Mark A Lumley
Biographic Data
| ID | 1561758 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark A Lumley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark A |
| FAMILY NAME | Lumley |
| SIGNATURE | LUMLEY M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wayne State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7095-8378 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Internet-delivered emotional awareness and expression therapy for somatic symptom disorder
I-EAET seems to have positive long-term effects for somatic symptom disorder. Larger studies with controls and comparisons to other treatments are needed
Feasibility and Efficacy of a Brief Mindfulness-Based Smoking Intervention Delivered via the Internet
Background: A growing body of literature suggests that mindfulness-based interventions are effective in reducing smoking. However, existing mindfulness interventions are often lengthy and require extensive interaction with a therapist, making them inaccessible to a large percentage of the population. The current study addressed this issue by testing the feasibility and efficacy of a single session, web-based, mindfulness intervention for smoking …
Psychological symptoms in Arab American women
Virtual Human–Delivered Interviews for Patients With Chronic Pain
OBJECTIVE: Seminal advances in virtual human (VH) technology have introduced highly interactive, computer-animated VH interviewers. Their utility for aiding in chronic pain care is unknown. We developed three interactive telehealth VH interviews-a standard pain-focused, a psychosocial risk factor, and a pain psychology and neuroscience educational interview. We then conducted a preliminary investigation of their feasibility, acceptability, and ef…
Gisela Labouvie-Vief (1945–2022)
This article memorializes Gisela Labouvie-Vief (1945-2022). The deceased was a distinguished lifespan developmental psychologist and internationally renowned scholar in psychological aging research. In several highly noted theoretical articles she developed a theory of adult intellectual development that was neo-Piagetian in nature. This theory influenced her later work on postoperational and dialectical thinking and foreshadowed the work on wisd…
Writing about justice and injustice
Effects of a Sexual Health Interview among Arab American Women
Internet-Administered Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy for Somatic Symptom Disorder With Centralized Symptoms
Background: There is growing evidence that trauma, psychosocial conflict, and difficulties with emotional processing contribute to centralized somatic symptoms. Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET) was developed to address these factors and reduce symptoms, and EAET has shown efficacy in face-to-face formats. No trial of an internet-delivered EAET (I-EAET) exists, however, so we developed such an intervention and conducted an uncontr…
Psychological Therapy for Centralized Pain
OBJECTIVE: Chronic pain is a significant health problem that is increasing in prevalence, and advances in treatment are needed. METHODS: We briefly review the leading evidence-based psychological therapies for chronic pain-cognitive-behavioral and acceptance/mindfulness-based therapies-and examine several limitations and missing perspectives of these approaches. We review six lesser-known interventions that address these limitations, and we descr…
Justice for all? Beliefs about justice for self and others and telomere length in African Americans
Findings underscore that for racial minorities, health might be best protected when justice beliefs are both endorsed and rebuffed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)
Acculturation and post-migration psychological symptoms among Iraqi refugees
Refugees frequently experience symptoms of posttraumatic stress and depression, which impede their acculturation in the new host country where they are resettling. There are few longitudinal studies investigating predictors of mental health and acculturation during the early postmigration period. We conducted a longitudinal study of 298 Iraqi refugees, assessing them upon arrival to the U.S. and 1 year after migration. Premigration trauma was ass…
Perceived Discrimination, Racial Identity, and Multisystem Stress Response to Social Evaluative Threat Among African American Men and Women
OBJECTIVE: Understanding individual differences in the psychobiology of the stress response is critical to grasping how psychosocial factors contribute to racial and ethnic health disparities. However, the ways in which environmentally sensitive biological systems coordinate in response to acute stress is not well understood. We used a social-evaluative stress task to investigate coordination among the autonomic nervous system, hypothalamic-pitui…
Discrimination and anger control as pathways linking socioeconomic disadvantage to allostatic load in midlife
Constructivist Simultaneous Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder, Trauma, and Addiction Comorbidity
This qualitative case study explored one client's recovery from borderline personality disorder, trauma, and problem gambling. The client attended 18 months of integrative treatment and was followed for 5 years. The study included 106 data points of both client and therapist data. We identified three phases to treatment. First, alliance formation and normalization appeared as mechanisms, and the client experienced dependence. Second, working alli…
