Researchers List: Publications
Relying on the Silencing the Self Scale and/or
Theory
Publications
on the self-silencing construct by Dana
In
preparation:
Cultural Perspectives on Women’s Depression:
Self-Silencing, Psychological Distress and Recovery. Co-editor,
Alisha Ali, NYU. Under contract with Oxford University Press.
Silencing the self:
Women and depression.
Paperback, 1992,
HarperCollins. Reviewed in the New York
Times Book Review, The London Times Literary Supplement, Harvard Educational
Review, Women’s Review of Books, Choice, The Boston Globe, The New Republic,
Medical Humanities Review, Transactional Analysis Journal, News for Women in
Psychiatry, Contemporary Psychology, Mirabella, and numerous others.
Translations:
German: 1993 Wilhelm Heyne Verlag,
Munich. Transl: Ilse Utz
French: 1993 Le Jour; Sogides. Transl:
Marie Perron
Italian: 1996 La Tartaruga edizioni,
Milano. Transl: Bianca Piazzese
Chinese: 2000, for
distribution in Mainland
------- (Under revision, May, 200777). Grant, T.M.,
Ernst,
C. Depression and other indicators of psychiatric distress among ethnically
diverse substance abusing women: The role of Self-Silencing. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry.
------(2007).
Depression in Nepalese women: Tradition, changing roles, and public
health policy. Mark van Ommeren, co-author. Editor: Valentine Moghadam. From
Patriarchy to Empowerment: Participation, Rights, and Women’s Movements in the
Middle East, North Africa, and
-------(2005). With Thomas Joiner, and
R.A. Bernert. The bidimensional structure of suicidal
symptoms in
------(2003). The
anger of hope and the anger of despair:
How anger relates to women’s depression.
In J. Stoppard and L. McMullen (Eds.). Understanding depression from the standpoint of women.
-----(1999b). Silencing the self: Inner dialogues and
outer realities. In T. E. Joiner & J.C. Coyne (Eds.). The Interactional Nature of Depression: Advances in Interpersonal
Approaches.
-----(1999c). Ways of listening to depressed women in
qualitative research: Interview techniques and analysis. (1999). Canadian
Psychology, 40#2, pp. 91-101.
Special issue on Qualitative Research on Women's Depression.
-----(1992). Silencing the self scale: Schemas of
intimacy associated with depression in women. Co-author Diana Dill. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 16, pp. 97-106.
-----(1987). Female depression during adulthood: The interaction of social imperatives
and the relational self," In R.
Formanek and A. Gurian (Eds.), Women and
Depression, A Lifespan Perspective.
-----(1987). Self-in-relation theory: Theoretical frameworks for depression in women. In ibid. pp. 41-45.
-----(1999a) Behind
the mask: Destruction and creativity in
women’s aggression.
Paperback, 2000.
Translations:
Chinese, (Simplified
characters), 2001. North Literature and Art Press for People’s
Republic of
Chinese, (complex characters), 2002 or
2003. Hangzhong Publishing House of
-----2003. Anger: That most unfeminine emotion. In Jessica Daniels (Ed.). The complete mental health guide for women.
-----2001.
Understanding women’s anger: A
description of relational patterns. Health
Care for Women International, 22, 385-400.
-----2001. Anger. In J. Worell (Editor-in-Chief). Encyclopedia of Gender.
Published
studies by others using the Silencing the Self Scale as a measure:
Ali, A.,
Toner, B. B., Stuckless, N., Gallop, R., Diamant, N. E., Gould, M. I., &
Vidins, E. I. (2000). Emotional abuse,
self-blame and self-silencing in women with irritable bowel syndrome. Psychosomatic Medicine, 62, 76-82.
Ali
A. & Toner, B. B. (2001). Symptoms of depression among Caribbean women and
Caribbean-Canadian women - An investigation of self-silencing and domains of
meaning.
Psychology of Women Quarterly, 25,
175-180.
Ali,
A., Oatley, K. L, & Toner, B. B. (2002).
Life stress, self-silencing and domains of meaning in uniploar
depression: An investigation of an
outpatient sample of women. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology,
21, 669-685.
