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Adriel Boals is affiliated with the University of North Texas in the United States and focuses their research primarily within the field of Psychology, with a significant emphasis on Clinical Psychology. Their scholarly contributions span various subfields, including Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, and Applied Psychology.

Their work is extensively published in peer-reviewed journals, with frequent appearances in the Journal of Traumatic Stress, Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy, Anxiety Stress & Coping, Journal of Loss and Trauma, and Clinical Psychology Review.

Boals' research centers largely on the study of trauma and its psychological effects. Key topics covered in their publications include Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research, Migration, Health and Trauma, Identity, Memory, and Therapy, as well as Child Abuse and Trauma. Additional research themes encompass Mental Health Research Topics, Resilience and Mental Health, and Optimism, Hope, and Well-being.

Frequent collaborators in Boals' research include Elizabeth L. Griffith, Zina Trost, Crystal L. Park, Ann Marie Warren, and Evan McShan.

Notable recent papers authored by Boals include:

  • Stress and cognitive functioning during a pandemic: Thoughts from stress researchers, 2020, Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy
  • The utility of college student samples in research on trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder: A critical review, 2020, Journal of Anxiety Disorders
  • Illusory posttraumatic growth is common, but genuine posttraumatic growth is rare: A critical review and suggestions for a path forward, 2023, Clinical Psychology Review
  • Advantages of distinguishing perceived and veridical growth: recommendations for future research on both constructs, 2022, The Journal of Positive Psychology

Best Publications

  • Expressive writing can increase working memory capacity.

    Kitty Klein;Adriel Boals

  • The relationship of life event stress and working memory capacity

    Kitty Klein;Adriel Boals

  • First‐generation undergraduate students' social support, depression, and life satisfaction.

    Sharon Rae Jenkins;Aimee Belanger;Melissa Londoño Connally;Adriel Boals

  • Memory in posttraumatic stress disorder: properties of voluntary and involuntary, traumatic and nontraumatic autobiographical memories in people with and without posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms.

    David C. Rubin;Adriel Boals;Dorthe Berntsen

  • Word Use in Emotional Narratives about Failed Romantic Relationships and Subsequent Mental Health

    Adriel Boals;Kitty Klein

  • The unique contributions of positive and negative religious coping to posttraumatic growth and PTSD.

    Monica M. Gerber;Adriel Boals;Darnell Schuettler

  • The Path to Posttraumatic Growth Versus Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Contributions of Event Centrality and Coping

    Darnell Schuettler;Adriel Boals

  • A double-edged sword: Event centrality, PTSD and posttraumatic growth

    Adriel Boals;Darnell Schuettler

  • The relationship between self-control and health: The mediating effect of avoidant coping.

    Adriel Boals;Michelle R Vandellen;Jonathan B Banks

  • Events that have become central to identity: Gender differences in the centrality of events scale for positive and negative events

    Adriel Boals

  • PTSD symptoms in response to traumatic and non-traumatic events: the role of respondent perception and A2 criterion.

    Adriel Boals;Darnell Schuettler

  • PTSD symptoms and dominant emotional response to a traumatic event: an examination of DSM-IV Criterion A2

    Lisa M. Hathaway;Adriel Boals;Jonathan B. Banks

  • Advancing Our Understanding of Posttraumatic Growth by Considering Event Centrality

    Adriel Boals;Jennifer M. Steward;Darnell Schuettler

  • Thinking About Trauma: The Unique Contributions of Event Centrality and Posttraumatic Cognitions in Predicting PTSD and Posttraumatic Growth

    Sarah Barton;Adriel Boals;Laura Knowles

  • Effects of traumatic stress and perceived stress on everyday cognitive functioning

    Adriel Boals;Jonathan B. Banks

  • I Am > Trauma: Experimentally Reducing Event Centrality and PTSD Symptoms in a Clinical Trial

    Adriel Boals;Amy R. Murrell

  • Coping with Stressful Events: Use of Cognitive Words in Stressful Narratives and the Meaning-Making Process

    Adriel Boals;Jonathan B. Banks;Lisa M. Hathaway;Darnell Schuettler

  • Refining our ability to measure posttraumatic growth.

    Stephanie F. Johnson;Adriel Boals

  • The Use of Meaning Making in Expressive Writing: When Meaning is Beneficial

    Adriel Boals

  • Coherence and Narrative Structure in Personal Accounts of Stressful Experiences

    Kitty Klein;Adriel Boals

  • Reducing reports of illusory posttraumatic growth: A revised version of the Stress-Related Growth Scale (SRGS-R).

    Adriel Boals;Keke L. Schuler

Frequent Co-Authors

David C. Rubin
David C. Rubin Duke University
Daniel J. Taylor
Daniel J. Taylor University of Arizona
Camilo J. Ruggero
Camilo J. Ruggero University of North Texas
Dorthe Berntsen
Dorthe Berntsen Aarhus University
Bert Hayslip
Bert Hayslip University of North Texas
Jennifer L. Callahan
Jennifer L. Callahan University of North Texas
Joanne L. Davis
Joanne L. Davis University of Tulsa
David A. Sbarra
David A. Sbarra University of Arizona
Matthias R. Mehl
Matthias R. Mehl University of Arizona
Richard J. McNally
Richard J. McNally Harvard University

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