Heather L. Littleton, Ph.D. - Publications

Affiliations: 
1999-2003 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States 
 2004-2006 University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 
 2006-2008 Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, United States 
 2008- East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, United States 
Area:
Clinical Psychology, Women's Studies

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2024 Littleton H, Edwards KM, Lim S, Wheeler LA, Chen D, Huff M, Sall KE, Siller L, Mauer VA. Examination of the Multilevel Sexual Stigma Model of Intimate Partner Violence Risk Among LGBQ+ College Students: A Prospective Analysis Across Eighteen Institutions of Higher Education. Journal of Sex Research. 1-16. PMID 38323862 DOI: 10.1080/00224499.2024.2311309  0.394
2023 Edwards KM, Lim S, Bermea AM, Wheeler LA, Littleton H. The Role of Minority Stress in Psychological Distress and Hazardous Drinking Among Sexual Minority College Student Victims of Intimate Partner Violence. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 8862605231202239. PMID 37791726 DOI: 10.1177/08862605231202239  0.373
2023 Huff M, Edwards KM, Littleton H. Past 6-Month Prevalence of IPV Victimization among Transgender and Gender-Diverse Undergraduate Students: A Brief Report. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 8862605231195803. PMID 37688489 DOI: 10.1177/08862605231195803  0.375
2023 Stockman D, Haney L, Uzieblo K, Littleton H, Keygnaert I, Lemmens G, Verhofstadt L. An ecological approach to understanding the impact of sexual violence: a systematic meta-review. Frontiers in Psychology. 14: 1032408. PMID 37292501 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1032408  0.364
2023 Edwards KM, Lim S, Huff M, Herrington R, Leader Charge L, Littleton H. Rates and Correlates of Intimate Partner Violence Among Indigenous College Students: A Multi-Campus Study. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 8862605221150945. PMID 36714950 DOI: 10.1177/08862605221150945  0.391
2022 Littleton H, Wright L, Dodd JC, Higgins M. Gynecological Health Complaints Among College Women With Sexual Victimization Histories: Examination of Depression and Anxiety as Potential Mediators. Women's Health Issues : Official Publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health. PMID 35787340 DOI: 10.1016/j.whi.2022.06.001  0.815
2022 Sall K, Littleton H. Institutional Betrayal: A Mixed Methods Study of College Women's Experiences With On-Campus Help-Seeking Following Rape. Journal of Trauma & Dissociation : the Official Journal of the International Society For the Study of Dissociation (Issd). 1-18. PMID 35593140 DOI: 10.1080/15299732.2022.2079795  0.362
2022 Littleton H, Edwards KM, Sall KE, Lim S, Mauer V. COVID-Specific Coercive Control among Emerging Adults Attending College: A Brief Note. Journal of Family Violence. 1-7. PMID 35572417 DOI: 10.1007/s10896-022-00403-8  0.321
2021 Edwards KM, Scheer JR, Littleton H, Mullet N. Preventing adverse childhood experiences among sexual and gender minority youth: A call to action. Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health. 25: 355-357. PMID 35173826 DOI: 10.1080/19359705.2021.1932662  0.372
2020 Rudolph K, Littleton H, Schoemann A. Patterns of Sexual Risk Behaviors among College Women: A Latent Profile Analysis. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy. 46: 403-418. PMID 32290792 DOI: 10.1080/0092623X.2020.1748777  0.471
2020 Littleton H, Downs E, Rudolph K. The Sexual Victimization Experiences of Men Attending College: A Mixed Methods Investigation Sex Roles. 1-14. DOI: 10.1007/S11199-020-01133-1  0.55
2019 Littleton H, Grills A. Changes in Coping and Negative Cognitions as Mechanisms of Change in Online Treatment for Rape-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Journal of Traumatic Stress. 32: 927-935. PMID 31742796 DOI: 10.1002/Jts.22447  0.405
2019 Layh M, Rudolph K, Littleton H. Sexual Risk Behavior and Sexual Satisfaction among Rape Victims: Examination of Sexual Motives as a Mediator. Journal of Trauma & Dissociation : the Official Journal of the International Society For the Study of Dissociation (Issd). 21: 73-86. PMID 31610751 DOI: 10.1080/15299732.2019.1675112  0.527
