CLINICAL HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE
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John Ruiz, PhD
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Utah
Office: 369 Terrill Hall
Phone: (940) 369-8228
john.ruiz@unt.edu
Dr. Ruiz plans to admit a student next year.
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Summary of Research and Teaching Interests:
My program of research focuses on understanding the health effects of the person in the social environment. I am particularly interested in the relationship between social behaviors and coronary heart disease (CHD) risk and the mechanisms by which these behaviors may contribute to the development and progression of CHD. As evident in the selected publications below I’ve traditionally studied how personality influences CHD risk through interpersonal interactions. My current work in Texas is focused on dispositional positivity as a resilience or protective health factor.
A major focus in my current work is the application of interpersonal concepts to understanding race-related health disparities. Discrimination, stigma, and behaviors such as social vigilance may have important health consequences for the individual as well as shape the experience and potentiate the health risk of others. Within this work I am focusing on issues of Hispanic health, particularly the epidemiological referred to as the Hispanic Mortality Paradox. |
Representative Publications:
- Ruiz, J. M., Hutchinson, J. G., & Terrill, A. (In Press). For better and worse: Social influences on coronary heart disease. Social and Personality Psychology Compass
- Hamann, H. A., Smith, T. W., Smith, K. R., Ruiz, J. M., Kircher, J. C., & Botkin, J. R. (2008). Interpersonal responses among sibling dyads tested for BRCA1BRCA2 gene mutations. Health Psychology, 27, 100-109.
- Smith, J. L., & Ruiz, J. M. (2007). Interpersonal orientation in context: Interpersonal Circumplex and Five-Factor Model Correlates and Effects of Social Match and Mismatch on Intrinsic Motivation and Cardiovascular Responses. Journal of Personality, 75, 679-708.
- Ruiz, J. M., Hamann, H. A., Coyne, J, & Compare, A. (2006). In sickness and in health: Interpersonal risk and resilience in cardiovascular disease. In E. Molinari, A. Compare, and G. Parati (Eds.), Clinical psychology and heart disease. (pp. 233-272). Springer: New York.
- Ruiz, J. M., Matthews, K. A., Scheier, M. F., & Schulz, R. (2006). Does whom you marry matter for your health? Influence of Patient’s and Spouse’s Personality on their Partner’s Psychological Well-being Following Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 91, 255-267.
- Smith, T. W., & Ruiz, J. M. (2002). Psychosocial influences on the development and course of coronary heart disease: Current status and implications for research and practice. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 70, 548-568.
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Clinical
Health Program and Behavioral Medicine
Core Faculty
UNT: Denton Faculty
Frank L. Collins,
Ph.D.
Joseph Doster, Ph.D.
Charles Guarnaccia, Ph.D.
Kimberly Kelly,
Ph.D.
Daniel Taylor,
Ph.D.
John Ruiz, Ph.D.
Mark Vosvick, Ph.D.
UNTHSC: Ft. Worth Faculty
des Anges Cruser, PhD.
Ed Miles, Ph.D.
Clinical
Health Program Resources
Education Training Outcomes and
Information for Clinical Health Students
2009 - 2010 Student Handbook
2009-2010 Health Sciences Center Preceptorship Information
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