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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Threat appraisals"”.
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Cultural influences on coping with parent-child conflict
… the relation between parent-child conflict and appraisals of threat and, 2) the relation between threat appraisals and psychological distress. Two additional hypotheses tested the mediating effects of threat on the relation between parent-child conflict and psychological distress and the …
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A Preliminary Examination of Adding the Approach-Avoidance Distinction to Achievement Goal Theory
… not differ in their levels of enjoyment, effort, threat appraisals, or task involvement based on goal involvement. Although achievement goals did not influence participants' responses, participants did differ in their achievement responses based on their perceived success following the first …
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Experiencing Uncertainty as a Challenge or a Threat: Impact on Attraction to Entitative Groups
… the impact of self-uncertainty and challenge or threat appraisals on entitative group appeal. Predictions were based on uncertainty-identity theory’s findings regarding uncertainty and entitativity (Hogg, 2021), and on studies of challenge and threat appraisals in intergroup relations (Scheepers, …
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Coping and adjustment following acquired brain injury
… the subjective nature and frequencies of threat appraisals, and related avoidance coping, reported by people with traumatic brain injury. This goes on to explore the relation of these threat-appraisals, and avoidance coping, to adjustment factors of anxiety, depression and quality of life.
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PTSD Subtypes, Depressive Presentation, Dissociation, and Cognitive Appraisals and Their Impact on Cardiovascular Reactivity Responses to Stress
… presentation, dissociation, or cognitive appraisals of stressful events can predict the nature of one’s cardiovascular response to stress. It was hypothesized that: (1) PTSD arousal would be positively related to cardiac reactivity and PTSD avoidance negatively related to cardiac …
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The Role of Cultural Models of Self-Worth in Vicarious Experiences of Wrongdoing
… predicted distancing behavior, mediated by image-threat appraisals and shame, but only in public. The results in Studies 2 and 3 were less clear, and suggest evidence for motivated distortion.
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The experience of stress in high school teachers: appraisals of threat
… of high school teachers, with a focus on threat appraisals. Data were collected through in-depth interviews with a volunteer sample of 8 high school teachers (5 men and 3 women). Background information was also recorded based on previous research and theories of teacher stress. The initial …
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Danger appraisals as prospective predictors of disgust and avoidance
… study used a prospective design to assess threat appraisals, personality traits, and obsessive compulsive symptoms in an unselected sample of university students and community members (N = 105) several days prior to a contamination behavioural approach task (BAT) in a public washroom. …
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Risky Business: Millennials’ Protection Motivation Factors for Norovirus Outbreaks on College Campuses
… The proposed measurement models (i.e. Modified Threat Appraisals, Coping Appraisals, Handwashing Intentions, and Social Distancing Intentions) were re-validated through EFA and CFA. The subsequent structure model demonstrated perceived susceptibility to a hNoV infection on a college campus …
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Recovery from Substance Abuse: The Role of Unsupportive Social Interactions
… Inventory), recovery-specific cognitive threat appraisals, and well-being (Situational Confidence Questionnaire and Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale). Information regarding treatment attendance and positive urine toxicology reports was gleaned from treatment records. …
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Coping with interpersonal sport stress in female adolescent soccer players: the role of perceived social support, cognitive appraisal, and trait social anxiety
… Stress is a process which is influenced by appraisals and coping. Appraisals are influenced by personal factors as well as environmental demands and the availability of external resources. Coping involves constantly changing cognitive and behavioral efforts to manage the perceived external …