Richard J Contrada
Biographic Data
| ID | 391690 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard J Contrada |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard J |
| FAMILY NAME | Contrada |
| SIGNATURE | CONTRADA R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9778-5531 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 312 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Multiple sclerosis and self-alienation: A study based on self and others representations
Based on the research results, it seems that PWMS experience a kind of alienation at the level of self-mental representations. This research can be helpful in modifying MS interventions and increasing the engagement of support systems
Pathways from exposure to racial/ethnic discrimination to depression: Testing a social-cognitive model
Gender stereotypes and parental status: A comparison of fathers, mothers, and the childless-by-choice
Mending Broken Hearts: Marriage and Survival Following Cardiac Surgery
Marriage has long been linked to lower risk for adult mortality in population and clinical studies. In a regional sample of patients ( n = 569) undergoing cardiac surgery, we compared 5-year hazards of mortality for married persons with those of widowed, separated or divorced, and never married persons using data from medical records and psychosocial interviews. After adjusting for demographics and pre- and postsurgical health, unmarried persons …
The handbook of stress science: Biology, Psychology, and Health
Coping with racism: A selective review of the literature and a theoretical and methodological critique
Measurement invariance of the Mini Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire across African–American and Latino adult asthma patients
Looking Inside the Black Box of “Attendance at Services”: New Measures for Exploring an Old Dimension in Religion and Health Research
Research in religion and health has spurred new interest in measuring religiousness. Measurement efforts have focused on subjective facets of religiousness such as spirituality and beliefs, and less attention has been paid to congregate aspects, beyond the single item measuring attendance at services. We evaluate some new measures for religious experiences occurring during congregational worship services. Respondents (N=576) were religiously-dive…
Perceived Racism and Negative Affect: Analyses of Trait and State Measures of Affect in a Community Sample
Racism is a significant psychosocial stressor that is hypothesized to have negative psychological and physical health consequences. The Reserve Capacity Model (Gallo & Matthews, 2003) suggests that low socioeconomic status may influence health through its effects on negative affect. We extend this model to study the effects of racism, examining the association of lifetime perceived racism to trait and daily negative affect. A multiethnic sample o…
Course of Depressive Symptoms in Patients Undergoing Heart Surgery: Confirmatory Analysis of the Factor Pattern and Latent Mean Structure of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale
Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the dimensionality, stability, and course of depressive symptoms over the 12-month period beginning approximately 1 week before heart surgery. Methods: The Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) was administered to 570 patients before heart surgery and 1, 3.5, 6.5, and 12.5 months later. Results: Confirmatory factor analysis rejected a four-factor model as a result of small …
Quality of Life Following Cardiac Surgery: Impact of the Severity and Course of Depressive Symptoms
Both preoperative depressive symptoms and postoperative increases in depressive symptoms seem associated with poorer QOL 6 months after cardiac surgery. Further examination of these associations and the mechanisms they reflect may provide a basis for guiding treatment decisions before and after coronary artery bypass graft surgery
The Perceived Ethnic Discrimination Questionnaire: Development and Preliminary Validation of a Community Version1
This paper describes 2 studies that evaluated a new instrument, the Perceived Ethnic Discrimination Questionnaire-Community Version (PEDQ-CV). The PEDQ-CV can be used across ethnic groups to assess perceived racism or ethnic discrimination. The scales measure several subdimensions of racism, permitting the examination of different forms of this race-related stressor. The first study evaluated the psychometric properties of the PEDQ-CV in a large …
Measures of Ethnicity‐Related Stress: Psychometric Properties, Ethnic Group Differences, and Associations With Well‐Being 1
This study introduces new measures of ethnicity‐related stress and a newly adapted measure of ethnic identity. Ethnicity‐related stressors assessed in this study were perceived discrimination, stereotype confirmation concern, and own‐group conformity pressure. Ethnic identity refers to the subjective sense of ethnic group membership and, following Luhtanen and Crocker (1992), was assessed as public regard, identity centrality, and private feeling…
Ethnicity-Related Sources of Stress and Their Effects on Well-Being
