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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Social Rejection"”.
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Psychological and Neural Processing of Social Rejection and Inclusion in Major Depressive Disorder
… the existing psychological and neural basis of social processing in Major Depressive Disorder. This investigation was an attempt to resolve current conflicts and gaps in the social affective neuroscience literature regarding social functioning in depression. Chapter 1 consisted of a general …
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Why was I Rejected? How the Attributed Reason for Social Rejection Impacts Subsequent Behavior.
<p>It is proposed that differences in rejection attribution could yield variations in subsequent prosocial behavior. To test the attribution hypothesis, 109 participants were randomly assigned to a performance based rejection, a personally based rejection, or a control condition and then worked …
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Playing alone, feeling connected: do single-player video games with social surrogates replenish belonging after social rejection
… single-player video games, may help people feel socially connected. For example, according to the bi-dimensional rejection taxonomy, solo gameplay is a disengaged prosocial response, an attempt to replenish belonging in a hands-off, indirect manner. Also, according to the social surrogacy …
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Cortisol Response of Non-Suicidal Self-Injurers versus Non-Self-Injurers Exposed to a Social Rejection Laboratory Stressor
… over the past decade has suggested a biopsychosocial emotional regulation model of this behavior. This model proposes that self-injurers engage in NSI to reduce negative emotions, and presupposes that self-injurers are characterized by emotional dysregulation. The present study evaluated the …
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Loneliness and Hypervigilance to Social Threats in Adults
… people are hypervigilant (i.e. on high alert) to social threats in the social environment. This leads to attention, memory, and confirmatory biases, which undermine the opportunity to develop positive social relationships. This thesis outlines a series of six studies that systematically examine …
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The development of aggression in middle childhood
… processes that occur in the peer context (social rejection and peer socialization) were included as interpersonal risk factors. In addition, in order to facilitate the in situ assessment of anger regulation strategies, an observational measure of anger regulation was developed and …
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Socio-affective influences on adolescent mental health problems
… of the adolescent cognitive, affective and social development literature, and provides an empirical justification for investigating socio-affective influences on adolescent emotional disorders. In Chapter 2, the role of social rejection sensitivity, a proposed risk factor for emotional …
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The Effect of Stress on Prosocial Sharing Behavior in Young Adults
Prosocial behavior benefits both an individual and society. Sharing behavior is considered the most altruistic, due to individuals sacrificing time and resources without the expectation of reciprocation. A cost-benefit analysis may incorporate contextual factors influencing sharing behavior; thus, …
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The role of dysfunctional peer relationships and academic failure in the development and progression of aggression
… promoting the affiliation with deviant peers (social rejection; academic failure), and mechanisms by which affiliation with deviant peers leads to aggression (external locus of control) were investigated. Method: The research questions were addressed by three studies. Three data waves were …
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“Why Are We Still Reading About Rosa Parks?”: Essential Questions for Continuation Schools
… constructed places of both academic and social rejection. With cultural rhetorics theory providing a context for the research, this inquiry values student stories and experiences. This IRB-approved case study analyzes continuation school education, including classroom …
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The association between peer relations, eating behaviors, and body esteem in adolescent girls
… peer pressure about weight and appearance (i.e., social reinforcement & peer modeling), body esteem, dieting and bulimia, weight and appearance related teasing, self esteem and peer nominations of social rejection, popularity and teasing. Weight and height measurements were taken to calculate BMI. …
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The effect of racial representation on rejection sensitivity
… small group settings impacts experiences of social rejection among people of color. Grounded in Minority Stress Theory and Rejection Sensitivity Theory, this project explored whether the presence of racial diversity can reduce expectations of discrimination and buffer against the negative …
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Effects of a Function-Based Peer Management Intervention with Middle-School Students with ADHD
… as well as difficulties in school with social rejection and academic underachievement (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of a peer-mediated non-contingent reinforcement (NCR) intervention informed by functional …
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Lived experiences of single teenage mothers at KwaMsane Township, KwaZulu-Natal
… study’s objectives were to explore the psychosocial experiences of single teenage mothers from northern KwaZulu-Natal, seeking to understand their experience of absent fathers in the parental relationship, identify sources of support, and provide recommendations for multiple sectors. Thirteen …
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The Impact of Internet Experiences on Embarrassment
<p> Media technology (e.g., Internet via social networking, email, and texting) has changed the way we interact with one another. For instance, the more time college students spend communicating on Facebook, the less time they spend socializing in face-to-face settings. Although studies have …
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The Impact of Motivation on Object-Based Visual Attention Indexed by Continuous Flash Suppression.
… faces are prioritized in awareness following social rejection, and that the amount faces are prioritized correlates with individual differences in social motivation. Chapters 3 & 4 use a combination of functional neuroimaging and flash suppression to suppress fearful faces and houses from …
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Behavioral and neural bases of emotion regulation in childhood and adolescence
… to and regulation of emotional responses to social and non-social aversive stimuli in individuals aged 10-22. Study 1 additionally examined the interaction between individual differences in sensitivity to social rejection and age and how this impacts regulation of emotional responses to …
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Increasing Social and Emotional Learning for ELLs
Social and emotional learning (SEL) is an integral part of education and human development through which all young people and adults acquire and apply the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to develop healthy identities, manage emotions and achieve personal and collective goals, feel and show empathy …
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Anti-health legislation and its impact on the health and well-being of the gender-expansive community
… the public target of a nationwide political and social campaign by the Republican Party, who have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on political advertisements pointedly spreading misinformation with the purpose of stoking public fear and rejection of G.E. people (Simmons-Duffin, 2024; Trans …
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Stress and Suicidal Behavior: A Cognitive, Behavioral, and Biological Integrative Approach
… attempters and non-attempters following a social rejection task. However, there was a positive association between suicide attempt history and negative urgency, lack of perseverance, and lack of premeditation. The final study found that early life stress was positively associated with …
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