Sarah E Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3658012 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah E Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah E |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS S E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Medical College of Wisconsin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1745-2498 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Expressive suppression strengthens coherence between arousal intensity and arousal interpretation
Interpretations of physiological arousal may be a key pathway connecting stress‐related physiological arousal intensity to physiological and affective consequences of stress. Expressive suppression is linked to increased perceptions of stressors as threatening, which may exacerbate associations between physiological arousal intensity and interpretations of physiological arousal as debilitative. However, the effect of expressive suppression on the…
Examining When Imaginative Involvement Relates to Worry and Generalized Anxiety: Moderating Effect of Negative Affect
Despite theoretical connections between imagery and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), particularly worry, research, to date, has not supported a bivariate association between imaginative involvement and GAD/worry. This study extended existing research focused on a bivariate association by examining the moderating effect of negative affect and positive affect. This study includes a sample of U.S.-residing adults (N = 250) and a replication sampl…
Response to: ‘A flourishing-centered curriculum can only thrive through the embrace of diversity’
Dear EditorWe thank Woltman and Cecilio-Fernandes [3] for the comments on our article [2]. The authors make relevant and important points regarding the need for a flourishing-centered curriculum to
Advancing flourishing as the north star of medical education: A call for personal and professional development as key to becoming physicians
Over the past 15 years, multiple calls to transform medical education, and by extension, health sciences education, have addressed issues pertaining to learners' subjective experiences as well as the learning environment. By and large, these calls to transform share many of the same themes: greater engagement with the humanities, enhanced professional identity formation, leadership development, as well as systemic changes to enhance meaning, purp…
Detecting and classifying eco-anxiety: Development of clinical cut-off scores for the climate change anxiety scale
The proposed cut-offs can feasibly be used to identify those with elevated climate change anxiety. Use of these cut-off scores can inform research as well as be used to guide screening, assessment, and inform clinical practice. Results also highlight a high rate of climate change anxiety in young adults
Examining the associations between physical activity, self‐esteem, perceived stress, and internalizing symptoms among older adolescents
INTRODUCTION: In older adolescence, stress has been found to be prevalent. It has been seen that higher physical activity (PA) relates to lower stress levels, which, in turn, relates to fewer anxiety and depressive symptoms (internalizing symptoms). However, how these associations function is not fully understood. PA is strongly associated with greater self-esteem in adolescents. As greater self-esteem is thought to aid better coping with stress …
Effects of arousal reappraisal on the anxiety responses to stress: Breaking the cycle of negative arousal intensity and arousal interpretation
Arousal reappraisal has been shown to be an effective strategy during stress to improve anxiety. However, the exact psychological mechanism through which arousal reappraisal improves anxiety is unknown. In a large, cross‐sectional study (Study 1, N = 455) participants engaged in an acute psychological stress task and rated their levels of physiological arousal, cognitive anxiety, and somatic anxiety, and whether they perceived this physiological …
Heart Rate Reactivity to Acute Psychological Stress Predicts Higher Levels of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms During the Covid-19 Pandemic
OBJECTIVE: Increased autonomic arousal is a proposed risk factor for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Few studies have prospectively examined the association between physiological responses to acute psychological stress before a traumatic event and later PTSD symptoms. The present prospective study examined whether cardiovascular responses to an acute psychological stress task before the COVID-19 global pandemic predicted PTSD symptoms relat…
Oral Health Considerations of Children: Grandparent Caregiver Perceptions, Behaviors, and Knowledge
Changes in sleep quality and levels of psychological distress during the adaptation to university: The role of childhood adversity
Stress‐related sleep disturbances are common, and poor sleep quality can negatively affect health. Previous work indicates that early‐life adversity is associated with compromised sleep quality later in life, but it is unknown whether it predicts greater declines in sleep quality during stressful life transitions. We propose and test a conceptual model whereby individuals who reported experiencing greater levels of child maltreatment would experi…
Left-Right Ideological Differences in Blaming Victims
In the first of two experiments conducted with liberal and conservative university students (so designated on the basis of their scores on Tomkins' Polarity Scale) men and women made attributions of responsibility to a welfare client. Overall, conservatives blamed the victim more than liberals. The second study extended this finding to the victim of a theft. Liberals were particularly lenient when the victim was described as emotionally upset, su…
The effects of sensation seeking and misattribution of arousal on attraction toward similar or dissimilar strangers
Left-Right Ideological Differences in Blaming Victims
