Publications

To request a copy of any publication, please email shawn@odu.edu.

Peer Reviewed Publications

  • Hawn, S.E., Smith, L., Armitage, K.†, Ball, S.†, Lau-Barraco, C., Powers Lott, A., Amstadter, A.B. (2025). Evaluation of a 20-Item Version of the Trauma-Related Drinking to Cope Questionnaire. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 81(10), 940-954. PMCID: PMC12419238. DOI: 10.1002/jclp.70008.
  • Heron, K.E., Shipley, J., Panza, E., Sandoval, C., Turner, M., Hawn, S.E., Braitman, A. (2025). Are affective states associated with disordered eating behaviors in the daily lives of sexual minority and heterosexual young women?: An ecological momentary assessment study. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 59(1). PMID: 40815086. DOI: 10.1093/abm/kaaf057.
  • Hawn, S.E., Hicks, T.A., Latourrette, C., Thomas, A.†, Chaname, D.†, Ehlke, S. Powers Lott, A. (2025). Psychometric Evaluation of a Novel Measure of Trauma-Related Cannabis Use to Cope. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 16(1), 2500141. PMCID: PMC12077481. DOI: 10.1080/20008066.2025.2500141.
  • Mandavia, A.D.,  Banducci, A.N., Simpson, T. L., Marx, B.P., Hawn, S.E., Hyde, J., Ameral, V.E., Sistad Hall, R. E., Roth, C.E., Sarpong, A.A., Davenport, M., Meng, F., Stein, M.D., and Livingston, N. A. (2025). Sex differences in suicide, lethal means, and years of potential life lost among veterans with substance use disorder. Women’s Health Issues, 35(3). PMID: 40113455. DOI: 10.1016/j.whi.2025.02.002.
  • Bountress, K., Hawn, S.E., Wright, A., Kliebhan, T., Eltantaway, M., Spit for Science Working Group, Chartier, K., & Amstadter, A. (in press). Associations among Various Mental Health Symptoms, Trauma-Related Drinking, and Alcohol Use Disorder Symptoms: Unique, Longitudinal Effects. Journal of Addictions Nursing.
  • Hawn, S.E., Kliebhan, T., Richardson, N.†, Deoliveira, M.†, Heron, K.E., Mitchell, K. (2025). Psychometric Evaluation of a Novel Measure of Trauma-Related Eating to Cope. Journal of Mood & Anxiety Disorders, 9, 100102. PMCID: PMC12244051. DOI: 10.1016/j.xjmad.2024.100102.
  • Cusack, S.E., Hawn, S.E., Goffnett, J., Sheerin, C.M., Rappaport, L.M., & Amstadter, A.B. (2024). Temporal relations between alcohol use and PTSD during the COVID-19 pandemic: An ecological momentary assessment investigation. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, & Policy, 17(5). PMCID: PMC11649857. DOI: 10.1037/tra0001704.
  • Miller, M.W., Zhao, X., Wolf, E.J., Logue, M.W., Hawn, S.E. (2024). An EWAS of dementia biomarkers and their associations with age, African ancestry, and PTSD. Clinical Epigenetics, 16(1), 38. PMCID: PMC10908031. DOI: 10.1186/s13148-024-01649-3.
  • Mathes Winnicki, B.M., Lee, J., Hawn, S.E., Livingston, N.A., Marx, B.P., Keane, T.M. (2024). Alcohol consumption and dependence risk among male and female Veterans: Trajectories and predictors. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 257, 111138. PMID: 38430789. DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2024.111138.
  • Crowe, M.L., Hawn, S.E., Wolf, E.J., Keane, T.M., Marx, B.P. (2024). Trauma exposure and transdiagnostic distress: Examining shared and PTSD-specific associations. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 37(3). PMID: 38229407. DOI: 10.1002/jts.23009.
  • Wolf, E.J., Miller, M.W., Hawn, S.E., Zhao, X., Wallander, S.E., McCormick, B., Govan, C., Rasmusson, A., Conlin, P. Stone, A., Schichman, S., Logue, M.W. (2024). Longitudinal Study of Traumatic-Stress Related Cellular and Cognitive Aging. Brain, Behavior, & Immunity, 115, 494-504. PMCID: PMC10843744. DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2023.11.009.
  • Hawn, S.E., Zhao, X., Miller, M.W., Wallander, S., Govan, C., Stone, A., Schichman, S., Logue, M.W., Wolf, E.J. (2023). PTSD and Alcohol Use Disorders Predict the Pace of Cellular Aging. Journal of Mood & Anxiety Disorders, 3, 100026. PMCID: PMC10602583. DOI: 10.1016/j.xjmad.2023.100026.
