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Publications resulting from the work of the Pittsburgh Mind-Body Center are organized below
according to the Common Pathways Model that has guided the efforts of PMBC since its inception.

Chronic Burdens and Resources
Psychological Processes
Health Behaviors
Restorative Activities
Biological Processes
Methods
Life Course
Theoretically-based Literature Reviews

 

. Chronic Burdens and Resources
Brady SS, Matthews KA:  Chronic stress influences ambulatory blood pressure in
adolescents.  Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 31, 80-88, 2006. 
Brady SS: Lifetime community violence exposure and health risk behavior among young
adults in college.  Journal of Adolescent Health, in press.
Chen E, Martin AD, Matthews KA:  Understanding health disparities: The role of race
and socioeconomic status in children’s health.  American Journal of Public Health, 96,
702-708, 2006.
Cohen S, Doyle WJ, Baum A.  Socioeconomic status is associated with stress hormones.
Psychosomatic Medicine, 68, 414-420, 2006.
Cohen S, Doyle WJ, Turner R, Alper C, Skoner DP: Childhood socioeconomic status and
the susceptibility to the common cold.  Psychosomatic Medicine, 66, 553-558, 2004.
Heinonen K, Räikkönen K, Matthews KA, Scheier MF, Raitakari OT, Pulkki L,
Keltikangas-Järvinen L: Socioeconomic status in childhood and adulthood: Associations
with dispositional optimism and pessimism over a 21-year follow-up.  Journal of Personality,
in press.
Kamarck TW, Muldoon MF, Shiffman SS, Sutton-Tyrrell K:  Experiences of demand and
control during daily life are predictors of carotid atherosclerotic progression among healthy
men. Health Psychology, in press.
Norton TR, Gupta A, Stephens MAP, Martire LM, Townsend AL:  Stress, rewards, and
change in the centrality of women’s family and work roles:  Mastery as a mediator.
Sex Roles:  A Journal of Research, 52, 325-335, 2005.
Ruiz JM, Matthews KA, Scheier MF, Schulz R:  Does whom you marry matter for your
health? Influence of patient’s and spouse’s personality on their partner’s psychological
well-being following coronary artery bypass surgery. Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, in press.
Schulz R, Belle SH, Czaja SJ, McGinnis KA, Stevens A, Zhang S:  Long-term care
placement of dementia patients and caregiver health and well-being.  Journal of the American
Medical Association, 292(8), 961-967, 2004.
Schulz R, Martire LM: Family caregiving in persons with dementia:  Prevalence, health
effects, and support strategies.  American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 12(3),
240-249, 2004.
Troxel WM, Matthews KA, Gallo LC, Kuller LH:  Marital quality and occurrence of the
metabolic syndrome in women.  Archives of Internal Medicine, 165, 1022-1027, 2005.

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Psychological Processes
Chen E, Langer DA, Raphaelson YE, Matthews KA:  Socioeconomic status and health in
adolescents:  The role of stress interpretations.  Child Development, 75, 1039-1052, 2004. 
Gallo LC, Bogart OLM, Vranceanu A, Matthews KA:  Socioeconomic status, resources,
psychological experiences, and emotional responses:  A test of the reserve capacity model.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88, 386-399, 2005.
Jackson B, Kubzansky LD, Cohen S, Jacobs DR Jr, Wright R:  Does harboring hostility
hurt? Associations between hostility and pulmonary function in the CARDIA Study.
Health Psychology, in press.
Lenze EJ, Schulz R, Martire LM, Zdaniuk B, Glass T, Kop WJ, Jackson SA, Reynolds CF:
The course of functional decline in persistently depressed elderly: Longitudinal findings from
the Cardiovascular Health Study.  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 53, 569-575,
2005.
Martire LM, Keefe FJ, Schulz R, Ready R, Beach SR, Rudy TE, Starz TW.  Older spouses’
perceptions of partners’ chronic arthritis pain:  Implications for spousal responses, support
provision, and caregiving experiences.  Psychology and Aging, 21:222-230, 2006.
Matthews KA, Owens JF, Edmundowicz D, Lee L, Kuller LH:  Positive and negative
attributes for coronary and aortic calcification in healthy women.  Psychosomatic Medicine,
68, 355-361, 2006.
Matthews KA, Raikkonen K, Sutton-Tyrrell K, Kuller LH:  Optimistic attitudes protect
against progression of carotid atherosclerosis in healthy middle-aged women.
Psychosomatic Medicine, 66, 640-644, 2004.
Raikkonen K, Matthews KA, Sutton-Tyrrell K, Kuller LH:  Trait anger and the metabolic
syndrome predict progression of carotid atherosclerosis in healthy middle-aged women.
Psychosomatic Medicine, 66, 903-908, 2004.
Rasmussen HN, Wrosch C, Scheier MF, Carver CS: Self-regulation processes and health:
The importance of optimism and goal adjustment.  Journal of Personality, in press.
Schulz R, Martire LM, Klinger JN:  Caregiver interventions in geriatric psychiatry.
Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 28, 1007-1038, 2005.
Wrosch C, Dunne E, Scheier MF, Schulz R: Self-regulation of common age-related
challenges: Benefits for older adults’ psychological and physical health.  Journal of
Behavioral Medicine, 29, 299-306, 2006.
Wrosch C, Schulz R, Heckhausen J:  Health stresses and depressive symptomatology in
the elderly: A control-process approach.  Current Directions, 13(1), 17-20, 2004.

