Tracey A Revenson
Biographic Data
| ID | 757109 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tracey A Revenson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tracey A |
| FAMILY NAME | Revenson |
| SIGNATURE | REVENSON T A |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3659-2725 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 250 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Transforming Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine to Address the Climate Crisis
OBJECTIVE: The climate crisis poses the largest threat to human health and survival and has been a public health emergency for many years. It is causing harmful consequences for physical and mental health and is amplifying existing health inequities. In this call to action, we highlight the relevance of the health psychology and behavioral medicine communities in addressing the health impacts of climate change. METHOD: We identify mitigation and …
The integration of the cancer experience into identity
The study explored how young adults with cancer create a cancer identity across the illness trajectory. Young adults with hematological cancers ( n = 53, ages 20-39) completed a semi-structured interview and brief questionnaire. Deductive thematic analysis was used to code interviews. Four identity categories (Acceptance, Enrichment, Engulfment, and Rejection) were coded and linked to the cancer stage (pre-treatment, active treatment, post-treatm…
Behavioral Medicine Research Council (BMRC) Statement Papers
Psychosomatic Medicine, founded in 1939, is the official organ of the American Psychosomatic Society. It publishes experimental and clinical studies dealing with various aspects of the relationships among social, psychological, and behavioral factors and bodily processes in humans and animals. It is an international, interdisciplinary journal devoted to experimental and clinical investigation in behavioral biology, psychiatry, psychology, physiol…
Partners’ Consensus About Joint Effort and Covid-19 Prevention Among Sexual Minority Men
Accomplishing breakthroughs in behavioural medicine research
Racial/ethnic concordance between patients and researchers as a predictor of study attrition
Gay men's experiences with prostate cancer
Gay men's experiences with prostate cancer and its impact on health-related quality of life are poorly understood. This qualitative study explored gay men's experience with prostate cancer with a focus on the emotional, physical, and sexual impact of cancer; support needs; and healthcare interactions. Three semi-structured focus groups of gay men with prostate cancer were conducted. A conventional content analytic approach was used to identify si…
Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health and Medicine
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Men Caring for Women in the Cancer Context (DRAFT)
This chapter provides an overview of the consequences of a cancer diagnosis for female patients and their male caregivers, mostly partners or spouses. The majority of the couples adjust well; only a minority shows elevated levels of psychological distress a year or more after diagnosis. Nevertheless, the literature shows that cancer and its treatment may have a considerable impact on sexual functioning, fertility, and other aspects of the relatio…
Gender in Psycho-Oncology
As cancer treatment has evolved toward precision medicine, psychosocial research and practices for cancer patients and their family members have also raised awareness of the need for a personalized, patient-focused, family-oriented approach in the psycho-oncology field. Gender in Psycho-Oncology is the first book of its kind to provide comprehensive views on the role of gender in the adjustment of the individual and the patient–caregiver pair whe…
Caregiving in the Illness Context
How does caregiving affect health and well-being and what resources help caregivers? This book provides a synthesis of psychological research on caregiver stress and brings attention to the personal
Letting Oneself Go Isn't Enough
Peer problems are a stressor for many early adolescents, and simple cost-effective tools for managing peer stress are needed. Expressive writing (EW) may be one such tool. With a sample of middle school children aged 12-14 years (n = 119; 53% males), this research evaluates whether cognitively oriented expressive writing (CEW), which focuses more on psychological self-distancing, improves personal well-being better than traditional EW, which focu…
Effects of Benefit‐Focused Versus Standard Expressive Writing on Adolescents' Self‐Concept During the High School Transition
This randomized trial compared two types of expressive writing—benefit‐focused versus standard expressive writing—with a factual writing (control) condition in enhancing adolescents' self‐concept during the transition to high school. First‐year male students ( N = 201) wrote on three consecutive days about either the potential benefits of the school transition, their deepest thoughts and feelings about this transition, or their school activities.…
Couples Coping with Chronic Illness
Cognitive and emotional processing through writing among adolescents who experienced the death of a classmate
Health Psychology