  • Bountress, K.E., Cusack, S.E., Hawn, S.E., Grotzinger, A., Bustamante, D., Kirkpatrick, R.M., Edenberg, H.J., Amstadter., A.B. (2023). Genetic Associations between Alcohol Phenotypes and Life Satisfaction: A Genomic Structural Equation Modelling Approach. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 13443. PMCID: PMC10439217.DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-40199-1.
  • Wolf, E. J., Higgins, D.M., Zhao, X., Hawn, S.E., Sanborn, V., Todd, C. A., Fein-Schaffer, D., Houranieh, A., & Miller, M. W. (2023). MMPI-2-RF profiles of treatment-seeking veterans in a VA pain clinic and associations with markers of physical performance. Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings, 31(1), 58-76. PMCID: PMC10771538. DOI: 10.1007/s10880-023-09967-z.
  • Jackson, B., Bountress, K., Hahn, A., Hawn, S.E., Aggen, S.H., Bacanu, S.H., Amstadter, A., Danielson, C., and Sheerin, C. (2023). Latent profiles of drinking motives among trauma-exposed combat veterans and civilians: A comparative investigation. Traumatology, 30(3), 296-305. PMCID: PMC11584065. DOI: 10.1037/trm0000452.
  • DeLaney, E.N., Williams, C.D., Jones, S.C., Hood, K.B., Cage, J., Coston, B.E., Hawn, S.E., Santana, A., Dick, D.M. (2023). Sexual Victimization and Mental Health Among LGBQ+ College Students: Examining Social Support and Trauma-Related Drinking as Mediators. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 1-6. DOI: 10.1007/s11469-022-00997-6.
  • Wolf, E.J., Hawn, S.E., Sullivan, D.R., Miller, M.W., Sanborn, V., Brown, E., Neale, Z., Fein-Schaffer, D., Zhao, X., Logue, M., McGlinchey, R., Milberg, W. (2022). Neurobiological and genetic correlates of the dissociative subtype of PTSD. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, 134(4): 409-427. PMCID: PMC10286858.DOI: 10.1037/abn0000795.
  • Zhao, X., Logue, M. W., Hawn, S. E., Neale, Z. E., Zhou, Z., Huber, B. R., Traumatic Stress Brain Research Group, Miller, M. W., & Wolf, E. J. (2022). PTSD, Major Depression, and Advanced Transcriptomic Age in Brain Tissue. Depression and Anxiety, 39(12), 824-834. PMCID: PMC9729392. DOI: 10.1002/DA.23289.
  • Hawn, S.E., Zhao, X., Sullivan, D.R., Logue, M., Fein-Schaffer, D., Milberg, W., McGlinchey, R., Miller, M.W., Wolf, E.J. (2022). For Whom the Bell Tolls: Psychopathological and Neurobiological Correlates of a DNA Methylation Index of Time-To-Death. Translational Psychiatry, 12(1), 1-10. PMCID: PMC9509393.DOI: 10.1038/s41398-022-02164-w.
  • Hawn, S.E., Hawrilenko, M., McDowell, Y.E., Campbell, S., Garcia Gonzalez, N., Simpson, T. (2022). An in-depth look at latent classes of DSM-5 psychiatric comorbidity among individuals with PTSD: Clinical indicators and treatment utilization. Journal of Clinical Psychology. PMCID: PMC9561047. DOI: 10.1002/jclp.23429.
  • Hawn, S.E., Wolf, E.J., Neale, Z., Miller, M.W. (2022). Conceptualizing traumatic stress and the structure of posttraumatic psychopathology through the lenses of RDoC and HiTOP Clinical Psychology Review, 95, 102177. PMCID: PMC922949. DOI: 10.1016/j.cpr.2022.102177.
  • Bountress, K. E., Brick, L. A., Sheerin, C., Grotzinger, A., Bustamante, D., Hawn, S. E., … & Psychiatric Genomics Consortium Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Working Group. (2022). Alcohol use and alcohol use disorder differ in their genetic relationships with PTSD: A genomic structural equation modelling approach. Drug and alcohol dependence, 234, 109430.PMCID: PMC9018560. DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2022.109430.
  • Hawn, S. E., Neale, Z., Wolf, E. J., Zhao, X., Pierce, M., Fein‐Schaffer, D., … & Miller, M. W. (2022). Methylation of the AIM2 gene: An epigenetic mediator of PTSD‐related inflammation and neuropathology plasma biomarkers. Depression and Anxiety, 39(4), 323-333. PMCID: PMC8996332. DOI: 10.1002/da.23247.
