Kelly Rossetto
Biographic Data
| ID | 768060 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kelly Rossetto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kelly |
| FAMILY NAME | Rossetto |
| SIGNATURE | ROSSETTO K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3952-4592 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 89 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Rural community perceptions on youth mental health
Icelandic Prevention Model in Rural Appalachian Communities
Background: This study assessed stakeholder experience with the core processes of The Integrated Community Engagement (ICE) Collaborative, a primary prevention approach addressing adolescent substance use in rural West Virginia, after three years of county-level implementation. Objectives: Guided by the Icelandic Prevention Model (IPM), the ICE Collaborative aims to enhance cooperation between researchers, policy makers, local practitioners, and …
Understanding Community Perceptions on the Role of Schools in Youth Mental Health
BACKGROUND: Youth mental health rates of depression and anxiety continue to climb. Schools have a role to play to support youth mental health but often struggle to navigate community expectations. METHODS: Focus groups (n = 17) were conducted with over 100 participants to understand community perceptions on the role of schools. RESULTS: Three themes emerged around what schools should be doing: (1) provide accurate education about mental health, (…
(Re)discovering interpersonal relationships and self-authorship in STEM Graduate school through mindfulness
In this study, we utilized self-authorship theory to investigate how mindfulness practices support the connection between identity development and interpersonal relationships in STEM graduate students. In an 8-week self-led mindfulness intervention, 10 women from computer science and engineering graduate programs completed a variety of mindfulness exercises, including meditation, yoga, drawing and mindful daily activities (e.g., mindful dishwashi…
“It’s always about challenging and supporting”
Based on the vast challenges college students experience, and the current mental health crisis on college campuses, the current study investigated how student-support providers assist and encourage students to enact resilience. We analyzed data from interviews with 25 campus student-support leaders in regard to how they support resilience in college students. Consistent with the communication theory of resilience (Buzzanell, P. M. (2010). Resilie…
Social Media as an (Un)Supportive Resource for Military Partners Coping With Military Lifestyle Challenges
The current study explored how romantic partners of active-duty service members perceived social media as (un)supportive when dealing with military lifestyle challenges. This study also explored coping and support paradoxes as they play out when military partners are using social media to help them cope. Twenty-four partners (female, n = 22; male, n = 2) participated in interviews. Participants reported mostly using Facebook (e.g., spouse groups)…
Developing Conceptual Definitions and Theoretical Models of Coping in Military Families During Deployment
Military deployment is a stressful event that can create numerous challenges; yet many families are able to maintain resilience. This study examines how military spouses/partners cope, individually and within their families, during spousal deployment. In-depth interviews were conducted with 26 female spouses/partners with male partners currently deployed. The results indicate that military partners enact various individual (e.g., distraction/esca…
Death on Facebook
Although research has highlighted potential benefits social media sites present for the bereaved (Carroll & Landry, 2010; Sanderson & Cheong, 2010), there is also the potential for problematic effects (Kern, Forman, & Gil-Egui, 2013). This study examines the ways in which the social networking site Facebook was helpful and unhelpful to participants ( N = 265) when someone they knew died. Analysis of 454 thought units revealed three themes describ…
Creating Philanthropic Foundations to Deal With Grief
The current study involves the analysis of six bereaved parents' stories and argues that the development of philanthropic foundations helped these parents make meaning of their children's deaths and find purpose in the midst of their grief. Furthermore, philanthropy, as a way of making meaning and finding purpose, is a mutually beneficial process because it helps both the bereaved founders and the communities the organizations reach. Connections …
Evaluations of Supportive and Unsupportive Responses during Spousal Deployment
This study investigates helpful/unhelpful support, and reasons why responses from others are evaluated as helpful/unhelpful in terms of how they affect the ability to cope with deployment. Interviews were conducted with 26 military partners during deployment. The results offer a typology of (un)helpful responses and attributions of these responses. Furthermore, the results indicate that similar responses can be evaluated as both helpful and unhel…
Qualitative research interviews
This essay explores a question crucial to the role of qualitative researchers: Is there therapeutic value in the research interview process? I use interviewees' responses to participating in in-depth interviews, along with a discussion of theoretical and empirical research, to build and evidence an argument that the qualitative research interview (QRI) process can be therapeutic and should be acknowledged as such. Challenges to researchers and id…
