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Foley, Sarah; Devine, Rory T.; Hughes, Claire – Developmental Psychology, 2023
This study examined the development of caregiver mind-mindedness--defined as the propensity to see one's child as an agent with an independent mind--across the first 1,000 days of life. At four timepoints (i.e., third trimester of pregnancy, 4, 14, and 24 months postpartum), 384 first-time mothers (M[subscript age] = 32.55, SD = 3.63 years) and…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Mothers, Fathers, Infants
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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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Flett, Gordon L.; Nepon, Taryn; Hewitt, Paul L.; Zaki-Azat, Justeena; Rose, Alison L.; Swiderski, Kristina – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2020
In the current article, we describe the development and validation of the Mistake Rumination Scale as a supplement to existing trait and cognitive measures of perfectionism. The Mistake Rumination Scale is a seven-item inventory that taps the tendency to ruminate about a past personal mistake. Psychometric analyses confirmed that the Mistake…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Cognitive Processes, Test Construction, Cognitive Tests
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Molnar, Danielle S.; Sirois, Fuschia M.; Flett, Gordon L.; Sadava, Stanley – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2020
Advances in understanding of the perfectionism construct have been limited by an almost exclusive reliance on a variable-centered approach. This study utilized a person-oriented approach to examine Hewitt and Flett's conceptualization of multidimensional perfectionism in relation to health and well-being. Levels of conscientiousness, extraversion,…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Well Being, Neurosis, Extraversion Introversion
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Wang, Xiaoxi; Wang, Lei; Zhang, Jing; Wang, Jiana – Youth & Society, 2022
Emotional intelligence (EI) is closely connected with mental health, academic achievement, and social adaptation. The purpose of this cross-sectional study is to evaluate EI and explore its associated factors in Chinese adolescents in school. Self-reported questionnaires were distributed to participants--a total of 2,058 students aged 10 to 18…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Scores, Teacher Student Relationship, Prosocial Behavior
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Pirbaglou, Meysam; Cribbie, Robert; Irvine, Jane; Radhu, Natasha; Vora, Khushboo; Ritvo, Paul – Journal of American College Health, 2013
Objective: This study assessed a mediational model in which negative automatic thoughts and anxiety sensitivity were hypothesized to mediate the relationship between perfectionism cognitions and depressive and anxiety symptoms. Participants: Participants were undergraduate students from an urban Canadian university. The data were collected from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personality Traits, Anxiety, Depression (Psychology)
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Stoeber, Joachim; Hoyle, Azina; Last, Freyja – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2013
This study investigated the Consequences of Perfectionism Scale (COPS) and its relationships with perfectionism, performance perfectionism, affect, and depressive symptoms in 202 university students using confirmatory factor analysis, correlations, and regression analyses. Results suggest that the COPS is a reliable and valid measure of positive…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Depression (Psychology), Affective Behavior, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
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Flett, Gordon L.; Coulter, Lisa-Marie; Hewitt, Paul L.; Nepon, Taryn – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2011
The present study examined trait perfectionism, automatic perfectionistic thoughts, rumination, worry, and depressive symptoms in early adolescents. A group of 81 elementary school students in Grades 7 and 8 completed 5 questionnaires: the Child-Adolescent Perfectionism Scale, the Perfectionism Cognitions Inventory, the Children's Response Styles…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Adolescents, Measures (Individuals), Grade 7
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Olatunji, Bunmi O.; Adams, Thomas; Ciesielski, Bethany; David, Bieke; Sarawgi, Shivali; Broman-Fulks, Joshua – Assessment, 2012
This investigation examined the measurement properties of the Three Domains of Disgust Scale (TDDS). Principal components analysis in Study 1 (n = 206) revealed three factors of Pathogen, Sexual, and Moral Disgust that demonstrated excellent reliability, including test-retest over 12 weeks. Confirmatory factor analyses in Study 2 (n = 406)…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Test Validity, Factor Structure, Measures (Individuals)
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Cashwell, Craig S.; Glosoff, Harriet L.; Hammond, Cheree – Counseling and Values, 2010
The phenomenon of spiritual bypass has received limited attention in the transpersonal psychology and counseling literature and has not been subjected to empirical inquiry. This study examines the phenomenon of spiritual bypass by considering how spirituality, mindfulness, alexithymia (emotional restrictiveness), and narcissism work together to…
Descriptors: Religious Factors, Depression (Psychology), Anxiety, College Students
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Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne; Han, Wen-Jui; Waldfogel, Jane – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 2010
Using data from the first 2 phases of the NICHD Study of Early Child Care, the authors examine the links between maternal employment in the first 12 months of life and cognitive, social, and emotional outcomes for children at age 3, at age 4.5, and in first grade. Drawing on theory and prior research from developmental psychology as well as…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Mothers, Structural Equation Models, Child Behavior
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Leerkes, Esther M.; Burney, Regan V. – Infancy, 2007
Predictors of prenatal and postnatal parenting efficacy were examined in a sample of 115 primiparous mothers and 73 fathers in an effort to examine the association between preexisting parental characteristics and prenatal efficacy and the association between prenatal characteristics and postnatal efficacy when aspects of the current parenting…
Descriptors: Mothers, Child Rearing, Fathers, Predictor Variables