Data management plan for the grant, "HRSA Center of Excellence". The North Texas Center for Excellence (COE) will serve as an innovative resource for recruitment, training, and retention of health service psychology (HSP) Hispanic students and faculty, will improve clinical education and cultural competence associated with minority health issues and social determinates of health, and will facilitate research on minority health and health care delivery.

Article drawing on a process-focused model of interpersonal decentering's causal validity, the authors manipulated activation experimentally, comparing decentering scores from expressive writing essays under standard instructions (activation condition) versus control instructions, then correlated decentering scores with use of activated language. With condition controlled, both decentering scores correlated significantly with greater proportions of present-tense verbs, positive emotion words, and cognitive words, showing trait effects.

Article discusses the utility of SCED data for trauma research, provides recommendations for addressing challenges specific to SCED approaches, and introduces a tutorial for two Bayesian models—the Bayesian interrupted time-series (BITS) model and the Bayesian unknown change-point (BUCP) model—that can be used to analyze the typically small sample, autocorrelated, SCED data.

This article is a review that examines and summarises the available knowledge base on intervention techniques focused on positive memories. This review serves as a quick reference guide to help professionals’ access to descriptions and information on empirical evidence of positive memory techniques, improving their therapeutic arsenal to enhance well-being and therapeutic outcomes in their patients.

Article examining weight loss and physical functioning of obese veterans with comorbid psychological symptoms when participating in weight management programs. The MOVE! program aims to increase healthy eating and physical activity to promote weight loss in obese veterans. Adequately addressing psychological barriers is necessary to maximize outcomes in MOVE! for veterans with PTSD, depression, and anxiety. This study examined the preliminary outcomes of administering the Healthy Emotions and Improving Health BehavioR Outcomes (HERO) intervention. HERO is adjunctive cognitive-behavioral therapy to MOVE! that addresses PTSD, depression, and anxiety symptom barriers to engagement in physical activity.

Article investigates psychosocial factors that impact the academic performance of nursing students.

Article examining the differences in predictors of depression among individuals with fibromyalgia (FM) and osteoarthritis (OA) using a range of health, demographic, and psychological variables.

Article examining the psychometric properties of the self-report version of Proposed Specifiers for Conduct Disorder (PSCD) Scale in a sample of community adolescents in mainland China. Findings provide preliminary evidence for the four-factor structure of the PSCD and support for the utility of the self-report PSCD for measuring psychopathic traits and CD in Chinese adolescents.

This article investigates the psychometric properties of the Posttrauma Risky Behaviors Questionnaire (PRBQ) using item response theory to examine (a) item analysis (b) person fit, and (c) differential item functioning (DIF) across gender-based groups and two different samples.

Article discusses how the child-caregiver relationship is the foundation for which intervention occurs. The purpose of this study is to explore how researchers and clinicians might collect direct data on IOH to assess the acceptability of an intervention.

The article describes the subgroups and demographic characteristics related to NA household food environments. Surveys collected food getting, food assistance, and sociodemographic variables from randomly selected adults from three NA communities (n = 300) in the Midwest and Southwest. Findings demonstrate that NA household food environments can be described by developing subgroups based on patterns of market and traditional food getting, and food assistance utilization. Understanding NA household food environments could identify tailored individual and community-level approaches to promoting healthy eating for NA Nations.

Article describes how Filipino migrant workers in Macao are vulnerable to posttraumatic stress disorder(PTSD) symptoms and addictive behaviours due to trauma histories, postmigration stressors, and access to alcohol and gambling venues. The current study investigated differential relations between PTSD symptoms and addictive behaviours in a polytrauma exposed sample of Filipino domestic workers in Macao(SAR), China.

Data collected in order to analyze social-cognitive growth in fiction, particularly the Harry Potter series, using interpersonal decentering scores. The original data consists of scores taken from randomly sampled pages in the Harry Potter series.

Article is a study that presented participants with a bar-pressing challenge relevant to their identity after having exposed them to a prime that made their mortality more or less salient. This study adds substantively to a new line of support for terror management theory and documents the predictive utility of a proposed blended analysis of associated effort processes.

Dataset for a potential publication, "Toward Development of a Novel Proprioceptive Trail-Making Test Comparing Healthy Dancers and Non-Dancers."

Data management plan for the grant, "The Socorro Project: First Responder Mental Health Awareness Training in Hispanic Communities of North Texas."

Dataset for the article, "The Autonomic Spectrum Questionnaire: A Factor Analysis" by Colin Ross, Justin Litvin, Anthony Ryals, and Patricia Kaminski (2021).

This article is a comment responding to a critique by Patrick et. al (2020) of the authors' recent study that raised questions regarding the three-factor model of the Triarchic Psychopathy Measure (TriPM). The reply demonstrates additional problems with the three-factor TriPM model and shows that the seven-factor model out-performs the three-factor model in predicting correlates of psychopathy.

This article describes a study conducted to test the structure of the Triarchic Psychopathy Measure (TriPM) via exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. Findings suggest that the three original TriPM factors do not optimally represent the conceptual model underlying the TriPM.

Article examines associations between self-reported emotion regulation (ER) and psychopathy.

Data management plan for the grant, "Examination and Refinement of a Novel Treatment for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Processing of Positive Memories Technique (PPMT)." The study aims to examine effects of and targets underlying a novel technique for posttraumatic stress disorder focused on positive memories (Processing of Positive Memories Technique; PPMT). Specific aims include (1) examining PPMT’s effects; (2) examining mechanistic targets such as improved affect underlying PPMT’s effects; and (3) refining PPMT.

This article investigates the relationship between CBD use and marijuana use to understand the antecedents and consequences of co-use of these two cannabis products.

Data management plan for the grant, "Improving Remote Breathalyzer Procedures used by Clinicians and Researchers to Remotely Monitor Alcohol Use."

Data management plan for the grant, "The North Texas-20". The North Texas-20 project builds upon its established work to redress unmet needs of our region, support for underserved communities, and contribute to psychology workforce diversification.