Lee M. Cohen’s research while affiliated with University of Mississippi and other places

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Publications (158)


Health Implications of Gratitude
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November 2020

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Kristin Layous

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Lee M. Cohen

Grateful people report better psychological, social, and physical well‐being, and experimental evidence indicates that prompting people to express gratitude consistently boosts psychological and social well‐being. Thus far, experimental evidence linking gratitude to physical health is limited, but accumulating correlational and prospective evidence demonstrates that grateful people may experience better physical health via greater psychological and social well‐being, sleep quality and duration, healthy activities (e.g., exercise), and willingness to seek help for health concerns. In sum, the relationship between gratitude and psychological and social well‐being is strong and causal, but the relationship between gratitude and physical well‐being is currently limited but suggestive.


Pediatric Psychology

November 2020

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Lee M. Cohen

Pediatric psychology refers to the field of psychological research and practice that examines the interplay between physical and mental health of children, adolescents, and their families. The current entry addresses the historical foundations of the field, important perspectives and systems, and ethical issues. Further, the entry examines important crosscutting issues (e.g., adjustment to chronic illness, pediatric pain) and exemplars within pediatric psychology (e.g., diabetes, oncology). Finally, suggestions for future directions in clinical practice and research are provided.


Social Influence

November 2020

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Social relationships are associated with a significantly lower risk of mortality and morbidity, and this lower risk is usually attributed to the health‐protective effects of social support, or the aid and care that others provide in times of need. Social relationships can also be a source of social influence, or social control, as people monitor each other's health behavior and seek to discourage health‐damaging behavior. Social control is a common element of close relationships, and it exhibits complex associations with recipients' health behavior and psychological well‐being. Social control is usually directed toward encouraging sound health behavior, but it is sometimes directed toward undermining sound health behavior. Understanding how the dynamics of health‐related social support and social control unfold over time in the context of a chronic illness or other significant health transition is an important goal for future research.


Psychological Assessment in Medical Settings

November 2020

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Psychologists' skills are increasingly being utilized in medical settings. Through formal assessment of psychological symptoms, psychologists can assist in focusing treatment either to or away from primary psychological issues, helping to streamline the treatment process for patients (Kush, K. R. (2001). Primary care and clinical psychology: Assessment strategies in medical settings. Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings, 8(4), 219–228. doi: 10.1023/A:1011973027283). This chapter outlines the psychologists' role in screening for common psychological conditions in primary care settings, assessment of functional impairment and disability status in rehabilitation settings, and assessing for comorbid psychological conditions in specialty care settings such as oncology, cardiology, and organ transplantation. Examples of common psychological assessments are included for each setting.


Health‐Related Quality of Life

November 2020

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Quality of life (QoL) has been defined in numerous ways; however, most definitions indicate that it encompasses an individual's perceptions of his or her physical, psychological, social, and other types of well‐being. Health‐related quality of life (HRQoL) is a multidimensional construct that is typically conceptualized as representing the health‐related aspects of QoL. HRQoL is commonly assessed using both generic and disease‐specific instruments, and interventions exist to improve HRQoL in patients coping with a variety of chronic diseases.


Subjective Health Norms

November 2020

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Social norms powerfully influence behavior broadly and health behavior specifically. This entry focuses on the roles of descriptive and injunctive norms in both influencing and motivating change in health behaviors. First, descriptive and injunctive norms are defined and distinguished from other normative constructs. We next describe research that has confirmed an influence of these norms on health risk, health protective, and health screening intentions and behaviors. Interventions that utilize descriptive and injunctive norms to encourage healthier behavior are then discussed. Methodologies that enhance the impact of normative information and moderators of norm‐based interventions are addressed. The entry closes with suggestions for future research that will enhance our understanding of and ability to use these powerful social norms to motivate healthy behavior.


Alcohol Use Disorder: Long-Term Consequences

November 2020

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Chronic alcohol consumption is associated with numerous adverse health consequences and is the third leading cause of global disease burden. This entry provides an overview of long‐term negative consequences of problematic alcohol use, as well as potential health benefits of light‐to‐moderate use of alcohol. Psychosocial and pharmacological treatment approaches for alcohol use disorder and related health concerns are also reviewed.


Emotion Regulation

November 2020

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Emotions provide information that usually carries consequences for people's health‐related goals. Our ability to regulate emotion once evoked—to downplay, calibrate, or otherwise modulate them—can weigh heavily in how we experience and respond to stress and, in turn, our susceptibility to illness and disease. This encyclopedia entry first describes and defines emotion regulation as a construct and highlights the known links between emotion regulation and physical health. We discuss emotion regulation in relation to stress responding, focusing on why and how emotion regulation abilities are vital to promoting, sustaining, and enhancing our health. We then consider sources of variability in people's emotion regulation skills and how this maps on to susceptibility to illness and disease. Individual and developmental variability in skill and the importance of context are noted as likely moderators of the emotion regulation‐health link that are ripe for future work to examine.


