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Australian Catholic University
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ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Psychology | Developmental Psychology and Ageing | Educational Psychology | Personality, Abilities and Assessment | Health, Clinical And Counselling Psychology | Personality, Abilities And Assessment | Industrial And Organisational Psychology | Social and Community Psychology | Mental Health | Public Health and Health Services | Developmental Psychology And Ageing | Social And Community Psychology | Marketing And Market Research | Biological Psychology (Neuropsychology, Psychopharmacology, Physiological Psychology) | Public Health And Health Services Not Elsewhere Classified | Marketing |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Social Structure and Health | Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences | Youth/child development and welfare | Mental Health | Behavioural and cognitive sciences | Mental health | Families | The professions and professionalisation | Expanding Knowledge in Education | Secondary education | Occupational health (excl. economic development aspects) | Learner and Learning Achievement | School/Institution Community and Environment | Continuing education | Learner Development | Behaviour and Health | Child Health | Health Status (e.g. Indicators of Well-Being)
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Verbal learning and memory in adolescent cannabis users, alcohol users and non-users
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 17-02-2011
DOI: 10.1007/S00213-011-2203-X
Abstract: Long-term heavy cannabis use can result in memory impairment. Adolescent users may be especially vulnerable to the adverse neurocognitive effects of cannabis. In a cross-sectional and prospective neuropsychological study of 181 adolescents aged 16-20 (mean 18.3 years), we compared performance indices from one of the most widely used measures of learning and memory--the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test--between cannabis users (n=52 mean 2.4 years of use, 14 days/month, median abstinence 20.3 h), alcohol users (n=67) and non-user controls (n=62) matched for age, education and premorbid intellectual ability (assessed prospectively), and alcohol consumption for cannabis and alcohol users. Cannabis users performed significantly worse than alcohol users and non-users on all performance indices. They recalled significantly fewer words overall (p<0.001), demonstrating impaired learning (p<0.001), retention (p<0.001) and retrieval (p<0.05) (Cohen's d 0.43-0.84). The degree of impairment was associated with the duration, quantity, frequency and age of onset of cannabis use, but was unrelated to alcohol exposure or other drug use. No gender effects were detected and the findings remained after controlling for premorbid intellectual ability. An earlier age of onset of regular cannabis use was associated with worse memory performance after controlling for extent of exposure to cannabis. Despite relatively brief exposure, adolescent cannabis users relative to their age-matched counterparts demonstrated similar memory deficits to those reported in adult long-term heavy users. The results indicate that cannabis adversely affects the developing brain and reinforce concerns regarding the impact of early exposure.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for psychological adjustment after traumatic brain injury: Reporting the protocol for a randomised controlled trial
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 12-2012
Abstract: Following a severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) there is a complex presentation of psychological symptoms which may impact on recovery. Validated treatments addressing these symptoms for this group of people are limited. This article reports on the protocol for a single-centre, two-armed, Phase II Randomised Control Trial (RCT) to address the adjustment process following a severe TBI. Participants will be recruited from Liverpool Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit and randomly allocated to one of two groups, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) or an active control (Befriending). The active treatment group utilises the six core processes of ACT with the intention of increasing participation and psychological flexibility and reducing psychological distress. A number of primary and secondary outcome measures, administered at assessment, post-treatment and 1-month follow-up, will be used to assess clinical outcomes. The publication of the protocol before the trial results are available addresses fidelity criterion (intervention design) for RCTs. This ensures transparency in the RCT and that it meets the guidelines according to the CONSORT statement. The protocol has also been registered on the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ACTRN12610000851066.
The Role of Nonattachment in the Development of Adolescent Mental Health: a Three-Year Longitudinal Study
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 16-06-2020
Compulsive internet use and the development of self‐esteem and hope: A four‐year longitudinal study
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 21-01-2019
DOI: 10.1111/JOPY.12450
Abstract: Compulsive internet use (CIU) has been linked to decrements in mental health and well-being. However, relatively little is known about how CIU relates to evaluations of the self, and in particular, whether CIU is antecedent to or is a consequence of negative evaluations of one's social worth (self-esteem) and general efficacy (hope). To examine this, we explored the longitudinal relations between CIU and the development of self-esteem and hope among adolescents over a four-year period. Two thousand eight hundred and nine adolescents completed measures yearly from Grade 8 (M We found consistent support for a CIU-as-antecedent model. CIU preceded reductions in trait hope, and small reductions in self-esteem. In contrast, we did not find evidence for a CIU-as-consequence model: low self-esteem and hope did not predict increases in CIU over time. Our findings suggest that CIU has negative consequences for young people's feelings of goal-efficacy, and that interventions that address the compulsive use of the internet are likely to strengthen hope and self-esteem among young people.
Psychological acceptance and quality of life in the elderly
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 02-2007
Is Self‐Compassion Selfish? The Development of Self‐Compassion, Empathy, and Prosocial Behavior in Adolescence
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 18-03-2019
DOI: 10.1111/JORA.12492
Abstract: Both self-compassion and empathy have been theorized to promote prosociality in youth, but there is little longitudinal data examining this possibility. We assessed self-compassion, empathy, and peer-rated prosociality yearly, in a cohort of 2,078 youth across 17 schools (M age at T1 = 14.65 years 49.2% female), as they progressed from Grade 9-12. We utilized multi-level modeling to predict prosocial behavior, nested within students, classes, and schools. We found that self-compassion and empathy uniquely predicted peer-rated prosocial behavior. However, only empathy predicted increases in prosocial behavior across time. While self-compassion is not selfish, it does not appear to facilitate the development of kindness toward adolescent peers. Self-compassion may help to buffer against possible negative effects of empathic distress.
The science of attracting foster carers
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-05-2012
Relationships between valued action and well-being across the transition from high school to early adulthood
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-05-2015
A configural approach to aspirations: The social breadth of aspiration profiles predicts well-being over and above the intrinsic and extrinsic aspirations that comprise the profiles.
