Jennifer S Cheavens
Biographic Data
| ID | 4266008 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer S Cheavens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer S |
| FAMILY NAME | Cheavens |
| SIGNATURE | CHEAVENS J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3778-9346 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Early and slow weight loss responders’ perceptions of an adaptive diabetes prevention trial
Objective: Behavioural weight loss interventions demonstrate success on average, yet participants who respond more slowly may benefit from an augmented, tailored approach. Thus, an augmented intervention for early, slow weight loss responders was implemented. This qualitative analysis explored participants' perceptions of and experiences of the 12-month weight loss programme to inform future intervention development and implementation. Design: In…
Culturally compelled coping and depressive symptoms in Black Americans
Given the culture of racism in the United States, Black Americans are often required to use culturally compelled coping (CCC) styles, such as emotional and behavioral restraint and vigilance. Although CCC is adaptive in the face of pervasive racialized stress, it may still negatively impact mental health outcomes, like depression. Studies have found that Black Americans exhibit higher resting heart rate variability (HRV)-a trait-level biomarker o…
Sex Differences in Early Weight Loss Success During a Diabetes Prevention Intervention
Objectives: Males often lose more weight than females during treatment, and early weight loss predicts weight loss longer-term. Yet, mechanisms for sex differences in early weight loss are unknown and were examined in this study. Methods: Adults≥21 years old with overweight or obesity and prediabetes (N=206) participated in a lifestyle intervention and completed baseline psychosocial questionnaires. Percent weight loss, session attendance, and nu…
The Science and Application of Positive Psychology
Positive psychology tackles the big questions: What does it mean to live a 'good life'? What helps people to flourish and access their optimal potential? And how can we increase our capacities for joy, meaning, and hope? This engaging textbook emphasizes the science of positive psychology - students don't simply learn about positive psychology in the abstract, but instead are exposed to the fascinating research that supports its conclusions.Bridg…
Gratitude Interventions
Science and Application of Positive Psychology
More (of the right strategies) is better
Although people often use multiple strategies to regulate their emotions, it is unclear if using more strategies effectively changes emotional outcomes. This may be because there is no clear, data-driven structure to organise which strategies people use together, so strategies with opposing impacts are modelled together. We first conducted a multilevel factor analysis of negative- and positive-emotion regulation strategies among undergraduates (n…
Back to basics
Emotion regulation research links regulatory responding to important outcomes in psychological well-being, physical health, and interpersonal relations, but several fundamental questions remain. As much of the previous research has addressed generalized regulatory habits, far less is known about the ways in which individuals respond to emotions in daily life. The literature is particularly sparse in explorations of positive emotion regulation. In…
Heightened sensitivity to facial expressions of emotion in borderline personality disorder
Individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) have been hypothesized to exhibit significant problems associated with emotional sensitivity. The current study examined emotional sensitivity (i.e., low threshold for recognition of emotional stimuli) in BPD by comparing 20 individuals with BPD and 20 normal controls on their accuracy in identifying emotional expressions. Results demonstrated that, as facial expressions morphed from neutral …
Hope Therapy in a Community Sample
Hope and academic success in college.
A cognitive, motivational theory is introduced to the educational research community. Hope theory integrates the conceptualization of goals, along with the strategies to achieve those goals (pathways), and the motivation to pursue those goals (agency). In a 6-year longitudinal study, individual differences in hope, as measured by the Hope Scale (C. R. Snyder et al., 1991) scores of entering college freshmen, predicted better overall grade point a…
Hope
The authors suggest that people of all ages are goal oriented and that 2 related thought processes typically accompany this goal-related thinking. First, there are pathway thoughts, which tap the perceived capability to generate 1 or more workable routes to desired goals. Second, there are agentic thoughts, which reflect the perception that one can initiate and sustain movement toward a goal along the given pathways. Together, pathway and agentic…
Chemical Sensitivity/Chemical Injury and Life Disruption
This paper describes life disruption associated with chemical sensitivity using data collected in an ongoing study of 305 persons (80.3% female) self-identified as having environmental illness (EI), multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), or chemical injury (CI). Having MCS was associated with reported difficulty in work, finances, quality of available medical services, access to public space and resources, relationships, and with considerable perso…
Hope Therapy in a Community Sample
Chemical Sensitivity/Chemical Injury and Life Disruption
This paper describes life disruption associated with chemical sensitivity using data collected in an ongoing study of 305 persons (80.3% female) self-identified as having environmental illness (EI), multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), or chemical injury (CI). Having MCS was associated with reported difficulty in work, finances, quality of available medical services, access to public space and resources, relationships, and with considerable perso…
Chemical Sensitivity/Chemical Injury and Life Disruption
This paper describes life disruption associated with chemical sensitivity using data collected in an ongoing study of 305 persons (80.3% female) self-identified as having environmental illness (EI), multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), or chemical injury (CI). Having MCS was associated with reported difficulty in work, finances, quality of available medical services, access to public space and resources, relationships, and with considerable perso…
Hope
The authors suggest that people of all ages are goal oriented and that 2 related thought processes typically accompany this goal-related thinking. First, there are pathway thoughts, which tap the perceived capability to generate 1 or more workable routes to desired goals. Second, there are agentic thoughts, which reflect the perception that one can initiate and sustain movement toward a goal along the given pathways. Together, pathway and agentic…
Hope and academic success in college.
