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Attachment styles and functions of self-harm in adults with nonsuicidal self-injury
(2021)Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a direct and deliberate act that involves damage to one´s body tissues without suicidal intent. Research shows that it is maintained by four reinforcement processes (automatic positive ... -
Attentional and psychophysiological responses to seasonal and eating stimuli in seasonal depression and disordered eating
(2012-11-10)Research indicates similarities in clinical presentation between seasonal depression and bulimia nervosa with respect to disordered eating symptoms such as overeating, carbohydrate craving, weight gain and seasonal pattern ... -
Attentional bias and psychophysiological arousal in seasonal and nonseasonal depression symptoms
(2014-01-22)The present study investigated cognitive specificity in individuals with seasonal depression symptoms (SDS) by comparing their attentional bias and psychophysiological arousal to cognitive schema-‐relevant stimuli with ... -
Battered and nonbattered women's preferences for and expectations about liberal feminist, radical feminist, and cognitive therapy
(1997)Prior research has suggested that feminist therapy is an effective form of counseling for battered women (BW). To date however, virtually no studies have considered the importance of the client's expectations of, or ... -
Characteristics, functions, and body investment of non–suicidal self–injury in individuals of Middle Eastern and European ethnicity
(2021)The objective of the study was to investigate differences in non–suicidal self–injury (NSSI) characteristics, NSSI functions, and body investment for individuals of Middle Eastern and European descent recruited from ... -
Cognitive processes in acquaintance rape judgments : an information processing perspective
(1996)Acquaintance rape has been considered society's "hidden crime", often being seen as wrong, but not criminal (Bechhofer & Parrot, 1991). In comparison to other violent crimes, rape has the highest rate of acquittal and ... -
Concordance Between Objective Psychometric Neuropsychological Test Findings and Subjective Self-report and its Relationship to Functional Impairment in Depression
(2016)Depression is associated with a number of cognitive deficits that are associated with increased functional impairment. Cognitive functioning can be examined by way of subjective self-report measures and/or objective ... -
Effects of bright light intervention on typical and atypical depressive symptoms and predictors of response
(2004)The objective of the present study was to investigate within a prospective design the seasonality and depression predictors of light therapy response after controlling for treatment expectancy and pre-therapy functioning. ... -
Effects of sex, mood and sex-role beliefs on interpersonal responses to depressed persons
(1997)This study examined interpersonal reactions to depressed individuals as a function of the sex of a depressed person, and the sex and sex-role beliefs of the respondent. Egalitarian and traditional participants of both ... -
Emotion regulation strategies, cognitive personality styles, and context as predictors of psychological outcomes
(2014-01-22)Emotion regulation (ER) plays a central role in the development and maintenance of a number of clinical disorders including depression. Research shows maladaptive ER strategies to be more strongly associated with symptoms ... -
Explanatory style, coping style, and stress in seasonal affective disorder, subsyndromal seasonal affective disorder, and nonseasonal depression
(2002)Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is characterized by the regular onset and remission of depressive episodes that follow a seasonal pattern. The present study investigated differences among SAD, S-SAD (subsyndromal SAD), ... -
Female Canadian university sexual assault survivors: why they do not report
(2018)Female Canadian university students are at a high risk for sexual victimization and as few as 5% report the assault. Various Canadian provincial governments have put forward legislation to develop and improve university ... -
Heterosexual romantic preferences : the importance of physical attractiveness and humour
Previous research on human mate preferences has found that individuals, especially males, regard physical attractiveness as a very important attribute in potential mates. In contrast, humour, which has also been found ... -
Integrating the cognitive-specificity and dual vulnerability hypotheses : implications for vegetative and cognitive/affective differences in seasonal, nonseasonal, and sub-syndromal seasonal depression / Jennine S. Rawana.
(2006)This study compared seasonal affective disorder (SAD), nonseasonal depression, sub-syndromal SAD, and control groups on dysfunctional eating cognitions and behaviours, physical activity levels, cognitive content specificity ... -
Male sex role and responses to disclosures by adult male survivors of sexual abuse
(1996)Research evidence indicates that male survivors o f sexual abuse fear being labelled unmasculine or homosexual upon disclosure. They express the social maxim that masculine men don’t get sexually abused and gay men ... -
The Moderating role of depression in the relationship between coping strategies and significant others' reactions with the experience of chronic pain
(2012-11-10)Research shows a strong co-morbidity between pain and depression (Schatzberg, 2004). Individuals suffering with both chronic pain and depression exhibit greater pain intensity, greater interference due to pain and more ... -
No man is a failure who has friends : the role of adaptive inferential feedback in hopelessness depression / Lize R. Jalbert. --
(2004)The theory of hopelessness depression (Abramson, Metalsky, & Alloy, 1989) states that the presence of the psychological state of hopelessness is a sufficient cause for the development of a specific subtype of depression ... -
Perceived stress, psychological functioning and sleep in night eating syndrome
(2014-12-11)Night eating syndrome (NES) is defined primarily by evening hyperphagia, and may be accompanied by morning anorexia, sleep disturbance, and depressed mood that worsens in the evening. It is viewed as a circadian disorder ... -
Personality and early maladaptive schemas differentiating persons who engage in infrequent versus pathological non-suicidal self-injury
(2014-01-22)Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is used as a coping mechanism for regulating emotions and communicating distress. Research has contributed to understanding the prevalence, forms, and functions of NSSI, but little is known ... -
Psychological characteristics in seasonal and nonseasonal depression
(2004)The present study compared three groups of individuals (Seasonal Affective Disorder or SAD, nonseasonally depressed or NSD, and healthy controls) to establish similarities and differences among them in various psychological ...
