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Lab Publications

Bhuptani, P. H. & Messman, T. L. Role of blame and rape-related shame in distress among rape victims. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0001132

Bhuptani, P. H. & Messman, T. L. (2022). Self-compassion and shame among rape survivors. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 37(17-18), NP16575-NP16595. https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605211021994

Salim, S. R., Eshelman, L. R., & Messman, T L. (2022). Binegativity exacerbates the effects of sexual victimization disclosure on posttraumatic stress and drinking among bisexual women. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 37(21-22), NP19939-NP19960. https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605211047961

Salim, S. R., McConnell, A. A. & Messman, T. L. Bisexual women’s recovery after sexual assault: Stigma, negative social reactions, and hazardous drinking. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/sgd0000490

Eshelman, L. R., McConnell, A. A., Messman, T. L., Dykstra, R., Gratz, K. L., & DiLillo, D. (2022). The impact of probable PTSD on trait and state emotional responding among survivors of lifetime sexual violence. Psychology of Violence, 12(3), 127-136.  https://doi.org/10.1037/vio0000423

 

Brockdorf, A., DiLillo, D., Messman, T. L., & Gratz, K. L. Trauma symptoms and self-harm among sexual violence survivors: examining state emotion regulation and reactivity as dual mechanisms. Psychology of Violence. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/vio0000432

 

Salim, S. R., McConnell, A. A., & Messman, T. L. (accepted manuscript). Sexual violence outcomes and recovery among bisexual women: Review of the literature. Trauma, Violence & Abuse.

 

Kumar, S. A., Brockdorf, A. N., Jaffe, A. E., Church, H. R., Messman, T. L., & DiLillo, D. (2022). Mindful awareness promotes resilience: Buffered links among childhood sexual abuse severity, goal-directed emotion dysregulation, and psychopathology. Mindfulness, 13(4), 993-1006. https://doi.org/10.1007/x12671-022-01854-2

Salim, S. R., Eshelman, L. R., Bhuptani, P. H., & Messman, T. L. (2022). Latent profiles of social reactions to sexual assault disclosure among undergraduate women. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 46(1), 66-81. https://doi.org/10.1177/03616843211038924

Salim, S. R., McConnell, A. A. & Messman, T. L. Bisexual women’s recovery after sexual assault: Stigma, negative social reactions, and hazardous drinking. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity. Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/sgd0000490

Littleton, H. L., McConnell, A. A., Messman, T. L. & Layh, M. C. (2021). Typologies of college women’s rape victimization experiences: A latent class analysis. Psychology of Women Quarterly.  Advanced online publication.   https://doi.org/10.1177/0361684321992038

Salim, S., McConnell, A. A., & Messman-Moore, T. L. (2020). Bisexual women’s experiences of stigma and verbal sexual coercion: The role of internalized heterosexism and outness. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 44(3), 362-376.  

https://doi.org/10.1177/0361684320917391

Messman-Moore, T. L. & Bhuptani, P. H. (2020). Self-compassion and fear of self-compassion: Mechanisms underlying the link between child maltreatment severity and psychological distress in college women. Mindfulness, 11, 1446-1459. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-020-01361-2

 

McConnell, A. A., Messman-Moore, T.L., Gratz, K.L., & DiLillo, D. (2020). A double-edged sword: The impact of combined type rape on posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 35, 5853-5876. https://doi.org/10.1177/088626051772452

 

de Waal, M. M., Christ, C., Messman-Moore, T. L. & Dekker, J. J. M. (2019, online first). Changes in risk perception after sexual victimization: Are we following the right track? Journal of Interpersonal Violence. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260519848790

 

Bhuptani, P. H., & Messman-Moore, T. L. (2019). Blame and shame in relation to sexual assault. Handbook of Sexual Violence. In O’Donohue, W., Schewe, P., (Eds.), Handbook of Sexual Assault and Sexual Assault Prevention. Springer, cham. First online 19 October 2019.

 

Messman-Moore, T. L. & Salim, S. R. (2019). Risk perception and sexual assault. In O’Donohue, W., Schewe, P., (Eds.), Handbook of Sexual Assault and Sexual Assault Prevention. Springer, cham. First online 19 October 2019. Doi: 10/1007/978-3-030-23645-8_12.