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 2021
DOI: 10.1037/PSPP0000374
Abstract: We conducted a person-centered analysis of the Aspiration Index to identify subgroups that differ in the levels of their specific (wealth, fame and image, personal growth, relationships, community giving, and health) and global intrinsic and extrinsic aspirations. In a Hungarian (
Original and revised reinforcement sensitivity theory in the prediction of executive functioning: A test of relationships between dual systems
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2014
A study protocol for Truce: a pragmatic controlled trial of a seven-week acceptance and commitment therapy program for young people who have a parent with cancer
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 09-09-2015
Inflexible Parents, Inflexible Kids: A 6-Year Longitudinal Study of Parenting Style and the Development of Psychological Flexibility in Adolescents
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 07-02-2012
DOI: 10.1007/S10964-012-9744-0
Abstract: Parenting behaviors have been linked to children's self regulation, but it is less clear how they relate to adolescent psychological flexibility. Psychological flexibility is a broad construct that describes an in idual's ability to respond appropriately to environmental demands and internal experiences in the service of their goals. We examined the longitudinal relationships between perceived parenting style and psychological flexibility among students at five Australian schools (N= 749) over 6 years, beginning in Grade 7 (50.3% female, mean age 12.39 years). Parenting style was measured in Grades 7 and 12, and psychological flexibility from Grade 9 through 12. Psychological flexibility decreased, on average, with age. Multi-level modelling indicated that authoritarian parenting (low warmth, high control) in Grade 7 predicted later (low) psychological flexibility. Moreover, increases in authoritarian parenting and decreases in authoritative parenting (high warmth and control) were associated with adolescent psychological flexibility across the high school years. Change in parenting predicted future psychological flexibility but did not predict change over time. Structural Equation Modelling revealed that adolescent psychological flexibility in Grade 9 predicted later decreases in authoritarian and increases in authoritative parenting. We discuss the implications of these findings for understanding how parenting changes and the consequences of such change for the development of psychological flexibility.
Parental styles and religious values among teenagers: A 3-year prospective analysis
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 29-01-2010
Measuring emotional intelligence in adolescents
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2001
The Equality Paradox: Gender Equality Intensifies Male Advantages in Adolescent Subjective Well-Being
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-10-2022
DOI: 10.1177/01461672221125619
Abstract: In iduals’ subjective well-being (SWB) is an important marker of development and social progress. As psychological health issues often begin during adolescence, understanding the factors that enhance SWB among adolescents is critical to devising preventive interventions. However, little is known about how institutional contexts contribute to adolescent SWB. Using Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2015 and 2018 data from 78 countries ( N = 941,475), we find that gender gaps in adolescents’ SWB (life satisfaction, positive and negative affect) are larger in more gender-equal countries. Results paradoxically indicated that gender equality enhances boys’ but not girls’ SWB, suggesting that greater gender equality may facilitate social comparisons across genders. This may lead to an increased awareness of discrimination against females and consequently lower girls’ SWB, diluting the overall benefits of gender equality. These findings underscore the need for researchers and policy-makers to better understand macro-level factors, beyond objective gender equality, that support girls’ SWB.
Religious Values and the Development of Trait Hope and Self-Esteem in Adolescents
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2012
Trait emotional intelligence, conflict communication patterns, and relationship satisfaction
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2008
The Compassion Balance: Understanding the Interrelation of Self- and Other-Compassion for Optimal Well-being
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 26-12-2022
Abstract: Objectives: This study examined the role of ‘self-other harmony’ in the relations between self-compassion, other-compassion, and well-being. Past research has shown self- and other-compassion to be positively related. But we hypothesized that self-compassion can be perceived as incompatible with other-compassion, and that self-compassion and other-compassion might be uncorrelated or negatively correlated in daily life for some in iduals. We termed this pattern lack of ‘self-other harmony’ in compassion and hypothesized that it would undermine the benefits of compassion. Method: Using an experience s ling method in patients (n=154) with a variety of diagnoses, we measured self-compassion, other-compassion, life-satisfaction, mood, and contextual variables six times per day for 42 time points. Results: For most participants, self-compassion was positively associated with other-compassion. However, there was substantial heterogeneity in this effect. The degree of self-other harmony moderated the link between compassion directed towards self or other and well-being. Higher levels of compassion were associated with higher levels of well-being, but only for those who experienced the harmony. When the two forms of compassion were not in harmony, levels of self/other-compassion were largely unrelated to well-being. Conclusions: The findings emphasize the importance of personalized compassion interventions rather than a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach. Increasing self-compassion or other-compassion is likely to improve well-being for most people. However, for a minority lacking the self-other harmony, it may be necessary to assess their interpretation of self- and other-compassion, then work with them to promote the compassion balance optimal for their well-being.
Agreeableness, conscientiousness, and psychoticism: Distinctive influences of three personality dimensions in adolescence
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 26-10-2013
DOI: 10.1111/BJOP.12002
Abstract: Researchers have suggested that the psychoticism (P) personality dimension of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire may be largely redundant with the agreeableness (A) and conscientiousness (C) constructs of the five-factor model. Little research has examined the distinctiveness of these constructs. We utilized a multi-wave, multi-method design to examine the ability of C, A, and P to uniquely predict a number of important outcomes amongst high school students. A total of 778 students (391 males, 387 females mean age 15.41 years.) completed personality measures in Grade 10. Self-reported self-esteem, social support, health-related behaviours, religious values as well as teachers' assessments of students, were collected 1 and 2 years later. A, C, and P were distinctive in their ability to predict these outcomes, after controlling for gender and socio-economic status as well as Grade 10 extraversion, openness, and neuroticism. The in idual P items explained unique variance over and above that explained by A and C. It was concluded that P is not merely the opposite of A and C. Implications for interventions are raised.
Is Belief in God Related to Differences in Adolescents’ Psychological Functioning?
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2016
DOI: 10.1111/JSSR.12249
A worthy self is a caring self: Examining the developmental relations between self-esteem and self-compassion in adolescents
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 22-09-2017
DOI: 10.1111/JOPY.12340
Abstract: Self-compassion has been framed as a healthy alternative to self-esteem, as it is nonevaluative. However, rather than being alternatives, it may be that the two constructs develop in a mutually reinforcing way. The present study tested this possibility among adolescents. A large adolescent s le (N = 2,809 49.8% female) reported levels of trait self-esteem and self-compassion annually for 4 years. Autoregressive cross-lagged structural equation models were used to estimate the reciprocal longitudinal relations between the two constructs. Self-esteem consistently predicted changes in self-compassion across the 4 years of the study, but not vice versa. Self-esteem appears to be an important antecedent of the development of self-compassion, perhaps because the capacity to extend compassion toward the self depends on one's appraisals of worthiness. These findings add important insights to our theoretical understanding of the development of self-compassion.
Discrimination as a frame-of-reference effect in overlapping friendship communities of ethnically diverse youth.