Relational coping during deployment
Wartime deployment involves prolonged separation and creates uncertainty, fear, and disorganization in families (M. J. Peebles‐Kleiger & J. H. Kleiger, 1994). This study examined how military wives/fiancées reported coping with the demands they associated with spousal deployment. Twenty‐six in‐depth interviews were conducted with wives and fiancées whose partners were currently deployed. Through qualitative analysis, 2 main coping themes emerged:…
A qualitative analysis of on-again/off-again romantic relationships
Although relational research predominantly conceptualizes romantic relationships as either together or apart, some relationships break up and renew (i.e., on-again/off-again relationships). Partners' accounts of on-again/off-again relational experiences were qualitatively analyzed to explore both reasons for breakups and reasons for renewals. Themes were interpreted within an interdependence framework to explain why partners dissolved as well as …
A meta-analysis of disclosure of one's HIV-positive status, stigma and social support
Qualitative research interviews
This essay explores a question crucial to the role of qualitative researchers: Is there therapeutic value in the research interview process? I use interviewees' responses to participating in in-depth interviews, along with a discussion of theoretical and empirical research, to build and evidence an argument that the qualitative research interview (QRI) process can be therapeutic and should be acknowledged as such. Challenges to researchers and id…
A qualitative analysis of on-again/off-again romantic relationships
Although relational research predominantly conceptualizes romantic relationships as either together or apart, some relationships break up and renew (i.e., on-again/off-again relationships). Partners' accounts of on-again/off-again relational experiences were qualitatively analyzed to explore both reasons for breakups and reasons for renewals. Themes were interpreted within an interdependence framework to explain why partners dissolved as well as …
Death on Facebook
Although research has highlighted potential benefits social media sites present for the bereaved (Carroll & Landry, 2010; Sanderson & Cheong, 2010), there is also the potential for problematic effects (Kern, Forman, & Gil-Egui, 2013). This study examines the ways in which the social networking site Facebook was helpful and unhelpful to participants ( N = 265) when someone they knew died. Analysis of 454 thought units revealed three themes describ…
Evaluations of Supportive and Unsupportive Responses during Spousal Deployment
This study investigates helpful/unhelpful support, and reasons why responses from others are evaluated as helpful/unhelpful in terms of how they affect the ability to cope with deployment. Interviews were conducted with 26 military partners during deployment. The results offer a typology of (un)helpful responses and attributions of these responses. Furthermore, the results indicate that similar responses can be evaluated as both helpful and unhel…
Developing Conceptual Definitions and Theoretical Models of Coping in Military Families During Deployment
Military deployment is a stressful event that can create numerous challenges; yet many families are able to maintain resilience. This study examines how military spouses/partners cope, individually and within their families, during spousal deployment. In-depth interviews were conducted with 26 female spouses/partners with male partners currently deployed. The results indicate that military partners enact various individual (e.g., distraction/esca…
Creating Philanthropic Foundations to Deal With Grief
The current study involves the analysis of six bereaved parents' stories and argues that the development of philanthropic foundations helped these parents make meaning of their children's deaths and find purpose in the midst of their grief. Furthermore, philanthropy, as a way of making meaning and finding purpose, is a mutually beneficial process because it helps both the bereaved founders and the communities the organizations reach. Connections …
Social Media as an (Un)Supportive Resource for Military Partners Coping With Military Lifestyle Challenges
The current study explored how romantic partners of active-duty service members perceived social media as (un)supportive when dealing with military lifestyle challenges. This study also explored coping and support paradoxes as they play out when military partners are using social media to help them cope. Twenty-four partners (female, n = 22; male, n = 2) participated in interviews. Participants reported mostly using Facebook (e.g., spouse groups)…
A meta-analysis of disclosure of one's HIV-positive status, stigma and social support
A qualitative analysis of on-again/off-again romantic relationships
Although relational research predominantly conceptualizes romantic relationships as either together or apart, some relationships break up and renew (i.e., on-again/off-again relationships). Partners' accounts of on-again/off-again relational experiences were qualitatively analyzed to explore both reasons for breakups and reasons for renewals. Themes were interpreted within an interdependence framework to explain why partners dissolved as well as …
Relational coping during deployment
Wartime deployment involves prolonged separation and creates uncertainty, fear, and disorganization in families (M. J. Peebles‐Kleiger & J. H. Kleiger, 1994). This study examined how military wives/fiancées reported coping with the demands they associated with spousal deployment. Twenty‐six in‐depth interviews were conducted with wives and fiancées whose partners were currently deployed. Through qualitative analysis, 2 main coping themes emerged:…
