Jennifer Dobbs, MA

Email: jdobbs@temple.edu

Bio: Jennifer is currently in her sixth year of graduate studies. She received her M.A. in Clinical Psychology from Temple University in 2006 and her B.A. in Psychology from The University of California, Santa Barbara in 2002. Jennifer’s current research involves investigating the relationship between emotion regulation and self-damaging behaviors, such as self-harm, substance use, and disordered eating behavior. Jennifer is currently working with Dr. Fauber. Jennifer is on her pre-doctoral internship at the Portland VA Medical Center.

Representative publications and/or presentations:

Dobbs, J. L., & Fauber, R. Self-damaging behaviors in borderline personality disorder: A review of the functions of self-harm, substance use, and disordered eating behaviors. Manuscript in preparation. 

Dobbs, J. L., Sloan, D. M., & Karpinski, A. (2007). A psychometric investigation of two measures of emotional expressivity. Journal of Personality and Individual Differences, 43, 693-702.

Dobbs, J. L., Epstein, E. M., Sloan, D. M. (November, 2005). Emotion regulation ability affects written disclosure outcome. Paper presented as part of a symposium (Emotion Regulation in Affective Disorders) at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Washington, DC.