In the first of two experiments conducted with liberal and conservative university students (so designated on the basis of their scores on Tomkins' Polarity Scale) men and women made attributions of responsibility to a welfare client. Overall, conservatives blamed the victim more than liberals. The second study extended this finding to the victim of a theft. Liberals were particularly lenient when the victim was described as emotionally upset, su…
The effects of sensation seeking and misattribution of arousal on attraction toward similar or dissimilar strangers
The effects of sensation seeking and misattribution of arousal on attraction toward similar or dissimilar strangers
Left-Right Ideological Differences in Blaming Victims
In the first of two experiments conducted with liberal and conservative university students (so designated on the basis of their scores on Tomkins' Polarity Scale) men and women made attributions of responsibility to a welfare client. Overall, conservatives blamed the victim more than liberals. The second study extended this finding to the victim of a theft. Liberals were particularly lenient when the victim was described as emotionally upset, su…
Changes in sleep quality and levels of psychological distress during the adaptation to university: The role of childhood adversity
Stress‐related sleep disturbances are common, and poor sleep quality can negatively affect health. Previous work indicates that early‐life adversity is associated with compromised sleep quality later in life, but it is unknown whether it predicts greater declines in sleep quality during stressful life transitions. We propose and test a conceptual model whereby individuals who reported experiencing greater levels of child maltreatment would experi…
Oral Health Considerations of Children: Grandparent Caregiver Perceptions, Behaviors, and Knowledge
Heart Rate Reactivity to Acute Psychological Stress Predicts Higher Levels of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms During the Covid-19 Pandemic
OBJECTIVE: Increased autonomic arousal is a proposed risk factor for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Few studies have prospectively examined the association between physiological responses to acute psychological stress before a traumatic event and later PTSD symptoms. The present prospective study examined whether cardiovascular responses to an acute psychological stress task before the COVID-19 global pandemic predicted PTSD symptoms relat…
Effects of arousal reappraisal on the anxiety responses to stress: Breaking the cycle of negative arousal intensity and arousal interpretation
Arousal reappraisal has been shown to be an effective strategy during stress to improve anxiety. However, the exact psychological mechanism through which arousal reappraisal improves anxiety is unknown. In a large, cross‐sectional study (Study 1, N = 455) participants engaged in an acute psychological stress task and rated their levels of physiological arousal, cognitive anxiety, and somatic anxiety, and whether they perceived this physiological …
Examining the associations between physical activity, self‐esteem, perceived stress, and internalizing symptoms among older adolescents
INTRODUCTION: In older adolescence, stress has been found to be prevalent. It has been seen that higher physical activity (PA) relates to lower stress levels, which, in turn, relates to fewer anxiety and depressive symptoms (internalizing symptoms). However, how these associations function is not fully understood. PA is strongly associated with greater self-esteem in adolescents. As greater self-esteem is thought to aid better coping with stress …
Advancing flourishing as the north star of medical education: A call for personal and professional development as key to becoming physicians
Over the past 15 years, multiple calls to transform medical education, and by extension, health sciences education, have addressed issues pertaining to learners' subjective experiences as well as the learning environment. By and large, these calls to transform share many of the same themes: greater engagement with the humanities, enhanced professional identity formation, leadership development, as well as systemic changes to enhance meaning, purp…
Detecting and classifying eco-anxiety: Development of clinical cut-off scores for the climate change anxiety scale
The proposed cut-offs can feasibly be used to identify those with elevated climate change anxiety. Use of these cut-off scores can inform research as well as be used to guide screening, assessment, and inform clinical practice. Results also highlight a high rate of climate change anxiety in young adults
Examining When Imaginative Involvement Relates to Worry and Generalized Anxiety: Moderating Effect of Negative Affect
Despite theoretical connections between imagery and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), particularly worry, research, to date, has not supported a bivariate association between imaginative involvement and GAD/worry. This study extended existing research focused on a bivariate association by examining the moderating effect of negative affect and positive affect. This study includes a sample of U.S.-residing adults (N = 250) and a replication sampl…
Response to: ‘A flourishing-centered curriculum can only thrive through the embrace of diversity’
Dear EditorWe thank Woltman and Cecilio-Fernandes [3] for the comments on our article [2]. The authors make relevant and important points regarding the need for a flourishing-centered curriculum to
Expressive suppression strengthens coherence between arousal intensity and arousal interpretation
Interpretations of physiological arousal may be a key pathway connecting stress‐related physiological arousal intensity to physiological and affective consequences of stress. Expressive suppression is linked to increased perceptions of stressors as threatening, which may exacerbate associations between physiological arousal intensity and interpretations of physiological arousal as debilitative. However, the effect of expressive suppression on the…
Psychology (11 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Anxiety (4 works) · Arousal (4 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Psychiatry (4 works) · Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (3 works) · Distress (3 works)