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Publications

2022

Reid, A. E., Eamiello, M. L., Mah, A., Dixon-Gordon, K. L., Lickel, B., Markowitz, E., ... & Suh, S. M. (2022). Individual–Community Misalignment in Partisan Identity Predicts Distancing From Norms During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 19485506221121204.

Masland, S. R., Victor, S. E., Peters, J. R., Fitzpatrick, S., Dixon-Gordon, K. L., Bettis, A. H., ... & Rizvi, S. L. (2022). Destigmatizing Borderline Personality Disorder: A Call to Action for Psychological Science. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 17456916221100464.

Messina, I., Spataro, P., Grecucci, A., Marogna, C., & Dixon-Gordon, K. L. (2022). Difficulties in interpersonal regulation of emotions (DIRE) questionnaire: Psychometric Properties of the Italian Version and Associations with psychopathological symptoms. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 1-9.

McMain, S. F., Chapman, A. L., Kuo, J. R., Dixon-Gordon, K. L., Guimond, T. H., Labrish, C., ... & Streiner, D. L. (2022). The effectiveness of 6 versus 12 months of dialectical behavior therapy for borderline personality disorder: A noninferiority randomized clinical trial. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 1-16.

Berghoff, C. R., Dixon‐Gordon, K. L., Chapman, A. L., Baer, M. M., Turner, B. J., Tull, M. T., & Gratz, K. L. (2022). Daily associations of interpersonal and emotional experiences following stressful events among young adults with and without nonsuicidal self‐injury. Journal of Clinical Psychology.

Dixon‐Gordon, K. L., Turner, B. J., Haliczer, L. A., Gratz, K. L., Tull, M. T., & Chapman, A. L. (2022). Self‐injury motives: A person‐centered examination. Suicide and Life‐Threatening Behavior.

Forbes, C. N., Tull, M. T., Lavender, J. M., Dixon-Gordon, K. L., & Gratz, K. L. (2022). Development and Initial Validation of the Body-focused Self-damaging Behavior Expectancies Questionnaire. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 1-23.

Dixon-Gordon, K. L., Waite, E. E., Ammerman, B. A., Haliczer, L. A., Boudreaux, E. D., Rathlev, N., & Cohen, A. L. (2022). Learning from gain and loss: Links to suicide risk. Journal of psychiatric research, 147, 126-134.

Cho, G. Y., Waite, E. E., Ammerman, B. A., & Dixon-Gordon, K. L. (2022). Testing the Influence of Brooding and Anger Rumination on the Association Between Suicidal Outcomes and BPD Features in Undergraduate Students. Archives of Suicide Research, 26(1), 290-303.

McQuade, J. D., Dixon-Gordon, K. L., Breaux, R., & Babinski, D. E. (2022). Interactive effects of parent emotion socialization and child physiological reactivity in predicting adolescent borderline personality disorder features. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 50(1), 89-100.

2021

Dehon, E., Zachrison, K. S., Peltzer-Jones, J., Tabatabai, R. R., Clair, E., Puskarich, M. A., ... & Fix, M. L. (2021). Sources of distress and coping strategies among emergency physicians during COVID-19. Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 22(6), 1240.

Haliczer, L. A., Harnedy, L. E., Oakley, M., & Dixon-Gordon, K. L. (2021). Clarifying the role of multiple self-damaging behaviors in the association between emotion dysregulation and suicide risk among college students. The Journal of Primary Prevention, 42(5), 473-492.

Raudales, A. M., Weiss, N. H., Dixon‐Gordon, K. L., Contractor, A. A., & Schatten, H. T. (2021). The role of emotion dysregulation in the association between posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and suicidal thoughts and behaviors among veterans. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 77(9), 2096-2108.

Tlachac, M. L., Dixon-Gordon, K., & Rundensteiner, E. (2021, July). Screening for suicidal ideation with text messages. In 2021 IEEE EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI) (pp. 1-4). IEEE.

Haliczer, L. A., Woods, S. E., & Dixon-Gordon, K. L. (2021). Emotion regulation difficulties and interpersonal conflict in borderline personality disorder. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 12(4), 347.

Gratz, K. L., Richmond, J. R., Woods, S. E., Dixon-Gordon, K. L., Scamaldo, K. M., Rose, J. P., & Tull, M. T. (2021). Adherence to social distancing guidelines throughout the COVID-19 pandemic: the roles of pseudoscientific beliefs, trust, political party affiliation, and risk perceptions. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 55(5), 399-412.

Weiss, N. H., Schick, M. R., Waite, E. E., Haliczer, L. A., & Dixon-Gordon, K. L. (2021). Association of positive emotion dysregulation to resting heart rate variability: The influence of positive affect intensity. Personality and Individual Differences, 173, 110607.

