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Paula
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Assistant
Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Utah |
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Paula
G. Williams, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
University of Utah
380 South 1530 East, Room 502
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 -0251
Office: 1301A Social and Behavioral Sciences Building
Office Phone: (801) 585-6271
E-mail: paula.williams@psych.utah.edu
Fax: (801) 581-5841 |
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| Post-Doctoral
Fellowship |
Duke
University Medical Center (Clinical Psychology, 1994-1996) |
| Pre-Doctoral
Internship |
Duke
University Medical Center (Clinical Psychology, 1993-1994) |
| Ph.D. |
University
of Utah (Clinical Psychology, 1995) |
| M.S. |
Illinois
State University (Clinical Psychology, 1988) |
| B.S. |
University
of Illinois (Psychology /Genetics and Development, 1986) |
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The overarching focus of my research is on understanding
individual differences in vulnerability to adverse mental and physical health outcomes,
with a particular focus on gender and the Five Factor Model of personality. Specific,
inter-related research areas include:
- Individual differences in vulnerability to anxiety (worry/generalized anxiety
disorder and health anxiety/hypochondriasis), depression, insomnia, physical health
problems, and illness behavior. Current studies are examining:
- stress exposure
- affective and psychophysiological responses to laboratory stress
- stress-related sleep disruption
- gender differences in response to communal vs. agentic stressors
- Cognitive/neuropsychological aspects of personality, with a particular
emphasis on executive functioning (in collaboration with Yana Suchy) and
examination of relations to stress responses and emotion regulation
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Williams, P. G., Smith, T. W., & Cribbet*, M. R. (in press). Personality and health: Current evidence, potential mechanisms, and future directions. In G. J. Boyle, G. Matthews, & D. H. Saklofske (Eds.), Handbook of personality theory and testing: Vol. 1 Personality theories and models. Sage.
Hutchinson*, J. G., & Williams, P. G. (2007). Neuroticism, daily hassles, and depressive symptoms: An examination of moderating and mediating effects. Personality and Individual Differences, 42, 1367-1378.
Williams, P. G. (2006). Personality and illness behavior. In M. Vollrath (Ed.), Handbook of personality and health. pp. 157-173. West Sussex, UK: Wiley.
Williams,
P. G. (2004)
The
psychopathology of self-assessed health: A cognitive approach to health anxiety and
hypochondriasis [Special Issue: Cognition, Emotion, & Illness].
Cognitive Therapy & Research, 28, 629-644.
Scalzo*, C. A., Williams, P. G., & Holmbeck,
G. N. (2005) Maternal self-assessed health and emotionality predict
maternal response to child illness. Children’s Health Care,
34, 61-79.
Williams, P. G., & Gunn*, H. E. (2005) Gender,
personality, and psychopathology. In J. C. Thomas & D. L. Segal
(Eds.), Comprehensive handbook of personality and psychopathology:
Vol. 1 Personality and everyday functioning, pp. 432-442. Hoboken,
NJ: Wiley.
Williams, P. G., O’Brien*, C. D., & Colder,
C. R. (2004). The effects of neuroticism and extraversion on self-assessed
health and health-relevant cognition. Personality and individual
Differences, 37, 83-94.
Williams, P. G., Wasserman*, M.S, & Lotto, A.
J. (2003). Individual
differences in self-assessed health: An information processing investigation
of health and illness cognition. Health Psychology, 22, 3-11.
Williams, P. G., Colder, C. R., Lane, J. D., McCaskill,
C. C., Feinglos, M., & Surwit, R. S. (2002).
Examination
of the neuroticism-symptom reporting relationship in patients with
type 2 diabetes. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin,
28, 1015-1025.
Williams, P. G., Colder, C. R., Richards, M. H.,&
Scalzo*, C. A. (2002). The role of self-assessed health in the relationship
between gender and depressive symptoms among adolescents
[Special Issue: Adolescent
Health].
Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 11, 509-517.
Williams, P. G., Holmbeck, G. N., & Neff*, R. (2002).
Adolescent
health psychology [Special Issue: Behavioral Medicine and Clinical
Health Psychology]. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 70, 828-842.
*student co-author
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Clinical
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