A5005786792- Mental Health Research Topics
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Personality Traits and Psychology
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Emotional Intelligence and Performance
- Mind wandering and attention
- Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Media Influence and Health
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Workplace Violence and Bullying
- Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
- Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Cognitive Abilities and Testing
Washington University in St. Louis
2014-2024
American Nurses Credentialing Center
2023
Stanford University
2009-2014
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2006-2011
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
2009
Investigators have begun to examine the temporal dynamics of affect in individuals diagnosed with major depressive disorder (MDD), focusing on instability, inertia, and reactivity emotion. How these differ between MDD healthy controls not before been examined a single study. In this study, 53 adults carried hand-held electronic devices for approximately 7 days were prompted randomly 8 times per day report their levels current negative (NA), positive (PA), occurrence significant events. terms...
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a prevalent involving disturbances in mood. There still much to understand regarding precisely how emotions are disrupted individuals with MDD. In this study, we used network approach examine the emotional underlying We hypothesized that compared healthy control individuals, diagnosed MDD would be characterized by denser emotion network, thereby indicating their system more resistant change. Indeed, results from 7-day experience sampling study revealed had...
Field studies and laboratory experiments have documented that a key component of resilience is emotional flexibility--the ability to respond flexibly changing circumstances. In the present study we tested hypotheses resilient people exhibit flexibility: (a) in response frequently stimuli (b) across multiple modalities responding. As participants viewed series pictures, assessed their self-reported affect, facial muscle activity, startle reflexes. Higher trait predicted more divergent...
Objective: Network analysis allows us to identify the most interconnected (i.e., central) symptoms, and multiple authors have suggested that these symptoms might be important treatment targets.This is because change in central (relative others) should greater impact on all other symptoms.It has been argued networks derived from cross-sectional data may help such symptoms.We tested this hypothesis social anxiety disorder.Method: We first estimated a state-of-the-art regularized partial...
Some individuals have very specific and differentiated emotional experiences, such as anger, shame, excitement, happiness, whereas others more general affective experiences of pleasure or discomfort that are not highly differentiated. Considering with major depressive disorder (MDD) cognitive deficits for negative information, we predicted people MDD would less than healthy people. To test this hypothesis, assessed participants’ using a 7-day experience-sampling protocol. Depression was...
Although prescribed exercise has been found to improve affect and reduce levels of depression, we do not know how self-initiated everyday physical activity influences positive (PA) negative (NA) in depressed persons.Fifty-three individuals diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) 53 never-depressed controls participated a seven-day experience sampling study.Participants were prompted randomly eight times per day answered questions about their affective state.Over the week, two groups...
Emotion theories posit that effective emotion regulation depends upon the nuanced information provided by emotional awareness; attending to and understanding one's own emotions. Additionally, strong associations between facets of awareness various forms psychopathology may be partially attributable with regulation. These logically compelling hypotheses are largely uninvestigated, including which compose how they relate strategies psychopathology. We used exploratory structural equation...
Rumination and worry, two forms of perseverative thinking, hold promise as core processes that transect depressive anxiety disorders. Whereas previous studies have been limited to the laboratory or single diagnoses, we used experience sampling methods assess validate rumination worry transdiagnostic phenomena in daily lives individuals diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), Generalized Anxiety (GAD), co-occurring MDD-GAD. Clinical healthy control participants carried a hand-held...
There has been extensive discussion about gender gaps in representation and career advancement the sciences. However, psychological science itself yet to be focus of or systematic review, despite our field’s investment questions equity, status, well-being, bias, disparities. In present article, we consider 10 topics relevant for women’s science. We on issues that have subject empirical study, discuss evidence within outside science, draw established theory social-science research begin chart...
Pleasure and displeasure can be parsed into anticipatory consummatory phases. However, research on pleasure in major depressive disorder (MDD), a characterized by anhedonia, has largely focused deficits the phase. Moreover, most studies this area have been laboratory-based, raising question of how component processes are experienced daily lives depressed individuals. Using experience sampling, we compared for activities reported adults with MDD (n = 41) healthy controls 39). Participants...
Neuroticism is one of the major traits describing human personality, and a predictor mental physical disorders with profound public health significance. Individual differences in emotional variability are thought to reflect core neuroticism. However, empirical relation between neuroticism may be partially result measurement artifact reflecting neuroticism’s higher mean levels—rather than greater variability—of negative emotion. When intensity measured using bounded scales, there dependency...
This study examined whether a transactional interpersonal life stress model helps to explain the continuity in depression over time girls. Youth (86 girls, 81 boys; M age = 12.41, SD 1.19) and their caregivers participated three-wave longitudinal study. Depression episodic were assessed with semistructured interviews. Path analysis provided support for girls but not boys, wherein predicted generation of stress, which subsequent depression. Moreover, self-generated partially accounted time....
Objective-To test whether the BDNF gene interacts with exercise to predict depressive symptoms.Physical activity is associated a range of positive health outcomes, including fewer symptoms.One plausible mechanism underlying these findings involves Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF), protein hypothesized limit or repair damage caused by stress.Physical increases expression BDNF, which may enhance brain health.BDNF controlled gene.Compared individuals without met allele, met-allele...
Distinct literatures have developed regarding the constructs of emotional clarity (people's meta-knowledge their affective experience) and emotion differentiation ability to differentiate experience into discrete categories, e.g., anger vs. fear). Conceptually, processes might be expected contribute increased clarity. However, relation between has not been directly investigated. In two studies with independent, undergraduate student samples, we measured using a self-report measure derived...
Abstract Emotion differentiation captures the detail with which people describe their emotional experiences. A compelling body of research has linked low and negative emotion to a host adverse psychological outcomes, yet conceptual methodological questions issues remain. We think that time is right review reflect on this growing literature gain clarity can be applied future research. first assessment while highlighting variation across studies. Then supported by review, we discuss...
Relational peer victimization is associated with internalizing symptoms. Compared to boys, girls are more likely be both relationally victimized by peers and distressed the victimization. While previous studies have reported that a functional polymorphism in promoter region of serotonin transporter gene (5-HTTLPR) moderates effect stressful life events on depressive symptoms, present study first evaluate interaction this relational predict level symptoms young girls.Participants were 78 ages...