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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Cognitive Appraisals"”.
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PTSD Subtypes, Depressive Presentation, Dissociation, and Cognitive Appraisals and Their Impact on Cardiovascular Reactivity Responses to Stress
… depressive presentation, dissociation, or cognitive appraisals of stressful events can predict the nature of one’s cardiovascular response to stress. It was hypothesized that: (1) PTSD arousal would be positively related to cardiac reactivity and PTSD avoidance negatively related to cardiac …
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The role of cognitive appraisals in the disruption of anxiety-buffer functioning among trauma survivors experiencing posttraumatic distress
… death anxiety (Yalom, 1980, 2008). The cognitive model (Ehlers & Clark, 2000), in turn, proposes that negative appraisals relating to a trauma and its sequelae maintain the symptoms of PTSD. The purpose of the current study was to examine a possible theoretical link between ABDT and the …
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Affective Intelligence, The Political Persuasion Process, And Outcome Intent: An Experimental Test
… in forming attitudes and behavior: affective, cognitive, and personality factors. While much attention has been paid to the impact of each single factor, little research has attempted to integrate them. Using the Affective Intelligence model as a theoretical point of departure (Marcus, & …
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Person-in-job determinants and work outcomes of fit
… (and others in the workplace) that results from cognitive appraisals of interactions between personal characteristics, representing needs of workers, and corresponding reinforcers of those needs in the work situation. Fit was seen to lead to affective responses, and ultimately to influence work …
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Personality And Risk-Taking Behaviors In Emerging Adulthood
… traits that contribute to risk-taking or cognitive appraisals of risky behaviors. Further, most research has focused on the adolescent population with regard to risk. Studies on emerging adulthood are less abundant. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the role of …
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Examining the Role of Motivation in the Relationship Between Perceived Academic Stress and Coping Among Freshmen
… Model of Stress and Coping (TMSC) posits that cognitive appraisals determine the selection of stress coping. In the current study, two motivation indicators, causal attributions for academic stress and value of college education, were recognized as cognitive appraisals that were respectively …
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AN EMPIRICAL TEST OF A COGNITIVE MODEL OF PTSD USING PATH ANALYSIS AND STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING
… tested elements of Ehlers and Clark's (2000) cognitive model of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptom maintenance using path analysis and structural equation modeling (SEM). Ehlers and Clark's model suggests that a reciprocal relationship between cognitive appraisals of the traumatic …
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Path analytic investigation of stress-symptom relationships: Physical and psychological symptom models
… chronic role strains, acute daily stressors, cognitive appraisals of stress, different methods of coping, and physical and psychological symptoms. Seventy-five adult male inmates of a county correctional facility were studied using a prospective research design to explore the relationships …
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An Examination of the Influence of Consumer Motivation on Salesperson Appraisal and Emotional Response to Salesperson Behavior
… motivational mind-set affects the consumer's cognitive appraisal of the salesperson and the consumer's subsequent emotional response. Of primary interest is the interaction between a consumer's motivation and a salesperson's behavior. A main thesis of this research is that a congruency …
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Relationships of cognitive appraisal
Cognitive appraisal is a pivotal construct that has been identified in determining the stress response and coping response. Researchers have shown specific physiological outcomes of initial cognitive appraisals that are taken more as a threat or a challenge. Cognitive appraisal is known to …
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Reactions to Others with Depression: An Investigation of Responsibility and Deservingness Judgments
… of responsibility and deservingness are two cognitive appraisals that independently predict other-directed moral emotions and helping judgments. The current research integrated theories of responsibility and deservingness to investigate a novel approach for increasing support to individuals …
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Compassion in Organizations
… moral disengagement), situational (i.e., cognitive appraisals) and organizational (i.e., ethical leadership, ethical climate) contextual variables. Findings from experimental and field studies are presented. Theoretical and practical implications of compassion in organizations are …
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Survive or Thrive: Focusing on the Forest (Global) or the Trees (Local) Impacts Meaning Making
… This trend demonstrated an interaction between cognitive appraisals of novelty, and specific affect states, in influencing global versus local systems of attention. Physiological measures of heart rate (HR) and skin conductance level (SCL) provided objective measures of emotional experiencing. …
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Cancer and posttraumatic growth
… paper investigates the role of trauma-related cognitive appraisals in the perception of PTG for breast cancer patients. More negative appraisals in relation to the event were associated with benefit finding.
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Social-psychological determinants of well- and ill-being among vocational dancers: a self-determination theory approach
… and b) whether BPNS was relevant to dancers’ cognitive appraisals and hormonal and emotional responses in ‘real life’ performance settings (study four). Overall, this thesis partially supports the tenets of basic needs theory. Findings point to the importance of need supportive environments if …
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Predicting first-year college achievement : evaluation of a self-regulatory coping model
… multiple factors associated with student stress-appraisals, coping responses, and eventual outcomes can be examined within investigations of college academic achievement. The main purpose of this study was to examine the degree of influence student background characteristics, indicators of prior …
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Factors influencing perceptions of teachers : the role of locus of control and academic perceptions of self
… the teacher rather than the student. Individual cognitive appraisals of both efficacy and attribution impact how feedback from teachers is interpreted. Of particular interest is whether individuals attribute academic failures to external sources, such as teachers, which could impact the 5 …
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Emotional intelligence, religiosity, and authoritarianism in Canadian Bible college students
… an understanding of the emotions as based in cognitive appraisals. There is an exploration of the relationship between religiosity and authoritarianism. Significant attention is paid to factor analysis of the instruments employed. These included the Social Conformity-Autonomy Scale , the …
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Cognitive mechanisms underlying emotion regulation
… of an emotional response or modulate it via cognitive reappraisal. Antecedent strategies involve avoidance behaviour i. e. avoiding situations in which the emotional response is likely to occur. Recent evidence has now demonstrated, however, that the cognitive and emotional systems are highly …
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Investigating the relationship between religious coping, appraisals, social support, and symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): A correlational study using an Islamic community sample.
… Contemporary models of PTSD view posttraumatic appraisals and social support as important factors in the onset and maintenance of this condition (e.g., Ehlers & Clark, 2000). Islam is central to the lives of its adherents (e.g., Hamdan, 2007) and religion influences its followers’ beliefs and …
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