  • Simpson, T.L., Goldberg, S.B., Louden, D.K.N., Blakey, S.M., Hawn, S.E., Lott, A., Browne, K.C., Lehavot, K., Kaysen, D. (2021). Efficacy and Acceptability of Interventions for Co-occurring PTSD and SUD: A Meta-analysis. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 84, 102490. PMCID: PMC8819868. DOI:10.1016/j.janxdis.2021.102490.
  • Fein‐Schaffer, D., Hawn, S. E., Annunziata, A. J., Ryabchenko, K., Miller, M. W., & Wolf, E. J. (2022). Premorbid traumatic stress and veteran responses to the COVID‐19 pandemic. Journal of traumatic stress, 35(2), 559-569. PMCID: PMC9015518. DOI: 10.1002/jts.22770.
  • Moreno, O., Williams, C. D., Muñoz, G., Elias, M. de, Santana, A., Fuentes, L., Garcia-Rodriguez, I., Hernandez, C., Hood, K., Johnson, K. F., Montemayor, B. N., Chartier, K., Amstadter, A., Dick, D. M., Lilley, E., Gelzinis, R., Morris, A., Bountress, K., Adkins, A. E., … Spit for Science Working Group. (2022). Moderating role of healthcare disruptions on friend and family pandemic-related negative life events predicting latines’ anxiety and alcohol use over time. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction. DOI: 10.1007/s11469-022-00853-7.
  • Wolf, E.J., Zhao, X., Hawn, S.E., Morrison, F.G., Zhou, Z., Fein-Schaffer, D., Huber, B., Traumatic Stress Brain Research Group, Miller, M.W., Logue, M.W. (2021). Gene expression correlates of advanced epigenetic age and psychopathology in postmortem cortical tissue: supplementary methods and results. Neurobiology of Stress, 15, 100371. PMCID: PMC8377489. DOI: 10.1016/j.ynstr.2021.100371.        
  • McNett, S., Lind, M., Brown, R., Hawn, S.E., Berenz, E., Brown, E., McDonald, S., Pickett, T., Danielson, C., Thomas, S., Amstadter, A.B. (2021). Sleep quality moderates the relationship between anxiety sensitivity and PTSD symptoms in combat-exposed veterans. Behavioral Sleep Medicine, 19(2), 208-220. PMID: 32063030. DOI: 10.1080/15402002.2020.1726749.
  • Brown, R.C., Mortensen, J., Hawn, S.E., Bountress, K., Chowdhury, N., Kevorkian, S., McDonald, S.D., Pickett, T., Danielson, C.K., Thomas, S., Amstadter, A.B. (2021). Drinking patterns of post-deployment Veterans: The role of personality, negative urgency, and posttraumatic stress. Military Psychology, 1-10. PMCID: PMC8356631. DOI: 10.1080/08995605.2021.1902183.
  • Bountress, K., Hawn, S.E., Dick, D., Spit for Science Working Group, & Amstadter, A. (2021). Latent Profiles of Alcohol Consumption Among College Students Exposed to Trauma. Journal of Addictions Nursing, 32(1), 3-13. PMCID: PMC7927796. DOI: 10.1097/JAN.0000000000000379.
  • Hawn, S.E., Cusack, S.E., George, B., Sheerin, C., Spit for Science Working Group, Dick, D.M., Amstadter, A.B. (2020).  Examination of the diagnostic validity efficacy of the PC-PTSD among college undergraduates. Journal of American College Health, 1-11. PMCID: PMC8164645. DOI: 10.1080/07448481.2020.1841768.
  • DeLaney, E. N., Williams, C. D., Mosley, D. V., Hawn., S. E., Spit for Science Working
    Group    , & Dick, D. M. (2020) The associations between sexual victimization and health outcomes among LGBQA college students: Examining the moderating role of social support. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. PMID: 33289453. DOI: 10.1177/08862605209781.
  • Cusack, S.E., Bountress, K.B., Lind, M.J., Hawn, S.E., Dick, D., & Amstadter, A.B. (2020). Trauma exposure, alcohol consumption, and sleep quality: A latent growth curve model. Journal of American College Health. PMCID: PMC8166935. DOI: 10.1080/07448481.2020.1845181
  • George, B. A., Bountress, K. E., Brown, R. C., Hawn, S. E., Brown, E. A., McDonald S. D., Pickett, T., Danielson, C. K., Sheerin, C. M., Amstadter A. B. (2020). Does Prior Civilian Trauma Moderate the Relationship Between Combat Trauma and Post-Deployment Mental Health Symptoms? Journal of Interpersonal Violence. PMCID: PMC7979570. DOI: 10.1177/0886260520958659.