Arata, C. M. & Lindman, L. (2002). Marriage, child abuse, and sexual revictimization. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 17, 953-971.
Ayduk, O.,
May, D.,
Banyard, V. L. Arnold, S., & Smith, J. (2000). Childhood sexual abuse and dating experiences of undergraduate women. Child Maltreatment, 5, 39-48.
Banyard, V. L., & LaPlant, L. E. (2002). Exploring links between childhood maltreatment and empowerment. Journal of Community Psychology, 30, 687-707.
Besser, A., Flett, G. L. & Davis, R. A. (2003). Self-criticism, dependency, silencing the self, and loneliness: A test of a mediational model. Personality & Individual Differences, 35, 1735-1752.
Brody, C. L., Haaga, D. A. F., Kirk, L., &
Solomon, A. (1999). Experiences of anger in people who have recovered from
depression and never-depressed people. Journal
of Nervous & Mental Disease, 197, 400-405.
Carr, J. G.,
Cowan, G., Bommersbach, M.., & Curtis, S.
R. (1995). Codependency, loss of self,
and power. Psychology of Women Quarterly,
19, 221-236.
Cramer, K. M. & Thoms, N. (2003). Factor
structure of the Silencing the Self Scale in women and men. Personality & Individual Differences, 35,
525-535.
Cramer, K. M., Gallant, M. D., & Langlois, M. W.
(2005). Self-silencing and depression in women and men: Comparative structural
equation models. Personality and Individual differences, 39, 581-592.
Crothers, M. & Warren, L. W. (1996). Parental antecedents of adult codependency.
Journal of Clinical Psychology, 52, 231-239.
DeMarco,
R. (2002). Two theories/a sharper lens: The staff nurse voice in the workplace.
Journal of Advanced Nursing, 38,
549-56.
DeMarco,
R. G., Johnson, C., Fukuda, O. & Deffenbaugh, O. (2001). Content validity
of a scale to measure silencing and affectivity among women living with
HIV/AIDS.
Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, 12, 77-88.
DeMarco,
R., Lynch, M. M. & Board, R. (2002). Mothers who silence themselves: A
concept with clinical implications for women living with HIV/AIDS and their
children. Journal of Pediatric Nursing,
17, 89-95.
DeMarco,
R. F., Miller, K. H., Patsdaughter, C. A., Grindel, C. G., & Chisholm, M.
(1998). From silencing the self to action: Experiences of women living with
HIV/AIDS.
Health Care for Women International, 19, 539-552.
Drew,
S. S., Heesacker, M., Frost, H. M., Oelke, L. E., & Sarason, B. (2004). The
role of relationship loss and self-loss in women’s and men’s dysphoria. Journal of Social and Personal
Relationships, 21, 381-397.
Frank,
J. B. & Thomas, C. D. (2003). Externalized self-perceptions,
self-silencing, and the prediction of eating pathology. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 35, 219-228.
Geller,
J., Cockell, S. J., & Hewitt, P. L., Goldner, E. M., & Flett, G. L.
(2000). Inhibited expression of negative emotions and interpersonal orientation
in anorexia nervosa. International Journal of Eating Disorders,
28, 8-19.
Geller,
G., Zaitsoff, S. L., & Srikameswaran, S. (2002). Beyond shape and weight:
Exploring the relationship between nonbody determinants of self-esteem and
eating disorder symptoms in adolescent females. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 32, 344-351.
Gratch,
L. B., Bassett, M. E., & Attra, S. L. (1995). The relationship of gender
and ethnicity to self silencing and depression among college students. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 19,
509-515.
Haemmerlie,
F. M., Montgomery, R. L., & Williams, A., et al. (2001). Silencing the self in college settings and
adjustment. Psychological Reports, 88, 587-594.
Harper,
M. S., Dickinson, J. W., & Welsh, D. P. (2006). Self-silencing and rejection
sensitivity in adolescent romantic relationships. Journal of Youth and
Adolescence, 35, 459-467.
Hart,
B. I., & Thompson, J. M. (1996). Gender-role characteristics and depressive
symptomatology among adolescents. Journal
of Early Adolescence, 16, 407-426.