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.1037/CDP0000247
Abstract: To what extent is the frame of reference of overlapping friendship communities important for young people's feelings of discrimination and subjective well-being? That is, do youth feel better or worse to the extent that they feel less or more discrimination than their friends? Participants ( When the community level discrimination was low, there was no well-being related cost or benefit of in idual-level discrimination. But when the community-level discrimination was high, in iduals in those communities who themselves felt low discrimination had better well-being than in iduals who themselves felt high discrimination. We provide evidence for a frame-of-reference effect involving discrimination. In iduals' relative standing in their friendship communities with high group-level discrimination reliably predicted the in iduals' well-being levels, regardless of ethnicity. The results highlight the importance of identifying overlapping friendship communities for understanding the dynamics of discrimination and well-being of ethnically erse youth. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
Reciprocal Relationships between Teacher Ratings of Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors in Adolescents with Different Levels of Cognitive Abilities
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 23-09-2016
DOI: 10.1007/S10964-016-0574-3
Abstract: Are internalizing and externalizing behavior problems interrelated via mutually reinforcing relationships (with each behavior leading to increases over time in levels of the other behavior) or mutually suppressing relationships (with each behavior leading to decreases over time in levels of the other behavior)? Past research on the directionality of these relationships has led to ambiguous results, particularly in adolescence. Furthermore, the extent to which prior results will generalize to adolescents with low levels of cognitive abilities remains unknown. This second limit is particularly important, given that these adolescents are known to present higher levels of externalizing and internalizing behaviors than their peers with average-to-high levels of cognitive abilities, and that the mechanisms involved in the reciprocal relationships between these two types of behaviors may differ across both populations. This study examines the directionality of the longitudinal relationships between externalizing and internalizing behavior problems as rated by teachers across three measurement waves (corresponding to Grades 8-10) in matched s les of 138 adolescents (34.78 % girls) with low levels of cognitive abilities and 556 adolescents (44.88 % girls) with average-to-high levels of cognitive abilities. The results showed that the measurement structure was fully equivalent across time periods and groups of adolescents, revealing high levels of developmental stability in both types of problems, and moderately high levels of cross-sectional associations. Levels of both internalizing and externalizing behaviors were higher among adolescents with low levels of cognitive abilities relative to those with average-to-high levels of cognitive abilities. Finally, the predictive analyses revealed negative reciprocal longitudinal relationships (i.e., mutually suppressing relationships) between externalizing and internalizing problems, a result that was replicated within s les of adolescents with low, and average-to-high levels of cognitive ability.
The Link Between Self-esteem and Implicit Malleability Theories: a Meta-analysis
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 12-08-2019
Abstract: Experiments suggest that people who believe their attributes are malleable should be more resilient in the face of failure. Does this mean that incremental theorists maintain higher self-esteem? We explore this question meta-analytically. We synthesised research from 34 studies to show that the relationship between self-esteem and incremental theories is generally weak. We performed moderation analysis to identify method, and s le features which predict effect size magnitude. Of note, implicit malleability theories were more strongly related to self-esteem when scales were self-, rather than other-focused, and when incremental, rather than entity items were used.
Upsides and Downsides of the Darkside: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Social Costs and Benefits of Youth Aggression for Peer Relationships
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 07-03-2023
Abstract: Past research and theory suggest that youth aggression is maladaptive, caused by factors such as cognitive bias, personal defect, or frustration. We sought to identify the extent and circumstances in which aggression is socially adaptive in the school context, by conducting a systematic review and meta-analysis of the links between youth aggression and peer nominations of popularity and likeability. Bayesian multilevel meta-analysis was used to analyse 1,133 effects from 255 studies with a total of 556,363 participants in elementary, middle, and high school. Aggression was negatively associated with likability: -0.28 [95% credibility interval (CrI): -0.41 -0.13] and positively associated with popularity: 0.16 [95% CrI: 0.06 0.25], regardless of the type of aggression and several other possible moderators. We discuss the implications of these findings for aggression interventions and highlight the importance of acknowledging the upsides of aggression for youth, measuring, and targeting indirect aggression.
What is self-compassion? A process-based examination of the self-compassion psychometric wars
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 28-11-2022
Abstract: The last few decades have seen an explosion of self-compassion research, and yet the measurement of self-compassion remains fiercely debated. Rakhimov et al (2022) add fire to the debate by showing that a single factor mode, with six subfactors, fits Neff ‘s (2003) self-compassion scale (SCS) extremely well and arguing that a single total score can therefore be used in future research and practice. In this paper, we disagree with this conclusion, and argue that the debate can only be resolved by stating analytic assumptions, examining self-compassion theory, and considering the pragmatic purposes of the instrument. We examine self-compassion in terms of pragmatic analysis and process-based theory that brings together different self-compassion approaches. From a process-based perspective, we argue that it is generally unhelpful to describe self-compassion as a single global dimension, like hot (self-compassion) and cold (self-criticism). This practice prematurely shuts down interesting research and hypotheses. Some people will be high in both process, some will be low, and some will be somewhere in-between, depending on context. Further, the processes may relate differently for different people. Whilst it might be defensible to use the six subscale scores, the use of a total score for trait self-compassion is not justified.
Psychological flexibility is not a single dimension: The distinctive flexibility profiles of underweight, overweight, and obese people
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2014
A Jobseeker Assessment & Intervention Model
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 02-01-2020
Abstract: To what extent does a psychosocial intervention (PSI) improve employment rates for welfare-receiving jobseekers who differ in ethnicity, length of unemployment, physical location, gender, and readiness for change? Two large-scale studies (Study 1: 2,459 jobseekers, Study 2: 20,057 jobseekers) across a erse Australian s le sought to assess factors that moderated the efficacy on return-to-work outcomes of a PSI program (comprising 31 evidence-based exercises that are purported to build psychological states such as self-efficacy, resilience, and well-being) when compared to a government-funded treatment as usual (TAU) re-employment service. Study 1 showed that the PSI was much more effective than TAU (20.4% increase in job placements), but only for jobseekers who were not already proactively engaged in seeking a job. Study 2 added a one-to-one intervention to the original group PSI workshop, informed by the transtheoretical (or stage of change) model and was shown to improve job placement rates regardless of stage of jobseeking readiness, gender, age and ethnicity (41.9% increase in job placements overall). However, the intervention was not effective for those living in remote areas. The results have implications for employment services aiming to deliver better return-to-work outcomes by segmenting and personalizing support for unemployed citizens.
Self-compassion moderates the perfectionism and depression link in both adolescence and adulthood
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 21-02-2018
Connected or Cutoff? A 4-Year Longitudinal Study of the Links Between Adolescents’ Compulsive Internet Use and Social Support
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-11-2022
DOI: 10.1177/01461672221127802
Abstract: As the online world plays an increasing role in young peoples’ lives, research on compulsive internet use (CIU) is receiving growing attention. Given the social richness of the online world, there is a need to better understand how CIU influences adolescents’ social support and vice versa. Drawing on ecological systems theory, we examined the longitudinal links between adolescents’ CIU and perceived social support from three sources (parents, teachers, and friends) across 4 critical years of adolescence (Grades 8–11). Using random intercept cross-lagged modeling, we found that CIU consistently preceded reduced social support from teachers, whereas social support from parents preceded increases in CIU over time. We discuss the implications of our findings for parents and schools seeking to support young people experiencing CIU.