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Health Behaviors
Cohen S, Lemay E:  Why would social networks be linked to affect and health practices?
Health Psychology, in press.
Germain A, Shear MK, Hall M, Buysse DJ:  Effects of a brief behavioral treatment for
PTSD-related sleep disturbances:  A pilot study.  Behaviour Research and Therapy, in press.
Matthews KA, Owens JF, Salomon K, Harris KF, Berga SL:  Influence of hormone
therapy on the cardiovascular responses to stress of postmenopausal women.  Biological
Psychology, 69, 39-56, 2005.
Schulz R, Boerner K, Shear K, Zhang S, Gitlin LN: Predictors of complicated grief among
dementia caregivers: A prospective study of bereavement.  American Journal of Geriatric
Psychiatry, in press.
Stephens MAP, Martire LM, Cremeans-Smith JK, Druley JA, Wojno WC:  Older women
with osteoarthritis and their caregiving husbands: Effects of patients’ pain and pain
expression.  Rehabilitation Psychology, 51, 3-12, 2006.

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Restorative Activities
Scheier MF, Helgeson VS, Schulz R, Colvin S, Berga S, Bridges MW, Knapp J,
Gerszten K, Pappert WS:  Interventions to enhance physical and psychological functioning
among younger women who are ending nonhormonal adjuvant treatment for early stage
breast cancer.  Journal of Clinical Oncology, 23, 4298-4311, 2005.

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Biological Processes
Cohen S:  Keynote presentation at the Eighth International Congress of Behavioral
Medicine:  The Pittsburgh Common Cold Studies: Psychosocial predictors of susceptibility
to respiratory infectious illness.  International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 12, 123-131,
2005. 
Cohen S, Schwartz JE, Epel E, Kirschbaum C, Sidney S, Seeman T:  Socioeconomic
status, race and diurnal cortisol decline in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young
Adults (CARDIA) study.  Psychosomatic Medicine, 68, 41-50, 2006.
Doyle WJ, Gentile DA, Cohen S: Emotional style, nasal cytokines and illness expression
after experimental rhinovirus exposure.  Brain, Behavior and Immunity, 20, 175-181, 2006.
Feldman, P. J., Cohen, S., Hamrick, N., & Lepore, S. J. (2004).  Psychological stress,
appraisal, emotion and cardiovascular response in a public speaking task.  Psychology and
Health, 19, 353-368.
Gianaros PJ, Derbyshire SWG, May JC, Siegle GJ, Gamalo MA, Jennings JR: Anterior
cingulate activity correlates with blood pressure during stress. Psychophysiology,
42, 627-635, 2005.
Gianaros PJ, Greer PJ, Ryan CM, Jennings JR: Higher blood pressure predicts lower
regional grey matter volume: Consequences on short-term information processing.
NeuroImage, 31: 754-765, 2006.
Gianaros PJ, May JC, Siegle GJ, Jennings JR:  Is there a functional neural correlate of
individual differences in cardiovascular reactivity?  Psychosomatic Medicine 67. 31-39, 2005.
Gianaros PJ, Salomon K, Zhou F, Owens JF, Edmundowicz D, Kuller LH, Matthews KA:
A greater reduction in high-frequency heart rate variability to a psychological stressor is
associated with subclinical coronary and aortic calcification in postmenopausal women.
Psychosomatic Medicine, 67, 553-560, 2005.
Goldbacher EM, Matthews KA, Salomon K:  Central adiposity is associated with
cardiovascular reactivity to stress in adolescents.  Health Psychology, 24, 375-384, 2005.
Marsland AL, Cohen S, Rabin BS, Manuck SB: Trait positive affect and antibody response
to Hepatitis B vaccination.  Brain, Behavior and Immunity, 20, 261-269, 2006.
Marsland AL, Pressman S, Cohen S: Positive affect and immune function.  In R. Ader (Ed.),
Psychoneuroimmunology, 4th ed, Vol. II. San Diego, CA: Elsevier, in press.
Matthews KA, Katholi CR, McCreath H, Whooley MA, Williams DR, Zhu S, Markovitz JH:
Blood pressure reactivity to psychological stress predicts hypertension in the CARDIA
study.  Circulation, 110, 74-78, 2004.
Matthews KA, Salomon K, Kenyon K, Zhou F:  Unfair treatment, discrimination, and
ambulatory blood pressure in black and white adolescents.  Health Psychology 24,
258-265, 2005.
Miller GE, Cohen S, Pressman S, Rabin BS, Barkin A, Treanor J:  Psychological stress
and antibody response to influenza vaccination:  When is the critical period for stress, and
how does it get inside the body?  Psychosomatic Medicine, 66, 207-214, 2004.
Polk D, Cohen S, Doyle WJ, Skoner DP, Kirschbaum C: Trait and state affect and cortisol
response.  Psychoneuroendocrinology. 30, 261–272, 2005.
Pressman S, Cohen S, Miller GE, Rabin BS, Barker A, Treanor J:  Loneliness, social
network size, and immune response to influenza vaccination in college freshmen.  Health
Psychology, 24, 297-306, 2005.
Wrosch C, Schulz R, Miller G, Lupien S: Physical health problems, depressive mood, and
Cortisol secretion in old age: Buffer effects of health engagement control strategies.  Health
Psychology, in press.