Early research on ethnicity focused on the stereotyped thinking, prejudiced attitudes, and discriminatory actions of Euro-Americans. Minority-group members were viewed largely as passive targets of these negative reactions, with low self-esteem studied as the main psychological outcome. By contrast, recent research has increasingly made explicit use of stress theory in emphasizing the perspectives and experiences of minority-group members. Severa…
Self, social identity, and physical health: Interdisciplinary Explorations
xxiv, 269 p. : ;24 cm
Self-regulation, health, and behavior: A perceptual-cognitive approach
Self-regulation systems are designed to adapt to threats via coping procedures that make efficient use of resources based upon valid representations of the environment. We discuss two components of the common-sense model of health threats: illness representations (e.g., content and organization) and coping procedures (e.g., classes of procedure and their attributes - outcome expectancies, time-lines, dose-efficacy beliefs, etc.). Characteristics …
Determinants of Perceived Health in Patients with Left Ventricular Dysfunction: A Structural Modeling Analysis
OBJECTIVE: Few studies have evaluated the determinants of perceived health in patients with chronic illness. The present study was designed to evaluate the role of biomedical, demographic, and psychosocial influences on global subjective health by means of a structural equation modeling approach. METHOD: A conceptual model of perceived health was tested in a subsample of patients (N = 146) from the multicenter Studies of Left Ventricular Dysfunct…
Alexithymia and repression: Contrasting emotion-focused coping styles
A number of conceptually similar emotion-focused coping styles have been related to physical well-being. We assessed the relationship between two of these constructs, alexithymia and repressive coping, on the basis of both psychometric and psychophysiological comparisons. Questionnaires were used to classify 86 healthy female subjects as low anxious, high anxious, or repressors. These subjects then completed a self-report measure of alexithymia a…
Repressive coping and verbal^autonomic response dissociation: The influence of social context
This study examined whether verbal-autonomic response dissociation in repressive copers is potentiated by conditions that enhance social evaluative concerns. Women classified as repressive, low-anxious, or high-anxious gave a self-disclosing speech in either a private condition (a single researcher observed) or a public condition (3 researchers ostensibly observed). Repressors exhibited heart rate elevations that were greater in magnitude than th…
Repressive coping and verbal-autonomic response dissociation: The influence of social context
Type A behavior, personality hardiness, and cardiovascular responses to stress
Type A behavior and hardiness were examined as predictors of cardiovascular responses to stress in 68 male undergraduates. Systolic and diastolic blood pressure (SBP and DBP) and heart rate were monitored while subjects performed a difficult mirror-tracing task. Type A assessments based on the Structured Interview, but not those based on the Jenkins Activity Survey, were associated with significantly enhanced SBP and DBP elevations. Hardiness was…
Comparative effects of two beta-blockers on cardiovascular reactivity and type A behavior in hypertensives
This study compared the effects of beta-blockers differing in degree of central nervous system penetration on Type A behavior and cardiovascular reactivity to mental stress. Forty-six male hypertensives were assigned randomly to receive either highly lipophilic and nonselective propranolol, hydrophilic and cardioselective atenolol, the diuretic hydrochlorothiazide, or placebo. Subjects were administered parallel forms of the Structured Interview …
Effects of beta-adrenergic stimulation and blockade on cardiovascular reactivity, affect, and type A behavior
The present study examined the acute effects of drugs that stimulate or block sympathetic nervous system activity on components of Type A behavior, affect, and cardiovascular responses to mental stressors. Either propranolol (a beta-adrenergic blocker), isoproterenol (a beta-agonist), or placebo was infused intravenously at different times in 12 healthy males. In two sessions, placebo (saline) was administered first, followed by a structured inte…
Task difficulty, cardiovascular response, and the magnitude of goal valence
Sixty-four young women expected to perform an easy, moderately difficult, or extremely difficult memory task with the opportunity to earn a small incentive for good performance. Cardiovascular (heart rate, systolic and diastolic blood pressure) and subjective measures were taken immediately prior to task performance. Both systolic blood pressure (SBP) responses and ratings of goal attractiveness were nonmonotonically related to expected task diff…
Dating Selectivity and Interpersonal Attraction: Toward a Better Understanding of the `Elusive Phenomenon
We suggest that individuals who are believed to be moderately selective in dating will be viewed as more desirable than individuals who are believed to be non-selective or extremely selective in dating. This reasoning is supported by the results of three experiments that demonstrate selectivity effects (1) using a procedure similar to that used in previous studies which have not yielded such effects, (2) for both male and female targets, and (3) …
