McNeela, L. M., Pittman, L. D., Caradec, J., Pabis, J. M., and Zolinski, S. (March, 2020). Coparenting and adolescent psychological symptoms: A transactional analysis among families with sixth graders. Symposium accepted for presentation at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence: San Diego, CA. (Conference canceled)
Mick, C. R., Valentiner, D. P., Hauck, L. E., and Mounts, N. S. (2020, June 1-September 1). Adolescent beliefs about maternal authority over friendships moderates the relation between maternal behaviors and adolescent social anxiety symptoms. Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, Chicago, IL.
Pawirosetiko, J. S., Reffi, A. N., Laman-Maharg, B., and Lilly, M. (2020). An exploratory factor analysis of the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire in a sample of 9-1-1 telecommunicators: Examining new directions for measuring mindfulness [Poster presentation]. Association for Psychological Science (APS) Poster Showcase, Chicago, IL.
Petrenko, A., Hawkins, C., and Bridgett, D. J. (May, 2020). Parental scaffolding during infancy predicts toddlers' inhibitory control: Effect is Stronger for Girls. Virtual poster presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL.
Pollock, R., Laman-Maharg, B.J.,and Orcutt, H.K. (November, 2020). Emotion regulation strategies mediate the relationship between child abuse experiences and adult posttraumatic adjustment
trajectories after experiencing a campus shooting. Poster presented at the 36th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Atlanta, GA.
Reffi, A. N., and Orcutt, H. K. (November, 2020). Experiential avoidance explains link between sleep and mental health: A week-long EMA study. Poster presented at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, Boston, MA.
Szollos, S., Winder, J.R., Pencakowski, D., and Valentiner, D.P. (2020). The effect of sexual harassment experience on the relationship between rumination and social anxiety. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Virtual.
Ung, S., Leonard, K., Valdez, A., Hawkins, C., and Bridgett, DJ. (2020, May). Household chaos and maternal negative parenting during childhood are associated with mindfulness skills in emerging adults. Association for Psychological Science in Chicago, IL. (Conference canceled)
Valdez, A., Ung, S., Myers, E., McKenzie, A., McKay, E., Rosinski, L., and Bridgett, DJ. (2020, May). Bidirectional or unidirectional? Interplay between maternal depressive symptoms and parenting stress during the first year postpartum. Association for Psychological Science in Chicago, IL. (Conference canceled)
Winder, J.R., Crouch, J., Skarbek, M., Maxwell, A., Menon, S., Kochanova, K., and Milner, J. (2020, July). Maternal depression, partner violence, and child developmental delays in a child welfare sample. Poster accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the International Congress for Infant Studies, Glasgow, Scotland (Conference canceled).
Winder, J.R. and Valentiner, D.P. (2020). Shyness mindset and sexual harassment responses among female college students. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Virtual.
Younce, J. A., Lee, S. R., and Wu, K. D. (2020, November 21). An experimental examination of the relationship between religion and moral thought-action fusion. Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies 54th Annual Convention, Philadelphia, PA.
Zolinski, S., Caradec, J., Lahey, K., and Pittman, L. D. (2020, March). Late adolescents' strategies to cope with discrimination: Associations with ethnic-racial socialization. Poster accepted to be presented at the Society for Research on Adolescence in San Diego, CA. (Conference canceled)
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Kathi West
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Psychology-Computer Science Building room 313
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co-Director of Clinical Training
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