Keith S Cox
Biographic Data
| ID | 643193 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Keith S Cox |
| GIVEN NAMES | Keith S |
| FAMILY NAME | Cox |
| SIGNATURE | COX K S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Asheville |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3957-7205 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Exposure reconceptualized as transtheoretical approach
This commentary on Rubenstein et al. (2024) appreciates how they advance the debate on exposure therapy and best practices in posttraumatic stress disorder treatment. Their historical analysis, though, points to a way forward they fail to explore-reconceptualizing exposure as transtheoretical approach. This reconceptualization shows that diverse theoretical traditions converge on exposure/approach clinical practices, which should bolster our conf…
Advocates of Research-Supported Treatments for PTSD are Losing in Lots of Ways
Most individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) do not receive science-based treatment. This is a massive problem and the systems and individuals best able to address it misunderstand key components of the problem. Advocates of Research Supported Treatments (ARSTs) have substantial influence/authority in federal agencies, university settings, and medical centers and limited influence/authority with the public at large and with many pro…
Redemption in a single low point story longitudinally predicts well‐being
OBJECTIVE: Extending research on the incremental validity of life story variables and the importance of particular kinds of story contexts, this paper tested the hypothesis that a single theme (narrative redemption) in a specific life story episode (the low point-or an episode that challenges the self) can predict well-being, above and beyond covariates. METHOD: Two samples, an emerging adult (N = 144) and a late midlife sample (N = 158), provide…
Mean Level Differences in the Vividness, Meaning, and Coherence of Life Story High and Low Points
The current paper examines systematic differences in life story high and low points. Narratives from a young adult sample (n = 145) and a late midlife adult sample (n = 154) were coded for vividness, meaning, and coherence. An automated linguistic coding technique was also used. Mean level comparisons found high and low points had similar levels of vividness and coherence. Among the young adults, but not the late midlife adults, there was greater…
A Comparison of Human Narrative Coding of Redemption and Automated Linguistic Analysis for Understanding Life Stories
The majority of life narrative research is performed using trained human coders. In contrast, automated linguistic analysis is oft employed in the study of verbal behaviors. These two methodological approaches are directly compared to determine the utility of automated linguistic analysis for the study of life narratives. In a study of in‐person interviews ( N = 158) and a second study of life stories collected online ( N = 242), redemption score…
Meaning Making in the Life Story, and Not Coherence or Vividness, Predicts Well-Being up to 3 Years Later
This study investigated emotionally intense, identity-salient memories—high and low points from the life story—for vividness, meaning, and coherence. Three approaches of perennial interest to memory researchers were operationalized in terms of these memory characteristics: meaning centered, coherence focused, and valenced processing. The study tested which approach best accounted for concurrent and future subjective well-being (SWB), including de…
Meaning making during high and low point life story episodes predicts emotion regulation two years later
Generativity, the Big Five, and Psychosocial Adaptation in Midlife Adults
The study examines the extent to which 2 sets of personality variables—(1) dispositional traits (and their facets) within the Big Five taxonomy and (2) the adult developmental construct of generativity—are associated with psychosocial adaptation in midlife adults ( N =128), conceived as the combination of individual well‐being and positive societal involvements. Generativity is conceived as an adult's concern for and commitment to promoting the w…
The Transforming Self
The study examined the extent to which a service trip to Nicaragua affected college students’ narrative understanding of themselves and their commitment to volunteer service. College students who went on a spring break service trip to work with poor citizens of Nicaragua wrote narrative accounts of three important experiences on the trip shortly after they returned. Measures of volunteerism were collected before the trip and at two points afterwa…
Meaning making during high and low point life story episodes predicts emotion regulation two years later
The Transforming Self
The study examined the extent to which a service trip to Nicaragua affected college students’ narrative understanding of themselves and their commitment to volunteer service. College students who went on a spring break service trip to work with poor citizens of Nicaragua wrote narrative accounts of three important experiences on the trip shortly after they returned. Measures of volunteerism were collected before the trip and at two points afterwa…