Creating Philanthropic Foundations to Deal With Grief
The current study involves the analysis of six bereaved parents' stories and argues that the development of philanthropic foundations helped these parents make meaning of their children's deaths and find purpose in the midst of their grief. Furthermore, philanthropy, as a way of making meaning and finding purpose, is a mutually beneficial process because it helps both the bereaved founders and the communities the organizations reach. Connections …
Evaluations of Supportive and Unsupportive Responses during Spousal Deployment
This study investigates helpful/unhelpful support, and reasons why responses from others are evaluated as helpful/unhelpful in terms of how they affect the ability to cope with deployment. Interviews were conducted with 26 military partners during deployment. The results offer a typology of (un)helpful responses and attributions of these responses. Furthermore, the results indicate that similar responses can be evaluated as both helpful and unhel…
Qualitative research interviews
This essay explores a question crucial to the role of qualitative researchers: Is there therapeutic value in the research interview process? I use interviewees' responses to participating in in-depth interviews, along with a discussion of theoretical and empirical research, to build and evidence an argument that the qualitative research interview (QRI) process can be therapeutic and should be acknowledged as such. Challenges to researchers and id…
Developing Conceptual Definitions and Theoretical Models of Coping in Military Families During Deployment
Military deployment is a stressful event that can create numerous challenges; yet many families are able to maintain resilience. This study examines how military spouses/partners cope, individually and within their families, during spousal deployment. In-depth interviews were conducted with 26 female spouses/partners with male partners currently deployed. The results indicate that military partners enact various individual (e.g., distraction/esca…
Death on Facebook
Although research has highlighted potential benefits social media sites present for the bereaved (Carroll & Landry, 2010; Sanderson & Cheong, 2010), there is also the potential for problematic effects (Kern, Forman, & Gil-Egui, 2013). This study examines the ways in which the social networking site Facebook was helpful and unhelpful to participants ( N = 265) when someone they knew died. Analysis of 454 thought units revealed three themes describ…
“It’s always about challenging and supporting”
Based on the vast challenges college students experience, and the current mental health crisis on college campuses, the current study investigated how student-support providers assist and encourage students to enact resilience. We analyzed data from interviews with 25 campus student-support leaders in regard to how they support resilience in college students. Consistent with the communication theory of resilience (Buzzanell, P. M. (2010). Resilie…
Social Media as an (Un)Supportive Resource for Military Partners Coping With Military Lifestyle Challenges
The current study explored how romantic partners of active-duty service members perceived social media as (un)supportive when dealing with military lifestyle challenges. This study also explored coping and support paradoxes as they play out when military partners are using social media to help them cope. Twenty-four partners (female, n = 22; male, n = 2) participated in interviews. Participants reported mostly using Facebook (e.g., spouse groups)…
(Re)discovering interpersonal relationships and self-authorship in STEM Graduate school through mindfulness
In this study, we utilized self-authorship theory to investigate how mindfulness practices support the connection between identity development and interpersonal relationships in STEM graduate students. In an 8-week self-led mindfulness intervention, 10 women from computer science and engineering graduate programs completed a variety of mindfulness exercises, including meditation, yoga, drawing and mindful daily activities (e.g., mindful dishwashi…
Understanding Community Perceptions on the Role of Schools in Youth Mental Health
BACKGROUND: Youth mental health rates of depression and anxiety continue to climb. Schools have a role to play to support youth mental health but often struggle to navigate community expectations. METHODS: Focus groups (n = 17) were conducted with over 100 participants to understand community perceptions on the role of schools. RESULTS: Three themes emerged around what schools should be doing: (1) provide accurate education about mental health, (…
Rural community perceptions on youth mental health
Icelandic Prevention Model in Rural Appalachian Communities
Background: This study assessed stakeholder experience with the core processes of The Integrated Community Engagement (ICE) Collaborative, a primary prevention approach addressing adolescent substance use in rural West Virginia, after three years of county-level implementation. Objectives: Guided by the Icelandic Prevention Model (IPM), the ICE Collaborative aims to enhance cooperation between researchers, policy makers, local practitioners, and …
Psychology (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Psychotherapist (6 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (3 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Interpersonal relationship (3 works) · Medicine (3 works)