A5073728982- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Psychological and Educational Research Studies
- Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Service-Learning and Community Engagement
- Emotional Intelligence and Performance
- Mind wandering and attention
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Education and Critical Thinking Development
- Customer Service Quality and Loyalty
- Employer Branding and e-HRM
- Communication in Education and Healthcare
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Personality Traits and Psychology
George Mason University
2016-2020
Sex is rarely discussed in theories of well-being and empirically examined using methods other than cross-sectional surveys. In the present study, a daily diary approach was used (for 21 days with 152 adults) to explore relationship between presence quality sexual episodes (positive affect, negative meaning life). Time-lagged analyses demonstrated that activity on 1 day related greater next. As for episodes, higher reported pleasure intimacy predicted positive affect lower following day....
People with anxiety disorders tend to make decisions on the basis of avoiding threat rather than obtaining rewards. Despite a robust literature examining approach-avoidance motivation, less is known about goal pursuit. The present study examined content, motives, consequences, and daily correlates strivings among adults diagnosed social disorder healthy controls. Participants generated six along motives consequences their Compared controls, people were strongly driven by autonomous reported...
Despite the benefits of vacations for health and well-being, many employees do not use all their paid vacation days. In this article, we seek to understand why occurs. Using a social cognitive perspective, propose that fewer days when they believe can successfully detach from work while on (i.e., have low detachment self-efficacy), expect positive outcomes (e.g., feeling relaxed, connecting with loved ones) vacations, negative stressed, facing financial consequences) vacations. We test...
Physical touch is central to the emotional intimacy that separates romantic relationships from other social contexts. In this study of 256 adults (128 heterosexual couples, mean relationship length = 20.5 months), we examined whether individual differences in anxiety influenced comfort with and avoidance physical touch. Because prior work on sex difference use, comfort, symptoms impairment, explored sex-specific findings. We found evidence women greater were less comfortable more avoidant...
Strong communication skillsâparticularly understanding of self-concept and perception, listening skills, advocacy speaking conflict management, leadership team skillsâare all important for well-being, but we rarely make explicit connections between well-being. In this study conducted in Spring 2018, sought to the connection well-being more by intentionally integrating discussions about strengths, communication, several sections COMM 101. We assessed whether these conversations had a...