Shannon O'Connor
Assistant Professor
PhD, Michigan State University, 2018
Office: UH 5040C
Phone: 419-530-2717
Fax: (419) 530-8479
Email: Shannon.OConnor@utoledo.edu
Mailing Address:
Department of Psychology
University of Toledo
2801 West Bancroft St.
Toledo, Ohio 43606-3390
Dr. O'Connor's CV
Lab Website: BeFedLab.com
Dr. O'Connor will be accepting students for the Fall of 2025.
Research Interests
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Risk factors for disordered eating and clinical eating disorders
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Interplay of genes and environment
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Parental and peer influences on disordered eating
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Food insecurity
Selected publications
O’Connor, S. M., Zickgraf, H. F., Hazzard, V. M., Haller, L. L., & Wildes, J. E. (2023). Exploring differences in disordered eating and related appetitive
traits among women based on childhood and current food security status. Eating Behaviors, 49, 101729.
O’Connor, S. M., Mikhail, M., Anaya, C., Haller, L., Burt, S. A., McGue, M., Iacono, W. G., & Klump, K. L. (2022). Exploring the possibility
of parents' broad internalizing phenotype acting through passive gene-environment
correlations on daughters' disordered eating. Development and Psychopathology, 34(5), 1744-1755.
Zickgraf, H. F., Hazzard, V., & O’Connor, S. M. (2022). Food insecurity is associated with eating disorders independent of depression
and anxiety: Findings from the 2020-21 Healthy Minds Study. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 55(3), 354-361.
O’Connor, S. M., Hazzard, V. M., & Zickgraf, H. F. (2022). Exploring differential item functioning
on eating disorder measures by food security status. Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity, 27(4), 1449-1455.
Mikhail, M. E., Carroll, S. L., Clark, D. A., O’Connor, S. M., Burt, S. A., & Klump, K. L. (2021). Context matters: Neighborhood disadvantage is
associated with increased disordered eating and earlier activation of genetic influences
in girls. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 130(8), 875-885.
O’Connor, S. M., Culbert, K. M., Mayhall, L. A., Burt, S. A. & Klump, K. L. (2020). Differences
in genetic and environmental influences on shape and weight concerns across pubertal
development in females. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 121, 39-46.
O’Connor, S. M., Burt, S. A., McGue, M., Iacono, W. G, & Klump, K. L. (2019). Elucidating factors
underlying parent-offspring similarity in eating pathology in pre- and early puberty:
Exploring the possibility of passive gene-environment correlation. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 128(7), 658-670.
O’Connor, S. M., Beam, C. R., Luo, X., Cohen, L. A., VanHuysse, J. L., Emery, R. E., Turkheimer,
E., Keel, P. K., Burt, S. A., Neale, M., Boker, S., Sisk, C. L., & Klump, K. L. (2017).
Genetic and environmental associations between body dissatisfaction, weight preoccupation,
and binge eating: Evidence for a common factor with differential loadings across symptom
types. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 50(2), 157-161.
O'Connor, S. M., Burt, S. A., VanHuysse, J. L., & Klump, K. L. (2016). What drives the association
between body-conscious peer groups and disordered eating? Disentangling genetic and
environmental selection from pure socialization effects. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 125(3), 356-368.
O’Connor, S. M., Klump, K. L., VanHuysse, J. L, McGue, M., & Iacono, W. G. (2015). Does parental
divorce moderate heritability of body dissatisfaction?: A replication using figural
rating scales. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 49(2), 186-190.