Heidi Fritz

Heidi Fritz is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Salisbury University, specializing in health psychology and developmental disabilities. She holds a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University and a BS from The College of William and Mary. Her research examines stress and coping mechanisms among parents of children with disabilities, particularly focusing on humor as a resilience strategy and the development of caregiving stress metrics.

Her publications explore humor styles, desirability of control, gender-specific stress responses, and cardiovascular reactivity in social contexts. Recent work addresses caregiving challenges during quarantine and the validation of the Disability Caregiving Stress Index.

Fritz's articles consistently demonstrate interdisciplinary approaches, linking psychological constructs like unmitigated agency/communion to health outcomes, cardiac rehabilitation, and chronic disease management. Methodologies range from psychometric scale development to physiological measurements.

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