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Overview

Constance Hammen is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on various aspects of psychology, with a concentration in child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development as well as mental health research topics.

Their recent publications reflect a focus on stress, mood, and anxiety disorders across different age groups. Key papers include:

  • Reciprocal effects of neuroticism and life stress in adolescence, 2020, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Extraversion and interpersonal support as risk, resource, and protective factors in the prediction of unipolar mood and anxiety disorders, 2020, Journal of Abnormal Psychology
  • Examining the indirect contributions of irritability and chronic interpersonal stress on symptoms of anxiety and depression in adolescents, 2023, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Patterns of stress generation differ depending on internalizing symptoms, alcohol use, and personality traits in early adulthood: a five year longitudinal study, 2021, Anxiety Stress & Coping

Their collaboration network includes frequent coauthors such as Allison Metts, Richard E. Zinbarg, Michelle G. Craske, Susan Mineka, and Julia S. Yarrington.

The scholar's publications are distributed among notable psychology and mental health journals, with multiple contributions to:

  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Journal of Abnormal Psychology
  • Anxiety Stress & Coping

Within the broader discipline of psychology, the researcher's work spans several subfields including experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, behavioral neuroscience, and psychiatry and mental health.

The research topics they address concentrate on:

  • Child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development
  • Mental health research topics
  • Stress responses and cortisol
  • Anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes
  • Bipolar disorder and treatment

Best Publications

  • Stress and Depression

    Constance Hammen

  • Generation of stress in the course of unipolar depression.

    Constance Hammen

  • Issues and recommendations regarding use of the Beck Depression Inventory

    Philip C. Kendall;Steven D. Hollon;Aaron T. Beck;Constance L. Hammen

  • Relapse and impairment in bipolar disorder.

    Michael J. Gitlin;Joel Swendsen;Tracy L. Heller;Constance Hammen

  • Psychological aspects of depression: Toward a cognitive-interpersonal integration.

    Ian H. Gotlib;Constance L. Hammen

  • Handbook of depression

    Ian H. Gotlib;Constance L. Hammen

  • Age and gender as determinants of stress exposure, generation, and reactions in youngsters: a transactional perspective.

    Karen D. Rudolph;Constance Hammen

  • Stress generation in depression: reflections on origins, research, and future directions.

    Constance Hammen

  • Depression and sensitization to stressors among young women as a function of childhood adversity.

    Constance Hammen;Risha Henry;Shannon E. Daley

  • Chronicity, severity, and timing of maternal depressive symptoms: Relationships with child outcomes at age 5.

    Patricia A. Brennan;Constance Hammen;Margaret J. Andersen;William Bor

  • Toward an interpersonal life-stress model of depression: the developmental context of stress generation.

    Karen D. Rudolph;Constance Hammen;Dorli Burge;Nangel Lindberg

  • Development and natural history of mood disorders.

    E.Jane Costello;Daniel S. Pine;Constance Hammen;John S. March

  • Severity, chronicity, and timing of maternal depression and risk for adolescent offspring diagnoses in a community sample.

    Constance Hammen;Patricia A. Brennan

  • Longitudinal Study of Diagnoses in Children of Women With Unipolar and Bipolar Affective Disorder

    Constance Hammen;Dorli Burge;Elizabeth Burney;Cheri Adrian

  • Depressive self-schemas, life stress, and vulnerability to depression.

    Constance Hammen;Terry Marks;Arlene Mayol;Robert DeMayo

  • Health Outcomes Related to Early Adolescent Depression

    Danielle Keenan-Miller;Constance L. Hammen;Patricia A. Brennan

  • Intergenerational transmission of depression: test of an interpersonal stress model in a community sample.

    Constance Hammen;Josephine H. Shih;Patricia A. Brennan

  • Risk Factors for Depression: An Autobiographical Review

    Constance Hammen

  • Children of depressed mothers: maternal strain and symptom predictors of dysfunction.

    Constance Hammen;Cheri Adrian;David Gordon;Dorli Burge

  • Differential exposure and reactivity to interpersonal stress predict sex differences in adolescent depression.

    Josephine H. Shih;Nicole K. Eberhart;Constance L. Hammen;Patricia A. Brennan

  • HIPPOCAMPAL CHANGES ASSOCIATED WITH EARLY-LIFE ADVERSITY AND VULNERABILITY TO DEPRESSION

    Uma Rao;Li Ann Chen;Anup S. Bidesi;Mujeeb U. Shad

Frequent Co-Authors

Patricia A. Brennan
Patricia A. Brennan Emory University
Joanne Davila
Joanne Davila Stony Brook University
Michelle G. Craske
Michelle G. Craske University of California, Los Angeles
Karen D. Rudolph
Karen D. Rudolph University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Susan Mineka
Susan Mineka Northwestern University
Richard E. Zinbarg
Richard E. Zinbarg Northwestern University
Blair Paley
Blair Paley University of California, Los Angeles
Lori L. Altshuler
Lori L. Altshuler University of California, Los Angeles
Julienne E. Bower
Julienne E. Bower University of California, Los Angeles
Emma K. Adam
Emma K. Adam Northwestern University

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