Richard E Heyman

Biographic Data

ID122503
NAMERichard E Heyman
GIVEN NAMESRichard E
FAMILY NAMEHeyman
SIGNATUREHEYMAN R E
AFFILIATIONSState University of New York
ORCID0000-0002-5365-0037
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS30
TOTAL CITATIONS117
AUTHOR COUNT30
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1979
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX4

  • Considering context: Current relationship satisfaction in a second‐generation model of men's physical intimate partner violence

    Open AccessAmy M Smith Slep, Richard E Heyman et al.ARTICLEFamily Process2024

    Despite a half‐century of scholarship devoted to explicating and disrupting the intergenerational transmission of family violence, it remains a prominent and destructive social force in the United States. Theoretical models have posited a variety of historical and concurrent risk and protective factors implicated in the trajectory from childhood violence exposure to adult perpetration. Using a second‐generation model of intimate partner violence …

  • Interpersonal Violence Victimization Among College-Attending and Non-College-Attending Emerging Adults

    Open AccessKelly A Daly, Richard E Heyman et al.ARTICLEEmerging Adulthood2024

    It is well-established that rates of interpersonal violence (IV; physical and emotional intimate partner violence [IPV], non-consensual sexual contact [NCSC], and stalking) peak at 18–24 years of age. Most emerging-adult IV research has been conducted with college samples, making increased risk for IV in college a widely held, but perhaps unjustified, assumption. This nationally representative study ( N = 1025) assessed high school seniors on IV …

  • Resisting the cycle of violence: Impact of childhood abuse and neglect on individual and relationship functioning in early career enlisted air force male service members

    Open AccessDouglas K Snyder, Jeffrey A Cigrang et al.ARTICLEPsychology of Men & Masculinity2024

  • Revisiting “ill will versus poor skill”: Relationship dissatisfaction, intimate partner violence, and observed “communication skills deficits”

    Open AccessRichard E Heyman, Amy M Smith Slep et al.ARTICLEFamily Process2023

    For decades, researchers, interventionists, and the lay public have subscribed to the notion that couples low in relationship satisfaction and/or experiencing psychological, physical, or sexual intimate partner violence (IPV) have communication skills deficits. In contrast, experimental studies of communication have concluded that differences were more likely due to partners' “ill will than poor skill.” We revisited this debate by recruiting a fa…

  • Leveraging technology to increase the disseminability of evidence‐based treatment of dental fear: An uncontrolled pilot study

    Open AccessRichard E Heyman, Kelly A Daly et al.ARTICLEJournal of Public Health Dentistry2023

    This usable, credible, stepped-care approach to dental fear treatment holds promise for liberating evidence-based CBT-DF from specialty clinics, allowing broad dissemination

  • Demand‐avoid‐withdraw processes in adolescent dating aggression

    Open AccessMichael F Lorber, Danielle M Mitnick et al.ARTICLEAggressive Behavior2023References: 45

    We conducted an observational study of a collection of interactive processes known as “demand‐withdraw” in relation to adolescent dating aggression. Couples ( N = 209) aged 14–18 years participated in a challenging observational laboratory assessment to measure demands (i.e., pressures for a change), as well as demand → partner withdraw and demand → partner avoid sequences. Actor and partner effects were disentangled via dyadic data analyses. The…

  • Couple Conflict Behavior: Disentangling Associations With Relationship Dissatisfaction and Intimate Partner Violence

    Open AccessRichard E Heyman, Amy M Smith Slep et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family Issues2023References: 42

    This study investigates associations between (a) relationship satisfaction and intimate partner violence (IPV: psychological, physical, and sexual) and (b) observed couple communication behavior. Mixed-sex couples ( N = 291) were recruited via random digit dialing. Partners completed the Quality of Marriage Index (Norton, 1983), the Revised Conflict Tactics Scale (Straus et al., 1996), and one female-initiated and one male-initiated 10-min confli…

  • Factors That Impact Caseload and Case Acuity in Outpatient Mental Health and Family Maltreatment

    Open AccessSara R Nichols, Ronald W Hart et al.ARTICLESocial Work Research2022References: 9

