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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Depressed persons."”.
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Depression and evangelical Christian spirituality: exploring a theoretical model
… to a sample of 135 evangelical Christians. Depressed persons made up approximately 16% of the sample. An independent samples t-test demonstrated that depressed persons had significantly lower scores of spirituality than non-depressed persons. Depressed persons were more likely to indicate …
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Immediate and enduring effects of corticosterone administration during adolescence and adulthood on anxiety and depressive behavior in male rats
Previous research has shown that the stress hormone corticosterone can increase depressive and anxiety-like behavior in rats as well as dampen the HPA response to a novel stressor (Kalynchuk et aI., 2004; Johnson et aI., 2006). Several studies have also shown that adolescence is a period of …
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Computer-Delivered Personalized Feedback Intervention for Hazardous Drinkers with Elevated Anxiety Sensitivity
Rates of hazardous alcohol use among anxious/depressed persons is approximately two times that found in the general population. Hazardous alcohol use contributes to a variety of problems, ranging from interference with life functioning to psychological and physical complications. Yet, hazardous …
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Depression across the generations : intergenerational stories, meanings and resilience
This qualitative study explored the meanings and stories held by families with multiple generations of depression. Two families with three different generations in each were invited to participate in semi-structured interviews. The chosen method of data analysis was interpretative phenomenological …
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Stressful life events, depression, and the effects of perceived social support
<p>The purpose of this research study was to explore the relationship between stressful life events, depression and the effects of perceived social support. The researcher expected to find a positive correlation with higher stressful life events ratings predicting greater depressive mood. Also, the …
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Case study of a client diagnosed with major depressive disorder
… the client's BDI scores were in the clinically depressed range, while at the conclusion of treatment they had decreased to the borderline range. The client self-reported an improvement in mood. A comparison between the client's current treatment and what might be considered "best" treatment is …
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Self-stigma and disclosure of depression in the workplace
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An examination of the relationship between positive psychological functioning and depression
With unipolar depression one of the most disabling illnesses in the world, it is important to appropriately conceptualise this disorder in order to inform research, diagnosis, and treatment. While many psychological theories of depression include constructs of polarity, most research and diagnostic …
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Parental attributions concerning the causes and controllability of adolescent depression
<p>The primary purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between parental attributions concerning adolescent depression and levels of negative expressed emotion (EE) within the home by breaking down attributional beliefs into two dimensions: the etiology of the disorder and the …
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The Effects of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (Ssri) on Auditory Measures in Clinically Depressed Subjects.
… medication on auditory skills in clinically depressed subjects. Experimental subjects prescribed an SSRI were tested in a medicated and an unmedicated condition, and the test results were compared. Furthermore, the experimental group was compared with a control group consisting of normal …