Horne,
S., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2006). The female sexual subjectivity
inventory: Development and validation of a multidimensional inventory for late
adolescents and emerging adults. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 30,
125-138.
Impett,
E. A., Schooler, D., & Tolman, D. L. (2006). To be seen and not heard:
Femininity ideology and adolescent girls' sexual health. Archives of Sexual
Behavior, 35, 131-144.
Impett,
E. A., Gable, S. L., & Peplau, L. A. (2005). Giving up and giving in: The
costs and benefits of daily sacrifice in intimate relationships. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 89, 327-344.
Kayser,
K., & Sormanti, M. (2002). A follow-up study of women with cancer: Their
psychosocial well-being and close relationships. Social Work in Health Care, 35, 391-406.
Kayser,
K., Sormanti, M., & Strainchamps, E.
(1999). Women coping with cancer: The
influence of relationship factors on psychosocial adjustment. Psychology
of Women Quarterly, 23, 725-739.
Koutrelakos,
J. (2004). Acculturation of Greek Americans: Change and continuity in cognitive
schemas guiding intimate relationships. International
Journal of Psychology, 39, 95-105.
Koutrelakos,
J. & Baranchik, A. (1996). Silencing
the self: Applying Jack's schemas to
issues of norm discrepancies and double standards for gender.
Psychological Reports, 78, 655-666.
Koutrelakos,
J., Baranchik, A. J., & Damato, N. (1999).
Cultural and sex differences in rating the self and an hypothetical
well-adjusted person on Jack's Divided Self and Care as Self-Sacrifice
subscales. Psychological Reports, 84, 76-83.
Lieberman,
M., Gauvin, L., Bukowski, W. M., & White, D. R. (2001). Interpersonal
influence and disordered eating behaviors in adolescent girls: The role of peer
modeling, social reinforcement, and body related teasing. Eating Behaviors, 2,
215-236.
Moretti,
M. M., Rein, A. S., & Wiebe, V. J. (1998). Relational self-regulation:
Gender differences in risk for dysphoria. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science. Special Canadian perspectives on
research in depression, 30(4), 243-252.
Olshansky,
E., & Sereika, S. (2005). The transition from pregnancy to postpartum in
previously infertile women: A focus on depression. Archives of Psychiatric
Nursing, 19, 273-280.
Page,
J. R., Stevens, H. B., & Galvin, S. L. (1996). Relationships between
depression, self-esteem, and self-silencing behavior. Journal of Social & Clinical Psychology, 15, 381-396.
Piran,
N., & Comier, H. C. (2005). The social construction of women and disordered
eating patterns. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 52, 549-558.
Remen,
A. L., Chambless, D. L., & Rodebaugh, T. L. (2002). Gender differences in
the construct validity of the Silencing the Self Scale. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 26, 151-159.
Ross,
M., & Wade, T. D. (2004). Shape and weight concern and self-esteem as
mediators of externalized self-perception, dietary restraint and uncontrolled
eating. European Eating Disorders Review, 12(2), 129-136
Shahar, G. (2001). Personality,
shame, and the breakdown of social bonds: The voice of quantitative depression research. Psychiatry: Interpersonal & Biological Processes, 64, 228-239.
Shroff,
H., & Thompson, K. J. (2006). Peer influences, body-image dissatisfaction,
eating dysfunction and self-esteem in adolescent girls. Journal of Health
Psychology, 11, 533-551.
Smolak,
L. & Munstertieger, B.F. (2002). The
relationship of gender and voice to depression and eating disorders. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 26, 234-241.
Sormanti,
M., Kayser, K., & Strainchamps, E.
(1997). A relational perspective of women
coping with cancer: A preliminary
study. Social Work in Health Care, 25,
89-106.
Stanton,
A.L., Kirk, S.B., Cameron, C.L., Danoff-Burg, S. (2000). Coping through
emotional approach: Scale construction and validation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78, 1150-1169.
Stevens,
H. B., & Galvin, S. L. (1995). Structural findings regarding the silencing
the self scale. Psychological Reports,
77, 11-17.
