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Showing 1 to 20 of 515 for “"Maladaptive"”.
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The effects of counseling on maladaptive soldiers
… those areas of the TJTA instrument which predict maladaptive behavior were referred to a doctoral-level therapist for counseling. For both groups the TJTA did not identify or predict which soldiers would be discharged for maladjustment problems. A second study was conducted from among soldiers of …
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Maladaptive Personality Traits and Sex Addiction Profiles
<p>How do pathological personality traits relate to specific expressions of compulsive sexual behaviors? Previous studies have concluded that there are only small relationships between these two constructs, but such studies have usually conceptualized sexual compulsion as a unidimensional …
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Maladaptive cognitive schemas associated with perceptions of family functioning
… of dyadic family processes associated with maladaptive cognitive schemas in a nonclinical population. The sample included 419 undergraduate students who completed a demographic questionnaire and two self-report instruments: the Young Schema Questionnaire (YSQ), a measure of 16 maladaptive …
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Early maladaptive schemas, attachment, negative affect and relationship satisfaction
<p>This study examines early maladaptive schemas (EMSs), attachment styles, depression and anxiety, and relationship satisfaction. A sample of 47 (61.7% females, 38.3% males) college students who were in a current relationship completed standardized measures for each study variable. As predicted, …
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Applying Bayesian Ordinal Regression to ICAP Maladaptive Behavior Subscales
… a Bayesian ordinal regression model for the maladaptive subscales of the Inventory for Client and Agency Planning (ICAP). Because the maladaptive behavior section of the ICAP contains ordinal data, current analysis strategies combine all the subscales into three indices, making the data more …
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Early Maladaptive Cognitive Schema as a Predictor of Post-Stroke Depression
… rehabilitation and prevention initiatives. Early Maladaptive Cognitive Schema (EMS) have been implicated with depression with no known medical cause but not previously explored in post-stroke depression. The overall purpose of the study was to explore the role of EMS in post stroke depression. The …
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Empirical support for the adaptive and maladaptive functions of autobiographical memory
… memories might serve functions in ways that are maladaptive. We also know little about the factors that drive memories to serve functions in adaptive or maladaptive ways. Across four sets of experiments, we1 investigated both the extent to which memories serve maladaptive functions and the …
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The Maladaptive Response of Adipose Tissue to High Fat Diet Feeding
The ability of organisms, from yeast to humans, to safely store energy as dense hydrophobic carbon chains secured away in lipid droplets represents an incredible evolutionary advantage. The further use of adipocytes as a professional lipid storage cells emphasizes the importance and benefit of safe …
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HEALTHY AND MALADAPTIVE COPING STRATEGIES AMONG MASTER OF SOCIAL WORK STUDENTS
… purpose of this study was to explore healthy and maladaptive coping strategies among MSW students. The data was collected using self‑reported questionnaires. A total of 47 students participated in this study. Using the Transactional Model of Stress and Coping as a theoretical framework, this study …
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Investigating Maladaptive Habit Formation and Threat Influences in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Maladaptive habit formation is hypothesised to contribute to numerous clinical disorders, including Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). The way in which habits become maladaptive and persist is not fully understood, but the acquisition of both goal-directed and habit-like behaviour can be captured …
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The Effect of Adaptive Perfectionism, Maladaptive Perfectionism, and Feedback on Procrastination Behaviour
… subsequent behaviour of adaptive perfectionists. Maladaptive perfectionism was not a significant predictor of procrastination behaviour on the initial task. However, for women who were higher in maladaptive perfectionism, the more upset they were from receiving negative feedback on the first task, …
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Experiential avoidance: associations with childhood trauma, internalised shame, psychopathology and maladaptive behaviours
… experiential avoidance, psychopathology and maladaptive behaviours. However, whilst recent advances in the measurement of experiential avoidance, and newly emerging research, have broadened psychological understanding of this construct, conceptual and methodological difficulties within this …
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Psychosocial Factors, Maladaptive Cognitive Schemas, and Depression in Young Adults: An Integration
… findings on the independent effects of early maladaptive cognitive schemas (EMSs; Young, 1994) and psychosocial factors/stressors; viz., social support, expressed emotion, stressful life events and daily hassles, on level of depressive symptoms in young adults. Consistent with Beck's theory of …
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Sex and Fear: Mathematical models of mate choice, parental care, and maladaptive anxiety
In many contexts, animals must infer salient information about another individual indirectly by observing some other characteristic of that individual. In Chapter 1 of this thesis, a model of costly signaling is developed to investigate how stochastic signal costs influence the overall cost of …
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Humor Types: Replication Using Latent Profile Analysis and Associations with Maladaptive Personality Traits
… and in combination, with a broad array of maladaptive personality traits. The incremental validity of accounting for the combinations with which the humor styles are used was examined through the use of hierarchical multiple regressions. Results demonstrated that the humor styles, both …
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Maladaptive appraisals and intrusive thoughts associated with obsessive compulsive disorder: A semiidiographic approach.
This project investigated the metacognitive strategies used to appraise obsessive thoughts employed by individuals with different anxiety symptoms. Two hundred eighty-seven undergraduate students completed two repertory grids and three anxiety scales. The repertory grids respectively examined the …
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The relationship between eating disorder symptomology, body image concerns, and early maladaptive schemas
… symptomology, body image concerns, and early maladaptive schemas. The specific eating disorder symptoms were binging, purging and restricting. Participants were undergraduate college women. Eating disorder symptomology was measured along a continuum so that the sample encompassed individuals …
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The Developmental Pathways and Treatment Approaches for Maladaptive Perfectionism in Undergraduate Student Athletes
… to how an undergraduate student athlete develops maladaptive perfectionism (MP) within his or her athletic performance. Being able to understand different possible etiologies of MP will provide enriching clinical information to tailor more in-depth treatment approaches for the student-athlete(s) …
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