Dr. Craig K. Ewart

Professor of Psychology

Education

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Stanford University, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Training: Stanford University Medical Center

Research Interest

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My research examines the health impact of agonistic striving in adolescents and in young adults. Agonistic striving involves a struggle to control other people; such behavior, if chronic, increases interpersonal conflict, psychological distress, and risk for cardiovascular and immune diseases. Project Heart (funded by the National Institutes of Health) currently investigates this pattern in laboratory and field (high school, work site) settings in Syracuse and Baltimore.

Representative Publications

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Ewart, C.K., Jorgensen, R.S., Schroder, E., Suchday, S., & Sherwood, A. (2005). Vigilance to a persisting personal threat: Unmasking cardiovascular consequences in adolescents with the Social Competence Interview. Psychophysiology, 41, 799-804.

Suchday, S., Carter, M., Ewart, C.K., & Larkin, K.T. (2005). Anger cognitions and cardiovascular recovery following provocation. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 27, 319-341.

Sauro, M.D., Jorgensen, R.S., Ewart, C.K., Schum, J.L., & Gelling, P. (2005). Sociotropic cognition moderates stress-induced cardiovascular responsiveness in women through effects on total peripheral resistance, but not cardiac output. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 56, 55-64.

Ewart, C.K., & Jorgensen, R.S. (2004). Agonistic interpersonal striving: Social-cognitive mechanism of cardiovascular risk in youth? Health Psychology. 23, 75-85.

Ewart, C.K. (2004). Social environments, interpersonal conflict, and elevated blood pressure in urban youth. In R.Portman, J. Sorof, & J. Ingelfinger (Eds.), Pediatric hypertension (pp. 335-349). Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

Ewart, C.K. (2004). How integrative behavioral theory can improve health promotion and disease prevention. In R. Frank, J. Wallander, & A. Baum (Eds.). Handbook of clinical health psychology, Vol. 3: Models and perspectives in health psychology (pp. 249-289). Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.

Fitzgerald, S.F., Haythornthwaite, J.A., Suchday, S., & Ewart, C.K. (2003). Anger in young Black and White workers: Effects of job control, dissatisfaction, and support. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 26, 283-296

Ewart, C.K,. & Suchday, S. (2002). Discovering how urban poverty and violence affect health: Development and validation of a neighborhood stress index. Health Psychology, 21, 254-262.

Ewart, C.K., Jorgensen, R.S., Suchday, S., Chen, E., & Matthews, K. A. (2002). Measuring stress resilience and coping in vulnerable youth: The Social Competence Interview. Psychological Assessment, 14, 339-352.

Chen, E., Matthews, K.A., Salomon, K., & Ewart, C.K. (2002). Cardiovascular reactivity during social and non-social stressors: Do children's personal goals and expressive skills matter? Health Psychology, 21, 16-24