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Social Sciences and Humanities D-index 31 Citations 2,902 70 World Ranking 4796 National Ranking 2327

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Awards & Achievements

2008 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

What is she best known for?

The fields of study she is best known for:

  • Internal medicine
  • Mental health
  • Social psychology

Her primary scientific interests are in Coping, Social psychology, Clinical psychology, Distress and Psychiatry. Her Coping research includes themes of Optimism, Social support, Positive psychology and Faith. Her work in Social psychology addresses issues such as Spirituality, which are connected to fields such as Meaning, Big Five personality traits, Cognitive resource theory and Empirical evidence.

The concepts of her Clinical psychology study are interwoven with issues in Mental health and Heart disorder. In her work, Confounding, Prospective cohort study and Disease is strongly intertwined with Psychosocial, which is a subfield of Distress. Her studies in Confounding integrate themes in fields like Cardiac surgery, Surgery and Physical therapy.

Her most cited work include:

  • Meaning Making and Growth: New Directions for Research on Survivors of Trauma (166 citations)
  • The Role of Private Prayer in Psychological Recovery Among Midlife and Aged Patients Following Cardiac Surgery (159 citations)
  • RESEARCH: The Effect of Religious-Spiritual Coping on Positive Attitudes of Adult Muslim Refugees From Kosovo and Bosnia (133 citations)

What are the main themes of her work throughout her whole career to date?

Amy L. Ai mainly investigates Mental health, Clinical psychology, Coping, Psychiatry and Social psychology. Her work carried out in the field of Mental health brings together such families of science as Psychological intervention, Health psychology, Gerontology and Anxiety. Her biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Psychosocial and Cardiac surgery, Surgery.

The study incorporates disciplines such as Optimism, Social support, Distress and Faith in addition to Coping. Her Social psychology research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Developmental psychology and Spirituality. The Spirituality study combines topics in areas such as Psychotherapist and Posttraumatic growth.

She most often published in these fields:

  • Mental health (34.27%)
  • Clinical psychology (33.57%)
  • Coping (32.87%)

What were the highlights of her more recent work (between 2015-2021)?

  • Clinical psychology (33.57%)
  • Coping (32.87%)
  • Optimism (16.08%)

In recent papers she was focusing on the following fields of study:

Her main research concerns Clinical psychology, Coping, Optimism, Scale and Gerontology. Her research in Clinical psychology intersects with topics in Mental health, Psychiatry, Substance abuse and Health psychology. Her Mental health research incorporates elements of Social support, Religious assimilation and Vietnamese.

She integrates Coping and Prayer in her studies. Her studies deal with areas such as Multivariate analysis, Heart disease, Comorbidity and Anxiety as well as Optimism. Her Gerontology research includes elements of Chronic disease, Obesity and Nurse led.

Between 2015 and 2021, her most popular works were:

  • Cultural Strengths of Latino-American Subgroups: Differential Associations With Their Self-Rated Mental and Physical Health (8 citations)
  • Social work students in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: correlates of post-disaster substance use as a negative coping mechanism (8 citations)
  • Childhood Abuse, Religious Involvement, and Substance Abuse Among Latino-American Men in the United States. (6 citations)

In her most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Internal medicine
  • Mental health
  • Social psychology

The scientist’s investigation covers issues in Clinical psychology, Coping, Physical health, Gerontology and Substance use. Coping is closely attributed to Traumatic stress in her study. The various areas that Amy L. Ai examines in her Gerontology study include Obesity and Public health.

Amy L. Ai has included themes like Psychosocial and Stressor in her Substance use study. Amy L. Ai undertakes multidisciplinary investigations into Childhood abuse and Psychiatry in her work. Her work on Substance abuse is typically connected to Physical abuse, Child abuse and Psychological abuse as part of general Psychiatry study, connecting several disciplines of science.

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Best Publications

Meaning Making and Growth: New Directions for Research on Survivors of Trauma

Crystal L. Park;Amy L. Ai.
Journal of Loss & Trauma (2006)

315 Citations

The Role of Private Prayer in Psychological Recovery Among Midlife and Aged Patients Following Cardiac Surgery

Amy L. Ai;Ruth E. Dunkle;Christopher Peterson;Steven F. Bolling.
Gerontologist (1998)

267 Citations

RESEARCH: The Effect of Religious-Spiritual Coping on Positive Attitudes of Adult Muslim Refugees From Kosovo and Bosnia

Amy L. Ai;Christopher Peterson;Bu Huang.
International Journal for the Psychology of Religion (2003)

258 Citations

Hope, Meaning, and Growth Following the September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks

Amy L. Ai;Toni Cascio;Linda K. Santangelo;Teresa Evans-Campbell.
Journal of Interpersonal Violence (2005)

234 Citations

Private Prayer and Optimism in Middle-Aged and Older Patients Awaiting Cardiac Surgery

Amy L. Ai;Christopher Peterson;Steven F. Bolling;Harold Koenig.
Gerontologist (2002)

207 Citations

Possibilities of the Positive Following Violence and Trauma Informing the Coming Decade of Research

Amy L. Ai;Crystal L. Park.
Journal of Interpersonal Violence (2005)

204 Citations

Psychosocial Mediation of Religious Coping Styles: A Study of Short-Term Psychological Distress Following Cardiac Surgery

Amy L. Ai;Crystal L. Park;Bu Huang;Willard Rodgers.
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (2007)

201 Citations

War-related trauma and symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder among adult Kosovar refugees.

Amy L. Ai;Christopher Peterson;David Ubelhor.
Journal of Traumatic Stress (2002)

182 Citations

Prayers, spiritual support, and positive attitudes in coping with the September 11 national crisis.

Amy L. Ai;Terrence N. Tice;Christopher Peterson;Bu Huang.
Journal of Personality (2005)

180 Citations

Faith-based and secular pathways to hope and optimism subconstructs in middle-aged and older cardiac patients.

Amy L. Ai;Christopher Peterson;Terrence N. Tice;Steven F. Bolling.
Journal of Health Psychology (2004)

167 Citations

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