Carissa A Low
Biographic Data
| ID | 2560665 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carissa A Low |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carissa A |
| FAMILY NAME | Low |
| SIGNATURE | LOW C A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3318-7495 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Usability, feasibility, and acceptability of a smartphone-supported behavioral activation intervention for patients with advanced cancer
BACKGROUND: Advanced cancer can disrupt participation in meaningful daily activities. Sustaining or increasing these activities through behavioral activation may improve mood and quality of life for the growing population of people living with advanced cancer. PURPOSE: The goal of this study was to develop and evaluate the preliminary usability, feasibility, and acceptability of BALANCE (Behavioral Activation-Led Activity eNgagement for Cancer Em…
Remote Mindfulness Training for Health Following Early Life Adversity
Participants were emerging adults who recalled a history of childhood trauma. • Participants received two-week remote mindfulness or coping interventions. • Both interventions were feasible/acceptable and improved mental health symptoms. • A protocol for assessing stress-related health outcomes was feasible in this sample. • Research is needed to evaluate whether mindfulness training can offset health risk. Early life adversity confers lifelong h…
Existential challenges experienced by lymphoma survivors
We sought to examine the existential challenges that cancer survivors may experience as they strive to make meaning, regain their self-identity, cope with fear of recurrence, and experience feelings of grief and guilt. Lymphoma survivors ( n = 429) completed the 2010 LIVESTRONG survey and provided responses about meaning, cancer worry, security, identity, grief, guilt, and perceived functional impairment due to these concerns. Most survivors (73%…
Living with limited time
The current research was designed to test the applicability of socioemotional selectivity theory (SST; Carstensen, 2006), a life span theory that posits that perceived time remaining in life (time perspective) is a critical determinant of motivation, to individuals who face foreshortened futures (limited time perspective) due to life-limiting medical illness. In Study 1, we investigated whether life goals and biases in attention and memory for va…
Depressive Symptoms in Patients With Cancer
Depressive symptoms are common among patients with cancer, and both psychological stress and physiological factors have been implicated in the etiology of depression. Scientific progress in this area is challenged by the changing nature of psychological and physiological processes over the course of cancer diagnosis and treatment. The article by Wu and colleagues in the current issue of Psychosomatic Medicine provides an example of thoughtful con…
Elevated C-Reactive Protein in Adolescents
OBJECTIVE: Psychological stress can up-regulate inflammatory processes and increase disease risk. In the context of stress, differences in how individuals cope might have implications for health. The goal of this study was to evaluate associations among stress, coping, and inflammation in a sample of African American and white adolescents. METHODS: Adolescents (n = 245) completed self-report measures of stressful life events and coping, provided …
Dispositional and Stressor‐Related Emotion Regulation in the Context of a Chronic, Life‐Limiting Stressor
In the context of efforts to regulate emotion during chronic stressors, both dispositional response tendencies (affect intensity, negative and positive expressivity) and stressor‐related coping through emotional approach (processing and expressing emotions) are relevant to adjustment. In women with metastatic breast cancer ( N = 103), contributions of self‐reported emotional processing and expression related to cancer, as well as dispositional ex…
Psychosocial Predictors of Coronary Artery Calcification Progression in Postmenopausal Women
OBJECTIVE: Coronary artery calcification (CAC) has been associated with psychosocial factors in some but not all cross-sectional analyses. The goal of this study was to determine whether positive and negative psychosocial factors prospectively predict CAC progression in postmenopausal women. METHODS: Participants from the Healthy Women Study who also participated in the Pittsburgh Mind-Body Center protocol (n = 149) completed self-report psychoso…
Psychosocial Factors in the Development of Heart Disease in Women
OBJECTIVE: To review the recent (1995-2009) literature on psychosocial risk and protective factors for coronary heart disease (CHD) among women, including negative emotions, stress, social relationships, and positive psychological factors. METHODS: Articles for the review were identified using PubMed and bibliographies of relevant articles. Eligible studies included at least 100 women and either focused on a) exclusively female participants or b)…
Chronic Life Stress, Cardiovascular Reactivity, and Subclinical Cardiovascular Disease in Adolescents
OBJECTIVE: To examine cross-sectional and longitudinal relationships between chronic life stress, cardiovascular reactivity, and a marker of subclinical cardiovascular disease in a multiethnic sample of adolescents. METHODS: Participants were 158 healthy adolescents who completed self-report measures of chronic negative life stress as well as assessments of heart rate and blood pressure reactivity to acute laboratory stressors at two time points,…
Effects of acceptance-oriented versus evaluative emotional processing on heart rate recovery and habituation
The effects of emotional processing on stress response trajectories may depend on the nature of processing, as evaluative rumination about emotions can prolong distress. In contrast, observing negative emotions in an accepting manner may promote efficient recovery from stressful situations. The present study examined the effect of acceptance-oriented versus evaluative emotional processing on cardiovascular habituation and recovery. Across two exp…
Living with limited time
The current research was designed to test the applicability of socioemotional selectivity theory (SST; Carstensen, 2006), a life span theory that posits that perceived time remaining in life (time perspective) is a critical determinant of motivation, to individuals who face foreshortened futures (limited time perspective) due to life-limiting medical illness. In Study 1, we investigated whether life goals and biases in attention and memory for va…
