Publications

2025

Appiah D., Wellons M. F., Schreiner P. J., Puterman E., Hou L., Kim C (2025). The Prospective Association of Cellular Markers of Biological Aging with Menopause in The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study. Menopause. 32(1). 91-94.

Courtney, J. B., Turner, J. A., Puterman, E., Almeida, D. M. (2025). Within-person associations between daily stress and physical activity during working and non-working hours. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, In Press

Hives, B. A., Haight, B. L., Beauchamp, M. R., Liu, Y., Webster, J., Injege, B., … & Puterman, E. (2025). Effects of a 6-week at-home exercise intervention on psychological and physical indicators of well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: Secondary analysis of a pragmatic randomized trial. Mental Health and Physical Activity, 100675.

Smith, J. J., Beauchamp, M. R., Puterman, E., Leahy, A. A., Valkenborghs, S. R., Wade, L., Chen, F., & Lubans, D. R. (2025). Physical activity intensity and older adolescents’ stress: The ‘STress-Reactivity after Exercise in Senior Secondary EDucation’(STRESSED) 3-arm randomised controlled trial. Psychology of Sport and Exercise. 7. 102754.

Waldhauser, K. J., Hives, B. A., Liu, Y., Puterman, E., Sharifian, N., Castañeda, S. F., … & Millennium Cohort Study Team. (2025). Military Veterans’ Psychological Health and Physical Activity Following Separation from Service. American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

2024

Peddie L., Gosselin Boucher V., Buckler J.,Noseworthy M., Haight B., Pratt S., Injege B., Koehle M., Faulkner G., Puterman E. (2024). Acute effects of outdoor versus indoor exercise: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Health Psychology Review. 18(4). 853-883.

Puterman E., Zieff G., Stoner L. (2024). Strength of evidence for 5 happiness strategies. Nature Human Behaviour. 8. 1656-1657.

2023

Boucher, V. G., Haight, B. L., Hives, B. A., Zumbo, B. D., Merali-Dewji, A., Hutton, S., Liu, Y., Nguyen, S., Beauchamp, M. R., Black, A. T., & Puterman, E. (2023). Effects of 12 Weeks of At-Home, Application-Based Exercise on Health Care Workers’ Depressive Symptoms, Burnout, and Absenteeism: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA psychiatry.

Buckler, E. J., Faulkner, G. E., Beauchamp, M. R., Rizzardo, B., DeSouza, L., & Puterman, E. (2023). A Systematic Review of Educator-Led Physical Literacy and Activity Interventions. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 64(5), 742-760.

Buckler E.J., Mâsse L.C., Faulkner G.E., Puterman E., McConnell-Nzunga J., Naylor P.-J. (2023). Implementing active play standards: A qualitative study with licensed childcare providers in British Columbia, Canada. Health Promotion International. 38(3). daac036

Fagan, M. J., Duncan, M. J., Bedi, R. P., Puterman, E., Leatherdale, S. T., & Faulkner, G. (2023). The prospective association between physical activity and initiation of current substance use among adolescents: Examining the role of school connectedness. Mental Health and Physical Activity. 24. 1-13.

Faulkner, G., Weatherson, K. A., Duncan, M. J., Wunderlich, K. B., & Puterman, E. (2023). Exploring Work-Time Affective States Through Ecological Momentary Assessment in an Office-Based Intervention to Reduce Occupational Sitting. Journal of Physical Activity and Health, 20(6), 566-570.

Grishin N. K., De Souza A. M., Fairbairn J., Sheel A. W., Puterman E., Blydt-Hansen T., Potts J. E., Armstrong K. R. (2023). An 8-week virtual exercise training program for pediatric solid organ transplants recipients. Pediatric Exercise Science. 36(3). 135-145.

Haight, B. L., Peddie, L., Crosswell, A. D., Hives, B. A., Almeida, D. M., & Puterman, E. (2023). Combined effects of cumulative stress and daily stressors on daily health. Health Psychology, 42(5), 325.

Noseworthy, M., Peddie, L., Buckler, E. J., Park, F., Pham, M., Pratt, S., Singh, A., Puterman, E., & Liu-Ambrose, T. (2023). The effects of outdoor versus indoor exercise on psychological health, physical health, and physical activity behaviour: a systematic review of longitudinal trials. International journal of environmental research and public health, 20(3), 1669.

