Kate Leger
- Emotional responses to daily stressors
- Pathways linking daily stressors and long-term health
- Individual differences in emotional responses to stress
Education:
Leger, K.A., Lee, S., Chandler, K.D., & Almeida, D.M. (In Press). Effects of a workplace intervention on daily stressors and well-being. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology.
Leger, K.A., Turiano, N.A., Bowling, W., Burris, J.L., & Almeida, D.M. (2021). Personality Traits Predict Long-term Physical Health Via Affect Reactivity to Daily Stressors. Psychological Science. Advanced Online Publication
Segerstrom, S. C., Blevins, T. R., Leger, K. A., Reed, R. G., & Crofford, L. J. (2021). Eudaemonic Well-Being in Midlife Women: Change in and Correspondence Between Concurrent and Retrospective Reports. Collabra: Psychology.
Haynes, E. N., Hilbert, T. J., Westneat, S. C., Leger, K.A., Keynton, K., & Bush, H. M. (2021). Impact of the COVID-19 Shutdown on Mental Health in Appalachia by Working Status. Journal of Appalachian Health, 3, 18-28.
Acevedo, A.M., Leger, K.A, Jenkins, B.N. & Pressman, S.D. (2020). Keep calm or get excited? Examining the effects of different types of positive affect on responses to acute pain. Journal of Positive Psychology, 1-10.
Tsukerman, D. Leger, K.A., & Charles, S.T. (2020). Work-family spillover stress predicts health outcomes across two decades. Social Science and Medicine. Advanced Online Publication
Leger, K.A., Blevins, T., Crawford, L., & Segerstrom, S.C. (2020). Mean levels and variability in psychological well-being and its associations with sleep in midlife and older women. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. Advanced Online Publication
Huo, M. Ng, Y.T., Fuentecilla, J., Leger, K.A., & Charles, S.T. (2020). Positive Encounters as a Buffer: Older Adults’ Pain and Sleep Disturbances in Everyday Life. Journal of Aging and Health. Advanced Online Publication
Leger, K.A., & Charles, S.T. (2020). Affective recovery from stress and its associations with sleep. Stress and Health, 36, 693-699.
Leger, K.A., Charles, S.T., & Almeida, D.M. (2020). Positive emotions experienced on days of stress are associated with less same day and next day negative emotion. Affective Science, 1, 20-27.
Leger, K.A., Charles, S.T., & Fingerman, K. L. (2019). Affect variability and sleep: Emotional ups and downs are related to a poorer night’s rest. Psychosomatic Research, 124, 109758.
Charles, S.T., Mogle, J., Leger, K.A., & Almeida, D.M. (2019). Age and the factor structure of emotional experience in adulthood. Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 74, 419-429.
Leger, K.A., Charles, S.T., & Almeida, D.M. (2018). Let it go: lingering negative affect in response to daily stressors can impact physical health years later. Psychological Science, 29, 1283-1290.
Leger, K.A., Charles, S.T., Turiano, N. & Almeida, D.M. (2016). Personality and stressor-related affect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,111, 917-928
Leger, K.A., Charles, S.T., Ayanian, J.Z., & Almeida, D.M. (2015). The associations of daily physical symptoms with future health. Social Science & Medicine, 143, 241-248.