Melissa M. Franks
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Contact Information Email: mmfranks |at| purdue.edu Office: FWLR 202 Map Phone: (765) 494-2942 Fax: (765) 494-0503 Homepage: Homepage |
Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies PubMed Listing Google Scholar Listing View Vita
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Education
B.S. Northern Kentucky University Psychology 1988
M.A. Kent State University Social and Health Psychology 1990
Ph.D. Kent State University Social and Health Psychology 1993
Research Interests
Marital processes in the management of chronic illness
Teaching Interests
CDFS 434: Aging and Family CDFS 602: Advanced Family Studies
Grants
National Institute on Aging
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering
Purdue Research Foundation
Publications
Franks, M. M., Shields, C. G., Sands, L., Lim, E., Mobley, S., & Boushey, C. J. (in press). I will if you will: Similarity in health behavior change of married partners. Health Education & Behavior
Rook, K. S., August, K., Stephens, M. A. P., Franks, M. M., & Salem, J. (in press). When spousal social control provokes negative reactions in the context of chronic illness: The pivotal role of patients' expectations. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.
Tkatch, R., Artinian, N. T., Abrams, J. Franks, M. M., Keteyian, S. J., Pienta, A. M., Franklin, B. A., & Schwartz, S. (in press). Social networks and health outcomes among African American cardiac rehabilitation patients. Heart & Lung.
Fisher, G. G., Franks, M. M., Plassman, B. L., Brown, S. L., Potter, G. G., Llewellyn, D., Rogers, M. A. M., & Langa, K. M. (in press). Caring for individuals with dementia and CIND: Findings from the Aging, Demographics, and Memory Study. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
August, K., Rook, K. S., Stephens, M. A. P., Franks, M. M. (in press). Are spouses of chronically ill patients burdened by exerting health-related social control? Journal of Health Psychology.
Fingerman, K. L., Pitzer, L. M., Chan, W., Birditt, K., Franks, M. M., & Zarit, S. (2011). Who gets what and why?: Help middle-aged adults provide to parents and grown children. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 66B, 87-98.
Pienta, A. M., O'Rourke, J. M., & Franks M. M. (2011). Getting started: Working with secondary data. In Trzesniewski, K.H., Donnellan, M.B. & Lucas, R.E. (Eds.), Secondary data analysis: An introduction for psychologists, pp. 13-26. Washington, DC: APA Books.
Franks, M. M., Lucas, T., Stephens, M. A. P., Rook, K. S., & Gonzalez, R. (2010). Diabetes distress and depressive symptoms: A dyadic investigation of older patients with type 2 diabetes and their spouses. Family Relations, 59, 599-610.
Iida, M., Stephens, M. A. P., Rook, K. S., Franks, M. M., & Salem, J. K. (2010). When the going gets tough, does support get going? Determinants of spousal support provision to type 2 diabetic patients. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36, 780-791.
Stephens, M. A. P., Rook, K. S., Franks, M. M., Khan, C. M. Iida, M. (2010). Spouses' use of social control to improve diabetic patients' dietary adherence. Families, Systems and Health, 28, 199-208.