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Tamara D. Afifi publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Tamara D. Afifi sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 127 publications — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Tamara D. Afifi D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Tamara D. Afifi sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Tamara D. Afifi is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within psychology and social sciences, with a focus on clinical psychology, social psychology, sociology, political science, health, and general health professions.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Family Support in Illness
  • Community Health and Development

Afifi has published extensively, with notable papers such as:

  • The Extended Theoretical Model of Communal Coping: Understanding the Properties and Functionality of Communal Coping (2020, Journal of Communication)
  • Using Virtual Reality to Improve the Quality of Life of Older Adults with Cognitive Impairments and their Family Members who Live at a Distance (2022, Health Communication)
  • Why Family Communication Matters: the Role of Co-rumination and Topic Avoidance in Understanding Post-Disaster Mental Health (2020, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology)
  • Testing the Feasibility of Virtual Reality With Older Adults With Cognitive Impairments and Their Family Members Who Live at a Distance (2021, Innovation in Aging)
  • Testing the theory of resilience and relational load in dual career families: relationship maintenance as stress management (2020, Journal of Applied Communication Research)

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Walid A. Afifi
  • Kathryn Harrison
  • Jennifer A. Kam
  • Allison P. Mazur
  • Chantel Haughton

Afifi publishes often in the following venues:

  • Communication Monographs
  • Human Communication Research
  • Journal of Communication
  • Journal of Applied Communication Research
  • Journal of Family Psychology

In addition to journal articles, Afifi has contributed to book publications, including a 2020 title titled Teen Stress published by Greenwood eBooks.

Best Publications

  • Feeling Caught between Parents: Adult Children's Relations with Parents and Subjective Well-Being.

    Paul R. Amato;Tamara D. Afifi

  • ‘Feeling Caught’ in Stepfamilies: Managing Boundary Turbulence through Appropriate Communication Privacy Rules

    Tamara D. Afifi

  • The Revelation Risk Model (RRM): Factors that Predict the Revelation of Secrets and the Strategies Used to Reveal Them

    Tamara Afifi;Keli Steuber

  • The theory of resilience and relational load

    Tamara D. Afifi;Anne F. Merrill;Sharde Davis

  • When is Topic Avoidance Unsatisfying?Examining Moderators of the Association Between Avoidance and Dissatisfaction

    John P. Caughlin;Tamara D. Afifi

  • Toward a Theoretical Model of Communal Coping in Postdivorce Families and Other Naturally Occurring Groups

    Tamara D. Afifi;Susan Hutchinson;Stephanie Krouse

  • The impact of uncertainty and communal coping on mental health following natural disasters.

    Walid A Afifi;Erika D Felix;Tamara D Afifi

  • "Feeling Caught" as a Mediator of Adolescents' and Young Adults' Avoidance and Satisfaction with Their Parents in Divorced and Non-Divorced Households.

    Tamara D. Afifi;Paul Schrodt

  • Uncertainty and the Avoidance of the State of One's Family in Stepfamilies, Postdivorce Single‐Parent Families, and First‐Marriage Families

    Tamara D. Afifi;Paul Schrodt

  • Military Wives' Stressful Disclosures to Their Deployed Husbands: The Role of Protective Buffering

    Andrea L. Joseph;Tamara D. Afifi

  • The Chilling Effect in Families and the Pressure to Conceal Secrets

    Tamara D. Afifi;Loreen Olson

  • Inappropriate Parental Divorce Disclosures, the Factors that Prompt them, and their Impact on Parents’ and Adolescents’ Well-Being

    Tamara D. Afifi;Tara McManus;Susan Hutchinson;Birgitta Baker

  • The Dark Side (and Light Side) of Avoidance and Secrets

    Tamara Afifi;John Patrick Caughlin;Walid Afifi

  • Communication Processes that Predict Young Adults’ Feelings of Being Caught and their Associations with Mental Health and Family Satisfaction

    Paul Schrodt;Tamara D. Afifi

  • Why Can't We Just Talk About It? An Observational Study of Parents' and Adolescents' Conversations About Sex

    Tamara D. Afifi;Andrea Lynn Joseph;Desiree Aldeis

  • The Impact of Parents “Friending” Their Young Adult Child on Facebook on Perceptions of Parental Privacy Invasions and Parent–Child Relationship Quality

    Maggie Kanter;Tamara Afifi;Stephanie Robbins

  • Avoidance among adolescents in conversations about their parents’ relationship: Applying the Theory of Motivated Information Management

    Walid A. Afifi;Tamara D. Afifi

  • “You Need to Stop Talking about This!”: Verbal Rumination and the Costs of Social Support

    Tamara Afifi;Walid Afifi;Anne F. Merrill;Amanda Denes

  • Family functioning and posttraumatic growth among parents and youth following wildfire disasters.

    Erika Felix;Tamara Afifi;Maryam Kia-Keating;Laurel Brown

  • Coming Out Again: Exploring GLBQ Individuals’ Communication with Their Parents After the First Coming Out

    Amanda Denes;Tamara D. Afifi

  • Uncertainty, Information Management, and Disclosure Decisions : Theories and Applications

    Tamara D. Afifi;Walid A. Afifi

Frequent Co-Authors

Walid A. Afifi
Walid A. Afifi University of California, Santa Barbara
Paul Schrodt
Paul Schrodt Texas Christian University
Douglas A. Granger
Douglas A. Granger University of California, Irvine
Kory Floyd
Kory Floyd University of Arizona
John P. Caughlin
John P. Caughlin University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
David R. Seibold
David R. Seibold University of California, Santa Barbara
Jim Blascovich
Jim Blascovich University of California, Santa Barbara
Nancy L. Collins
Nancy L. Collins University of California, Santa Barbara
Paul R. Amato
Paul R. Amato Pennsylvania State University
Rebecca G. Logsdon
Rebecca G. Logsdon University of Washington

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