Kidnapping and Mental Health in Iraqi Refugees
Potentially traumatic events and mental health problems among children of Iraqi refugees
This study examined mental health problems among children of Iraqi refugees, most of whom were Christian. Exposure to potentially traumatic events was hypothesized to predict more symptoms of depression and traumatic stress. Moreover, youth reports of supportive relationships with parents and positive feelings about school were examined in relation to mental health problems. These promotive factors were expected to mitigate the hypothesized assoc…
The Relationship of Chronic and Momentary Work Stress to Cardiac Reactivity in Female Managers
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate a wireless smart phone-assisted (SPA) system that assesses ongoing heart rate (HR) and HR-triggered participant reports of momentary stress when HR is elevated during daily life. This SPA system was used to determine the independent and interactive roles of chronic and momentary work stress on HR reactivity among female managers. METHODS: A sample of 40 female managers reported their chronic work stress and wore the SPA sy…
Specific Trauma Subtypes Improve the Predictive Validity of the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire in Iraqi Refugees
Factors Associated with Healthcare Utilization Among Arab Immigrants and Iraqi Refugees
Change in coping and defense mechanisms across adulthood
This study examined longitudinal changes in coping and defense mechanisms in an age- and gender-stratified sample of 392 European American adults. Nonlinear age-related changes were found for the coping mechanisms of sublimation and suppression and the defense mechanisms of intellectualization, doubt, displacement, and regression. The change trajectories for sublimation and suppression showed that their use increased from adolescence to late midd…
The Impact of Emotion-Related Autonomic Nervous System Responsiveness on Pain Sensitivity in Female Patients With Fibromyalgia
OBJECTIVE: Patients with fibromyalgia have shown hyporeactive autonomic nervous system (ANS) responses to physical stressors, augmented pain to ANS changes, and heightened negative emotions, which can increase pain. This study examined ANS reactivity to negative emotions and its association with pain in fibromyalgia and control participants. METHODS: Sixty-two women with fibromyalgia and 59 women in a control group recalled neutral, and anger- an…
Social support and invalidation by others contribute uniquely to the understanding of physical and mental health of patients with rheumatic diseases
This study examined whether social support and invalidation (lack of understanding and discounting by others) are differently associated with physical and mental health. Participants were 1455 patients with fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, osteorarthritis, or another rheumatic disease. Participants completed online questionnaires. Social support correlated negatively with discounting responses of others (moderately) and…
Time-based indicators of emotional complexity
Emotional complexity has been regarded as one correlate of adaptive emotion regulation in adulthood. One novel and potentially valuable approach to operationalizing emotional complexity is to use reports of emotions obtained repeatedly in real time, which can generate a number of potential time-based indicators of emotional complexity. It is not known, however, how these indicators relate to each other, to other measures of affective complexity, …
Targeting Interventions
Empathy across the adult lifespan
This study examined change in self-reported empathy in a four-wave longitudinal study spanning 12 years (1992-2004) and the association between empathy and other measures, including daily reports of relationship experiences. Participants initially ranged in age from 10 years to 87 years. Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations of age with empathy revealed divergent patterns. Whereas cross-sectional analyses suggested that older adults score…
Social support and invalidation by others contribute uniquely to the understanding of physical and mental health of patients with rheumatic diseases
This study examined whether social support and invalidation (lack of understanding and discounting by others) are differently associated with physical and mental health. Participants were 1455 patients with fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, osteorarthritis, or another rheumatic disease. Participants completed online questionnaires. Social support correlated negatively with discounting responses of others (moderately) and…
Discrimination and anger control as pathways linking socioeconomic disadvantage to allostatic load in midlife
Change in coping and defense mechanisms across adulthood
This study examined longitudinal changes in coping and defense mechanisms in an age- and gender-stratified sample of 392 European American adults. Nonlinear age-related changes were found for the coping mechanisms of sublimation and suppression and the defense mechanisms of intellectualization, doubt, displacement, and regression. The change trajectories for sublimation and suppression showed that their use increased from adolescence to late midd…
