The Role of Uncertainty, Worry, and Control in Well-Being: Evidence From the COVID-19 Outbreak and Pandemic in U.S. and China

Howell, Jennifer L.; Sweeny, Kate; Hua, Jacqueline; Werntz, Alexandra; Hussain, Maryam; Hinojosa, Bianca M.; Johnson, Angela E.; Lindgren, Kristen P.; Meese, William; O’Shea, Brian A.; Teachman, Bethany A.

doi:10.1037/emo0001163

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Risk and protective factors for self-harm thoughts and behaviours in transgender and gender diverse people: A systematic review. (2024)
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Bird, K., Arcelus, J., Matsagoura, L., O'Shea, B., & Townsend, E. (in press). Risk and protective factors for self-harm thoughts and behaviours in transgender and gender diverse people: A systematic review. Heliyon, 10(5), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e26074

Self-harm (any self-injury or -poisoning regardless of intent) is highly prevalent in transgender and gender diverse (TGD) populations. It is strongly associated with various adverse health and wellbeing outcomes, including suicide. Despite increased... Read More about Risk and protective factors for self-harm thoughts and behaviours in transgender and gender diverse people: A systematic review..

How do explicit, implicit, and sociodemographic measures relate to concurrent suicidal ideation? A comparative machine learning approach (2023)
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Freichel, R., Kahveci, S., & O’Shea, B. (2024). How do explicit, implicit, and sociodemographic measures relate to concurrent suicidal ideation? A comparative machine learning approach. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 54(1), 49-60. https://doi.org/10.1111/sltb.13017

Introduction: Suicide is a leading cause of death, and decades of research have identified a range of risk factors, including demographics, past self‐injury and suicide attempts, and explicit suicide cognitions. More recently, implicit self‐harm and... Read More about How do explicit, implicit, and sociodemographic measures relate to concurrent suicidal ideation? A comparative machine learning approach.

Between the group and the individual: The need for within-person panel study approaches in suicide research (2023)
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Freichel, R., Wiers, R., O'Shea, B., McNally, R. J., & de Beurs, D. (2023). Between the group and the individual: The need for within-person panel study approaches in suicide research. Psychiatry Research, 330, Article 115549. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2023.115549

Implicit and explicit COVID‐19‐vaccine harmfulness/helpfulness associations predict vaccine beliefs, intentions, and behaviors (2023)
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Hinojosa, B. M., Meese, W. B., Howell, J. L., Lindgren, K. P., O’Shea, B., Teachman, B. A., & Werntz, A. (2023). Implicit and explicit COVID‐19‐vaccine harmfulness/helpfulness associations predict vaccine beliefs, intentions, and behaviors. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 17(12), Article e12905. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12905

We investigated the role of implicit and explicit associations between harm and COVID-19 vaccines using a large sample (N = 4668) of online volunteers. The participants completed a brief implicit association test and explicit measures to evaluate the... Read More about Implicit and explicit COVID‐19‐vaccine harmfulness/helpfulness associations predict vaccine beliefs, intentions, and behaviors.

Predicting suicidal ideation in psychiatrically hospitalized veterans using the death/suicide Implicit Association Test: A prospective cohort study (2023)
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Smith, E. G., Howard, A., Schultz, M., Li, M., Salvatore, P., & O'Shea, B. A. (2023). Predicting suicidal ideation in psychiatrically hospitalized veterans using the death/suicide Implicit Association Test: A prospective cohort study. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 53(6), 994-1009. https://doi.org/10.1111/sltb.12998

Introduction We investigated whether the Death/Suicide Implicit Association Test (D/S-IAT) predicted suicidal ideation (SI) in psychiatric inpatients. Methods One hundred eighty veterans admitted for either SI or suicidal behavior (SB) (the prim... Read More about Predicting suicidal ideation in psychiatrically hospitalized veterans using the death/suicide Implicit Association Test: A prospective cohort study.

Suicidality and mood: the impact of trends, seasons, day of the week, and time of day on explicit and implicit cognitions among an online community sample (2023)
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Freichel, R., & O’Shea, B. A. (2023). Suicidality and mood: the impact of trends, seasons, day of the week, and time of day on explicit and implicit cognitions among an online community sample. Translational Psychiatry, 13, Article 157. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-023-02434-1

Decades of research have established seasonality effects on completed and attempted suicides, with rates increasing in spring. Little advancements have been made to explain this phenomenon, with most studies focusing almost exclusively on the number... Read More about Suicidality and mood: the impact of trends, seasons, day of the week, and time of day on explicit and implicit cognitions among an online community sample.

Less biased yet more defensive: The impact of control processes (2023)
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Vitriol, J. A., O’Shea, B. A., & Calanchini, J. (2023). Less biased yet more defensive: The impact of control processes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 30(1), 108-119. https://doi.org/10.1037/xap0000468

Educational and training programs designed to reduce racial bias often focus on increasing people’s awareness of psychological sources of their biases. However, when people learn about their biases, they often respond defensively, which can undermine... Read More about Less biased yet more defensive: The impact of control processes.

Implicit and explicit COVID-19 associations and mental health in the United States: a large-scale examination and replication (2023)
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Werntz, A., O’Shea, B. A., Sjobeck, G., Howell, J., Lindgren, K. P., & Teachman, B. A. (2023). Implicit and explicit COVID-19 associations and mental health in the United States: a large-scale examination and replication. Anxiety, Stress and Coping, Article 2176486. https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2023.2176486

Background: Given the sensitive nature of COVID-19 beliefs, evaluating them explicitly and implicitly may provide a fuller picture of how these beliefs vary based on identities and how they relate to mental health. Objective: Three novel brief implic... Read More about Implicit and explicit COVID-19 associations and mental health in the United States: a large-scale examination and replication.

The Role of Uncertainty, Worry, and Control in Well-Being: Evidence From the COVID-19 Outbreak and Pandemic in U.S. and China (2022)
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Howell, J. L., Sweeny, K., Hua, J., Werntz, A., Hussain, M., Hinojosa, B. M., …Teachman, B. A. (2022). The Role of Uncertainty, Worry, and Control in Well-Being: Evidence From the COVID-19 Outbreak and Pandemic in U.S. and China. Emotion, https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001163

Uncertainty about the future often leads to worries about what the future will bring, which can have negative consequences for health and well-being. However, if worry can act as a motivator to promote efforts to prevent undesirable future outcomes,... Read More about The Role of Uncertainty, Worry, and Control in Well-Being: Evidence From the COVID-19 Outbreak and Pandemic in U.S. and China.