Camilo J Ruggero
Biographic Data
| ID | 3439070 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Camilo J Ruggero |
| GIVEN NAMES | Camilo J |
| FAMILY NAME | Ruggero |
| SIGNATURE | RUGGERO C J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Texas |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8482-6269 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Parental Bipolar Disorder and Attachment Insecurity in Young Adults
Maternal depression predicts attachment insecurity in children, but parental bipolar disorder effects are less clear, particularly as children emerge into young adulthood. We assessed attachment in young adult children of parents with bipolar disorder (vs. depression and no mood disorder). Participants completed romantic attachment and retrospective parenting behavior self-reports, and semi-structured diagnostic interviews. Young adults with pare…
Effects of Daily Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms on Heart Rate Variability
OBJECTIVE: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is common, debilitating, and associated with an increased risk of health problems, including cardiovascular disease. PTSD is related to poor autonomic function indicated by reduced heart rate variability (HRV). However, very little work has tested the timescale or direction of these effects, given that most evidence comes from cross-sectional studies. Documentation of when effects occur and in what …
Age-dependent associations among insomnia, depression, and inflammation in nurses
Objective Insomnia and depression have been inconsistently associated with inflammation. Age may be one important moderator of these associations. This study examined associations between insomnia and depression with inflammatory biomarkers in nurses and how these associations varied by age. Design: Participants were 392 nurses ages 18-65 (Mage = 39.54 years ± 11.15, 92% female) recruited from two hospitals. Main outcome measures: Participants co…
Commentary– Opening a can of worms: The importance of testing the measurement invariance of hierarchical models of psychopathology – a commentary on He and Li (2020)
Measurement invariance is an understudied topic in much of psychopathology research, but its effects have far‐reaching consequences. It has rarely been examined with respect to hierarchical models of psychopathology. He & Li’s (2020) study represents one of the first attempts to bridge the gap between relatively narrow focused studies on the psychometric properties of specific assessments with broader research on the hierarchical structure of psy…
Intraindividual Variability in Sleep and Levels of Systemic Inflammation in Nurses
OBJECTIVE: Disturbed sleep is common among nurses and is associated with morbidity and mortality. Inflammation may be one mechanism linking sleep and disease. However, most studies rely on retrospective questionnaires to assess sleep, which fail to account for night-to-night fluctuations in sleep across time (i.e., intraindividual variability [IIV]). We examined prospective associations between mean and IIV in sleep with inflammation markers in n…
Positive and negative affect in the daily life of world trade center responders with PTSD: An ecological momentary assessment study
Results suggest that for chronic PTSD among disaster responders, positive emotions are not inhibited across daily living. Such findings add to evidence suggesting that PA reduction may not be diagnostically relevant to PTSD, whereas NA remains an important target for therapeutic interventions. Moreover, results show that WTC responders can experience and benefit from positive emotion, even if they continue to have PTSD symptoms. (PsycINFO Databas…
The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): A dimensional alternative to traditional nosologies.
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and the Risk of Respiratory Problems in World Trade Center Responders: Longitudinal Test of a Pathway
OBJECTIVE: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with high medical morbidity, but the nature of this association remains unclear. Among responders to the World Trade Center (WTC) disaster, PTSD is highly comorbid with lower respiratory symptoms (LRS), which cannot be explained by exposure alone. We sought to examine this association longitudinally to establish the direction of the effects and evaluate potential pathways to comorbidit…
Breaking the Cycle: Association of Attending Therapy Following Childhood Abuse and Subsequent Perpetration of Violence
The Brief Experiential Avoidance Questionnaire: Development and initial validation.
The 62-item Multidimensional Experiential Avoidance Questionnaire (MEAQ) was recently developed to assess a broad range of experiential avoidance (EA) content. However, practical clinical and research considerations made a briefer measure of EA desirable. Using items from the original 62-item MEAQ, a 15-item scale was created that tapped content from each of the MEAQ's six dimensions. Items were selected on the basis of their performance in 3 sam…
Development of a measure of experiential avoidance: The Multidimensional Experiential Avoidance Questionnaire.
Experiential avoidance (EA) has been conceptualized as the tendency to avoid negative internal experiences and is an important concept in numerous conceptualizations of psychopathology as well as theories of psychotherapy. Existing measures of EA have either been narrowly defined or demonstrated unsatisfactory internal consistency and/or evidence of poor discriminant validity vis-à-vis neuroticism. To help address these problems, we developed a r…
Development of a measure of experiential avoidance: The Multidimensional Experiential Avoidance Questionnaire.