Chronic diseases carry important psychological and social consequences that demand significant psychological adjustment. The literature is providing increasingly nuanced conceptualizations of adjustment, demonstrating that the experience of chronic disease necessitates adaptation in multiple life domains. Heterogeneity in adjustment is apparent between individuals and across the course of the disease trajectory. Focusing on cancer, cardiovascular…
Effects of social stressors on cardiovascular reactivity in black and white women
These findings suggest that perceived racism in social interactions may contribute to increased physiological stress for Black women
Couples coping with stress
"Couples Coping With Stress: Emerging Perspectives on Dyadic Coping presents an in-depth look at recent theoretical perspectives and original research on how couples cope with stress, including acute and chronic stress, stresses within and outside of the family, and stress caused by physical and mental illnesses." "Leading researchers and clinicians from North America and Western Europe present their theoretical frameworks and the formative resea…
Unmitigated Communion, Social Constraints, and Psychological Distress Among Women With Rheumatoid Arthritis
The personality trait of unmitigated communion, an extreme focus on relationships that has been associated with self‐neglect, has been linked to poorer outcomes for both men and women, but is more common among women. This longitudinal study is the first to examine the influence of unmitigated communion on adaptation to a chronic illness that affects a much greater proportion of women to men. Women with rheumatoid arthritis completed measures of u…
How Changes in Population Demographics Will Impact Health Psychology
U.S. population demographics are undergoing striking changes that will impact health care and the research and practice of health psychology. An increase in the number of people who are older; belong to an ethnic minority group; have disabilities; identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered; or live in poverty will influence definitions of aging, health, and illness, and will challenge current psychological and medical treatment models. …
Agency and Communion in People with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Researcher Knows Best
Missing from recent critiques of coping measurement are data demonstrating whether concepts used by researchers are understood by study participants. We asked 101 rheumatoid arthritis patients to complete a structured coping checklist and provide descriptions of their coping for each item checked. Trained researchers coded these open-ended descriptions using the original checklist categories. In general, patients' descriptions of their coping mat…
Wanted
A Piaget primer
Jean Piaget is arguably the most important figure of our century in the field of child psychology. In more than six decades of studying and working with children, he brilliantly and insightfully charted the stages of a child's intellectual maturation from the first years to adulthood and in so doing pioneered a new mode of understanding the changing ways in which a child comes to grasp the world. The purpose of A Piaget Primer is to make Piaget's…
Unrealistic optimism among adolescent smokers and nonsmokers
Does coping help? A reexamination of the relation between coping and mental health
Social support as a double-edged sword
Stress and coping in the explanation of psychological adjustment among chronically ill adults
Effects of social stressors on cardiovascular reactivity in black and white women
These findings suggest that perceived racism in social interactions may contribute to increased physiological stress for Black women
Does Self‐Help Help
This study evaluates the impact of participation in self‐help groups for people with scoliosis and their families. In a cross‐sectional study, adolescents with scoliosis, their parents, and adult scoliotics who attended scoliosis clubs (n=245) were compared with nonparticipants (n=495) who inquired about joining clubs. Although most members reported considerable satisfaction with the clubs, participation had no discernible impact on the psychosoc…
Spouses' Support Provision to Chronically Ill Patients
This study examined: (1) factors that are related to spouses' provision of positive and problematic support to rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients, and (2) the stress-buffering role of support from social ties outside the marriage for spouses of RA patients. Data were drawn from a prospective study of psychological adaptation to RA. The conjugal sample consisted of forty-two RA patients (81 percent female) and their spouses. The results suggest th…
Vulnerability to economic stress
A stress vulnerability model was applied to the relationship between economic stress and mental health. Longitudinal data were obtained by reinterviewing 291 respondents from a prior community survey of economic change and health (Catalano & Dooley, 1983). The follow-up survey was conducted at the height of the last recession, approximately 1 year after the first. As predicted, increases in self-reported economic stress adversely affected psychol…
Agency and Communion in People with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Effects of Benefit‐Focused Versus Standard Expressive Writing on Adolescents' Self‐Concept During the High School Transition
