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Sara M. O'Brien, Ph.D.

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    * Undergraduate student author

    Publications

    Cooper, S. E., Hunt, C., Stasik-O’Brien, S. M., Berg, H., Lissek, S., Watson, D., & Krueger, R. F. (2022). The placement of obsessive-compulsive symptoms within a five-factor model of maladaptive personality. Assessment. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/10731911211070623

     

    Khoo, S., Stasik-O’Brien, S. M., Ellickson-Larew, S., Stanton, K., Clark, L. A., & Watson, D. (in press). Examining the predictive validity of consensual and unique facets within the comprehensive facet structure. Assessment.

     

    Robinson, A., Stasik-O’Brien, S. M., Schneider, J.,* & Calamia, M. (2022). Examination of the relationship between dimensions of perfectionism, incompleteness, and harm avoidance in college students. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy.

     

    Rosa Cáceres, A. M., Sayans-Jiménez, P., Stasik-O'Brien, S., Sánchez García, M., Fernández Calderón, F., & Díaz Batanero, M. C. (2022). Examining the relationships between emotional disorder symptoms in a mixed sample of community adults and patients: A network analysis perspective. Current Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-02907-4

     

    Stasik-O’Brien, S. M., Schneider, J.*, Rahman, N.*, & Schmidt, J. P.* (2021). The transdiagnostic nature of disgust propensity: An examination of its associations with anxiety and obsessive compulsive-related disorder symptoms. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 30. Online First Publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocrd.2021.100671

     

    Bruce, M.*, Stasik-O’Brien, S. M., & Hoffmann, H. (2021). The PTSD symptomology, trauma centrality profile, and physiological reactions of students using trigger warnings. Current Psychology. Online First Publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-01895-1

     

    Levin-Aspenson, H. F., Watson, D., Ellickson-Larew, S., Stanton, K., & Stasik-O’Brien, S. M. (2021). Beyond distress and fear: Differential symptom and trait correlates of PTSD criteria clusters. Journal of Affective Disorders, 284, 9-17.

     

    Robinson, A., Stasik-O'Brien, S. M., & Calamia, M. (2020). Towards a more perfect conceptualization of perfectionism: An exploratory factor analysis in undergraduate college students. Assessment. Online First Publication. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1073191120976859

     

    De la Rosa-Caceres, A., Stasik-O’Brien, S. M., Rojas Tejada, A. J., Sanchez-Garcia, M., Lozano, O., & Diaz-Batanero, C. (2020). Spanish adaptation of the Inventory of Depression and Anxiety Symptoms (IDAS-II) and a study of its psychometric properties. Journal of Affective Disorders, 271, 81-90.

     

    Stasik-O’Brien, S. M., Brock, R. L., Chmielewski, M., Naragon-Gainey, K., Koffel, E., McDade-Montez, E., O’Hara, M.W., & Watson, D. (2019). Clinical utility of the Inventory of Depression and Anxiety Symptoms (IDAS). Assessment, 26, 944-960.

     

    Weitzner, D., Calamia, M., Stasik-O’Brien, S. M., De Vito, A., & Pugh, E. (2019). Psychometric properties of the Expanded Version of the Inventory of Depression and Anxiety Symptoms (IDAS-II) in a sample of older adults. Aging & Mental Health, 24, 1847-1853.

     

    Stasik-O’Brien, S. M., McCabe-Beane, J. E., & Segre, L. S. (2019). Using the EPDS to identify anxiety in mothers of infants on the neonatal intensive care unit. Clinical Nursing Research, 28, 473-487.

     

    Watson, D., Stasik-O’Brien, S. M., Ellickson-Larew, S., & Stanton, K. (2018). Explicating the dispositional basis of the OCRDs: A hierarchical perspective. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 40, 497-513.

     

    Stasik-O’Brien, S. M., & Schmidt, J.* (2018). The role of disgust in body image disturbance: Incremental predictive power of self-disgust. Body Image, 27, 128-137.

     

    McCabe-Beane, J. E., Stasik-O’Brien, S. M., & Segre, L. S. (2018). Incorporating anxiety screening into the assessment of emotional distress in mothers of hospitalized newborns. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing, 47, 105-113.