Reproductive Health

November 2020

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This chapter provides a summary of reproductive and sexual health topics. Included is an overview of sexual behaviors, sexual orientation, and the importance of gathering reproductive and sexual health information via a comprehensive sexual history assessment. Sexual behaviors that increase risk for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are reviewed, along with STI/HIV risk assessment, prevention, and treatment approaches. Modern contraceptive options that provide safe, effective methods of pregnancy prevention are discussed. Sexual health conditions including sexual dysfunction disorders, hypersexuality, and paraphilic disorders are described, along with diagnostic and treatment considerations. Lastly, sexual behaviors across lifespan development are briefly overviewed.


The Effects of Health‐Related Policy

November 2020

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Many policies are enacted by the different levels of government in the United States in order to ensure a healthy population. The creators of these policies hope that they will help to also decrease the burden of disease. A successful example of this is tobacco‐related policies, which have significantly decreased tobacco use behaviors. There were several historical iterations of tobacco policies necessary to eventually lead to this change. The history surrounding the regulation of tobacco is decades long and can provide lessons for the creation of policy regarding other areas of health.


Citations (36)


... 12 Studies on U.S. veterans integrating back into society following military service indicate that they often cope with a myriad of physical and mental health issues (e.g., chronic pain, sleep problems, traumatic brain injuries, or military-related PTSD). 13,14 Research on sexual dysfunctions among veterans outside of the United States is also limited. Recently, a study found that sexual dysfunctions (e.g., sexual interest or arousal disorders and erectile or ejaculatory dysfunctions) were common among Canadian veterans, with 40% of their sample reporting pain or problems during intercourse and 71.5% indicating a lack of sexual desire or pleasure. ...

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Erectile Dysfunction in a U.S. National Sample of Male Military Veterans
Veterans' Health Issues
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  • November 2020

... Effective communication is crucial in healthcare, with numerous studies demonstrating its positive impact on professional responsibility (Amon, 2002;Leonard et al., 2004), healthcare outcomes (Ong et al., 1995;Stewart, 1995), and doctor-patient interactions (Jiang et al., 2020;Miller & DiMatteo, 2020). One of the primary challenges to effective communication in healthcare is the growing influx of international students enrolling in medical schools around the world. ...

Physician–Patient Communication
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  • November 2020

... The risk of experiencing PMHDs is significantly higher in groups exposed to historical and current marginalization and stigmatization, including immigrant and Indigenous populations (5)(6)(7). When PMHDs are untreated, there is an increased risk of future mental health difficulties, reduced quality of life, and high healthcare utilization (8). ...

Perinatal Depression
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  • November 2020

... and (4) What are the implications of the results of the study? Lazarus and Folkman (1984), referenced by Stephenson and DeLongis (2020), provided evidence in support of the ground theory by stating that problem-focused coping involves making an effort to address the issue at hand, whereas emotion-focused coping involves making attempts to minimize the problem at hand. Relationshipfocused coping, as described by O'Brien et al. (2009) and referenced by Stephenson and DeLongis (2020), is another coping approach that involves making an effort to preserve and manage important social ties when stressful events occur. ...

Coping Strategies
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  • November 2020

... [2]. However, the overall association between R/S and mental health can only be considered modest [3]. In a recent meta-analysis of English-language longitudinal studies, Garssen and colleagues [4] report a cumulative effect size of r+ = .08. ...

Spirituality/Religiosity and Health
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  • November 2020

... Another area where there are inconsistencies in regulatory frameworks is related to scope of practice variations and MHSUH workforce training across jurisdictions. For instance, in the US, some states have moved to allow psychologists prescriptive authority given that this may enhance the quality of services provided to individuals with psychological and behavioural disorders [11]. Also, in some contexts (e.g., US), jurisdictional regulations for peer worker training and credentialing requirements differ signi cantly [12], which can present challenges for supporting these providers in practice. ...

Prescriptive Authority for Psychologists
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  • November 2020

... To fill this research gap in relation to changes in health behaviors, this study focuses on affective forecasting theory (AFT; Wilson & Gilbert, 2003, 2005, which posits that affects and positive emotions are key components of psychological well-being because they are associated with the adoption of preventive and health behaviors, decisionmaking, and engagement (Conner et al., 2015;Ellis et al., 2018;Flynn et al., 2020;Halpern & Arnold, 2008;Peters et al., 2014). Therefore, emotional processes that refer to the forecasting of subjects of the impact of their life choices on emotional well-being drive health decisions (Halpern & Arnold, 2008;Rhodes & Strain, 2008;Winter et al., 2009). ...

Affective Forecasting
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  • November 2020

... Research in health psychology has long recognized that diseasespecific worry motivates preventative health behaviors (see in Sweeny and Dooley, 2017;McCaul et al., 2020). Worry can be meaningfully conceptualized as a flexible resource that may help people bring up issues and motivate proactive behaviors to solve such issues (Bazzoli et al., 2021). ...

Disease‐Specific Worry
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  • November 2020