  • Hawn, S.E., Aggen, S.H., Cusack, S.E., Spit for Science Working Group, Dick, D.M., & Amstadter, A.B. (2020). Examination of a novel measure of trauma-related drinking to cope. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 76(10), 1938-1964. PMCID: PMC7721863. DOI: 10.1002/jclp.22972.
  • Hawn, S.E., Cusack, S.E., & Amstadter, A.B. (2020). A systematic review of the self-medication hypothesis in the context of posttraumatic stress disorder and comorbid problematic alcohol use. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 33(5), 699-708. PMCID: PMC7572615. DOI: 10.1002/jts.22521.
  • Hawn, S. E., Bountress, K. E., Sheerin, C.M., Spit for Science Working Group,Dick, D. M., & Amstadter, A. B. (2020). Trauma-related drinking to cope: A novel approach to the self-medication model. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 34(3), 465–476. PMCID: PMC7148178. DOI: 10.1037/adb0000552.         
  • Hawn, S.E., Chowdhury, N., Kevorkian, S., Sheth, D., Brown, R.C., Berenz, E., McDonald, S., Pickett, T., Danielson, C.K., Thomas, S., Amstadter, A.B. (2019). Examination of the effects of impulsivity and risk-taking propensity on alcohol use in OEF/OIF/OND veterans. Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health. PMCID: PMC8300876. DOI: 10.3138/jmvfh.2018-0002.
  • Bountress, K., Cusack, S., Sheerin, C., Hawn, S.E., Dick, D., Kendler, K., & Amstadter, A. (2019). Alcohol consumption, interpersonal trauma, and drinking to cope with trauma-related distress: An auto-regressive, cross-lagged model. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. PMCID: PMC6483845. DOI: 10.1037/adb0000457.
  • Hawn, S.E., Sheerin, C.M., Lind, M.J., Hicks, T.A., Marraccini, M.E., Bountress, K., Bacanu, S.A., Nugent,N.R.*, Amstadter, A.B.* (2018). GxE effects of FKBP5 and traumatic life events on PTSD: A meta-analysis. Journal of Affective Disorders, 243, 455-462. *co-last authors. PMCID: PMC30273884. DOI: 10.1037/adb0000457.
  • Hawn, S.E., Sheerin, C.M., Webb, B.T., Peterson, R.E., Do, E.K., Dick, D., Kendler, K.S., Bacanu, S.A., Amstadter, A.B. (2018).  Replication of the interaction of PRKG1 and trauma exposure on alcohol misuse in an independent, African American sample. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 31(6), 927-932. PMCID: PMC6295354. DOI: 10.1002/jts.22339.
  • Brown, R.C., Overstreet, C., Sheerin, C., Berenz, E., Hawn, S.E., Pickett, T., McDonald, S., Danielson, C., Amstadter, A. (2018). The nomological network of a behavioral distress tolerance task in trauma-exposed combat veterans. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 31(6), 876-885. PMCID: PMC6352717. DOI: 10.1002/jts.22349.
  • Hawn, S.E., Kurtz, E., Brown, E., Brown, R.C., Berenz, E., McDonald, S., Pickett, T., Danielson, C.K., Amstadter, A.B. (2018). A cluster analytic approach to determining drinking motives and personality typologies: Trauma group differences and respective relations to PTSD and alcohol misuse. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 32(5), 528-539. PMCID: PMC6383725. DOI: 10.1037/adb0000382.
  • Overstreet, C., Brown, E., Berenz, E., Brown, R., Hawn, S.E., McDonald, S., Pickett, T., Danielson, C. K.,Thomas, S., & Amstadter, A. (2018). Anxiety sensitivity and distress tolerance typologies and relations to PTSD: A cluster analytic approach. Military Psychology, 30(6), 547-556. PMCID: PMC6419959. DOI: 10.1080/08995605.2018.1521682.
  • Hawn, S.E., Lind, M.J., Conley, A., Overstreet, C.M., Kendler, K.S., Dick. D.M., Amstadter, A.B. (2018). Effects of social support on the association between pre-college sexual assault and college-onset victimization. Journal of American College Health, 1-9. PMCID: PMC6078834. DOI: 10.1080/07448481.2018.1431911.
  • Chowdhury, N., Kevorkian, S., Hawn, S.E., Amstadter, A.B., Dick, D., Kendler, K.S., Berenz, E.C. (2018). Associations between personality and distress tolerance among trauma-exposed young adults. Personality and Individual Differences, 120, 166-170. PMCID: PMC5978428. DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2017.08.041.
