Publications

Pham, H. Bendezú, J.J., & Wadsworth, M.E. (2023). HPA–SAM co-activation among racially diverse, economically disadvantaged early adolescents: An application of a multisystem, person-centered approach. Biological Psychology.  

Wadsworth, M.E., Ahlkvist, J.A., Pequet, A.F., & Mayo, C.O. (2023). Income, Income Inequality, Community, and the Development of Coping: The Reformulated Adaptation to Poverty-related Stress Model. In M. Zimmer-Gembeck & E. Skinner (Eds.), Handbook of Coping.

Mayo, C. O., Pham, H., Patallo, B., Joos, C. M., & Wadsworth, M. E. (2022). Coping with poverty-related stress: A narrative review. Developmental Review, 64, 1-27. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dr.2022.101024

Wadsworth, M. E., Ahlkvist, J. A., Jones, D. E., Pham, H., Rajagopalan, A., & Genaro, B. (2022). Targeting the proximal mechanisms of stress adaptation in early adolescence to prevent mental health problems in youth in poverty. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 51(3), 344-359. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2022.2073235

Veldheer, S., Tuan, W., Al-Shaar, L., Wadsworth, M., Sinoway, L, Schmitz, K.H., Sciamanna, C., & Gao, X. (2022). Gardening is Associated with Better Cardiovascular Health Status Among Older Adults in the US: Analysis of the 2019 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) Survey. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

Bendezú, J. J., Calhoun, C. D., & Wadsworth, M. E. (2021). Within-person patterns of psychobiological stress response correspondence: Links to preadolescent internalizing problems and coping behaviors. Anxiety, Stress & Coping: An International Journal, doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2021.1982912

Perzow, S. E. D., Bray, B. C., Wadsworth, M. E., Young, J. F., & Hankin, B. L. (2021). Individual differences in adolescent coping: Comparing a community sample and a low-SES sample to understand coping in context. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 50(4), 693-710. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-021-01398-z

Veldheer, S., Tuan, W., Wadsworth, M.E., Sinoway, L., Sciamanna, C., & Gao, X. (2021). Gardening and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in the 2019 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) Survey. Current Developments in Nutrition, 5(S-2), 1100.  https://doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzab053_093 

McDonald, A., Thompson, A. J., Perzow, S. E. D., Joos, C., & Wadsworth, M. E. (2020). The protective roles of ethnic identity, social support, and coping on depression in low-income parents: A test of the Adaptation to Poverty-related Stress model. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 88(6), 504-515. doi: https://doi.org/10.1037/ccp0000477

Wadsworth, M. E., McDonald, A., Joos, C. M., Ahlkvist, J. A., Perzow, S. E. D., Tilghman‐Osborne, E. M., . . . Brelsford, G. M. (2020). Reducing the biological and psychological toxicity of poverty‐related stress: Initial efficacy of the BaSICS intervention for early adolescents. American Journal of Community Psychology, 65(3-4), 305-319. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12400

Bendezú, J. J., Wodzinski, A., Loughlin-Presnal, J., Mozeko, J., Cobler, S., & Wadsworth, M. E. (2020). A multiple levels of analysis examination of the performance goal model of depression vulnerability in preadolescent children. Development and Psychopathology, doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579420000851

Murray, A., Wadsworth, M., Kraschnewski, J., Best, K., & Henry-Harris, C. (2020). 4481 Better Together Harrisburg: Community-Driven Research Day. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 4(S1), 81-82. doi:10.1017/cts.2020.260

Joos, C.M., McDonald, A., & Wadsworth, M.E. (2019). Extending the toxic stress model into adolescence: Profile of cortisol reactivity.  Psychoneuroendocrinology. 107, 46-58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2019.05.002

Wadsworth, M.E., Broderick, A.V., Loughlin-Presnal, J.E., Bendezú, J.J., Joos, C., Ahlkvist, J.A., Perzow, S.E.D.,  & McDonald, A. (2019). Co-activation of SAM and HPA Responses to Acute Stress: A Review of the Literature and Test of Differential Associations with Preadolescents’ Internalizing and Externalizing. Developmental Psychobiology, 61(7), 1079-1093. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/dev.21866  

Wadsworth, M.E., Kraschnewski, J.K., Brelsford, G.M., & Sekhar, D.L. (2019). Building capacity for community engaged research: Penn State University’s faculty fellowship program. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 3, 84-85. 

Bendezú, J. J., Loughlin-Presnal, J., & Wadsworth, M. E. (2019). Attachment security moderates effects of uncontrollable stress on preadolescent hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis responses: Evidence of regulatory fit. Clinical Psychological Science, 7(6), 1355-1371. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/2167702619854747

Broderick, A. V., Brelsford, G. M., & Wadsworth, M. E. (2019). Interparental relationships among low income, ethnically diverse, two-parent cohabiting families. Journal of Child and Family Studies, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-019-01442-4