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Overview

Bruce E. Compas is affiliated with Vanderbilt University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Psychology, with notable contributions to Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Family Support in Illness
  • Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues

Bruce E. Compas has published extensively in several academic venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • Journal of Huntington's Disease
  • Pediatric Blood & Cancer
  • UNC Libraries
  • Journal of Family Psychology
  • Journal of Abnormal Psychology

Selected recent papers by Bruce E. Compas highlight a focus on childhood adversity, coping, and mental health outcomes:

  • "Effects of maltreatment on coping and emotion regulation in childhood and adolescence: A meta-analytic review," 2020, Child Abuse & Neglect
  • "Exposure to COVID-19 pandemic stress: Associations with depression and anxiety in emerging adults in the United States," 2020, Depression and Anxiety
  • "Comparison of three models of adverse childhood experiences: Associations with child and adolescent internalizing and externalizing symptoms," 2020, Journal of Abnormal Psychology
  • "Adverse childhood experiences, parenting, and socioeconomic status: Associations with internalizing and externalizing symptoms in adolescence," 2022, Child Abuse & Neglect
  • "Coping with COVID-19 stress: Associations with depression and anxiety in a diverse sample of U.S. adults," 2021, Current Psychology

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Kelly H. Watson
  • Abagail E. Ciriegio
  • Rachel E. Siciliano
  • Meredith A. Gruhn
  • Allegra S. Anderson

Best Publications

  • Coping with stress during childhood and adolescence: problems, progress, and potential in theory and research.

    Bruce E. Compas;Jennifer K. Connor-Smith;Heidi Saltzman;Alexandria Harding Thomsen

  • Coping with stress during childhood and adolescence.

    Bruce E. Compas

  • Responses to Stress in Adolescence: Measurement of Coping and Involuntary Stress Responses

    Jennifer K. Connor-Smith;Bruce E. Compas;Martha E. Wadsworth;Alexandra Harding Thomsen

  • Coping with stressful events in older children and young adolescents.

    Bruce E. Compas;Vanessa L. Malcarne;Karen M. Fondacaro

  • Depression in adolescence.

    Anne C. Petersen;Bruce E. Compas;Jeanne Brooks-Gunn;Mark Stemmler

  • Coping, emotion regulation, and psychopathology in childhood and adolescence: A meta-analysis and narrative review

    Bruce E. Compas;Sarah S. Jaser;Alexandra H. Bettis;Kelly H. Watson

  • Stressors and Child and Adolescent Psychopathology: Moving From Markers to Mechanisms of Risk

    Kathryn E. Grant;Bruce E. Compas;Alice F. Stuhlmacher;Audrey E. Thurm

  • Stress and life events during childhood and adolescence

    Bruce E. Compas

  • Coping with chronic illness in childhood and adolescence.

    Bruce E. Compas;Sarah S. Jaser;Madeleine J. Dunn;Erin M. Rodriguez

  • The role of fathers in child and adolescent psychopathology: make room for daddy.

    Vicky Phares;Bruce E. Compas

  • ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT: Pathways and Processes of Risk and Resilience

    Bruce E. Compas;Beth R. Hinden;Cynthia A. Gerhardt

  • Adolescent stress and coping: Implications for psychopathology during adolescence.

    Bruce E. Compas;Pamela G. Orosan;Kathryn E. Grant

  • Assessment of major and daily stressful events during adolescence: The Adolescent Perceived Events Scale.

    Bruce E. Compas;Glen E. Davis;Carolyn J. Forsythe;Barry M. Wagner

  • Interaction of cognitive appraisals of stressful events and coping: Testing the goodness of fit hypothesis

    Carolyn J. Forsythe;Bruce E. Compas

  • Stressors and child and adolescent psychopathology: Evidence of moderating and mediating effects.

    Kathryn E. Grant;Bruce E. Compas;Audrey E. Thurm;Susan D. McMahon

  • Stressors and child and adolescent psychopathology: measurement issues and prospective effects.

    Kathryn E. Grant;Bruce E. Compas;Audrey E. Thurm;Susan D. McMahon

  • Psychological adjustment in breast cancer: processes of emotional distress.

    JoAnne E. Epping-Jordan;Bruce E. Compas;Dana M. Osowiecki;Gerri Oppedisano

  • Coping with Family Conflict and Economic Strain: The Adolescent Perspective

    Martha E. Wadsworth;Bruce E. Compas

  • A prospective study of life events, social support, and psychological symptomatology during the transition from high school to college

    Bruce E. Compas;Barry M. Wagner;Lesley A. Slavin;Kathryn Vannatta

  • Perceived control and coping with stress: A developmental perspective.

    Bruce E. Compas;Gerard A. Banez;Vanessa Malcarne;Nancy Worsham

Frequent Co-Authors

Cynthia A. Gerhardt
Cynthia A. Gerhardt The Ohio State University
Kathryn Vannatta
Kathryn Vannatta The Ohio State University
Rex Forehand
Rex Forehand University of Vermont
David A. Cole
David A. Cole Vanderbilt University
Kathryn E. Grant
Kathryn E. Grant DePaul University
Sarah S. Jaser
Sarah S. Jaser Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Linda J. Luecken
Linda J. Luecken Arizona State University
Martha E. Wadsworth
Martha E. Wadsworth Pennsylvania State University
Maru Barrera
Maru Barrera University of Toronto
Liliana J. Lengua
Liliana J. Lengua University of Washington

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