Allison A Vaughn
Biographic Data
| ID | 769817 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allison A Vaughn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allison A |
| FAMILY NAME | Vaughn |
| SIGNATURE | VAUGHN A A |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Diego State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8454-9284 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Using Communication Privacy Management Theory to Explore undocumented/Daca Status Disclosure in College Students
Actively concealing private information is psychologically taxing and can be detrimental to health, whereas disclosing certain kinds of private information may result in legal and financial consequences. The current study examined college students’ disclosure of their undocumented immigration status through the lens of Communication Privacy Management (CPM) Theory. Participants (N = 118; 52% women) were college students recruited through student …
Weight-related eating among Latino college students
Machine learning uncovers the most robust self-report predictors of relationship quality across 43 longitudinal couples studies
Significance What predicts how happy people are with their romantic relationships? Relationship science—an interdisciplinary field spanning psychology, sociology, economics, family studies, and communication—has identified hundreds of variables that purportedly shape romantic relationship quality. The current project used machine learning to directly quantify and compare the predictive power of many such variables among 11,196 romantic couples. P…
The Role of Sexual Orientation in the Associations Between Religiousness and Hypertension
Associative stigma towards mothers of children with various conditions
Complex assessment of relationship quality within dyads
Higher quality relationships have been linked to improved outcomes; however, the measurement of relationship quality often ignores its complexity and the possibility of co‐occurring positivity and negativity across different contexts. The goal of this study is to test the added benefit of including multiple dimensions, contexts, and perspectives of relationship quality from both individuals in predicting marital functioning. The Social Relationsh…
Dyadic perceptions of depression and anxiety in romantic relationships
This study investigated dyadic perceptions of the causes of mental health symptoms within dating couples. We tested the extent to which a participant's beliefs about their romantic partner's attributions about mental health were accurate and/or biased and the extent to which causal attributions about mental health predicted relationship quality. Ninety-four dyads ( N = 188) reported on biological and psychological causes of mental health symptoms…
The effects of symptom severity and condition on associative stigma toward parents of children with disorders
Active coping efforts temper negative attributions of disability stigma
Testing two models of stigma for birth mothers of a child with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
Stereotypes, Emotions, and Behaviors Toward Lesbians, Gay Men, Bisexual Women, and Bisexual Men
The utility of the Stereotype Content Model (Fiske, Cuddy, Glick, & Xu, 2002) and the Behaviors from Intergroup Affect and Stereotypes map (Cuddy, Fiske, & Glick, 2007) were examined in the context of heterosexuals' attitudes toward sexual minorities. Heterosexual adults completed a survey measuring stereotypes, emotions, and behavioral tendencies toward lesbians, gay men, bisexual women, and bisexual men. Stereotype content differed across group…
Beyond the dichotomy
Even though our knowledge of the cause of disease and disability has grown, stigma still exists. Weiner, Perry, and Magnusson's seminal study on attributions of stigma has been cited over 500 times since its publication in 1988. The current research sought to replicate and expand this literature in two studies. We used the 10 stigmas from the original study and we added six more (representing common psychological and physical stigmas). In the fir…
Testing the Invariance of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey’s Sexual Behavior Questionnaire Across Gender, Ethnicity/Race, and Generation
Resource Effects on In-Group Boundary Formation With Regard to Sexual Identity
Previous research has shown that resource scarcity decreases inclusiveness of racially ambiguous individuals when categorizing racial in-group members. Given that sexual identity can be visually ambiguous, the present studies sought to test this effect on in-group boundary formation for sexual identity in-groups. In Studies 1 and 2, participants were randomly assigned to view a slideshow representing resource scarcity or abundance (i.e., priming …
Development and psychometric properties of the attitudes towards heterosexuals scale (ATHS)
While a number of scales exist for studying explicit attitudes towards sexual minorities (i.e., lesbians, gay men and bisexuals), there is currently no heterosexual parallel. The utility of such a scale, however, would be a boon for researchers interested in comparative, longitudinal and/or experimental studies of attitudes based on sexual orientation. With this goal in mind, we created the attitudes towards heterosexuals scale (ATHS) and tested …
Dispositional hope and the propensity to cope
The authors examined the predictive ability of dispositional hope components (pathways, agency) in explaining minority adolescents' consistent use of daily coping strategies. Using daily diary methodology, 126 low socioeconomic status minority participants completed a multidimensional measure of dispositional hope and reported on subsequent stressful events that they experienced and the coping strategies that they employed over the course of a 5-…