The Perceived Ethnic Discrimination Questionnaire: Development and Preliminary Validation of a Community Version1
This paper describes 2 studies that evaluated a new instrument, the Perceived Ethnic Discrimination Questionnaire-Community Version (PEDQ-CV). The PEDQ-CV can be used across ethnic groups to assess perceived racism or ethnic discrimination. The scales measure several subdimensions of racism, permitting the examination of different forms of this race-related stressor. The first study evaluated the psychometric properties of the PEDQ-CV in a large …
Measures of Ethnicity‐Related Stress: Psychometric Properties, Ethnic Group Differences, and Associations With Well‐Being 1
This study introduces new measures of ethnicity‐related stress and a newly adapted measure of ethnic identity. Ethnicity‐related stressors assessed in this study were perceived discrimination, stereotype confirmation concern, and own‐group conformity pressure. Ethnic identity refers to the subjective sense of ethnic group membership and, following Luhtanen and Crocker (1992), was assessed as public regard, identity centrality, and private feeling…
Perceived Racism and Negative Affect: Analyses of Trait and State Measures of Affect in a Community Sample
Racism is a significant psychosocial stressor that is hypothesized to have negative psychological and physical health consequences. The Reserve Capacity Model (Gallo & Matthews, 2003) suggests that low socioeconomic status may influence health through its effects on negative affect. We extend this model to study the effects of racism, examining the association of lifetime perceived racism to trait and daily negative affect. A multiethnic sample o…
Looking Inside the Black Box of “Attendance at Services”: New Measures for Exploring an Old Dimension in Religion and Health Research
Research in religion and health has spurred new interest in measuring religiousness. Measurement efforts have focused on subjective facets of religiousness such as spirituality and beliefs, and less attention has been paid to congregate aspects, beyond the single item measuring attendance at services. We evaluate some new measures for religious experiences occurring during congregational worship services. Respondents (N=576) were religiously-dive…
Mending Broken Hearts: Marriage and Survival Following Cardiac Surgery
Marriage has long been linked to lower risk for adult mortality in population and clinical studies. In a regional sample of patients ( n = 569) undergoing cardiac surgery, we compared 5-year hazards of mortality for married persons with those of widowed, separated or divorced, and never married persons using data from medical records and psychosocial interviews. After adjusting for demographics and pre- and postsurgical health, unmarried persons …
Type A behavior, personality hardiness, and cardiovascular responses to stress
Type A behavior and hardiness were examined as predictors of cardiovascular responses to stress in 68 male undergraduates. Systolic and diastolic blood pressure (SBP and DBP) and heart rate were monitored while subjects performed a difficult mirror-tracing task. Type A assessments based on the Structured Interview, but not those based on the Jenkins Activity Survey, were associated with significantly enhanced SBP and DBP elevations. Hardiness was…
Pathways from exposure to racial/ethnic discrimination to depression: Testing a social-cognitive model
Dating Selectivity and Interpersonal Attraction: Toward a Better Understanding of the `Elusive Phenomenon
We suggest that individuals who are believed to be moderately selective in dating will be viewed as more desirable than individuals who are believed to be non-selective or extremely selective in dating. This reasoning is supported by the results of three experiments that demonstrate selectivity effects (1) using a procedure similar to that used in previous studies which have not yielded such effects, (2) for both male and female targets, and (3) …
Repressive coping and verbal-autonomic response dissociation: The influence of social context
Gender stereotypes and parental status: A comparison of fathers, mothers, and the childless-by-choice
Repressive coping and verbal^autonomic response dissociation: The influence of social context
This study examined whether verbal-autonomic response dissociation in repressive copers is potentiated by conditions that enhance social evaluative concerns. Women classified as repressive, low-anxious, or high-anxious gave a self-disclosing speech in either a private condition (a single researcher observed) or a public condition (3 researchers ostensibly observed). Repressors exhibited heart rate elevations that were greater in magnitude than th…
Task difficulty, cardiovascular response, and the magnitude of goal valence
Sixty-four young women expected to perform an easy, moderately difficult, or extremely difficult memory task with the opportunity to earn a small incentive for good performance. Cardiovascular (heart rate, systolic and diastolic blood pressure) and subjective measures were taken immediately prior to task performance. Both systolic blood pressure (SBP) responses and ratings of goal attractiveness were nonmonotonically related to expected task diff…
