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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"affect regulation"”.
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Personal Cognition and the Affect Regulation Process: Affect Reactivity, Affect Regulation Ability, and Responses to Cognitive Errors.
… tendencies and a number of personality and affective: i.e. emotional) traits. While several mechanisms have been suggested to explain these links, the exact reasons for the observed effects remain unclear in a number of circumstances. The current research examines the potential underlying …
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The Role of Dreaming in Affect Regulation
Research investigating the change in affect across sleep focuses on the association between sleep physiology and affect regulation and often do not consider the contribution of dreaming mentation to affect regulatory processes. The aim of this study was to investigate whether dreaming regulates …
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The Influence of Affect Regulation on Professional Skepticism
… cause variations in professional skepticism is affect, yet how it causes these variations is still not understood as the most current models cannot explain why negative affect has been found to both increase and decrease professional skepticism. The purpose of this dissertation is to build a …
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Affect regulation strategies, resilience, and neural mechanisms: evidence from cross-sectional and intervention studies
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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The relationship between a child's affect regulation and their social cognition (theory of mind and empathy)
Affect regulation is an essential component of human development and is crucial for successful social functioning and emotional health. Similarly social cognitive skills like empathy and Theory of Mind (ToM) are also necessary for successful social understanding and interaction in childhood. …
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Neural correlates of deficits in affect regulation in methamphetamine abusers with and without a history of psychosis
… in potentially long-lasting changes in cognitive-affective processes, a range of behavioral problems and psychiatric disorders, including psychosis. Poor emotional control and maladaptive social behaviors have been linked to abnormalities in brain function and structure. However, the links between …
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Attachment Orientation, Affect Regulation, and Coping Styles in Young Adults with Persistent, Transient, or Absent History of Deliberate Self-Harm
… Attachment orientation, coping styles, and affect regulation have been implicated as important to adjustment and psychopathology; however, the role of these constructs in DSH and specifically whether they can be successfully applied to explain the differences between DSH histories has yet to …
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Animal-Assisted Therapy (AAT) as an Adjunctive Treatment for Eating Disorders: Exploration of AAT through the lens of Attachment and Affect Regulation
… investigated the connection between attachment, affect regulation, eating disorders and Animal-Assisted Therapy (AAT), a connection that has not previously been examined. The conceptual lenses for this research identified eating disorders as one of many possible examples of difficulties in …
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The Effect of Peer Victimization on Social Behavior and Children's Ability to Negotiate Conflict
… (e.g., conflict-negotiation competence and affect-regulation competence). Elucidating the process by which experiences with victimization lead to such maladaptive and potentially stress-inducing peer responses, a self-blaming attributional style was found to account for the association …
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Adult attachment and psychopathology: The mediating role of emotion regulation and cognitive factors
… vulnerabilities for depression and anxiety, affect regulation strategies and psychological distress symptoms. To examine these questions, a total of 259 participants (150 females, 109 males) completed measures assessing the above mentioned variables. The structural equation modeling results …
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The relationship between impulsivity, affect and a history of psychological adversity: a cognitive-affective neuroscience approach
… impulsive behaviour and difficulties regulating affect. The findings of recent studies implicate the disruption of neurobiological mechanisms, particularly those involving the neurotransmitter serotonin, in both impulsivity and affect regulation.
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Joint Laughter Between Patient and Therapist: Exploring the Function of These Moments and Their Relationship to the Working Alliance in Short-Term Psychotherapy
… reflects mutually aroused and regulated positive affect within the caregiver-infant relationship and repeated cycles of shared, co-regulated positive arousal have been shown to play a critical role in fueling secure attachment bond formation and laying the groundwork for the infant’s capacity for …
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Therapeutic Recommendations for Emotional Eating: A Delphi Study
… physical hunger and is believed to be a form of affect regulation (Ball and Lee, 2002). While emotional eating occurs within the symptomatology of eating disorders it also occurs independently (Benett, Greene, and Schwartz-Barcott, 2012). Further, a pattern of emotional eating can lead to weight …
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Understanding aggression motivation: the role of developmental, affect and socio-cognitive factors in offenders
… The research explored the role of developmental, affect, personality and socio-cognitive factors in aggression, investigating how these factors contributed to motives and inhibitors. This addressed several gaps in our knowledge and understanding of these factors among prisoners. In doing so, it …
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Precipitating and prophylactic factors contributing to posttraumatic stress disorder symptomatology in maltreated children
… ineffective coping, external locus of control, affect dysregulation, and a dysfunctional family; (2) key family and victim characteristics would help to ameliorate effects of traumatic abuse; (3) the combination of precipitating and prophylactic factors would determine the effectiveness of …
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Emotional Certainty and Health Communications
… as an important emotional dimension that affects health message processing and persuasion. Specifically, I suggest that emotions high on certainty appraisal can provide confidence to cope with the insecurity instigated by threatening health communications. Five studies are proposed to …
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No audience : mind constructed through representation of self
… difficulties, which result in problems with affect regulation (Fonagy & Target, 2006), and the ability to mentalize and maintain a clear sense of a core self (Bateman & Fonagy, 2004). In this research I am looking at the representation of affective states and beliefs, thoughts and intentions …
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The relational compassion scale: development and validation of a new self rated scale for the assessment of self-other compassion
… samples and the interaction between different affect regulation systems.
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Comparing Dispositional and Episodic Assessment of Drug Use Motives among College Students: Prediction of Use and Use-Related Consequences
… virtually every existing study on the subject. Affect regulation aspects of the motivational model were further explored by measuring state (rather than trait) affect immediately preceding a use episode. A timeline follow-back method was used to identify the most recent use episode and to assess …
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Treatment of Comorbid Conduct Problems and Depression in Youth: A Pilot Study
… problem solving skills, cognitive restructuring, affect regulation skills, and parenting strategies. A non-concurrent multiple baseline design was used to assess the effectiveness of the intervention. A sample of five adolescents, aged 11 to 14 years, participated; all five families completed the …
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