2019 Ford J, Littleton H, Lutes L, Wuensch K, Benton C, Cahill J, Hudson C, Nekkanti R, Gehi A, Sears S. Evaluation of an internet-based intervention for ICD patients with elevated symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder. Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology : Pace. PMID 30847952 DOI: 10.1111/Pace.13654  0.311
2019 Mancini AD, Littleton HL, Grills AE, Jones PJ. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Near and Far: Symptom Networks From 2 to 12 Months After the Virginia Tech Campus Shootings Clinical Psychological Science. 7: 1340-1354. DOI: 10.1177/2167702619859333  0.341
2019 Littleton H, Layh M, Rudolph K, Haney L. Evaluation of the Sexual Experiences Survey—Revised as a screening measure for sexual assault victimization among college students. Psychology of Violence. 9: 555-563. DOI: 10.1037/Vio0000191  0.461
2018 Littleton H, Layh M, Rudolph K. Unacknowledged Rape in the Community: Rape Characteristics and Adjustment. Violence and Victims. 33: 142-156. PMID 29436363 DOI: 10.1891/0886-6708.VV-D-16-00104  0.336
2018 Littleton H, Layh M, Rudolph K. Unacknowledged Rape in the Community: Rape Characteristics and Adjustment Violence and Victims. 33: 142-156. DOI: 10.1891/0886-6708.33.1.142  0.336
2018 Decker M, Littleton HL, Edwards KM. An Updated Review of the Literature on LGBTQ+ Intimate Partner Violence Current Sexual Health Reports. 10: 265-272. DOI: 10.1007/S11930-018-0173-2  0.465
2017 Dodd J, Littleton H. Sexual Assault and Sexual Risk Behaviors Among Lower-Income Rural Women: The Mediating Role of Self-Worth. Violence and Victims. 32: 110-125. PMID 28234201 DOI: 10.1891/0886-6708.Vv-D-15-00119  0.817
2017 Littleton H, Grills A, Layh M, Rudolph K. Unacknowledged Rape and Re-Victimization Risk Psychology of Women Quarterly. 41: 437-450. DOI: 10.1177/0361684317720187  0.556
2017 Decker M, Littleton HL. Sexual Revictimization Among College Women: A Review Through an Ecological Lens Victims & Offenders. 13: 558-588. DOI: 10.1080/15564886.2017.1390514  0.519
2017 Littleton H, Decker M. Predictors of resistance self-efficacy among rape victims and association with revictimization risk: A longitudinal study. Psychology of Violence. 7: 583-592. DOI: 10.1037/Vio0000066  0.322
2017 Lacks MH, Lamson AL, Rappleyea DL, Russoniello CV, Littleton HL. A Systematic Review of the Biopsychosocial–Spiritual Health of Active Duty Women Military Psychology. 29: 570-580. DOI: 10.1037/Mil0000176  0.31
2016 Littleton H, Grills AE, Kline KD, Schoemann AM, Dodd JC. The From Survivor to Thriver program: RCT of an online therapist-facilitated program for rape-related PTSD. Journal of Anxiety Disorders. 43: 41-51. PMID 27513363 DOI: 10.1016/J.Janxdis.2016.07.010  0.697
2016 Edwards KM, Littleton HL, Sylaska KM, Crossman AL, Craig M. College Campus Community Readiness to Address Intimate Partner Violence Among LGBTQ+ Young Adults: A Conceptual and Empirical Examination. American Journal of Community Psychology. PMID 27439891 DOI: 10.1002/Ajcp.12068  0.374
2016 Buck K, Littleton H. Impact of educational messages on patient acceptance of male medical students in OB-GYN encounters. Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynaecology. 1-7. PMID 27094338 DOI: 10.3109/0167482X.2016.1167181  0.71
2016 Littleton HL, Dodd JC. Violent Attacks and Damaged Victims: An Exploration of the Rape Scripts of European American and African American U.S. College Women. Violence Against Women. PMID 26920943 DOI: 10.1177/1077801216631438  0.792
2016 Mancini AD, Littleton HL, Grills AE. Can people benefit from acute stress? Social support, psychological improvement, and resilience after the Virginia tech campus shootings Clinical Psychological Science. 4: 401-417. DOI: 10.1177/2167702615601001  0.358
2015 Littleton H. Sexual Victimization and Somatic Complaints in Pregnancy: Examination of Depression as a Mediator. Women's Health Issues : Official Publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health. 25: 696-702. PMID 26253824 DOI: 10.1016/J.Whi.2015.06.013  0.521
2015 Littleton HL, Decker M, Dodd, J. Book Review: The politics of women’s bodies: Sexuality, appearance, and behavior Psychology of Women Quarterly. 39: 132-133. DOI: 10.1177/0361684314555514  0.405
2014 Littleton HL, Grills AE, Drum KB. Predicting risky sexual behavior in emerging adulthood: examination of a moderated mediation model among child sexual abuse and adult sexual assault victims. Violence and Victims. 29: 981-98. PMID 25905140 DOI: 10.1891/0886-6708.Vv-D-13-00067  0.521
