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Sad-Fishing: Understanding a Maladaptive Social Media Behavior in College Students
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Cara Petrofes; Krista Howard; Azucena Mayberry; Catherine Bitney; Natalie Ceballos – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: We investigated psychological factors that might predispose individuals to sad-fish or exaggerate their emotional state online to generate sympathy. Participants: Participants (N = 347) were collegiate social media users from a large university in the Southcentral United States. Methods: Participants completed an anonymous online survey…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Social Media, Social Support Groups, Intervention
Mentoring Highly Aggressive Children: Pre-Post Changes in Mentors' Attitudes, Personality, and Attachment Tendencies
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Faith, Melissa A.; Fiala, Samuel E.; Cavell, Timothy A.; Hughes, Jan N. – Journal of Primary Prevention, 2011
This study examined the degree to which mentoring highly aggressive children was associated with changes in mentors' attitudes, personality, and attachment tendencies. Participants were 102 college students who each mentored an aggressive, high-risk child across three academic semesters (spring, fall, spring). We examined pre- to post-mentoring…
Descriptors: Mentors, Self Efficacy, Child Behavior, Behavior Problems
Assessing Adolescents' Attachment Hierarchies: Differences across Developmental Periods and Associations with Individual Adaptation
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Rosenthal, Natalie L.; Kobak, Roger – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2010
Adolescents' attachment hierarchies were assessed in a sample of 212 high school and 198 college students. The Important People Interview (IPI) differentiated attachment bonds from other supportive or affiliative relationships and indicated that adolescents show a hierarchical ordering of preferences for multiple attachment figures. Differences in…
Descriptors: High School Students, College Students, Intimacy, Behavior Problems
The Relation between Dimensions of Attachment and Internalizing or Externalizing Problems during Adolescence
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Ronnlund, Michael; Karlsson, Erika – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 2006
The authors examined the relation between dimensions of attachment and internalizing and externalizing problems in 15- to 16-year-old adolescents (n = 62) who completed the Attachment Style Questionnaire (ASQ; J. Feeney, P. Noller, & M. Hanrahan, 1994) and the Youth Self-Report (YSR; T. M. Achenbach, 1991). In total, the ASQ dimensions…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Adolescents, Measures (Individuals), College Students
The Use of a Restraining Order in Dealing with Unmanageable College Students: A Commentary on "The Dean's Restraining Order: 'When Thou Art All the Better Part of Me'"
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Amada, Gerald – Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 2004
This commentary explores the role, psychological significance, and potential value of a restraining order that is used to extricate students from highly enmeshed and destructive relationships. The commentary places strong emphasis upon the need to evaluate an unmanageable student's behavior in the context of the college's code of student conduct…
Descriptors: College Administration, Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Counseling Services
The Authors' Response to Amada's Commentary
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Ward, Robin M.; Webb, Richard E. – Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 2004
In this article, the authors respond to Dr. Amada's comment on their paper. They feel that several of his points, though related to their topic, go beyond the scope of their paper, for example, reflecting on the potential for legal involvement when the intensity of the obsessive relationship warrants urgent intervention. In the latter case the…
Descriptors: Intervention, College Administration, Student Behavior, Behavior Problems