This randomized trial compared two types of expressive writing—benefit‐focused versus standard expressive writing—with a factual writing (control) condition in enhancing adolescents' self‐concept during the transition to high school. First‐year male students ( N = 201) wrote on three consecutive days about either the potential benefits of the school transition, their deepest thoughts and feelings about this transition, or their school activities.…
Researcher Knows Best
Missing from recent critiques of coping measurement are data demonstrating whether concepts used by researchers are understood by study participants. We asked 101 rheumatoid arthritis patients to complete a structured coping checklist and provide descriptions of their coping for each item checked. Trained researchers coded these open-ended descriptions using the original checklist categories. In general, patients' descriptions of their coping mat…
Gay men's experiences with prostate cancer
Gay men's experiences with prostate cancer and its impact on health-related quality of life are poorly understood. This qualitative study explored gay men's experience with prostate cancer with a focus on the emotional, physical, and sexual impact of cancer; support needs; and healthcare interactions. Three semi-structured focus groups of gay men with prostate cancer were conducted. A conventional content analytic approach was used to identify si…
How Changes in Population Demographics Will Impact Health Psychology
U.S. population demographics are undergoing striking changes that will impact health care and the research and practice of health psychology. An increase in the number of people who are older; belong to an ethnic minority group; have disabilities; identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered; or live in poverty will influence definitions of aging, health, and illness, and will challenge current psychological and medical treatment models. …
An exploration of leadership in a medical mutual help organization
Studied 45 current leaders of local chapters of a medical mutual help organization. Cluster analysis of variables depicting routes to leadership produced six clusters: Health Professionals with a Mission, Connected Health Professionals, Career Leaders, Grass-roots Founders, Connected Grass-roots Leaders, and Obligated Veterans. These clusters differed on criterion measures of burnout, hardiness, and perceived obligation to continue as a leader, e…
Social and demographic correlates of loneliness in late life
Although loneliness is often viewed as a serious problem of old age, few studies have addressed either its measurement or prevalence among older populations. The present study analyzed survey data from newspaper questionnaires circulated in three North American cities (N = 2,026) in order to examine the prevalence of loneliness across the life-span and some of its correlates in late life. Loneliness decreased across the adult life-span, with resp…
Racial/ethnic concordance between patients and researchers as a predictor of study attrition
Social Supports as Stress Buffers for Adult Cancer Patients
Although a growing body of research evidence suggests that persons encountering stressful life circumstances are protected from potential declines in health and well-being by supportive relationships, the evidence for the stress-buffering qualities of social support for cancer patients is equivocal. This study examines the relationship between naturally occurring, supportive behaviors and psychological adjustment to the illness for 32 nonhospital…
Coping with chronic illness
Social and demographic correlates of loneliness in late life
Although loneliness is often viewed as a serious problem of old age, few studies have addressed either its measurement or prevalence among older populations. The present study analyzed survey data from newspaper questionnaires circulated in three North American cities (N = 2,026) in order to examine the prevalence of loneliness across the life-span and some of its correlates in late life. Loneliness decreased across the adult life-span, with resp…
Stress and coping in the explanation of psychological adjustment among chronically ill adults
Children's understanding of health and illness concepts
Does Self‐Help Help
This study evaluates the impact of participation in self‐help groups for people with scoliosis and their families. In a cross‐sectional study, adolescents with scoliosis, their parents, and adult scoliotics who attended scoliosis clubs (n=245) were compared with nonparticipants (n=495) who inquired about joining clubs. Although most members reported considerable satisfaction with the clubs, participation had no discernible impact on the psychosoc…
Vulnerability to economic stress
A stress vulnerability model was applied to the relationship between economic stress and mental health. Longitudinal data were obtained by reinterviewing 291 respondents from a prior community survey of economic change and health (Catalano & Dooley, 1983). The follow-up survey was conducted at the height of the last recession, approximately 1 year after the first. As predicted, increases in self-reported economic stress adversely affected psychol…
Does coping help? A reexamination of the relation between coping and mental health
Spouses' Support Provision to Chronically Ill Patients
