Laurie A Skokan

Biographic Data

ID758289
NAMELaurie A Skokan
GIVEN NAMESLaurie A
FAMILY NAMESkokan
SIGNATURESKOKAN L A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Los Angeles
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS68
WORKS AS AUTHOR4
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1990
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1995
H-INDEX3

  • A Cognitive Model of Religion's Influence On Health

    Open AccessValerie T Dull, Laurie A SkokanARTICLEJournal of Social Issues1995Cited by: 15References: 48

    Research on the relation between religion and health has tended to focus on group identity and specific religious behaviors that are directly linked to improved health. This paper proposes a new model, which incorporates religious beliefs into a system of cognition (illusions and meaning for events) and psychoneuroimmunologic functioning. It is hypothesized that cognition within religious belief systems may be associated with bodily changes in th…

  • Self‐Generated Feelings of Control and Adjustment to Physical Illness

    Open AccessShelley E Taylor, Vicki S Helgeson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Issues1991Cited by: 15References: 24

    Patients with chronic or advancing disease often generate perceptions that they or others can control aspects of their illness such as its symptoms, course, and treatment. This article considers self‐generated feelings of control, and provides evidence from patients with cardiac disease, cancer, and AIDS concerning the adaptiveness of these feelings. The research suggests that beliefs in personal control generally appear to be adaptive. Perceptio…

  • A Better World or a Shattered Vision? Changes in Life Perspectives Following Victimization

    Rebecca L Collins, Shelley E Taylor et al.ARTICLESocial Cognition1990

    Previous research has separately documented positive (Taylor, 1983) and negative (Janoff-Bulman, 1989) changes in beliefs following victimization. An integration of these literatures is proposed, considering the coping responses of the victim, the area of belief examined, and attributes of the victimizing event as mediators of change valence. Fifty-five cancer patients were interviewed concerning changes experienced in self-views, views of the wo…

  • Determinants of Social Support Provision in Personal Relationships

    Open AccessChristine Dunkel-Schetter, Christine Dunkel‐schetter et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social and Personal…1990Cited by: 38References: 24

    Social support is discussed as dyadic interactions in which one person is experiencing distress and the other person attempts to provide support. Drawing from helping research in social psychology as well as social-support research, four sets of variables are presented which influence the likelihood of support attempts: stress factors, recipient factors, relationship factors and provider factors. We also present partial results of a pilot study o…