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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Adaptation, Psychological"”.
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Chinese international students' health and well-being in UK universities
… and well-being practice; 2) sociocultural adaptation; 3) academic stress and anxiety; 4) psychological adaptation; 5) views on social support; 6) dilemma regarding health service: Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) or Western Medicine (WM)，and 7) health concern of female students. Chinese …
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Alternating Sequences of Future and Past Behavior Encoded Within Hippocampal Theta Oscillations
Experience necessarily occurs in a sequence, and adaptive behavior requires the ability to analyze experience, both prospectively and retrospectively. It remains unclear how forward-ordered neural activity can facilitate storage or expression of reverse-ordered sequences, which are observed in …
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A Family Bereavement Camp: Emerging Themes Regarding Its Impact on the Lives of Bereaved Parents and Siblings
BACKGROUND: Within the grief literature, family bereavement camps have yet to be researched in a combined population of bereaved parents and siblings. Camp Sol is a weekend retreat for families who have experienced the death of a child/sibling. The goal of the current study is to establish areas …
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Coping strategies, psychopathological symptoms, and posttraumatic growth following trauma and stressful life events
The current study examined the predictive value of stressful life experiences and coping strategies on posttraumatic growth and psychopathological symptoms. Using the Traumatic Life Events Questionnaire (TLEQ), the Brief COPE, the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI), and the Posttraumatic Growth …
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Stressful Life Events and Coping Methods in Mental-Illness and Wellness Behaviors
<p>A descriptive-comparative study was done to examine the relationship between stressful life events and mental-illness and wellness behaviors, and the coping methods used by individuals exhibiting each behavior.</p> <p>Data collection included the use of the Social Readjustment Rating Scale and a …
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Thought Suppression Change in Cancer Patients and Survivors After Writing
… breast cancer can involve many physically and psychologically straining features. The illness perception theory states that individuals form illness representations to make sense of health threats and illness. These representations contain a number of individual, specific attributes about the …
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Education about Chronic Mental Illness and Coping in these Families
<p>Coping styles of family members and familial relationships of patients with Schizophrenia/Schizoaffective, Dissociative, and/or Bipolar Disorder maybe influenced by psychoeducation interventions. Specifically, Psychoeducation (i.e. comprehensive & standardized protocol) can lower family …
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The Relations of Pain, Religious Coping, and Depression in Fibromyalgia Patients
<p>This study attempted to examine the relationship between Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS) pain, religious coping, and depression. The Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire (FIQ), Short-Form McGill Pain Questionnaire (SF-MPQ), RCOPE, and the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) were …
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A Qualitative Study of Inpatient Rehabilitation Client Perceptions of the Semi-Fixed Environment
<p><strong>Background and Purpose</strong>. Literature supports the importance of the environment on promoting or compromising health. However, little is known about how the semi-fixed environment affects client perceptions and recovery from a debilitating condition. The purpose of this study was …
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Coping as a Mediator between Symptom Burden and Distress in Lung Cancer Patients
… patients also report the highest levels of psychological distress and symptom burden than any other forms of cancer (Linden, Vodermaier, MacKenzie, & Greig, 2012). Given the prevalence and impact of lung cancer, it is imperative to address the emotional toll this diagnosis can have on those …
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The Lived Experience of Aging: Listening to the Oldest-Old
<p>Although embraced as desirable by most, living into very old age is largely unexplored as a distinct season of life, with increased, varied, and cumulative changes during a unique time of vulnerability and frailty. The purpose of this study was to listen to the oldest-old, and to explore their …
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The Effect of Discrimination on Mental Health after Adverse Childhood Experiences
<p>The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) study reports that childhood adversity is relatively common, often co-occurs with multiple types of exposures, and has a dose-response relationship to many leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the U.S. Although there have been mixed results …
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Interacting Beliefs and Processes in Mothers of Children Diagnosed with Autism
<p>The purpose of this study was to expand previous research regarding beliefs in mothers of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders (MCDAs). Specifically, the pilot to this dissertation showed that mothers believed that the disorder was more stable than any specific behavior, but this …
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Linguistic Predictors of Peer Responsiveness in an Online Cancer Support Group
Introduction: Little is known about how group cohesion develops in online support group communities. Previous research suggests that message content, selfdisclosure, and emotional expression may be central to this process. The purpose of this study was to identify linguistic and qualitative …
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Religious Problem Solving and Coping with End Stage Renal Disease
<p>This study examined the impact of end-stage renal disease life-related couple/family stressors and strains on marital satisfaction, parental satisfaction, life satisfaction, and depression on end-stage renal disease patients and their spouses, as well as quality of life for patients. Also, it …
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Lung Cancer Stigma: Associated Variables and Coping Strategies
<p>Lung cancer stigma is a burgeoning area of literature, yet two important questions remain unanswered: a) What are the associations between lung cancer stigma and psychosocial outcomes across lung cancer survivors with different smoking histories and b) how would lung cancer survivors describe …
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Cultural and Psychological Influences on Diabetic Adherence
… the relationships among cultural influences and psychological processes. More proximal components of behavior, such as cognitive processes and emotions, mediated the negative effect that cultural value orientations (fatalism and mastery) may have on adherence. Particularly, negative emotions …
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Program Evaluation on the Kids First Program
<p>This study is a program evaluation of the Kids First program, an eight-week psychoeducation program, on parents and children who have experienced a divorce and/or separation. This study was conducted to assess the usefulness of specific program interventions as it relates to parental insight, …
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Stressors and Coping Mechanisms of Married Female Physicians : A Qualitative review
… of grounded theory: System Challenge and System Adaptation. Additionally, work demands, home demands, child care demands, self imposed demands, reaching out and reaching in, emerged as subcategories. This present study has implications for theory, future research, family policy, work-family …
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Parental Depression and Child Behavior Problems: A Closer Examination
<p>Parents of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have higher rates of depressive symptoms, and parental depressive symptoms are strongly associated with problem behaviors in children. However, the direction of effect between parental depression and child behavior problems is unclear. …
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