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Kimberly Matheson

Kimberly Matheson

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Psychology

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50
Citations
10897
World Ranking
5416
National Ranking
366

Overview

Kimberly Matheson is affiliated with Carleton University in Canada, with a research focus spanning social sciences, psychology, and health professions. Their work prominently addresses topics related to Indigenous health, education, and rights; migration, health and trauma; resilience and mental health; child abuse and trauma; mental health and patient involvement; adolescent and pediatric healthcare; and social and intergroup psychology.

Key recent publications by Kimberly Matheson include:

  • Canada's Colonial Genocide of Indigenous Peoples: A Review of the Psychosocial and Neurobiological Processes Linking Trauma and Intergenerational Outcomes (2022) in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Resilience: Safety in the Aftermath of Traumatic Stressor Experiences (2020) in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Their research frequently appears in several publication venues, including:

  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • PLoS ONE
  • Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
  • First Peoples Child & Family Review An Interdisciplinary Journal Honouring the Voices Perspectives and Knowledges of First Peoples

Kimberly Matheson collaborates regularly with several co-authors, including:

  • Hymie Anisman
  • Tanya Halsall
  • Amy Bombay
  • Jyllenna Landry
  • Ajani Asokumar

Their work integrates clinical psychology, sociology and political science, general health professions, health, and social psychology subfields. This multidisciplinary approach supports examination of complex intersections between trauma, resilience, and mental health among Indigenous populations and other vulnerable groups.

Best Publications

  • Religiosity as Identity: Toward an Understanding of Religion From a Social Identity Perspective

    Renate Ysseldyk;Kimberly Matheson;Hymie Anisman

  • The intergenerational effects of Indian Residential Schools: Implications for the concept of historical trauma

    Amy Bombay;Kimberly Matheson;Hymie Anisman

  • Stress, depression, and anhedonia: caveats concerning animal models.

    Hymie Anisman;Kimberly Matheson

  • The Assessment of Emotional Intelligence: A Comparison of Performance-Based and Self-Report Methodologies

    Irina Goldenberg;Kimberly Matheson;Janet Mantler

  • The impact of computer-mediated communication on self-awareness☆

    Kimberly Matheson;Mark P. Zanna

  • Intolerance of uncertainty, appraisals, coping, and anxiety: The case of the 2009 <scp>H</scp>1<scp>N</scp>1 pandemic

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  • Systems of Coping Associated with Dysphoria, Anxiety and Depressive Illness: A Multivariate Profile Perspective

    Kimberly Matheson;Hymie Anisman

  • The impact of stressors on second generation Indian Residential School survivors.

    Amy Bombay;Kimberly Matheson;Hymie Anisman

  • Cognitive Control and Flexibility in the Context of Stress and Depressive Symptoms: The Cognitive Control and Flexibility Questionnaire.

    Robert L. Gabrys;Nassim Tabri;Hymie Anisman;Kimberly Matheson

  • Stress, coping, uplifts, and quality of life in subtypes of depression: a conceptual frame and emerging data.

    Arun V Ravindran;Kimberly Matheson;Jenna Griffiths;Zul Merali;Zul Merali

  • Rumination: Bridging a gap between forgivingness, vengefulness, and psychological health

    Renate Ysseldyk;Kimberly Matheson;Hymie Anisman

  • Intergenerational Trauma: Convergence of Multiple Processes among First Nations peoples in Canada

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  • Impact of stressors in a natural context on release of cortisol in healthy adult humans: a meta-analysis.

    Kathy Michaud;Kimberly Matheson;Owen Kelly;Hymie Anisman

  • Social cues in computer-mediated negotiations: Gender makes a difference

    Kimberly Matheson

  • A paradoxical association of an oxytocin receptor gene polymorphism: early-life adversity and vulnerability to depression.

    Robyn Jane McQuaid;Opal Arilla McInnis;John D Stead;Kimberly Matheson

  • Occupational role stress in the Canadian forces: Its association with individual and organizational well-being.

    Tzvetanka Dobreva-Martinova;Martin Villeneuve;Lloyd Strickland;Kimberly Matheson

  • Coping with employment uncertainty: a comparison of employed and unemployed workers.

    Janet Mantler;Amanda Matejicek;Kimberly Matheson;Hymie Anisman

  • Perceiving and Responding to the Personal/Group Discrimination Discrepancy

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  • Relations between plasma oxytocin and cortisol: The stress buffering role of social support.

    Robyn J. McQuaid;Opal A. McInnis;Angela Paric;Faisal Al-Yawer

  • Computer-Mediated Communications: The Focus Is on Me:

    Kimberly Matheson;Mark P. Zanna

  • H1N1 Was Not All That Scary: Uncertainty and Stressor Appraisals Predict Anxiety Related to a Coming Viral Threat

    Sheena Aislinn Taha;Kimberly Matheson;Hymie Anisman

  • Psychosocial stressor effects on cortisol and ghrelin in emotional and non-emotional eaters: influence of anger and shame.

    Kate Raspopow;Alfonso Abizaid;Kimberly Matheson;Hymie Anisman

  • Coping with a threatened group identity: Psychosocial and neuroendocrine responses

    Kimberly Matheson;Barbara M. Cole

Frequent Co-Authors

Hymie Anisman
Hymie Anisman Carleton University
Michael J. A. Wohl
Michael J. A. Wohl Carleton University
Nyla R. Branscombe
Nyla R. Branscombe University of Kansas
Nicholas P. Spanos
Nicholas P. Spanos Carleton University
S. Alexander Haslam
S. Alexander Haslam University of Queensland
Arun V. Ravindran
Arun V. Ravindran University of Toronto
Donald M. Taylor
Donald M. Taylor McGill University

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