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.




 
Ellen W. Leen-Feldner, Ph.D.

 

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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