Writing about justice and injustice
Justice for all? Beliefs about justice for self and others and telomere length in African Americans
Findings underscore that for racial minorities, health might be best protected when justice beliefs are both endorsed and rebuffed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)
Predicting Pain and Adjustment in Rheumatoid Arthritis
The role of disclosure and emotional processing of stressful life events has not been studied in chronically ill populations. We attempted to predict the pain, physical dysfunction, and affective disturbance of 82 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) from their life stress and from various measures of emotional processing: disclosure to others and thought frequency about stressful events, positive and negative emotional expression, ambivalence…
Effects of accuracy feedback versus monetary contingency on arousal in high and low frequency gamblers
Family Factors Related to Alexithymia Characteristics
There is little empirical research on the familial and parental correlates of alexithymia. A two-part study explored how the affective and cognitive characteristics of alexithymia are related to family dysfunction and maternal alexithymia. In Part I, 127 young adults were evaluated for alexithymia with the Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20 (TAS-20), for impaired imagination with the Scored Archetypal Test with Nine Elements, and for family dysfunction…
Alexithymia and Health Care Utilization
Alexithymia's link with health care utilization is unclear. Alexithymia may be overrepresented among clinical samples because of a proclivity to seek care, or alexithymia may prompt delay or avoidance of care, perhaps exacerbating illness. In 911 young adults, this study examined relationships between alexithymia (Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20; total and three factor scores) and the use of six health services during the past year: outpatient medic…
Predicting Pain and Adjustment in Rheumatoid Arthritis
The role of disclosure and emotional processing of stressful life events has not been studied in chronically ill populations. We attempted to predict the pain, physical dysfunction, and affective disturbance of 82 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) from their life stress and from various measures of emotional processing: disclosure to others and thought frequency about stressful events, positive and negative emotional expression, ambivalence…
The Relationship of Alexithymia to Dreaming
Correlates of Morbidity in Lupus Erythematosus
Departments of Psychology and Rheumatology, Wayne-State University and Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
Silent Myocardial Ischemia Is Associated With Decreased Health Care Utilization
Lumley, Mark; Rowland, Laurenn; Torosian, Tracey; Ketterer, Mark; Pickard, Sol Author Information
The Validity of Alexithymia When Assessed by Significant Others
Alexithymia and Polysomnographic Measures of Sleep
The Relationship of Cognitive and Emotional Coping to Adjustment to Chronic Myofascial Pain
In the chronic pain literature, pain coping and adjustment traditionally have been studied using cognitive and behavioral constructs. Little research attention has been devoted to exploring the role of emotional factors and their contribution to adjustment in chronic pain patients. Recent empirical evidence suggests that certain emotional approach coping strategies and competencies are associated with positive adaptation. This study was conducted…
The Health Effects of Writing About Emotional Stress on Physically Symptomatic Young Adults
Significant Others as Informants of Adherence and Health Status in Patients With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Alexithymia and Polysomnographic Measures of Sleep in Healthy Adults
OBJECTIVE: This study examined associations between alexithymia and objective characteristics of sleep (latencies, stages, and amount and patterning of REM sleep) that may contribute to subjective reports of poor sleep quality and impaired dream recall among alexithymic people. METHODS: Fifty healthy, normally sleeping adults from the community completed the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale and slept uninterrupted for one night in the laboratory…
Changing Face of Pain
Objective This article provides an overview of how psychosomatic research on pain has evolved over the past 60 years as exemplified by studies published in Psychosomatic Medicine. Methods Each issue of Psychosomatic Medicine from 1939 to 1999 was reviewed to identify papers that dealt with pain, painful medical conditions, or pain management. A total of 150 papers were identified and grouped into seven categories: 1) case studies; 2) studies of p…
Aftercare Services from Funeral Directors to Bereaved Men
Little is known about the aftercare practices of funeral directors toward bereaved men or about bereaved men's use of aftercare services. We addressed these issues in two studies. In Study 1, 145 funeral directors were surveyed about their attitudes and aftercare services for bereaved men. They offered a range of services, but only a minority of men utilized them, and primarily only those services initiated by the funeral home (e.g., mailings, ph…
