Research Interests
- Developmental Psychopathology
- Depression
- Neglect
Research Description
My research focuses on how and why certain children and adolescents go on to develop internalizing symptoms. Specifically, I examine the prospective interplay between cognitive, interpersonal, and physiological vulnerability factors and the onset and maintenance of depression in both domestic and international youth samples. In recent years, I have become increasingly interested in translating these basic developmental psychopathology findings into screening procedures that can better identify youth living in adverse family contexts, and thus, at elevated risk for psychological distress. Over the next several years, I look forward to taking an applied developmental psychopathology approach to research in which more objective psychosocial screening procedures are developed on the bases of novel, longitudinal, laboratory studies with at-risk youth.
Education
Ph.D., Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick
Additional Campus Affiliations
Affiliate, Center for Social and Behavioral Science
External Links
Recent Publications
Choi, J. W., Thakur, H., & Cohen, J. R. (2021). Cardiac autonomic functioning across stress and reward: Links with depression in emerging adults. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 168, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2021.07.625
Choi, J. W., Hong, W., Abela, J. R. Z., & Cohen, J. R. (2021). Comorbid Depression and Anxiety Symptoms in Chinese Adolescents: Testing the Explanatory Power of a Diathesis-Anxiety Model. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 49(4), 503-517. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-020-00730-8
Cohen, J. R., & Thakur, H. (2021). Developmental consequences of emotional abuse and neglect in vulnerable adolescents: A multi-informant, multi-wave study. Child Abuse and Neglect, 111, [104811]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2020.104811
Cohen, J. R., Choi, J. W., Thakur, H., & Temple, J. R. (2021). Psychological Distress and Well-Being in Trauma-Exposed Adolescents: A Residualized, Person-Centered Approach to Resilience. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 34(3), 487-500. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts.22646
George, B., Guzman, A., Cohen, J. R., Gilmore, A. K., & Bountress, K. E. (Accepted/In press). Facets of social support are differentially predictive of mental health outcomes. American Journal of Emergency Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajem.2021.06.067