2014 Littleton H. Interpersonal violence on college campuses: understanding risk factors and working to find solutions. Trauma, Violence & Abuse. 15: 297-303. PMID 24481751 DOI: 10.1177/1524838014521030  0.488
2014 Buck KS, Littleton HL. Stereotyped beliefs about male and female OB-GYNS: relationship to provider choice and patient satisfaction. Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynaecology. 35: 1-7. PMID 24320840 DOI: 10.3109/0167482X.2013.866646  0.734
2013 Amacker AM, Littleton HL. Perceptions of similarity and responsibility attributions to an acquaintance sexual assault victim. Violence Against Women. 19: 1384-407. PMID 24334861 DOI: 10.1177/1077801213514860  0.509
2013 Littleton HL, Grills-Taquechel AE, Buck KS, Rosman L, Dodd JC. Health Risk Behavior and Sexual Assault Among Ethnically Diverse Women. Psychology of Women Quarterly. 37: 7-21. PMID 24223467 DOI: 10.1177/0361684312451842  0.789
2013 Littleton H, Ullman SE. PTSD symptomatology and hazardous drinking as risk factors for sexual assault revictimization: examination in European American and African American women. Journal of Traumatic Stress. 26: 345-53. PMID 23696299 DOI: 10.1002/Jts.21807  0.485
2012 Littleton H, Buck K, Rosman L, Grills-Taquechel A. From Survivor to Thriver: A Pilot Study of an Online Program for Rape Victims. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice. 19: 315-327. PMID 24009410 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cbpra.2011.04.002  0.787
2012 Littleton HL, Grills-Taquechel AE, Axsom D, Bye K, Buck KS. Prior Sexual Trauma and Adjustment Following the Virginia Tech Campus Shootings: Examination of the Mediating Role of Schemas. Psychological Trauma : Theory, Research, Practice and Policy. 4: 579-586. PMID 23795237 DOI: 10.1037/A0025270  0.82
2012 Tomasula JL, Anderson LM, Littleton HL, Riley-Tillman TC. The association between sexual assault and suicidal activity in a national sample. School Psychology Quarterly : the Official Journal of the Division of School Psychology, American Psychological Association. 27: 109-19. PMID 22774785 DOI: 10.1037/A0029162  0.488
2011 Littleton HL, Grills-Taquechel A. Evaluation of an information processing model following sexual assault. Psychological Trauma : Theory, Research, Practice and Policy. 3: 421-429. PMID 22288003 DOI: 10.1037/A0021381  0.44
2011 Littleton H, Kumpula M, Orcutt H. Posttraumatic symptoms following a campus shooting: The role of psychosocial resource loss Violence and Victims. 26: 461-476. PMID 21882669 DOI: 10.1891/0886-6708.26.4.461  0.409
2011 Grills-Taquechel AE, Littleton HL, Axsom D. Social support, world assumptions, and exposure as predictors of anxiety and quality of life following a mass trauma. Journal of Anxiety Disorders. 25: 498-506. PMID 21236630 DOI: 10.1016/J.Janxdis.2010.12.003  0.766
2011 Littleton H, Axsom D, Grills-Taquechel AE. Longitudinal evaluation of the relationship between maladaptive trauma coping and distress: examination following the mass shooting at Virginia Tech. Anxiety, Stress, and Coping. 24: 273-90. PMID 20658373 DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2010.500722  0.775
2011 Littleton H. Talking About Sexual Assault: Society’s Response to Survivors Psychology of Women Quarterly. 35: 167-167. DOI: 10.1177/0361684310388740  0.447
2011 Littleton H. Rape Myths and Beyond: A Commentary on Edwards and Colleagues (2011) Sex Roles. 65: 792-797. DOI: 10.1007/S11199-011-9982-8  0.502
2010 Littleton HL. The impact of social support and negative disclosure reactions on sexual assault victims: a cross-sectional and longitudinal investigation. Journal of Trauma & Dissociation : the Official Journal of the International Society For the Study of Dissociation (Issd). 11: 210-27. PMID 20373207 DOI: 10.1080/15299730903502946  0.461
2009 Littleton H, Grills-Taquechel A, Axsom D. Resource loss as a predictor of posttrauma symptoms among college women following the mass shooting at Virginia Tech. Violence and Victims. 24: 669-86. PMID 19852406 DOI: 10.1891/0886-6708.24.5.669  0.754
2009 Littleton H, Grills-Taquechel A, Axsom D. Impaired and incapacitated rape victims: assault characteristics and post-assault experiences. Violence and Victims. 24: 439-57. PMID 19694350 DOI: 10.1891/0886-6708.24.4.439  0.764
