Browsing Undergraduate Honors Program - Psychological Sciences by Subject "Adjustment (Psychology)"
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(Vanderbilt University, 2021-04)The transition to college exacerbates stress, and coping strategies like cognitive reappraisal can moderate how interpersonal stress affects psychological well-being, with individual differences in reappraisal being ...
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Investigating Factors Associated With Offspring’s Coping with Huntington’s Disease-related stress. (Vanderbilt University, 2022-03-25)Abstract: Objective: In this study, I investigated (1) how age is related to reported levels of coping with Huntington’s Disease-related stress in offspring; (2) how measures of disease progression in parents are directly ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2022-03-28)Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) predispose adolescents to a variety of physical and mental health problems and place them at an increased risk of experiencing additional major stressors later in life (Anda et al., ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012-03-29)This study characterizes the neurocognitive late effects of treatment in pediatric brain tumor survivors by examining patterns of executive function, coping, emotional outcomes, and brain activation. We examined associations ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007-04-16)Childhood cancer is a disease that affects a relatively small number of children and families in the US each year, but those families who are affected are often devastated. The stress and heartbreak of childhood cancer ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-21)Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is a chronic illness that disproportionately affects African Americans in the U.S. at a rate of 1 to 500. Proper management of this blood disorder is key in ensuring that those affected lead ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-04-03)Questionnaire and observational measures were used to examine psychological anxiety in mothers of children coping with pediatric cancer and its association with child anxiety and mother-child communication. Ninety-seven ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2024-03-27)Existing literature on Chinese international students has primarily been interpreted through Eurocentric theories; thus, little is known about these perspectives from a culturally contextualized Chinese perspective. To ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-05)An individual engages in coping when he or she uses cognitive and behavioral efforts to deal with the internal or external demands of a stressful situation to make it more congruent with his or her goals (Smith & Lazarus, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04)The present study examined the psychological predictors of success as they relate to performance levels. To this end, study 1 was conducted investigating the foremost psychological constructs athletes employ while in a ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-05)The following study addresses creating a new, more efficient measure for evaluating appraisal styles, specifically emotion-focused, or accommodative-focused, coping potential and problem-focused coping potential. The ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-07)This paper looks at the effects of life stress on predicting health outcomes in chronic abdominal pain patients. It also looks at whether competence moderates the effects of life stress.
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(Vanderbilt University, 2020)The present study examined the relation of childhood trauma to executive control and executive control under stress. Participants (N=104) were students, ages 18-22 (Mage=18.97, SD=1.078), at Vanderbilt University. In the ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-11)Individuals develop core attitudes and beliefs that bring a sense of reality and purpose to their lives. They make up one’s assumptive world. After a particular trauma or stressful life event, one’s assumptive world is ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2015)This study investigated similarities and differences in levels of internalizing and externalizing symptoms and strategies used to cope with stress in a sample of sibling pairs of 9-15 year-old children of depressed parents. ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2013-04-02)The current study will examine the degree of similarity in ways of coping in a sample of children with newly diagnosed cancer and their parents. There is a relationship between mother’s coping and children’s coping, which ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2022-03-29)Parents of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities who have complex communication needs experience unique stressors, particularly due to the COVID-19 pandemic with changes to children’s educational and ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2024-03-27)PSY-PC 4999 - Honors Seminar - Dr. Jessika Boles Millions of children are living with intellectual and developmental disabilities worldwide, yet little is known about this experience from the vantage point of neurotypical ...