Spratt,
C. L., Sherman, M. F., &
Thompson,
J. M. (1995). Silencing the self: Depressive symptomatology and close
relationships. Psychology of Women
Quarterly, 19, 337-353.
Thompson, J. M., Whiffen, V. E., &
Journal of Social and Personal
Relationships, 18, 503-516.
Thompson, L. (1993). Conceptualizing gender in marriage: The case of marital care. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 55, 557-569.
Uebelacker, L. A., Courtnage, E. S., & Whisman, M. A. (2003). Correlates of depression and marital dissatisfaction: Perceptions of marital communication style. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 20, 757-769.
Ussher, J. (2004). Premenstrual syndrome and self-policing: Ruptures in self-silencing leading to
increased self-surveillance and blaming of the body. Social Theory and Health, 2, 254-
272.
Vidler, H. C. (2005). Women making decisions about self-care and recovering from depression. Women Studies International Forum, 28, 289-303.
Whiffen, V. E., Thompson, J. M., &
Witte, T. H., & Sherman, M. F. (2002). Silencing the self and feminist identity development. Psychological Reports, 90, 1075-1083.
Witte, T., Sherman M. F., & Flynn, L. (2001). Silencing the self and the big five: A personological profile of silent women. Psychological Reports, 88, 655-663.
Woods,
S. J. (1999) Normative beliefs regarding the maintenance of intimate
relationships among abused and nonabused women. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 14, 479-491.
Woods, S. J. & Isenberg, M.
A. (2001). Adaptation as a mediator of intimate abuse and traumatic stress in battered women. Nursing Science Quarterly, 14, 215-221.
Woods,
S. J., & Wineman, N. M. (2004). Trauma, posttraumatic stress disorder
symptom clusters, and physical health symptoms in postabused women. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 18,
26-34.
Zaitsoff,
S. L., Geller, J., & Srikameswaran, S. (2002). Silencing the self and
suppressed anger: Relationship to eating disorder symptoms in adolescent females.
European Eating Disorders Review, 10,
51-60.
Books
and articles that rely on Silencing the Self Theory
Amaro, H. & Raj, A. (2000). On the margin: Power and women’s HIV risk reduction strategies. Sex Roles, 42, 723-749.
Brenner, H. G. (2003). I know I’m in there somewhere.
Cox, D. L., Stabb, S. D., &
Bruckner, K. H. (1999). Women's anger: Clinical and developmental
perspectives.
Engelson,
B. K. (2002). Social influences in the development of anorexia nervosa: A case
study. Eating & Weight Disorders, 7, 249-255.
Flanagan,
K. M., Clements, M. L., Whitton, S. W., Portney, M .J., Randall, D.W. &
Markman, H. J. (2002). Retrospect and prospect in the psychological study of
marital and couple relationships. In J. P. McHale & W. S. Grolnick (Eds.), Retrospect and prospect in the psychological
study of families (pp. 99-125). Mahway, N. J.:
Kayser,
K., & Himle, D. P. (2002). Dysfunctional beliefs about intimacy. In R. L.
Leahy & E. T. Dowd (Eds.), Clinical
advances in cognitive psychotherapy: Theory and Application (pp.361-376).
NY: Springer Publishing Co.
O’Quinn,
Mary. (2002). A psychological analysis of
abused women of the Appalachian coalfields. (Mellen Studies in Psychology,
Volume 3).
Roberts,
T. A., & Waters, P. L. (2004). Self-objectification and that “not so fresh
feeling”: Feminist therapeutic interventions for healthy female embodiment. Women & Therapy, 27, 3-4, 5-21.
Simonds,
Susan L. (2001). Depression and women: An integrative treatment approach.
