Fifth Year Graduate Student
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Department of Psychology
Email: abrockdorf@gmail.com
Alex is a Fifth year graduate student in the Clinical Psychology Training Program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her research examines the mental and physical health consequences of sexual violence, with an emphasis on identifying modifiable targets for intervention. In addition, Alex has a related line of research that investigates risk factors for sexual violence perpetration.
Alex graduated from Florida State University in 2018 with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology. As an undergraduate, she worked as a research assistant on a NIH funded grant investigating biological risk factors for binge eating. Her honors thesis examined several mediation models testing associations between sensitivity to punishment, shame, and disordered eating. Alex also worked as a victim advocate with students who had experienced interpersonal violence.
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PUBLICATIONS
Brockdorf, A. N., Eagan, S. R., Zosky, J. E., Grandgenett, H. M., Gervais, S. J., & DiLillo, D. (in press). Associations between sexual objectification and bystander efficacy: The mediating role of barriers to bystander intervention. Violence and Victims.
Brockdorf, A. N., Gratz, K. L., Messman, T .L., & DiLillo, D. (in press). Trauma symptoms and deliberate self-harm among sexual violence survivors: Examining state emotion regulation and reactivity as dual mechanisms. Psychology of Violence.
Kumar, S. A., Brockdorf, A. N., Jaffe, A. E., Church, H. R., Messman, T. L., & DiLillo, D. (in press). Mindful awareness promotes resilience: Buffered links among childhood sexual abuse severity, goal-directed emotion dysregulation, and psychopathology. Mindfulness.
Haws, J. K., Brockdorf, A. N., Gratz, K. L., Messman, T. L., Tull, M. T., & DiLillo, D. (in press). Examining the associations between PTSD symptoms and aspects of emotion dysregulation through network analysis. Journal of Anxiety Disorders.
Brockdorf, A. N., Holland, K. J., Kumar, S. A., Jaffe, A. E., & DiLillo, D. (in press). Alcohol use before sexual violence and cognitive appraisals: Differential associations with barriers to help-seeking. Violence Against Women.
Brockdorf, A. N., Haws, J. K., Brock, R. L., Gratz, K. L., Messman, T. L., & DiLillo, D. (2022). Drinking to cope as a mechanism between sleep problems and heavy episodic drinking among trauma survivors. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 6(4), 387-396.
Watkins, L. E., Maldonado, R. C., Brockdorf, A. N., & DiLillo, D. (2022). Physical and sexual intimate partner aggression among college students: Examining the roles of cyber intimate partner aggression and alcohol use. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 37, 387-403.
Brockdorf, A. N., Tomaso, C. C., & Keel, P. K. (2020). Sensitivity to punishment and eating pathology among undergraduate women: The mediating role of shame. Eating Behaviors, 36.
Brockdorf, A. N., Kennedy, G. A., & Keel, P. K. (2018). Examining associations among sensitivity to punishment and reward, shame, and eating pathology through tests of mediation. Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment & Prevention, 26, 407-417.
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
Brockdorf, A. N., Church, H., Soetjoadi, I., Gervais, S. J., & DiLillo, D. (2022, November). Sleep loss exacerbates inhibition conflict among intoxicated men: An alcohol administration study. Poster presented at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, New York, NY.
Brockdorf, A. N., Edwards, M. E., Jaffe, A. E., & DiLillo, D. (2022, June). Do trauma survivors think drinking helps or hurts? The role of PTSD-drinking expectancies in links between PTSD symptoms, alcohol, and cannabis use. Poster presented at the Research Society on Alcoholism, Orlando, FL.
Brockdorf, A. N., Bogen, Katherine W., Gratz, K. L., Messman, T. L., & DiLillo, D. (2021, November). Trauma Symptoms and Self-Harm Among Sexual Violence Survivors: Examining State Emotion Dysregulation and Emotional Reactivity as Dual Mechanisms. Poster presented at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Virtual Scientific Meeting.
Brockdorf, A. N., Baildon, A. E., Brock, R. L., Gratz, K. L., Messman, T. L., & DiLillo, D. (2021, June). Does acting with awareness buffer associations between intimate partner violence victimization and problematic alcohol use? A multilevel modeling approach. Poster presented at the Research Society on Alcoholism, Virtual Scientific Meeting.
Brockdorf, A. N., Haws, J. K., Gratz, K. L., Messman-Moore, T. L., & DiLillo, D. (2020, November). The role of drinking to cope as a mechanism between sleep problems and heavy episodic drinking among trauma survivors: A longitudinal test. Poster presented at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA.
Grandgenett, H. M., Brockdorf, A. N., & DiLillo, D. (2019, November). Does a Personal History of Sexual Victimization Impact Intent to Engage in Bystander Behaviors? A Structural Equation Model. Poster presented at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Atlanta, GA.
Brockdorf, A. N., Kumar, S. A., Holland, K. J., & DiLillo, D. (2019, November). Service Utilization Barriers Among Undergraduate Sexual Assault Survivors: Do Assault Characteristics Matter? Poster presented at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Atlanta, GA.
Franz, M.R., Brockdorf, A., Alexander, E., Sanders, A., & DiLillo, D. (2018, November). PTSD and dysfunctional parenting: Emotional and biological mechanisms. Poster presented at Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Washington, DC.