Margaret E Kemeny

Biographic Data

ID770292
NAMEMargaret E Kemeny
GIVEN NAMESMargaret E
FAMILY NAMEKemeny
SIGNATUREKEMENY M E
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Los Angeles
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS28
TOTAL CITATIONS222
AUTHOR COUNT28
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1984
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX6

  • Perceptions of parental secure base support in African American adolescents and young adults: A preliminary study of predictive links to adult C-reactive protein

    Open AccessJason D Jones, D Campbell-Allen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social and Personal…2017Cited by: 2References: 35

    Within the field of relationship science there is increasing interest in the connections between close relationships and physical health. In the present study, we examined whether adolescents' (∼12 years old) and young adults' (∼20 years old) perceptions of their parents as a secure base prospectively predict C-reactive protein (CRP), a commonly used marker of inflammatory activity, at age 32 in a well-characterized sample of African Americans. W…

  • Developmental histories of perceived racial discrimination and diurnal cortisol profiles in adulthood: A 20-year prospective study

    Open AccessEmma K Adam, Jennifer A Heissel et al.ARTICLEPsychoneuroendocrinology2015

  • Physical Activity Moderates Effects of Stressor-Induced Rumination on Cortisol Reactivity

    Eli Puterman, Aoife O’donovan et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2011

    OBJECTIVE: Physically active individuals have lower rates of morbidity and mortality, and recent evidence indicates that physical activity may be particularly beneficial to those experiencing chronic stress. The tendency to ruminate increases and prolongs physiological stress responses, including hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis responses as indexed by cortisol reactivity to stressful experiences. We examined the association between rumi…

  • Contemplative/emotion training reduces negative emotional behavior and promotes prosocial responses

    Margaret E Kemeny, Carol Foltz et al.ARTICLEEmotion2011

    Contemplative practices are believed to alleviate psychological problems, cultivate prosocial behavior and promote self-awareness. In addition, psychological science has developed tools and models for understanding the mind and promoting well-being. Additional effort is needed to combine frameworks and techniques from these traditions to improve emotional experience and socioemotional behavior. An 8-week intensive (42 hr) meditation/emotion regul…

  • Psychobiological Responses to Social Self Threat: Functional or Detrimental

    Sally S Dickerson, Tara L Gruenewald et al.ARTICLESelf and Identity2009

    A growing body of research suggests that threats to the social self, or threats to one's social esteem, acceptance, or status, can elicit a coordinated response, including increases in self-conscious emotion, cortisol, and proinflammatory cytokine activity. These psychobiological changes may have important benefits under certain acute contexts, including providing a signaling function for detecting social threat, initiating biological processes t…

  • Immune Function Declines With Unemployment and Recovers After Stressor Termination

    Frances Cohen, Margaret E Kemeny et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2007

    OBJECTIVE: To examine the effect of unemployment on natural killer cell cytotoxicity (NKCC) and, in a subsample of persons who become re-employed, to determine if, after termination of the stressor, immune values recover to levels similar to matched controls. METHODS: One hundred unemployed and 100 matched employed healthy men and women, aged 29 to 45 years, were followed for 4 months with monthly blood samples taken to measure NKCC, the ability …

  • Acute Threat to the Social Self: Shame, Social Self-esteem, and Cortisol Activity

    Tara L Gruenewald, Margaret E Kemeny et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2004

    OBJECTIVE: Our Social Self Preservation Theory asserts that situations which threaten the "social self" (ie, one's social value or standing) elicit increased feelings of low social worth (eg, shame), decrements in social self-esteem, and increases in cortisol, a hormone released by the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. To test our theoretical premise, cognitive, emotional, and physiological responses to the performance of laboratory stressor t…

  • Immunological Effects of Induced Shame and Guilt

    Sally S Dickerson, Margaret E Kemeny et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2004

    OBJECTIVE: To determine if inducing self-blame would lead to increases in shame and guilt as well as increases in proinflammatory cytokine activity and cortisol. Based on previous research and theory, it was hypothesized that induced shame would be specifically associated with elevations in proinflammatory cytokine activity. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Healthy participants were randomly assigned to write about traumatic experiences in which they blame…

  • When the Social Self Is Threatened: Shame, Physiology, and Health

    Open AccessSally S Dickerson, Tara L Gruenewald et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality2004

    Our program of research focuses on shame as a key emotional response to “social self” threats (i.e., social evaluation or rejection). We propose that shame may orchestrate specific patterns of psychobiological changes under these conditions. A series of studies demonstrates that acute threats to the social self increase proinflammatory cytokine activity and cortisol and that these changes occur in concert with shame. Chronic social self threats a…

  • Acute Stressors and Cortisol Responses: A Theoretical Integration and Synthesis of Laboratory Research

    Sally S Dickerson, Margaret E KemenyARTICLEPsychological Bulletin2004Cited by: 136References: 278

    This meta-analysis reviews 208 laboratory studies of acute psychological stressors and tests a theoretical model delineating conditions capable of eliciting cortisol responses. Psychological stressors increased cortisol levels; however, effects varied widely across tasks. Consistent with the theoretical model, motivated performance tasks elicited cortisol responses if they were uncontrollable or characterized by social-evaluative threat (task per…

  • The Psychobiology of Stress

    Open AccessMargaret E KemenyARTICLECurrent Directions in Psychological…2003

    Stressful life experience can have significant effects on a variety of physiological systems, including the autonomic nervous system, the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, and the immune system. These relationships can be bidirectional; for example, immune cell products can act on the brain, altering mood and cognition, potentially contributing to depression. Although acute physiological alterations may be adaptive in the short term, chronic o…

