Ruby Charak

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Associate Professor

UAMS

25 h-index 106 pubs 2,098 cited

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Ruby Charak investigates the complex relationships between trauma, emotion dysregulation, and mental health outcomes. Her research utilizes quantitative methods, including latent class analysis and surveys, to identify patterns of childhood maltreatment and polyvictimization and their association with various psychopathologies.

Charak's work has examined these associations across diverse populations, including justice-involved youth, adult trauma victims, college students, and veterans. Her publications explore the factor structure of posttraumatic stress symptoms, the validity of emotion regulation scales in individuals with severe mental illness, and the moderating role of anger in the link between childhood polyvictimization and suicidal behavior. She has also investigated the mental health impacts of childhood maltreatment and intimate partner violence among lesbian, gay, and bisexual emerging adults, considering the mediating role of social support.

Her scholarship metrics include an h-index of 25, with over 100 publications and more than 2,000 citations. Charak maintains an active lab website and has been recently active in research.

Metrics

h-index: 25
Publications: 106
Citations: 2,098

Positions

Associate Professor 2025–present

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Department of Health Behavior and Health Education Institutional directory
Associate Professor 2016–2025

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Department of Psychological Science ORCID
Postdoctoral Fellow 2014–2016

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Psychology ORCID
Assistant Professor (tenured) 2005–2016

University of Jammu Department of Psychology ORCID

Selected Publications

Reliability and Validity of the International Depression Questionnaire and International Anxiety Questionnaire in English- and Spanish-Speaking Samples in Chile, Mexico, and the United States (2026)

Assessment DOI OpenAlex
Examining the relationships between posttraumatic stress disorder, major depressive disorder, and emotion dysregulation using network analysis. (2026)

Traumatology An International Journal DOI OpenAlex
Differences in Successful Substance Use Treatment Completion by Age and Pregnancy Status (2026)

Journal of Drug Issues DOI OpenAlex
Childhood maltreatment profiles and premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) among female adolescents in Nigeria: A latent class analysis (2026)

Journal of Affective Disorders Reports 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
Cisheterosexism, minority stress, and mental health challenges among LGBTQ+ adults in Spain (2026)

Sexual and Gender Diversity in Social Services DOI OpenAlex
Communities of caring and coping: An exploration of resilience among LGBTQA2S + young adults in resource-deficit regions (2025)

Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
‘It is very subtle, but it’s still a kind of exclusion’: a mixed-method study on microaggressions within Spain’s LGBTQ+ communities (2025)

Journal of Gender-Based Violence DOI OpenAlex