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Garr, Katlyn; Odar Stough, Cathleen; Godfrey, Lisa M.; Ley, Sanita L. – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: Weight change is common during the first year of college and may be related to different outcomes for men and women. This study examined the moderating effects of gender on the association between weight change and college adjustment and depressive symptoms. Participants: One-hundred and eighty-one 18-19-year-old college freshmen (56.9%…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Adjustment, Gender Differences, Body Weight
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Seth J. Schwartz; Beyhan Ertanir; Audrey Harkness; Byron L. Zamboanga; Melissa L. Bessaha; John B. Bartholomew; Alan Meca; Minas Michikyan; Maria Duque; Pablo Montero-Zamora; Claudia López-Madrigal; Linda G. Castillo; Miguel Ángel Cano; Kaveri Subrahmanyam; Brandy Piña-Watson; Pamela Regan; Lindsay S. Ham; Marissa K. Hanson; Charles R. Martinez Jr. – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: We examined the role of personal identity vis-à-vis COVID-related outcomes among college students from seven U.S. campuses during spring/summer 2021. Participants: The present sample consisted of 1,688 students (74.5% female, age range 18-29). The sample was ethnically diverse, and 57.3% were first-generation students. Procedures:…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, College Students, Self Concept
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Levkovich, Inbar; Shinan-Altman, Shiri; Pressley, Tim – Teacher Educator, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has placed significant demands on teachers. After the state of emergency was lifted, schools reopened and teachers began teaching face-to-face classes while maintaining safety precautions. Insufficient empirical research has examined the situation of teachers since the schools reopened. This study aimed to assess the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Coping
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Wootton, Angie R.; Rice, Dylan R.; McKowen, Anna Laura W.; Veldhuis, Cindy – Health Education & Behavior, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to increases in U.S. residents' stressors while limiting many of the resources previously available to cope with stress. Coping behaviors may contribute to the prevention or proliferation of psychological distress during and after the pandemic. Understanding these coping behaviors and associated psychological outcomes…
Descriptors: Coping, Depression (Psychology), Psychological Patterns, Stress Variables
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Malamut, Sarah T.; Salmivalli, Christina – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Victimization during school years can have detrimental effects on individuals' adjustment, lasting even into adulthood. In the current study, we examine whether there is an indirect effect of victimization on adult depression and aggression, via sad and angry rumination about past victimization. Participants included 1,319 Finnish individuals…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Victims, Correlation, Depression (Psychology)
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Flett, Gordon L.; Nepon, Taryn; Goldberg, Joel O.; Rose, Alison L.; Atkey, Sarah K.; Zaki-Azat, Justeena – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2022
Previous work has focused on positive feelings of mattering, which pertain to the human need to feel significant. In the current article, we examine a complementary yet distinct construct involving feelings of not mattering that may arise from being marginalized and experiences that heighten a sense of being insignificant to others. We also…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Test Construction, Well Being, Test Validity
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Choe, Elise; Srisarajivakul, Emily; Davis, Don E. – Journal of School Violence, 2021
Prior research has linked victimization to mental health outcomes, but more work is needed to understand factors that may serve a protective role. In the present study, in a sample of 290 undergraduates who had experienced bullying, we examined a moderated-mediator model in which self-esteem mediates the relationship between victimization and…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Psychological Patterns, Victims, Mental Health
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Jones, Emily J.; Schreier, Hannah M. C. – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: To examine prospective associations between physical and mental self-rated health (SRH), college generation status and college adjustment among first-year college students. Participants and methods: Eighty-seven first-year college students (41 first-generation college students) reported their SRH when starting college, and then,…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Student Attitudes, Correlation, Physical Health
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Bryant, Lindsey M.; Duncan, Robert J.; Marceau, Kristine; Schmitt, Sara A. – Developmental Psychology, 2022
The current study examines the extent to which associations between internalizing problems, body mass index (BMI), and language skills from early (36 months) to late childhood (fifth grade) are due to relatively stable between-child differences, time-specific correlations, or cross-lagged paths. Data from the NICHD study, Early Child Care and…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Emotional Response, Body Composition, Language Skills
Jacquelyn E. Stephens; David B. Rompilla Jr.; Emily F. Hittner; Vijay A. Mittal; Claudia M. Haase – Grantee Submission, 2023
When confronted with an emotion prototype (e.g., loss), individuals may experience not only target emotions (e.g., sadness), but also nontarget emotions (emotions that are atypical or incongruent with an emotion prototype; e.g., gratitude in response to loss). What are the cognitive correlates of nontarget emotions? Drawing from models of emotion…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Correlation, Emotional Response, Short Term Memory
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Flett, Gordon L.; Hewitt, Paul L.; Nepon, Taryn – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2020
In the current article, we describe the development and validation of a self-report measure of self-generated stress and its associations with measures of perfectionism, self-criticism, and distress. The Self-Generated Stress Scale is a seven-item inventory that taps the tendency to see oneself as someone who generates and adds to existing…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Measures (Individuals), Personality Traits, Self Concept
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Organista, Kurt C.; Jung, Woojin; Neilands, Torsten B. – Health Education & Behavior, 2019
Background: Little research has been conducted on relations between challenging working and living conditions and psychological distress in Latino migrant day laborers (LMDLs), a particularly marginalized Latino population in the United States. Aims: Consistent with a structural-environmental framework of LMDL vulnerability to health and mental…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Migrant Workers, At Risk Persons, Mental Health
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Wood, Leila; Voth Schrag, Rachel; Busch-Armendariz, Noël – Journal of American College Health, 2020
Objective: The study assesses the prevalence of physical, psychological, sexual, and cyber forms of intimate partner violence (IPV) among female college students, and associated mental health and academic outcomes.Participants: Participants (n = 6,818) were randomly selected female students attending one of eight campuses of a University System in…
Descriptors: Violence, College Students, Females, Mental Health
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Galambos, Nancy L.; Johnson, Matthew D.; Krahn, Harvey J. – Developmental Psychology, 2018
Six waves of data from 944 Canadian high school seniors surveyed for 25 years (age 18 to 43) were analyzed to compare three models of the temporal associations between expressed anger and depressive symptoms (anger [right arrow] depression; depression [right arrow] anger; anger [left right arrow] depression) and a between-persons differences only…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Seniors, Correlation, Psychological Patterns
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Liknaitzky, Paul; Smillie, Luke D.; Allen, Nicholas B. – Creativity Research Journal, 2018
Depression is associated with biased interpretations and beliefs that are resistant to change. This kind of cognitive rigidity may depend on two distinct factors--a reduced ability for processing information that conflicts with these interpretations and beliefs and a reduced ability for generating alternative representations. Although depressive…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Undergraduate Students, Psychology, Foreign Countries
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