Reis, N.A., Waldhauser, K.J., Hives, B.A., Hulteen, R.M., Ruissen, G.R., Wierts, C.M., Puterman, E., Liu, Y., Rhodes, R.E., & Beauchamp, M.R. (2023). Effects of older adults’ social identification on psychological flourishing and exercise program adherence. Psychology & Health. 40(2). 272–284.

2022

Bigazzi, A., Ausri, F., Peddie, L., Fitch, D., & Puterman, E. (2022). Physiological markers of traffic-related stress during active travel.Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 84, 223-238.

Don B., Roubinov D.S., Puterman E., Epel E.S. (2022). The role of interparental relationship variability in parent-child interactions: Results from a sample of mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder and mothers wth neurotypical children. Journal of Marriage and Family. 84(4). 982-1001

Kim C., Puterman E., Hoi L., Slaughter J.C., Terry J.G., Wellons M.F. (in press). Antimüllerian hormone and leukocyte aging markers in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study. Fertility and Sterility. 118(1). 125-133.

Lockwood, K.G, Peddie, L., Crosswell, A.D., Hives, B.A., Slopen, N., Almeida, D.M., Puterman, E. (2022). Effects of chronic burden across multiple domains and experiences of daily stressors on negative affect. Annals of Behavioural Medicine. 56(10). 1056–1067.

Puterman E., Hives B.A., Mazara N., Grishin N., Webster J., Hutton S., Koehle M., Liu Y., Beauchamp M.R. (2022). The COvid-19 Pandemic and Exercise (COPE) Trial: A multi-group pragmatic randomized controlled trial comparing effects of an app-based, at-home exercise program to waitlist control on depressive symptoms. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 56(10). 546-552.

Ruissen G.R., Wright A.G.C., Low C., Puterman E., Zumbo B.D., Rhodes R.E., Hives B.A., Sharpe B.M., Beauchamp M.R. (2022). Continuous-time modeling of the bidirectional relationship between incidental affect and physical activity. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 56(2). 1284-1299.

Ruissen G.R., Zumbo B.D., Rhodes R.E., Puterman E, Beauchamp M.R. (2022). Analysis of dynamic psychological processes to understand and promote physical activity behaviour using intensive longitudinal methods: A primer. Health Psychology Review. 16(4). 492-525.

To-Miles F., Backman C.L., Forwell S., Puterman E., Hakansson C., Wagman P. (2022). Exploring occupations and well-being before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in adults with and without inflammatory arthritis. Journal of Occupational Science. 29(3). 368-385.

2021

Beauchamp M.R., Hulteen R.M., Ruissen G.R., Liu Y., Rhodes R.E., Wierts C.M., Waldhauser K.J., Harden S.H., Puterman, E. (2021). Online-Delivered Group and Personal Exercise Programs to Support Low Active Older Adults’ Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23(7), e30709.

Beauchamp M.R., Liu Y., Dunlop W.L., Ruissen G.R., Schmader T., Harden S.M., Wolf S.A., Puterman E., Sheel A.W., Rhodes R.E. (2021). Psychological mediators of exercise adherence among older adults in a group-based randomized trial. Health Psychology. 40(3)

Caplin A., Chen F.S., Beauchamp M.R., Puterman E. (2021). The effects of exercise intensity on the cortisol response to a subsequent acute psychsocial stressor. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 131.

Caplin A., Weiss J., Hives B.A., Schilf S., Epel E.S., Johansen K., Puterman E. (2021). Effects of aerobic exercise training on daily psychological processes in family caregivers: Secondary analyses of a randomized controlled trials. Affective Science, 2(1).

Lee J., Gierc M., Vila-Rodriguez F., Puterman E., Faulkner E. (2021). Efficacy of exercise combined with standard treatment for depression compared to standard treatment alone: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Journal of Affective Disorders, 295.

Mayer S.E., Surachman A., Prather A.A., Puterman E., Delucchi K.L., Irwin M.R., Danese A., Almeida D.A., Epel E.S. (2021). The long shadow of childhood trauma for depression in midlife: Examining daily psychological stress processes as a persistent risk pathway. Psychological Medicine, 1-10.

Puterman E., Pauly T., Ruissen G., Nelson B., Faulkner G. (2021). Move more, move better: A narrative review of wearable technologies and its application to precision health. Health Psychology, 40(11).