Dixon-Gordon, K. L., & Laws, H. (2021). Emotional Variability and Inertia in Daily Life: Links to Borderline Personality and Depressive Symptoms. Journal of Personality Disorders, 35(Supplement A), 162-171.

Dixon-Gordon, K. L., Fitzpatrick, S., & Haliczer, L. A. (2021). Emotion regulation and borderline personality features in daily life: The role of social context. Journal of Affective Disorders, 282, 677-685.

2020

Spitzen, T. L., Tull, M. T., Baer, M. M., Dixon-Gordon, K. L., Chapman, A. L., & Gratz, K. L. (Accepted, August 2020). Predicting engagement in NSSI over the course of 12 months: The roles of BPD pathology and emotional consequences of NSSI. Journal of Affective Disorders.

Forbes, C. N., Tull, M. T., Chapman, A. L., Dixon-Gordon, K. L., & Gratz, K. L. (Accepted, August 2020). Implicit associations of nonsuicidal self-injury with relief in posttraumatic stress and depressive disorders. Archives of Suicide Research. 

Dixon-Gordon, K. L.,* & Laws, H. (Accepted July 2020). A brief report of emotional variability and inertia in daily life: Links to borderline personality and depressive symptoms. Journal of Personality Disorders.

Armour, C., Greene, T., Contractor, A. A., Weiss, N. H., Dixon-Gordon, K. L., & Ross, J. (2020). Posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and reckless behaviors: A network analysis approach. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 33, 29-40.

Contractor, A. A., Weiss, N. H., Kearns, N. T., Caldas, S. V., & Dixon-Gordon, K. L. (2020 Aug). Assessment of posttraumatic stress disorder’s E2 criterion: Development, pilot testing, and validation of the Posttrauma Risky Behaviors Questionnaire. International Journal of Stress Management, 27(3), 292-303. doi: 10.1037/str0000145

Haliczer, L. A., Woods, S. E., & Dixon-Gordon, K. L.* (2020, July in press). Emotion regulation difficulties and interpersonal conflict in borderline personality disorder. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, & Treatment, Epub ahead of print. doi: 10.1037/per0000436.

Gratz, K. L., Berghoff, C. R., Richmond, J. R., Vidaña, A. G., & Dixon-Gordon, K. L. (Published online May 2020). Examining posttraumatic stress disorder as a predictor of treatment response to DBT. Journal of Clinical Psychology, Epub ahead of print. doi: 10.1002/jclp.22961

Ammerman, B. A., Jacobucci, R., Turner, B. J., Dixon-Gordon, K. L., & McCloskey, M. S. (2020, July). Quantifying the importance of lifetime frequency versus number of methods used in the consideration of NSSI severity. Psychology of Violence, 10(4), 442–451. doi:10.1037/vio0000263

Goncharenko, S., Weiss, N. H., Contractor, A. A., Dixon-Gordon, K. L., & Forkus, S. (2019, Dec). The role of gender in the associations among posttraumatic stress disorder symptom, severity, difficulties regulating emotions, and alcohol misuse. Addictive Behaviors, 99, 106086. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2019.106086 PMCID: PMC6791770

Dixon-Gordon, K. L.,* Marsh, N. P., Balda, K. E., & McQuade, J. D. (2020, Jan). Parent emotion socialization and child emotional vulnerability as predictors of borderline personality features. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 48, 135-147. doi: 10.1007/s10802-019-00579-6

Haliczer, L. A., Dixon-Gordon, K. L.,* Law, K. C., Anestis, M. D., Rosenthal, M. Z., & Chapman, A. L. (2020, July). Emotion regulation difficulties and borderline personality disorder: The moderating role of race. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment,11, 280-289. doi: 10.1037/per0000355

Weiss, N. H., Forkus, S. R., Contractor, A. A., & Dixon-Gordon, K. L. (March 2020). The interplay of negative and positive emotion dysregulation on mental health outcomes among trauma-exposed community individuals. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 12(3), 219-226. doi: 10.1037/tra0000503 PMCID: PMC7000290

McGonigal, P. T., & Dixon-Gordon, K. L.* (August 2020). Anger and emotion regulation associated with borderline and antisocial personality features within a correctional sample. Journal of Correctional Health Care, 26, 215-226. doi: 10.1177/1078345820937775

 

2019

Forbes, C. N., Tull, M. T., Richmond, J. R., Chapman, A. L, Dixon-Gordon, K. L., & Gratz, K. L. (Accepted 2019, April; Dec 2019). Motives for nonsuicidal self-injury in major depression and posttraumatic stress disorder. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 41, 652-661. doi: 10.1007/s10862-019-09739-w

