The Eleventh International Conference on Social Stress Research
Final Program

Saturday, May 31, 2008

 

8:00-9:00 a.m.             REGISTRATION

 

9:00-9:15 a.m.             WELCOMING REMARKS:

                                    Conference Director:

                                    Heather Turner, University of New Hampshire

 

9:15-10:15 a.m.           CONFERENCE ADDRESS:

“Some Reflections on Research into Stress and Health”

Leonard I. Pearlin, University of Maryland

 

10:30-12:00 p.m.         SESSION A: STRESS ACROSS THE LIFE COURSE

 

                                    PRESIDER: Heather Turner, University of New Hampshire

“Stress and Health Behavior Over the Life Course” Debra Umberson, Hui Liu, and Corinne Reczek, University of Texas at Austin

 

“Timing, Duration, and Sequencing of Poverty: Family Economic Dynamics and Child Health and Well-Being” Mary Clare Lennon, CUNY, Li Kuang, Columbia University, and Robert Wagmiller, SUNY

 

“The Mental Health Consequences of Family Socioeconomic Background, the Timing of the Transition to Adulthood, and Expectations versus Reality” Krysia Mossakowski, University of Miami

 

“Trajectories of Family Structure and Exposure to Stress” William R. Avison, Lorraine Davies, Andrea Willson, Kim Shuey, University of Western Ontario

 

12:00-1:30 p.m.           LUNCH BREAK

 

1:30-3:00 p.m.             SESSION B: STRESS PROCESSES IN LATINO/A POPULATIONS

 

                                    PRESIDER: Catherine Moran, University of New Hampshire

“Latino Immigrant Health Seekers: Frustration, Anxiety, and Coping Strategies” H. Edward Ransford and Frank Carrillo, University of Southern California, and Yessenia Rivera, University of California, San Francisco

 

“Preliminary Findings on Socio-cultural Stress and its Relations to Health in a Low-income, Predominantly Latino, Southwest Community” Scott Carvajal, Cecilia Rosales, Jill De Zapien, Raquel Rubio-Goldsmith, Melissa McCormick, Araceli Masterson, Samantha Sabo, Jean McClelland, and Maia Ingram, University of Arizona

 

“Problem Drinking among Mexican Americans: The Influence of Acculturation, Nativity, and Ethnic Concentration” Kyriakos S. Markides and Soham Al Snih, University of Texas Medical Branch, Tasanee Walsh and Malcolm Cutchin, University of North Carolina, Hyunsu Ju and James Goodwin, University of Texas Medical Branch

 

“Bicultural Stress and Adolescent Risk Behaviors in a Community Sample of Latinos and Non-Latino European Americans” Andrea J. Romero, Daniel Martinez, and Scott C. Carvajal, University of Arizona, Tucson

 

SESSION C: WOMEN, STRESS, AND HEALTH

 

                                    PRESIDER: Karen Van Gundy, University of New Hampshire

 

 “Neighborhood SES and Incident CHD in Women” Chloe E. Bird, Christine Eibner, and Beth Ann Griffin, RAND, Karen Margolis, HealthPartners, and Eric Whitsel, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

“Stress and Coping in Women with Fibromyalgia and Healthy Controls” Erin Tooley, Erica Montague, Amanda Robinson, Cindy Cosper, Melissa Godwin, and Bruce W. Smith, University of New Mexico

 

“Homelessness as a Stressor Influencing Women’s Health: Sexual Risk, Substance Use, and Victimization by Violence” Suzanne L. Wenzel and Stephanie L. Taylor, RAND

 

“Stress, Status, and Gender in Decision-Making Groups” Catherine J. Taylor, Cornell University

 

3:15-4:45 p.m.             SESSION D:  PSYCHOSOCIAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTEXTS

 

                                    PRESIDER: Robert Aseltine, University of Connecticut

 

“Is There a Threshold of Dysfunction? How Sense of Control and John Henrysm Affect Distress and Buffer the Effects of Stress” Michael Hughes and K. Jill Kiecolt, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and Verna M. Keith, Florida State University

