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Overview

Ateka A. Contractor is affiliated with the University of North Texas in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a significant emphasis on clinical psychology. Additional areas of study include experimental and cognitive psychology, developmental and educational psychology, social psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

Their work covers several main research topics, including:

  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Identity, Memory, and Therapy
  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

Some of the recent papers associated with Ateka A. Contractor include:

  • "Emotion regulation and substance use: A meta-analysis," 2021, published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • "The Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Checklist for DSM-5: A systematic review of existing psychometric evidence," 2022, published in Clinical Psychology Science and Practice
  • "Bidirectional associations between daily PTSD symptoms and sleep disturbances: A systematic review," 2022, published in Sleep Medicine Reviews
  • "Racial and ethnic differences in emotion regulation: A systematic review," 2021, published in Journal of Clinical Psychology
  • "Extending our understanding of the association between posttraumatic stress disorder and positive emotion dysregulation: A network analysis approach," 2020, published in Journal of Anxiety Disorders

Ateka A. Contractor frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Nicole H. Weiss
  • Shannon R. Forkus
  • Danica C. Slavish
  • Alexa M. Raudales
  • Melissa R. Schick

Their work has appeared regularly in key publication venues, such as:

  • Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy
  • Journal of Traumatic Stress
  • Journal of Anxiety Disorders
  • Anxiety, Stress & Coping
  • Journal of Clinical Psychology

Best Publications

  • The Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Checklist for DSM–5: A systematic review of existing psychometric evidence.

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  • Emotion Regulation and Substance Use: A Meta-Analysis

    Nicole H. Weiss;Reina Kiefer;Svetlana Goncharenko;Alexa M. Raudales

  • DSM-5 PTSD's symptom dimensions and relations with major depression's symptom dimensions in a primary care sample

    Ateka A. Contractor;Tory A. Durham;Julie A. Brennan;Julie A. Brennan;Cherie Armour;Cherie Armour

  • The factor structure of major depression symptoms: A test of four competing models using the Patient Health Questionnaire-9

    Jon D. Elhai;Ateka A. Contractor;Marijo Tamburrino;Thomas H. Fine

  • Distinct Trauma Types in Military Service Members Seeking Treatment for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

    Brett T. Litz;Brett T. Litz;Ateka A. Contractor;Ateka A. Contractor;Charla Rhodes;Katherine A. Dondanville

  • Examining latent classes of smartphone users: Relations with psychopathology and problematic smartphone use

    Jon D. Elhai;Ateka A. Contractor

  • The relationship between rumination, PTSD, and depression symptoms

    Michelle E. Roley;Meredith A. Claycomb;Ateka A. Contractor;Paula Dranger

  • Empirically derived lifespan polytraumatization typologies: A systematic review.

    Ateka A. Contractor;Stephanie Caldas;Shelley Fletcher;M. Tracie Shea;M. Tracie Shea

  • Latent profile analyses of posttraumatic stress disorder, depression and generalized anxiety disorder symptoms in trauma-exposed soldiers

    Ateka A. Contractor;Ateka A. Contractor;Jon D. Elhai;Thomas H. Fine;Marijo B. Tamburrino

  • Structural relations between DSM-5 PTSD and major depression symptoms in military soldiers.

    Jon D. Elhai;Ateka A. Contractor;Marijo Tamburrino;Thomas H. Fine

  • Factor Structure of the PTSD Checklist for DSM-5: Relationships Among Symptom Clusters, Anger, and Impulsivity.

    Cherie Armour;Ateka Contractor;Tracie Shea;Jon D. Elhai

  • Clusters of trauma types as measured by the Life Events Checklist for DSM–5.

    AA Contractor;NH Weiss;P Natesan Batley;JD Elhai

  • Do gender and age moderate the symptom structure of PTSD? Findings from a national clinical sample of children and adolescents.

    Ateka A. Contractor;Christopher M. Layne;Alan M. Steinberg;Sarah A. Ostrowski

  • Difficulties regulating positive emotions and alcohol and drug misuse: A path analysis.

    Nicole H. Weiss;Shannon R. Forkus;Ateka A. Contractor;Melissa R. Schick

  • Exploring the relationship between underlying dimensions of posttraumatic stress disorder and depression in a national, trauma-exposed military sample

    Jon D. Elhai;Ateka A. Contractor;Patrick A. Palmieri;David Forbes

  • Identifying latent profiles of posttraumatic stress and major depression symptoms in Canadian veterans: Exploring differences across profiles in health related functioning

    Cherie Armour;Ateka Contractor;Jon D. Elhai;Maurice Stringer

  • Bidirectional associations between daily PTSD symptoms and sleep disturbances: A systematic review

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  • Assessing Latent Level Associations Between PTSD and Dissociative Factors: Is Depersonalization and Derealization Related to PTSD Factors More So than Alternative Dissociative Factors?

    Cherie Armour;Ateka A. Contractor;Patrick A. Palmieri;Jon. D. Elhai

  • Heterogeneity in patterns of DSM-5 posttraumatic stress disorder and depression symptoms: Latent profile analyses☆

    Ateka A. Contractor;Michelle E. Roley-Roberts;Susan Lagdon;Cherie Armour

  • Confirmatory validation of the factor structure and psychometric properties of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale‐Positive

    Nicole H. Weiss;Angela G. Darosh;Ateka A. Contractor;Melissa M. Schick

  • PTSD's relation with problematic smartphone use: Mediating role of impulsivity

    Ateka A. Contractor;Nicole H. Weiss;Matthew T. Tull;Jon D. Elhai;Jon D. Elhai

  • Relations between the underlying dimensions of PTSD and major depression using an epidemiological survey of deployed Ohio National Guard soldiers

    Tracey L. Biehn;Ateka Contractor;Jon D. Elhai;Marijo Tamburrino

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicole H. Weiss
Nicole H. Weiss University of Rhode Island
Jon D. Elhai
Jon D. Elhai University of Toledo
Cherie Armour
Cherie Armour Queen's University Belfast
Katherine L. Dixon-Gordon
Katherine L. Dixon-Gordon University of Massachusetts Amherst
M. Tracie Shea
M. Tracie Shea Brown University
David Forbes
David Forbes University of Melbourne
Israel Liberzon
Israel Liberzon Texas A&M University
Brett T. Litz
Brett T. Litz Boston University
Camilo J. Ruggero
Camilo J. Ruggero University of North Texas
Daniel J. Taylor
Daniel J. Taylor University of Arizona

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