A cognitive, motivational theory is introduced to the educational research community. Hope theory integrates the conceptualization of goals, along with the strategies to achieve those goals (pathways), and the motivation to pursue those goals (agency). In a 6-year longitudinal study, individual differences in hope, as measured by the Hope Scale (C. R. Snyder et al., 1991) scores of entering college freshmen, predicted better overall grade point a…
Heightened sensitivity to facial expressions of emotion in borderline personality disorder
Individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) have been hypothesized to exhibit significant problems associated with emotional sensitivity. The current study examined emotional sensitivity (i.e., low threshold for recognition of emotional stimuli) in BPD by comparing 20 individuals with BPD and 20 normal controls on their accuracy in identifying emotional expressions. Results demonstrated that, as facial expressions morphed from neutral …
Hope Therapy in a Community Sample
Back to basics
Emotion regulation research links regulatory responding to important outcomes in psychological well-being, physical health, and interpersonal relations, but several fundamental questions remain. As much of the previous research has addressed generalized regulatory habits, far less is known about the ways in which individuals respond to emotions in daily life. The literature is particularly sparse in explorations of positive emotion regulation. In…
More (of the right strategies) is better
Although people often use multiple strategies to regulate their emotions, it is unclear if using more strategies effectively changes emotional outcomes. This may be because there is no clear, data-driven structure to organise which strategies people use together, so strategies with opposing impacts are modelled together. We first conducted a multilevel factor analysis of negative- and positive-emotion regulation strategies among undergraduates (n…
The Science and Application of Positive Psychology
Positive psychology tackles the big questions: What does it mean to live a 'good life'? What helps people to flourish and access their optimal potential? And how can we increase our capacities for joy, meaning, and hope? This engaging textbook emphasizes the science of positive psychology - students don't simply learn about positive psychology in the abstract, but instead are exposed to the fascinating research that supports its conclusions.Bridg…
Gratitude Interventions
Science and Application of Positive Psychology
Early and slow weight loss responders’ perceptions of an adaptive diabetes prevention trial
Objective: Behavioural weight loss interventions demonstrate success on average, yet participants who respond more slowly may benefit from an augmented, tailored approach. Thus, an augmented intervention for early, slow weight loss responders was implemented. This qualitative analysis explored participants' perceptions of and experiences of the 12-month weight loss programme to inform future intervention development and implementation. Design: In…
Culturally compelled coping and depressive symptoms in Black Americans
Given the culture of racism in the United States, Black Americans are often required to use culturally compelled coping (CCC) styles, such as emotional and behavioral restraint and vigilance. Although CCC is adaptive in the face of pervasive racialized stress, it may still negatively impact mental health outcomes, like depression. Studies have found that Black Americans exhibit higher resting heart rate variability (HRV)-a trait-level biomarker o…
Sex Differences in Early Weight Loss Success During a Diabetes Prevention Intervention
Objectives: Males often lose more weight than females during treatment, and early weight loss predicts weight loss longer-term. Yet, mechanisms for sex differences in early weight loss are unknown and were examined in this study. Methods: Adults≥21 years old with overweight or obesity and prediabetes (N=206) participated in a lifestyle intervention and completed baseline psychosocial questionnaires. Percent weight loss, session attendance, and nu…
Psychology (12 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (4 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (3 works) · Cognition (3 works)