 

“The Interrelationships among Gender, Technology Usage, and Self-Efficacy” Shelia R. Cotten and William A. Anderson, University of Alabama-Birmingham

 

“The Mental Health Costs and Advantages of Primary Relationships: A Dyad-Level Analysis” R. Jay Turner, John Taylor, and Robyn Lewis, Florida State University

 

 “Perceived and Objective Neighborhood Characteristics and Health: Results from the Texas City Stress and Health Study” Kristen Sheffield and Kristen Peek, University of Texas Medical Branch, Malcolm Cutchin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Karl Eschbach, University of Texas at San Antonio, and James Goodwin, University of Texas Medical Branch

 

SESSION E: PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OUTCOMES OF STRESS IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS

 

                                    PRESIDER: Christina Falci, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

 

“Exposure to Terrorism and Ongoing Threat, Risk Perception and Outcomes” Cynthia A. Rohrbeck, Philip J. More, Rolf A. Peterson, and Katie M. Burns, George Washington University

 

“Gender Trajectories of Adolescent Depressed Mood: The Dynamic Role of Stressors and Resources” Christina D. Falci, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

 

“Measuring Health Inequalities among Adolescents – Social Class of Origin versus Social Class of Destination” Curt Hagquist, Karlstad University, Sweden

 

“Risk Factors Associated with Depression among African American and White Adolescents” Andrea Johnson, North Carolina A&T State University

 

5:00-6:30                     CONFERENCE RECEPTION

 

Sunday, June 1, 2008

 

8:30-10:00 a.m.           SESSION F: WORK AND STRESS PROCESSES

 

                                    PRESIDER: Karen Van Gundy, University of New Hampshire

 

“Autonomy, Authority, and Participation: Deciphering the Dimensions of Job Control and their Effects on Job Stress” Rudy Fenwick and Mark Tausig, The University of Akron

 

“The Influence of Work Control Trajectories on Men’s Mental Health During the Middle Years: Mediating Role of Personal Control” K.A.S. Wickrama, Florensia F. Surjadi, and Frederick O. Lorenz, Iowa State University, and Glen H. Elder, Jr., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

 

“Individual and Contextual Predictors of Nurses’ Job Satisfaction: The Mediating Role of Burnout” Heather K. Spence Laschinger and Joan Finegan, University of Western Ontario, Piotr Wilk, Middlesex-London Health Unit

 

“Is there a ‘Downside’ to Schedule Control for the Work-Family Interface?” Scott Schieman, University of Toronto

 

“Wear and Tear in the ‘Hamburger Machine’” Barret Michalec, Emory University

 

SESSION G: BIOLOGICAL MECHANISMS

 

                                    PRESIDER: Catherine Moran, University of New Hampshire

 

“Impact of Chronic Early Childhood Distress on Youth Violence Outcomes” Kim Bullock, Wanda Thompson, and Beverly Roberson Jackson, Georgetown University

 

Sociospatial Sources of Physiological Stress among Legal and Unauthorized Migrants in the Boston Metropolitan Area” Enrico A. Marcelli, San Diego State University, and Louisa Holmes, University of Massachusetts Boston

 

“The Role of Probabilistic Forecasting of Results on Heart Rate Variability during Psychological Stress” D. A. Dimitriev and E. V. Saperova, I. Y. Yakovlev Chuvash State Pedagogical University, Cheboksary, Russia

 

“Environmental Hazards and Stress: Evidence from the Texas City Stress and Health Study” M. Kristen Peek, University of Texas Medical Branch, Malcolm Cutchin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Karl Eschbach, University of Texas at San Antonio, Norma Perez and James Goodwin, University of Texas Medical Branch

 

10:15-11:45 a.m.         SESSION H: STRESS IN FAMILIES: RELATIONSHIPS, MARRIAGE, AND CAREGIVING

 

                                    PRESIDER: Heather Turner, University of New Hampshire

“Psychological Correlates of Marital Stress: Examining the Psychological Well-being of Individuals in High Marital Risk Marriages over Time” Sarah M. Hertzog and Elaine Wethington, Cornell University

