Linda J. Luecken, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Basic Medical Sciences - The University of Arizona College of Medicine—Phoenix in partnership with Arizona State University

Associate Professor, Department of Psychology - Arizona State University

ASU Office Phone: (480) 965-6886
Office: Building 3, Room 3253
Email: linda.luecken@asu.edu
Website: http://psychology.clas.asu.edu/luecken

Education:

Post-Doc, Psycho-oncology; University of Vermont; 2000

PhD; Duke University; 1998

Background:

Dr. Linda Luecken is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University. She is a clinical health psychologist with research interests in the unique psychological, cognitive, behavioral, and physiological ways people respond to stressful life events, and the impact of those processes on lifespan health. She has studied these processes in children, young adults, women with breast cancer, and pregnant and postpartum women.

Research Interests:

Primary research interests include the developmental impact of early life experiences on neuroendocrine and cardiovascular responses to stress later in life, and the development of postpartum depression in low-income Hispanic women. Ongoing research projects address the impact of childhood stressors (e.g., parental death, parental divorce, conflict & abuse) in the development of cardiovascular and neuroendocrine regulatory responses to stress and associated long-term risk of cardiovascular disease. An additional area of research involves the impact of psychosocial risk and resilience factors on prenatal health, postpartum health, and infant outcomes in low-income ethnic minority women.

PubMed Link:

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Selected Publications:

  1. Luecken, L.J., Kraft, A.J., & Hagan, M. (2009). Negative relationships in the family-of-origin predict attenuated cortisol in emerging adults. Hormones and Behavior.
  2. Luecken, L.J., Appelhans, B.A, Kraft, A.J., & Enders, C. (2009). Emotional and cardiovascular sensitization to daily stress following childhood parental loss. Developmental Psychology, 45(1), 296-302.
  3. Luecken, L.J., Purdom, C., & Howe, R. (2009). Prenatal care initiation in low-income Hispanic women: risk and protective factors. American Journal of Health Behavior, 33(3), 264-275.
  4. Gallo, L.C., & Luecken, L.J. (2008). Physiological research methods in health psychology: Applications of the biopsychosocial model. In L.J. Luecken, & L.C. Gallo (Eds). Handbook of Physiological Research Methods in Health Psychology. Sage Publications.
  5. Luecken, L.J. (2008). Long-term consequences of parental death in childhood: Physiological and psychological manifestations. In M. Stroebe, R.O. Hansson, H. Schut, & W. Stroebe (Eds). Handbook of Bereavement Research and Practice: 21st Century Perspectives. American Psychological Association Press.
  6. Appelhans, B.M., & Luecken, L.J. (2008). Heart rate variability and pain: Associations of two interrelated homeostatic processes. Biological Psychology.
  7. Luecken, L.J., Rodriquez, A., & Appelhans, B.M. (2005). Cardiovascular stress responses in young adulthood associated with family-of-origin relationships. Psychosomatic Medicine, 67, 514-521.
  8. Luecken, L.J. & Appelhans, B. (2005). Information-processing biases in young adults from bereaved and divorced families. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 114, 309-313.
  9. Davis, D., Luecken, L.J., & Zautra, A. (2005). Are reports of childhood maltreatment related to the development of chronic pain in adulthood? A meta-analytic review of the literature. Clinical Journal of Pain, 21, 398-405.
  10. Luecken, L.J., Dausch, B., Gulla, V., Hong, R., & Compas, B.E. (2004). Alterations in morning cortisol associated with PTSD in women with breast cancer. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 56, 13-15