Teresa DeCicco
Associate Professor

Research interests:

My research interests are in the areas of personality, abnormal psychology and health.  My research falls into the

following categories:  1)  Personality, self-construal (identity) and adaptive coping.  2)  The relationship between

trait measures of anxiety and adaptive coping.  3)  Perfectionism and motivation in relation to depression, anxiety

and performance.  4)  Identity (self-construal) and health (physical and emotional).  5)  Dreams and health.

Teaching

PSYC-3780H FA OSH:        Dreams and Dreaming

PSYC-4170H FA OSH:        History of Psychology

PSYC-3300H WI OSH:       Advanced Abnormal

PSYC-4780H WI OSH:       Personality, Health, and Dreams

Selected publications

Kohn, P.M., O’Brien-Wood, C., Pickering, D.I., & DeCicco, T.L. (2003)  The personal functioning inventory:  A

reliable and valid measure of adaptiveness in Coping.  Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 35:2, 111-123.

DeCicco, T.L. (2007).  Finding your "Self" in psychology, religion and spirituality.  Psychology. In  Press.

DeCicco, T.L. (2007). Dreams of female university students: Content analysis and relationship to discovery via the Ullman method.  Dreaming. Vol 17. No. 2. 98-112.

King, D.B. & DeCicco, T.L. (2007).  The relationship among dream content, physical health, mood and self-construal.  Dreaming. In press.

Arnocky, S. Stroink, M.L. & DeCicco, T.L. (2007). Self-construal predicts environmental concerns, cooperation and conservation.  Journal of Environmental Psychology.  In press.

CD-Published

DeCicco, T. L. (2001). Metta-Morphosis: Stress Reduction with Dr. Teresa DeCicco, Applied Behavioural Medicine.  Instructional Health Psychology CD.  Toronto, Ontario: Neoplanta Sound Productions.