Publications
Below is a list of publications that are related to the work we do in our lab.
Emotion Regulation
Conway, C. C., Naragon-Gainey, K., & Harris, M. T.* (2020). The structure of distress tolerance and neighboring emotion-regulation abilities. Assessment.
McMahon, T. P.*, & Naragon-Gainey, K. (2020). Ecological validity of trait emotion regulation measures. Psychological Assessment, 32, 796-802.
Park, J.*, & Naragon-Gainey, K. (2020). Is more clarity always better? An examination of curvilinear and moderated associations between emotional clarity and internalizing symptoms. Cognition and Emotion, 34, 273-287.
Park, J.*, & Naragon-Gainey, K. (2019). Daily experiences of emotional clarity and their association with internalizing symptoms in naturalistic settings. Emotion, 19, 764-775.
McMahon, T. P.*, & Naragon-Gainey, K. (2019). The multilevel structure of daily emotion regulation strategy use: An examination of within- and between-person associations in naturalistic settings. Clinical Psychological Science, 7, 321-339.
Jenzer, T.*, Read, J. P., Naragon-Gainey, K., & Prince, M. A. (2019). Coping trajectories in emerging adulthood: The influence of temperament and gender. Journal of Personality, 87, 607-619.
Naragon-Gainey, K., McMahon, T. P.*, & Park, J.* (2018). The contributions of affective traits and emotion regulation to internalizing disorders: Current state of the literature and measurement challenges. American Psychologist, 73, 1175-1186.
McMahon, T. P.*, & Naragon-Gainey, K. (2018). The moderating effect of maladaptive emotion regulation strategies on reappraisal: A daily diary study. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 42, 552-564.
Naragon-Gainey, K., McMahon, T. P*, & Chacko, T. P.* (2017). The structure of common emotion regulation strategies: A meta-analytic examination. Psychological Bulletin, 143, 384-427.
Olatunji, B. O., Naragon-Gainey, K., & Wolitzky-Taylor, K. B. (2013). Specificity of Rumination in anxiety and depression: a multimodal meta-analysis. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 20, 225-257.
Decentering and Mindfulness
Sgherza, T.R., DeMarree, K.G., & Naragon-Gainey, K. (2022). Testing the Mindfulness-to-Meaning Theory in Daily Life. Mindfulness 13, 2324–2336.
Naragon-Gainey, K., McMahon, T. P., Strowger, M., Lackner, R. J., Seah, T. H. S., Moore, M. T., & Fresco, D. M. (2020). A comparison of decentering across demographic groups and meditation experience: Support for the measurement invariance of the Experiences Questionnaire. Psychological Assessment, 32, 197-204.
DeMarree, K. G., Naragon-Gainey, K., & Giancola, A. (2019). Decentering constructs predict experience and tolerance of pain: Evidence from a cold pressor study. International Journal of Social Psychology / Revista de Psicología Social, 34, 535-562.
Naragon-Gainey, K., & DeMarree, K. G. (2017). Structure and validity of measures of decentering and defusion. Psychological Assessment, 29, 935-954.
Naragon-Gainey, K., & DeMarree, K. G. (2017). Decentering attenuates the associations of negative affect and positive affect with psychopathology. Clinical Psychological Science, 5, 1027-1047.
Affective traits
Ward, D. E.,* Park, L. E., Naragon-Gainey, K., Whillans, A., & Jung, H. Y.* (2020). Can’t buy me love (or friendship): Social consequences of financially contingent self-worth. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
Naragon-Gainey, K. (2019). Affective models of depression and anxiety: Extension to within-person processes in daily life. Journal of Affective Disorders, 243, 241-248.
Naragon-Gainey, K. (2018). Distinguishing affective constructs: Structure, trait- vs. state-ness, and responses to affect. In R. Davidson, A. Shackman, A. Fox, & R. Lapate (Eds.), The Nature of Emotion, 2nd Edition (pp. 45-49). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Naragon-Gainey, K., & Watson, D. (2018). What lies beyond neuroticism? An examination of the unique contributions of social-cognitive vulnerabilities to internalizing disorders. Assessment, 25, 143-158.
