Phyllis K. Mansfield's Information
POSITION TITLE: Professor Emeritus of Women's Studies and Health Education; Director, Tremin Research Program on Women's Health
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Women's health, midlife and menopause in transition.
RESEARCH AREAS:
Interdisciplinary Perspectives Linking Individual, Family, and Population Health over Time
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| PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT AND EXPERIENCE:
1965-67 Research Psychologist, Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, CA
1967-69 Secondary School Teacher, Salford, England
1971-72 Instructor, Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University
1974-76 Research Associate, The Pennsylvania Field Research Laboratory, The Institute of Human Development, The Pennsylvania State University
1974-76 Research Associate, The Pennsylvania Field Research Laboratory, The Institute of Human Development, The Pennsylvania State University
1976-79 Staff Specialist, Planning Studies for Continuing Education, The Pennsylvania State University
1980-81 Consultant and Planner, Department of Health Education, The Pennsylvania State University
1980 Instructor (part-time) of women's health issues course, The Pennsylvania State University
1981-83 Research Associate, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University
1983-88 Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing, The Pennsylvania State University
1989-94 Associate Professor, Department of Health Education and Women's Studies Program, The Pennsylvania State University
1994-present Professor, Women's Studies Program, The Pennsylvania State University
1998-present Director, Tremin Research Program on Women's Health
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Goodfellow, M.
,
C. Crawford
,
P.K. Mansfield
,
D.P. Preston
and
R.H. Warland
(1982).
Aging Research: A Compilation of References and Abstracts for an Issue of Growing Concern.
University Park, PA:
The Pennsylvania State University, Cooperative Extension Service.
Mansfield, P.K.
(1982).
"Women and Work: A Proposal for Women's Occupational Health Education."
Health Education 13:5-8.
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Preston, D.P.
and
P.K. Mansfield
(1984).
"An Exploration of Stressful Life Events, Illness, and Coping Among the Rural Elderly."
The Gerontologist 24(5):490-494.
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Vicary, J.R.
,
P.K. Mansfield
,
M.D. Cohn
,
P.B. Koch
and
E.W. Young
(1985).
"Substance Use Among Women in the Workplace."
Occupational Health Nursing 33(10):491-495.
Mansfield, P.K.
(1986).
Pregnancy for Older Women: Assessing the Medical Risks.
New York:
Praeger Publishers.
Mansfield, P.K.
(1986).
"Re-Evaluating the Medical Risks of Late Childbearing."
Women And Health 11(2):37-60.
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Mansfield, P.K.
and
M.D. Cohn
(1986).
"Stress and Later-Life Childbearing."
Maternal and Child Nursing 15(3):139-151.
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Resko, D.R.
and
P.K. Mansfield
(1987).
"Video Display Terminals--How They Affect the Health of Clerical Workers."
AAOHN 35(7):310-314.
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Mansfield, P.K.
(1988).
"Midlife Childbearing: Strategies for Informed Decision-Making."
Psychology of Women Quarterly 12:445-460.
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Mansfield, P.K.
,
C.M. Jorgensen
and
L. Yu
(1989).
"The Menopausal Transition: Guidelines for Researchers."
Health Education 20(6):44-49.
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Mansfield, P.K.
,
K.E. Hood
and
J. Henderson
(1989).
"Women and Their Husbands: Mood and Arousal Fluctuations across the Menstrual Cycle and Days of the Week."
Psychosomatic Medicine 51(1):66-80.
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Mansfield, P.K.
,
L. Yu
,
W.F. McCool
,
J.R. Vicary
and
J.S. Packard
(1989).
"The Job Context Index: A Guide for Improving the 'Fit' between Nurses and their Work Environment."
Journal of Advanced Nursing 14(6):501-508.
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Yu, L.
,
P.K. Mansfield
et al.
(1989).
"Stress Experienced by Nurses in Ten Clinical Areas."
International Journal of Nursing Studies.
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Mansfield, P.K.
and
B. Boyer
(1990).
"The Experiences, Concerns, and Health Care Needs of Women in the Menopausal Transition."
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 592:448-449.
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Preston, D.P.
and
P.K. Mansfield
(1990).
"Assessing the Health Status of Rural People."
Advances in Health Education and Health Promotion 3.
Mansfield, P.K.
and
C.M. Jorgensen
(1992).
"Menstrual Pattern Changes in Middle-Aged Women." In
Dan, A.J.
and
L.L. Lewis
(Eds.)
, Menstrual Health Research.
University of Illinois Press.
Mansfield, P.K.
,
S.C. Theisen
and
B. Boyer
(1992).
"Midlife Women and Menopause: A Challenge for the Mental Health Counselor."
Journal of Mental Health Counseling 14(1):73-83.
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Mansfield, P.K.
and
A.M. Voda
(1993).
"From Edith Bunker to the 6:00 News: How and What Midlife Women Learn About Menopause."
Women and Therapy 14(1-2):89-104.
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Mansfield, P.K.
and
A.M. Voda
(1993).
"From Edith Bunker to the 6:00 News: How and What Midlife Women Learn About Menopause." In
Davis, N.D.
