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- Number of publications: 69
Amaral, W. Z., Krueger, R. F., Ryff, C. D., & Coe, C. L. (2015). Genetic and environmental determinants of population variation in interleukin-6, its soluble receptor and C-reactive protein: Insights from identical and fraternal twins. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 49, 171-181.
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Andreoletti, C., Zebrowitz, L. A., & Lachman, M. E. (2001). Physical appearance and control beliefs in young, middle-aged, and older adults. Personality & Social Psychology Review, 27(8), 969-981.
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Andreyeva, T., Puhl, R.M., Brownell, K.D. (2008). Changes in perceived weight discrimination among Americans, 1995-1996 through 2004-2006. Obesity, 16(5), 1129-1134.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1038/oby.2008.35
Barger, S. D., & Sydeman, S. J. (2005). Does generalized anxiety disorder predict coronary heart disease risk factors independently of major depressive disorder? Journal of Affective Disorders, 88(1), 87-91.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1016/j.jad.2005.05.012
Barrett, A. E., & Toothman, E. L. (2017). Multiple "old ages": The influence of social context on women's aging anxiety. Journals Of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences And Social Sciences. Advance online publication.
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Block, J.P., He, Y., Zaslavsky, A.M., Ding, L., & Ayanian, J.Z. (2009). Psychosocial stress and change in weight among U.S. adults. American Journal of Epidemiology, 170, 181-192.
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Boehm, J. K., Williams, D. R., Rimm, E. B., Ryff, C., & Kubzansky, L. D. (2013). Relation between optimism and lipids in midlife. The American Journal of Cardiology, 111(10), 1425-1431.
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Bookwala, J., & Boyer, J. (2008). Gender, excessive body weight, and psychological well being in adulthood. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 32, 188-195.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1111/j.1471-6402.2008.00423.x
Boylan, J. M., & Robert, S. A. (2017). Neighborhood SES is particularly important to the cardiovascular health of low SES individuals. Social Science & Medicine, 188, 60-68.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.07.005
Carr, D., & Jaffe, K. (2012). The psychosocial consequences of weight change trajectories: Evidence from quantitative and qualitative data [Special invited issue]. Economics and Human Biology, 10(4), 419-430.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1016/j.ehb.2012.04.007
Carr, D., & Tsenkova, V. K. (2018). Psychosocial consequences of body weight and obesity. In C. D. Ryff & R. F. Krueger (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of integrative health science. New York: Oxford University Press..
Carr, D., Friedman, M. A., & Jaffe, K. (2007). Understanding the relationship between obesity and positive and negative affect: The role of psychosocial mechanisms. Body Image, 4(2), 165-177.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1016/j.bodyim.2007.02.00
Carr, D., Murphy, L., Batson, H., & Springer, K. W. (2013). Bigger is not always better: The effect of obesity on sexual satisfaction and behavior of adult men in the United States. Men and Masculinities, 16(4), 452-477.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1177/1097184x13502651
Carr, D.S., Jaffe, K., Friedman, M. (2008). Perceived Interpersonal Mistreatment Among Obese Americans: Do Race, Class,and Gender Matter? Obesity, 16(Supplement 2), S60-68.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1038/oby.2008.453
Carr, Deborah and Michael Friedman (2006). Body Weight and the Quality of Interpersonal Relationships. Social Psychology Quarterly, 69(2), 127-149.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1177/019027250606900202
Carr, Deborah and Michael Friedman (2005). Is Obesity Stigmatizing? Body Weight, Perceived Discrimination and Psychological Well-Being in the United States. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 46: 244-259.
