Jennifer L Gordon

Biographic Data

ID4889176
NAMEJennifer L Gordon
GIVEN NAMESJennifer L
FAMILY NAMEGordon
SIGNATUREGORDON J L
AFFILIATIONSUniversité du Québec à Montréal
ORCID0000-0001-6401-6827
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS118
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1993
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Social Norms and Supportive Communication in Infertility

    Maija J Kiviharju, Sarah K Gulash et al.ARTICLEWomen s Health Issues2026

    PURPOSE: Infertility is an increasingly common women's health concern with well-documented mental health consequences, yet little research has examined how public communication and stigma shape the social support available to women experiencing fertility challenges. Supportive communication is a critical component of social support and may mitigate infertility-related distress, whereas stigmatizing attitudes and misconceptions may contribute to h…

  • Exploring 2SLGBTQIA+ Couples’ Experiences of Third-Party Reproduction

    Open AccessSonia Stanger, Ashley A Balsom et al.ARTICLEArchives of Sexual Behavior2025References: 32

  • Health psychology and behavioral medicine researchers in Canada

    Open AccessKharah M Ro, Ryan Hoggan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Psychology2023References: 11

    The purpose of this study is to characterize contemporary Canadian health psychology through an environmental scan by identifying faculty, research productivity and strengths, and collaborator interconnectivity. Profiles at Canadian universities were reviewed for faculty with psychology doctorates and health psychology research programs. Publications were obtained through Google Scholar and PubMed (Jan/18-Mar/21). A total of 284 faculty were iden…

  • Positive and Negative Affect Is Related to Experiencing Chest Pain During Exercise-Induced Myocardial Ischemia

    Philippe Stébenne, Simon L Bacon et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2017

    OBJECTIVE: Silent myocardial ischemia is thought to be associated with worse cardiovascular outcomes due to a lack of perception of pain cues that initiate treatment seeking. Negative affect (NA) has been associated with increased pain reporting and positive affect (PA) with decreased pain reporting, but these psychological factors have not been examined within the context of myocardial ischemia. This study evaluated the associations between PA, …

  • The Role of Chronic Psychosocial Stress in Explaining Racial Differences in Stress Reactivity and Pain Sensitivity

    Jennifer L Gordon, Jacqueline Johnson et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2017

    OBJECTIVE: To examine the role of psychosocial factors in mediating the relationship between African American (AA) race and both increased pain sensitivity and blunted stress reactivity. METHODS: Participants included 133 AA and non-Hispanic white (nHW) individuals (mean [SD] age, 37 [9]) matched for age, sex, and socioeconomic status. Participants underwent mental stress testing (Trier Social Stress Test) while cardiovascular, hemodynamic, and n…

  • The Role of Mood Disorders in Exercise-Induced Cardiovascular Reactivity

    Roxanne Pelletier, Kim L Lavoie et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2009

    Objective: Increased cardiovascular (CV) reactivity has been associated with worse CV prognosis. Though mood disorders (MDs) have been associated with increased CV reactivity during behavioral stressors, the extent to which MDs and their interaction with coronary heart disease (CHD) influences exercise-induced CV reactivity has not been evaluated. Methods: Five hundred twenty-six patients underwent nuclear exercise stress testing. Cardiovascular …

  • Sports Involvement as Protection against Depressed Mood

    Open AccessSusan Gore, Florence Farrell et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research on Adolescence2001Cited by: 10

    Working within a risk and protection framework, this research brief examines the protective inà uence of team sports involvement on adolescent depressed mood. The objective was to understand whether sports involvement positively contributes to mental health independent of the effects of other known protective factors (parental and peer support); and whether it moderates the depressive effects of family, peer, and school‐based risk factors. Analys…

  • Life Stress, Anger and Anxiety, and Delinquency

    Robert H Aseltine, Susan Gore et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health and Social…2000Cited by: 108

    General strain theory (Agnew 1992) departs from traditional strain theories by emphasizing the role of the individual's affective responses to negative life experiences in fostering deviant behavior. In this analysis, we examine the central hypotheses of general strain theory using data from a three-wave panel study of high school youths in the Boston metropolitan area (N = 939). Covariance structure models reveal that anger and hostility in resp…

  • Blood Donor Motivation

    Open AccessRobert Oswalt, Jennifer Gordon et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1993

    Ninety-five percent of all blood donors are Caucasian. To investigate why minorities are under-represented as blood donors, a random sample of 120 minority college students were surveyed about attitudes and behavior regarding blood donations. This sample of minority students had donated blood at the same rate (33%) and for the same positive motivation (altruism) and negative motivations (for those who did not donate—fear, medical excuses, didn't …