J T Ptacek

Biographic Data

ID139527
NAMEJ T Ptacek
GIVEN NAMESJ T
FAMILY NAMEPtacek
SIGNATUREPTACEK J T
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Washington
ORCID0000-0002-6376-4214
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS38
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1990
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
H-INDEX4

  • Finding evidence of dispositional coping

    Open AccessJ T Ptacek, Gregory R Pierce et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research in Personality2006Cited by: 2References: 44

  • Acute Stress Disorder After Burn Injury

    JoAnn Difede, J T Ptacek et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2002

    Objectives The principal goals of this study were to determine whether ASD predicted chronic PTSD and whether dissociation is more characteristic of the acute-trauma period than PTSD symptoms. Methods Eighty-three hospitalized adult burn patients were assessed with structured interviews and self-report measures within 2 weeks of injury and again at least 6 months postburn. Results Nineteen percent had ASD. Dissociative symptoms were not more comm…

  • Can people remember how they coped? Factors associated with discordance between same-day and retrospective reports

    Ronald E Smith, Thad R Leffingwell et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…1999Cited by: 10

    Using alternate forms derived from 6 scales from the Revised Ways of Coping Checklist (P. P. Vitaliano, 1993), the authors obtained daily coping scores from students as they prepared for a demanding test, then obtained a 7-day retrospective measure of their coping. On average, only 25% shared variance was found between the daily and retrospective accounts. A consistent pattern of retrospective overestimation of daily coping occurred, and large in…

  • The role of dispositional and situational factors in cognitive interference

    Gregory R Pierce, J T Ptacek et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…1998Cited by: 1References: 8

    Two studies investigated the cross-temporal stability and cross-situational consistency of cognitive interference. In Study 1, 70 college students reported on the intrusive thoughts they experienced during 2 course examinations and a self-reflective task. In Study 2, 55 college athletes reported on intrusive thoughts following 2 course examinations and 2 regular season football games. Major findings were (a) cognitive interference showed both cro…

  • Social support in spouses of cancer patients

    Open AccessJ T Ptacek, Gregory R Pierce et al.ARTICLEPersonal Relationships1997

    Using a retrospective design, the authors assessed several different aspects of social support (perceived, received, satisfaction with received, and support seeking) in 95 spouses of cancer survivors. The goals of the investigation were to (a) describe in detail the differences between husbands and wives on these support dimensions and (b) explore whether the relation between support and adjustment was different for husbands as compared to wives.…

  • Facilitating and debilitating trait anxiety, situational anxiety, and coping with an anticipated stressor

    Brian Raffety, Brian D Raffety et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…1997Cited by: 9

    Participants completed anxiety and coping diaries during 10 periods that began 7 days before an academic stressor and continued through the evening after the stressor. Profile analysis was used to examine the anxiety and coping processes in relation to 2 trait anxiety grouping variables: debilitating and facilitating test anxiety (D-TA and F-TA). Anxiety and coping changed over time, and high and low levels of D-TA and F-TA were associated with d…

  • Gender Differences in Coping with Stress

    Open AccessJ T Ptacek, Ronald E Smith et al.ARTICLEPersonality and Social Psychology…1994

    In an attempt to control for the effects of event type on sex differences in coping, men and women responded to an identical achievement-related stressor under controlled laboratory conditions. Although men and women were similar in their cognitive appraisal of the situation, they nonetheless reported differences in preparatory coping. Women reported seeking social support and using emotion-focused coping to a greater extent than men, whereas men…

  • Gender, Appraisal, and Coping

    Open AccessJ T Ptacek, Ronald E Smith et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality1992

    For 21 consecutive days, 186 male and female college students recalled the most stressful event of the day, recorded how the event was appraised, and indicated the coping methods they employed as well as their perceived effectiveness and the sequence in which they were used. Gender differences in seven coping strategies were examined in terms of frequency of use, extent of use, relative use, and the frequency with which each method was used first…

  • Sensation seeking, stress, and adolescent injuries

    Ronald E Smith, J T Ptacek et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…1992Cited by: 4

    The potential stress-buffering effects of sensation seeking were assessed in a prospective study involving high school athletes. A significant positive relation between major negative sport-specific life events and subsequent injury time-loss occurred only for athletes low in sensation seeking. No evidence was obtained for a competing hypothesis that high sensation seeking would constitute an injury vulnerability factor by increasing risk-taking …

  • Conjunctive moderator variables in vulnerability and resiliency research

    Ronald E Smith, Frank L Smoll et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…1990Cited by: 12

    In life event research relating to vulnerability and resilience factors, single moderator variables have typically been the focus of study. Little is known about the ways in which moderator variables may interact with one another to increase vulnerability or resilience. We propose a distinction between conjunctive moderation, in which multiple moderators must co-occur in a specific combination or pattern to maximize a relation between a predictor…