PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Cotten, Shelia R., Russell P.D. Burton, and Beth Rushing. "The Mediating Effects of Social Support and Psychosocial Resources on the Relationship Between Marital Quality and Psychological Distress." Forthcoming in the Journal of Family Issues, 2003.

Cotten, Shelia R., Jammie Price, Shirley Keeton, Russell Burton, and Janice Wittekind. Advice From the Field: New Faculty Discuss Job Searching in Sociology. American Sociological Association: Washington, DC., 2002.

Jammie Price, Shelia R. Cotten, Shirley Keeton, Janice Wittekind, and Russell Burton. What to Expect During Your First Year as an Assistant Professor. American Sociological Association: Washington, DC., 2002.

Cotten, Shelia R., Jammie Price, Shirley Keeton, Russell P.D. Burton, and Janice Wittekind. "Reflections on the Academic Job Search in Sociology." The American Sociologist, 32(3): 26-42, 2001.

Cotten, Shelia R. "Implications of the Internet for Medical Sociology in the New Millennium." Sociological Spectrum, 21(3): 319-340, 2001.

Cotten, Shelia R., Katherine Skinner, and Lisa Sullivan. "Social Support Among Women Veterans." Journal of Women and Aging, 12 (½): 39-62, 2000.

Cotten, Shelia R. "Marital Status and Mental Health Revisited: Examining the Importance of Risk Factors and Resources," Family Relations, 48(3): 225-233, 1999.

Schulman, Michael D. and Shelia R. Cotten. "Adaptations to The Farm Crisis: Macro Level Implications of Micro Level Behaviors", Applied Behavioral Science Review, 1(1): 93-111, 1993.

Schulman, Michael D. and Shelia R. Cotten. "Saving The Farm: Strategies For Success Or Distress", Research in Rural Sociology and Development, 5: 241-258, 1991.

BOOK REVIEWS
Cotten, Shelia R. Review of Mixed Methodology: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches, by A. Tashakkori and C. Teddlie (Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1998). In Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 28:6, p. 752, 1999.

NON PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Cotten, Shelia R. "Take a Stroll Through Baltimore," The Southern Sociologist Newsletter, Spring 2002.

Cotten, Shelia R. "Baltimore: A ‘Charming' Mixture of History, Entertainment, and Diverse Cultures", The Southern Sociologist Newsletter, Fall 2001.

Schulman, Michael D. and Shelia R. Cotten. "Farm Family Survival Strategies", North Carolina Farm & Rural Life Study. Vol. 2:5, June 1989.

Schulman, Michael D. and Shelia R. Cotten. "Farm Operator Survival", North Carolina Farm & Rural Life Study. Vol. 2:4, May 1989.

MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW
Cotten, Shelia R. and Michael D. Schulman. "From Social Structure to Psychological Distress: Exploring the Links Between Employment, Gender, and Mental Health." Under review at Sex Roles, October 2001.

Rohall, Dave and Shelia R. Cotten. "Applying the Stress Process to College Samples: Chronic Student Stress and Mental Health Among College Freshmen." Under review at the Journal of American College Health, July 2002.

Morgan, Charles and Shelia R. Cotten. "The Relationship Between Internet Activities and Depressive Symptoms in a Sample of College Freshmen." Under review at CyberPsychology & Behavior, August 2002.

Rohall, Dave, Shelia R. Cotten, and Charlie Morgan. "Internet Use and the Self Concept: Linking Specific Uses to Global Self-Esteem." Under review at Current Research in Social Psychology, August 2002.

MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS
Cotten, Shelia R. "Development of a Theory of Computer Mediated Social Support." To be submitted to the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, September 2002.

Price, Jammie, Shelia R. Cotten, Janice Wittekind, Shirley Keeton, and Russell P.D. Burton. "Reflections on The First Year Experience as an Assistant Professor." To be submitted to The American Sociologist, September 2002.

Cotten, Shelia R., Elizabeth Davison, Patricia San Antonio, and Heather Hax. "Internet Communication and Changes in Contact Network Ties." To be submitted to Qualitative Sociology, September 2002.

Cotten, Shelia R., J. Alice Nixon, Dave Rohall, Mark Terranova, and Bethany Griffin-Deeds. "Applying the Tailored Design to Internet Surveys with College Student Samples." To be submitted to Public Opinion Quarterly, October 2002.

Cotten, Shelia R. and Dave Rohall. "An Examination of the Mediating Effects of Computer Mediated Support on Depression." To be submitted to the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, October 2002.

Cotten, Shelia R. and Sipi Gupta. "Health Information Seeking: Differences Between Online and Offline Seekers." To be submitted to Social Science and Medicine, September 2002.

Davison, Elizabeth and Shelia R. Cotten. "Social Implications of Internet Connections." To be submitted to IT@Society, October 2002

Cotten, Shelia R. "Forging Into Computer Mediated Social Support: An Expansion of the MOS Social Support Scale." To be submitted to Social Science and Medicine, November 2002.

Waldo, Dan, Shelia R. Cotten, and Dave Rohall. "Non-Response and Slow Response in an Internet Survey of College Freshmen." To be submitted to Sociological Methods and Research, October 2002.

Wilson, Bonnie and Shelia R. Cotten. "Student Perceptions of Student-Faculty Interactions."

Burton, Russell P.D. and Shelia R. Cotten. "Exploring the Link Between Social Role Occupation and Psychological Distress: Role Specific Identity Meanings as Attachments to Social Structure and the Mediating Effects of Global Integrative Meaning."