  • Overstreet, C., Stratton, K.J., Berenz, E., Sheerin, C., Hawn, S.E., Roberson-Nay, R., & Amstadter, A. (2017). Resilience to interpersonal trauma and decreased risk for psychopathology in an epidemiologic sample. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 39(3), 506-513. DOI: 10.1007/s10862-017-9601-2.
  • Lind, M.J., Baylor, A., Overstreet, C.M., Hawn, S.E., Rubarczyk, B.D., Kendler, K.S., Dick, D.M., Amstadter, A.B. (2017). Relationships between potentially traumatic events, sleep disturbances, and symptoms of PTSD and alcohol use disorder in a young adult sample. Sleep Medicine, 34, 141-147. PMCID: PMC5695543. DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2017.02.024.
  • Lind, M.J., Hawn S.E., Sheerin, C.M., Aggen, S.H., Kirkpatrick, R.M., Kendler, K.S., Amstadter, A.B. (2017). An examination of the etiologic overlap between the genetic and environmental influences on insomnia and common psychopathology. Depression and Anxiety, 34(5), 453-462. PMCID: PMC5469037. DOI: 10.1002/da.22587.
  • Lind, M.J., Brown, E., Farrell-Carnahan, L., Brown, R., Hawn, S.E., Berenz, E., McDonald, S., Pickett, T., Danielson, C.K., Thomas, S., Amstadter, A.B. (2017). Sleep disturbances in OEF/OIF/OND veterans: Associations with PTSD, personality, and coping. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, 13(02), 291-299. PMCID: PMC5263085. DOI: 10.5664/jcsm.6466.
  • Conley, A., Overstreet, C.M., Hawn, S.E, Kendler, K.S., Dick, D.M., Amstadter, A.B. (2017). Prevalence and predictors of sexual assault among a college sample. Journal of American College Health, 65(1), 41-49. PMCID: PMC5862547. DOI: 10.1080/07448481.2016.1235578.
  • Brown, R.C., Nugent, N.R., Hawn, S.E., Koenen, K.C., Miller, A., Amstadter, A.B., Saxe, G. (2016). Predicting the transition from Acute Stress Disorder to posttraumatic Stress disorder in children with severe injuries. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 30(6), 558-568. PMCID: PMC4945483. DOI: 10.1016/j.pedhc.2015.11.015.
  • Stratton, K.J., Wells, B.D., Hawn, S.E., Amstadter, A.B., Cifu, D.X., & Walker, W.C. (2015). Pain descriptors used by military personnel deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan following combat-related blast experience. Military Psychology, 27(6), 376-383. PMCID: PMC4696602. DOI: 10.1037/mil0000089.
  • Hawn, S.E., Paul, L., Thomas, S., Miller, S., Amstadter, A.B. (2015). Stress reactivity to an electronic version of the Trier Social Stress Test: A pilot study. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 724. PMCID: PMC4447999. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00724.
  • Hawn, S.E., Overstreet, C.M., Stewart, K.E., & Amstadter, A.B. (2014) Recent advances in the genetics of emotion regulation: A Review. Current Opinion in Psychology, 3, 108-116. PMCID: PMC429172. DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2014.12.014.
  • Stratton, K.J., Hawn, S.E., Amstadter, A.B., Cifu, D.X., & Walker, W.C. (2014). Correlates of pain symptoms among Iraq and Afghanistan military personnel following combat-related blast exposure. Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development, 51(8), 1189. PMCID: PMC6391725. DOI: 10.1682/jrrd.2014.04.0111.
  • Stratton, K.J., Clark, S.L., Hawn, S.E., Amstadter, A.B., Cifu, D.X., & Walker, W.C. (2014). Longitudinal trajectories of pain symptoms and posttraumatic stress disorder in US military service members following combat exposure. Journal of Pain, 15(10), 1023-1032. PMCID: PMC4213927. DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2014.07.002.

Invited Book Chapters

  • Rappaport, L.M., Hawn, S.E., Overstreet, C.M., Amstadter, A.B. (2020). Behavioral and molecular genetics of emotion dysregulation. Oxford Handbook of Emotion Dysregulation, 203. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190689285.013.15.
  • Overstreet, C., Hawn, S., & Amstadter, A. (2014). Endogenous versus Reactive. In R. Cautin & S. Lilienfeld (Eds.), Encyclopedia of clinical psychology, 1-5. Wiley Blackwell Publishing. DOI: 10.1002/9781118625392.wbecp418.