A5014583030- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Mind wandering and attention
- Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Traffic and Road Safety
- Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
- Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Communication in Education and Healthcare
- Media Influence and Health
- Personality Traits and Psychology
- Safety Warnings and Signage
- Treatment of Major Depression
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Behavioral and Psychological Studies
- Child Abuse and Trauma
University of Exeter
2014-2024
Singer (United States)
2006-2016
Royal Holloway University of London
2003-2006
Phillips Exeter Academy
2006
University of Sussex
2002
The authors conducted an experience sampling study to investigate the relationship between momentary ruminative self-focus and negative affect. Ninety-three adults recorded these variables at quasi-random intervals 8 times daily for 1 week. Scores on questionnaire measures of dispositional rumination were associated with mean levels over Concurrently, was positively Cross-lagged analyses revealed that whereas predicted affect a subsequent occasion, also occasion. Decomposition measure...
Three studies are reported showing that emotional responses to stress can be modified by systematic prior practice in adopting particular processing modes.Participants were induced think about positive and negative scenarios a mode either characteristic of or inconsistent with the abstract-evaluative mindset observed depressive rumination, via explicit instructions (Experiments 1 2) implicit induction interpretative biases (Experiment 3), before being exposed failure experience.In all three...
Ruminative thinking is believed to exacerbate the psychological distress that follows stressful life events. An experience-sampling study was conducted in which participants recorded negative events, ruminative self-focus, and affect eight times daily over one week. Occasions when reported a event were marked by higher levels of affect. Additionally, events prospectively associated with at next sampling occasion, this relationship partially mediated momentary self-focus. Depressive symptoms...
Models of self-regulation propose that negative affect is generated when progress towards goals perceived to be inadequate. Similarly, ruminative thinking hypothesised triggered by unattained (Martin & Tesser, 1996). We conducted an experience-sampling study in which participants recorded their affect, self-focus, and goal appraisals eight times daily for one week. Negative self-focus were each associated with low levels success (with the exception sadness) high importance. As predicted,...
BackgroundAnhedonia (reduced interest/pleasure) symptoms and wellbeing deficits are core to depression predict a poor prognosis. Current psychotherapies fail target these features adequately, contributing sub-optimal outcomes. Augmented Depression Therapy (ADepT) has been developed anhedonia wellbeing. We aimed establish clinical economic proof of concept for ADepT examine feasibility future definitive trial comparing Cognitive Behavioural (CBT).MethodsIn this single-centre, open-label,...
Abstract Although the supervisory relationship is thought to be critical in training clinical psychologists, little known about factors affecting alliance. We conducted an Internet survey of British doctoral trainees ( N = 259) which participants rated their working alliance, parental style during childhood, pathological adult attachment behaviours and for themselves supervisors. Trainees' ratings alliance were associated with perceptions supervisors' style, but not trainees' own styles....
We hypothesized that a tendency towards abstract, general and decontextualized processing is cognitive distortion causally contributes to symptoms of depression. This hypothesis predicts training dysphoric individuals become more concrete specific in their thinking would reduce depressive symptoms. To test this prediction, participants with stable dysphoria (scoring > or =14 on BDI-II at 2 consecutive weekly assessments) were randomly allocated an additive design either active intervention...
Despite its theoretical importance, personal goal motivation has rarely been examined in clinical depression. Here we investigate whether clinically depressed persons (n = 23) differ from never-depressed 26) on number of freely generated approach and avoidance goals, appraisals these reasons why goals would not be achieved. Participants listed separately explanations for they (pro) (con) achieve their most important before rating the likelihood, perceived control outcomes. Counter to...
Despite the development of prominent theoretical models goal motivation and its importance in daily life, research has rarely examined dysregulation processes clinical depression. Here we aimed to investigate problematic aspects regulation clinically depressed adults, relative controls. Depressed participants (n = 42) were recruited from two Improving Access Psychological Therapy clinics north-west England. Control 51) same region. Participants generated personal approach goals (e.g.,...
Overgeneralization has been investigated across many domains of cognitive functioning in major depression, including the imagination future events. However, it is unknown whether this phenomenon extends to representations personal goals, which are important structuring long-term behaviour and providing meaning life. Furthermore, not clear depressed individuals provide less specific explanations for against goal attainment.Clinically controls generated personally approach avoidance then why...
This study investigated the shared and distinct associations between depressive anxious symptoms motives for pursuing personal goals. One hundred thirty-six undergraduates generated approach avoidance goals rated each on intrinsic, identified, introjected external motives. Anxious showed significant unique with Specifically, predicted variance in intrinsic motivation (but not goals), whereas regulation Some of these findings were moderated by gender. The broadly support notion that...
This longitudinal study examined whether mothers' and fathers' depressive symptoms predict, independently interactively, children's emotional behavioural problems. It also bi-directional associations between parents' expressed emotion constituents (parents' child-directed positive critical comments) At time 1, the sample consisted of 160 families in which 50 mothers 40 fathers had depression according to Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV. Children's mean age at Time 1 was 3.9 years...
While existing psychological treatments for depression are effective many, a significant proportion of depressed individuals do not respond to current approaches and few remain well over the long-term. Anhedonia (a loss interest or pleasure) is core symptom which predicts poor prognosis but has been neglected by treatments. Augmented Depression Therapy (ADepT) co-designed with service users better target anhedonia alongside other features depression. This mixed methods pilot trial aims...
Repetitive negative thinking (RNT) is a proximal risk factor implicated in the onset and maintenance of common mental health problems such as depression anxiety. Adolescence may be key developmental window which to target RNT prevent emergence disorders. Impairments updating contents working memory are hypothesised causally contribute RNT, some theorists have suggested these difficulties specific manipulation information. The present study compared effects computerised adaptive training (in...
Abstract Using recent accident data to simulate a common collision environment, 10‐minute car journey was filmed in which moving or stationary pedestrian wearing one of two types retroreflective clothing appeared an environment with high visual clutter. It hypothesized that pedestrians would be detected at greater distances when aids biological motion configuration (‘biomotion’ clothing), but not standard vest. Participants viewed films the journey, pressed button they and rated difficulty...
Although attachment plays a key role in children's socio-emotional development, little attention has been paid to the of their father. This study examined whether insecure each parent was associated with reduced emotion understanding children and showed consistent attachments mother We measured using Manchester Child Attachment Story Task child Test Emotion Comprehension (children's Mage = 5.64 years, SD 0.84). The results indicated that father-child mother-child were lower after controlling...
Anticipatory processing (AP) is a repetitive thinking style associated with social anxiety that has been understudied relative to other similar constructs (e.g., rumination, worry). The primary goal of this study was the development and evaluation Positive Beliefs about Processing Questionnaire (PB-APQ) sample 301 undergraduate students. Further, it predicted anticipatory would mediate relationship between positive beliefs interaction anxiety. findings from suggest PB-APQ valid reliable...
Conflict between goals (inter-goal conflict) and conflicting feelings about attaining particular (ambivalence) are believed to be associated with depressive anxious symptoms, but have rarely been investigated together. Kelly et al. (2011, Personality Individual Differences, 50, 531-534) reported that inter-goal conflict interacted ambivalence predict concurrent symptoms in undergraduates, being more strongly for persons reporting less conflict. We sought replicate extend this finding a...