Identifying and describing feelings and psychological flexibility predict mental health in men with HIV
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-2013
DOI: 10.1111/BJHP.12026
The Wisdom to Know the Difference: Strategy-Situation Fit in Emotion Regulation in Daily Life Is Associated With Well-Being
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 15-10-2016
Abstract: The ability to regulate emotions is central to well-being, but healthy emotion regulation may not merely be about using the “right” strategies. According to the strategy-situation-fit hypothesis, emotion-regulation strategies are conducive to well-being only when used in appropriate contexts. This study is the first to test the strategy-situation-fit hypothesis using ecological momentary assessment of cognitive reappraisal—a putatively adaptive strategy. We expected people who used reappraisal more in uncontrollable situations and less in controllable situations to have greater well-being than people with the opposite pattern of reappraisal use. Healthy participants ( n = 74) completed measures of well-being in the lab and used a smartphone app to report their use of reappraisal and perceived controllability of their environment 10 times a day for 1 week. Results supported the strategy-situation-fit hypothesis. Participants with relatively high well-being used reappraisal more in situations they perceived as lower in controllability and less in situations they perceived as higher in controllability. In contrast, we found little evidence for an association between greater well-being and greater mean use of reappraisal across situations.
Development of the Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale for Children (LEAS‐C)
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-2005
Heterogeneity Among Potential Foster Carers: An Investigation of Reasons for Not Foster Caring
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2012
Are People Mindful in Different Ways? Disentangling the Quantity and Quality of Mindfulness in Latent Profiles and Exploring their Links to Mental Health and Life Effectiveness
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-2017
DOI: 10.1002/PER.2108
Abstract: We sought to disambiguate the quantitative and qualitative components of mindfulness profiles, examine whether including ‘nonattachment’ as a subcomponent of mindfulness alters the profiles, and evaluate the extent to which the person–centred approach to understanding mindfulness adds predictive power beyond a more parsimonious variable–centred approach. Using data from a nationally representative s le of Americans ( N = 7884 52% female Age: M = 47.9, SD = 16), we utilized bifactor exploratory structural equation modelling and latent profile analysis to separate the level and shape of previously identified profiles of mindfulness (Pearson, Lawless, Brown, & Bravo, 2015). Consistent with past research, we identified a judgmentally observing profile and a non–judgmentally aware group, but inconsistent with past research, we did not find profiles that showed high or low levels on all specific aspects of mindfulness. Adding nonattachment did not alter the shape of the profiles. Profile membership was meaningfully related to demographic variables. In models testing the distinctive predictive utility of the profiles, the judgmentally observing profile, compared to the other profiles, showed the highest levels of mental ill–health, but also the highest levels of life satisfaction and effectiveness. We discuss the implications of our study for clinical interventions and understanding the varieties of mindfulness. Copyright © 2017 European Association of Personality Psychology
The link between emotional competence and well-being: A longitudinal study
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-2006
Departing from the essential features of a high quality systematic review of psychotherapy: A response to Öst (2014) and recommendations for improvement
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2017
DOI: 10.1016/J.BRAT.2017.05.016
Abstract: Öst's (2014) systematic review and meta-analysis of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) has received wide attention. On the basis of his review, Öst argued that ACT research was not increasing in its quality and that, in contradiction to the views of Division 12 of the American Psychological Association (APA), ACT is "not yet well-established for any disorder" (2014, p. 105). We conducted a careful examination of the methods, approach, and data used in the meta-analysis. Based in part on examinations by the authors of the studies involved, which were then independently checked, 91 factual or interpretive errors were documented, touching upon 80% of the studies reviewed. Comparisons of Öst's quality ratings with independent teams rating the same studies with the same scale suggest that Ost's ratings were unreliable. In all of these areas (factual errors interpretive errors quality ratings) mistakes and differences were not random: Ost's data were dominantly more negative toward ACT. The seriousness, range, and distribution of errors, and a wider pattern of misinterpreting the purpose of studies and ignoring positive results, suggest that Öst's review should be set aside in future considerations of the evidence base for ACT. We argue that future published reviews and meta-analyses should rely upon erse groups of scholars rather than a single in idual that resulting raw data should be made available for inspection and independent analysis that well-crafted committees rather than in iduals should design, apply and interpret quality criteria that the intent of transdiagnostic studies need to be more seriously considered as the field shifts away from a purely syndromal approach and that data that demonstrate theoretically consistent mediating processes should be given greater weight in evaluating specific interventions. Finally, in order to examine substantive progress since Öst's review, recent outcome and process evidence was briefly examined.
The Six Ways to Well-Being (6W-WeB): Assessing the Frequency of and Motivation for Six Behaviours Linked to Well-Being
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 30-09-2019
Abstract: Contextual Behavioural Science (CBS) interventions focus on activating value-consistent behaviours, yet the outcomes measured in these interventions often focus on internal states. Building on past CBS work, personal strivings research, and self-determination theory, we developed a new behaviour-focused measure of valued action, the Six Ways to Well-Being (6W-WeB). This measure captures both the specific actions in iduals engage in as well as why they do so (i.e., underlying values). Participants in Study 1 (American s le N1 = 1800, 60.3% female, Age: M = 40.9, SD = 13.21), Study 2 (Australian s le N2 = 855, 47.3% female, Age: M = 38.16, SD = 13.35), and Study 3 (Australian adolescent s le N3 = 518, 100% female, Age: M = 14.29, SD = 1.46) completed the 6W-WeB and theoretically-relevant criterion measures of flourishing, psychological distress, experiential avoidance, and nonattachment. Confirmatory factor analysis supported a bifactor model, with three global factors (behaviour engagement, activity importance, and activity pressure), and six behaviour-specific factors (connecting with others, challenging oneself, giving to others, engaging in physical activity, embracing the moment, and caring for oneself), that was invariant across gender, age, and country of s ling. The subscales of the 6W-WeB were linked to the theoretically-relevant variables in meaningful and expected ways. Additionally, in a test of known-groups validity, the 6W-WeB successfully differentiated between participants who met criteria for high psychological distress and those who did not. The results suggest that the new measure can be a clinically relevant tool, helping CBS practitioners identify the specific behaviour domains that can promote their clients’ value-consistent living.
The bifactor structure of the Self-Compassion Scale: Bayesian approaches to overcome exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM) limitations.
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 08-2023
DOI: 10.1037/PAS0001247
The Idionomic Future of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: What Stands Out From Criticisms of ACT Development
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2023
Learned Resourcefulness Moderates the Relationship Between Academic Stress and Academic Performance
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2003
Affect in Social Thinking and Behavior
Publisher: Psychology Press
Date: 06-12-2012
The relationship between self-esteem and academic achievement in high ability students: Evidence from the Wollongong Youth Study
Publisher: Australian Association for the Education of the Gifted and Talented, Ltd.
