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Health-Related Stigma in Advanced Lung Cancer
(2015-07-27)
Health related stigma (HRS) is a poorly understood phenomenon in patients with advanced lung cancer. Approximately 30% of patients with lung cancer, regardless of smoking status, report feeling stigmatized due to their ...
The Online Social Support Scale: Exploratory Factor Analysis, Validation, and Effects on Psychosocial Outcomes
(2016-07-26)
The Internet provides a new arena in which social support operates. After surveying the in-person literature, we created the Online Social Support Scale, which measures four kinds of social support online: esteem/emotional, ...
Relations among Symptom Severity, Coping, and Parenting in Depressed and Non-depressed Parents
(2012-07-26)
Depressed parents tend to exhibit impaired parenting, although the specific mechanisms underlying this relation are not well understood. Past research has shown that depressed adults use less adaptive coping strategies ...
Parental Depression, Economic Disadvantage, and the Dual Process Model of Responses to Stress in Children
(2009-03-30)
Previous research has shown that both having a parent with depression and economic disadvantage are chronically stressful and lead to poorer outcomes in children and adolescents, but these stressors have never been studied ...
Longitudinal relations between targeted peer victimization and depression
(2010-03-30)
The study presented in this thesis was designed to determine the longitudinal relations between targeted peer victimization and depression among US children. Several aspects and characteristics of peer victimization, and ...
Analysis of spectral properties of speech for detecting suicide risk and impact of gender specific differences
(2011-04-18)
Depression is a potentially life threatening mood disorder which affects many people. Two thirds of the people with depression don‟t realize that depression is a treatable illness, only 50% of people diagnosed with major ...
Human 5-HT2C receptor variants: functional properties and genetic associations in major depressive disorder
(2005-07-12)
This dissertation describes pharmacological studies of the functional consequences of the Cys23Ser single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in two different edited versions of the human 5-HT2C receptor as well as evaluation ...
Stress reactivity and regulation in young adults at varied risk for depression
(2011-06-28)
This study examined cortisol reactivity and regulation to a psychosocial stress task in 102 young adults, ages 18 to 31 (mean age = 22.97, SD = 3.87), at varied risk for depression (56 remitted depressed, 46 never depressed). ...
Anticipatory affective startle modulation in unipolar depression
(2004-07-13)
Affective startle eyeblink modulation by unipolar depressed and nondepressed participants was assessed during the anticipation and viewing of emotional pictures. Anticipatory startle probes were presented at 2000 ms and ...
Negative cognitive style and its correlates in children and adolescents at varied risk for depression
(2015-07-14)
The current study examined correlates of child negative cognitive style in a sample of 115 children and adolescents (age 9 to 15-years-old) and their mothers with varied depression histories. The present study also developed ...