Experiential avoidance (EA) has been conceptualized as the tendency to avoid negative internal experiences and is an important concept in numerous conceptualizations of psychopathology as well as theories of psychotherapy. Existing measures of EA have either been narrowly defined or demonstrated unsatisfactory internal consistency and/or evidence of poor discriminant validity vis-à-vis neuroticism. To help address these problems, we developed a r…
The Brief Experiential Avoidance Questionnaire: Development and initial validation.
The 62-item Multidimensional Experiential Avoidance Questionnaire (MEAQ) was recently developed to assess a broad range of experiential avoidance (EA) content. However, practical clinical and research considerations made a briefer measure of EA desirable. Using items from the original 62-item MEAQ, a 15-item scale was created that tapped content from each of the MEAQ's six dimensions. Items were selected on the basis of their performance in 3 sam…
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and the Risk of Respiratory Problems in World Trade Center Responders: Longitudinal Test of a Pathway
OBJECTIVE: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with high medical morbidity, but the nature of this association remains unclear. Among responders to the World Trade Center (WTC) disaster, PTSD is highly comorbid with lower respiratory symptoms (LRS), which cannot be explained by exposure alone. We sought to examine this association longitudinally to establish the direction of the effects and evaluate potential pathways to comorbidit…
Breaking the Cycle: Association of Attending Therapy Following Childhood Abuse and Subsequent Perpetration of Violence
The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): A dimensional alternative to traditional nosologies.
Positive and negative affect in the daily life of world trade center responders with PTSD: An ecological momentary assessment study
Results suggest that for chronic PTSD among disaster responders, positive emotions are not inhibited across daily living. Such findings add to evidence suggesting that PA reduction may not be diagnostically relevant to PTSD, whereas NA remains an important target for therapeutic interventions. Moreover, results show that WTC responders can experience and benefit from positive emotion, even if they continue to have PTSD symptoms. (PsycINFO Databas…
Intraindividual Variability in Sleep and Levels of Systemic Inflammation in Nurses
OBJECTIVE: Disturbed sleep is common among nurses and is associated with morbidity and mortality. Inflammation may be one mechanism linking sleep and disease. However, most studies rely on retrospective questionnaires to assess sleep, which fail to account for night-to-night fluctuations in sleep across time (i.e., intraindividual variability [IIV]). We examined prospective associations between mean and IIV in sleep with inflammation markers in n…
Age-dependent associations among insomnia, depression, and inflammation in nurses
Objective Insomnia and depression have been inconsistently associated with inflammation. Age may be one important moderator of these associations. This study examined associations between insomnia and depression with inflammatory biomarkers in nurses and how these associations varied by age. Design: Participants were 392 nurses ages 18-65 (Mage = 39.54 years ± 11.15, 92% female) recruited from two hospitals. Main outcome measures: Participants co…
Commentary– Opening a can of worms: The importance of testing the measurement invariance of hierarchical models of psychopathology – a commentary on He and Li (2020)
Measurement invariance is an understudied topic in much of psychopathology research, but its effects have far‐reaching consequences. It has rarely been examined with respect to hierarchical models of psychopathology. He & Li’s (2020) study represents one of the first attempts to bridge the gap between relatively narrow focused studies on the psychometric properties of specific assessments with broader research on the hierarchical structure of psy…
Parental Bipolar Disorder and Attachment Insecurity in Young Adults
Maternal depression predicts attachment insecurity in children, but parental bipolar disorder effects are less clear, particularly as children emerge into young adulthood. We assessed attachment in young adult children of parents with bipolar disorder (vs. depression and no mood disorder). Participants completed romantic attachment and retrospective parenting behavior self-reports, and semi-structured diagnostic interviews. Young adults with pare…
Effects of Daily Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms on Heart Rate Variability
OBJECTIVE: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is common, debilitating, and associated with an increased risk of health problems, including cardiovascular disease. PTSD is related to poor autonomic function indicated by reduced heart rate variability (HRV). However, very little work has tested the timescale or direction of these effects, given that most evidence comes from cross-sectional studies. Documentation of when effects occur and in what …
Clinical Psychology (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Psychiatry (6 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Internal Medicine (4 works) · Internal Medicine (3 works) · Posttraumatic stress (3 works) · Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research (3 works) · Psychopathology (3 works) · Anxiety (2 works)