Weiss, N. H., Forkus, S. R., Contractor, A. A., Darosh, A. G., Goncharenko, S., & Dixon-Gordon, K. L. (2019, October). Do difficulties regulating positive emotions contribute to risky sexual behavior among trauma-exposed individuals?: A path analysis. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 48(7), 2075-2087. doi: 10.1007/s10508-019-1410-0 PMCID: PMC6750957

Gratz, K. L., Richmond, J., Dixon-Gordon, K. L., Chapman, A. L., & Tull, M. T. (Sept 2019). Multimodal assessment of emotional reactivity and regulation in response to social rejection among self-harming adults with and without borderline personality disorder. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 10, 395-405. doi:10.1037/per0000334

Contractor, A. A., Weiss, N. H., Dixon-Gordon, K. L., Blumenthal, H. (April 2019). Heterogeneity in the co-occurrence of substance use and posttraumatic stress disorder: A latent class analysis approach. Journal of Dual Diagnosis, 15, 105-117. doi: 10.1080/15504263.2019.1572258 PMID: 30835935

Weiss, N. H., Darosh, A., Contractor, A. A., Schick, M. R., & Dixon-Gordon, K. L. (2019, February). Confirmatory validation of the factor structure and psychometric properties of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale – Positive. Journal of Clinical Psychology, Advance online publication. doi:10.1002/jclp.22768 PMID: 30816999

Weiss, N. H., Schick, M. R., Contractor, A. A., & Dixon-Gordon, K. L. (2019, September). Posttraumatic stress disorder and substance use: Identifying the underlying role of difficulties regulating positive emotions. Addictive Behaviors, 96, 119-126. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2019.04.029 PMID:31075729. 

Schick, M. R., Weiss, N. H., Contractor, A. A., Dixon-Gordon, K. L., & Spillane, N. S. (March 2019). Depression and risky alcohol use: An examination of the role of difficulties regulating positive emotions in trauma-exposed individuals. American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 45(3), 323-332. doi:10.1080/00952990.2019.152759 PMCID: PMC6450725

Weiss, N. H., Risi, M. M., Bold, K. W., Sullivan, T. P., & Dixon-Gordon, K. L.* (2019). Daily relationship between positive affect and drinking to cope: The moderating role of difficulties regulating positive emotions. The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 45(2), 189-198 doi: 10.1080/00952990.2018.1508470 PMCID: PMC6387641

2018

Weiss, N. H., Darosh, A., Contractor, A. A., Forkus, S. R., Dixon-Gordon, K. L., & Sullivan, T. P. (Oct 2018). Heterogeneity in emotion regulation difficulties among women victims of domestic violence: A latent profile analysis. Journal of Affective Disorders, 239, 192-200. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2018.07.009

Dixon-Gordon, K. L., Haliczer, L. A., Conkey, L., & Whalen, D. J. (Sept 2018). Difficulties in Interpersonal Emotion Regulation: Initial development and validation of a self-report measure. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 40(3), 528-549.

Gratz, K. L., Tull, M. T., Dixon-Gordon, K. L., Turner, B. J., & Chapman, A. L. (Sept 2018). Is the association of deliberate self-harm with emotional relief stable or dependent on emotional context? Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 61, 61-68. doi: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2018.03.003

Weiss, N. H., Tull, M. T., Dixon-Gordon, K. L., Gratz, K. L. (Sept 2018). Assessing the negative and positive emotion-dependent nature of risky behaviors among substance dependent patients. Assessment, 25(6), 702-715. doi: 10.1177/1073191116665906.

Dixon-Gordon, K. L., Berghoff, C., & McDermott, M. J. (2018). Borderline personality disorder symptoms and pain in college students: The role of emotional suppression. Journal of Personality Disorders, 32(2), 277-288. doi: 10.1521/pedi_2017_31_300

Dixon-Gordon, K. L., Conkey, L. C., & Whalen, D. J. (2018). Recent advances in understanding physical health problems in personality disorders. Current Opinion in Psychology, 21, 1-5. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2017.08.036.