Date: 12-2015
Adolescent peer crowd self-identification, attributional style and perceptions of parenting
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2005
DOI: 10.1002/CASP.823
The longitudinal relationships between adolescent religious values and personality
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2013
The impact of hope, self-esteem, and attributional style on adolescents’ school grades and emotional well-being: A longitudinal study
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2007
High school students’ tenacity and flexibility in goal pursuit linked to life satisfaction and achievement on competencies tests.
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 04-2022
DOI: 10.1037/EDU0000667
A process-based approach to psychological diagnosis and treatment:The conceptual and treatment utility of an extended evolutionary meta model
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2020
Interdisciplinary lifestyle intervention for weight management in a community population (HealthTrack study): Study design and baseline sample characteristics
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2015
DOI: 10.1016/J.CCT.2015.10.008
Abstract: Integrating professional expertise in diet, exercise and behavioural support may provide more effective preventive health services but this needs testing. We describe the design and baseline results of a trial in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia. The HealthTrack study is a 12 month randomised controlled trial testing effects of a novel interdisciplinary lifestyle intervention versus usual care. The study recruited overweight and obese adults 25-54 years resident in the Illawarra. Primary outcomes were weight, and secondary outcomes were disease risk factors (lipids, glucose, blood pressure), and behaviour (diet, activity, and psychological factors). Protocols, recruitment and baseline characteristics are reported. Between May 2014 and April 2015, 377 participants were recruited and randomised. The median age (IQR) of the mostly female s le (74%) was 45 (37-51) years. The s le comprised obese (BMI 32 (29-35) kg/m(2)) well educated (79% post school qualifications) non-smokers (96%). A high proportion reported suffering from anxiety (26.8%) and depression (33.7%). Metabolic syndrome was identified in 34.9% of the s le. The HealthTrack study s le was recruited to test the effectiveness of an interdisciplinary approach to preventive healthcare in self-identified overweight adults in the Illawarra region. The profile of participants gives some indication of those likely to use services similar to the trial design.
Some final, Gulp, words on REBT, ACT & RFT
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-2005
A JOBSEEKER SEGMENTATION AND INTERVENTION PROGRAM
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 13-08-2020
Abstract: To what extent does a psychosocial intervention (PSI) improve return-to-work rates for welfare-receiving jobseekers who differ in ethnicity, length of unemployment, physical location, gender, and readiness for change? Two large-scale studies (Study 1: 2,459 jobseekers, Study 2: 20,057 jobseekers) across a erse Australian s le sought to assess factors that moderated the efficacy on return-to-work outcomes of a PSI program (comprising 31 evidence-based exercises that are purported to build psychological states such as self-efficacy, resilience, and well-being) when compared to a government-funded treatment as usual (TAU) re-employment service. Study 1 showed that the PSI was much more effective than TAU (20.4% increase in job placements), but only for jobseekers who were not already proactively engaged in seeking a job. Study 2 added a one-to-one intervention to the original group PSI workshop, informed by the transtheoretical (or stage of change) model and was shown to improve job placement rates regardless of stage of jobseeking readiness, gender, age and ethnicity (41.9% increase in job placements overall). However, the intervention was not effective for those living in remote areas. The results have implications for employment services aiming to deliver better return-to-work outcomes by segmenting and personalizing support for unemployed citizens.
Parental Authoritativeness, Social Support and Help-seeking for Mental Health Problems in Adolescents
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 19-02-2019
The development of compulsive internet use and mental health: A four-year study of adolescence
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 2016
DOI: 10.1037/DEV0000070
Abstract: Is compulsive Internet use (CIU) an antecedent to poor mental health, a consequence, or both? Study 1 used a longitudinal design to track the development of CIU and mental health in Grade 8 (N = 1030 males, 1038 females, Mage = 13.7), 9, 10, and 11. Study 2 extended Study 1 by examining the kinds of Internet behaviors most strongly associated with CIU within males and females. Structural equation modeling revealed that CIU predicted the development of poor mental health, whereas poor mental health did not predict CIU development. Latent growth analyses showed that both females and males increased in CIU and mental health problems across the high school years. Females had higher CIU and worse mental health than males, and tended to engage in more social forms of Internet use. We discuss future directions for CIU intervention research.
A cluster-randomised controlled trial of values-based training to promote autonomously held recovery values in mental health workers
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-2015
Emotion regulation strategies in daily life: mindfulness, cognitive reappraisal and emotion suppression
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-08-2016
DOI: 10.1080/16506073.2016.1218926
Abstract: Most empirical studies of emotion regulation have relied on retrospective trait measures, and have not examined the link between daily regulatory strategies and every day emotional well-being. We used a daily diary methodology with multilevel modelling data analyses (n = 187) to examine the influence of three emotion regulation strategies (mindfulness, cognitive reappraisal and emotion suppression) on the experience of daily negative and positive affect. Our results suggested that daily mindfulness was associated with lower negative and higher positive affect whereas the converse pattern was found for daily emotion suppression cognitive reappraisal was related to daily positive, but not negative affect. When daily mindfulness, suppression and reappraisal were included in the same models, these strategies predicted unique variance in emotional well-being. Random slope analyses revealed substantial variability in the utility of these strategies. Indeed the presumably "adaptive" cognitive reappraisal strategy seemed to confer no benefit to the regulation of negative affect in approximately half the s le. Additional analyses revealed that age moderates the effect of cognitive reappraisal on daily negative affect: Higher use of reappraisal was associated with more negative affect for adolescents (aged 17 to 19) but became associated with less negative affect with increasing age. We interpret these results in line with a contextual view of emotion regulation where no strategy is inherently "good" or "bad".
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for improving the lives of cancer patients: A preliminary study
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-10-2013
DOI: 10.1002/PON.2083
Idionomic Links of Reappraisal and Emotion Suppression with Positive and Negative Affect in Daily Life: Group Means Often Fail to Apply to Individuals
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 25-03-2020
Abstract: High reappraisal and low suppression are generally seen as desirable outcomes of therapy, but this combination may not benefit those who typically use reappraisal and suppression together. A daily diary study (N=187 Mage = 23.9 71% females 3,852 days M=20.59 days erson) showed that the group-level correlation between reappraisal and suppression was positive (r =.32), but the within-person correlations varied substantially (-0.78 to 0.94). When multiple strategies users employed reappraisal without suppression on a given day, their affect was worse than if they were using no strategy. When single strategy users employed reappraisal with suppression on a given day, their affect was worse than when they used no strategy. Clinicians need to consider how clients co-use strategies in daily life.