 

“Romantic Relationships and Mental Health in Early Adulthood: Is There a Closer Link for Women than for Men?” Robin Simon and Anne Barrett, Florida State University

 

“Caregiver Resilience and the Stress of Homecare for the Acutely Ill” Betsy L. Fife, Indiana University

 

“Sharing an Uncertain Future: Improved Survival and Stress Proliferation among Persons Living with HIV and their Caregivers” Richard G. Wight and Carol S. Aneshensel, University of California, Los Angeles, Allen J. LeBlanc, San Francisco State University, and Kristin P. Beals, California State University, Fullerton

 

SESSION I: DISCRIMINATION AND MINORITY MENTAL HEALTH

 

                                    PRESIDER: Blake Turner, Columbia University

 

“A Descriptive Analysis of Discrimination and Mental Health among Black and White Adults in the Ypsilanti Everyday Stress (YES) Health Study” Ronica N. Rooks, Yanmei Xu, Brooklyn Dorsey and David R. Williams, University of Colorado at Denver

 

Pearlin’s Stress Model, Stigma, and the Case of Lesbian Mental Health” Marieke Van Willigen, East Carolina University, and Kelly Giusto

 

“Coping with Discrimination among Mexican Descent Adolescents” Lisa M. Edwards, Marquette University, and Andrea J. Romero, University of Arizona

 

“Depressed Affect and Historical Loss among North American Indigenous Adolescents” Les B. Whitbeck, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Melissa L. Walls, University of Minnesota-Duluth, Kurt D. Johnson, Allan D. Morrisseau, and Cindy M. McDougall, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

 

11:45-1:45 p.m.           LUNCH BREAK

 

1:45-3:15 p.m.             SESSION J: RESEARCH ON STRESS INTERVENTIONS

 

                                    PRESIDER: Catherine Moran, University of New Hampshire

 

“A Pilot Study Comparing the Effects of Mindfulness-Based and Cognitive-Behavioral Stress Reduction” Bruce W. Smith, Brian M. Shelley, Jeanne Dalen, Kathryn Wiggins, Erin Tooley, and Jennifer Bernard, University of Mexico

 

“Implications for Leadership Practices: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial of an Intense Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program” Teri Britt Pipe and Jennifer Bortz, Mayo Clinic Arizona

 

“Effects of Support Groups on Post Traumatic Stress Responses in Women Experiencing Stillbirth” Joanne Cacciatore, Arizona State University

 

“An Examination of the Role of Social Support as a Coping Strategy for Parents with a Child with Serious Mental Health Problems” Mary I. Armstrong, University of South Florida, Christine Davis, University of South Carolina-Charlotte, Keren Vergon, University of South Florida

 

“Mothers Offering Mentorship and Support Interventions (MOMS Study): Maternal-infant Interactions and Stress Hormones” N. Letourneau, University of New Brunswick, M. Stewart and K. Hegadoren, University of Alberta, C-L Dennis, University of Toronto, J. Williams, L. Duffett-Leger, and P. Tryphonopoulos, University of New Brunswick

 

SESSION K: STRESS AND RACIAL DISPARITIES IN MENTAL HEALTH

 

                                    PRESIDER: Heather Turner, University of New Hampshire

 

“Race and Depression: Resolving Contradictory Findings on Racial Disparities” Sarah Rosenfield and Dena Smith, Rutgers University

 

“Goal Striving Stress and Racial Disparities in Mental Health” Harold W. Neighbors, Sherrill L. Sellers, Rong Zhang, and James S. Jackson, University of Wisconsin, Madison

 

“Physical Disability and Risk for Depression: The Role of Shame and the Stress Process in Explaining Racial/Ethnic Differences” Robyn K. Lewis and R. Jay Turner, Florida State University

 

“Race, Ethnicity, and Parental Stress and Health: Are Some Groups More Vulnerable?” Jason L. Cummings and Tiffani N. Saunders, Indiana University

 