Kosravani, V., Messman-Moore, T. L., Mohammadzadeh, A., Ghorbani, F., & Amirinezhad, A. (2019). Effects of childhood emotional maltreatment on depressive symptoms through emotion dysregulation in treatment-seeking patients with heroin-dependence. Journal of Affective Disorders, 256, 448-457.

 

Weiss, N. H., Walsh, K., DiLillo, D., Messman-Moore, T. L. & Gratz, K. L. (2019). A longitudinal examination of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and risky sexual behavior: Evaluating emotion dysregulation dimensions as mediators. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 48, 975-986.

 

Christ, C., de Waal, M. M., Dekker, J. J. M., van Kuijk, I., van Schaik, D. J. F., Kikkert, M. J…Messman-Moore, T.L. (2019). Linking childhood emotional abuse and depressive symptoms in female college students: The role of emotion dysregulation and interpersonal problems. PloS One, 14(2), e0211882.

 

Jaffe, A. E., DiLillo, D., Gratz, K. L., & Messman-Moore, T. L. (2019). Risk for interpersonal revictimization: Clarifying the role of posttraumatic stress symptoms and trauma-related cognitions. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 32, 42-55. doi: 10.1002/jts.22373

 

McConnell, A. A. & Messman-Moore, T. L. (2019). Hazardous drinking, anti-bisexual prejudice, and sexual revictimization among bisexual women: A moderated mediation model. Psychology of Violence, 9, 527-536. doi: 10.1037/vio0000211

 

Bhuptani, P. H., Kaufman, J. S., Messman-Moore, T. L., Gratz, K. L., & DiLillo, D. (2019). Rape disclosure and depression among community women: The mediating roles of shame and experiential avoidance. Violence Against Women, 25, 1226-1242. doi: 10.1177/1077801218811683

 

Charak, R., Eshelman, L. R., & Messman-Moore, T. L. (2018, online first). Latent classes of childhood maltreatment, adult sexual assault, and revictimization in men: Differences in masculinity, anger, and substance use. Psychology of Men and Masculinity.  doi:10/1037/men0000185

 

Charak, R., DiLillo, D., Messman-Moore, T., & Gratz, K. L. (2018). Latent classes of lifetime sexual victimization characteristics in women in emerging adulthood: Differential relations with emotion dysregulation. Psychology of Violence, 8, 570-579. doi:10/1037/vio0000154

 

Straub, K. T., McConnell, A. A., & Messman-Moore, T. L. (2018). Internalized heterosexism and PTSD symptoms: The mediating role of shame proneness among trauma-exposed sexual minority women. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, 5, 99-108.

 

Cook, N. K. & Messman-Moore, T. L. (2018). I said No: The impact of voicing non-consent on women’s perceptions of and responses to rape. Violence Against Women, 24, 507-527. doi: 10.1177/1077801217708059

 

Zerubavel, N., Messman-Moore, T. L., DiLillo, D., & Gratz, K. L. (2018). Childhood sexual abuse and fear of abandonment moderate the severity of dissociation in intimate partner violence. Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 19, 9-24. doi: 10.1080/15299732.2017.1289491

 

Messman-Moore, T. L., & McConnell, A. A. (2018). Intervention for sexual revictimization among college women, pp. 309-330. In L. Orchowski & C. Gidycz (Editors), Sexual Assault Risk Reduction and Resistance. Elsevier.

Jaffe, A. E., Steel, A. L., DiLillo, D., Messman-Moore, T. L., & Gratz, K. L. (2017, online first). Characterizing sexual violence in intimate relationships: An examination of blame attributions and rape acknowledgment. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. doi: 10.1177/0886260517726972

 

McConnell, A. A., Messman-Moore, T.L., Gratz, K.L., & DiLillo, D. (2017, online first). A double-edged sword: The impact of combined type rape on posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. doi: 10.1177/088626051772452

 

Jaffe, A. E., Steel, A. L., DiLillo, D., Hoffman, L., Gratz, K. L., & Messman-Moore, T. L. (2017). Victim alcohol intoxication during a sexual assault: Relations with subsequent PTSD symptoms. Violence & Victims, 32, 642-657. doi: 10/1891/0886-6708.VV-D-16-00045

 

