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Joseph D. Hovey is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a notable emphasis on clinical psychology. Other areas of study include social psychology, sociology and political science, experimental and cognitive psychology, and education.

The main topics covered in their work comprise suicide and self-harm studies, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, bullying, victimization, aggression, child development and digital technology, child abuse and trauma, and obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders.

Hovey's recent papers include:

  • "College students and cyberbullying: how social media use affects social anxiety and social comparison" (2022, Heliyon)
  • "An Association Between Perceived Social Support and Posttraumatic Stress Symptom Severity Among Women With Lifetime Sexual Victimization: The Serial Mediating Role of Resilience and Coping" (2020, Violence Against Women)
  • "The increasing toll of racism and discrimination on California agricultural workers and their families under the Trump administration" (2021, Ethnicities)
  • "The unique relationship between childhood sexual abuse, self-injury and suicide ideation: The mediating role of emotion dysregulation" (2022, Child Abuse Review)
  • "Coping competence and hopelessness moderate the influence of perceived burdensomeness on suicidal ideation in undergraduate college students" (2022, Current Psychology)

Frequent coauthors in their research include Michelle E. Roley-Roberts, Laura D. Seligman, Ruby Charak, James J. Crowley, and Carolina Cappi.

Hovey's works have appeared repeatedly in specific publication venues such as Child Psychiatry & Human Development, Heliyon, Violence Against Women, Ethnicities, and Child Abuse Review.

Best Publications

  • Acculturative stress, depression, and suicidal ideation among immigrant and second-generation Latino adolescents.

    Joseph D. Hovey;Cheryl A. King

  • Acculturative stress, depression, and suicidal ideation in Mexican immigrants.

    Joseph D. Hovey

  • Acculturative stress, anxiety, and depression among Mexican immigrant farmworkers in the midwest United States.

    Joseph D. Hovey;Cristina Magaña

  • Psychosocial predictors of anxiety among immigrant Mexican migrant farmworkers: implications for prevention and treatment.

    Joseph D. Hovey;Cristina G. Magaña

  • Acculturative stress, depression, and suicidal ideation among Central American immigrants.

    Joseph D. Hovey

  • Psychosocial predictors of acculturative stress in Mexican immigrants.

    Joseph D. Hovey

  • Psychosocial stressors associated with Mexican migrant farmworkers in the midwest United States.

    Cristina G. Magaña;Joseph D. Hovey

  • Exploring the Mental Health of Mexican Migrant Farm Workers in the Midwest: Psychosocial Predictors of Psychological Distress and Suggestions for Prevention and Treatment

    Joseph D Hovey;Cristina G Magaña

  • Evaluating Short-Form Versions of the CES-D for Measuring Depressive Symptoms Among Immigrants From Mexico:

    Joseph G. Grzywacz;Joseph D. Hovey;Laura D. Seligman;Thomas A. Arcury

  • Dental anxiety: An understudied problem in youth

    Laura D. Seligman;Joseph D. Hovey;Karina Chacon;Thomas H. Ollendick

  • Socio-demographic differences in acculturation and mental health for a sample of 2nd generation/early immigrant Arab Americans.

    Mona M. Amer;Mona M. Amer;Joseph D. Hovey

  • Workplace, household, and personal predictors of pesticide exposure for farmworkers.

    Sara A. Quandt;María A. Hernández-Valero;Joseph G. Grzywacz;Joseph D. Hovey

  • Suicidality among acculturating Mexican Americans: current knowledge and directions for research

    Joseph D. Hovey;Cheryl A. King

  • Suicidal adolescents after hospitalization: parent and family impacts on treatment follow-through

    Cheryl A. King;Joseph D. Hovey;Elena Brand;Robert Wilson

  • Religion-Based Emotional Social Support Mediates the Relationship between Intrinsic Religiosity and Mental Health

    Joseph D Hovey;Gabriela Hurtado;Lori R A Morales;Laura D Seligman

  • Anxiety and depression in a post-September 11 sample of Arabs in the USA

    Mona M. Amer;Joseph D. Hovey

  • Cognitive, affective, and physiological expressions of anxiety symptomatology among Mexican migrant farmworkers: Predictors and generational differences

    Joseph D. Hovey;Cristina G. Magaña

  • The influences of cultural values, ethnic identity, and language use on the mental health of Korean American college students

    Joseph D Hovey;Sheena E Kim;Laura D Seligman

  • Acculturative stress, depression, and suicidal ideation among Mexican-American adolescents: Implications for the development of suicide prevention programs in schools.

    Joseph D. Hovey

  • Psychosocial predictors of depression among Central American immigrants.

    Joseph D. Hovey

Frequent Co-Authors

Cheryl A. King
Cheryl A. King University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Andrew L. Geers
Andrew L. Geers University of Toledo
Jon D. Elhai
Jon D. Elhai University of Toledo
Thomas H. Ollendick
Thomas H. Ollendick Virginia Tech
Gregory J. Meyer
Gregory J. Meyer University of Toledo
Ateka A. Contractor
Ateka A. Contractor University of North Texas
Jeremy W. Pettit
Jeremy W. Pettit Florida International University
Thomas E. Joiner
Thomas E. Joiner Florida State University
Timothy W. Smith
Timothy W. Smith University of Utah
Wendy K. Silverman
Wendy K. Silverman Yale University

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