This study examined: (1) factors that are related to spouses' provision of positive and problematic support to rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients, and (2) the stress-buffering role of support from social ties outside the marriage for spouses of RA patients. Data were drawn from a prospective study of psychological adaptation to RA. The conjugal sample consisted of forty-two RA patients (81 percent female) and their spouses. The results suggest th…
Unrealistic optimism among adolescent smokers and nonsmokers
An exploration of leadership in a medical mutual help organization
Studied 45 current leaders of local chapters of a medical mutual help organization. Cluster analysis of variables depicting routes to leadership produced six clusters: Health Professionals with a Mission, Connected Health Professionals, Career Leaders, Grass-roots Founders, Connected Grass-roots Leaders, and Obligated Veterans. These clusters differed on criterion measures of burnout, hardiness, and perceived obligation to continue as a leader, e…
Social support as a double-edged sword
A Piaget primer
Jean Piaget is arguably the most important figure of our century in the field of child psychology. In more than six decades of studying and working with children, he brilliantly and insightfully charted the stages of a child's intellectual maturation from the first years to adulthood and in so doing pioneered a new mode of understanding the changing ways in which a child comes to grasp the world. The purpose of A Piaget Primer is to make Piaget's…
Wanted
Researcher Knows Best
Missing from recent critiques of coping measurement are data demonstrating whether concepts used by researchers are understood by study participants. We asked 101 rheumatoid arthritis patients to complete a structured coping checklist and provide descriptions of their coping for each item checked. Trained researchers coded these open-ended descriptions using the original checklist categories. In general, patients' descriptions of their coping mat…
Agency and Communion in People with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Unmitigated Communion, Social Constraints, and Psychological Distress Among Women With Rheumatoid Arthritis
The personality trait of unmitigated communion, an extreme focus on relationships that has been associated with self‐neglect, has been linked to poorer outcomes for both men and women, but is more common among women. This longitudinal study is the first to examine the influence of unmitigated communion on adaptation to a chronic illness that affects a much greater proportion of women to men. Women with rheumatoid arthritis completed measures of u…
How Changes in Population Demographics Will Impact Health Psychology
U.S. population demographics are undergoing striking changes that will impact health care and the research and practice of health psychology. An increase in the number of people who are older; belong to an ethnic minority group; have disabilities; identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered; or live in poverty will influence definitions of aging, health, and illness, and will challenge current psychological and medical treatment models. …
Couples coping with stress
"Couples Coping With Stress: Emerging Perspectives on Dyadic Coping presents an in-depth look at recent theoretical perspectives and original research on how couples cope with stress, including acute and chronic stress, stresses within and outside of the family, and stress caused by physical and mental illnesses." "Leading researchers and clinicians from North America and Western Europe present their theoretical frameworks and the formative resea…
Effects of social stressors on cardiovascular reactivity in black and white women
These findings suggest that perceived racism in social interactions may contribute to increased physiological stress for Black women
Health Psychology
Chronic diseases carry important psychological and social consequences that demand significant psychological adjustment. The literature is providing increasingly nuanced conceptualizations of adjustment, demonstrating that the experience of chronic disease necessitates adaptation in multiple life domains. Heterogeneity in adjustment is apparent between individuals and across the course of the disease trajectory. Focusing on cancer, cardiovascular…
Couples Coping with Chronic Illness
Cognitive and emotional processing through writing among adolescents who experienced the death of a classmate
Effects of Benefit‐Focused Versus Standard Expressive Writing on Adolescents' Self‐Concept During the High School Transition
This randomized trial compared two types of expressive writing—benefit‐focused versus standard expressive writing—with a factual writing (control) condition in enhancing adolescents' self‐concept during the transition to high school. First‐year male students ( N = 201) wrote on three consecutive days about either the potential benefits of the school transition, their deepest thoughts and feelings about this transition, or their school activities.…
Caregiving in the Illness Context
How does caregiving affect health and well-being and what resources help caregivers? This book provides a synthesis of psychological research on caregiver stress and brings attention to the personal
Psychology (34 works) · Medicine (24 works) · Psychiatry (19 works) · Clinical Psychology (15 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Clinical Psychology (11 works) · Family Support in Illness (9 works) · Psychotherapist (8 works) · Public health (8 works)