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Gulley, Lauren D.; Oppenheimer, Caroline W.; Hankin, Benjamin L. – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Theories of affective learning suggest that early experiences contribute to emotional disorders by influencing the development of processing biases for negative emotional stimuli. Although studies have shown that physically abused children preferentially attend to angry faces, it is unclear whether youth exposed to more typical aspects of negative…
Descriptors: Correlation, Parenting Styles, Criticism, Parent Child Relationship
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Macaskill, Ann; Denovan, Andrew – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2014
Balanced assessment of mental health involves assessing well-being and strengths as well as psychopathology. The character strengths of curiosity, gratitude, hope, optimism and forgiveness are assessed in 214 new undergraduates and their relationships to mental health, subjective well-being and self-esteem explored. Scoring the mental health scale…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Well Being, Life Satisfaction, Prediction
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Johnson, Lesley E.; Greenberg, Mark T. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2013
This community-based study examined differences in parenting quality and parent symptoms for youth in four categories: anxious (elevated anxiety symptoms), depressed (elevated depressive symptoms), comorbid (elevated anxiety and depressive symptoms), and nonelevated (elevations of neither type). Respondents were 976 young adolescents (mean age =…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Parenting Styles, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Depression (Psychology)
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Dennis, Tracy A.; Buss, Kristin A.; Hastings, Paul D.; Bell, Martha Ann; Diaz, Anjolii; Adam, Emma K.; Miskovic, Vladimir; Schmidt, Louis A.; Feldman, Ruth; Katz, Lynn Fainsilber; Rigterink, Tami; Strang, Nicole M.; Hanson, Jamie L.; Pollak, Seth D.; Dahl, Ronald E.; Silk, Jennifer S.; Siegle, Greg J.; Beauchaine, Theodore P.; Cicchetti, Dante; Rogosch, Fred A.; Fox, Nathan A.; Kirwan, Michael; Reeb-Sutherland, Bethany; Gunnar, Megan R.; Obradovic, Jelena; Boyce, W. Thomas; Molenaar, Peter C. M.; Gates, Kathleen M. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 2012
In the past decade, there has been a dramatic growth in research examining the development of emotion from a physiological perspective. However, this widespread use of physiological measures to study emotional development coexists with relatively few guiding principles, thus reducing opportunities to move the field forward in innovative ways. The…
Descriptors: Physiology, Psychological Patterns, Emotional Development, Measurement
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Cheron, Daniel M.; Ehrenreich, Jill T.; Pincus, Donna B. – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2009
This investigation seeks to establish the psychometric properties of an adapted measure of experiential avoidance (EA) in the parenting context by assessing its relation to other parenting constructs and psychosocial correlates of child anxiety in a clinical sample. Participants were 154 children (90 female, 64 male) diagnosed with anxiety…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Predictive Validity, Psychopathology, Parent Child Relationship
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Jacobs, W. J.; Nadel, Lynn – Psychological Review, 1985
Although direct behavioral control by the early learning system wanes, the adult learning system seems to be structured at least partially through the lasting influence of infantile experience. Under (hormonal) stress, residues of early experience are reinstated and incorporated into adult memory where they directly control behavior. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Adults, Affective Behavior, Anxiety, Emotional Development
Nathan, Peter E.; and others – J Clin Psychol, 1969
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Affective Behavior, Anxiety, Clinical Diagnosis
Ahmed, Ramadan A.; Rohner, Ronald P.; Khaleque, Abdul; Gielen, Uwe P. – Online Submission, 2010
Purpose. The purpose of this article is to summarize the rich and growing body of research that draws from parental acceptance-rejection theory (PARTheory) and associated measures as used throughout the Arab world. Methodology. This body of work includes more than 100 studies that explore the reliability and validity of Arabic adaptations of…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Psychologists, Mental Health, Arabs
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Mason, W. Alex; Hitchings, Julia E.; McMahon, Robert J.; Spoth, Richard L. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2007
This study compared alternative hypotheses (from general deviance, life course, and developmental psychopathology perspectives) regarding the effects of early adolescent delinquency on psychosocial functioning in family, school, and peer contexts, and on alcohol use. Analyses also examined parent-child negative affective quality, prosocial school…
Descriptors: Hypothesis Testing, Psychological Patterns, Social Behavior, Substance Abuse
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Shaw, Daniel S.; Schonberg, Michael; Sherrill, Joel; Huffman, Drew; Lukon, Joella; Obrosky, David; Kovacs, Maria – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2006
This study examined responsivity of mothers with childhood-onset depression (COD) in relation to children's overt expression of positive and negative emotion. It was hypothesized that COD and control mothers would differ in contingent responsivity to their children's expression of both positivity and different types of negative emotionality. Using…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Mothers, Emotional Response, Children
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Jacob, Theodore; Krahn, Gloria L. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1988
Observed family interactions of 107 families with at least one adolescent child as they engaged in discussions of personally relevant problems, during sessions when alcohol was consumed, and nondrinking sessions. Couples with alcoholic husbands tended to be more negative when drinking than were couples where husband was depressed, or where husband…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Alcoholism, Communication (Thought Transfer)