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Social Anxiety, Reasons for Drinking, and College Students
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Norberg, Melissa M.; Norton, Alice R.; Olivier, Jake; Zvolensky, Michael J. – Behavior Therapy, 2010
Recent research suggests that social anxiety may be associated with higher rates of alcohol problems in women, yet may be associated with lower levels of drinking in men. The current study investigated putative mechanisms that may underlie potential gender differences in the social anxiety-alcohol relationship. One hundred and eighteen college…
Descriptors: College Students, Drinking, Risk, Gender Differences
Moving beyond an Exclusive Focus on Harm Avoidance in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Considering the Role of Incompleteness
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Pietrefesa, Ashley S.; Coles, Meredith E. – Behavior Therapy, 2008
Cognitive-behavioral conceptualizations of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) have predominantly viewed compulsions as being motivated by harm avoidance. However, sensations of things being incomplete or not "just right" may also underlie compulsions in OCD. Preliminary research suggests that distinguishing between harm avoidance and…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Factor Analysis, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Disabilities
The Effects of Worry and Rumination on Affect States and Cognitive Activity
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McLaughlin, Katie A.; Borkovec, Thomas D.; Sibrava, Nicholas J. – Behavior Therapy, 2007
The effects of worry and rumination on affective states and mentation type were examined in an unselected undergraduate sample in Study 1 and in a sample of individuals with high trait worry and rumination, high rumination, and low worry/rumination in Study 2. Participants engaged in worry and rumination inductions, counterbalanced in order across…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Depression (Psychology), Anxiety, Undergraduate Students
An Audiovisual Behavioral Analysis of the Stuttering Moment
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Webster, L. Michael; Brutten, Gene – Behavior Therapy, 1972
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Behavior Patterns, Exceptional Child Research, Oral Reading
Elimination of Middle-of-the-Night Tantrums in a Blind, Retarded Child
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Martin, Jerry A.; Iagulli, Diane M. – Behavior Therapy, 1974
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Exceptional Child Research
The Eliminaion of the Self-Destructive Behavior of a Psychotic Child: A Case Study
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Saposnek, Donald T.; Watson, Luke S., Jr. – Behavior Therapy, 1974
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Case Studies, Children
Conceptualizing Personality as a Cognitive-Affective Processing System: A Framework for Models of Maladaptive Behavior Patterns and Change
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Shoda, Yuichi; Smith, Ronald E. – Behavior Therapy, 2004
This article outlines a conceptualization of personality as a cognitive-affective processing system (CAPS) and explores its implications for understanding disorders and pursuing therapeutic change. The CAPS conception of personality was proposed in 1995 in order to resolve a long-standing paradox in personality and social psychology, namely, the…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Personality Traits, Learning Processes, Social Psychology