This study of university students (64 men and 99 women) examined both dispositional situational influences self-critical (SC) perfectionism on stress coping, which explain its association with high negative affect low positive affect. Participants completed questionnaires at the end day for 7 consecutive days. Structural equation modeling indicated that relation between SC daily could be explained by several maladaptive tendencies associated (e.g., hassles, avoidant perceived social...

Scale discriminability is the ability of a measure to discriminate among individuals ordered along some continuum, such as depressive severity. We used nonparametric item-response model examine scale in Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and Center for Epidemiologic Studies (CES-D) both college depressed outpatient samples. In sample, CES-D was more discriminating than BDI, but standard cutoff score 16 overestimated likely prevalence depression (45%). The may be effective BDI detecting...

This study examined both mean levels and intraindividual variability in the mood interpersonal behavior of individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) nonclinical control participants over a 20-day event-contingent recording period. Individuals BPD group experienced more unpleasantly valenced affect were less dominant, submissive, quarrelsome, extreme overall than participants. In addition to these mean-level differences, also reported valence pleasantly affect; displayed greater...

Prior analyses of the National Institute Mental Health Treatment Depression Collaborative Research Program demonstrated that perfectionism was negatively related to outcome, whereas both patient's perception quality therapeutic relationship and patient contribution alliance were positively outcome across treatment conditions (S. J. Blatt, D. C. Zuroff, M. Quinlan, & P. A. Pilkonis, 1996; L. Krupnick et al., 1996). New examining relations among perfectionism, perceived quality, (a)...

Abstract The authors propose a new common treatment factor, autonomous motivation (Deci & Ryan, 2000 Deci, E. L. and R. M. 2000. what the why of goal pursuits: Human needs self-determination behavior. Psychological Inquiry, 11: 227–268. [Taylor Francis Online], [Web Science ®] , [Google Scholar]), defined as extent to which patients experience participation in freely made choice emanating from themselves. Ninety-five depressed outpatients were randomly assigned receive 16 sessions manualized...

Personality constructs were proposed to describe intraindividual variability in interpersonal behavior. Flux refers about an individual's mean score on dimension and was examined for the 4 poles of circumplex. Pulse spin refer extremity angular coordinate These measured using event-contingent recording. Latent state-trait analyses indicated high stability flux submissive, agreeable, quarrelsome behaviors some dominance. Further moderate pulse spin. Neuroticism predicted greater pulse, spin,...

A person's behavior across situations can be characterized in terms of a mean level (disposition), dispersion within the person around that level, and stable organization to pattern (signature). The authors' goals were examine structure stability behavior, both at behavioral dispositions signatures. Participants completed event-contingent records their social interactions over 20-day period. recorded own (dominant, agreeable, submissive, quarrelsome) 4 defined by perceived primary...

Analyses of the data National Institute Mental Health-sponsored Treatment Depression Collaborative Research Program have primarily examined effects types treatment and patient characteristics on outcome, but scant attention has been directed toward evaluating contributions therapist. With an aggregate residualized therapeutic change scores 5 primary outcome measures for each at termination as overall measure improvement, average effectiveness was derived 28 therapists based patients they saw...

Using data from the National Institute of Mental Health Treatment for Depression Collaborative Research Program, authors examined impact on treatment outcome patient's perception quality therapeutic relationship and contribution to alliance. Shared variance with early clinical improvement was removed these measures. Multilevel modeling demonstrated that a perceived positive in predicted more rapid decline maladjustment subsequent assessment. This effect occurred equally across all 4...

The Depressive Experiences Questionnaire (DEQ; Blatt, D'Afflitti, & Quinlan, 1976) was developed to permit the study of continuities between normal and pathological forms depression. Since its publication over 10 years ago, DEQ has been increasingly used in a wide range investigations depression clinical nonclinical samples as measure two major personality dimensions number studies differential responsiveness various life stressors. This provides an analysis responses large sample...

Self-compassion has been found to promote well-being but research yet examine whether training in self-compassion improves self-regulation (Gilbert, 2005, 2009; Neff, 2003). The present study sought the impact and moderators of a intervention on cigarette smoking. One hundred twenty-six smokers seeking quit were randomly assigned one four interventions, which involved engaging selfcompassionate imagery self-talk at every urge smoke. Multilevel modeling revealed that over three weeks, reduced...

Gilbert (2005) proposed that the capacity for self-compassion is integral to overcoming shame and psychopathology. We tested this model among 74 individuals with an eating disorder admitted specialized treatment. Participants completed measures assessing self-compassion, fear of shame, symptoms at admission every 3 weeks during At baseline, lower higher were associated more pathology. Multilevel modeling also revealed patients combinations low high baseline had significantly poorer treatment...

The authors integrate explorations by Blatt and colleagues of contributions patient personality, therapeutic relationship, change in mental representation to sustained change. A pretreatment personality characteristic, self-critical perfectionism, a negative self-schema, significantly interfered with progress manual-directed, brief outpatient treatment for depression. however, facilitated changes this self-representation, leading also explored the content structural organization...

We examined how the amplification of 3 within-person processes (behavioral reactivity to interpersonal perceptions, affect and behavioral a person's own affect) accounts for greater quarrelsome behavior among individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD). Using an event-contingent recording (ECR) methodology, BPD (N = 38) community controls 31) reported on their negative affect, behavior, perceptions interaction partner's agreeable-quarrelsome in events during 20-day period....