    Providing high-quality and cost-effective services in family and mental health treatment programs is difficult. There is an elusive balance between (a) maximizing patients served and positive patient outcomes and (b) minimizing provider burnout and turnover. Agencies often implicitly assume that all cases require equivalent provider time and effort and thus assign cases solely to balance each provider’s caseload numbers. However, this assumption …

  • Does Observed Conflict Recovery Play a Role in Adolescent Dating Aggression

    Open AccessMichael F Lorber, Amy M Smith Slep et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research on Adolescence2022Cited by: 1References: 11

    In a study of conflict recovery and adolescent dating aggression, 14- to 18-year-old couples (N = 209 dyads) participated in a 1-hr observational assessment. Negative behavior was observed during conflict-evoking "hot" tasks and in a "cooldown" task. Physical and psychological dating aggression were assessed via questionnaires. Negative behavior measured in the cooldown task was not associated with dating aggression after controlling for carryove…

  • Evidence-based social work outreach to military leaders to facilitate intimate partner violence and child maltreatment identification and referral: An evaluation

    Danielle M Mitnick, Richard E Heyman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family Social Work2021

    The effects of family maltreatment on the military are far-reaching and well documented, with implications that include the deterioration of mission readiness and an increase in distractibility for all involved. Congress has mandated each service agency to take steps in preventing partner and child maltreatment, including outreach – enlisting military leaders to identify, respond to, and mitigate risk factors for maltreatment in their active duty…

  • Communication between Advanced Cancer Patients and Their Family Caregivers: Relationship with Caregiver Burden and Preparedness for Caregiving

    Amy K Otto, Dana Ketcher et al.ARTICLEHealth Communication2021

    Cancer impacts spouse caregivers, especially when couples engage in dyadic coping around the cancer. Communication is a key factor in this process. Our goals were to describe cancer-related communication between advanced cancer patients and their spouse caregivers, and to describe how dyadic communication patterns are related to caregivers' reported burden and preparedness for caregiving. Caregivers completed measures of caregiver burden and prep…

  • Couples’ Anger Dynamics during Conflict: Interpersonal Anger Regulation, Relationship Satisfaction, and Intimate Partner Violence

    Open AccessAmy M Smith Slep, Richard E Heyman et al.ARTICLEFamily Process2021

    We tested hypotheses about moment‐to‐moment interpersonal influences on anger during couples’ conflict, and the association of those anger dynamics with relationship satisfaction and intimate partner violence (IPV). Displayed anger was coded from laboratory observations of cohabiting couples ( N = 197); experienced anger was assessed via a video‐recall procedure. Credible, but variable, associations were found in which a person’s anger display at…

  • An Uncontrolled Trial of Flexibly Delivered Relationship Education With Low‐Income , Unmarried Perinatal Couples

    Open AccessRichard E Heyman, Katherine J W Baucom et al.ARTICLEFamily Relations2020

    OBJECTIVE: To examine couple and parenting outcomes from an American version of Couple CARE for Parents (CCP) in low-income, unmarried couples. BACKGROUND: We adapted an evidence-based, flexibly delivered program for use with low-income, unmarried couples, for whom the outcome literature is scarce. METHOD: = 443) were recruited from maternity units and began CCP. They completed measures before, during, and immediately after the intervention, and …

  • A longitudinal investigation of the psychological health of United States Air Force base communities

    Open AccessMichael F Lorber, Richard E Heyman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community Psychology2017References: 37

    The longitudinal course of the psychological health (PH) of United States Air Force (USAF) base communities in relation to risk and demographic factors was studied over a 5‐year period. PH (clinically significant hazardous drinking, prescription drug misuse, depressive symptoms, suicidal thoughts and behaviors, intimate partner violence [IPV] and child abuse) and risk (personal and family adjustment, workplace adjustment, broader community adjust…

  • Identifying unique and shared risk factors for physical intimate partner violence and clinically‐significant physical intimate partner violence

    Open AccessAmy M Smith Slep, Heather M Foran et al.ARTICLEAggressive Behavior2015References: 46

    Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a significant public health concern. To date, risk factor research has not differentiated physical violence that leads to injury and/or fear (i.e., clinically significant IPV; CS-IPV) from general physical IPV. Isolating risk relations is necessary to best inform prevention and treatment efforts. The current study used an ecological framework and evaluated relations of likely risk factors within individual, fami…

  • Risk Factors for Clinically Significant Intimate Partner Violence Among Active-Duty Members

    Open AccessAmy M Smith Slep, Heather M Foran et al.ARTICLEJournal of Marriage and the Family2011Cited by: 3References: 52

    Hypothesized risk factors for men's and women's clinically significant intimate partner violence (CS-IPV) from four ecological levels (i.e., individual, family, workplace, community) were tested in a representative sample of active-duty U.S. Air Force members (N = 42,744). When considered together, we expected only individual and family factors to account for unique variance in CS-IPV perpetration. Hypothesized factors from all four ecological le…

  • Changes in relationship satisfaction across the transition to parenthood: A meta-analysis.

    Danielle M Mitnick, Richard E Heyman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family Psychology2009

    The U.S. government has recently spent several hundred million dollars to promote healthy relationships in new parents. The influx of money implies that relationships of new parents are at elevated risk for declining satisfaction and dissolution. This meta-analysis aggregates data from 37 studies that track couples from pregnancy to after the birth of the first child and 4 studies that track childless newlywed couples over time and compare couple…

  • Replication in Observational Couples Research: A Commentary

    Open AccessRichard E Heyman, Ashley N Hunt et al.ARTICLEJournal of Marriage and the Family2007Cited by: 2References: 16

  • Severity of Partner and Child Maltreatment: Reliability of Scales Used in America's Largest Child and Family Protection Agency

    Open AccessAmy M Smith Slep, Richard E HeymanARTICLEJournal of Family Violence2004Cited by: 1References: 1

  • Do Child Abuse and Interparental Violence Lead to Adulthood Family Violence

    Open AccessRichard E Heyman, Amy M Smith SlepARTICLEJournal of Marriage and the Family2002Cited by: 18References: 10

    The cycle of violence posits that victimized children grow up to victimize others. Three forms of the cycle have never been tested: whether exposure to physical victimization and interparental violence additively or interactively increase risk for adulthood (a) child abuse perpetration; (b) partner abuse perpetration; or (c) partner abuse victimization. These hypotheses were tested in a nationally representative data set (1985 National Family Vio…

  • Observation of couple conflicts: Clinical assessment applications, stubborn truths, and shaky foundations.

    Richard E HeymanARTICLEPsychological Assessment2001

    The purpose of this review is to provide a balanced examination of the published research involving the observation of couples, with special attention toward the use of observation for clinical assessment.All published articles that (a) used an observational coding system and (b) relate to the validity of the coding system are summarized in a table.The psychometric properties of observational systems and the use of observation in clinical practic…

  • Risk factors for child physical abuse

    Open AccessDanielle Black, Danielle A Black et al.ARTICLEAggression and Violent Behavior2001

  • Risk factors for male-to-female partner physical abuse

    Open AccessJulie A Schumacher, Shari Feldbau-Kohn et al.ARTICLEAggression and Violent Behavior2001

  • The Hazards of Predicting Divorce Without Crossvalidation

    Open AccessRichard E Heyman, Amy M Smith SlepARTICLEJournal of Marriage and the Family2001Cited by: 7References: 23

    Divorce prediction studies (e.g., Gottman, Coan, Carrere, & Swanson, 1998) suggest that couples' eventual divorce can be very accurately predicted from a number of different variables. Recent attention to these studies has failed to consider the need to crossvalidate prediction equations and to consider the prevalence of divorce in the population. We analyze archival data to demonstrate that accuracy and predictive value drops precipitously durin…

  • Couples' shared participation in novel and arousing activities and experienced relationship quality

    Arthur Aron, Christina Norman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…2000Cited by: 79References: 8

    Using a newspaper questionnaire, a door-to-door survey, and 3 laboratory experiments, the authors examined a proposed effect of shared participation in novel and arousing activities on experienced relationship quality. The questionnaire and survey studies found predicted correlations of reported shared exciting activities and relationship satisfaction plus their predicted mediation by relationship boredom. In all 3 experiments, the authors found …