Mary B Short

Biographic Data

ID5418064
NAMEMary B Short
GIVEN NAMESMary B
FAMILY NAMEShort
SIGNATURESHORT M B
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Houston - Clear Lake
ORCID0000-0001-7018-5766
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS6
WORKS AS AUTHOR12
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Parental Accommodations as a Predictor of Child Psychological Outcomes Following a Hurricane

    Open AccessShivani Bathla, Mary B Short et al.ARTICLEThe Family Journal2025

    Natural disasters have a lasting impact on the mental health of the children. The effects on children's mental health included posttraumatic stress symptoms, behavioral problems (e.g., disruptive behaviors), depression, and anxiety. Overall, parents have been an important factor in the lasting effects of natural disasters on children's mental health. Although most research has examined overall parental mental health outcomes on childhood outcomes…

  • Too Much of a Good Thing? Associations among Parenting Profiles and Helicopter Parenting

    Open AccessKarina A Turner, Sara R Elkins et al.ARTICLEThe Family Journal2023

    Helicopter parenting is defined by popular culture as a set of parenting practices characterized by overinvolvement. However, empirical research has not adequately defined the construct, and it is unclear how helicopter parenting may relate to existing parenting behaviors and parenting styles. Participants included 341 caregivers from across the United States who completed a survey about their parenting beliefs and behaviors. Latent class analysi…

  • Spontaneous and instructed emotion regulation in dysphoria

    Open AccessJessica Balderas, Steven L Bistricky et al.ARTICLECurrent Psychology2023

  • Parental Influence on Child Mental Health Post-Hurricane Harvey

    Open AccessMary B Short, Savannah Kaye et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child & Adolescent…2023

    Broader systems-level interventions that address parents' physical and emotional needs may help mitigate maladaptive reactions in children and facilitate greater post-disaster psychosocial adjustment

  • Brief Online Intervention Model Promotes Sustained Helping Behavior Across 6 Months Following a Population-Wide Traumatic Event

    Open AccessJessica Balderas, Steven L Bistricky et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports2023

    Results suggest a potentially useful model of how an efficiently distributed intervention might sustain helping behaviors after a natural disaster and provide insight into possible longitudinal risk and protective factors for post-traumatic stress and depressive symptoms among helping volunteers

  • Predictors of Parental Accommodations in the Aftermath of Hurricane Harvey

    Open AccessSara R Elkins, Behnaz Darban et al.ARTICLEChild & Youth Care Forum2022

  • Helicopter Parenting Style and Parental Accommodations

    Open AccessLaurel M Casillas, Sara R Elkins et al.ARTICLEThe Family Journal2021

    High parental involvement has been linked to positive outcomes; however, helicopter parenting may result in negative outcomes. The behaviors demonstrated by “helicopter parents” resemble parental accommodations, which are behavior modifications intended to alleviate their child’s distress. The current study examined the relation between helicopter parenting and parental accommodations, while also examining child internalizing and externalizing sy…

  • Attentional Avoidance of Historically Relevant, Task-Irrelevant Facial Affect

    Open AccessSteven L Bistricky, Kristina Harper et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports2019

    Experiential background can influence how individuals respond to affective interpersonal information. For formerly depressed individuals, sad facial expressions are presumably salient. If so, when performing affectively neutral daily tasks, these individuals would find peripheral sad faces particularly distracting, and thus, they might shift their attention from them. The present study examined this hypothesis by comparing how euthymic formerly d…

  • Clinicians’ Beliefs, Observations, and Treatment Effectiveness Regarding Clients’ Sexual Addiction and Internet Pornography Use

    Open AccessMary B Short, Chad T Wetterneck et al.ARTICLECommunity Mental Health Journal2016Cited by: 6References: 68

  • The Relationship Between Religiosity and Internet Pornography Use

    Open AccessMary B Short, Thomas E Kasper et al.ARTICLEJournal of Religion and Health2015

  • Social Pain and Social Anxiety

    Angela J Cathey, William D Norwood et al.ARTICLEJournal of Gay & Lesbian Mental…2014

    Discrimination often involves social criticism and rejection, which may exacerbate or even cause anxiety in social situations, though few have investigated these associations. The current study investigates whether perceived discrimination on the basis of ethnic group membership and/or sexual orientation predicts social anxiety and whether use of an avoidant coping method (e.g., experiential avoidance) exacerbates social anxiety in response to di…

  • A Review of Internet Pornography Use Research

    Open AccessMary B Short, Lora Black et al.ARTICLECyberpsychology Behavior and…2012

    Internet pornography (IP) use has increased over the past 10 years. The effects of IP use are widespread and are both negative (e.g., relationship and interpersonal distress) and positive (e.g., increases in sexual knowledge and attitudes toward sex). Given the possible negative effects of IP use, understanding the definition of IP, the types of IP used, and reasons for IP use is important. The present study reviews the methodology and content of…