Gratz, K. L., Weiss, N. H., McDermott, M. J., DiLillo, D., Messman-Moore, T., & Tull, M. T. (2017). Emotion dysregulation mediates the relation between borderline personality disorder symptoms and later physical health problems. Journal of Personality Disorders, 31(4), 433-448. doi: 10.1521/pedi_2016_30_252

 

Messman-Moore, T. L. & Bhuptani, P. (2017). A review of the long-term impact of child maltreatment in adulthood: A focus on posttraumatic stress disorder and emotion dysregulation. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 24(2), 154-169. doi:10.1111/cpsp.12193

 

Espeleta, H. C., Palasciano-Barton, S. N., & Messman-Moore, T. L. (2017). The impact of child abuse severity on adult attachment anxiety and avoidance in college women: The role of emotion dysregulation. Journal of Family Violence, 32(4), 399-407. doi: 10.1007/s10896-016-9816-0

 

Berghoff, C. R., Tull, M. T., DiLillo, D., Messman-Moore, T. & Gratz, K. L. (2017). The role of experiential avoidance in the relation between anxiety disorder diagnoses and future physical health symptoms in a community sample of young adult women. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 6(1), 29-34. doi: 10.1016/j.jcbs.2016.11.002

 

Lavender, J. M., Tull, M. T., DiLillo, D., Messman-Moore, T. L., & Gratz, K. L. (2017). Development and validation of a state-based measure of emotion dysregulation: The state difficulties in emotion regulation scale (S-DERS). Assessment, 24(2), 197-209. doi: 10.1177/1073191115601218

 

Mokma, T. R., Eshelman, L. R., & Messman-Moore, T. L. (2016). Contributions of self-blame, post-traumatic stress symptoms, and alcohol use to women’s risk for forcible and substance-related sexual revictimization. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 25(4), 428-448. doi: 10.1080/10538712.2016.1161688

 

Schoenleber, M., Berghoff, C. R., Tull, M. T., DiLillo, D. Messman-Moore, T. L., & Gratz, K. L. (2016).  Emotional lability and affective synchrony in borderline personality disorder. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, & Treatment, 7(3), 211-220. doi: 10.1037/PER0000145

Bjureberg, J., Ljotsson, B., Tull, M. T., Hedman, E., Sahlin, H., Lundh, L.G., Bjarehed, J., DiLillo, D., Messman-Moore, T., Gumpert, C. H., & Gratz, K. L. (2016). Development and validation of a brief version of the difficulties in emotion regulation scale: The DERS-16. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 38(2), 284-296. IF: 2.025

 

Watkins, L.E., Franz, M. R., DiLillo, D., Gratz, K.L., & Messman-Moore, T.L. (2015). Does drinking to cope explain links to emotion-driven impulse control difficulties and hazardous drinking? A longitudinal test. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 29(4), 875-884.  doi: 10/1037/adb0000127

 

Dixon-Gordon, K. L., Weiss, N. H., Tull, M. T., DiLillo, D., Messman-Moore, T. L., & 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

 

Eshelman, L.R., Messman-Moore, T. L. & Sheffer, N. (2015). The importance of substance-related rape: Impact of victimization and substance use on risk perception in female college students. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 30(15), 2616-2635. doi: 10.1177/0886260514553630

 

Zerubavel, N. & Messman-Moore, T. L. (2015). Staying present: Incorporating mindfulness into therapy for dissociation.  Mindfulness, 6(2), 303-314. doi: 10.1007/s12671-013-0261-3

 

Messman-Moore, T. L., Ward, R. M., Zerubavel, N., Chandley, R. B., & Barton, S. N. (2015). Emotion dysregulation and drinking to cope as predictors and consequences of alcohol-involved sexual assault: Examination of short-term and long-term risk.  Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 30, 601-621.  doi:10.1177/0886260514535259

 

Tull, M.T., Bardeen, J.R., DiLillo, D., Messman-Moore, T., & Gratz, K.L. (2015). A prospective investigation of emotion dysregulation as a moderator of the relation between posttraumatic stress symptoms and substance use severity. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 29, 52-60.

 

Messman-Moore, T. L.  & Ward, R. M. (2014). Drinking to cope and emotion dysregulation in college women. American Journal of Health Behavior, 38(4), 553-559.

