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  • 1993 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Tracey A. Revenson is affiliated with the City University of New York in the United States. Their academic contributions span the fields of Medicine and Psychology, with a total of 27 publications in Medicine and 26 in Psychology. The subfields represented in their work include General Health Professions, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Applied Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

The research topics covered by Revenson focus on areas including:

  • Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
  • Chronic Disease Management Strategies
  • Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
  • Sleep and Related Disorders
  • Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
  • Family Support in Illness
  • Health Disparities and Outcomes

Revenson has published extensively in several academic journals. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Annals of Behavioral Medicine (9 publications)
  • International Journal of Behavioral Medicine (3 publications)
  • Journal of Psychosocial Oncology (2 publications)
  • Health Psychology (2 publications)
  • Innovation in Aging (2 publications)

Notable recent papers by Revenson include:

  • "Racial/ethnic concordance between patients and researchers as a predictor of study attrition" (2020, Social Science & Medicine)
  • "The experience of financial stress among emerging adult cancer survivors" (2020, Journal of Psychosocial Oncology)
  • "Tolerating Uncertainty in the Dark: Insomnia Symptoms, Distress, and Well-Being Among Parents of Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer" (2020, International Journal of Behavioral Medicine)
  • "Coping with Chronic Illness" (2020, The Wiley Encyclopedia of Health Psychology)
  • "Intolerance of uncertainty, experiential avoidance, and trust in physician: a moderated mediation analysis of emotional distress in advanced cancer" (2023, Journal of Behavioral Medicine)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Revenson include:

  • John Ruiz
  • Simon Bacon
  • Susan M. Czajkowski
  • Irina Mindlis
  • Michael A. Diefenbach

Tracey A. Revenson was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1993.

Best Publications

  • Does coping help? A reexamination of the relation between coping and mental health.

    Carolyn M. Aldwin;Tracey A. Revenson

  • Coping with chronic illness: a study of illness controllability and the influence of coping strategies on psychological adjustment.

    Barbara J. Felton;Tracey A. Revenson

  • Stress and coping in the explanation of psychological adjustment among chronically ill adults.

    Barbara J. Felton;Tracey A. Revenson;Gregory A. Hinrichsen

  • Handbook of health psychology

    Andrew S. Baum;Tracey A. Revenson;Jerome E. Singer

  • Health Psychology: Psychological Adjustment to Chronic Disease

    Annette L. Stanton;Tracey A. Revenson;Howard Tennen

  • Does coping help? A reexamination of the relation between coping and mental health.

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  • Social support as a double-edged sword: the relation of positive and problematic support to depression among rheumatoid arthritis patients

    Tracey A. Revenson;Kathleen M. Schiaffino;S. Deborah Majerovitz;Allan Gibofsky

  • A Piaget Primer: How a Child Thinks

    Dorothy G. Singer;Tracey A. Revenson

  • Resilience and Posttraumatic Growth: Recovery, Resistance, and Reconfiguration.

    Stephen J. Lepore;Tracey A. Revenson

  • Gender differences in coping with infertility: a meta-analysis.

    Caren Jordan;Tracey A. Revenson

  • Coping with chronic illness: A study of illness controllability and the influence of coping strategies on psychological adjustment.

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  • Social support and marital coping with chronic illness.

    Tracey A. Revenson

  • Dyadic coping in metastatic breast cancer.

    Hoda Badr;Cindy Lynn Carmack;Deborah A. Kashy;Massimo Cristofanilli

  • Couples Coping With Stress: Emerging Perspectives On Dyadic Coping

    Tracey A. Revenson;Karen Kayser;Guy Bodenmann

  • Disability and Coping as Predictors of Psychological Adjustment to Rheumatoid Arthritis.

    Tracey A. Revenson;Barbara J. Felton

  • Social Constraints on Disclosure and Adjustment to Cancer

    Stephen J. Lepore;Tracey A. Revenson

  • Social supports as stress buffers for adult cancer patients

    Tracey A. Revenson;Carol A. Wollman;Barbara J. Felton

  • Age differences in coping with chronic illness.

    Barbara J. Felton;Tracey A. Revenson

  • Parental Illness, Family Functioning, and Adolescent Well-Being: A Family Ecology Framework to Guide Research.

    Sara Pedersen;Tracey A. Revenson

  • Caregiving in the Illness Context

    Tracey A. Revenson;Konstadina Griva;Aleksandra Luszczynska;Valerie Morrison

  • Benefit-finding among patients with rheumatoid arthritis: positive effects on interpersonal relationships.

    Sharon Danoff-Burg;Tracey A. Revenson

  • Spouses' Support Provision to Chronically Ill Patients

    Tracey A. Revenson;S. Deborah Majerovitz

Frequent Co-Authors

Mariët Hagedoorn
Mariët Hagedoorn University Medical Center Groningen
Konstadina Griva
Konstadina Griva Nanyang Technological University
Aleksandra Luszczynska
Aleksandra Luszczynska University of Social Sciences and Humanities
Stephen J. Lepore
Stephen J. Lepore Temple University
Lara Traeger
Lara Traeger Harvard University
Laura M. Bogart
Laura M. Bogart RAND Corporation
Guy Bodenmann
Guy Bodenmann University of Zurich
Annette L. Stanton
Annette L. Stanton University of California, Los Angeles
Edward Seidman
Edward Seidman New York University
Howard Tennen
Howard Tennen University of Connecticut

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