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Methods Issues
Bookwala J, Zdaniuk B, Burton L, Lind B, Jackson S, Schulz R: Concurrent and long-term
predictors of older adults’ use of community-based long-term care services.  Journal of
Aging and Health, 16(1), 88-115, 2004.

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Life Course
Brady SS, Matthews KA: Effects of media violence on health-related outcomes among
young men.  Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 160, 341-347, 2006.
Matthews KA:  Psychological perspectives on the development of coronary heart disease.
American Psychologist, 60, 783-796, 2005.
Mitrani VB, Lewis J, Feaster DJ, Czaja SJ, Eisdorfer C, Schulz R, Szapocznik J:  The role
of family functioning in the stress process of dementia caregivers: A structural family
framework.  The Gerontologist, 46, 97-105, 2006.
Wrosch C, Bauer I, Scheier MF:  Regret and quality of life across the adult life span:
The influence of disengagement and available future goals.  Psychology and Aging,
19, 657-670, 2005. 
Methods Issues: Germain A, Hall M, Shear MK, Nofzinger EA, Buysse DJ:  Sleep disruption
in PTSD: A pilot study with home-based polysomnography.  Sleep and Biological Rhythms,
in press.
Janicki DJ, Kamarck TW: Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring. In L Luecken, L Gallo
(Eds.), Handbook of Physiological Research Methods in Health Psychology.   New York:
Sage Publications, in press.
Scheier MF, Wrosch C, Cohen S, Martire LM, Matthews KA, Schulz R, Zdaniuk B.
The Life Engagement Test:  Assessing purpose in life.  Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 29,
291-298, 2006. 

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Theoretically-based Literature Reviews
Carver CS, Scheier MF:  Engagement, disengagement, coping, and catastrophe.  In:
A Elliot, C Dweck (Eds.), Handbook of Competence and Motivation (pp. 527-547).
New York: Guilford, 2005.
Carver CS, Scheier MF: Feedback processes in the simultaneous regulation of action and
affect.  In JY Shah, WL Gardner (Eds.), Handbook of Motivation Science.  New York:
Guilford, in press.  
Cohen S: Social relationships and health.  American Psychologist, 59, 676-684, 2004.
Cohen S, Pressman S: Positive affect and health.  Current Directions in Psychology, in press.
Hagerty Lingler J, Martire LM, Schulz R:  Caregiver-specific outcomes in anti-dementia
clinical drug trials: A systematic review and meta-analysis.  Journal of the American
Geriatrics Society, 53, 983-990, 2005. 
Harris KF, Matthews KA:  Interactions between autonomic nervous system activity and
endothelial function:   A model for the development of cardiovascular disease.
Psychosomatic Medicine, 66, 153-164, 2004.
Hebert RS, Weinstein E, Martire LM, Schulz R.  Religion, spirituality and the well-being of
informal caregivers: A review, critique, and research prospectus.  Aging and Mental Health,
in press.
Lingler J, Martire LM, Schulz R:  Caregiver-specific outcomes in anti-dementia clinical drug
trials: A systematic review and meta-analysis.  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
in press.
Martire LM:  The “relative” efficacy of involving family in psychosocial interventions for chronic
illness:  Are there added benefits to patients and family members?  Families, Systems &
Health, in press.
Martire LM, Lustig AP, Schulz R, Miller GE, Helgeson VS: Is it beneficial to involve a family
member?  A meta-analytic review of psychosocial interventions for chronic illness.  Health
Psychology, 23(6), 599-611, 2004.
Miller, G. E., & Cohen, S. (in press).  Psychoneuroimmunology of infectious disease.
In K. Vedhara & M. Irwin (eds.), Human Psychoneuroimmunology.  Oxford University Press.
Pressman S, Cohen S: Does positive affect influence health?  Psychological Bulletin, 131,
925-971, 2005.
Scheier MF:  Life Orientation Test.  In: N Salkind (Series Ed.), A Christensen, R Marin,
J Smith (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Health Psychology. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum
Publishers, in press.
Scheier MF, Carver CS:  Optimism.  In: G Fink (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Stress. 2nd edition.
San Diego: Academic Press, in press.

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