Dixon-Gordon, K. L., Tull, M. T., Hackel, L. M., & Gratz, K. L. (2018). The influence of emotional state on learning from reward and punishment in borderline personality disorder. Journal of Personality Disorders, 32(4), 433-446. doi: 10.1521/pedi_2017_31_299

Berghoff, C. R., McDermott, M. J., & Dixon-Gordon, K. L. (2018). Psychological flexibility moderates the relation between PTSD symptoms and daily pain interference. Personality and Individual Differences, 124, 130-134. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2017.12.012

McMain, S., Chapman, A. L., Kuo, J. R., Guimond, T., Streiner, D., Dixon-Gordon, K. L., Isaranuwatchai, W., & Hoch, J. (2018). The effectiveness of 6 versus 12-months of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for borderline personality disorder: The feasibility of a shorter treatment and evaluating responses (FASTER) trial protocol. BMC Psychiatry, 18, 230-238. doi: 10.1186/s12888-018-1802-z

2017

Dixon-Gordon, K. L., Turner, B. J., Rosenthal, M. Z., & Chapman, A. L. (2017). Emotion regulation in borderline personality disorder: An experimental investigation of the effects of instructed acceptance and suppression. Behavior Therapy, 6, 750-764. doi: 10.1016/j.beth.2017.03.001

Turner, B. J., Jin, H. M., Anestis, M. D., Dixon-Gordon, K. L., & Gratz, K. L. (2017). Personality pathology and intentional self-harm: Cross-cutting insights from categorical and dimensional models. Current Opinion in Psychology, 21, 55-59. doi: 10.1016/jcopsyc.2017.09.009

Chapman, A. L., Rosenthal, M. Z., Dixon-Gordon, K. L., Turner, B. J. & Kuppens, P. (2017). Borderline personality disorder and the effects of instructed emotional avoidance or acceptance in daily life. Journal of Personality Disorders, 31(4), 483-502. doi: 10.1521/pedi_2016_30_264 PMID: 27617652

2016

 

Dixon-Gordon, K. L., Tull, M. T., Hackel, L. M., & Gratz, K. L. (2016). The influence of emotional state on learning from reward and punishment in borderline personality disorder. Journal of Personality Disorders.

 

Weiss, N. H., Dixon-Gordon, K. L., Peasant, C., Jaquier, V., Johnson, C., & Sullivan, T.P. (2016). A latent profile analysis of intimate partner victimization and aggression and examination of between-class differences in psychopathology symptoms and risky behaviors. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/tra0000202

 

Chapman, A. L., Rosenthal, M. Z., Dixon-Gordon, K. L., Turner, B. J. & Kuppens, P. (2016). Borderline personality disorder and the effects of instructed emotional avoidance or acceptance in daily life. Journal of Personality Disorders. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1521/pedi_2016_30_264

 

Weiss, N. H., Tull, M. T., Dixon-Gordon, K. L., Gratz, K. L. (2016). Assessing the negative and positive emotion-dependent nature of risky behaviors among substance dependent patients. Assessment. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1177/1073191116665906

 

Knorr, A. C., Tull, M. T., Anestis, M. D., Dixon-Gordon, K. L., Bennett, M. F., & Gratz,K.L. (2016). The interactive effect of major depression and nonsuicidal self-injury on current suicide risk and lifetime suicide attempts. Archives of Suicide Research. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/13811118.2016.1158679

 

Dixon-Gordon, K. L., Whalen, D. J., Scott, L. N., Cummins, N. D., & Stepp, S. D. (2016). The main and interactive effects of maternal interpersonal emotion regulation and negative affect on adolescent girls’ borderline personality disorder symptoms. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 40(3), 381-393. doi:10.1007/s10608-015-9706-4

 

Aldao, A., Dixon-Gordon, K. L., & De Los Reyes, A. (2016). Individual differences in physiological flexibility predict spontaneous avoidance. Cognition and Emotion, 30, 985-998.doi:10.1080/026999314.2015.1042837

 

Gratz, K. L., Chapman, A. L, Dixon-Gordon, K. L., & Tull, M. T. (2016). Exploring the association of deliberate self-harm with emotional relief using a novel implicit association test. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 7 (1), 91-102. doi:10.1037/per0000138

 

2015

 

Dixon-Gordon, K. L., Chapman, A. L, & Turner, B. J. (2015). A preliminary investigation of the specificity of effects of dialectical behavior therapy emotion regulation skills training. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 6(4), 369-388. doi:10.5127/jep.041714

 

Whalen, D. J., Dixon-Gordon, K. L., Belden, A. C., Luby, J. L., & Barch, D. (2015). Correlates and consequences of suicide cognitions and behaviors in children ages 3 to 7 years. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 54 (11), 926-937. doi:10.1016/j.jaac.2015.08.009

 

Dixon-Gordon, K. L., Weiss, N. H., Tull, M. T., DiLillo, D., Messman-Moore, T., & Gratz, K. L. (2015). Characterizing emotional dysfunction in borderline personality, major depression, and their co-occurrence. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 62, 187-203. doi:10.1016/j.comppsych.2015.07.014