  • Psychological resources, positive illusions, and health

    Shelley E Taylor, Margaret E Kemeny et al.ARTICLEAmerican Psychologist2000

    Psychological beliefs such as optimism, personal control, and a sense of meaning are known to be protective of mental health. Are they protective of physical health as well? The authors " present a program of research that has tested the implications of cognitive adaptation theory, and research on positive illusions for the relation of positive beliefs to disease progression among men infected with HIV. The investigations have revealed that even …

  • Illness disclosure and mental health among women with HIV/Aids

    Open AccessLisa K Comer, Barbara Henker et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community & Applied…2000

    The current study examines two contrasting models of the relationship between illness disclosure and mental health among an ethnically-diverse group of women with HIV/AIDS. In the first, and commonly accepted model, illness disclosure predicts enhanced mental health status. In the second or alternate model, based on the stigmatization that accompanies HIV/AIDS infection, illness disclosure predicts poorer mental health. We also explore an alterna…

  • Illness disclosure and mental health among women with HIV/Aids

    Open AccessLisa K Comer, Barbara Henker et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community & Applied…2000

  • Cognitive processing, discovery of meaning, CD4 decline, and Aids-related mortality among bereaved HIV-seropositive men.

    Julienne E Bower, Margaret E Kemeny et al.ARTICLEJournal of Consulting and…1998

  • Symposium Synopsis: Clinical Relevance of Psychoneuroimmunology

    Paul J Mills, Margaret E Kemeny et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine1998

    Mills, Paul J. PhD, Chair; Kemeny, Margaret E. PhD; Marucha, Phillip T. PhD, DMD; Vitaliano, Peter P. PhD; Kiecolt-Glaser, Janice K. PhD, Presenters Author Information

  • Optimism is associated with mood, coping, and immune change in response to stress

    Suzanne C Segerstrom, Shelley E Taylor et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…1998Cited by: 30References: 4

    This study explored prospectively the effects of dispositional and situational optimism on mood (N = 90) and immune changes (N = 50) among law students in their first semester of study. Optimism was associated with better mood, higher numbers of helper T cells, and higher natural killer cell cytotoxicity. Avoidance coping partially accounted for the relationship between optimism and mood. Among the immune parameters, mood partially accounted for …

  • Shaking up Immunity: Psychological and Immunologic Changes after a Natural Disaster

    George F Solomon, Suzanne C Segerstrom et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine1997

    OBJECTIVE: The 1994 Northridge earthquake created life disruption and psychological distress for employees of the nearby Sepulveda VA Medical Center. We were interested in the immunologic correlates of disruption and distress under these stressful circumstances. METHOD: Sixty-eight employees were examined beginning 11 days post-earthquake and were observed until about 4 months after the earthquake, during which time three psychological and immuno…

  • Social identity and physical health: Accelerated HIV progression in rejection-sensitive gay men

    Steven W Cole, Steve W Cole et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…1997Cited by: 21

    Research linking sensitivity to others and their evaluation of the self to alterations in physiologic function led the authors to examine whether HIV infection might progress more rapidly in gay men who are particularly sensitive to social rejection. Analyses of data from a 9-year prospective study of 72 initially healthy HIV-positive gay men indicated that rejection-sensitive individuals experienced a significant acceleration in times to a criti…

  • Elevated physical health risk among gay men who conceal their homosexual identity.

    Steven W Cole, Steve W Cole et al.ARTICLEHealth Psychology1996

  • Accelerated Course of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection in Gay Men Who Conceal Their Homosexual Identity

    Steven W Cole, Steve W Cole et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine1996

    Research linking psychological inhibition to physical illness led us to examine whether human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection might progress more rapidly among gay men who conceal their homosexual identity than among those who do not. We also sought to determine whether any accelerated course of HIV infection among "closeted" gay men might be attributable to differences in health-relevant behavior (e.g., health practices, sexual behavior) …

  • Immune System Changes After the Death of a Partner in HIV-Positive Gay Men

    Margaret E Kemeny, Herbert Weiner et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine1995

    The objectives of this study were to determine 1) whether immune changes relevant to HIV progression occurred in HIV-seropositive men after the death of their intimate partner, and 2) whether depressed mood was associated with these immune changes. The bereaved group consisted of 39 gay men whose intimate partners had died of AIDS over the past year; the nonbereaved group consisted of 39 age- and HIV serostatus-matched nonbereaved men. Immunologi…

  • Immunological and physiological changes associated with induced positive and negative mood

    A D Futterman, Margaret E Kemeny et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine1994

    Functional and phenotypic immunological parameters were examined before, at the end of, and 20 minutes after the induction of positive and negative mood states, varied for arousal level, and a neutral state. The subjects were 14 male actors who experienced each condition on a different day. Compared with a neutral condition, all mood states affected several immune parameters (e.g., natural killer cell percentage and activity and percentage of sup…

  • The multidimensional nature of received social support in gay men at risk of HIV infection and Aids

    Open AccessRalf Schwarzer, Christine Dunkel-Schetter et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Community…1994Cited by: 12References: 39

    This article concerns received social support in gay men at risk of HIV and AIDS. Distinctions are made between three types of support (informational, tangible, emotional), four sources of support (friends, relatives, partner, organizations), and three dimensions of support (amount, satisfaction, reciprocity). A 24‐item inventory reflecting these distinctions was administered to a sample of 587 gay men at two points in time. The psychometric prop…

  • Optimism, coping, psychological distress, and high-risk sexual behavior among men at risk for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (Aids)

    Shelley E Taylor, Margaret E Kemeny et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…1992Cited by: 14References: 2

    In a cohort of gay men responding to the threat of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), dispositional optimism was associated with less distress, less avoidant coping, positive attitudes as a coping strategy, and fewer AIDS-related concerns. Men who knew they were seropositive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) were significantly more optimistic about not developing AIDS than men who knew they were seronegative for HIV. This AIDS-specif…