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Chapman, B. P., Fiscella, K., Duberstein, P., Coletta, M., & Kawachi, I. (2009). Can the influence of childhood socioeconomic status on men's and women's adult body mass be explained by adult socioeconomic status or personality? Findings from a national sample. Health Psychology, 28(4), 419-427.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1037/a0015212
Chen, Y., Kawachi, I., Berkman, L. F., Trudel-Fitzgerald, C., & Kubzansky, L. D. (2018). A prospective study of marital quality and body weight in midlife. Health Psychology. Advance online publication.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1037/hea0000589
Chirinos, D. A., Murdock, K. W., LeRoy, A. S., & Fagundes, C. (2017). Depressive symptom profiles, cardio-metabolic risk and inflammation: Results from the MIDUS study. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 82, 17-25.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2017.04.011
Choi, B., Schnall, P. L., Yang, H., Dobson, M., Landsbergis, P., Israel, L., et al. (2010). Sedentary work, low physical job demand, and obesity in US workers. American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 53(11), 1088-1101.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1002/ajim.20886
Coe, C. L., Love, G. D., Karasawa, M., Kawakami, N., Kitayama, S., Markus, H. R., Tracy, R. P., & Ryff, C. D. (2011). Population differences in proinflammatory biology: Japanese have healthier profiles than Americans. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 25(3), 494-502.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1016/j.bbi.2010.11.013
Cohen, M., Granger, S., & Fuller-Thomson, E (2015). The association between bereavement and biomarkers of inflammation. Behavioral Medicine, 42(1), 49-59.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1080/08964289.2013.866539
Cotter, E. W., & Kelly, N. R. (2018). Stress-related eating, mindfulness, and obesity. Health Psychology, 37(6), 516-525.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1037/hea0000614
Cotter, K. A., & Lachman, M. E. (2010). Psychosocial and behavioral contributors to health: Age-related increases in physical disability are reduced by physical fitness. Psychology & Health, 25(7), 805-820.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1080/08870440902883212
Devine, J. K., & Wolf, J. M. (2016). Integrating nap and night-time sleep into sleep patterns reveals differential links to health-relevant outcomes. Journal of Sleep Research, 25(2), 225-233.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1111/jsr.12369
Ettner, S. L. (1999). The relationship between the continuity of care and the health behaviors of patients: Does having a usual physician make a difference? Medical Care, 37(6), 547-555.
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Ferraro, K. F., Schafer, M. H., & Wilkinson, L. R. (2016). Childhood disadvantage and health problems in middle and later life: Early imprints on physical health? American Sociological Review, 81(1), 107-133.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1177/0003122415619617
Gleason, C. E., Dowling, N. M., Friedman, E. M., Wharton, W., & Asthana, S. (2012). Using predictors of hormone therapy use to model the healthy user bias: How does healthy user status influence cognitive effects of hormone therapy. Menopause, 19(5), 524-533.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1097/gme.0b013e318238ff2c
Greenfield, E.A., & Marks, N.F. (2009). Violence from parents in childhood and obesity in adulthood: Using food in response to stress as a mediator of risk. Social Science & Medicine, 68, 791-798.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.12.004
Grzywacz, J. G. (2000). Work-family spillover and health during midlife: Is managing conflict everything? American Journal of Health Promotion, 14(4), 236-243.
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Hostinar, C. E., Lachman, M. E., Mroczek, D. K., Seeman, T. E., & Miller, G. E. (2015). Additive contributions of childhood adversity and recent stressors to inflammation at midlife: Findings from the MIDUS study. Developmental Psychology, 51(11), 1630-1644.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1037/dev0000049
Hunte, H. E. (2011). Association between perceived interpersonal everyday discrimination and waist circumference over a 9-year period in the midlife development in the United States cohort study. American Journal of Epidemiology, 173(11), 1232-1239.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1093/aje/kwq463
Johnson, W., & Krueger, R. F. (2005). Higher perceived life control decreases genetic variance in physical health: Evidence from a national twin study. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 88(1), 165-173.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1037/0022-3514.88.1.165
Johnson, W., & Krueger, R. F. (2005). Genetic effects on physical health: Lower at higher income levels. Behavior Genetics, 35(5), 579-590.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1007/s10519-005-3598-0
Jokela, M., Berg, V., Silventoinen, K., Batty, G. D., Singh-Manoux, A., Kaprio, J., Davey Smith, G., & Kivimaki, M. (2016). Body mass index and depressive symptoms: Testing for adverse and protective associations in two twin cohort studies. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 19(4), 306-311.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1017/thg.2016.14
Jokela, M., Elovainio, M., Nyberg, S. T., Tabak, A. G., Hintsa, T., Batty, G. D., & Kivimaki, M. (2014). Personality and risk of diabetes in adults: Pooled analysis of 5 cohort studies. Health Psychology. Advance online publication.