,
E. Cole
and
E.D. Rothblum
(Eds.)
, Faces of Women and Aging.
New York, NY:
Haworth Press.
(pp. 89-104)
Mansfield, P.K.
and
A.M. Voda
(1993).
"From Edith Bunker to the 6:00 News: How Middle-Aged Women Learn About Menopause." In
Woods, N.F.
(Ed.)
, Mind-Body Rhythmicity: A Menstrual Cycle Perspective.
Seattle, WA:
Hamilton and Cross.
Theisen, S.C.
and
P.K. Mansfield
(1993).
"Menopause: Social Construction or Biologic Destiny?."
Health Education 24:209-213.
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Theisen, S.C.
,
P.K. Mansfield
,
A.M. Voda
and
B.L. Seery
(1993).
"Predictors of Attitudes Toward Menopause Among Midlife Women." In
Woods, N.F.
(Ed.)
, Mind-Body Rhythmicity: Menstrual Cycle Perspective.
Seattle, WA:
Hamilton and Cross.
Voda, A.M.
and
P.K. Mansfield
(1993).
"Menstrual Interval and Bleeding Changes During the Perimenopause." In
Woods, N.F.
(Ed.)
, Mind-Body Rhythmicity: A Menstrual Cycle Perspective.
Seattle, WA:
Hamilton and Cross.
Mansfield, P.K.
and
A.M. Voda
(1994).
"Hormone Use Among Middle-Aged Women: Results of a Three Year Study."
Menopause 1(2):99-108.
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Mansfield, P.K.
,
A.M. Voda
and
P.B. Koch
(1995).
"Predictors of Sexual Response Changes in Heterosexual Midlife Women."
Health Values 19(1):10-20.
Theisen, S.C.
,
P.K. Mansfield
,
B.L. Seery
and
A.M. Voda
(1995).
"Predictors of Midlife Women's Attitudes Toward Menopause."
Health Values 19(3):22-32.
Kittell, L.A.
,
P.K. Mansfield
,
J.M. Morse
and
A.M. Voda
(1997).
"Experiencing Changes in Menstrual Bleeding during the Menopausal Transition."
Menopause 4(3):173-183.
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Mansfield, P.K.
and
A.M. Voda
(1997).
"Woman-Centered Information on Menopause for Health Care Providers: Findings from the Midlife Women's Health Survey."
Health Care for Women International 18(1):55-72.
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Mansfield, P.K.
,
P.B. Koch
and
A.M. Voda
(1997).
"The Importance of Contextual Factors in Understanding Midlife Women's Sexuality." In
Broadening our Vision: Class and Cultural Values in Women's Health.
New London, CT:
Society for Menstrual Cycle Research.
Voda, A.M.
,
P.K. Mansfield
and
J. Root
(1997).
"Menstruation, Surgery and Women." In
Cameron, I.T.
,
I.S. Fraser
and
S.K. Smith
(Eds.)
, Clinical Disorders of the Endometrium and Menstrual Cycle.
Oxford University Press.
Chen, Y.D.
,
A.M. Voda
and
P.K. Mansfield
(1998).
"Chinese Midlife Women's Perceptions and Attitudes about Menopause."
Menopause 5(1):28-34.
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Kittell, L.A.
,
P.K. Mansfield
and
A.M. Voda
(1998).
"Keeping up Appearances: The Basic Social Process of the Menopausal Transition."
Qualitative Health Research 8(5):618-633.
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Mansfield, P.K.
,
P.B. Koch
and
A.M. Voda
(1998).
"Contextual Factors Influencing Midlife Women's Sexual Response."
Psychology of Women Quarterly:285-303.
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Mansfield, P.K.
,
P.B. Koch
and
A.M. Voda
(1998).
"Qualities Midlife Women Desire in Their Sexual Relationships and Their Changing Sexual Response."
Psychology of Women Quarterly 22:285-303.
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Kittell, L.A.
and
P.K. Mansfield
(2000).
"What Perimenopausal Women Think about Using Hormones during Menopause."
Women and Health 30(4):77-91.
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Mansfield, P.K.
,
P.B. Koch
and
A.M. Voda
(2000).
"Midlife Women's Attributions for their Sexual Response Changes."
Health Care for Women International 21(6):543-559.
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Nixon, E.
,
P.K. Mansfield
,
L.A. Kittell
and
S.L. Faulkner
(2001).
"'Staying Strong': How Low-Income Rural African American Women Manage their Menopausal Changes."
Women and Health 34(2):81-95.
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Faulkner, S.L.
and
P.K. Mansfield
(2002).
"Reconciling Messages: The Process of Sexual Talk for Latinas."
Qualitative Health Research 12(3):310-328.
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Mansfield, P.K.
and
S. Bracken
(2003).
"The Tremin Program: Sixty-Eight Years of Research on Menstruation and Women's Health."
Women's Studies Quarterly 31:25-41.
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Mansfield, P.K.
and
S. Bracken
(2003).
TREMIN: A History of the World's Oldest Ongoing Study of Menstruation and Women's Health.
Lemont, PA:
East Rim Publishers.
