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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Cognitive vulnerability"”.
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Stress Reactivity and Cognitive Vulnerability for Depression in Adolescence
… factors for depression: stress reactivity and cognitive vulnerabilities (CV). To varying degrees, these factors have been examined throughout development; yet, these bodies of literature have been surprisingly separate, which may contribute to the disappointing performance of selective …
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Development and validation of the cognitive vulnerability schemas questionnaire for anxious youth
According to cognitive theories of anxiety, anxiogenic schemata are a set of beliefs, rules, and assumptions that influence how those with anxiety make inferences and interpret threat. It is hypothesized that each anxiety disorder has a unique anxiogenic schema. This report describes the …
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Examining Cognitive Vulnerability Models to Borderline Personality Features in a Sample of Emerging Adults
… may predict variation in BPD symptoms is the cognitive-vulnerability model. Examining the cognitive vulnerability model in the context of BPD symptoms is the overall goal of the dissertation project. Specifically, the current study examined the mediator effects of maladaptive schemas on the …
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Development of Cognitive Vulnerability for Depression in Youth: Sex, Emotional Maltreatment, and Depression Predict Negative Cognitive Style
<p>Hopelessness theory is a prominent cognitive theory of depression that has been shown to predict depression in youth. However, research has yet to elucidate normative mean-level development of the cognitive risk factor in hopelessness theory from childhood through adolescence. The current study …
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Cognitive Vulnerability to Depression: A Longitudinal Study using Eye-gaze Tracking to Study Attentional Biases in Never Depressed, Non-Relapsed, and Relapsed Individuals
Cognitive models of depression propose that attentional biases are an important cognitive vulnerability in those with a history of depression (e.g., Gotlib & Joormann, 2010; Yiend, 2010; Beck & Haigh, 2014). This study prospectively examined attentional biases in never and previously depressed …
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THE LONG-TERM COURSE OF BIPOLAR SPECTRUM DISORDER: APPLICATIONS OF THE BEHAVIORAL APPROACH SYSTEM (BAS) MODEL
… study involved comparing the BAS model to the cognitive-vulnerability stress model of bipolar disorder. Toward this end, data from a sample of 217 individuals (112 individuals with a diagnosis in the bipolar spectrum and 105 demographically similar, normal controls) participating in the …
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Cognitive Reactivity in Clinical Depression: An Assessment of Explicit and Implicit Dimensions, and their Association with Coping Behaviors
… future episodes. The dual process model of cognitive vulnerability of depression proposes that both explicit and implicit cognitive vulnerabilities play a role in the development of depression. The primary purpose of this study was to examine the existence of explicit and implicit cognitive …
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Preventing smoking among 9-10 year old primary school children: evaluation of SmokeFree Sports
… on preadolescent (aged 9-10) boys and girls cognitive vulnerability (e.g. smoking-related intentions, attitudes and refusal self-efficacy) towards smoking, (2) explore the feasibility and acceptability of SFS with primary school settings from the perspectives of children, teachers and …
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Attachment, Personality, and Conflict Behaviors in Romantic Couples: Examining Vulnerability to Depression
… integrated understanding of depression vulnerability. Cognitive and interpersonal theories of depressive vulnerability were considered simultaneously in a sample of undergraduate research participants. Study procedures included an attachment elicitation exercise, which was preceded by …
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Attachment, Personality, and Conflict Behaviors in Romantic Couples: Examining Vulnerability to Depression
… integrated understanding of depression vulnerability. Cognitive and interpersonal theories of depressive vulnerability were considered simultaneously in a sample of undergraduate research participants. Study procedures included an attachment elicitation exercise, which was preceded by …
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Beyond clinical thresholds: the continuum of depressive symptoms and their influence on diabetes outcomes
… been associated with greater risk of mortality, cognitive decline, and diabetes complications. The aim of this thesis was to advance knowledge on the role of depression in diabetes and the currently available pathways to care. A systematic review examining the longitudinal association between …
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Demand-Withdraw in the Marital Context of Depression
… and non-depressed mood states. Consistent with cognitive vulnerability models of depression, depressed individuals’ dysfunctional behaviours may manifest only during negative mood states. The first purpose of the present study was to use a mood induction procedure (MIP) to examine whether any …
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Effect of attentional control on the relationship between worry and stress responding
… perseverative thinking and a maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategy associated with multiple forms of psychopathology (Nolen-Hoeksema & Watkins, 2011; Cisler et al., 2010). Perseverative worry may be exacerbated by deficits in attentional control (Armstrong et al., 2011). …
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An experimental study examining the relationship between parenting behaviours, responsibility beliefs and obsessive-compulsive symptoms in nonclinical children and their mothers
… a significant role in the development of this cognitive vulnerability. The aim of this research was to investigate if parenting behaviours mediate the relationship between maternal responsibility beliefs and the development and maintenance of OCD like behaviours in their non-anxious children. …
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Parenting Influences on Depression: A Moderated Mediated Model
<p>Little is known about the developmental processes through which parenting factors may influence clinical depression among youth. This study investigated whether parenting influences the onset of clinical depression through the mediating mechanism of negative attributional style, particularly …
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Individual Differences In Lpp Amplitude and Theta Power Predict Cue-Induced Eating During A Cued Food Delivery Task
… separate body of research has demonstrated that cognitive control also regulates eating by enabling top-down attentional control. This dissertation aims to identify how both cognitive control and incentive salience act in tandem to regulate cue-induced eating. A central question of this research …
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Cognitive Predictors and Behavioural Mediators of Vulnerability-Specific Stress Generation in Depressed Adults
This longitudinal study investigated the prospective relation of core beliefs and maladaptive behaviours with stress generation. A sample of 151 depressed females completed a battery of questionnaires to assess the presence of early maladaptive schemas, excessive reassurance seeking (ERS), …
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Stability and change of cognitive vulnerabilities from late childhood through adolescence
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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Spatial and temporal processing biases in visual working memory in specific anxiety
… of anxiety disorders is classified as cognitive models of anxiety. These approaches assume that distortions in specific levels of information processing are relevant for the onset and maintenance of the disorder. A detailed knowledge about the nature of these distortions would have …