Stress-Related Growth in Racial/Ethnic Minority Adolescents
Stress-related growth is defined as the perception or experience of deriving benefits from encountering stressful circumstances and, thus, has been identified as a protective factor against stress. The current study revised and subsequently validated scores on an existing measure of stress-related growth in a sample of racial/ethnic minority adolescents (n = 388). The multidimensional representation of the Stress-Related Growth Scale was composed…
The assessment of positivity and negativity in social networks
The Social Relationships Index (SRI) was designed to examine positivity and negativity in social relationships. Unique features of this scale include its brevity and the ability to examine relationship positivity and negativity at the level of the specific individual and social network. The SRI's psychometric properties were examined in three studies. The SRI demonstrated good psychometric properties, including test–retest reliability for the ass…
Psychological and Physical Health Correlates of Coping in Minority Adolescents
In the current study the relations between coping and psychological/physical health in a sample of minority adolescents was investigated. Participants ( n = 182) were all low-income, first-generation college-bound students from historically underrepresented groups. For Mexican-Americans, positive reinterpretation, focusing and venting emotions, instrumental social support, active coping, religious, restraint, emotional support, acceptance and pla…
Psychological and Physical Health Correlates of Coping in Minority Adolescents
In the current study the relations between coping and psychological/physical health in a sample of minority adolescents was investigated. Participants ( n = 182) were all low-income, first-generation college-bound students from historically underrepresented groups. For Mexican-Americans, positive reinterpretation, focusing and venting emotions, instrumental social support, active coping, religious, restraint, emotional support, acceptance and pla…
Stereotypes, Emotions, and Behaviors Toward Lesbians, Gay Men, Bisexual Women, and Bisexual Men
The utility of the Stereotype Content Model (Fiske, Cuddy, Glick, & Xu, 2002) and the Behaviors from Intergroup Affect and Stereotypes map (Cuddy, Fiske, & Glick, 2007) were examined in the context of heterosexuals' attitudes toward sexual minorities. Heterosexual adults completed a survey measuring stereotypes, emotions, and behavioral tendencies toward lesbians, gay men, bisexual women, and bisexual men. Stereotype content differed across group…
The assessment of positivity and negativity in social networks
The Social Relationships Index (SRI) was designed to examine positivity and negativity in social relationships. Unique features of this scale include its brevity and the ability to examine relationship positivity and negativity at the level of the specific individual and social network. The SRI's psychometric properties were examined in three studies. The SRI demonstrated good psychometric properties, including test–retest reliability for the ass…
Dispositional hope and the propensity to cope
The authors examined the predictive ability of dispositional hope components (pathways, agency) in explaining minority adolescents' consistent use of daily coping strategies. Using daily diary methodology, 126 low socioeconomic status minority participants completed a multidimensional measure of dispositional hope and reported on subsequent stressful events that they experienced and the coping strategies that they employed over the course of a 5-…
Dyadic perceptions of depression and anxiety in romantic relationships
This study investigated dyadic perceptions of the causes of mental health symptoms within dating couples. We tested the extent to which a participant's beliefs about their romantic partner's attributions about mental health were accurate and/or biased and the extent to which causal attributions about mental health predicted relationship quality. Ninety-four dyads ( N = 188) reported on biological and psychological causes of mental health symptoms…
Testing the Invariance of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey’s Sexual Behavior Questionnaire Across Gender, Ethnicity/Race, and Generation
Psychological and Physical Health Correlates of Coping in Minority Adolescents
In the current study the relations between coping and psychological/physical health in a sample of minority adolescents was investigated. Participants ( n = 182) were all low-income, first-generation college-bound students from historically underrepresented groups. For Mexican-Americans, positive reinterpretation, focusing and venting emotions, instrumental social support, active coping, religious, restraint, emotional support, acceptance and pla…
Stress-Related Growth in Racial/Ethnic Minority Adolescents
Stress-related growth is defined as the perception or experience of deriving benefits from encountering stressful circumstances and, thus, has been identified as a protective factor against stress. The current study revised and subsequently validated scores on an existing measure of stress-related growth in a sample of racial/ethnic minority adolescents (n = 388). The multidimensional representation of the Stress-Related Growth Scale was composed…
The assessment of positivity and negativity in social networks
The Social Relationships Index (SRI) was designed to examine positivity and negativity in social relationships. Unique features of this scale include its brevity and the ability to examine relationship positivity and negativity at the level of the specific individual and social network. The SRI's psychometric properties were examined in three studies. The SRI demonstrated good psychometric properties, including test–retest reliability for the ass…
