Lucía Masa Rodríguez

Biographic Data

ID410339
NAMELucía Masa Rodríguez
GIVEN NAMESLucía Masa
FAMILY NAMERodríguez
SIGNATURERODRÍGUEZ L M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of South Florida St. Petersburg
ORCID0000-0001-7594-3546
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS37
TOTAL CITATIONS26
AUTHOR COUNT37
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4

  • Drinking to belong: How loneliness fuels alcohol-related consequences

    Lucía Masa Rodríguez, Yali Philipson et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Social Psychology2026

    Young adults comprise the group with the highest prevalence of both loneliness and alcohol use, underscoring the importance of developing a deeper insight into this population. Guided by the need to belong and the motivational model of alcohol use, this research evaluates whether students experience alcohol-related problems (e.g. hangovers, missing school or work) in response to a perceived lack of social connection. Specifically, we explore how …

  • Prospective impacts of co-rumination on depression, anxiety, and relationship satisfaction within adult romantic couples

    Trillium Whitewolf, Simon B Sherry et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social and Clinical…2025

    Introduction: Co-rumination can significantly affect well-being yet remains understudied in adult romantic relationships. We aimed to examine how corumination in adult couples impacts two forms of emotional distress (anxiety and depression) and relationship satisfaction over a 15-20 week follow-up. We also investigated whether effects persisted when controlling important covariates (e.g., emotional stability) and explored gender differences. Meth…

  • Other-Oriented Perfectionism Predicts Physical Intimate Partner Violence in Romantic Couples: A Brief Report on a Longitudinal Actor-Partner Interdependence Model1

    Open AccessTrillium Whitewolf, Martin M Smith et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family Violence2025

  • Masculine and feminine orientations on emotions and alcohol use in response to romantic conflict

    Open AccessLucía Masa Rodríguez, Jennifer Leckey et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social and Personal…2025References: 47

    This research examines associations of gender role (i.e., masculine and feminine) orientations with drinking alcohol shortly after a recent significant romantic relationship conflict, and whether experiencing specific emotions in response to the conflict has indirect effects on gender role orientation effects on drinking. Participants included 410 American and Canadian adults (59% female) in committed romantic relationships who consumed alcohol r…

  • Listen to the parents: Homeschooling and positive psychology

    Open AccessOz Guterman, Lucía Masa RodríguezARTICLEEuropean Journal of Education2024

    The scope of homeschooling has increased significantly in recent years in several western countries. Studies of the subject have shed light on the perspective of parents who choose to homeschool–reasons for the choice, educational goals and actual results– from their point of view. The research literature also teaches us about the perspectives of kids and adolescents who were raised in homeschooling regarding the same questions. Understanding the…

  • Differential Treatment Response of Proactive and Reactive Partner Abusive Men: Results from a Laboratory Proximal Change Experiment

    Open AccessJulia C Babcock, Julia Babcock et al.ARTICLEPsychosocial Intervention2024

    Objective: The current study reexamines data from Babcock et al. (2011) proximal change experiment to discern the differential utility of two communication skills-based interventions for proactive and reactive partner violence offenders. Method: Partner violent men were randomly assigned to the Editing Out the Negative skill, the Accepting Influence skill, or to a placebo/timeout and reengaged in a conflict discussion with their partners. Proacti…

  • Drinking to Cope Mediates the Association between Dyadic Conflict and Drinking Behavior: A Study of Romantic Couples during the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Open AccessAmanda E F Hagen, Lucía Masa Rodríguez et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2023

    The COVID-19 pandemic spurred public health measures to reduce viral spread. Concurrently, increases in alcohol consumption and conflict in romantic partnerships were observed. Pre-pandemic research demonstrated a bidirectional association between couples' conflict and drinking. Recent research shows one's drinking motives (proximal predictors of drinking behavior) can influence another person's drinking in close relationships. It is possible tha…

  • A Dyadic Examination of Interpersonal Electronic Surveillance

    Open AccessD Litt, Lucía Masa RodríguezARTICLECyberpsychology Behavior and…2022

    Interpersonal electronic surveillance (IES) refers to monitoring a partner's location, conversations, and other private information such as search history. Although IES has been linked to relationship functioning, this work does not take into account the dyadic nature of relationships using data from both members of a dating pair. Thus, this study aimed to document rates and concordance of IES perpetration among a college sample of dating pairs, …

  • Depressive Symptoms and Conflict Behaviors: A Test of the Stress Generation Hypothesis in Romantic Couples During the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Andy J Kim, Martin M Smith et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social and Clinical…2022

