Amirkhan, James Professor (1984) Ph.D., UCLA (562) 985-5351

Personality; stress and coping; health psychology; attribution theory; survey research methods.
Courses typically taught: 314, 356, 458.

Publications:

Amirkhan, J. (1982). Expectancies and attributions for hyperactive and medicated hyperactive students. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 10, 265-276.

Shapiro, S., Tischler, G. L., Coftler, L., George, L. K., Amirkhan, J., Kessler, L. G., & Skinner, K. A. (1985). Health services questions. In NIMH, Epidemiologic Field Methods in Psychiatry. Academic Press.

Weiner, B., Amirkhan, J., & Folkes, V. S. (1987). An attributional analysis of excuses:Studies in a naive theory of emotion. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 16, 316-324.

Amirkhan, J., Rosenstock, I., Wolf, S., Rhodes, F., & Corby, N. (1987). Focus Group Protocol For Evaluating AIDS-Education Materials.

Amirkhan, J. (1990a). Applying attribution theory as the study of stress and coping. In S. Graham and V. Folkes (Eds.), Attribution Theory: Applications to Achievement, Mental Health, and Interpersonal Conflict. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Amirkhan, J. (1990b). A factor analytically derived measure of coping: The Coping Strategy Indicator. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 59, 1066-1074.

Amirkhan, J. (1994a). Seeking person-related predictors or coping: Exploratory analyses. European Journal of Personality, 8, 13-20.

Amirkhan, J., (1994b). Criterion validity of a coping measure. Journal of Personality Assessment, 62, 242-261.

Amirkhan, J., Risinger, R., & Swickert, R. (1995a). Extraversion: A "hidden" personality factor in coping? Journal of Personality, 63, 189-212.

Amirkhan, J., Beftancourt, H., Graham, S., Lopez, S. R., and Weiner, B. (1995b). Reflections on affirmative action goals in psychology admissions. Psychological Science, 6, 140-148.

Amirkhan, J. (in review). Attributions as predictors of coping and stress-reactions.Health Psychology.

Roesch, S., & Amirkhan, J. (in review). Boundary conditions for self-serving attributions: Another look at the sports pages. Journal of Applied Social Psychology.

Bank, A., & Amirkhan, J. (in review). Sense of coherence: A moderator of depression among the unemployed. Social Science and Medicine.

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