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Personality, Alcohol Use, and Drinking Motives: A Comparison of Independent and Combined Internal Drinking Motives Groups
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Goldstein, Abby L.; Flett, Gordon L. – Behavior Modification, 2009
It is well-established that coping and enhancement drinking motives predict college student drinking and that personality traits predict drinking motives. Little is known, however, about personality and drinking patterns among individuals who drink for both enhancement and coping reasons. University students in the current study completed…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Alcohol Abuse, Drinking, Questionnaires
Prediction of Child Performance on a Parent-Child Behavioral Approach Test with Animal Phobic Children
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Ollendick, Thomas H.; Lewis, Krystal M.; Cowart, Maria J. W.; Davis, Thompson, III – Behavior Modification, 2012
A host of factors including genetic influences, temperament characteristics, learning experiences, information processing biases, parental psychopathology, and specific parenting practices have been hypothesized to contribute to the development and expression of children's phobias. In the present study, the authors focused on parental…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Child Rearing, Prediction, Psychopathology
So Perfect It's Positively Harmful?: Reflections on the Adaptiveness and Maladaptiveness of Positive and Negative Perfectionism
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Owens, R. Glynn; Slade, Peter D. – Behavior Modification, 2008
The article by Flatt and Hewitt (2006) highlights a number of important issues in the study of perfectionism and rightly urges caution against simplistic conceptualizations. Their view that the term "perfectionism" should be reserved for pathological forms of behavior is questionable, though understandable given the perspective from which they…
Descriptors: Reinforcement, Psychological Patterns, Pathology, Adjustment (to Environment)
Positive versus Negative Perfectionism in Psychopathology: A Comment on Slade and Owens's Dual Process Model
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Flett, Gordon L.; Hewitt, Paul L. – Behavior Modification, 2006
This article reviews the concepts of positive and negative perfectionism and the dual process model of perfectionism outlined by Slade and Owens (1998). The authors acknowledge that the dual process model represents a conceptual advance in the study of perfectionism and that Slade and Owens should be commended for identifying testable hypotheses…
Descriptors: Psychopathology, Personality Traits, Fear, Failure
Spanish Version of the Savings Inventory-Revised: Adaptation, Psychometric Properties, and Relationship to Personality Variables
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Tortella-Feliu, Miquel; Fullana, Miquel A.; Caseras, Xavier; Andion, Oscar; Torrubia, Rafael; Mataix-Cols, David – Behavior Modification, 2006
The factor structure, psychometric properties, and relationship with personality variables of a Spanish version of the Savings Inventory-Revised (SI-R) are investigated in a sample of 381 undergraduate students. A maximum likelihood factor analysis suggests a three-factor structure, which is similar but not identical to that of the original…
Descriptors: Spanish, Psychometrics, Undergraduate Students, Factor Structure
Anxiety Sensitivity as a Prospective Predictor of Alcohol Use Disorders
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Schmidt, Norman B.; Buckner, Julia D.; Keough, Meghan E. – Behavior Modification, 2007
Emerging evidence suggests that elevated anxiety sensitivity (AS) is associated with substance use disorders. However, prospective evidence regarding this association is currently lacking. The primary aim of the present study was to determine whether AS is involved in the pathogenesis of substance-related psychopathology. A large, nonclinical…
Descriptors: Psychopathology, Predictor Variables, Anxiety, Alcohol Abuse