Current Research Projects

  • Trauma, Oppression, and Resilience in Residents of Domestic Violence Shelters
    • This project includes several sub studies investigating a wide range of topics in residents of domestic violence shelters including oppression-based trauma, sexual violence as a function of partner status, empowerment, suicidality, resilience, survivor-defined practice, just-world beliefs, trauma-related shame, eating disorder symptomology, and impact of COVID-19.
    • Project Status: Data Collection Stage
  • Validation of Partner/Non-Partner version of the Sexual Experiences Survey (SES)
    • This project will evaluate the validity of an adapted version of the SES.
    • Project Status: Data Collection Stage
  • Creation of a Brief Measure of Empowerment
    • This project will conduct secondary data analyses with two data sets with residents of domestic violence shelters to create a briefer version of the Personal Progress Scale-Revised (PPS-R).
    • Project Status: Data Analysis
  • Reasons for Violence in College Students
    • This project will investigate measurement invariance in the Reasons for Violence Scale as a function of gender.
    • Project Status: Data Analysis
  • Predictors of IPV Perpetration in College Students
    • This project will investigate predictors of IPV Perpetration in college men and women.
    • Project Status: Data Analysis
  • Survival Sex in Residents of Domestic Violence Shelters
    • This project describes the incidence and correlates of survival sex in residents of domestic violence shelters.
    • Project Status: Manuscript Preparation/Submission
  • Race, Coping, and PTSD in Residents of Domestic Violence Shelters
    • This project will look at the role of coping in IPV-related PTSD symptoms as a function of race in residents of domestic violence shelters.
    • Project Status: Data Analysis/Manuscript Preparation
  • Intuitive Eating in Residents of Domestic Violence Shelters.
    • This project will investigate correlates of intuitive eating in residents of domestic violence shelters.
    • Project Status: Data Analysis/Manuscript Preparation
  • Race, Empowerment, and Disordered Eating in Residents of Domestic Violence Shelters.
    • This project will investigate the role of empowerment as a function of race in symptoms of disordered eating in residents of domestic violence shelters.
    • Project Status: Data Analysis/Manuscript Preparation
  • IPV, PTSD, and Disordered Eating in Residents of Domestic Violence Shelters
    • This study investigates the relationships between IPV severity, PTSD severity, and disordered eating among women IPV survivors residing in shelter.
    • Project Status: Under Review
  • The Role of Race, Social Support, Empowerment and Post-traumatic cognitions in Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence Symptoms of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
    • This project evaluates the indirect effect of race on PTSD via social support, empowerment, and post-traumatic cognitions.
    • Project Status: Manuscript preparation/Submission