Psychophysiologic correlates of Type A behavior: Comments on Houston (1983) and Holmes (1983)
Task difficulty, cardiovascular response, and the magnitude of goal valence
Sixty-four young women expected to perform an easy, moderately difficult, or extremely difficult memory task with the opportunity to earn a small incentive for good performance. Cardiovascular (heart rate, systolic and diastolic blood pressure) and subjective measures were taken immediately prior to task performance. Both systolic blood pressure (SBP) responses and ratings of goal attractiveness were nonmonotonically related to expected task diff…
Dating Selectivity and Interpersonal Attraction: Toward a Better Understanding of the `Elusive Phenomenon
We suggest that individuals who are believed to be moderately selective in dating will be viewed as more desirable than individuals who are believed to be non-selective or extremely selective in dating. This reasoning is supported by the results of three experiments that demonstrate selectivity effects (1) using a procedure similar to that used in previous studies which have not yielded such effects, (2) for both male and female targets, and (3) …
Effects of beta-adrenergic stimulation and blockade on cardiovascular reactivity, affect, and type A behavior
The present study examined the acute effects of drugs that stimulate or block sympathetic nervous system activity on components of Type A behavior, affect, and cardiovascular responses to mental stressors. Either propranolol (a beta-adrenergic blocker), isoproterenol (a beta-agonist), or placebo was infused intravenously at different times in 12 healthy males. In two sessions, placebo (saline) was administered first, followed by a structured inte…
Comparative effects of two beta-blockers on cardiovascular reactivity and type A behavior in hypertensives
This study compared the effects of beta-blockers differing in degree of central nervous system penetration on Type A behavior and cardiovascular reactivity to mental stress. Forty-six male hypertensives were assigned randomly to receive either highly lipophilic and nonselective propranolol, hydrophilic and cardioselective atenolol, the diuretic hydrochlorothiazide, or placebo. Subjects were administered parallel forms of the Structured Interview …
Type A behavior, personality hardiness, and cardiovascular responses to stress
Type A behavior and hardiness were examined as predictors of cardiovascular responses to stress in 68 male undergraduates. Systolic and diastolic blood pressure (SBP and DBP) and heart rate were monitored while subjects performed a difficult mirror-tracing task. Type A assessments based on the Structured Interview, but not those based on the Jenkins Activity Survey, were associated with significantly enhanced SBP and DBP elevations. Hardiness was…
Repressive coping and verbal^autonomic response dissociation: The influence of social context
This study examined whether verbal-autonomic response dissociation in repressive copers is potentiated by conditions that enhance social evaluative concerns. Women classified as repressive, low-anxious, or high-anxious gave a self-disclosing speech in either a private condition (a single researcher observed) or a public condition (3 researchers ostensibly observed). Repressors exhibited heart rate elevations that were greater in magnitude than th…
Repressive coping and verbal-autonomic response dissociation: The influence of social context
Alexithymia and repression: Contrasting emotion-focused coping styles
A number of conceptually similar emotion-focused coping styles have been related to physical well-being. We assessed the relationship between two of these constructs, alexithymia and repressive coping, on the basis of both psychometric and psychophysiological comparisons. Questionnaires were used to classify 86 healthy female subjects as low anxious, high anxious, or repressors. These subjects then completed a self-report measure of alexithymia a…
Determinants of Perceived Health in Patients with Left Ventricular Dysfunction: A Structural Modeling Analysis
OBJECTIVE: Few studies have evaluated the determinants of perceived health in patients with chronic illness. The present study was designed to evaluate the role of biomedical, demographic, and psychosocial influences on global subjective health by means of a structural equation modeling approach. METHOD: A conceptual model of perceived health was tested in a subsample of patients (N = 146) from the multicenter Studies of Left Ventricular Dysfunct…
Self-regulation, health, and behavior: A perceptual-cognitive approach
Self-regulation systems are designed to adapt to threats via coping procedures that make efficient use of resources based upon valid representations of the environment. We discuss two components of the common-sense model of health threats: illness representations (e.g., content and organization) and coping procedures (e.g., classes of procedure and their attributes - outcome expectancies, time-lines, dose-efficacy beliefs, etc.). Characteristics …
