Robert A Hicks

Biographic Data

ID177256
NAMERobert A Hicks
GIVEN NAMESRobert A
FAMILY NAMEHicks
SIGNATUREHICKS R A
AFFILIATIONSSan Jose State University
ORCID0000-0001-7396-4677
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS34
TOTAL CITATIONS6
AUTHOR COUNT34
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1969
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
H-INDEX2

  • Differences in the relationship between nightmares and coping with stress for Asians and Caucasians

    Dante Picchioni, Robert A HicksARTICLEDreaming2009Cited by: 1

  • Fatigue and Exposure to Cigarette Smoke

    Open AccessRobert A Hicks, C Fernandez et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports2003

    Responses of 100 undergraduates who scored low on a fatigue scale were compared with the responses of 100 students who scored high. There were no differences between these groups for the number of students who smoked cigarettes and the hours that they were exposed each week to second-hand smoke. Differences between groups pertained to severity of the symptoms that they experienced when they were exposed to cigarette smoke, i.e., the High Fatigue …

  • Nightmares as a coping mechanism for stress

    Dante Picchioni, Brandy Goeltzenleucher et al.ARTICLEDreaming2002Cited by: 3References: 1

    The cause of nightmares remains unclear. However, previous research suggests that stress may play a key role and that nightmares may actually serve a beneficial function. Thus, the purpose of this study was to examine the overall relationship between these two variables and assess the hypothesis that nightmares serve as a coping mechanism for stress. To accomplish these goals, a group of 412 psychology students were separated into low, medium, an…

  • Arousability and dreaming

    Robert A Hicks, Eileen Fortin et al.ARTICLEDreaming2002

    This study finds that dream valence and the frequency with which several types of dreams were experienced are related to arousability. Specifically, compared to 214 university students who were classified as low in arousability, 182 university students who were high in arousability reported more frequent dreams for all seven types of dreams measured. This relationship between arousability and dreaming was especially salient for the three types of…

  • Stamina in Adults

    Robert J Pellegrini, R Pellegrini et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports2000

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  • Handedness and the vividness of dreams

    Robert A Hicks, Jose Bautista et al.ARTICLEDreaming1999Cited by: 2References: 2

    We provided a constructive replication of a recently published paper by measuring the relationship between handedness and recall of vivid dreams. To do this we asked groups of right- (N = 174), mixed- (N = 16) and left-handed (N = 13) university students to respond to a dream scale. Our data were consistent with those of the recent study in question in that we demonstrated that left-handers were significantly more likely to recall types of dreams…

  • Relationship of Response-Set Differences on Beck Depression Inventory Scores of Undergraduate Students

    Open AccessNancy Lehmicke, Robert A HicksARTICLEPsychological Reports1995

    The relationship of a ruminating and a distracting response style upon severity of depression and on gender were investigated. The Ways of Coping Questionnaire was modified to include ruminating and distracting scales and administered to 91 undergraduate students who also completed the Beck Depression Inventory. It was hypothesized that (a) regardless of gender, people who ruminate would have greater rated severity of depression than people who d…

  • Frequency of Eating Problems among Asian and Caucasian College Women

    Open AccessKristy Lucero, Robert A Hicks et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1992

    We compared the frequencies of Asian and Caucasian women who were classified by their responses to the EAT-26 scale as having eating problems. We noted that relative to their Asian peers, our sample of Caucasian women was 5.5 times more likely to score above the cut-off score for eating problems on this test. Two earlier studies which had reported opposite results for Asian and Caucasian women were discussed and reevaluated in the context of our …

  • Leisure and Type A-B Behavior

    Open AccessRobert A Hicks, Gregory J Hicks et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1991

    Of 334 undergraduates, 152 scoring greater than or equal to 8 were classified as Type A and 182 scoring less than 8 as Type B. The groups did not differ in attitudes toward leisure activity, but Type A scorers claimed to spend significantly more time weekly in leisure activities than Type B scorers. This suggests Type A people live more intensely relative to type B scorers

  • Leisure and Type a-B Behavior

    Robert A HicksARTICLEPsychological Reports1991

  • The Thayer Scale Response Patterns of Type a and Type b College Students

    Open AccessRobert A Hicks, Tonja Green et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1989