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Kim, K. H. (2007). Religion, weight perception, and weight control behavior. Eating Behaviors 8(1), 121-131.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1016/j.eatbeh.2006.03.001
Kim, K. H., Sobal, J., & Wethington, E. (2003). Religion and body weight. International Journal of Obesity & Related Metabolic Disorders: Journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity, 27(4), 469-477.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1038/sj.ijo.0802220
Kivimaki, M., Kuosma, E., Ferrie, J. E., Luukkonen, R., Nyberg, S. T., Alfredsson, L., . . . Jokela, M. (2017). Overweight, obesity, and risk of cardiometabolic multimorbidity: Pooled analysis of individual-level data for 120,813 adults from 16 cohort studies from the USA and Europe. Lancet Public Health, 2(6), e277-e285.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1016/S2468-2667(17)30074-9
Kuhlman, K. R., Robles, T. F., Bower, J. E., & Carroll, J. E. (2018). Screening for childhood adversity: The what and when of identifying individuals at risk for lifespan health disparities. Journal of Behavioral Medicine. Advance online publication.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1007/s10865-018-9921-z
Lee, C., & Ryff, C. D. (2016). Early parenthood as a link between childhood disadvantage and adult heart problems: A gender-based approach. Social Science & Medicine, 171, 58-66.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.10.028
Lin, F., Friedman, E., Quinn, J., Chen, D.-G., & Mapstone, M. (2012). Effect of leisure activities on inflammation and cognitive function in an aging sample. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 54(3), e398-e404.
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Mezick, E. J., Wing, R. R., & McCaffery, J. M. (2014). Associations of self-reported and actigraphy-assessed sleep characteristics with body mass index and waist circumference in adults: Moderation by gender. Sleep Medicine, 15(1), 64-70.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1016/j.sleep.2013.08.784
Morton, P. M., Mustillo, S. A., & Ferraro, K. F. (2014). Does childhood misfortune raise the risk of acute myocardial infarction in adulthood? Social Science & Medicine, 104, 133-141.
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Puhl, R. M., Andreyeva, T., & Brownell, K. D. (2008). Perceptions of weight discrimination: Prevalence and comparison to race and gender discrimination in America. International Journal of Obesity, 32(6), 992-1000.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1038/ijo.2008.22
Robinson, E., Hunger, J. M., & Daly, M. (2015). Perceived weight status and risk of weight gain across life in US and UK adults. International Journal of Obesity, 39, 1721-1726.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1038/ijo.2015.143
Robinson, E., Sutin, A., & Daly, M. (2017). Perceived weight discrimination mediates the prospective relation between obesity and depressive symptoms in US and UK adults. Health Psychology Open, 36(2), 112-121.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1037/hea0000426
Schrepf, A., Markon, K., & Lutgendorf, S. K. (2014). From childhood trauma to elevated C-reactive protein in adulthood: The role of anxiety and emotional eating. Psychosomatic Medicine, 76(5), 327-336.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1097/psy.0000000000000072
Shrestha, N., Pedisic, Z., Neil-Sztramko, S., Kukkonen-Harjula, K. T., & Hermans, V. (2016). The impact of obesity in the workplace: A review of contributing factors, consequences and potential solutions. Current Obesity Reports, 5(3), 344-360.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1007/s13679-016-0227-6
Spahlholz, J., Baer, N., Konig, H. H., Riedel-Heller, S. G., & Luck-Sikorski, C. (2016). Obesity and discrimination- a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies. Obesity Reviews, 17(1), 43-55.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1111/obr.12343
Srikanthan, P., Crandall, C. J., Miller-Martinez, D., Seeman, T. E., Greendale, G. A., Binkley, N., & Karlamangla, A. S. (2014). Insulin resistance and bone strength. Findings from the study of Midlife in the United States. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, 9(4), 796-803.