Age and gender differences in cardiac reactivity and subjective emotion responses to emotional autobiographical memories
This research reports age and gender differences in cardiac reactivity and subjective responses to the induction of autobiographical memories related to anger, fear, sadness, and happiness. Heart rate (HR) and subjective state were assessed at baseline and after the induction of each emotion in 113 individuals (61 men, 52 women; 66% European American, 34% African American) ranging in age from 15 to 88 years (M = 50.0; SD = 20.2). Cardiac reactivi…
For Whom Does It Work? Moderators of the Effects of Written Emotional Disclosure in a Randomized Trial Among Women With Chronic Pelvic Pain
OBJECTIVE: Although written emotional disclosure has potential as a stress management intervention for people with health problems, the main (group) effects of disclosure in medical populations are limited. This study sought to identify individual difference moderators of the effects of written disclosure among women with chronic pelvic pain. METHODS: In a prospective, randomized trial, 48 women with chronic pelvic pain completed 3 individual dif…
Alexithymia, Emotional Disclosure, and Health
This article reviews a program of research on alexithymia, emotional disclosure, and health. The article first describes two lines of research and then outlines current work attempting to integrate these lines. The first research line involves basic correlational studies on alexithymia's link to health problems; these studies suggest that alexithymia is a potential risk factor for symptoms and illness behavior, although not necessarily organic di…
Assessing alexithymia and related emotional ability constructs using multiple methods
This study examined relationships among various measures of emotional ability reflecting different methods of assessment: self-report, clinical interview, collateral report, and emotion-relevant performance. On 140 young adults, the authors assessed self-reported alexithymia, emotional approach coping, and trait metamood skills; observer-reported alexithymia; interviewer-rated alexithymia; emotional awareness in response to vignettes; and emotion…
Empathy across the adult lifespan
This study examined change in self-reported empathy in a four-wave longitudinal study spanning 12 years (1992-2004) and the association between empathy and other measures, including daily reports of relationship experiences. Participants initially ranged in age from 10 years to 87 years. Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations of age with empathy revealed divergent patterns. Whereas cross-sectional analyses suggested that older adults score…
Targeting Interventions
Time-based indicators of emotional complexity
Emotional complexity has been regarded as one correlate of adaptive emotion regulation in adulthood. One novel and potentially valuable approach to operationalizing emotional complexity is to use reports of emotions obtained repeatedly in real time, which can generate a number of potential time-based indicators of emotional complexity. It is not known, however, how these indicators relate to each other, to other measures of affective complexity, …
The Impact of Emotion-Related Autonomic Nervous System Responsiveness on Pain Sensitivity in Female Patients With Fibromyalgia
OBJECTIVE: Patients with fibromyalgia have shown hyporeactive autonomic nervous system (ANS) responses to physical stressors, augmented pain to ANS changes, and heightened negative emotions, which can increase pain. This study examined ANS reactivity to negative emotions and its association with pain in fibromyalgia and control participants. METHODS: Sixty-two women with fibromyalgia and 59 women in a control group recalled neutral, and anger- an…
Social support and invalidation by others contribute uniquely to the understanding of physical and mental health of patients with rheumatic diseases
This study examined whether social support and invalidation (lack of understanding and discounting by others) are differently associated with physical and mental health. Participants were 1455 patients with fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, osteorarthritis, or another rheumatic disease. Participants completed online questionnaires. Social support correlated negatively with discounting responses of others (moderately) and…
The Relationship of Chronic and Momentary Work Stress to Cardiac Reactivity in Female Managers
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate a wireless smart phone-assisted (SPA) system that assesses ongoing heart rate (HR) and HR-triggered participant reports of momentary stress when HR is elevated during daily life. This SPA system was used to determine the independent and interactive roles of chronic and momentary work stress on HR reactivity among female managers. METHODS: A sample of 40 female managers reported their chronic work stress and wore the SPA sy…
Psychology (42 works) · Medicine (35 works) · Clinical Psychology (34 works) · Psychiatry (25 works) · Social Psychology (16 works) · Developmental psychology (14 works) · Clinical Psychology (13 works) · Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments (11 works) · Internal Medicine (10 works) · Social Psychology (9 works)