2020

Cabeza de Baca, T., Prather, A.A., Lin, J., Sternfeld, B., Adler, N., Epel, E.S., & Puterman, E. (2020). Chronic psychosocial and financial burden accelerates 5-year telomere shortening: Findings from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study. Molecular Psychiatry, 25(5), 1141-1153.

Chae, D.H., Wang, Y., Martz, C.D., Slopen, N., Yip, T., Adler, N.E., Fuller-Rowell, T.E., Lin, J., Matthews, K.A., Brody, G.H., Spears, E.C., Puterman, E., & Epel, E.S. (2020) Racial discrimination and telomere shortening among African Americans: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study. Health Psychology, 39(3), 209-219.

Crosswell A.D., Suresh, M., Puterman, E., Gruenewald, T.L., Lee, J., & Epel, E.S. (2020). Advancing research on psychosocial stress and aging with the health and retirement study: Looking back to launch the field forward. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 75(5), 970-980.

Freedland K.E., Dew M.A., Sarwer D.B., Burg M.M., Hart T.A., Feldstein Ewing S.W., Fang C.Y., Blozis S.A., Puterman E., Marquez B., Kaufmamm P.G. (2020). Health psychology in the time of COVID-19. Health Psychology, 39, 1021.

Hives, B.A., Buckler, E.J., Weiss, J., Schilf, S., Johansen, K.L., Epel, E.S., & Puterman, E. (2020). The effects of aerobic exercise on psychological functioning in family caregivers: Secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial. Annals of Behavioural Medicine, 20, 1-12.

McIntyre, K.M., Puterman, E., Scodes, J.M., Choo, T.-H., Choi, C.J., Pavlicova, M., & Sloan, R.P. (2020). The effects of aerobic training on subclinical negative affect: A randomized controlled trial. Health Psychology, 39(4), 255-264.

Puterman, E., Weiss, J., Hives, B. A., Gemmill, A., Karasek, D., Mendes, W. B., & Rehkopf, D. H. (2020). Predicting mortality from 57 economic, behavioral, social, and psychological factors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(28), 16273-16282

Ruissen, G.R., Liu, Y., Schmader, T., Lubans, D.R., Harden, S.M., Wolf, S.A., Rhodes, R.E., Dunlop, W.L., Puterman, E., Zumbo, B.D., & Beauchamp, M.R. (2020). Effects of group-based exercise on flourishing and stigma consciousness among older adults: Findings from a randomised controlled trial. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being. 12(2), 559-583.

2019

Koch S., Lasinksy A., Puterman E. (2019). Leveraging omics profiling to advance the treatment of pediatric obesity. JAMA Pediatrics, 173(10), 910-911.

Mason, A.E., Adler, J.M., Puterman, E., Lakmazaheri, A., Brucker, M., Aschbacher, K., Epel, E.S. (2019). Stress resiliency: Narrative identity may buffer the longitudinal effects of chronic caregiving stress on mental health and telomere shortening. Brain, Behavior and Immunity, 77, 101-109.

Mayer, S.E., Prather, A.A., Puterman E., Lin, J., Arenander, J., Coccia, M., Shields, G.S., Slavich, G.M., Epel, E.S. (2019). Cumulative lifetime stress exposure and leukocyte telomere length attrition: The unique role of stressor duration and exposure timing. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 104, 210- 218.

Weatherson, K., Yun, L., Wunderlich, K., Puterman, E., & Faulkner, G. (2019). Application of an Ecological Momentary Assessment Protocol in a Workplace Intervention: Assessing Compliance, Criterion Validity, and Reactivity. Journal of Physical Activity and Health, 16(11), 985-992

2018

Beauchamp, M. R., Puterman, E., & Lubans, D. R. (2018). Physical Inactivity and Mental Health in Late Adolescence. JAMA Psychiatry, 75(6), 543-544.

Epel, E. S., Crosswell, A. D., Mayer, S. E., Prather, A. A., Slavich, G. M., Puterman, E., & Mendes, W. B. (2018). More than a feeling: a unified view of stress measurement for population science. Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology.

Felder, J. N., Epel, E. S., Coccia, M., Puterman, E., & Prather, A. A. (2018). Effects of daily maladaptive coping on nightly sleep in mothers.Psychology & Health, 33(1), 144-157.

