A5054018346- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Menstrual Health and Disorders
- Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Mental Health Research Topics
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Sexual function and dysfunction studies
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
- Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
- Personality Traits and Psychology
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
- Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
- Psychological Treatments and Assessments
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Endometriosis Research and Treatment
- LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
- Menopause: Health Impacts and Treatments
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
Brown University
2016-2025
National Organization for Rare Disorders
2024
Johns Hopkins University
2022
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
2022
Rhode Island Hospital
2018
Providence College
2018
University of Kentucky
2011-2016
University of Massachusetts Boston
2007-2011
Mindfulness training has well-documented effects on psychological health. Recent findings suggest that increases in both mindfulness and self-compassion may mediate these outcomes; however, their separate combined are rarely examined the same participants. This study investigated cross-sectional relationships between self-reported mindfulness, self-compassion, meditation experience, wellbeing 77 experienced meditators 75 demographically matched nonmeditators. Most scores were significantly...
Objective: The transition to college is an important developmental period for the development of alcohol, marijuana, and hard drug (cocaine, opiates, inhalants, stimulants, hallucinogens, Ecstasy, club drugs) use. current study explored specific changes in substance use patterns during after through trajectory analyses. Method: Participants were 526 students who reported retrospectively prospectively on their from age 13 junior year college. Group-based modeling was used estimate groups this...
Mindfulness training reduces anger and aggression, but the mechanisms of these effects are unclear. may reduce expression hostility via reductions in rumination, a process thinking repetitively about angry episodes that increases anger. Previous research supports this theory used measures general rumination assessed only present-centered awareness component mindfulness. The present study investigated associations between various aspects mindfulness, components aggression.
Relationships between specific borderline personality disorder (BPD) features and facets of impulsivity (negative positive urgency, premeditation, perseverance, sensation seeking) were examined in a sample 227 undergraduate students, oversampled to include many with elevations on measure features. Most positively correlated features, except for seeking, which showed mixed pattern relationships BPD In regression models, negative urgency was the strongest predictor all scales, including...
<h3>Importance</h3> Borderline personality disorder (BPD) has been identified as a strong risk factor for suicidal behavior, including suicide attempts. Delineating specific features that increase could inform interventions. <h3>Objective</h3> To examine factors associated with prospectively observed attempts among participants in the Collaborative Longitudinal Study of Personality Disorders (CLPS), over 10 years follow-up, focus on BPD and criteria. <h3>Design, Setting, Participants</h3>...
Sexual and gender minority youth (SGMY) are at greater risk than their heterosexual cisgender counterparts for suicidal thoughts behaviors (STB) nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI). Unique stressors (i.e., stressors) specific to SGMY's stigmatized identities such as discrimination or concealment of one's identity posited explain these disparities. However, there is limited research examining the associations among stressors, affective mediating processes, STB NSSI in daily lives. We conducted a...
Two prominent emotions in borderline personality disorder (BPD) are shame and anger. Rumination has been demonstrated to occur response escalate anger, rumination, particularly anger shown predict BPD symptoms. The present study tested a structural equation model which leads the features of via increased rumination. A sample 823 undergraduates completed self-report measures shame, trait-level features. hypothesized rumination was largely supported. Bootstrapping used establish significant...
Despite sexual orientation disparities in suicide, there is limited research examining factors associated with suicide risk among minorities while considering subgroup differences within this group. This study identified between at for and those not risk. The also examined heterosexist victimization, as one form of minority stress, two relational mechanisms (i.e., shame rejection sensitivity) suicidality. We a moderated‐mediation model, which we tested gender the mediating effects on...
Shame has emerged as a particularly relevant emotion to the maintenance and exacerbation of borderline personality disorder (BPD) features; however, little attention been paid potentially differing effects other forms self-conscious affect. While guilt demonstrated have adaptive functions in social psychology literature, it not previously explored whether lack socially might also contribute BPD-related dysfunction. The present study examined relationship between BPD features emotions sample...
Individuals with genotypes that code for reduced dopaminergic brain activity often exhibit a predisposition toward aggression. However, it remains largely unknown how may increase Lower-functioning dopamine systems motivate individuals to seek reward from external sources such as illicit drugs and other risky experiences. Based on emerging evidence aggression is rewarding experience, we predicted the effect of lower-functioning functioning would be mediated by tendencies environment rewards....
Abstract Background Individuals with a borderline personality disorder (BPD) suffer from constellation of rapidly shifting emotional, interpersonal, and behavioral symptoms. The menstrual cycle may contribute to symptom instability among females this disorder. Methods Fifteen healthy, unmedicated BPD without dysmenorrhea reported daily symptoms across 35 days. Urine luteinizing hormone salivary progesterone (P4) were used confirm ovulation phase. Cyclical worsening was evaluated using (1)...
Fluctuations in progesterone (P4) and estradiol (E2) across the menstrual cycle can exert direct effects on biological systems implicated neuropsychiatric disorders represent a key source of variability affective, cognitive, behavioral disorders. Although these cyclical symptoms are most readily identified when they occur exclusively relation to cycle, as DSM-5 premenstrual dysphoric disorder, changes similar magnitude larger proportion patients with ongoing psychiatric Studies investigating...