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Megan L. Rogers is affiliated with Texas State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology with a specialization in clinical psychology, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, psychiatry, and mental health, as well as epidemiology.

The scientist's main topics of study include:

  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Resilience and Mental Health

Frequent publication venues for Megan L. Rogers include:

  • Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior
  • Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Psychological Assessment
  • Psychiatry Research

Notable recent papers include:

  • Examining minority stress pathways to suicidal ideation among sexual minority adults: The moderating role of LGBT community connectedness, 2020, Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity
  • The revised suicide crisis inventory (SCI-2): Validation and assessment of prospective suicidal outcomes at one month follow-up, 2021, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • The Prompt Report: A Systematic Survey of Prompt Engineering Techniques, 2024, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • A Meta-Analysis of the Relationship Between Sleep Problems and Loneliness, 2020, Clinical Psychological Science
  • Impact of lockdown measures implemented during the Covid-19 pandemic on the burden of trauma presentations to a regional emergency department in Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa, 2020, African Journal of Emergency Medicine

Megan L. Rogers has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, including:

  • Igor Galynker
  • Thomas E. Joiner
  • Sarah Bloch-Elkouby
  • Jenelle Richards
  • Vikas Menon

The scientist's interdisciplinary work intersects multiple subfields and contributes to ongoing research in mental health treatment, suicide prevention, and psychosocial interventions.

Best Publications

  • Increases in Depressive Symptoms, Suicide-Related Outcomes, and Suicide Rates Among U.S. Adolescents After 2010 and Links to Increased New Media Screen Time:

    Jean M. Twenge;Thomas E. Joiner;Megan L. Rogers;Gabrielle N. Martin

  • The interpersonal theory of suicide: A systematic review and meta-analysis of a decade of cross-national research.

    Carol Chu;Jennifer M. Buchman-Schmitt;Ian H. Stanley;Melanie A. Hom

  • Suicidal ideation in transgender people: Gender minority stress and interpersonal theory factors.

    Rylan J. Testa;Matthew S. Michaels;Whitney Bliss;Megan L. Rogers

  • Rumination, Suicidal Ideation, and Suicide Attempts: A Meta-Analytic Review:

    Megan L. Rogers;Thomas E. Joiner

  • Anxiety Sensitivity and Suicidal Ideation/Suicide Risk: A Meta-Analysis

    Ian H Stanley;Joseph W Boffa;Megan L Rogers;Melanie A Hom

  • Understanding suicide among older adults: a review of psychological and sociological theories of suicide

    Ian H. Stanley;Melanie A. Hom;Megan L. Rogers;Christopher R. Hagan

  • Conceptual and Empirical Scrutiny of Covarying Depression Out of Suicidal Ideation

    Megan L. Rogers;Ian H. Stanley;Melanie A. Hom;Bruno Chiurliza

  • Maternal emotion socialization differentially predicts third-grade children's emotion regulation and lability.

    Megan L. Rogers;Amy G. Halberstadt;Vanessa L. Castro;Jennifer K. MacCormack

  • The Association between Sleep Disturbances and Depression among Firefighters: Emotion Dysregulation as an Explanatory Factor.

    Melanie A Hom;Ian H Stanley;Megan L Rogers;Mirela Tzoneva

  • Construct validity of a proposed new diagnostic entity: Acute Suicidal Affective Disturbance (ASAD).

    Raymond P. Tucker;Matt S. Michaels;Megan L. Rogers;LaRicka R. Wingate

  • A Meta-Analysis of the Relationship Between Sleep Problems and Loneliness:

    Melanie A. Hom;Carol Chu;Megan L. Rogers;Thomas E. Joiner

  • Insomnia and suicide-related behaviors: A multi-study investigation of thwarted belongingness as a distinct explanatory factor

    Carol Chu;Melanie A. Hom;Megan L. Rogers;Ian H. Stanley

  • Investigating insomnia as a cross-sectional and longitudinal predictor of loneliness: Findings from six samples.

    Melanie A. Hom;Jennifer L. Hames;Lindsay P. Bodell;Jennifer M. Buchman-Schmitt

  • Suicide-Specific Rumination Relates to lifetime suicide attempts above and beyond a variety of other suicide risk factors.

    Megan L. Rogers;Thomas E. Joiner

  • A meta-analytic review of the association between agitation and suicide attempts

    Megan L. Rogers;Fallon B. Ringer;Thomas E. Joiner

  • Acute suicidal affective disturbance: Factorial structure and initial validation across psychiatric outpatient and inpatient samples.

    Megan L. Rogers;Bruno Chiurliza;Christopher R. Hagan;Mirela Tzoneva

  • Examination of interoception along the suicidality continuum.

    Megan L. Rogers;Christopher R. Hagan;Thomas E. Joiner

  • Initial validation of brief measures of suicide risk factors: Common data elements used by the Military Suicide Research Consortium.

    Fallon B. Ringer;Kelly A. Soberay;Megan L. Rogers;Christopher R. Hagan

  • Discussing Firearm Ownership and Access as Part of Suicide Risk Assessment and Prevention: “Means Safety” versus “Means Restriction”

    Ian H. Stanley;Melanie A. Hom;Megan L. Rogers;Michael D. Anestis

  • The association between suicidal ideation and lifetime suicide attempts is strongest at low levels of depression.

    Megan L. Rogers;Fallon B. Ringer;Thomas E. Joiner

  • Is Insomnia Lonely? Exploring Thwarted Belongingness as an Explanatory Link between Insomnia and Suicidal Ideation in a Sample of South Korean University Students.

    Carol Chu;Melanie A Hom;Megan L Rogers;Fallon B Ringer

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas E. Joiner
Thomas E. Joiner Florida State University
Melanie A. Hom
Melanie A. Hom Florida State University
Ian H. Stanley
Ian H. Stanley Florida State University
Peter M. Gutierrez
Peter M. Gutierrez Florida State University
Raymond P. Tucker
Raymond P. Tucker Louisiana State University
Michael D. Anestis
Michael D. Anestis Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Jean M. Twenge
Jean M. Twenge San Diego State University
Amy G. Halberstadt
Amy G. Halberstadt North Carolina State University
Cynthia M. Bulik
Cynthia M. Bulik University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Nicholas J. Schork
Nicholas J. Schork Translational Genomics Research Institute

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