     

    Schmidt, J.*, & Stasik-O’Brien, S. M. (2017). Not just right experiences (NJREs) in obsessive-compulsive and related disorders. Psi Chi Journal of Psychological Research, 22, 193-205.

    Presentations

    Lam, S.*, Nguyen, T. P.*, Le, M.*, Ramirez, A.*, & Stasik-O’Brien, S. M. (2022). Differential associations between incompleteness and disgust domains. Poster presented at the 2022 Annual Convention of the International OCD Foundation, Denver, Co.

     

    Nguyen, T.*, Le, M.*, Ramirez, A.*, Schneider, J.*, & Stasik-O'Brien, S. M. (2022). Distinct motivations explain associations between OCD and pathological personality traits. Poster presented at the 2022 Annual Convention of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
     

    Robinson, A., Stasik-O’Brien, S. M., & Calamia, M. (2021, November). An examination of dimensions of perfectionism and psychopathology in college students. In A. Abramovitch & K. Timpano (Co-Chairs), Psychopathology in college students: Implications for research, theory, and public health policies. Symposium to be presented at the 55th annual convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, New Orleans, LA.

     

    Schneider, J. R.*, Sbai, Z.*, Khanna, K.*, Lam, S.*, Ryner, M.*, & Stasik-O’Brien, S. M. (2021). Harm avoidance and incompleteness in relation to anxiety and obsessive-compulsive related disorder symptoms. Poster presented at the 2021 International OCD Foundation Virtual Research Symposium.

     

    Stasik-O’Brien, S. M., Ramsdell, E. L., Laifer, L. M., & Brock, R. L. (2020, October). Trajectories of internalizing symptoms in mothers and fathers from pregnancy to two years postpartum. Talk presented at the 2020 Annual Convention of the International Marcé Society, Iowa City, IA (virtual).

     

    Bruce, M. J.*, Stasik-O’Brien, S. M., Hoffmann, H. L., & Roberts, D. C. (2019, November). The trauma centrality profile and psychophysiological reactivity of students given trigger warnings. In Trigger Warnings! Are They Helpful, Harmful, or Neither? Symposium presented at the 2019 Annual Convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitve Therapies, Atlanta, GA.

     

    Lag, M. R.*, Miller, C. A.*, Schmidt, J.*, Thomas, I. T.*, Gaynor, M.*, & Stasik-O’Brien, S. M. (2018, April). The mediational role of psychoticism in the relationship between OCD symptom dimensions and incompleteness. Poster presented at the 2018 Annual Convention of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

     

    Segre, L. S., Stasik-O’Brien, S. M., & McCabe, J. (2018, September). Incorporating the EPDS-A into screening to identify clinically significant anxiety in postpartum women. Poster presented at the 2018 Annual Convention of the International Marcé Society, Bangalore, India.

     

    Stasik-O’Brien, S. M. & Schmidt, J.* (2017, April). Transidagnostic risk factors in the obsessive-compulsive and related disorders. In S. M. Stasik-O’Brien & K. Naragon-Gainey (Co-chairs), Transdiagnostic risk factors for the emotional disorders: Examination of their unique informational value for understanding and classifying psychopathology. Symposium presented at the meeting of the Anxiety and Depression Assocation of America, San Francisco, CA.

     

    Ellickson-Larew, S., Stasik-O’Brien, S. M., Stanton, K., & Watson, D. (2017, April). Experiential avoidance as a transdiagnostic risk and maintenance factor for psychopathology: The role of neuroticism. In S. M. Stasik-O’Brien & K. Naragon-Gainey (Co-chairs), Transdiagnostic risk factors for the emotional disorders: Examination of their unique informational value for understanding and classifying psychopathology. Symposium presented at the meeting of the Anxiety and Depression Assocation of America, San Francisco, CA.

     

    Stasik-O’Brien, S. M. (2017, September). OCD and pathological personality traits: The mediating role of incompleteness and harm avoidance. Poster presented at the 31st Annual Meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Denver, CO.

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