    Using Thayer's Activation-Deactivation Adjective Check List, the activation patterns of 95 Type A and 105 Type B college students were measured. The pattern of the group means suggests that Type A students are higher than Type B students on both energy and tension activation. When the responses of individuals were examined, the Type A students were 2.5 times more likely to exhibit this high activation pattern than was the case for the Type B stud…

  • Preference for the Color Red and Activation

    Open AccessLarry L Crane, Robert A HicksARTICLEPsychological Reports1989

    As a test of Thayer's two-dimensional arousal theory, it was reasoned that a stimulus with a relatively high arousal potential would be preferred by persons who scored higher on the energetic dimension and would not be preferred by persons who scored high on the tense arousal dimension. A group of undergraduates was asked to rank colors in order of their preference and to respond to the items of the Thayer scale. Using only the scores of the 21 i…

  • Nocturnal Bruxism and Type A-B Behavior in College Students

    Open AccessRobert A Hicks, C W Chancellor et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1987

    The incidence of self-reported nocturnal bruxism was measured in groups of Type A and Type B college students ( ns = 66, 61). The data suggest a positive association between the incidence of bruxism and level of Type A behavior

  • Type A-B Behavior and the Premenstrual Syndrome

    Open AccessRobert A Hicks, Christine Olsen et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1986

    To measure the relationship between Type A-B behavior and Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS), 88 women volunteers responded to the Glass version of the Jenkins Activity Survey and the PMS Symptoms Checklist. Consistent with the hypothesis, Type A women reported that they experienced about 50% more symptoms of PMS than the Type B women

  • Longitude and Suicide Rates of Certain United States Cities

    Open AccessShirley R Stanger, Judith Cullinane et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1986

  • Type A-B Behavior and Incidence of Infectious Mononucleosis in College Students

    Open AccessScott Barton, Robert A HicksARTICLEPsychological Reports1985

    To further test the hypothesis that Type A behavior is associated with a variety of stress-linked diseases, 280 university students responded to the Jenkins Activity Survey and the question “Have you ever had infectious mononucleosis?”. Compared to the Type B students in this group, the Type A students were 3.75 times more likely to report that they had experienced infectious mononucleosis

  • Stomach Disorders and Type A-B Behavior

    Open AccessRobert A Hicks, Yvonne Cheers et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1985

  • Type A-B Behavior and Caffeine Use in College Students

    Open AccessRobert A Hicks, Jean Kilcourse et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1983

  • Self-Reported Excess Body Weight in Short-and Long-Sleeping College Students

    Open AccessRobert A Hicks, Wendy GausARTICLEPsychological Reports1983

  • Type A-B Behavior and Self-Estimates of the Frequency of Headaches in College Students

    Open AccessRobert A Hicks, Jill CampbellARTICLEPsychological Reports1983

    Individuals who suffer from migraine headaches have been characterized as tense, hard-driving individuals who have difficulty in coping with stress ( 3 ) . These behaviors are similar to those which Friedman and Rosenman (1) used to describe the behavior of the Type A person. This similarity suggested to us that Type A college students might experience headaches more frequently than Type B students. To test this hypothesis, we asked 177 college s…

  • Type A-B Behavior and the Incidence of Allergies in College Students

    Open AccessScott Barton, Mark Brautigam et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1982

  • Sleep Problems and Type A-B Behavior in College Students

    Open AccessRobert A Hicks, Robert J Pellegrini et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1982

  • Type A-B Behavior and the Overt and Covert Hostility Levels of College Students

    Open AccessRobert A Hicks, Jean A HodgsonARTICLEPsychological Reports1981

    As a means of providing psychometric validation of Friedman and Rosenman's (1977) clinical observation that Type A individuals show excessive levels of covert hostility, groups of Type A and Type B students were tested with the Buss-Durkee (1957) Hostility Inventory. Type A students expressed higher levels of hostility than the Type B students. However, this difference was due primarily to the relatively greater level of overt hostility of the Ty…

  • Changes in Level of Type a Behavior in College Students over a Four-Year Period

    Open AccessRobert A Hicks, David J Schretlen et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1981

  • Habitual Duration of Sleep and Divergent Thinking

    Open AccessRobert A Hicks, Michael Guista et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1980