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1522
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Overview

Glenn Affleck is affiliated with the University of Connecticut Health Center in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, including psychology, medicine, and health professions, with a focus on several subfields such as experimental and cognitive psychology, oncology, and general health professions.

Affleck's work delves into key topics related to sleep and related disorders, cancer survivorship and care, and health and wellbeing research. These themes are evident in their scholarly contributions.

The scientist has contributed to publications in venues such as UNC Libraries. Among their recent papers is "Contribution of Cancer Symptoms, Dysfunctional Sleep Related Thoughts, and Sleep Inhibitory Behaviors to the Insomnia Process in Breast Cancer Survivors: A Daily Process Analysis," published in 2020 by UNC Libraries.

Frequent collaborators include Meredith E. Rumble, Francis J. Keefe, Jack D. Edinger, P. Kelly Marcom, and Heather Shaw. These coauthors have worked alongside Affleck in advancing research in their intersecting fields of expertise.

  • Sleep and related disorders
  • Cancer survivorship and care
  • Health and Wellbeing Research

  • Contribution of Cancer Symptoms, Dysfunctional Sleep Related Thoughts, and Sleep Inhibitory Behaviors to the Insomnia Process in Breast Cancer Survivors: A Daily Process Analysis (2020), UNC Libraries

  • Meredith E. Rumble
  • Francis J. Keefe
  • Jack D. Edinger
  • P. Kelly Marcom
  • Heather Shaw

  • Psychology
  • Medicine
  • Health Professions

  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Oncology
  • General Health Professions

  • UNC Libraries

Best Publications

  • Construing benefits from adversity: Adaptational significance and dispositional underpinnings.

    Glenn Affleck;Howard Tennen

  • The relationship of gender to pain, pain behavior, and disability in osteoarthritis patients: the role of catastrophizing.

    Francis J Keefe;John C Lefebvre;Jennifer R Egert;Glenn Affleck

  • Causal attribution, perceived benefits, and morbidity after a heart attack: An 8-year study.

    Glenn Affleck;Howard Tennen;Sydney Croog;Sol Levine

  • A daily process approach to coping. Linking theory, research, and practice.

    Howard Tennen;Glenn Affleck;Stephen Armeli;Margaret Anne Carney

  • Appraisals of control and predictability in adapting to a chronic disease.

    Glenn Affleck;Howard Tennen;Carol Pfeiffer;Judith Fifield

  • Sequential daily relations of sleep, pain intensity, and attention to pain among women with fibromyalgia.

    Glenn Affleck;Susan Urrows;Howard Tennen;Pamela Higgins

  • Benefit-finding and benefit-reminding.

    Howard Tennen;Glenn Affleck

  • Blaming others for threatening events.

    Howard Tennen;Glenn Affleck

  • Adherence with twice-daily dosing of inhaled steroids. Socioeconomic and health-belief differences.

    Andrea J. Apter;Susan T. Reisine;Glenn Affleck;Erik Barrows

  • Mood and alcohol consumption: an experience sampling test of the self-medication hypothesis.

    Joel D. Swendsen;Howard Tennen;Margaret Anne Carney;Glenn Affleck

  • Examinations of chronic pain and affect relationships: applications of a dynamic model of affect.

    Alex Zautra;Bruce Smith;Glenn Affleck;Howard Tennen

  • Coping and cognitive factors in adaptation to in vitro fertilization failure.

    Mark D. Litt;Howard Tennen;Glenn Affleck;Susan Klock

  • Exploring thriving in the context of clinical trauma theory: Constructivist self development theory.

    Karen W. Saakvitne;Howard Tennen;Glenn Affleck

  • Dynamic Approaches to Emotions and Stress in Everyday Life: Bolger and Zuckerman Reloaded with Positive as Well as Negative Affects

    Alex J. Zautra;Glenn G. Affleck;Howard Tennen;John W. Reich

  • Neuroticism and the pain-mood relation in rheumatoid arthritis: insights from a prospective daily study.

    Glenn Affleck;Howard Tennen;Susan Urrows;Pamela Higgins

  • Multilevel daily process designs for consulting and clinical psychology: A preface for the perplexed.

    Glenn Affleck;Alex Zautra;Howard Tennen;Stephen Armeli

  • Effects of spouse-assisted coping skills training and exercise training in patients with osteoarthritic knee pain: a randomized controlled study.

    Francis J Keefe;James Blumenthal;Donald Baucom;Glenn Affleck

  • Perceiving control, construing benefits, and daily processes in rheumatoid arthritis

    Howard Tennen;Glenn Affleck;Susan Urrows;Pamela Higgins

  • Living with rheumatoid arthritis: the role of daily spirituality and daily religious and spiritual coping.

    Francis J. Keefe;Glenn Affleck;John Lefebvre;Lynn Underwood

  • Everyday life with osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis: independent effects of disease and gender on daily pain, mood, and coping

    Glenn Affleck;Howard Tennen;Francis J Keefe;John C Lefebvre

Frequent Co-Authors

Howard Tennen
Howard Tennen University of Connecticut
Stephen Armeli
Stephen Armeli Fairleigh Dickinson University
Alex J. Zautra
Alex J. Zautra Arizona State University
Christine McCauley Ohannessian
Christine McCauley Ohannessian Florida State University
Annette L. Stanton
Annette L. Stanton University of California, Los Angeles
Kenneth I. Pargament
Kenneth I. Pargament Bowling Green State University
Mark D. Litt
Mark D. Litt University of Connecticut Health Center
Mary C. Davis
Mary C. Davis Arizona State University
James C. Coyne
James C. Coyne University of Groningen
Randy J. Larsen
Randy J. Larsen Washington University in St. Louis

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