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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Development of psychopathology"”.
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Relations between Parenting, Family Context, and Emotion Regulation in the Development of Psychopathology in Young Maltreated Children
… as a fundamental process in early socioemotional development; however, investigation into the relations between parenting styles, practices, and emotion regulation in maltreating families has been severely lacking in the literature. The current study observationally examined the relations between …
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Effects of Foster Care Placements on the Mental Health of Abused Children in Florida
… treatment. Concomitantly, foster parents are often not given proper training in providing complex care for these children. As such, the current study aimed to examine the role that foster care has in the development of psychopathology in maltreated children and their caregivers. METHODS: …
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The Perceived Invalidation of Emotion Scale (PIES): Development and Psychometric Properties
… was first theorized to causally influence the development of psychopathology (Linehan, 1993), no measures have been designed and statistically validated to index current emotion invalidation. Research on invalidation has thus grown slowly and often used measures that were designed to assess …
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Distinct dimensions of anxiety and depression: anxiety and rumination differentially predict depressed mood and low positive affect
… well between fundamentally distinct dimensions of anxiety (anxious apprehension and anxious arousal) and depression (depressed mood and low positive affect). The present study investigated relationships among distinct anxiety dimensions, rumination, and depression dimensions using …
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The contribution of self-determination theory to an understanding of psychological distress among young adults: Mediation of practical involvement and autonomy support by autonomy, controlled, and impersonal orientations
<p>The concept of autonomy, as conceptualized by SDT researchers, in relationship to the development of psychopathology has received little empirical attention. According to Selfdetermination theory (SDT; Ryan, Deci, & Grolnick, 1995), if parents facilitate, rather than undermine, the critical …
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Preconception Stress, Affect-Biased Attention, and Negative Affectivity: Assessing Pathways and Early Markers of Psychopathological Risk in Infancy and Childhood
<p>The developmental origins of mental health likely begin early in life and perhaps even prior to conception. Research is needed to elucidate pathways of risk and resilience in the development of psychopathology. The goal of the current dissertation was to explore how both preconception and …
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Self-concept clarity, trauma and psychopathology
… is defined as the “extent to which the contents of an individual's self-concept (e.g., perceived personal attributes) are clearly and confidently defined, internally consistent, and temporally stable” (Campbell et al., 1996, p.141). SCC is becoming an increasingly researched topic in relation to …
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Affective influences on top-down visual attention
… emotional processing and the allocation of visual attention share common neural substrates and both draw upon limited top-down resources. Attention is biased towards emotional stimuli and these biases are suggested to be a key mechanism in the development of psychopathology. The aim of …
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The role of perceived nonshared environment and personality traits in the etiology of bulimia nervosa
… factors play an important role in the etiology of Bulimia Nervosa (BN). A number of critical environmental factors in the development of BN are not shared by family members; specifically, perceived nonshared environmental factors (e.g., differential parent-child relationships) may be more …
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Natural Disasters and Attachment Quality: The Mediating Role of Coping
… to a natural disaster, parental distress, and development of mental health problems. It is theorized that trauma-related parental distress is associated with maladaptive parenting behaviors, which negatively impact the psychological development of children. The long-term impact of trauma …
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Associations Between Maternal Reflective Functioning and Adolescent Personality Pathology
Adolescence is a unique developmental phase with peak onset for psychiatric disorders, particularly personality disorder (PD). During adolescence, the parent-child relationship remains crucial for optimal adolescent development. Research suggests that maternal reflective functioning (RF) may play …
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The Interaction between Child Behavioral Inhibition and Parenting Behaviors across Development: Effects on Adolescent Psychopathology
Psychopathology is highly prevalent during childhood and adolescence and contributes to a variety of negative outcomes. Attempts to identify etiological factors which contribute to the development of psychopathology in youth have considered the Goodness of Fit between children's temperaments and …
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NICU Parental Mental Health and Infant Outcomes: Effects of Psychological Well-Being and Psychopathology
… (NICU) is stressful for parents and that parents of NICU infants exhibit higher levels of stress compared to parents of healthy infants (Carter, Mulder, & Darlow, 2007; MacDonald, 2007; Treyvaud et al., 2010). As a result of these high levels of stress, NICU parents are at risk for developing …
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Predictors of Emerging Psychopathology Among Toddlers and Preschoolers of Mothers with Childhood Abuse Histories
<p>The purpose of this study was to elucidate cognitive and behavioral mechanisms involved in the intergenerational transmission of trauma from abuse-survivor mothers to their toddler/preschool-aged children. This study investigated whether maternal trauma-related cognitions, i.e. child …
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Multidimensional household poverty in Ireland: child and maternal psychopathology outcomes
… exposed to poverty have an increased likelihood of developing mental health problems. Despite this, there is a dearth of literature that informs policy on the timing, and type of poverty experienced during childhood to better understand in turn the subsequent development of psychopathology. Most …