 

Dixon-Gordon, K. L., Aldao, A., & De Los Reyes, A. (2015). Emotion regulation in context: Examining the spontaneous use of strategies across emotional intensity and type of emotion. Personality and Individual Differences, 86, 271-276. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2015.06.011

 

Dixon-Gordon, K. L., Bernecker, S. L., & Christensen, K. (2015). Recent innovations in the field of interpersonal emotion regulation. Current Opinion in Psychology, 3, 36-42. doi:10.1016/j.copsyc.2015.02.001

 

Dixon-Gordon, K. L., Whalen, D. J., Layden, B. K., & Chapman, A. L. (2015). A systematic review of personality disorders and health outcomes. Canadian Psychology, 56(2), 168-190. doi:10.1037/cap0000024

 

Dixon-Gordon, K. L., Aldao, A., & De Los Reyes, A. (2015). Repertoires of emotion regulation: A person-centered approach to assessing emotion regulation strategies and links to psychopathology. Cognition and Emotion, 9, 1314-1325. doi:10.1080/02699931.2014.983046

 

Turner, B. J., Dixon-Gordon, K. L., Austin, S. B., Rodriguez, M. A., Chapman, A. L., &Rosenthal, M. Z. (2015). Non-suicidal self-injury with and without borderline personality disorder: Differences in self-injury and diagnostic comorbidity. Psychiatry Research. doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2015.07.058

 

Weiss, N. H., Dixon-Gordon, K. L., Duke, A. A., & Sullivan, T. P. (2015). The underlying role of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in the association between intimate partner violence and deliberate self-harm among African American women. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 59, 8-16. doi:10.1016/j.comppsych.2014.05.018

 

Gratz, K. L., Dixon-Gordon, K. L., Chapman, A. L., & Tull, M. T. (2015). Diagnosis and characterization of DSM-5 Nonsuicidal Self-injury Disorder using the Clinician-Administered Nonsuicidal Self-injury Disorder Index. Assessment, 22, 527-539. doi:10.1177/1073191114565878

 

Chapman, A. L, Dixon-Gordon, K. L., Butler, S. M., & Walters, K. N. (2015). Emotional reactivity to social rejection versus a frustration induction among persons with borderline personality features. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, & Treatment, 6, 88-96. doi:10.1037/per0000101

 

Bardeen, J. R., Tull, M. T., Dixon-Gordon, K. L., Stevens, E. N., & Gratz, K. L. (2015). Attentional control as a moderator of the relationship between difficulties accessing effective emotion regulation strategies and distress tolerance. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 37, 79-84. doi: 10.1007/s10862-014-9433-2

 

Gratz, K. L., Bardeen, J. R., Levy, R., Dixon-Gordon, K. L., & Tull, M. T. (2015). Mechanisms of change in an emotion regulation group therapy for deliberate self-harm among women with borderline personality disorder. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 65, 29-35. doi:10.1016/j.brat.2014.12.005

 

Weiss, N. H., Tull, M. T., Sullivan, T. P., Dixon-Gordon, K. L., & Gratz, K. L. (2015). Posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and risky behaviors among trauma-exposed inpatients with substance dependence: The influence of negative and positive urgency. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 155, 147-153. doi:10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2015.07.679

 

2014

 

Dixon-Gordon, K. L., Chapman, A. L, Weiss, N. H., & Rosenthal, M. Z. (2014). A preliminary examination of the role of emotion differentiation in the relationship between borderline personality and urges for maladaptive behaviors. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 36, 616-625. doi:10.1007/s10862-014-9423-4

 

Dixon-Gordon, K. L., Gratz, K. L., McDermott, M. J. & Tull, M. T. (2014). The role of executive attention in deliberate self-harm. Psychiatry Research, 218, 113-117. doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2014.03.035 PMID:24745474

 

Dixon-Gordon, K. L., Tull, M. T., & Gratz, K. L. (2014). Self-injurious behaviors in posttraumatic stress disorder: An examination of potential moderators. Journal of Affective Disorders, 166, 359-367. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2014.05.033 PMCID: PMC4155484

 

Aldao, A. & Dixon-Gordon, K. L. (2014). Broadening the scope of research on emotion regulation strategies and psychopathology. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 43, 22-33. doi:10.1080/16506073.2013.816769


Gratz, K. L., Dixon-Gordon, K. L., & Tull, M. T. (2014). Predictors of treatment response to an adjunctive emotion regulation group therapy for deliberate self-harm among women with borderline personality disorder. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 5, 97-107.doi:10.1037/per0000062

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