Mansfield, P.K.
,
P.B. Koch
and
G. Gierach
(2003).
"Husbands' Support of Their Perimenopausal Wives."
Women and Health 38(3):97-112.
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Barsom, S.H.
,
P.K. Mansfield
,
P.B. Koch
,
G. Gierach
and
S.G. West
(2004).
"Association between Psychological Stress and Menstrual Cycle Characteristics in Perimenopausal Women."
Women's Health Issues 14(6):235-241.
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Koch, P.B.
and
P.K. Mansfield
(2004).
"Facing the Unknown: Social Support during the Menopausal Transition."
Women & Therapy 27(3-4):179-194.
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Koch, P.B.
and
P.K. Mansfield
(2004).
"Facing the Unknown: Social Support during the Menopausal Transition." In
Chrisler, J.C.
(Ed.)
, From Menarche to Menopause: The Female Body in Feminist Therapy.
New York:
Haworth Press, Inc..
(pp. 179-194)
Mansfield, P.K.
and
M.L. Stubbs
(2004).
"Tracking the Course of Menstrual Life: Contributions from the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research."
Women's Health Issues 14(6):174-176.
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Mansfield, P.K.
,
A.M. Voda
and
G. Allison
(2004).
"Validating a Pencil-and-Paper Measure of Perimenopausal Menstrual Blood Loss."
Women's Health Issues 14(6):242-247.
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Mansfield, P.K.
,
M. Carey
,
A. Anderson
,
S.H. Barsom
and
P.B. Koch
(2004).
"Staging the Menopausal Transition: Data from the TREMIN Research Program on Women's Health."
Women's Health Issues 14(6):220-226.
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Stubbs, M.L.
and
P.K. Mansfield
(2004).
"The Menstrual Cycle: Feminist Analyses from the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research."
NWSA Journal 16(3):42-44.
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Ferrell, R.J.
,
K.A. O'Connor
,
G. Rodriguez
,
T. Gorrindo
,
D.J. Holman
,
E. Brindle
,
R.C. Miller
,
D.E. Schechter
,
L. Korshalla
,
J.A. Simon
,
P.K. Mansfield
,
J.W. Wood
and
M. Weinstein
(2005).
"Monitoring Reproductive Aging in a 5-Year Prospective Study: Aggregate and Individual Changes in Steroid Hormones and Menstrual Cycle Lengths with Age."
Menopause 12(5):567-577.
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Koch, P.B.
,
P.K. Mansfield
,
D. Thurau
and
M. Carey
(2005).
"'Feeling Frumpy': The Relationships between Body Image and Sexual Response Changes in Midlife Women."
Journal of Sex Research 42(3):215-223.
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O'Connor, K.A.
,
E. Brindle
,
R.C. Miller
,
J.B. Shofer
,
R.J. Ferrell
,
N.A. Klein
,
M.R. Soules
,
D.J. Holman
,
P.K. Mansfield
and
J.W. Wood
(2006).
"Ovulation Detection Methods for Urinary Hormones: Precision, Daily and Intermittent Sampling and a Combined Hierarchical Method."
Human Reproduction 21(6):1442-1452.
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Stubbs, M.L.
and
P.K. Mansfield
(2006).
"Our Menses, Ourselves: Research and Commentary from The Society for Menstrual Cycle Research."
Sex Roles 54(5-6):311-313.
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Wood, J.M.
,
P.B. Koch
and
P.K. Mansfield
(2006).
"Women's Sexual Desire: A Feminist Critique."
Journal of Sex Research 43(3):236-244.
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Ferrell, R.J.
,
R.J. O'Connor
,
D.J. Holman
,
E. Brindle
,
R.C. Miller
,
G. Rodriguez
,
J.A. Simon
,
P.K. Mansfield
,
J.W. Wood
and
M. Weinstein
(2007).
"Monitoring Reproductive Aging in a 5-Year Prospective Study: Aggregate and Individual Changes in Luteinizing Hormone and Follicle-Stimulating Hormone with Age."
Menopause 14(1):29-37.
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Mansfield, P.K.
and
M.L. Stubbs
(2007).
"The Menstrual Cycle: Feminist Scholarship from the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research."
Women & Health 46(1):1-5.
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Wood, J.M.
,
P.B. Koch
and
P.K. Mansfield
(2007).
"Is My Period Normal? How College-Aged Women Determine the Normality or Abnormality of Their Menstrual Cycles."
Women & Health 46(1):41-56.
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Wood, J.M.
,
P.K. Mansfield
and
P.B. Koch
(2007).
"Negotiating Sexual Agency: Postmenopausal Women's Meaning and Experience of Sexual Desire."
Qualitative Health Research 17(2):189-200.
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Barsom, S.H.
,
H.E. Dillaway
,
P.B. Koch
,
M.L. Ostrowski
and
P.K. Mansfield
(2008).
"The Menstrual Cycle and Adolescent Health."
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1135:52-57.
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Stubbs, M.L.
and
P.K. Mansfield
(2008).
"Editorial: Contemporary Research on the Menstrual Cycle."
Health Care for Women International 29(7):671-672.
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