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Adams, Susan A. – ADULTSPAN Journal, 2008
Development of a shame-based identity, also known as "toxic shame," can significantly interfere with an adult's ability to form an intimate relationship with another. As adults find peace from their past using transactional analysis and mental imagery, they learn to empower themselves to form healthy, intimate relationships.
Descriptors: Imagery, Intimacy, Interpersonal Relationship, Psychotherapy
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Brockner, Joel; And Others – Journal of Research in Personality, 1982
Conducted two studies to test the notion that various factors, i.e., situation-personal, may differentially affect degrees of entrapment (amount invested) depending upon the point in time at which they are introduced. The results of both studies suggest amount invested depends upon timing in the entrapment process. (RC)
Descriptors: Adults, Anxiety, Behavior Patterns, Conflict
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DeGregorio, Eileen; Carver, Charles S. – Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1980
Tests the prediction that the combination of a Type A behavioral style and a sex role orientation low in masculinity would be associated with low self-esteem, high social anxiety, and depression, and that these tendencies would be more pronounced among women than among men. (Author/SS)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adults, Anxiety, Behavior Patterns
Shiffman, Saul M. – 1980
Although research has been conducted on who will relapse after having quit smoking in clinics, little has been done to determine the immediate precipitants of recidivism. A telephone hotline, manned by four experienced interviewers, was set up to receive calls from ex-smokers who had relapsed or who felt at high risk for relapse. A structured…
Descriptors: Adults, Affective Behavior, Anxiety, Behavior Patterns
Gabrenya, William K., Jr. – 1982
Growing interest in self-presentation has spawned several examinations of individual differences in the tendency to manage one's impressions, notably Snyder's attempt to identify skilled impression managers through self-monitoring and an associated monitoring device, the Self-Monitoring Scale (SMS). To further examine the SMS, factor analyses were…
Descriptors: Adults, Anxiety, Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns
Arkin, Robert M. – 1979
High social anxiety subjects switched from assuming greater personal responsibility for success than for failure to assuming greater responsibility for failure than for success when told that their attributions would be scrutinized by others. Low social anxiety individuals did just the opposite. Additional studies of response among high and low…
Descriptors: Adults, Anxiety, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research
Haber, Sandra – 1978
Conflicts that accompany weight loss as indicated by the presence of anxieties and fears in individuals who have lost an uncontestably large amount of weight were investigated. Subjects (N=12) who had lost a minimum of 100 pounds in a medically supervised weight program were interviewed about the onset of obesity, concurrent personal conflicts,…
Descriptors: Adults, Anxiety, Behavior Patterns, Body Weight
Horn, John L.; Wanberg, Kenneth W. – 1970
Causes and expressions of alcohol abuse in both men and women were examined in this study. Subjects (N=365 women and N=1,657 men), all of whom were first admissions to the Alcoholism Division of the Denver Fort Logan Mental Health Center, described their drinking symptoms and behavior patterns after excessive drinking. Over 60 symptoms were…
Descriptors: Adults, Alcoholism, Anxiety, Behavior Patterns
Shiffman, Saul – 1982
Outcome data on smoking cessation has emphasized that most people have difficulty not in quitting smoking, but in maintaining cessation. An attempt was made to develop a more meaningful typology of relapse-promoting situations using a sample of 183 exsmokers who called a telephone hotline seeking help to stay away from cigarettes. Two higher order…
Descriptors: Adults, Affective Behavior, Anxiety, Behavior Change
Copeland, Gary A.; Davis, Donald M. – 1983
A study examined the behavior patterns of patrons arriving at theatres that showed both "X" rated and "PG" rated movies. The study was undertaken to update the findings of the President's Commission on Pornography and Obscenity, which conducted similar research in 1970 and 1971. Patrons entering the theatre's X and PG rated…
Descriptors: Adults, Anxiety, Attitude Change, Behavior Patterns
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Rosenfeld, Rochelle; And Others – Psychological Assessment, 1992
A computer-administered version of the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale was administered to 31 patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder, 16 with other anxiety disorders, and 23 nonpatient controls. The computer version correlated highly with the clinician-administered version and was well understood and liked by subjects. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adults, Anxiety, Behavior Patterns, Comparative Testing
Jakobovits, Leon A. – 1972
Underlying this essay on psycholinguistic theory is the belief that language teachers often suffer from neurotic symptoms of confusion, anxiety, and uncertainty in connection with their work. The author discusses his "BALT" theory (battered language teachers). Philosophically-oriented remarks are directed toward teachers wishing to redirect their…
Descriptors: Adults, Anxiety, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Theories