Spinazzola,
J.,
Whitton,
S.,
Selected
list of doctoral dissertations using the Silencing the Self Scale (not updated
since 2004)
Affleck,
Deborah J. (2000). Women’s experiences of their bodies: Understanding
the connection between feminist consciousness, body image, and eating disorders. Unpublished doctoral dissertation,
Ali,
A. (1998). Depression
in women: Effects of life events,
support, emotional abuse and self-silencing. Unpublished doctoral dissertation,
Austin, J. E. (2002). Women's sense of self in relationships and
attachment style as a function of relationship satisfaction. Unpublished
doctoral dissertation,
Baker, J. O. (2002). The importance of finding one’s voice: Father hunger, self-silencing, and eating
disorders. Unpublished doctoral dissertation,
Barclay,
L. L. (2004). The relationship of
collectivist values orientation and psychological abuse from male partners to
women's self-silencing and personality style. Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: The Sciences &
Engineering, 65(6-B), 3143
Belknap, R. A. S. (1997). My
freedom, my life: Voices of moral
conflict, separations, and connections in women who have experienced abuse.
Unpublished doctoral dissertation,
Belliveau,
J. M. (1999). An evaluation of
psychosocial models of depression in low income women. Unpublished doctoral
dissertation,
Bozzano,
S. F. (1999). The relationship between
self-silencing and sexual harassment. Unpublished doctoral dissertation,
Brazaitis,
S. J. (1998). White racial identity
attitudes as moderators of self-silencing in White women. Unpublished
doctoral dissertation,
Bruner,
L. A. (1997). The relationship of college
women's self-silencing and safer sex behaviors. Unpublished doctoral
dissertation,
Cawood,
R. L. (1999). Self in relationship in
women who engage in disordered eating. Unpublished doctoral dissertation,
Cracco,
E. J. (2000). The relationship of self-silencing across relationship domains to
depression and self-esteem among students attending predominately White
colleges. Unpublished doctoral dissertation,
Craver,
R. S. (2000). Dating
violence and its relation to identity, self-esteem, and silencing the self
among college women. Unpublished
doctoral dissertation,
Crothers, M. (2002). The effects of mutuality patterns on depression, loneliness,
shame, silencing the self, relationship
satisfaction, and attitudes towards counseling.
Unpublished doctoral dissertation,
Culp.
L. N. (1998). The role of attachment
style, gender role socialization, and perceived partner acceptance in silencing the self and depression for women. Unpublished doctoral dissertation,
D’Andrea,
R. M. (1996). Reconstructions of self in women with human immunodeficiency virus
infection. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, St. Mary’s University.
DeMarco,
R. (1997). The relationship between family life and workplace behaviors: Exploring the gendered perceptions of staff
nurses through the Framework of Systemic Organization. Unpublished doctoral dissertation,
Drew,
S. S. (1996). Understanding women’s
depression: The roles of relationship
loss and self-loss. Unpublished doctoral dissertation,
Farinon,
L. (2000). The relationship of anger,
self-silencing and feminist consciousness to disordered eating symptomatology
in women. Unpublished doctoral
dissertation,
Fossum,
J. L. (1997). A
correlational study of feminist/womanist identity development and depression in
women. Unpublished doctoral
dissertation,
Golden,
G. M. (1998). Women with voices: The relationship between adolescent females'
attitudes toward menstruation, creative aggression, and maintenance of their
voices. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, California School of
Professional Psychology –
Hennig,
Karl H. (2000). Mapping the care
domain: Conceptualization, assessment,
and relation to eating disorders. Unpublished doctoral dissertation,
Keane,
S. H. (2004). Self-silencing behavior
among female high school athletes and nonathletes. Dissertation Abstracts International:
Section B: The Sciences & Engineering, 64(12-B), 6332.
Kirk,
S. A. (2002). Depression and
self-silencing in lesbian and heterosexual women. Unpublished doctoral
dissertation,
Korol,
R. (1995). Women’s sense of self: Mutual responsiveness in women’s
conversations with female friends versus male dating partners. Unpublished
doctoral dissertation,
Koropsak-Berman,
E. (1997). The Silencing the Self Scale: An extension study. Unpublished doctoral
dissertation,
Lacour, M. A. M. (1998). Creating a model to predict eating disturbances in women from the
components of perfectionism and self-silencing. Unpublished doctoral
dissertation,
Lippert,
Robin A. (1999). Conflating the self with the body:
The influence of depression, gender, gender role, perfectionism, and
self-silencing on body esteem. Unpublished doctoral dissertation,
Margolis, D. N. (1998). Culturally sanctioned violence against women: A look at