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Overview

Lesa Hoffman is affiliated with the University of Iowa in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with a focus on several subfields including Clinical Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, and Health.

The topics addressed in their work cover Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Health disparities and outcomes, Language Development and Disorders, Reading and Literacy Development, Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation, Myofascial pain diagnosis and treatment, and Resilience and Mental Health.

Lesa Hoffman has published multiple papers, with notable recent works including:

  • Catching Up on Multilevel Modeling (2022), Annual Review of Psychology
  • A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing HOPE Treatment and Present-Centered Therapy in Women Residing in Shelter With PTSD From Intimate Partner Violence (2020), Psychology of Women Quarterly
  • Heritability of Specific Language Impairment and Nonspecific Language Impairment at Ages 4 and 6 Years Across Phenotypes of Speech, Language, and Nonverbal Cognition (2020), Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
  • Interactive effects of coping strategies and emotion dysregulation on risk for peer victimization (2021), Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology
  • Examining variability in the processing of agreement in novice learners: Evidence from event-related potentials (2021), Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition

The publication venues where Lesa Hoffman has frequently published include:

  • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
  • Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy
  • Multivariate Behavioral Research
  • Annual Review of Psychology
  • Psychology of Women Quarterly

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Lesa Hoffman are:

  • Ti Hsu
  • Mabel L. Rice
  • Kathleen Kelsey Earnest
  • Amity Campbell
  • Peter O'Sullivan

Best Publications

  • Dispositional forgiveness of self, others, and situations.

    Laura Yamhure Thompson;C. R. Snyder;Lesa Hoffman;Scott T. Michael

  • Persons as Contexts: Evaluating Between-Person and Within-Person Effects in Longitudinal Analysis

    Lesa Hoffman;Robert S. Stawski

  • Assessing Family Outcomes: Psychometric Evaluation of the Beach Center Family Quality of Life Scale

    Lesa Hoffman;Janet Marquis;Denise Poston;Jean Ann Summers

  • Longitudinal Analysis: Modeling Within-Person Fluctuation and Change

    Lesa Hoffman

  • Toward assessing family outcomes of service delivery: validation of a family quality of life survey

    Jiyeon Park;L. Hoffman;J. Marquis;A. P. Turnbull

  • Conceptualizing and measuring family quality of life.

    Jean Ann Summers;D. J. Poston;A. P. Turnbull;J. Marquis

  • Psychopathology in Young People With Intellectual Disability

    Stewart L. Einfeld;Andrea M. Piccinin;Andrea M. Piccinin;Andrew Mackinnon;Scott M. Hofer;Scott M. Hofer

  • Multilevel models for the experimental psychologist: foundations and illustrative examples.

    Lesa Hoffman;Michael J. Rovine

  • Measuring the Quality of Family—Professional Partnerships in Special Education Services:

    Jean Ann Summers;Lesa Hoffman;Janet Marquis;Ann P. Turnbull

  • Grammatical tense deficits in children with SLI and nonspecific language impairment: relationships with nonverbal IQ over time.

    Mabel L. Rice;J. Bruce Tomblin;Lesa Hoffman;W. Allen Richman

  • Predicting Vocabulary Growth in Children With and Without Specific Language Impairment: A Longitudinal Study From 2;6 to 21 Years of Age

    Mabel L. Rice;Lesa Hoffman

  • Understanding verbal fluency in healthy aging, Alzheimer's disease, and Parkinson's disease.

    Joan M. McDowd;Lesa Hoffman;Ellen Kathryn Rozek;Kelly E. Lyons

  • Does it hurt to ask? A meta-analysis of participant reactions to trauma research.

    Anna E. Jaffe;David DiLillo;Lesa Hoffman;Michelle Haikalis

  • Mean length of utterance in children with specific language impairment and in younger control children shows concurrent validity and stable and parallel growth trajectories.

    Mabel L. Rice;Sean M. Redmond;Lesa Hoffman

  • Multilevel Models for Examining Individual Differences in Within-Person Variation and Covariation Over Time

    Lesa Hoffman

  • Examining the influence of task set on eye movements and fixations.

    Mark Mills;Andrew Hollingworth;Stefan Van der Stigchel;Lesa Hoffman

  • Relationship Between Parent Satisfaction Regarding Partnerships With Professionals and Age of Child

    Jean Ann Summers;Lesa Hoffman;Janet Marquis;Ann Turnbull

  • What matters, and what matters most, for change in life satisfaction in the oldest-old? A study over 6 years among individuals 80+.

    Anne Ingeborg Berg;Lesa Hoffman;Linda Björk Hassing;Gerald E. McClearn

  • The role of visual attention in predicting driving impairment in older adults.

    Lesa Hoffman;Joan M. McDowd;Paul Atchley;Richard Dubinsky

  • Obtaining Diagnostic Classification Model Estimates Using Mplus

    Jonathan Templin;Lesa Hoffman

  • On the use of multilevel modeling as an alternative to items analysis in psycholinguistic research.

    Lawrence Locker;Lesa Hoffman;James A. Bovaird

Frequent Co-Authors

Scott M. Hofer
Scott M. Hofer University of Victoria
Janet Marquis
Janet Marquis University of Kansas
Ann P. Turnbull
Ann P. Turnbull University of Kansas
Andrea M. Piccinin
Andrea M. Piccinin University of Victoria
David DiLillo
David DiLillo University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Jean Ann Summers
Jean Ann Summers University of Kansas
Gerald E. McClearn
Gerald E. McClearn Pennsylvania State University
Martin J. Sliwinski
Martin J. Sliwinski Pennsylvania State University
Susan Kemper
Susan Kemper University of Kansas
Paul Atchley
Paul Atchley University of South Florida

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