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Chris Dunkel-Schetter
Psychology; Director of Health Psychology Program
5617 Franz Hall
Phone: (310) 206-8116
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Webpage: http://www.psych.ucla.edu/Faculty/faculty.php?id=80&area=7

Research:
Stress and social support processes in general. Specific health-related research interests: Biological, ethnic and cultural, emotional and social processes in pregnancy and birth and effects on infants and children. Emerging interest in resilience, especially spirituality, in adults.

Selected Publications:

Campos, B., Dunkel Schetter, C., Walsh, J.A., Schenker, M. (in press) Sharpening the Focus on Acculturative Change: ARSMA-II, Stress, Pregnancy Anxiety, and Infant Birthweight in Recently Immigrated Latinas. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences.

Glynn LM, Davis EP, Dunkel Schetter C, Chicz-DeMet A, Hobel CJ & Sandman C. (in press) Postnatal maternal cortisol levels predict temperament in healthy breastfed infants. Early Human Development.

Glynn LM, Dunkel Schetter C, Hobel CJ & Sandman C. (in press) Pattern of perceived stress and anxiety in pregnancy predicts preterm birth. Health Psychology.

Davis, E. P., Glynn, L. M., Dunkel Schetter, C., Hobel, C.,Chicz-Demet, A., & Sandman, C. A. (in press). Prenatal exposure to maternal depression and cortisol influences infant temperament. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Rini, C.M., Dunkel Schetter, C., Hobel, C.J., Glynn, L.M., & Sandman, C.A. (2006) Effective social support: Modeling relationship, interpersonal, sociocultural antecedents and effects on anxiety in a close relationship. Personal Relationships. 13(2), 207-229

Parker Dominguez, T., Dunkel Schetter, C., Mancuso, R., Rini, C.M., & Hobel, C. (2005). Stress in African-American pregnancies: Testing the roles of various stress concepts in prediction of birth outcomes. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 29(1), 12-21.

Feldman, P.J., Dunkel-Schetter, C., Sandman, C.A., & Wadhwa, P.D. (2000). Maternal social support predicts birth weight and fetal growth in human pregnancy. Psychosomatic Medicine, 62(5), 715-725.

Selected Courses:
Graduate:
Psychology 227 Health Psychology Core Course (overview)
Psychology 425 Lectures in Health Psychology
Psychology 225 seminar on Ethical and Professional Issues in Psychology
Occasional seminars on Stress, or on Social and Interactional Aspect of Health and Well Being; and other assorted topics

Undergraduate:
Honors College 111: Stress and Coping Processes

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