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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"psychological maladjustment"”.
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Psychological adjustment of sexual minority youth from rural and non-rural areas
… inflated previous results regarding psychosocial maladjustment. Therefore, the current study was designed to address those methodological flaws. A sample consisting of 286 sexual minority college students completed the following measures: demographics questionnaire, Center for Epidemiological …
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Temperament, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance as related correlates of psychological symptoms
… more apt to experience clinically significant psychological symptoms. This study used exploratory factor analyses and structural equation modeling to compose and test a model that explained how emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and coping skills interact to explain how certain temperament …
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Loneliness and psychological adjustment: A comparison among three ethnic groups.
… style which is related to their loneliness and psychological distress. It was hypothesized that lonely ethnic minorities would exhibit a more external, unstable attribution style and, hence, fewer symptoms of psychological distress than lonely whites. This hypothesis was based on research …
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Mental Health and Ideals of Citizenship: Patient Care at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., 1903--1962
… maintaining that same-sex desires signified deep psychological maladjustment even as they protested policies criminalizing consensual sexual contact between adults. These developments occurred in the context of a general liberalization of institutional culture in the postwar decades. Through their …
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A preliminary qualitative investigation into the relationship between pre-, peri- and post-migration factors/experiences and the psychological well-being of adolescent male Afghani asylum seekers living in the UK.
… peri- and post-migration experiences on the psychological well-being of adolescent male Afghani asylum seekers living in the UK. It aims to provide a preliminary investigation of these experiences using the participants’ own voice in order to contribute towards addressing a gap in the …
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The Dark Triad and HEXACO Model of Personality in Relational Aggression
… relational aggression (RA) to many forms of psychological maladjustment among children and early adolescents. Although less is known about RA among emerging adults, there is a growing body of research demonstrating a number of adverse correlates. This literature has sparked an interest in …
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Investigating Sex Differences in the Association Between Alexithymia and Adjustment Outcomes Among Detained Youth
… who are at increased risk for alexithymia and psychological maladjustment. As such, the current study investigated: (a) the associations between alexithymia and adjustment outcomes among detained youth, and (b) whether the connections between alexithymia and adjustment outcomes vary in strength …
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MMPI-A structural summary approach : characteristics of gifted adolecents
… structural summary profiles to describe the psychological characteristics of gifted adolescents. The main finding was that the gifted and talented sample presented with scores within the normal range, and the percentage of gifted students with elevations on any one factor did not exceed the …
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Mental health and ideals of citizenship: Patient care at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., 1903-1962
… of mental health and illness. White identified psychological well-being primarily with the male social role, and his evolutionary framework paved the way for representations of black Americans as primitive and culturally atavistic. Patients experienced psychological impairment primarily as a …