Browsing by Author "Bruce Compas"
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Davidson, Heather Ann (2005-12-19)Department: PsychologyFreestanding birth centers (FBCs) offer prenatal and childbirth services outside hospital settings where nurse-midwives are the primary providers for women with low risk pregnancies. Although previous research provides ...
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Shirkey, Kezia Coleman (2011-09-09)Department: PsychologySelf-efficacy has been conceptualized in two ways in the context of chronic pain—both as people’s beliefs that they can function and cope emotionally despite the pain (functional self-efficacy) and as people’s beliefs that ...
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Herrington, Catherine Gallerani (2014-08-01)Department: PsychologyThe study examined whether children’s level of metacognitive ability predicted their learning of the skills taught in cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), over and above age. Participants were 225 children 9 -16 years old (M ...
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Korelitz, Katherine Elizabeth (2016-08-25)Department: PsychologyThe present study (1) examined the extent of parent-child congruence in their reports about parenting behaviors, and identified correlates of this congruence, (2) explored the prospective relation between congruence and ...
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Evans, Lindsay Downs (2014-05-28)Department: PsychologyThe present longitudinal study examined the concurrent and prospective relations among the executive functions of working memory and cognitive flexibility, coping strategies, and symptoms of depression in children. ...
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Samanez Larkin, Silvia Patricia (2015-05-26)Department: PsychologyIdentifying cognitive and emotional risk factors that contribute to the onset, maintenance, and recurrence of depression is crucial for developing interventions for treatment and prevention. Poor executive function skills ...
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Andreotti, Charissa Filker (2012-08-12)Department: PsychologyThe current study investigated the role of chronic stress in alterations in automatic attentional and stress reactivity processes that may affect vulnerability to mental and physical illness in women. Participants were ...
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Andreotti, Charissa Filker (2010-04-10)Department: PsychologyThe current study analyzes the relationship between executive functioning, emotion regulation, and patterns of coping strategies in older adolescents and young adults. Results from this study indicate that although there ...
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Rodriguez, Erin M (2008-04-04)Department: PsychologyChildhood cancer is a source of stress for children who are diagnosed and their families. These children and their parents have been shown to have higher levels of emotional distress than the general population. Parent-child ...
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Watson, Kelly Haker (2016-05-25)Department: PsychologyThis study examined concurrent maternal and child correlates of maternal coping socialization messages using a cross-informant, multi-method design. Maternal responsive/warm parenting behaviors were also examined as a ...
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Downs, Lindsay E. (2010-04-08)Department: PsychologyThe purpose of this prospective study was to examine the relations among stressful life events, coping, and depressive symptoms in a sample of children at varied risk for depression. Although links among stress, coping, ...
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Bemis, Heather Michelle (2017-02-20)Department: PsychologyThe present study integrated and expanded upon two previously separate lines of research on stress and coping processes endemic to mothers faced with two significant sources of stress: mothers coping with a child’s cancer ...
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Walters, Eban J. (2006-12-11)Department: PsychologyAlthough used widely in psychological research, race and ethnicity are amorphous and ill-defined constructs, lack adequate reliability and validity, and are rarely suitable as explanatory variables or mechanisms of ...
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Jaser, Sarah S. (2006-07-31)Department: PsychologyObserved mothers with and without a history of depression interacting with their adolescent children in a positive and a stressful task to determine possible mechanisms for the transmission of the effects of maternal ...
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Bettis, Alexandra Hall (2014-04-29)Department: PsychologyResearch has long documented significant anxiety and depression symptom co-occurrence across the lifespan, which suggests that these symptoms may share a common etiology. Stringent tests of specificity may elucidate those ...
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Jacquez, Farrah (2006-12-12)Department: PsychologyWe utilized a racially and economically diverse sample in a cross-sectional lab-based study to investigate parenting as a mediator in the relation of poverty to depressive symptoms in children. 100 parent/child dyads ...
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Reeslund, Kristen Lynne (2006-04-14)Department: PsychologyIn a sample of mothers with and without a history of depression and their adolescent children, the role of negative parenting behaviors and actual and perceived child competence, as observed in parent-child interactions ...
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Ulman, Teresa Frances (2008-07-31)Department: PsychologyResearch on maternal adjustment following the addition of a child with a developmental disability has been greatly influenced by the Double ABCX model. A near constant across all previous studies using the Double ABCX ...
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Horowitz, Jason Louis (2006-03-28)Department: PsychologyThis study evaluated two universal programs for the prevention of depressive symptoms in adolescents. Three hundred eighty students from suburban/rural high schools were randomly assigned to a cognitive behavioral program ...
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Sinclair-McBride, Keneisha Rachelle (2015-05-15)Department: PsychologyEvidence suggests that overeating, LOC, and binge eating are all prospectively associated with depressive symptoms. Theory and research indicate that these relations are likely bidirectional. In addition, theory and ...