Jacquelyn Stephens

Biographic Data

ID7201356
NAMEJacquelyn Stephens
GIVEN NAMESJacquelyn
FAMILY NAMEStephens
SIGNATURESTEPHENS J
AFFILIATIONSMather Institute, Evanston, IL
ORCID0000-0003-2303-314X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Within- and Between-Person Effects of Savoring Ability and Well-Being in Older Adults

    Open AccessJacquelyn Stephens, Laurel Mertz et al.ARTICLEJournal of Happiness Studies2025

  • The Emotional Dimensions of Educational Change

    Open AccessNaomi L Blaushild, Melanie Muskin et al.ARTICLEEducational Researcher2025

    Extensive research documents how teachers’ understandings of education reforms impact implementation and outcomes. However, the role of teachers’ emotional sensemaking in the context of reform remains underexplored. This article reviews research on teachers’ emotional responses to reform and argues that an overreliance on retrospective, self-report measures limits our understanding of teachers’ real-time emotions during the reform process. To bui…

  • Facial expressions in adolescent–parent interactions and mental health

    Open AccessSophie E Rodosky, Jacquelyn Stephens et al.ARTICLEEmotion2023

    Parent-child relationships are hotbeds of emotion and play a key role in mental health. The present proof-of-concept study examined facial expressions of emotion during adolescent-parent interactions and links with internalizing mental health symptoms. Neutral, negative, and positive facial expressions were objectively measured in 28 parent-adolescent dyads during three 10-min dyadic interactions. Internalizing mental health symptoms were measure…

  • Feelings in words

    Tabea Meier, Jacquelyn Stephens et al.ARTICLEEmotion2023

    Putting feelings into words is often thought to be beneficial. Few studies, however, have examined associations between natural emotion word use and cardiovascular reactivity. This laboratory-based study examined emotion word use (i.e., from computerized text analysis) and cardiovascular reactivity (i.e., interbeat interval changes from baseline) across two interaction contexts (i.e., conflict and positive conversations) in 49 mixed-sex married c…

  • Emotion Regulation in Couples Across the Life Span

    Jacquelyn Stephens, Jacquelyn E Stephens et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Emotional…2022

    Intimate relationships are hotbeds of emotions. Much of what psychologists know about emotion regulation comes from single-subject studies; but a growing body of research has examined emotion regulation in couples. This chapter provides an overview of dimensions of emotion regulation in couples (with a focus on dynamic, iterative, and co-regulatory qualities) and measures (with a focus on differences between self-report and performance-based meas…

  • Executive functioning and nontarget emotions in late life

    Jacquelyn Stephens, David B Rompilla et al.ARTICLEEmotion2022

    When confronted with an emotion prototype (e.g., loss), individuals may experience not only target emotions (e.g., sadness), but also nontarget emotions (emotions that are atypical or incongruent with an emotion prototype; e.g., gratitude in response to loss). What are the cognitive correlates of nontarget emotions? Drawing from models of emotion generation, the present laboratory-based study examined associations between aspects of executive fun…

  • Emotion regulation in the face of loss

    Open AccessDavid B Rompilla, Emily F Hittner et al.ARTICLEEmotion2021

    How individuals regulate emotions in the face of loss has important consequences for well-being and health, but we know little about which emotion regulation strategies are most effective for older adults for whom loss is ubiquitous. The present laboratory-based study examined effects of three emotion regulation strategies (i.e., detachment, positive reappraisal, or acceptance in response to film clips depicting loss) on subjective emotional expe…