Park, L. E., Ward, D. E.*, & Naragon-Gainey, K. (2017). It’s all about the money (for some): Consequences of financially contingent self-worth. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 43, 601-622.
Brown, T. A., & Naragon-Gainey, K. (2013). Evaluation of the unique and specific contributions of dimensions of the triple vulnerability model to the prediction of DSM-IV anxiety and mood disorder constructs. Behavior Therapy, 44, 277-292.
Naragon-Gainey, K. (2010). Meta-analysis of the relations of anxiety sensitivity to the depressive and anxiety disorders. Psychological Bulletin, 136, 128-150.
Assessment, structure and measure development
Stasik-O’Brien, S. M., Brock, R. L., Chmielewski, M., Naragon-Gainey, K., Koffel, E., McDade-Montez, E., O’Hara, M. W., & Watson, D. (2019). Clinical utility of the Inventory for Depression and Anxiety Symptoms (IDAS). Assessment, 26, 944-960.
Gabriel, S., Valenti, J.*, Naragon-Gainey, K., & Young, A. F.* (2017). The psychological importance of collective assembly: Development and validation of the Tendency for Effervescent Assembly Measure (TEAM). Psychological Assessment, 29, 1349-1362.
Naragon-Gainey, K., Prenoveau, J. M., Brown, T. A., & Zinbarg, R. E. (2016). A comparison and integration of structural models of depression and anxiety in a clinical sample: Support for and validation of the tri-level model. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 125, 853-867.
Watson, D., Stasik, S. M., Chmielewski, M., & Naragon-Gainey, K. (2015). Development and validation of the Temperament and Affectivity Inventory. Assessment, 22, 540-560.
Naragon-Gainey, K., & Brown, T. A. (2015). Enhancing measurement validation in cognitive-clinical research with structural equation modeling and item response theory. In G. P. Brown & D.A. Clark (Eds.), Assessment in Cognitive Therapy (pp. 268-290). New York, NY: Guilford Publications.
Naragon-Gainey, K., Simpson, T. L., Moore, S. A., Varra, A. A., & Kaysen, D. L. (2012). The correspondence of daily and retrospective PTSD reports among female victims of sexual assault. Psychological Assessment, 24, 1041-1047.
Watson, D., O’Hara, M. W., Naragon-Gainey, K., Koffel, E., Chmielewski, M., Kotov, R., Stasik, S. M., & Ruggero, C. J. (2012). Development and validation of new anxiety and bipolar symptom scales for the IDAS-II. Assessment, 19, 399-420.
Personality and psycho-pathology
Naragon-Gainey, K., & Simms, L. J. (2017). Clarifying the links of conscientiousness with internalizing and externalizing psychopathology. Journal of Personality, 85, 880-892.
Naragon-Gainey, K., & Simms, L. J. (2017). Three-way interaction of neuroticism, extraversion, and conscientiousness in the internalizing disorders: Evidence of disorder specificity in a psychiatric sample. Journal of Research in Personality, 70, 16-26.
Naragon-Gainey, K., & Watson, D. (2014). Consensually-defined facets of personality as prospective predictors of change in depression symptoms. Assessment, 21, 387-403.
Watson, D., & Naragon-Gainey, K. (2014). Personality, emotions, and the emotional disorders. Clinical Psychological Science, 2, 422-442.
Naragon-Gainey, K., Gallagher, M. W., & Brown, T. A. (2013). Stable “trait” variance of temperament as a predictor of the temporal course of depression and social phobia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 122, 611-623.
Naragon-Gainey, K., & Watson, D. (2011). The anxiety disorders and suicidal ideation: Accounting for comorbidity via underlying personality traits. Psychological Medicine, 41, 1437-1448.
Watson, D., & Naragon-Gainey, K. (2010). On the specificity of positive emotional dysfunction in psychopathology: Evidence from the mood and anxiety disorders and schizophrenia/schizotypy. Clinical Psychology Review, 30, 839-848.
Naragon-Gainey, K., Watson, D., & Markon, K. E. (2009). Differential relations of depression and social anxiety symptoms to the facets of extraversion/positive emotionality. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 118, 299-310.
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