Advocates of Research-Supported Treatments for PTSD are Losing in Lots of Ways
Most individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) do not receive science-based treatment. This is a massive problem and the systems and individuals best able to address it misunderstand key components of the problem. Advocates of Research Supported Treatments (ARSTs) have substantial influence/authority in federal agencies, university settings, and medical centers and limited influence/authority with the public at large and with many pro…
Generativity, the Big Five, and Psychosocial Adaptation in Midlife Adults
The study examines the extent to which 2 sets of personality variables—(1) dispositional traits (and their facets) within the Big Five taxonomy and (2) the adult developmental construct of generativity—are associated with psychosocial adaptation in midlife adults ( N =128), conceived as the combination of individual well‐being and positive societal involvements. Generativity is conceived as an adult's concern for and commitment to promoting the w…
The Transforming Self
The study examined the extent to which a service trip to Nicaragua affected college students’ narrative understanding of themselves and their commitment to volunteer service. College students who went on a spring break service trip to work with poor citizens of Nicaragua wrote narrative accounts of three important experiences on the trip shortly after they returned. Measures of volunteerism were collected before the trip and at two points afterwa…
Meaning making during high and low point life story episodes predicts emotion regulation two years later
Meaning Making in the Life Story, and Not Coherence or Vividness, Predicts Well-Being up to 3 Years Later
This study investigated emotionally intense, identity-salient memories—high and low points from the life story—for vividness, meaning, and coherence. Three approaches of perennial interest to memory researchers were operationalized in terms of these memory characteristics: meaning centered, coherence focused, and valenced processing. The study tested which approach best accounted for concurrent and future subjective well-being (SWB), including de…
A Comparison of Human Narrative Coding of Redemption and Automated Linguistic Analysis for Understanding Life Stories
The majority of life narrative research is performed using trained human coders. In contrast, automated linguistic analysis is oft employed in the study of verbal behaviors. These two methodological approaches are directly compared to determine the utility of automated linguistic analysis for the study of life narratives. In a study of in‐person interviews ( N = 158) and a second study of life stories collected online ( N = 242), redemption score…
Redemption in a single low point story longitudinally predicts well‐being
OBJECTIVE: Extending research on the incremental validity of life story variables and the importance of particular kinds of story contexts, this paper tested the hypothesis that a single theme (narrative redemption) in a specific life story episode (the low point-or an episode that challenges the self) can predict well-being, above and beyond covariates. METHOD: Two samples, an emerging adult (N = 144) and a late midlife sample (N = 158), provide…
Mean Level Differences in the Vividness, Meaning, and Coherence of Life Story High and Low Points
The current paper examines systematic differences in life story high and low points. Narratives from a young adult sample (n = 145) and a late midlife adult sample (n = 154) were coded for vividness, meaning, and coherence. An automated linguistic coding technique was also used. Mean level comparisons found high and low points had similar levels of vividness and coherence. Among the young adults, but not the late midlife adults, there was greater…
Advocates of Research-Supported Treatments for PTSD are Losing in Lots of Ways
Most individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) do not receive science-based treatment. This is a massive problem and the systems and individuals best able to address it misunderstand key components of the problem. Advocates of Research Supported Treatments (ARSTs) have substantial influence/authority in federal agencies, university settings, and medical centers and limited influence/authority with the public at large and with many pro…
Exposure reconceptualized as transtheoretical approach
This commentary on Rubenstein et al. (2024) appreciates how they advance the debate on exposure therapy and best practices in posttraumatic stress disorder treatment. Their historical analysis, though, points to a way forward they fail to explore-reconceptualizing exposure as transtheoretical approach. This reconceptualization shows that diverse theoretical traditions converge on exposure/approach clinical practices, which should bolster our conf…
Psychology (7 works) · Identity, Memory, and Therapy (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Aging and Gerontology Research (3 works) · Big Five personality traits (3 works) · Extraversion and introversion (3 works) · Memory Processes and Influences (3 works) · Personality (3 works) · Adult Development (2 works)