A Longitudinal Study Into the Interplay Between Problem Orientation and Adolescent Well-Being
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 07-2009
DOI: 10.1037/A0015765
Buddhist Thought and Applied Psychological Research
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 21-08-2006
Buddhist practices and emotional intelligence: finding the convergence
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 21-08-2006
Conscientiousness and Eysenckian psychoticism as predictors of school grades: A one-year longitudinal study
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2007
Nonattachment and mindfulness: Related but distinct constructs.
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 2016
DOI: 10.1037/PAS0000264
Abstract: In this study, we examined whether nonattachment, a relatively new construct in the mindfulness literature, showed convergent, discriminant, and incremental validity in relation to the well-studied 5 facets of mindfulness. Mindfulness was defined as a multifaceted construct including observing, describing, acting with awareness, nonjudging, and nonreactivity and measured using the recently validated, 20-item Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ Tran, Glück, & Nader, 2013 Baer, Smith, Hopkins, Krietemeyer, & Toney, 2006). Nonattachment was defined as a flexible, balanced way of relating to one's experiences without clinging to or suppressing them, and measured using the 7-item Nonattachment Scale (NAS-7 Elphinstone, Sahdra, & Ciarrochi, 2015 Sahdra, Shaver, & Brown, 2015). In a large nationally representative s le of Americans (N = 7,884 52% women age, M = 47.9, SD = 16), nonattachment was positively related to all 5 aspects of mindfulness. Structural equation modeling showed that the 20-item FFMQ and NAS-7 showed good fit their factor structures were invariant across genders and age groups and NAS-7 was empirically distinguishable from the 5 mindfulness facets. Hierarchical regression models provided evidence of the incremental validity of NAS-7. Finally, mediation models showed that nonattachment substantially mediated the links between the mindfulness facets and the outcome variables of satisfaction with life and life effectiveness. (PsycINFO Database Record
Learned social hopelessness: the role of explanatory style in predicting social support during adolescence.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 21-11-2008
A longitudinal study into the link between adolescent personality and peer-rated likeability and adjustment: Evidence of gender differences
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2009
Longitudinal examination of the impact of Eysenck's psychoticism dimension on emotional well-being in teenagers
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2007
Hope for the Future: Identifying the Individual Difference Characteristics of People Who Are Interested In and Intend To Foster-Care
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 04-05-2011
DOI: 10.1093/BJSW/BCR052
A Comparison of Two Coaching Approaches to Enhance Implementation of a Recovery-Oriented Service Model
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 28-08-2013
Adolescents who need help the most are the least likely to seek it: The relationship between low emotional competence and low intention to seek help
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-2002
Unmet need for professional mental health care among adolescents with high psychological distress
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-05-2017
Motivation for and commitment to social values: The roles of age and gender
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 17-09-2010
The role of the individual in the coming era of process-based therapy
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2019
Letting a little nonverbal air into the room: Insights from acceptance and commitment therapy Part 1: Philosophical and theoretical underpinnings
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-2005
Personality and religious values among adolescents: A three-wave longitudinal analysis
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-2007
Reflection impulsivity in adolescent cannabis users: A comparison with alcohol-using and non-substance-using adolescents
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 21-09-2012
DOI: 10.1007/S00213-011-2486-Y
Abstract: Reflection impulsivity-a failure to gather and evaluate information before making a decision-is a critical component of risk-taking and substance use behaviours, which are highly prevalent during adolescence. The Information S ling Test was used to assess reflection impulsivity in 175 adolescents (mean age 18.3, range 16.5-20 55% female)-48 cannabis users (2.3 years use, 10.8 days/month), 65 alcohol users, and 62 non-substance-using controls-recruited from a longitudinal cohort and from the general community and matched for education and IQ. Cannabis and alcohol users were matched on levels of alcohol consumption. Cannabis users s led to the lowest degree of certainty before making a decision on the task. Group differences remained significant after controlling for relevant substance use and clinical confounds (e.g., anxiety, depressive symptoms, alcohol, and ecstasy use). Poor performance on multiple IST indices was associated with an earlier age of onset of regular cannabis use and greater duration of exposure to cannabis, after controlling for recent use. Alcohol users did not differ from controls on any IST measure. Exposure to cannabis during adolescence is associated with increased risky and impulsive decision making, with users adopting strategies with higher levels of uncertainty and inefficient utilisation of information. The young cannabis users did show sensitivity to losses, suggesting that greater impulsivity early in their drug using career is more evident when there is a lack of negative consequences. This provides a window of opportunity for intervention before the onset of cannabis dependence.
The distinctiveness and utility of a measure of trait emotional awareness
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2003
Is Self-Esteem a Cause or Consequence of Social Support? A 4-Year Longitudinal Study
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 18-10-2014
DOI: 10.1111/CDEV.12176
Abstract: Considerable research has been devoted to examining the relations between self-esteem and social support. However, the exact nature and direction of these relations are not well understood. Measures of self-esteem, and social support quantity and quality were administered to 961 adolescents across five yearly time points (M(age) = 13.41 years). Structural equation modeling (SEM) was utilized to test between a self-esteem antecedent model (self-esteem precedes changes in social support), self-esteem consequence model (social support precedes change in self-esteem), and a reciprocal influence model. Self-esteem reliably predicted increasing levels of social support quality and network size across time. In contrast, the consequence model was not supported. The implications of this for helping adolescents to develop higher quality social support structures are discussed.
Feasibility of a community-based interdisciplinary lifestyle intervention trial on weight loss (the HealthTrack study)
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-11-2015
Learning Process-Based Therapy: A Skills Training Manual for Targeting the Core Processes of Psychological Change in Clinical Practice (2021) by Stefan G. Hofmann, Steven C. Hayes, and David N. Lorscheid. New Harbinger Publications. ISBN: 9781684037551
Publisher: Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia
Date: 30-03-2023
DOI: 10.59158/001C.73352
The psychological impact of anal cancer screening on HIV‐infected men
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 31-01-2012
DOI: 10.1002/PON.3040
Perceived Parenting Style and Adolescent Self-Compassion: A Longitudinal, Within-Person Approach
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 18-10-2023
Importance, pressure, and success: Dimensions of values and their links to personality
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2011
An Integrative Review of Cross-National Comparisons of Verbal, Relational, and Physical Peer Victimization: Gender Differences, Paradoxical Anti-Bullying Attitudes, and Well-Being
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 23-11-2021
Abstract: Current victimization studies and meta-analyses are based mainly on a unidimensional perspective in a few developed OECD countries. This provides a weak basis for generalizability over multiple victimization (relational, verbal, physical) components and different countries. We test the cross-national generalizability (594,196 fifteen-year-olds 77 countries) of competing victimization models. In support of our three-component model, differentiating the multiple components of victimization facilitated understanding: gender differences (girls experience less physical and verbal victimization and stronger anti-bullying attitudes, but relational differences are small) paradoxical anti-bullying attitudes (physical victims have less –not more--anti-bullying attitudes) and well-being (policy ractice focuses primarily on physical victimization, but verbal and relational victimization effects are larger). These key findings provide theoretical advances with implications for policy, practice, and intervention.