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Stephan, Y., Caudroit, J., Jaconelli, A., & Terracciano, A. (2014). Subjective age and cognitive functioning: A 10-year prospective study. The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 22(11), 1180-1187.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1016/j.jagp.2013.03.007
Stringhini, S., Carmeli, C., Jokela, M., Avendano, M., McCrory, C., d'Errico, A., . . . Kivimaki, M. (2018). Socioeconomic status, non-communicable disease risk factors, and walking speed in older adults: Multi-cohort population based study. BMJ, 360, k1046.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1136/bmj.k1046
Strohacker, K., Wing, R. R., & McCaffery, J. M. (2013). Contributions of body mass index and exercise habits on inflammatory markers: A cohort study of middle-aged adults living in the USA. BMJ Open, 3(5), e002623.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1136/bmjopen-2013-002623
Sutin, A. R., Stephan, Y., & Terracciano, A. (2015). Weight discrimination and risk of mortality. Psychological Science, 26(11), 1803-1811.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1177/0956797615601103
Sutin, A. R., Stephan, Y., Grzywacz, J. G., Robinson, E., Daly, M., & Terracciano, A. (2016). Perceived weight discrimination, changes in health, and daily stressors. Obesity, 24(10), 2202-2209.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1002/oby.21598
Tsenkova, V. K., & Karlamangla, A. (2016). Depression amplifies the influence of central obesity on 10-year incidence of diabetes: Findings from MIDUS. PLoS ONE, 11(10), e0164802.
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Tsenkova, V. K., Carr, D., Coe, C. L., & Ryff, C. D. (2014). Anger, adiposity, and glucose control in nonidabetic adults: Findings from MIDUS II. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 37(1), 37-46.
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Tsenkova, V. K., Carr, D., Coe, C. L., & Ryff, C. D. (2012). Synergistic effect of neuroticism and body mass index on glucose metabolism in nondiabetic adults Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1159/000337413
Tsenkova, V. K., Carr, D., Schoeller, D. A., & Ryff, C. D. (2011). Perceived weight discrimination amplifies the link between central adiposity and nondiabetic glycemic control (HbA(1c)). Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 41(2), 243-251.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1007/s12160-010-9238-9
Tsenkova, V., Boylan, J. M., & Ryff, C. (2013). Stress eating and health: Findings from MIDUS, a national Study of U.S. Adults. Appetite, 69, 151-155.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1016/j.appet.2013.05.020
Tsenkova, V., Pudrovska, T., & Karlamangla, A. (2014). Childhood socioeconomic disadvantage and prediabetes and diabetes in later life: A study of biopsychosocial pathways. Psychosomatic Medicine, 76(8), 622-628.
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Turiano, N. A., Chapman, B. P., Gruenewald, T. L., & Mroczek, D. K. (2015). Personality and the leading behavior contributors of mortality. Health Psychology, 4(1), 51-60.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1037/hea0000038
Turiano, N. A., Mroczek, D. K., Moynihan, J., & Chapman, B. P. (2013). Big 5 personality traits and interleukin-6: Evidence for "healthy neuroticism" in a U.S. Population sample. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 28, 83-89.
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Vadiveloo, M., & Mattei, J. (2017). Perceived weight discrimination and 10-year risk of allostatic load among US adults. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 51(1), 94-104.
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Versey, H. S., & Tan, M. (2018). Work-family spillover and metabolic syndrome indicators: Findings from a national sample. Journal of Health Psychology. Advance online publication.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1177/1359105318764014
Vittengl, J. R. (2018). Mediation of the bidirectional relations between obesity and depression among women. Psychiatry Research, 264, 254-259.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1016/j.psychres.2018.03.023
Wedow, R., Briley, D. A., Short, S. E., & Boardman, J. D. (2018). Weight Identity Among Older Adults in the United States: Genetic and Environmental Influences. In C. D. Ryff & R. F. Krueger (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of integrative health science. New York: Oxford University Press..
Yoo, J., Miyamoto, Y., Rigotti, A., & Ryff, C. D. (2017). Linking positive affect to blood lipids: A cultural perspective. Psychological Science. Advance online publication.
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View publication via DOI: DOI:10.1177/0956797617713309