Walid Afifi

Biographic Data

ID3770418
NAMEWalid Afifi
GIVEN NAMESWalid
FAMILY NAMEAfifi
SIGNATUREAFIFI W
AFFILIATIONSDepartment of Communication Studies; University of Iowa; IA 52240 USA
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS44
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX3

  • College students with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca)

    Hyojin Lee, Jennifer A Kam et al.ARTICLECommunication Monographs2024References: 7

  • Networks of Passing

    Audrey Scranton, T D Afifi et al.ARTICLEJournal of Intercultural…2016

    Undocumented Latin American immigrants are one of the fastest-growing populations in the United States, and they are one of the most vulnerable. Due to constant fear of deportation, these immigrants have to communicatively “pass” for documented in a variety of situations, and they might be likely to use informal network ties (social capital) to do so. Through eight diverse focus group interviews of undocumented immigrants, this study explores how…

  • The Role of Social Support on Mental Health After Multiple Wildfire Disasters

    Open AccessErika D Felix, Walid A Afifi et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community Psychology2015Cited by: 3References: 24

    Disasters can erode mental health (MH), even if it does not reach mental illness. This study explored the direct or moderating role of social support on MH after multiple wildfires, with attention to evacuation status and participant sex. Participants (N = 402) responded to a random digit dial telephone survey about their disaster exposure, current MH, MH at the time of the fire, social support, and life stressors since the disaster. For the evac…

  • Family functioning and posttraumatic growth among parents and youth following wildfire disasters

    Erika D Felix, Erika Felix et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Orthopsychiatry2015

    A conceptual model was used to investigate how demographic characteristics, perceived fire stress, aspects of the recovery environment (life stressors since the disaster, social support), mental health, and coping influences parent and youth reports of family functioning and posttraumatic growth (PTG) following multiple wildfires. Participants included 50 parent-youth dyads (M = 14.5 years) who had been evacuated because of the fire, many of whom…

  • In the Wake of the Great Recession

    Open AccessT D Afifi, Tamara Afifi et al.ARTICLEHuman Communication Research2014Cited by: 18References: 50

    Journal Article In the Wake of the Great Recession: Economic Uncertainty, Communication, and Biological Stress Responses in Families Get access Tamara Afifi, Tamara Afifi 1Department of Communication Studies, University of Iowa, IA 52240, USA, 1Corresponding author: Tamara Afifi; Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sharde Davis, Sharde Davis 1Department of Communication Studies, University of Iowa, IA 52240, U…

  • "You Need to Stop Talking About This!"

    Open AccessT D Afifi, Tamara Afifi et al.ARTICLEHuman Communication Research2013Cited by: 23References: 60

    This study examined whether the type of support individuals receive when they are verbally ruminating affects their cognitive rumination (brooding), anxiety, and relationship satisfaction; 233 young adults were randomly assigned to be the subject, 233 others the confederate. The confederate was trained to provide “good support” or “poor support” to the subject who talked about a topic he/she had been verbally ruminating about recently. When indiv…