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Overview

Brian Lakey is affiliated with Grand Valley State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of psychology, with particular focus on clinical psychology and social psychology, supported by contributions to related areas such as sociology and political science, applied psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their scholarly output centers on topics including attachment and relationship dynamics, personality disorders and psychopathology, behavioral health and interventions, mental health research, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, racial and ethnic identity research, and social and intergroup psychology.

Brian Lakey has authored several recent papers published in peer-reviewed journals, addressing various aspects of personality, social support, and psychological dynamics. These works include:

  • The relational regulation of within-person variation in personality expression (2021, Journal of Personality)
  • Supportive people evoke positive affect, but do not reduce negative affect, while supportive groups result from favorable dyadic, not group effects (2021, Anxiety Stress & Coping)
  • Black Racial Identity, Perceived Support, and Mental Health Within Dyadic Relationships (2022, Journal of Black Psychology)
  • Evidence that specific personal relationships evoke maladaptive personality expression (2023, Anxiety Stress & Coping)
  • When Forecasting Mutually Supportive Matches Will Be Practically Impossible (2021, Psychological Science)

Their frequent coauthors include Sultan Ali Hubbard, Jessica Brummans, Amy Obreiter, William C. Woods, and Calvin Hesse, reflecting collaborative research efforts across multiple publications.

Brian Lakey's work commonly appears in journals focused on psychology and mental health, with repeated contributions to:

  • Anxiety Stress & Coping
  • Journal of Black Psychology
  • Journal of Personality
  • Psychological Science
  • Personality and Individual Differences

Best Publications

  • Social support theory and measurement.

    Brian Lakey;Sheldon Cohen

  • Relational regulation theory: a new approach to explain the link between perceived social support and mental health.

    Brian Lakey;Edward Orehek

  • Locus of control as a stress moderator: The role of control perceptions and social support

    Irwin N. Sandler;Brian Lakey

  • Cognitive processes in perceived social support.

    Brian Lakey;Patricia B. Cassady

  • Negative Social Interactions: Assessment and Relations to Social Support, Cognition, and Psychological Distress

    Brian Lakey;Tracey Anne Tardiff;Jana Brittain Drew

  • Low Social Support and Major Depression: Research, Theory and Methodological Issues

    Brian Lakey;Arika Cronin

  • Sourcebook of social support and personality

    Gregory R. Pierce

  • Where is the Support in Perceived Support? The Role of Generic Relationship Satisfaction and Enacted Support in Perceived Support's Relation to Low Distress

    Manju Kaul;Brian Lakey

  • A Social-Cognitive Perspective on Social Support

    Brian Lakey;Jana Brittain Drew

  • Alexithymia, social support and health problems.

    Mark A. Lumley;Theresa Ovies;Laurence Stettner;Francine Wehmer

  • Environmental and personal determinants of support perceptions: three generalizability studies.

    Brian Lakey;Kristen M. McCabe;Sebastiano A. Fisicaro;Jana Brittain Drew

  • Social support from a friend, perceived support, and social problem solving.

    Brian Lakey;Kenneth Heller

  • Personality and Social Support Processes

    Gregory R. Pierce;Brian Lakey;Irwin G. Sarason;Barbara R. Sarason

  • A preventive, psychoeducational approach to increase perceived social support

    Elena F. Brand;Brian Lakey;Shirley Berman

  • Social support and preventive and therapeutic interventions.

    Brian Lakey;Catherine J. Lutz

  • The relative contribution of trait and social influences to the links among perceived social support, affect, and self-esteem.

    Brian Lakey;Alan Scoboria

  • Enacted Support's Links to Negative Affect and Perceived Support Are More Consistent With Theory When Social Influences Are Isolated From Trait Influences

    Brian Lakey;Edward Orehek;Kate L. Hain;Meredith VanVleet

  • Antecedents of perceived support: is perceived family environment generalized to new social relationships?

    Brian Lakey;Lewis G. Dickinson

  • Perceived Support and Low Emotional Distress: The Role of Enacted Support, Dyad Similarity, and Provider Personality

    Brian Lakey;Kathy Adams;Lynn C. Neely;Gary Rhodes

  • Links Among Attachment Dimensions, Affect, the Self, and Perceived Support for Broadly Generalized Attachment Styles and Specific Bonds

    Robin A. Barry;Brian Lakey;Edward Orehek

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew Baum
Andrew Baum University of Pittsburgh
Sheldon Cohen
Sheldon Cohen Carnegie Mellon University
Susan Ayers
Susan Ayers City, University of London
Irwin G. Sarason
Irwin G. Sarason University of Washington
John Weinman
John Weinman King's College London
Kenneth A. Wallston
Kenneth A. Wallston Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Irwin N. Sandler
Irwin N. Sandler Arizona State University
Barbara R. Sarason
Barbara R. Sarason University of Washington
Mark A. Lumley
Mark A. Lumley Wayne State University

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