Thomas A. Fergus

Baylor University — United States

Psychology · Social Sciences

40h-index6.8kcitations145works0.52yr avg
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Research Topics

Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes(89), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development(47), Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments(33), Mental Health Research Topics(27), Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders(23)

Publications145 total

Expressive suppression strengthens coherence between arousal intensity and arousal interpretation
British Journal of Psychology·2026Open Access
Negative religious coping is associated with blunted cardiovascular reactivity and higher self-reported stress in response to acute psychological stress.
Psychology of Religion and Spirituality·2026
Negative religious coping is associated with blunted cardiovascular reactivity and higher self-reported stress in response to acute psychological stress
University of Limerick Institutional Repository (University of Limerick)·2026Open Access
The structure of religion and spirituality in a diverse sample of adults in the United States: A report on exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses in the study on stress, spirituality, and health.
Psychology of Religion and Spirituality·2025Open Access
The Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale, Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, and psychiatric symptoms: Relations among Asian, Hispanic, and non-Hispanic White emerging adults
2025Open Access
Examining When Imaginative Involvement Relates to Worry and Generalized Anxiety: Moderating Effect of Negative Affect
Creativity Research Journal·2025
The Anticipated Regret Scale (ARS): Initial Validation of a Self-Report Measure of Proneness Toward Anticipated Regret
Journal of Personality Assessment·2025
Stressor-evoked heart rate, perceived physiological arousal, and anxiety symptoms in young adults
Journal of Affective Disorders·2025· 3 cited
Ease of Imagery Questionnaire
PsycTESTS Dataset·2025
Pareidolia
2025
Further Examining Positive Affect in Relation to Worry: A Synergistic Effect Between Positive Affect Expressivity and Proneness to Positive Affect
Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy·2024
Development and Validation of the Ease of Imagery Questionnaire
Assessment·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Emotion suppression and acute physiological responses to stress in healthy populations: a quantitative review of experimental and correlational investigations
Health Psychology Review·2023· 32 citedOpen Access
Examining Associations Between Metacognitive Beliefs and Type II Worry: The Specificity of Negative Metacognitive Beliefs to State Type II Worry During a Worry Episode
Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy·2023· 1 cited
Factor Structure and Incremental Utility of the Multidimensional Cognitive Attentional Syndrome Scale (MCASS): A Bifactor Analysis
Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment·2022· 2 cited
Metacognitive beliefs about uncontrollability relate most strongly to health anxiety among US‐based non‐Latinx White primary care patients: Comparing strength of relations with US‐based non‐Latinx Black and Latinx primary care patients
Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy·2022· 3 cited
Exposure in the Context of Health Anxiety: Considerations for Assessment, Case Conceptualization, and Intervention
2022
Associations between self-absorption and working memory capacity: A preliminary examination of a transdiagnostic process spanning across emotional disorders
Journal of Anxiety Disorders·2021· 1 citedOpen Access
I am Worried: Do the PSWQ and PSWQ-A Display Measurement Invariance Across Four Racial Groups?
Assessment·2021· 2 cited
Individual differences in emotion regulation prospectively predict early COVID-19 related acute stress
Journal of Anxiety Disorders·2021· 46 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Joseph R. Bardeen(17), David P. Valentiner(10), Holly K. Orcutt(7), Patrick B. McGrath(5), Kevin D. Wu(5), Simon Jencius(3), Marcantonio M. Spada(3), Steven Taylor(2), Caeleigh A. Landry(2), Michelle M. Paluszek(2), Dean McKay(2), Gordon J. G. Asmundson(2), Wade C. Rowatt(2), Joseph Leman(2), Laurie H. Russell(2), Stephanie L. Gier-Lonsway(2), Megan C. Haggard(1), Benjamin R. Meagher(1), Courtney Moore(1), Dennis Whitcomb(1)