“Stress and Depressive Symptoms: A Comparative Analysis of African American and Afro-Caribbean Women” Verna M. Keith, Florida State University

 

 

3:30-5:00 p.m.             SESSION L: AGING AND STRESS

                                    PRESIDER: Scott Schieman, University of Toronto

 

“Oh, God, Where Art Thou? Sense of Divine Control as Moderator of the Effects of Neighborhood Disorder on Health and Well-Being in Old Age” Alex Bierman, California State University, Northridge

 

“Burnout and the Retirement Decision” Nicole Maestas and Xiaoyan Li, RAND

 

“The Conceptual Model of Driving Modification Process in Later Life Developed on the Basis of the Stress Paradigm” Moon Choi and Kathryn Betts Adams, Case Western Reserve University

 

“Gender Differences in the Mental Health Consequences of Bereavement” Lisa Strohschein, University of Alberta

 

SESSION M: STRESS PROCESSES AND PHYSICAL HEALTH

 

                                    PRESIDER: Karen Van Gundy, University of New Hampshire

 

“Childhood Maltreatment Makes Me Sick: Physical Health Consequences of Reported Child Maltreatment in Adulthood” Shalon MauRene Irving, Hofstra University

 

“Does Striving Make You Sick? The Role of Goal Striving Stress in Physical Health” Sherrill L. Sellers, University of Wisconsin Madison, Harold W. Neighbors, Rong Zhang, and James S. Jackson, University of Michigan

 

“Depression and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: The Influence of Educational Attainment” Briana Mezuk, University of Michigan, William W. Eaton,  Sherita Hill Golden, and Yulan Ding, Johns Hopkins University

 

“Social Stressors as Explanatory Pathways to Socio-Economic Inequalities in Self Rated Health in IsraelVarda Soskolne, Bar-Ilan University and Orly Manor, Hebrew University-Hadassah, Jerusalem

 

“Chronic Stress as a Primary Biosocial Mechanism Linking Neighbourhood Disadvantage and Chronic Disease” Mark Daniel, The University of South Australia, Adelaide

 

 

Monday, June 2, 2008

 

9:00-9:45 a.m.             SESSION N: METHODOLOGICAL AND THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS

 

                                    PRESIDER: Peggy Thoits, University of North Carolina

 

 “Does a Retrospective Lifetime Measure of Major Events Have a Half-life?” Donald A. Lloyd, Florida State University

 

Selye’s General Adaptation Syndrome and Stress-Related Physical and Mental Disorders: A Theoretical Discourse” Walter Gove, Vanderbilt University

 

10:00-11:30 a.m.         SESSION O: TRAUMATIC STRESSORS: WAR AND TERRORISM

 

                                    PRESIDER: Heather Turner, University of New Hampshire

 

“When Young Men Kill: The Psychological Consequences of Doing Harm among US Veterans of the Vietnam War” J. Blake Turner, Columbia University

 

“Gains and Losses as Predictors of Health Outcomes in Deployed Military Men and Women” Penny F. Pierce, Lisa M. Lewandowski-Romps, and Stevan E. Hobfoll, University of Michigan

 

 “The Impact of 9/11 on Subjective Welfare in the United States: A Life Course Approach” Blair Wheaton and Shirin Montazer, University of Toronto

 

 “The Shootings at Virginia Tech: How Variability in Trauma Exposure Affected Symptoms of PTSD and Severe Psychological Stress” Michael Hughes and Russell T. Jones, Virginia Tech, Ronald C. Kessler, Harvard Medical School, John A. Fairbank, Duke University, Robert S. Pynoos,  Alan M. Steinberg, and Melissa Brymer, UCLA, and Virginia Rothwell, Virginia Tech

 

11:45-1:00 p.m.           CONFERENCE LUNCHEON

 

1:00- 2:00 p.m.            CONFERENCE ADDRESS:

 

                                    “The Meanings of Stress”

Jane McLeod, Indiana University

 

2:00-2:15 p.m.             CLOSING REMARKS:

                                    Conference Director:

Heather Turner, University of New Hampshire

 

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