Abigail L. Jenkins, B.A.

E-mail: abby.jenkins@temple.edu

Bio: Abby is currently in her second year of graduate studies and is working with Dr. Lauren Alloy. She majored in vocal performance at Berklee College of Music in Boston and received her B.A. in psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Abby’s current research interests involve identifying intrapersonal risk factors for suicidal and self-injurious ideation and behaviors among adolescents. Additionally, she is interested in the roles of gender and the behavioral activation and inhibition systems in the etiology and course of bipolar spectrum disorders.

 

Representative presentations and/or publications:

Jenkins, A.L. & Conner, B.T. (March, 2010). The Role of Personality Among Self-Injuring Adolescents. Paper submitted for presentation at the 2010 biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, Philadelphia, PA.

Jenkins, A.L., Boland, E.R., Alloy, L.B., & Abramson, L.Y. (November, 2009). The Relationship Between Time-Varying Risk Factors and Suicidality in Bipolar-Spectrum Disorders. Poster accepted for presentation at the 2009 annual meeting of the Association for Cognitive and Behavior Therapies, New York, NY.

Jenkins, A.L., Bartges, M.A., Gillham, J.E., & Ford, S. (March, 2008). The NIMH Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children (DISC-IV) as a measure of adolescent suicidality. Poster presented at the 2008 biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, Chicago, IL.

Ford, S., Gillham, J.E., & Jenkins, A.L. Demographic factors as predictors of well-being in an adolescent cohort. Manuscript in preparation.

Ford, S., Jenkins, A.L., Farah, M., Gillham, J.E., & Hurt, H. Language processing in childhood as a correlate of adolescent externalizing behavior. Manuscript in preparation.