Existential challenges experienced by lymphoma survivors
We sought to examine the existential challenges that cancer survivors may experience as they strive to make meaning, regain their self-identity, cope with fear of recurrence, and experience feelings of grief and guilt. Lymphoma survivors ( n = 429) completed the 2010 LIVESTRONG survey and provided responses about meaning, cancer worry, security, identity, grief, guilt, and perceived functional impairment due to these concerns. Most survivors (73%…
Effects of acceptance-oriented versus evaluative emotional processing on heart rate recovery and habituation
The effects of emotional processing on stress response trajectories may depend on the nature of processing, as evaluative rumination about emotions can prolong distress. In contrast, observing negative emotions in an accepting manner may promote efficient recovery from stressful situations. The present study examined the effect of acceptance-oriented versus evaluative emotional processing on cardiovascular habituation and recovery. Across two exp…
Chronic Life Stress, Cardiovascular Reactivity, and Subclinical Cardiovascular Disease in Adolescents
OBJECTIVE: To examine cross-sectional and longitudinal relationships between chronic life stress, cardiovascular reactivity, and a marker of subclinical cardiovascular disease in a multiethnic sample of adolescents. METHODS: Participants were 158 healthy adolescents who completed self-report measures of chronic negative life stress as well as assessments of heart rate and blood pressure reactivity to acute laboratory stressors at two time points,…
Psychosocial Factors in the Development of Heart Disease in Women
OBJECTIVE: To review the recent (1995-2009) literature on psychosocial risk and protective factors for coronary heart disease (CHD) among women, including negative emotions, stress, social relationships, and positive psychological factors. METHODS: Articles for the review were identified using PubMed and bibliographies of relevant articles. Eligible studies included at least 100 women and either focused on a) exclusively female participants or b)…
Psychosocial Predictors of Coronary Artery Calcification Progression in Postmenopausal Women
OBJECTIVE: Coronary artery calcification (CAC) has been associated with psychosocial factors in some but not all cross-sectional analyses. The goal of this study was to determine whether positive and negative psychosocial factors prospectively predict CAC progression in postmenopausal women. METHODS: Participants from the Healthy Women Study who also participated in the Pittsburgh Mind-Body Center protocol (n = 149) completed self-report psychoso…
Dispositional and Stressor‐Related Emotion Regulation in the Context of a Chronic, Life‐Limiting Stressor
In the context of efforts to regulate emotion during chronic stressors, both dispositional response tendencies (affect intensity, negative and positive expressivity) and stressor‐related coping through emotional approach (processing and expressing emotions) are relevant to adjustment. In women with metastatic breast cancer ( N = 103), contributions of self‐reported emotional processing and expression related to cancer, as well as dispositional ex…
Elevated C-Reactive Protein in Adolescents
OBJECTIVE: Psychological stress can up-regulate inflammatory processes and increase disease risk. In the context of stress, differences in how individuals cope might have implications for health. The goal of this study was to evaluate associations among stress, coping, and inflammation in a sample of African American and white adolescents. METHODS: Adolescents (n = 245) completed self-report measures of stressful life events and coping, provided …
Depressive Symptoms in Patients With Cancer
Depressive symptoms are common among patients with cancer, and both psychological stress and physiological factors have been implicated in the etiology of depression. Scientific progress in this area is challenged by the changing nature of psychological and physiological processes over the course of cancer diagnosis and treatment. The article by Wu and colleagues in the current issue of Psychosomatic Medicine provides an example of thoughtful con…
Living with limited time
The current research was designed to test the applicability of socioemotional selectivity theory (SST; Carstensen, 2006), a life span theory that posits that perceived time remaining in life (time perspective) is a critical determinant of motivation, to individuals who face foreshortened futures (limited time perspective) due to life-limiting medical illness. In Study 1, we investigated whether life goals and biases in attention and memory for va…
Existential challenges experienced by lymphoma survivors
We sought to examine the existential challenges that cancer survivors may experience as they strive to make meaning, regain their self-identity, cope with fear of recurrence, and experience feelings of grief and guilt. Lymphoma survivors ( n = 429) completed the 2010 LIVESTRONG survey and provided responses about meaning, cancer worry, security, identity, grief, guilt, and perceived functional impairment due to these concerns. Most survivors (73%…
Remote Mindfulness Training for Health Following Early Life Adversity
Participants were emerging adults who recalled a history of childhood trauma. • Participants received two-week remote mindfulness or coping interventions. • Both interventions were feasible/acceptable and improved mental health symptoms. • A protocol for assessing stress-related health outcomes was feasible in this sample. • Research is needed to evaluate whether mindfulness training can offset health risk. Early life adversity confers lifelong h…
Usability, feasibility, and acceptability of a smartphone-supported behavioral activation intervention for patients with advanced cancer
BACKGROUND: Advanced cancer can disrupt participation in meaningful daily activities. Sustaining or increasing these activities through behavioral activation may improve mood and quality of life for the growing population of people living with advanced cancer. PURPOSE: The goal of this study was to develop and evaluate the preliminary usability, feasibility, and acceptability of BALANCE (Behavioral Activation-Led Activity eNgagement for Cancer Em…
Psychology (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Internal Medicine (6 works) · Cardiac Health and Mental Health (5 works) · Internal Medicine (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Anxiety (4 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Psychological intervention (4 works)