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Mark A. Whisman is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with a substantial focus on Social Psychology and Clinical Psychology as key subfields. The scope of their work includes experimental and cognitive psychology alongside aspects of demography and public health.

The scientist's research centers on topics such as Attachment and Relationship Dynamics, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, and Family Dynamics and Relationships. Additional areas of investigation include Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum, Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes, Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving, and Health Disparities and Outcomes.

Frequent co-authors in their collaborative work include Julia M. Salinger, David A. Sbarra, Anna L Gilmour, Steven R. H. Beach, and Ashley K. Randall.

Marked publication venues for Mark A. Whisman include:

  • Journal of Family Psychology
  • Current Opinion in Psychology
  • Family Process
  • Journal of Clinical Psychology
  • Health Psychology

Notable recent publications are:

  • Intimate Relationships and Depression: Searching for Causation in the Sea of Association, 2021, Annual Review of Clinical Psychology
  • Divorce, health, and socioeconomic status: An agenda for psychological science, 2021, Current Opinion in Psychology
  • Relationship dissolution and psychopathology, 2021, Current Opinion in Psychology
  • Marital satisfaction as a potential moderator of the association between stress and depression, 2023, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • A dyadic analysis of relationship satisfaction and depressive symptoms among same-sex couples, 2021, Journal of Family Psychology

Best Publications

  • The association between depression and marital dissatisfaction.

    Mark A. Whisman

  • Gender differences in rumination: A meta-analysis.

    Daniel P. Johnson;Mark A. Whisman

  • Marital distress and DSM-IV psychiatric disorders in a population-based national survey.

    Mark A. Whisman

  • Factor structure of the Beck Depression Inventory—Second Edition (BDI-II) in a student sample.

    Mark A. Whisman;John E. Perez;Wiveka Ramel

  • Designing, Testing, and Interpreting Interactions and Moderator Effects in Family Research.

    Mark A. Whisman;Gary H. McClelland

  • Therapists' perspectives of couple problems and treatment issues in couple therapy

    Mark A. Whisman;Amy E. Dixon;Benjamin Johnson

  • Psychopathology and marital satisfaction: the importance of evaluating both partners.

    Mark A. Whisman;Lisa A. Uebelacker;Lauren M. Weinstock

  • Marital dissatisfaction and incidence of major depressive episode in a community sample.

    Mark A. Whisman;Martha L. Bruce

  • Current status and future directions in couple therapy.

    Douglas K. Snyder;Angela M. Castellani;Mark A. Whisman

  • Marital dissatisfaction and psychiatric disorders : Results from the National Comorbidity Survey

    Mark A. Whisman

  • Intimate Relationships and Psychopathology

    Mark A. Whisman;Donald H. Baucom

  • Sexual desire and relationship functioning: The effects of marital satisfaction and power

    Michael Brezsnyak;Mark A. Whisman

  • Psychiatric disorders and dissatisfaction with social relationships: does type of relationship matter?

    Mark A. Whisman;C. Tess Sheldon;Paula Goering

  • Mediators and moderators of change in cognitive therapy of depression

    Mark A. Whisman

  • Prospective associations between marital discord and depressive symptoms in middle-aged and older adults.

    Mark A. Whisman;Lisa A. Uebelacker

  • Predicting sexual infidelity in a population-based sample of married individuals.

    Mark A. Whisman;Kristina Coop Gordon;Yael Chatav

  • Neuroticism as a common feature of the depressive and anxiety disorders: a test of the revised integrative hierarchical model in a national sample.

    Lauren M. Weinstock;Mark A. Whisman

  • Sexual infidelity in a national survey of American women: differences in prevalence and correlates as a function of method of assessment.

    Mark A. Whisman;Douglas K. Snyder

  • Impairment and distress associated with relationship discord in a national sample of married or cohabiting adults.

    Mark A. Whisman;Lisa A. Uebelacker

  • Longitudinal association between marital dissatisfaction and alcohol use disorders in a community sample.

    Mark A. Whisman;Lisa A. Uebelacker;Martha L. Bruce

Frequent Co-Authors

Lisa A. Uebelacker
Lisa A. Uebelacker Brown University
Steven R. H. Beach
Steven R. H. Beach University of Georgia
Douglas K. Snyder
Douglas K. Snyder Texas A&M University
Neil S. Jacobson
Neil S. Jacobson University of Washington
Soo Hyun Rhee
Soo Hyun Rhee University of Colorado Boulder
David A. Sbarra
David A. Sbarra University of Arizona
Kelly D. Brownell
Kelly D. Brownell Duke University
John K. Hewitt
John K. Hewitt University of Colorado Boulder
Robin P. Corley
Robin P. Corley University of Colorado Boulder
Ivan W. Miller
Ivan W. Miller Brown University

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