    Introduction: In early 2020, North American jurisdictions required households (e.g., romantic couples) to isolate together to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19. This study provides a first look at the interplay of depressive symptoms and conflict behaviors among isolating couples, including tests of predictions of the stress generation hypothesis. Methods: Mixed-gender couples residing in Canada (N = 711) completed online measures across two w…

  • Drinking motives, cultural orientations, and alcohol use among Hispanic college students at the U.S.–Mexico border

    P Priscilla Lui, Byron L Zamboanga et al.ARTICLEJournal of Ethnicity in Substance…2022

    Hispanic college students at the U.S.-Mexico border are at higher risk for alcohol use and negative drinking consequences relative to their counterparts in non-border areas. Hispanic students at the U.S.-Mexico border ( N = 219, M age = 20.14; 71.2% women) completed an online survey. U.S. orientation was negatively associated with alcohol consumption. Enhancement motives predicted alcohol consumption, whereas coping and conformity motives predict…

  • Accuracy and Bias in Perceptions of why Social Network Members Drink: A Truth and Bias Approach to Drinking Motive (mis)perception

    Open AccessSara Bartel, Simon B Sherry et al.ARTICLEEmerging Adulthood2022

    Perceived drinking motives of social network members appear to influence emerging adults’ alcohol use indirectly through their own drinking motives. Ascertaining the accuracy of motive perceptions can determine the relevance of social norm interventions for drinking motives and the utility of egocentric versus direct-reporting social network designs. As part of a larger study, 60 emerging adults (70% female; mean age = 21.57) reported cross-secti…

  • A Dyadic Investigation of Perceptions of Romantic Partners’ Problematic Alcohol Use

    Open AccessM A Rossi, Lucas Clow et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Mental…2022

  • The Feasibility of a Novel Recruitment Protocol for Collecting Survivor Data via Disclosure Recipient Referrals

    Open AccessSarah E Ullman, Emily A Waterman et al.ARTICLEViolence Against Women2022References: 1

    The current arricle describes a novel recruitment protocol for collecting data from sexual assault and intimate partner violence survivors referred to research studies by individuals to whom they had previously disclosed. Challenges in both recruiting participants and interpreting data are described. Only 35.8% of cases had usable data for both survivors and disclosure recipients, suggesting that this referral method had limited success in recrui…

  • Jealousy and Electronic Intrusion Mediated by Relationship Uncertainty in Married and Cohabiting Couples During Covid-19

    Open AccessKaitlyn Ligman, Lucía Masa Rodríguez et al.ARTICLECyberpsychology Behavior and…2021

    The COVID-19 pandemic poses unique threats to romantic relationships as couples were issued to stay at home by a mandatory order, limiting social interactions with others. Although technology allows for social interactions, the privacy of interactions through technology may be compromised. Electronic intrusion (EI) occurs when individuals covertly gain access of their partner's mobile device to go through content (e.g., text messages, private mes…

  • Examining Associations Between Social Networking Site Alcohol-Specific Social Norms, Posting Behavior, and Drinking to Cope During the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Open AccessD Litt, Lucía Masa Rodríguez et al.ARTICLECyberpsychology Behavior and…2021

    Emerging research suggests that there may be important links between social networking site (SNS) use and alcohol consumption specific to COVID-19. In addition, substantial research indicates that descriptive normative perceptions are a strong predictor of drinking behavior more generally. However, less is known about SNS-specific norms and how they might be associated with health-related behavior. Thus, the primary goal of this study was to dete…

  • Sexual objectification as a predictor of sexual risk tolerance

    Hunter Drake, Tiffany Chenneville et al.ARTICLEJournal of Gay & Lesbian Social…2021Cited by: 1References: 8

    HIV rates among men who have sex with men (MSM) in the US remain high. While risk is being redefined in the age of treatment as prevention, research is needed to better understand sexual behavior among MSM. Sexual objectification is implicated in risky behavior, but research involving MSM is limited. This study examined the role of sexual objectification on risk tolerance after controlling for HIV-related stigma. Results revealed sexual objectifi…

  • Exploring the association between anticipated and actual responses to disclosures of intimate partner violence and sexual assault

    Open AccessEmily A Waterman, Emily R Dworkin et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social and Personal…2021References: 44

