Women's health Sexual health, including sexual function and sexually transmitted infections College student health and mental health Cardiovascular disease, including psychological risk factors and metabolic syndrome Public Health Psychoneuroimmunology

Contact Information Phone: 207-786-6186 Email: klow@bates.edu Office: Pettengill 370

• B.A., Bowdoin College (1978)
• Ed.M., Harvard University (1981)
• Ph.D., Stanford University (1991)

Dr. Low has several current projects. One is a study is examining "flourishing" or mental health in college students, and is funded by the AACU/Bringing Theory to Practice. This research uses a dual continua model of well-being--one that assesses both mental illness and flourishing--to explore the adjustment of college students. A second project involves collaboration with a local cardiovascular practice and explores the intersection of psychological concepts and cardiovascular health. One recent project involves the use of motivational interviewing for weight loss in an obese cardiac sample.

Professor Low is also working on a variety of community-engaged research projects with students, including a Community Food Assessment funded by the USDA and a project exploring personal narratives about polio and post polio syndrome.

• FYS 305 Corporal Culture: Body and Health in America
  
• Psychology 235 Abnormal Psychology
  
• Psychology 261 Research Methods
• Psychology 322 Child Psychopathology
  
• Psychology 333 Topics in Advanced Abnormal Psychology
  
• Psychology 303 Health Psychology
  
• Psychology/Women and Gender Studies 343 Women, Culture and Health
  
• Psychology 211 Personality
  
• S30 Contemporary Psychotherapies
  
• Public Health
  

Coville, A.,  Miklowitz, D.J., Taylor, D.T., & Low, K.G. (2008).  Correlates of high expressed emotion attitudes among parents of bipolar adolescents.  Journal of Clinical Psychology, 64, 438-449.

Doherty, K. A., & Low, K.G. (2009).  The effects of s web-based intervention on college students' knowledge of HPV and attitudes toward vaccination.  International Journal of Sexual Health, 20, 223-232.

Low, K.G., Charansomboon, S., Brown, C., Hiltunen, G., Long, K., Reinhalter, K. & Jones, H. (2003).  Internalization of the thin ideal, weight and body image concerns.  Social Behavior and Personality:  an International Journal., 31, 81-90.

Low, K.G., Charansomboon, S., Lesser, J., Reinhalter, K., Martin, R., Jones, H., Winzelberg, A., Abascal, L., & Taylor, C.B.. (2006).  Effectiveness of a computer-based eating disorders prevention program at long term follow up.  Eating Disorders:  The Journal of Treatment and Prevention, 14, 17-30.

Low, K.G., Casey, G., Megroz, A., McGuffie, K., & Briand, L. (2001).  Hostility, oral contraceptives, and cardiovascular reactivity in women.  Psychology and Health, 16, 675-687.

Low, K.G. & Gendaszek, A. (2002).  Stimulant abuse in college undergraduates.  Psychology, Health and Medicine, 7, 283-287.

Low, K.G., Massa, L., & Lehman, D. (2005).  Insulin pump use in young adolescents with type 1 diabetes:  A descriptive study.  Pediatric Diabetes, 6, 22-31. 

Rosania, A., Low, K.G., Rosania, D. & McCormick, C. (2009).  Stress, depression, cortisol and periodontal disease.  Journal of Periodontology, 80, 260-266.