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Ellen Winifred Leen-Feldner, Ph.D.
Director: Arkansas Institute of Developmental
Science
Contact Information
University of Arkansas
Department of Psychology
216 Memorial Hall
Fayetteville, AR 72701
(479) 575-5329(office phone)
(479) 575-3523 (laboratory phone)
eleenfe@uark.edu (email)
Education
Doctor of Philosophy, Developmental Psychology, 2004
University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
Master of Arts, Developmental Psychology, 2001
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
Bachelor of Arts, Psychology (major), 1997
University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN
Biographical Sketch
Ellen W. Leen-Feldner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of
Psychology at the University of Arkansas and directs the Arkansas Institute
of Developmental Science (ArK.I.D.S.). She studies the developmental psychopathology
of anxiety among children and adolescents. Specifically, she is interested
in examining how individual difference factors (e.g., substance use, emotion
regulatory strategies) change across the period of adolescence and interact
with contextual factors (e.g., life stressors) to promote the development
of anxiety problems. Dr. Leen-Feldner has conducted several empirical
investigations with clinical and non-clinical populations using a diverse
array of methodologies including laboratory-based biological challenge
procedures, self-report, multi-informant, and interview assessments, and
prospective research designs. In addition to her research interests, Dr.
Leen-Feldner has taught several courses at the undergraduate and graduate
levels, including Introduction to Human Development, Childhood and Adolescence,
Adult Psychopathology, Research Methods and a seminar on Puberty. Finally,
Dr. Leen-Feldner has been successful at obtaining extramural funding,
including a recent two-year award from the National Institute of Mental
Health.
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Ellen
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Representative Published Works
Representative Published Works (selected from 42 published works;
see Curriculum Vita for full listing). Bolded names are graduate
students in Dr. Leen-Feldner’s laboratory.
Leen-Feldner, E. W., Reardon, L. E., Hayward,
C., & Smith, R. (in press). The relation between puberty and
adolescent anxiety: Theory and evidence. Health Behaviors and Physical
Illness in Anxiety and its Disorders: Contemporary Theory and Research.
Springer Publishing.
Leen-Feldner, E. W., Zvolensky, M. J., van Lent, J., Vujanovic,
A. A., Bleau, T., Bernstein, A., Bielawski-Branch, A., & Feldner,
M. T. (2007). Anxiety sensitivity moderates tobacco smoking in regard
to panic attack symptoms and bodily complaints: A concurrent test
among adolescents. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment,
29, 69-79.
Leen-Feldner, E. W., Reardon, L. E., & Zvolensky,
M. J. (2007). Pubertal status and emotional reactivity to a voluntary
hyperventilation challenge predicting panic symptoms and somatic
complaints: A laboratory-based multi-informant test. Behavior Modification,
31, 8-31.
Leen-Feldner, E. W., Feldner, M. T., Tull, M. T., Roemer, L., &
Zvolensky, M. J. (2006). An examination of worry in relation to
anxious responding to voluntary hyperventilation among adolescents.
Behaviour Research and Therapy, 44, 1803-1809.
Leen-Feldner, E. W., Reardon, L. E., McKee, L.
G., Feldner, M. T., Babson, K, A., & Zvolensky, M. J. (2006).
The interactive role of anxiety sensitivity and pubertal status
in predicting anxious responding to bodily sensations among adolescents.
Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 34, 797-810.
Leen-Feldner, E. W., Feldner, M. T., Bernstein, A., McCormick, J.
T., & Zvolensky, M. J. (2005). Anxiety sensitivity and anxious
responding to bodily sensations: A test among adolescents using
a voluntary hyperventilation challenge. Cognitive Therapy and Research,
29, 593-609.
Curriculum
Vita
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