 

Schoenleber, M., Gratz, K. L., Messman-Moore, T. L., & DiLillo, D. (2014). Borderline personality disorder and self-conscious emotions in response to adult unwanted sexual experiences. Journal of Personality Disorders, 28(6), 810-823. doi: 10.1521/pedi_2014_28_138

 

Coates, A. A., & Messman-Moore, T. L.  (2014). A structural model of mechanisms predicting depressive symptoms in women following childhood psychological maltreatment. Child Abuse & Neglect, 38, 103-113. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2013.10.00538

 

Chandley, R. B., Luebbe, A. M., Messman-Moore, T. L., & Ward, R. M. (2014). Anxiety sensitivity, coping motives, emotion dysregulation, and alcohol-related outcomes in college women: A moderated-mediation model. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 75, 83-92.

 

Watkins, L. E., Jaffe, A. E., Hoffman, L., Gratz, K. L., Messman-Moore, T. L., & DiLillo, D. (2014). The longitudinal impact of intimate partner aggression and relationship status on young women’s depression and physical health problems. Journal of Family Psychology, 28(5), 655-665. doi: 10.1037fam0000018

 

*Zerubavel, N., & Messman-Moore, T. L. (2013). Sexual victimization, fear of sexual powerlessness, and cognitive emotion dysregulation as barriers to sexual assertiveness in college women. Violence Against Women, 19, 1518-1537. doi: 10.1177/107780121357566 (*Paper nominated for best VAW article in 2013)

 

Ward, R. M., Bonar, R. N., Taylor, E. A., Witmer, K. A., Brinkman, C. S., Cleveland, M., & Messman-Moore, T.L. (2013). Thursday drinking and academic load among college women.  Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 74, 941-949.

 

Messman-Moore, T. L., Ward, R. M., & DeNardi, K. A. (2013). The impact of sexual enhancement alcohol expectancies and risky behavior on alcohol-involved rape among college women. Violence Against Women, 19(4), 449-464. doi: 10.1177/1077801213487058

 

Walsh, K., Messman-Moore, T. L., Zerubavel, N., Chandley, R. B., DeNardi, K. A., & Walker, D. P.  (2013). Perceived sexual control, sex-related alcohol expectancies and behavior predict substance-related sexual revictimization. Child Abuse & Neglect, 37, 353-359.  doi: 10.1016.j.chiabu.2012.11.009

 

Messman-Moore, T. L., Ward, R. M., & Zerubavel, N. (2013).  The role of substance use and emotion dysregulation in predicting risk for incapacitated sexual revictimization in women: Results of a prospective investigation. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 27(1), 125-132.  doi:10.1037/a0031073

 

Ward, R. M., Cleveland, M. J., & Messman-Moore, T. L. (2013).  Latent class analysis of college women’s Thursday drinking. Addictive Behaviors, 38, 1407-1413. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2012.08.012

 

Walsh, K., DiLillo, D. & Messman-Moore, T. L. (2012). Lifetime sexual victimization and poor risk perception: Does emotion dysregulation account for the links? Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 27, 3054-3071.

 

Roemmele, M. S., & Messman-Moore, T. L. (2011). Child abuse, early maladaptive schemas, and risky sexual behavior in college women. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 20, 264-283.

 

Walker, D. P., Messman-Moore, T. L., & Ward, R. M. (2011). Number of sexual partners and sexual assertiveness predict sexual

victimization: Do more partners equal more risk? Violence & Victims, 26(6),774-787.

 

Messman-Moore, T. L., Walsh, K., & DiLillo, D. (2010). Emotion dysregulation and risky sexual behavior in revictimization. Child Abuse & Neglect, 34, 967-976.

 

DiLillo, D., Hayes, S., Fortier, M. A., Perry, A. R., Evans, S., Messman-Moore, T. L., Walsh, K., Nash, C., & Fauchier, A. (2010). Development and initial psychometric properties of the Computer Assisted Maltreatment Inventory (CAMI): A comprehensive self-report measure of child maltreatment history. Child Abuse & Neglect, 34, 305-317.

 

Brown, A. L., & Messman-Moore, T. L. (2010). Personal and perceived peer attitudes supporting sexual aggression as predictors of male college students’ willingness to intervene against sexual aggression. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 25, 503-517.

 

Fortier, M. A., DiLillo, D., Messman-Moore, T. L., Peugh, J., DeNardi, K.A., & Gaffey, K.J. (2009). Severity of child sexual abuse and revictimization: The mediating role of coping and trauma symptoms. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 33, 308-320.

