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Early Life and Educational Background

Professor Zautra was born in Hartford, CT, in 1947, attended high school at Loomis Institute in Windsor CT, graduating in 1965. He then attended Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, from 1965 to 1969, receiving a BA in psychology. He received graduate training in clinical psychology at the University of Utah from 1969 to 1975, where he received his Ph.D., and postdoctoral training in industrial mental health at the Department of Management from 1975 to 1976. He also completed postdoctoral training in psychiatric epidemiology at Columbia University in 1981–1982. His training in these fields of inquiry has been guided by prominent scholars and innovators in their respective disciplines: Professor Bruce Dohrenwend, at Columbia University in public health, Professor Fredrick Herzberg at the University of Utah in management, and Professor Ernst Beier, also at the University of Utah in clinical psychology. This foundation across key disciples has...

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  • Castro, S., & Zautra, A.J. (in press). Humanization of social relations: Nourishing health and resilience through greater humanity. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology.

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  • Davis, M. E., & Zautra, A. J. (2013). An online mindfulness intervention targeting socio-emotional regulation in fibromyalgia: Results of a randomized controlled trial. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 46, 273–244.

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  • Evers, A., Zautra, A., & Thieme, K. (2011). Stress and resilience in rheumatic diseases: A review of 25 years of research. Nature Reviews Rheumatology, 7, 409–415.

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  • Finan, P. H., Tennen, H., Thoemmes, F., Zautra, A. J., & Davis, M. C. (2012). Ambulatory monitoring in the genetics of psychosomatic medicine. Psychosomatic Medicine, 74, 349–355.

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  • Infurna, F., Rivers, C., Reich, J. W., & Zautra, A. J. (2015). Childhood trauma and personal mastery: Their influence on emotional reactivity to everyday events in a community sample of middle-aged adults. PLOS One.

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  • Kenny, D. A., & Zautra, A. J. (1995). The trait-state-error model for multi-wave data. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 63, 52–59.

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  • Millsap, R. E., Gunn, H., Everson, H.T., & Zautra, A.J. (in press). Using item response theory to evaluate measurement invariance in health-related measures. In Reise, S. P. & Revecki, D.A. (Eds.) Item response theory modeling: Applications to typical performance assessment. New York: Routledge.

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  • Ong, A., & Zautra, A. J. (2015). Intraindividual variability in mood and mood regulation in adulthood. In M. Diehl (Ed.), Handbook of intraindividual variability across the life span (pp. 198–215). New York: Routledge.

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  • Potter, P. T., Smith, B. W., Strobel, K. R., & Zautra, A. J. (2002). Interpersonal workplace stressors and well-being: A multi-wave study of employees with and without arthritis. Journal of Applied Psychology, 87, 789–796.

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  • Sturgeon, J. A., & Zautra, A. J. (in press). Social pain and physical pain: Shared paths to resilience. Pain Management.

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  • Sturgeon, J. A., Zautra, A. J., & Okun, M. (2014). Associations between financial stress and interpersonal events: A daily diary study of middle-aged adults and their life circumstances. Psychology and Aging, 29, 803–813.

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  • Sturgeon, J. A., Arewasikporn, A., Okun, M. A., Davis, M. C., Ong, A. D., & Zautra, A. J. (2016). The psychosocial context of financial stress: Implications for inflammation and psychological health. Psychosomatic Medicine, 78, 134–143.

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  • Sturgeon, J. A., Yeung, E. W., & Zautra, A. J. (in press). Respiratory sinus arrhythmia: A marker of resilience to pain induction. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine.

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  • Zautra, A. J. (2013). Resilience is social, after all. In M. Kent, M. C. Davis, & J. W. Reich (Eds.), Handbook of resilience approaches to stress and trauma (pp. 185–196). New York: Rutledge.

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  • Zautra, A. J., Affleck, G., Davis, M. C., Tennen, H., & Fasman, R. (2005). Assessing the ebb and flow of everyday life with an accent on the positive. In M. H. M. van Dulmen (Ed.), Handbook of methods in positive psychology (pp. 487–500). New York: Oxford University Press.

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  • Zautra, A. J., Davis, M. E., Reich, J. W., Nicassio, P., Tennen, H., Finan, P., Kratz, A., Parish, B., & Irwin, M. R. (2008a). Comparison of cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness meditation interventions on adaptation to rheumatoid arthritis for patients with and without history of recurrent depression. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 76, 408–421.

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  • Zautra, A. J., Hall, A. J., & Murray, K. E. (2008b). Community development and community resilience: An integrative approach. Community Development, 39, 1–18.

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  • Zautra, A. J., Davis, M. E., Reich, J. W., Sturgeon, J. A., Arewasikporn, A., & Tennen, H. (2012). Phone-based interventions with automated mindfulness and mastery messages improve the daily functioning for depressed middle-aged community residents. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 22, 206–228.

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  • Zautra, A. J., Zautra, E. K., & Ecija Gallardo, C. (2014). Social connection boosts cognitive capacity. Current Topics in Management, 17, 183–196.

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  • Zautra, E. K., Zautra, A. J., Gallardo, C. E., & Velasco, L. (2015). Can we learn to treat one another better? A test of a social intelligence curriculum. PLoS One, 10(6), e0128638.

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  • Zautra, A., Infurna, F., Zautra, E., Gallardo, C. E., & Velasco, L. (2016). The humanization of social relations: Nourishment for resilience. In A. Ong, E. Corinna, & C. E. Löckenhoff (Eds.), New developments in emotional aging. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

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  1. Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, P.O. Box 871104, Tempe, AZ, 85287-1104, USA

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Zautra, A. (2016). Zautra, Alex. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_2089-1

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