Picard, M., Prather, A. A., Puterman, E., Cuillerier, A., Coccia, M., Aschbacher, K., Burelle, Y., & Epel, E. S. (2018). A mitochondrial health index sensitive to mood and caregiving stress. Biological psychiatry. 84(1)

Prather, A. A., Epel, E. S., Parra, E. P., Coccia, M., Puterman, E., Aiello, A. E., & Dhabhar, F. S. (2018). Associations between chronic caregiving stress and T cell markers implicated in immunosenescence. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity.

Puterman, E., Weiss, J., Lin, J., Schilf, S., Slusher, A. L., Johansen, K. L., & Epel, E. S. (2018). Aerobic exercise lengthens telomeres and reduces stress in family caregivers: A randomized controlled trial-Curt Richter Award Paper 2018. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 98, 245-252.

Révész, D., Verhoeven, J. E., Picard, M., Lin, J., Sidney, S., Epel, E. S., … & Puterman, E. (2018). Associations between cellular aging markers and metabolic syndrome: findings from the CARDIA study. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 103(1), 148-157.

2017

Aschbacher K., Milush J. M., Gilbert A., Almeida C., Sinclair E., Epling L., Grenon S. M., Marco E. J., Puterman E., & Epel E. S. (2017). Chronic stress is associated with reduced circulating hematopoietic progenitor cell number: A maternal caregiving model. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 59, 245-252.

Catalino L., Epel E., Arenander J., Puterman E. (2017). Trait acceptance predicts fewer daily negative emotions through less stressor-related rumination. Emotion, 17(8).

de Baca, T. C., Epel, E. S., Robles, T. F., Coccia, M., Gilbert, A., Puterman, E., & Prather, A. A. (2017). Sexual intimacy in couples is associated with longer telomere length. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 81, 46-51.

Puterman E., Weiss J., Beauchamp M., Mogle J., Almeida D. (2017). Physical Activity and negative affective reactivity in daily life. Health Psychology. 36 (12)

Verhoeven, J. E., Révész, D., Picard, M., Epel, E. E., Wolkowitz, O. M., Matthews, K. A., Penninx, B. W. J. H & Puterman, E. (2017). Depression, telomeres and mitochondrial DNA: between-and within-person associations from a 10-year longitudinal study. Molecular psychiatry, 23(4) 850-857.

2016

Epel ES, Puterman E, Lin J, Blackburn EH, Lum PY, Beckmann ND, Zhu J, Lee E, Gilbert A, Rissman RA, Tanzi RE, Schadt EE (2016). Meditation and vacatation effects have an impact on disease-associated molecular phenotypes. Translational Psychiatry. 6, e880.

Hagan M., Bush N., Mendes W., Arenander J., Cohodes E., Epel E.S., Puterman E. (2016). Associations between childhood adversity and daily suppression and avoidance in response to stress in adulthood: can neurobiological sensitivity help explain this relationship? Anxiety, Stress, and Coping, 30(2) 163- 175.

Holtzman, S., Landis, L., Walsh, Z., Puterman, E., Roberts, D., & Saya-Moore, K. (2016). Predictors of HIV testing among men who have sex with men: A focus on men living outside major urban centres in Canada. AIDS Care, 28(6), 705-711.

Lin, J., Cheon, J., Brown, R., Coccia, M., Puterman, E., Aschbacher, K., Sinclair, E., Epel, E., & Blackburn, E. H. (2016). Systematic and cell type-specific telomere length changes in subsets of lymphocytes. Journal of Immunology Research, 2016.

Puterman E, Gemmill A, Karasek D, Weir D, Adler NE, Prather AA, Epel, ES (2016). Lifespan adversity and later adulthood telomere length in the nationally representative U.S. Health and Retirement Study. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(42), E6335-E6342.

Puterman, E., Prather, A. A., Epel, E. S., Loharuka, S., Adler, N. E., Laraia, B., & Tomiyama, A. J. (2016). Exercise mitigates cumulative associations between stress and BMI in girls age 10 to 19. Health Psychology, 35(2), 191

Womack, V. Y., De Chavez, P. J., Albrecht, S. S., Durant, N., Loucks, E. B., Puterman, E., Redmond, N., Siddique, J., Williams, D. R., & Carnethon, M. R. (2016). A Longitudinal Relationship Between Depressive Symptoms and Development of Metabolic Syndrome: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study. Psychosomatic Medicine, 78(7), 867-873.