Clinical Psychology

Amber Belcher

		Graduate Student - Primary Advisor - Jean-Philippe Laurenceau Research Interests Recent Publications Vita abelcher@psych.udel.edu Office: 004 McKinly Hall (302) 831-8188 (302) 831-3645 -fax Preferred contact method - email

Research Interests

How do our close relationships affect our adjustment to stressful events?

Research Summary:

I’m a second year clinical graduate student working with Dr. Jean-Philippe Laurenceau. My central research focus concerns chronic life stressors in marital and romantic relationships. To study these processes, our lab examines the daily lives of cancer patients and their significant others at the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center and Christiana Hospital. A central focus of mine concerns the effectiveness of supportive transactions between breast cancer patients and their significant others as well as changes in relationship functioning and psychological adjustment in the months following cancer treatment. Our lab uses electronic daily diaries to examine these processes. This type of design permits us to construct statistical models that take into account the reciprocal nature of daily supportive transactions using multilevel modeling analytic techniques (i.e., HLM; Hierarchical Linear Modeling).

Recent Publications

Recent Presentations

Belcher, A., Laurenceau, J.P., Smith, C.V. (February, 2008). Emotional Support and Intimacy in Romantic Couples: A Dyadic Daily Diary Study. Poster accepted for presentation at the Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque.

Graber, E., Belcher, A., Laurenceau, J.P. (November, 2007). What You Don’t See Can Hurt You: Effects of Daily Overt and Covert Conflict in Newlywed Couples. Poster accepted for presentation at the Annual Convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia.

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