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Environment and Healthy Eating Behavior
(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04)
Obesity is a serious disease that affects approximately 24 percent of the population in the United States. With obesity trends continually on the rise, it is important to identify and address the potential factors causing ...
Emotional Psychophysiological Responses during Self-Referential and Persuasive Talks
(Vanderbilt University, 2009)
Previous studies of individuals performing public speech tasks have not included a broad array of speech conditions or employed psychophysiological measures of a broad range of emotional states. In this study, we asked one ...
The Effects of Safety Behaviors on Health Anxiety: Conceptualizing Hypochondriasis as an Anxiety Disorder
(Vanderbilt University, 2009-04-12)
Research in the anxiety disorders has shown that safety behaviors function to maintain pathological anxiety by preventing the disconfirmation of inaccurate threat beliefs. The present study examined if such safety behaviors ...
Correlates of a Crisis in Children's Psychotherapy in Usual Care
(Vanderbilt University, 2009-04-03)
The purpose of the study was to examine crises that occur in Treatment as Usual. A children's mental health group was examined in order to explore the correlates of a crisis session. N=7267 sessions, N=629 clients, and ...
Self-Criticism, Sexual Minority Stress and Disordered Eating Behaviors
(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04)
Minority stress theory recognizes the presence of added stress for individuals that belong to marginalized minority groups (Meyer, 2003). When considering the mental health of those who identify as sexual minorities, the ...
Obesity and Mental Health in Adolescents
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04)
The study examined the relationship between obesity and depression, conduct disorder, and substance abuse in adolescents using data from the 2008 National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Depression at baseline was ...
Importance of Time and Place in the US Obesity Epidemic
(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-07)
The Role of Executive Function on Adolescent Affective Problems
(Vanderbilt University, 2019-03-15)
Objective: The current study examined the associations among executive function, secondary control coping and affective problems. Method: A sample of 104 adolescents (ages 9-15 years old) completed cognitive assessments ...
Eating Disorders and Life Span Development
(Vanderbilt University, 2015-11-19)
Current research shows a relationship between age and eating disorder diagnoses but does not fully understand how symptoms manifest at different stages of Life Span Development (LSD). To identify the difference of eating ...
Social Brains, Social Bodies: Investigating the Role of Personality in Embodied Emotion
(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-07)
Accurate emotion perception is essential for adaptive social functioning. Abnormal emotion perception and associated social impairments are core features of neuropsychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia and autism. ...