Dispositional hope and the propensity to cope
The authors examined the predictive ability of dispositional hope components (pathways, agency) in explaining minority adolescents' consistent use of daily coping strategies. Using daily diary methodology, 126 low socioeconomic status minority participants completed a multidimensional measure of dispositional hope and reported on subsequent stressful events that they experienced and the coping strategies that they employed over the course of a 5-…
Resource Effects on In-Group Boundary Formation With Regard to Sexual Identity
Previous research has shown that resource scarcity decreases inclusiveness of racially ambiguous individuals when categorizing racial in-group members. Given that sexual identity can be visually ambiguous, the present studies sought to test this effect on in-group boundary formation for sexual identity in-groups. In Studies 1 and 2, participants were randomly assigned to view a slideshow representing resource scarcity or abundance (i.e., priming …
Development and psychometric properties of the attitudes towards heterosexuals scale (ATHS)
While a number of scales exist for studying explicit attitudes towards sexual minorities (i.e., lesbians, gay men and bisexuals), there is currently no heterosexual parallel. The utility of such a scale, however, would be a boon for researchers interested in comparative, longitudinal and/or experimental studies of attitudes based on sexual orientation. With this goal in mind, we created the attitudes towards heterosexuals scale (ATHS) and tested …
Beyond the dichotomy
Even though our knowledge of the cause of disease and disability has grown, stigma still exists. Weiner, Perry, and Magnusson's seminal study on attributions of stigma has been cited over 500 times since its publication in 1988. The current research sought to replicate and expand this literature in two studies. We used the 10 stigmas from the original study and we added six more (representing common psychological and physical stigmas). In the fir…
Testing the Invariance of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey’s Sexual Behavior Questionnaire Across Gender, Ethnicity/Race, and Generation
Stereotypes, Emotions, and Behaviors Toward Lesbians, Gay Men, Bisexual Women, and Bisexual Men
The utility of the Stereotype Content Model (Fiske, Cuddy, Glick, & Xu, 2002) and the Behaviors from Intergroup Affect and Stereotypes map (Cuddy, Fiske, & Glick, 2007) were examined in the context of heterosexuals' attitudes toward sexual minorities. Heterosexual adults completed a survey measuring stereotypes, emotions, and behavioral tendencies toward lesbians, gay men, bisexual women, and bisexual men. Stereotype content differed across group…
Active coping efforts temper negative attributions of disability stigma
Testing two models of stigma for birth mothers of a child with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
The effects of symptom severity and condition on associative stigma toward parents of children with disorders
Machine learning uncovers the most robust self-report predictors of relationship quality across 43 longitudinal couples studies
Significance What predicts how happy people are with their romantic relationships? Relationship science—an interdisciplinary field spanning psychology, sociology, economics, family studies, and communication—has identified hundreds of variables that purportedly shape romantic relationship quality. The current project used machine learning to directly quantify and compare the predictive power of many such variables among 11,196 romantic couples. P…
The Role of Sexual Orientation in the Associations Between Religiousness and Hypertension
Associative stigma towards mothers of children with various conditions
Complex assessment of relationship quality within dyads
Higher quality relationships have been linked to improved outcomes; however, the measurement of relationship quality often ignores its complexity and the possibility of co‐occurring positivity and negativity across different contexts. The goal of this study is to test the added benefit of including multiple dimensions, contexts, and perspectives of relationship quality from both individuals in predicting marital functioning. The Social Relationsh…
Dyadic perceptions of depression and anxiety in romantic relationships
This study investigated dyadic perceptions of the causes of mental health symptoms within dating couples. We tested the extent to which a participant's beliefs about their romantic partner's attributions about mental health were accurate and/or biased and the extent to which causal attributions about mental health predicted relationship quality. Ninety-four dyads ( N = 188) reported on biological and psychological causes of mental health symptoms…
Weight-related eating among Latino college students
Using Communication Privacy Management Theory to Explore undocumented/Daca Status Disclosure in College Students
Actively concealing private information is psychologically taxing and can be detrimental to health, whereas disclosing certain kinds of private information may result in legal and financial consequences. The current study examined college students’ disclosure of their undocumented immigration status through the lens of Communication Privacy Management (CPM) Theory. Participants (N = 118; 52% women) were college students recruited through student …
Psychology (19 works) · Developmental psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Clinical Psychology (11 works) · Clinical Psychology (8 works) · Psychiatry (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (5 works) · Stigma (botany (5 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (4 works)