2009 Littleton H, Henderson CE. If she is not a victim, does that mean she was not traumatized? Evaluation of predictors of PTSD symptomatology among college rape victims. Violence Against Women. 15: 148-67. PMID 19126833 DOI: 10.1177/1077801208329386  0.414
2009 Littleton H, Axsom D, Grills-Taquechel A. Sexual Assault Victims' Acknowledgment Status and Revictimization Risk Psychology of Women Quarterly. 33: 34-42. DOI: 10.1111/J.1471-6402.2008.01472.X  0.797
2009 Littleton HL, Axsom D, Grills-Taquechel AE. Adjustment following the mass shooting at Virginia Tech: The roles of resource loss and gain. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. 1: 206-219. DOI: 10.1037/A0017468  0.755
2009 Littleton H, Tabernik H, Canales EJ, Backstrom T. Risky Situation or Harmless Fun? A Qualitative Examination of College Women’s Bad Hook-up and Rape Scripts Sex Roles. 60: 793-804. DOI: 10.1007/S11199-009-9586-8  0.542
2008 Littleton H, Breitkopf CR. The Body Image Concern Inventory: validation in a multiethnic sample and initial development of a Spanish language version. Body Image. 5: 381-8. PMID 18753021 DOI: 10.1016/J.Bodyim.2008.06.004  0.339
2008 Littleton H, Radecki Breitkopf C, Berenson A. Beyond the campus: unacknowledged rape among low-income women. Violence Against Women. 14: 269-86. PMID 18292370 DOI: 10.1177/1077801207313733  0.47
2008 Littleton H, Radecki Breitkopf C, Berenson A. Body image and risky sexual behaviors: an investigation in a tri-ethnic sample. Body Image. 2: 193-8. PMID 18089187 DOI: 10.1016/J.Bodyim.2005.02.003  0.445
2007 Littleton H, Horsley S, John S, Nelson DV. Trauma coping strategies and psychological distress: A meta-analysis. Journal of Traumatic Stress. 20: 977-88. PMID 18157893 DOI: 10.1002/Jts.20276  0.389
2007 Littleton H. An evaluation of the coping patterns of rape victims: integration with a schema-based information-processing model. Violence Against Women. 13: 789-801. PMID 17699111 DOI: 10.1177/1077801207304825  0.423
2007 Littleton H, Breitkopf CR, Berenson A. Sexual and physical abuse history and adult sexual risk behaviors: relationships among women and potential mediators. Child Abuse & Neglect. 31: 757-68. PMID 17631958 DOI: 10.1016/J.Chiabu.2006.12.015  0.522
2007 Littleton HL, Berenson AB, Breitkopf CR. An evaluation of health care providers' sexual violence screening practices. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 196: 564.e1-5; discussion. PMID 17547896 DOI: 10.1016/J.Ajog.2007.01.035  0.413
2007 Littleton HL, Rhatigan DL, Axsom D. Unacknowledged Rape Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma. 14: 57-74. DOI: 10.1300/J146V14N04_04  0.766
2007 Littleton HL, Magee KT, Axsom D. A Meta-Analysis of Self-Attributions Following Three Types of Trauma: Sexual Victimization, Illness, and Injury Journal of Applied Social Psychology. 37: 515-538. DOI: 10.1111/J.1559-1816.2007.00172.X  0.766
2007 Littleton H, Breitkopf CR, Berenson AB. Rape Scripts of Low-income European American and Latina Women Sex Roles. 56: 509-516. DOI: 10.1007/S11199-007-9189-1  0.419
2006 Littleton HL, Axsom D, Breitkopf CR, Berenson A. Rape acknowledgment and postassault experiences: how acknowledgment status relates to disclosure, coping, worldview, and reactions received from others. Violence and Victims. 21: 761-78. PMID 17220018 DOI: 10.1891/0886-6708.21.6.761  0.8
2006 Littleton H, Breitkopf CR. Coping with the Experience of Rape Psychology of Women Quarterly. 30: 106-116. DOI: 10.1111/J.1471-6402.2006.00267.X  0.463
2006 Littleton HL, Axsom D, Yoder M. Priming of Consensual and Nonconsensual Sexual Scripts: An Experimental Test of the Role of Scripts in Rape Attributions Sex Roles. 54: 557-563. DOI: 10.1007/S11199-006-9017-Z  0.791
2005 Littleton HL, Axsom D, Pury CL. Development of the body image concern inventory. Behaviour Research and Therapy. 43: 229-41. PMID 15629752 DOI: 10.1016/J.Brat.2003.12.006  0.724
2003 Littleton HL, Ollendick T. Negative body image and disordered eating behavior in children and adolescents: what places youth at risk and how can these problems be prevented? Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review. 6: 51-66. PMID 12659451 DOI: 10.1023/A:1022266017046  0.318
2003 Littleton HL, Axsom D. Sex Roles. 49: 465-475. DOI: 10.1023/A:1025824505185  0.784
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