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Lorber, Michael F.; Erlanger, Ann C. Eckardt; Slep, Amy M. Smith – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2013
Objective: Cardiovascular reactivity to laboratory stressors was investigated as (a) a moderator of associations of partner aggression with affective functioning, alcohol problems, and parenting; and (b) a consequence of partner aggression. Method: Cohabiting adult couples (N = 453) with 3- to 7-year-old children were recruited by random digit…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Alcoholism, Aggression, Drinking
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Witkiewitz, Katie; Bowen, Sarah; Donovan, Dennis M. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2011
Objective: Negative affect is a significant predictor of alcohol relapse, and the relation between negative affect and drinking has been shown to be strongly mediated by alcohol craving. Thus, targeting craving during treatment could potentially attenuate the relation between negative affect and drinking. Method: The current study is a secondary…
Descriptors: Intervention, Alcoholism, Drinking, Psychological Patterns
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Guyll, Max; Cutrona, Carolyn; Burzette, Rebecca; Russell, Daniel – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2010
Objective: This study investigated the association between hostility and health and whether it is moderated by the quality of an individual's primary romantic relationship. Method: Longitudinal data were provided by 184 African Americans, including 166 women. Participants averaged 38 years old and were married or in long-term marriagelike…
Descriptors: African Americans, Conflict, Health, Adolescents
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Pachankis, John E.; Goldfried, Marvin R. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2010
Objective: This study tested the effectiveness of an expressive writing intervention for gay men on outcomes related to psychosocial functioning. Method: Seventy-seven gay male college students (mean age = 20.19 years, SD = 1.99) were randomly assigned to write for 20 min a day for 3 consecutive days about either (a) the most stressful or…
Descriptors: Physical Health, Sexual Orientation, Expressive Language, Homosexuality
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Wilson, Helen W.; Widom, Cathy Spatz – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2011
Objective: This study examines the relationship between childhood abuse and neglect and sexual risk behavior in middle adulthood and whether psychosocial factors (risky romantic relationships, affective symptoms, drug and alcohol use, and delinquent and criminal behavior) mediate this relationship. Method: Children with documented cases of…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse, Structural Equation Models
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Cohen, Lawrence H.; Gunthert, Kathleen C.; Butler, Andrew C.; Parrish, Brendt P.; Wenze, Susan J.; Beck, Judith S. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2008
This study evaluated the predictive role of depressed outpatients' (N = 62) affective reactivity to daily stressors in their rates of improvement in cognitive therapy (CT). For 1 week before treatment, patients completed nightly electronic diaries that assessed daily stressors and negative affect (NA). The authors used multilevel modeling to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Restructuring, Patients, Diaries, Depression (Psychology)
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Crowell, Sheila E.; Beauchaine, Theodore P.; McCauley, Elizabeth; Smith, Cindy J.; Vasilev, Christina A.; Stevens, Adrianne L. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2008
Self-inflicted injury in adolescence indicates significant emotional and psychological suffering. Although data on the etiology of self-injury are limited, current theories suggest that the emotional lability observed among self-injuring adolescents results from complex interactions between individual biological vulnerabilities and environmental…
Descriptors: Mothers, Correlation, Affective Behavior, Negative Attitudes
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Smyth, Joshua M.; Wonderlich, Stephen A.; Heron, Kristin E.; Sliwinski, Martin J.; Crosby, Ross D.; Mitchell, James E.; Engel, Scott G. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2007
The relation of mood and stress to binge eating and vomiting in the natural environments of patients with bulimia nervosa (BN) was examined using real-time data collection. Women (n = 131; mean age = 25.3 years) with BN carried a palmtop computer for 2 weeks and completed ratings of positive affect (PA), negative affect (NA), anger/hostility (AH),…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Patients, Females, Eating Disorders
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Stice, Eric; Bohon, Cara; Marti, C. Nathan; Fischer, Kathryn – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2008
Studies have found that individuals with bulimia nervosa can be classified into dietary and dietary-negative affect subtypes and that the latter exhibit greater eating pathology, psychiatric comorbidity, and functional impairment; a more protracted clinical course; and a worse treatment response. In this report, the authors describe 2 prospective…
Descriptors: Females, Eating Disorders, Predictive Validity, Pathology
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Neuringer, Charles – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1982
Studied whether intense negative affect states linked to suicidal behavior exist. Gathered Personal Feeling Scales data from high, moderate, and low serious suicide-threatening women and from a disturbed but nonsuicidal group. Results indicated that a particular configuration of intensely negative affects exist for highly serious suicidal women.…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Emotional Experience, Emotional Problems, Females
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Quartana, Phillip J.; Schmaus, Brian J.; Zakowski, Sandra G. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2005
The authors prospectively tested the hypothesis that emotional expressivity would moderate the predictive relationship between patient neuroticism and spousal constraints among 120 individuals with cancer. The authors also examined whether patient gender further moderated the hypothesized relationships. After we controlled for Time 1 constraints,…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Depression (Psychology), Affective Behavior, Spouses
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Robbins, James M. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1979
Measured psychological sequelae to induced abortion among women pregnant out of wedlock, using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and questions specific to willingness to repeat abortion under similar circumstances. Analyses indicated no relation between objective and subjective indicators. Affectivity after induced abortion had…
Descriptors: Abortions, Affective Behavior, Blacks, Emotional Response
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Clarke, Katherine M. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1996
Meaning events are in-therapy change episodes that occur when a patient seeks to understand the meaning of an emotional experience. A performance model of this task was developed in an earlier study. This study sought to determine which client performance components distinguish successful from unsuccessful creation of meaning episodes. Measures of…
Descriptors: Adults, Affective Behavior, Change, Change Agents
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Kipper, David A. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1977
Desensitization therapy was offered to Israeli soldiers suffering from fears developed as a result of their participation in the Yom Kippur War. Two kinds of in vivo desensitization procedures used were: (a) an individual self-administered in vivo desensitization and (b) in vivo desensitization in dyads. Advantages of these procedures discussed.…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Anxiety, Behavior Change, Desensitization
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Zautra, Alex J.; Johnson, Lisa M.; Davis, Mary C. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2005
A sample of 124 women with osteoarthritis or fibromyalgia, or both, completed initial assessments for demographic data, health status, and personality traits and 10-12 weekly interviews regarding pain, stress, negative affect, and positive affect. Multilevel modeling analyses indicated that weekly elevations of pain and stress predicted increases…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Females, Pain, Health Conditions
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