When is it good to use wristband devices to measure HRV?: Introducing a new method for evaluating the quality of data from photophlethysmography-based HRV devices
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 24-05-2019
Abstract: Objective: Recent technological advances have led to the proliferation of ambulatory devices for non-invasively assessing cardiac activity. While these devices have exciting implications for conducting research outside the laboratory, it is critical that this increased mobility does not compromise data quality. As a test case, we assess the efficacy of Empatica’s E4, a high-end wristband device designed to assess Heart Rate Variability (HRV) through the use of photoplethysmography. Approach: We compare the E4 to traditional, wired electrocardiogram measures across a variety of conditions, including seated, supine, and standing baselines, as well as typing and grip strength tasks. Most importantly, we introduce and demonstrate the efficacy of a new method for determining the amount of error in HRV estimates derived from the E4 and a technique for adjusting error tolerance. Main Results: Results indicate that the E4 is severely compromised by motion artifact, resulting in a high percentage of missing data across all conditions except seated and supine baselines. Employing error adjustment yielded more robust results, but at the cost of significantly reducing s le size where motion artifact was present. Significance: These results call into question the wristband’s efficacy as an HRV measurement tool in most in-vivo conditions. We recommend that researchers interested in using photoplethysmography-based HRV devices use caution and evaluate the data quality using methods for error detection and tolerance, such as the one presented here.Keywords: heart rate variability, ambulatory photoplethysmography, electrocardiogram.
Perceived Parenting Styles and Values Development: A Longitudinal Study of Adolescents and Emerging Adults.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 23-12-2020
DOI: 10.1111/JORA.12542
Abstract: This study explored parenting styles and values internalization. Perceived parenting styles were measured in Grade 7 (n = 749) and Grade 12 (n = 468), and values were measured in Grade 12 (n = 271) and one year postschool (n = 291). We measured three aspects of valuing: priority (extrinsic, intrinsic importance) regulation (controlled, autonomous) and successful enactment of values (success). Mothers' authoritative parenting in Grade 7 predicted increased importance and autonomous regulation of values one year postschool. Fathers' authoritative parenting in Grade 7 predicted decreased importance of extrinsic values. Fathers' permissive parenting in Grade 7 predicted decreased importance of intrinsic values. Authoritarian parenting in Grade 12 predicted more controlled values regulation postschool, particularly for extrinsic values. Parenting in early and late adolescence predicts values internalization in emerging adulthood.
Cognitive ability and health-related behaviors during adolescence: A prospective study across five years
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2012
Personality and family influences on adolescent attitudes to school and self-rated academic performance
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2002
The Upsides and Downsides of the Dark Side: A Longitudinal Study Into the Role of Prosocial and Antisocial Strategies in Close Friendship Formation
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 19-02-2019
Body Image–Acceptance and Action Questionnaire–5
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2018
DOI: 10.1037/T68368-000
Reprint of Self-compassion protects against the negative effects of low self-esteem: A longitudinal study in a large adolescent sample
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2015
Relations between social and emotional competence and mental health: a construct validation study
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2003
Measures That Make a Difference
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 13-11-2015
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy delivered in a dyad after a severe traumatic brain injury: A feasibility study
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2018
DOI: 10.1111/CP.12118
Behaving versus thinking positively: When the benefits of cognitive reappraisal are contingent on satisfying basic psychological needs
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2023
Juxtaposing math self-efficacy and self-concept as predictors of long-term achievement outcomes
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-05-2014
Psychosocial aspects of anal cancer screening: a review and recommendations
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Date: 2012
DOI: 10.1071/SH11169
Personality development at school: Assessing a reciprocal influence model of teachers' evaluations and students' personality
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2009
Empathy and nonattachment independently predict peer nominations of prosocial behavior of adolescents
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 04-05-2018
Abstract: There is a plethora of research showing that empathy promotes prosocial behavior among young people. We examined a relatively new construct in the mindfulness literature, nonattachment, defined as a flexible way of relating to one’s experiences without clinging to or suppressing them. We tested whether nonattachment could predict prosociality above and beyond empathy. Nonattachment implies high cognitive flexibility and sufficient mental resources to step out of excessive self-cherishing to be there for others in need. Multilevel Poisson models using a s le of 15-year olds (N = 1831) showed that empathy and nonattachment independently predicted prosocial behaviors of helpfulness and kindness, as judged by same-sex and opposite-sex peers, except for when boys nominated girls. The effects of nonattachment remained substantial in more conservative models including self-esteem and peer nominations of liking.
A PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE OF POTENTIAL YOUTH MENTOR VOLUNTEERS
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-03-2014
DOI: 10.1002/JCOP.21613
Can a Brief Mindfulness Intervention Improve Sports Performance? A Double-Blind Randomised Controlled Trial
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 30-01-2020
Abstract: Objectives. Using an experimental design, we tested whether a short mindfulness intervention led to improvements in state mindfulness and golf putting performance.Design. This study was a registered, double-blind, randomised crossover design.Method. Experienced golfers (N = 116) were randomly allocated to receive either a mindfulness or attention-control intervention before competing in a putting competition. They then received the opposite intervention before another round of competition. At baseline and in each round of competition, we assessed state mindfulness, competitive anxiety, swing mechanics, and performance.Results. We found no significant effects of the intervention for state mindfulness, performance, or cognitive anxiety. We significant effect for swing mechanics and somatic anxiety participants who received mindfulness noticed more nervousness and showed better mechanics during the competition.Conclusions. This study is the first prospectively-registered, double-blind, randomised trial assessing the effects of mindfulness in athletes. A brief intervention did not influence state mindfulness or performance.
School socioeconomic status context and social adjustment in children.
