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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Negative Life Events"”.
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The effect of rumination on beliefs about adjustment to future negative life events
… more optimistic about future adjustment to negative life events after rumination? Past research using a "top of the head" paradigm indicates that people estimate they would adjust more poorly for severe events and better for mild negative events than their peers. Selective focus (i.e., …
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Early Maladaptive Schemas and negative life events in the prediction of depression and anxiety
… 2003) model of Early Maladaptive Schemas (EMSs), negative life events occurring over the past 4 months, depressive symptoms, and anxious symptoms. We also replicated a design testing the ability of EMSs, negative life events, and their interaction to predict depressive and anxious symptoms and …
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Diatheses to Depression: The Interactions of Schema Propositions, Schema Structure, and Negative Life Events
… depressive symptoms. The prediction was that if negative self-attributes across different self-aspects in a specific domain, interpersonal or achievement, are highly distinct (i.e., high negative SC) or if positive self-attributes across different aspects of self are redundant (i.e., low positive …
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Social Support as a Buffer Against Depression and Anxiety After Exposure to Negative Life Events
After exposure to negative life events, people often suffer from mental health problems as a consequence. Social support is a protective factor that has shown to buffer against depression after exposure to negative life events. The aim of the current study was to investigate the moderating effects …
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Predicting Adolescent Anxiety: The Role of Acculturation, Negative Life Events, Ethnicity, Social Support, and Coping
… of anxiety, after controlling for exposure to negative life events, in the African American adolescents. For the total sample, results indicated that negative life events, social support, coping, and ethnicity were all significant predictors of anxiety, accounting for 18.9% of the variance in …
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The role of attributional style, dysfunctional attitudes, and negative life events on depression in college students
… a diathesis-stress model in which significant life events are imparted by specific cognitive styles; This study incorporated the major tenets of both theories to examine the role of dysfunctional attitudes, attributional style, and negative life events on Beck Depression Inventory scores in …
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Positive Psychological and Religious Characteristics as Moderators of Negative Life Events and Depressive Symptoms: A Multiethnic Comparison.
… potential moderators of the association between negative life events and depressive symptoms in a secondary data analysis of an ethnically diverse sample. Participants (267 female, 119 male) were college students enrolled at an urban Northeastern university. It was hypothesized that negative life …
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Effects of early negative life events on cognitive functioning and risk for suicide in a college sample
… evidence suggesting links between early negative life events and suicidal behavior, between early negative life events and cognitive factors, and between cognitive factors and suicidal behavior, it was hypothesized that early negative life events may impact individuals' suicidal behavior …
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Investigation of anxiety symptoms in a cognitive-stress mediational model of depression in early adolescent girls
… Research has also shown the family environment, negative life events, and maternal depression are all related to the development of depressogenic cognitions. Additionally, few studies have tested models of depression while measuring both anxiety and depressive symptoms despite the high rates of …
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Believing you have it worse than others: maximization- a coping strategy
… coping strategy in which people maximize negative life events they have experienced. Maximization is defined as the process of comparing oneself to others on the number or intensity of negative life events one is experiencing, with the goal of finding that one is experiencing more or worse …
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Cultural Hybridization: Bicultural Self-Efficacy And Resilience In Northern Plains American Indians
… that of cultural identity, resilience, and negative life events, or risk, to measures of psychopathology. To that end, efforts involved the use of a number of assessments to evaluate Northern Plains American Indian community members and college students on general characteristics of past …
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The Influence of Stressors and Strain on Alcohol Use in Canadian Armed Forces Members
… identified the influence of pre-military service life stressors on alcohol consumption in recently enrolled members and found that increases in Negative Life Events and Exposure to Violence in their pre-service lives were associated with increases in alcohol consumption, and that these …
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How do grateful people cope?: exploring the mechanism of positive reappraisal
… Posttraumatic growth helps people move past negative life events with good mental health. Research has indicated a relationship between post-traumatic growth and gratitude. However, there has been little investigation into the links between gratitude and post-traumatic growth. The current …
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Developmental Pathways for Children with Disruptive Behavior Disorders
… characterized by an atrisk child temperament, negative reactivity and psychopathy, which when embedded in an at-risk environment, would result in conduct problems. Hyperactivity and negative life events were hypothesized to be broad band risk factors for both pathways. The first pathway, …
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Inflexibility and Vulnerability to Depression
… when individuals are confronted with life stressors, (2) whether elevations in depressive symptoms prospectively predict decreases in coping flexibility and explanatory flexibility and increases in rumination, and (3) the extent to which explanatory and coping flexibilities are …
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Symptoms of anxiety and depression in children and adolescents: The impact of residential fire.
… symptoms were worry/ oversensitivity, anhedonia, negative mood, and fear of failure and criticism. There were no significant ethnic differences across symptomology. Exposure was directly related to parental report of child internalizing behaviors, whereas loss was unrelated to symptoms. Level of …
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AN ETIOLOGICAL UNDERSTANDING OF BIPOLAR DISORDER-ANXIETY DISORDER COMORBIDITY: THE ROLE OF ANXIETY SENSITIVITY AND TRAIT ANXIETY
… diagnostic interviews, symptom measures, and life event interviews which assessed the occurrence of positive and negative life events and the degree of SRD following these events every six months. Partial support for the hypotheses was found. Initial anxiety sensitivity, but not trait anxiety, …
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Self-concept in Adolescents: The Role of Ethnicity and Contextual Variables in the Manifestation of Depression
… Pressure Scale for Children (HICUPS), and the Life events scale. Results revealed that self-concept and global self-worth were significantly and inversely correlated with depression scores. In addition, a newly created measure of ethnic evaluations proved to be a concurrently valid measure of …
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Examining Cognitive Vulnerability Models to Borderline Personality Features in a Sample of Emerging Adults
… partially mediated the relationship between negative life events and borderline personality features. Further, contrast effects revealed that disconnection/rejection schemas were the better suited mediator for the model. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.</p>
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Times Are a Changin': Gender Role Orientation and Alcohol Use
… elevated probability of experiencing a number of negative life events. Historically, alcohol consumption patterns seemed to differ according to sex, but more recent research suggests that the difference has narrowed as gender role orientations have converged. Further, it seems that gender role …
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