Self, social identity, and physical health: Interdisciplinary Explorations
xxiv, 269 p. : ;24 cm
Ethnicity-Related Sources of Stress and Their Effects on Well-Being
Early research on ethnicity focused on the stereotyped thinking, prejudiced attitudes, and discriminatory actions of Euro-Americans. Minority-group members were viewed largely as passive targets of these negative reactions, with low self-esteem studied as the main psychological outcome. By contrast, recent research has increasingly made explicit use of stress theory in emphasizing the perspectives and experiences of minority-group members. Severa…
Measures of Ethnicity‐Related Stress: Psychometric Properties, Ethnic Group Differences, and Associations With Well‐Being 1
This study introduces new measures of ethnicity‐related stress and a newly adapted measure of ethnic identity. Ethnicity‐related stressors assessed in this study were perceived discrimination, stereotype confirmation concern, and own‐group conformity pressure. Ethnic identity refers to the subjective sense of ethnic group membership and, following Luhtanen and Crocker (1992), was assessed as public regard, identity centrality, and private feeling…
Quality of Life Following Cardiac Surgery: Impact of the Severity and Course of Depressive Symptoms
Both preoperative depressive symptoms and postoperative increases in depressive symptoms seem associated with poorer QOL 6 months after cardiac surgery. Further examination of these associations and the mechanisms they reflect may provide a basis for guiding treatment decisions before and after coronary artery bypass graft surgery
The Perceived Ethnic Discrimination Questionnaire: Development and Preliminary Validation of a Community Version1
This paper describes 2 studies that evaluated a new instrument, the Perceived Ethnic Discrimination Questionnaire-Community Version (PEDQ-CV). The PEDQ-CV can be used across ethnic groups to assess perceived racism or ethnic discrimination. The scales measure several subdimensions of racism, permitting the examination of different forms of this race-related stressor. The first study evaluated the psychometric properties of the PEDQ-CV in a large …
Course of Depressive Symptoms in Patients Undergoing Heart Surgery: Confirmatory Analysis of the Factor Pattern and Latent Mean Structure of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale
Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the dimensionality, stability, and course of depressive symptoms over the 12-month period beginning approximately 1 week before heart surgery. Methods: The Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) was administered to 570 patients before heart surgery and 1, 3.5, 6.5, and 12.5 months later. Results: Confirmatory factor analysis rejected a four-factor model as a result of small …
Perceived Racism and Negative Affect: Analyses of Trait and State Measures of Affect in a Community Sample
Racism is a significant psychosocial stressor that is hypothesized to have negative psychological and physical health consequences. The Reserve Capacity Model (Gallo & Matthews, 2003) suggests that low socioeconomic status may influence health through its effects on negative affect. We extend this model to study the effects of racism, examining the association of lifetime perceived racism to trait and daily negative affect. A multiethnic sample o…
Coping with racism: A selective review of the literature and a theoretical and methodological critique
Measurement invariance of the Mini Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire across African–American and Latino adult asthma patients
Looking Inside the Black Box of “Attendance at Services”: New Measures for Exploring an Old Dimension in Religion and Health Research
Research in religion and health has spurred new interest in measuring religiousness. Measurement efforts have focused on subjective facets of religiousness such as spirituality and beliefs, and less attention has been paid to congregate aspects, beyond the single item measuring attendance at services. We evaluate some new measures for religious experiences occurring during congregational worship services. Respondents (N=576) were religiously-dive…
The handbook of stress science: Biology, Psychology, and Health
Mending Broken Hearts: Marriage and Survival Following Cardiac Surgery
Marriage has long been linked to lower risk for adult mortality in population and clinical studies. In a regional sample of patients ( n = 569) undergoing cardiac surgery, we compared 5-year hazards of mortality for married persons with those of widowed, separated or divorced, and never married persons using data from medical records and psychosocial interviews. After adjusting for demographics and pre- and postsurgical health, unmarried persons …
Gender stereotypes and parental status: A comparison of fathers, mothers, and the childless-by-choice
Pathways from exposure to racial/ethnic discrimination to depression: Testing a social-cognitive model
Psychology (23 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Developmental psychology (13 works) · Clinical Psychology (12 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (7 works) · Sociology (6 works)