    Victims of intimate partner violence (IPV) and sexual assault (SA) commonly disclose their experiences to friends or family members, or within other personal relationships. Disclosure recipients’ responses to these disclosures are associated with victims’ mental health. Previous research has separately measured both actual responses to IPV/SA and anticipated responses to IPV/SA (e.g., response to a hypothetical scenario) from the perspective of d…

  • Homeschooling during Covid-19: Gender Differences in Work-Family Conflict and Alcohol Use Behaviour among Romantic Couples

    Open AccessDanika I Desroches, Hélène Deacon et al.ARTICLESocial Sciences2021Cited by: 4References: 47

    Homeschooling due to COVID-19 school closures is likely to increase conflict between work and family demands, potentially leading to adverse substance-use effects. We conducted a survey with 758 couples focusing on homeschooling, work-family conflict, and alcohol use (April 2020). The 211 homeschooling couples reported more work-family conflict than the 547 non-homeschooling couples; there also were stronger effects on family interference with wo…

  • The Attachment Dynamic: Dyadic Patterns of Anxiety and Avoidance in Relationship Functioning

    Open AccessLucía Masa Rodríguez, Anthony E Coy et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social and Personal…2021Cited by: 2References: 47

    Whereas attachment dimensions (i.e., anxiety and avoidance) are generally associated with lower levels of relationship evaluations (e.g., satisfaction, commitment), research has not yet fully incorporated how partner attachment is related to these evaluations, nor how dyadic patterns (actor × partner attachment interactions) are associated with evaluations. Across two dyadic studies ( N = 185, 123 dyads), we examine how actor, partner, and actor …

  • Machine learning uncovers the most robust self-report predictors of relationship quality across 43 longitudinal couples studies

    Open AccessSamantha Joel, Paul W Eastwick et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2020

    Significance What predicts how happy people are with their romantic relationships? Relationship science—an interdisciplinary field spanning psychology, sociology, economics, family studies, and communication—has identified hundreds of variables that purportedly shape romantic relationship quality. The current project used machine learning to directly quantify and compare the predictive power of many such variables among 11,196 romantic couples. P…

  • Drinking to cope with the pandemic: The unique associations of Covid-19-related perceived threat and psychological distress to drinking behaviors in American men and women

    Open AccessLucía Masa Rodríguez, Lindsey M Rodríguez et al.ARTICLEAddictive Behaviors2020

  • Effects of a brief interpersonal conflict cognitive reappraisal intervention on improvements in access to emotion regulation strategies and depressive symptoms in college students

    Lucía Masa Rodríguez, Katherine D M Lee et al.ARTICLEPsychology & Health2020

    Objective: Research has demonstrated relative success with brief interventions that utilize social psychological theory to target the root cause of unwanted behaviours. Given the intersections among anxious attachment, depression, and emotion dysregulation, the current research utilises an interpersonal conflict cognitive reappraisal intervention to evaluate improvements in depressive symptoms. We also evaluated mediation via improvements in emot…

  • Reflections on a registered report replicating a body of dyadic cross‐sectional research

    Open AccessZachary G Baker, Ersie‐anastasia Gentzis et al.ARTICLEPersonal Relationships2020

    This article reflects on a new kind of registered report (RR) that replicated the work of an early career researcher. The research items targeted in this RR were peer‐reviewed, cross‐sectional, dyadic studies to which the first author of this RR had contributed. The findings being replicated are not noteworthy for their prestige or representativeness of the wider field. Instead, this method of replication may have several benefits and less desira…

  • A program to improve social reactions to sexual and dating violence disclosures reduces posttraumatic stress in subsequently victimized participants

    Open AccessKate M Edwards, Emily A Waterman et al.ARTICLEPsychological Trauma Theory…2020

    Objective: Research consistently documents the high rates and deleterious outcomes of dating and sexual violence (DSV) among college students. Thus, there is an urgency to identify cost-effective interventions that can mitigate the negative outcomes associated with these forms of violence. The purpose of the current study was to conduct secondary analyses to assess whether a two-session, face-to-face social support intervention (i.e., Supporting …

  • A dyadic approach to attachment anxiety and avoidance, marital conflict, and drinking

    Open AccessLucía Masa Rodríguez, Becky K Gius et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social and Personal…2020Cited by: 1References: 63

    In this research, we integrate attachment theory and dyadic methodology to examine how attachment anxiety and avoidance might interact with marital conflict to influence alcohol consumption, drinking motives, and alcohol-related problems in a sample of 280 married and cohabiting couples over 3 years. Both husband and wife attachment anxiety were related to higher levels of own drinking to cope and alcohol-related problems. Additionally, both husb…