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Attention and emotion processing among individuals with worry
(2021-12)
Worry has been defined as a core feature of Generalized Anxiety Disorder and is characterized by excessive and uncontrollable thoughts regarding future uncertain or potentially threatening events. Models of worry have ...
Combined effects of youth and parent illness intrusiveness on depressive symptoms in adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease
(2021-07)
Purpose/Background: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) presents physical and emotional challenges for families, and imposes significant lifestyle intrusions on both youth and parents. The present study examined the effects ...
Association of health anxiety and health care management skills to health-related quality of life in college students with a chronic medical condition
(2021-05)
Adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with a chronic medical condition (CMC) are often tasked with increasing independent management of their health care as they transition from pediatric to adult medical care (i.e., transition ...
Cognitive effects of social exclusion in social anxiety
(2021-12)
Social anxiety (SA) is characterized by persistent and intense fears of situations that provide the opportunity for social evaluation. Moreover, SA is often associated with core interpersonal (e.g., overt social skills, ...
Suicidal ideation and risky behavior - Relationships with wish to live, hopelessness, and impulsivity
(2021-07)
Numerous studies have found support for the relationship between suicide and risky behavior. However, few studies have examined factors that may help explain the relationship between suicidal ideation and risky behavior. ...
Scientific realism and final causes: A new method for visualizing final causes in iconic models
(2021-12)
In light of documented methodological issues and reproducibility failures, psychologists have sought to improve the scientific credibility of their field. Unfortunately, these efforts have not addressed psychology's ...
Factors associated with caregiver stress and self-reported cognition during the COVID-19 pandemic
(2021-12)
Caregivers are critical in helping persons with dementia (PWD) live at home longer, but the caregiving experience is associated with increased risk of physical (Vitaliano et al., 2003; Son et al., 2007; Fonareva & Oken, ...
Does seeking the brawns impact the brain?: An investigation of muscularity-oriented disordered behaviors and cognitive function
(2021-12)
Brain health is impacted by body composition as well as associated health behaviors. The current shift in body-image ideals towards a more lean and muscular body has revealed new eating and exercise behaviors that may be ...
Risk-taking in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A meta-analytic review of behavioral tasks and self-report measures
(2021-05)
Given characteristic features of ADHD that include behavioral disinhibition (Barkley, 1997), impulsivity (Patros et al., 2016), and increased reward and novelty seeking behaviors (Donfrancesco et al., 2015), it is not ...
Parental responsibility: Stigmatization of parents based on child weight
(2021-12)
Qualitative evidence, judicial decisions, and media reports suggest that parents of children with obesity experience stigma on account of their children's weights. However, to the best of my knowledge, little empirical ...