Faculty
Research
Interests
My
research focuses on women’s mental and physical health,
with an emphasis on cyclical effects on behavior. Primary clinical
areas include panic disorder, fibromyalgia, and cancer. I have
ongoing projects in the following areas: menstrual reactivity
and cortisol responses in panic disorder, causal attributional
patterns in women with panic disorder, role of rumination and
sexist events in predicting menstrual distress, relationship
of trauma to women’s health, and cognitive factors and
behavioral styles in the prediction of eating disorders and
anxiety disorders.
Teaching Interests
At the undergraduate level, I enjoy teaching Abnormal Psychology,
Health Psychology, and Stress and Health for the senior capstone
course. At the graduate level, I teach Advanced Psychopathology,
Health Psychology of Women, Supervision and Consultations, Diversity
courses on chronic pain and the homeless, and supervise doctoral
students in our Psychological Services Center.
Representative Publications
Sigmon,
S. T., & Schartel, J. G. (in press). Anxiety, anxiety disorders
and the menstrual cycle. In M. J. Zvolensky & J. A. J. Smits
(Eds.), Health Behaviors and Physical Illness in Anxiety and
its Disorders: Contemporary Theory and Research. New York: Springer.
Sigmon, S. T., Pells, J. J., Edenfield, T. M., Hermann, B. A.,
Schartel, J. G., LaMattina, S. M., & Boulard, N. E. (in
press). Are we there yet? A review of gender comparisons in
three behavioral journals through the 20th century. Behavior
Therapy.
Sigmon, S. T., Pells, J. J., Schartel, J. G., Edenfield, T.
M., Hermann, B. A., LaMattina, S. M., Boulard, N. E., &
Whitcomb-Smith, S. (in press). Stress reactivity in seasonal
and nonseasonal depression. Behaviour Research and Therapy.
Sigmon, S. T., Whitcomb-Smith, S., Boulard, N. E., Pells, J.
J., Hermann, B. A., Edenfield, T. M., LaMattina, S. M., &
Schartel, J. G. (in press). Seasonal reactivity: Attentional
bias and psychophysiological arousal in seasonal and nonseasonal
depression. Cognitive Therapy and Research.
Sigmon, S. T., Pells, J. J., Boulard, N. E., Whitcomb-Smith,
S., Edenfield, T. M., Hermann, B. A., LaMattina, S. M., Schartel,
J. G., & Kubik, E. (2005). Gender differences in self-reports
of depression: The response bias hypothesis revisited. Sex Roles,
53, 401-411.