 

Brown, A. L., Testa, M., & Messman-Moore, T. L. (2009). Psychological consequences of sexual victimization due to different methods of coercion. Violence Against Women, 15, 898-919.

 

Messman-Moore, T. L., Ward, R. M. & Brown, A. L. (2009). Substance use and PTSD symptoms impact the likelihood of rape and revictimization in college women. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 24, 499-521.

 

Messman-Moore, T.L., Coates, A.A., Gaffey, K.J., & Johnson, C.F. (2008). Sexuality, substance use and susceptibility to victimization: Risk for rape and sexual coercion in a prospective study of college women. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 23, 1730-1746.

 

Messman-Moore, T. L. & Coates, A. A. (2007). The impact of childhood psychological abuse on adult interpersonal conflict: The role of early maladaptive schemas and patterns of interpersonal behavior. Journal of Emotional Abuse, 7(2), 75-92.

 

Messman-Moore, T. L., & Garrigus, A. S. (2007). The association of child abuse and eating disorder symptomatology: The importance of multiple forms of abuse and revictimization. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, & Trauma, 14(3), 51-72.

 

Clemmons, J., Walsh, K., DiLillo, D., & Messman-Moore, T. L. (2007). Unique and combined contributions of multiple child abuse types and abuse severity to adult trauma symptomatology. Child Maltreatment, 12, 172-181.

 

DiLillo, D., Fortier, M. A., Hayes, S. A., Trask, E., Perry, A. R., Messman-Moore, T. L., Fauchier, A., & Nash, C.  (2006). Retrospective assessment of childhood sexual and physical abuse: A comparison of scaled and behaviorally specific approaches. Assessment, 13, 297-312.

 

Messman-Moore, T. L. & Brown, A. L. (2006). Risk perception, rape and sexual revictimization: A prospective study of college women. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 30, 159-172.

 

Messman-Moore, T. L., Brown, A. L. & Koelsch, L. E., (2005). Posttraumatic symptoms and self-dysfunction as consequences and predictors of sexual revictimization. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 18, 253-261.

 

Brown, A. L., Messman-Moore, T. L., Miller, A. G., & Stasser, G. L. (2005). Sexual victimization in relation to perceptions of risk:

Mediation, generalization, and temporal stability. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 963-976.

 

Messman-Moore, T. L., & Brown, A. L. (2004). Child maltreatment and perceived family environment as risk factors for adult rape: Is child sexual abuse the most salient experience? Child Abuse & Neglect, 28(10), 1019-1034.

 

Messman-Moore, T.L. & Long, P.J. (2003). The role of childhood sexual abuse sequelae in sexual revictimization: An empirical review and theoretical reformulation. Clinical Psychology Review, 23, 537-571.

 

Messman-Moore, T. L. & Resick, P. A. (2002). Brief treatment of complicated PTSD and peritraumatic responses in a client with repeated sexual victimization. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 9, 89-99.

 

Messman-Moore, T. L. & Long, P. J. (2002). Alcohol and substance use disorders as predictors of child to adult sexual revictimization in a sample of community women. Violence & Victims, 17(3), 319-340.

 

Messman-Moore, T.L. & Long, P.J. (2000). Child sexual abuse and revictimization in the form of adult sexual abuse, adult physical abuse and adult psychological maltreatment. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 15(5), 489-502.

 

Messman-Moore, T. L., Long, P. J. & Siegfried, N. J. (2000). The revictimization of child sexual abuse survivors: An examination of the adjustment of college women with child sexual abuse, adult sexual assault and adult physical abuse. Child Maltreatment, 5(1), 18-27.

 

Marx, B.P., Nichols-Anderson, C., Messman-Moore, T.L., Porter, C.A., & Miranda, R. (2000). Alcohol consumption, outcome expectancies, and victimization status among female college students. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 30(5), 1056-1070.

 

Pai, S.M., Hommel, K.A., Hilliard, K.M., Messman-Moore, T.L., & Iwamasa, G.Y. (1998). Beginning clinical practicum: What I know now that I wish I knew then. the Behavior Therapist, 21(9), 170, 176.

 

Messman, T.L. & Long, P.J. (1996). Child sexual abuse and its relationship to revictimization in adult women: A review. Clinical Psychology Review, 16, 397-420.

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