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 03-11-2022
DOI: 10.1037/DEV0001463
Abstract: Social adjustment is critical to educational and occupational attainment. Yet little research has considered how the school's socioeconomic context is associated with social adjustment. In a longitudinal s le of Australian 4- to 8-year-olds (
Who Influence Men to Go to Therapy? Reports from Men Attending Psychological Services
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 09-2004
The longitudinal links between shame and increasing hostility during adolescence
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2009
Emotion Identification Skill and Social Support During Adolescence: A Three‐Year Longitudinal Study
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-10-2014
DOI: 10.1111/JORA.12175
On being aware and accepting: A one-year longitudinal study into adolescent well-being
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 14-10-2011
Cognitive ability, personality, and academic performance in adolescence
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2008
Parental styles, conscientiousness, and academic performance in high school: A three-wave longitudinal study
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-2008
Living well by letting go: Reliability and validity of a brief measure of nonattachment
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 20-02-2020
Using Genetic Algorithms to Abbreviate the Mindfulness Inventory for Sport: A Substantive-Methodological Synthesis
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 30-05-2019
Abstract: Objectives. To demonstrate the use of machine-learning for reducing questionnaireresponse burden, we created multiple, shorter versions of the Mindfulness Inventory for Sport. We then tested the reliability and validity of scores derived from these shorter versions in athletic populations.Design. We used genetic algorithms to shorten the measure, and both cross-sectional and longitudinal data to test psychometric properties.Method. We collected data from 859 undergraduate exercise science students and 118 golfers. We used 75% of the student s le to shorten the measure, and the rest of the data to test the internal consistency, test-retest reliability, content validity, and factorial validity. For criterion validity, we explored relationships between the subscales and other measures of mindfulness, golf handicaps, and an objective measure of putting accuracy.Results. Genetic algorithms efficiently generated stable solutions to shortening the measure. Reliability decreased as the measure become shorter—especially between three and two items per subscale—but remained acceptable. Validity metrics for shorter versions were as good, and sometimes better, than the full questionnaire. Awareness and refocusing subscales demonstrated weak associations with golf handicap for long and short versions. Non-judgment showed no significant associations, and no subscales significantly predicted putting performance.Conclusions. Genetic algorithms provide efficient solutions to reducing questionnaire response burden for athletes.
Emotional expression, perceptions of therapy, and help-seeking intentions in men attending therapy services.
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 04-2006
Emotional intelligence in everyday life
Publisher: Psychology Press
Date: 14-10-2013
Relationships between dysfunctional beliefs and positive and negative indices of well-being: A critical evaluation of The Common Beliefs Survey-III
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 2004
On being gifted, but sad and misunderstood: Social, emotional, and academic outcomes of gifted students in the Wollongong Youth Study
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2007
When Empathy Matters: The Role of Sex and Empathy in Close Friendships
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 13-05-2016
DOI: 10.1111/JOPY.12255
Abstract: Based on prior theory and research (Ciarrochi & Heaven, 2009 Eagly & Wood, 1999), we hypothesized that the link between empathy and friendship would be moderated by sex: Girls will nominate empathic boys as friends, whereas boys will not tend to nominate empathic girls. We collected measures of empathy, friendship social support, and close friendship nominations in grade 10 across 1,970 students in 16 schools (M
Does your mindfulness benefit others? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the link between mindfulness and prosocial behaviour
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-08-2018
DOI: 10.1111/BJOP.12338
Abstract: Mindfulness-based meditation practices have received substantial scientific attention in recent years. Mindfulness has been shown to bring many psychological benefits to the in idual, but much less is known about whether these benefits extend to others. This meta-analysis reviewed the link between mindfulness - as both a personality variable and an intervention - and prosocial behaviour. A literature search produced 31 eligible studies (N = 17,241) and 73 effect sizes. Meta-analyses were conducted using mixed-effects structural equation models to examine pooled effects and potential moderators of these effects. We found a positive pooled effect between mindfulness and prosocial behaviour for both correlational (d = .73 CI 95% [0.51 to 0.96]) and intervention studies (d = .51 CI 95% [0.37 to 0.66]). For the latter, medium-sized effects were obtained across varying meditation types and intensities, and across gender and age categories. Preliminary evidence is presented regarding potential mediators of these effects. Although we found that mindfulness is positively related to prosociality, further research is needed to examine the mediators of this link and the contexts in which it is most pronounced.
Linking Emotional Intelligence and Performance at Work
Publisher: Psychology Press
Date: 15-04-2013
Assessing Processes of Change in Psychological Interventions: The Process-Based Assessment Tool (PBAT)
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 10-10-2021
Abstract: The “protocols for syndromes” approach to evidence-based psychological intervention has failed the test of scientific progressivity. Process-based therapy provides an alternative model that is focused on treatment elements that target biopsychosocial processes of relevance to in idual treatment goals. That shift in focus requires new, more integrative and idionomic models that identify key processes of change, using high temporal density measurement applied at the level of the person. Standard measurement validation approaches are inadequate to this challenge. The present study develops and provides a preliminary validation of a process-based assessment tool (PBAT) -- an item pool meant for intensive longitudinal clinical assessment. Developed using the Extended-Evolutionary Meta-Model of PBT and evaluated using an evolutionary algorithm appropriate for the evaluation of in idual items, we administered the PBAT online to a representative s le of 598 participants (290 male 302 female 6 unidentified. Mage = 32.6). Analyses revealed that the PBAT distinguishes between positive and negative processes, links in theoretically coherent ways to need satisfaction and thwarting, and links to clinically relevant outcomes of sadness, anger, anxiety, stress, lack of social support, vitality, and health. The PBAT provides a beginning step towards developing a process-based tool that allows clinicians and researchers to select in idual items or sets of items for in idual-focused idionomic research and practice.
Using Genetic Algorithms in a Large Nationally Representative American Sample to Abbreviate the Multidimensional Experiential Avoidance Questionnaire
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 24-02-2016
The link between perceived maternal and paternal autonomy support and adolescent well-being across three major educational transitions.
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 10-2017
DOI: 10.1037/DEV0000364
Abstract: To what extent does maternal and paternal autonomy support enhance well-being across the major transitions of high school? We tested the degree to which perceived autonomy supportive parenting facilitated positive changes in self-esteem and life satisfaction and buffered against negative changes in depressive symptoms and school related burnout in 3 Finnish longitudinal studies, each with a measurement point before and after a major transition (middle school, N1 = 760, 55.7% girls high school, N2 = 214, 51.9% girls post high school, N3 = 858, 47.8% girls). Results showed that perceived parental autonomy support was negatively related to depressive symptoms and positively related to self-esteem. The findings for the effects on depressive symptoms were replicated across all 3 transitions, while effects on self-esteem were only found for the high school and post high school transitions. Moreover, evidence of coregulation was found for depressive symptoms. Depressive symptoms before the transition were found to decrease autonomy support after the transition for both the high school and post high school transitions. Maternal and paternal autonomy support was of equal importance. Importantly, the effects on depressive symptoms increased as children developed, suggesting the continual importance of parents throughout high school and into emerging adulthood. (PsycINFO Database Record
Embracing the Complexity of our Inner Worlds: Understanding the Dynamics of Self-Compassion and Self-Criticism
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 16-05-2022
DOI: 10.1007/S12671-022-01897-5
Abstract: Although research in self-compassion has been rapidly growing, there is still substantial controversy about its meaning and measurement. The controversy centers on Neff’s popular Self- Compassion Scale (SCS) and the argument that compassionate self-responding (CSR) and uncompassionate self-responding (UCS) are a single dimension versus the argument that they are two semi-independent, unipolar dimensions, with UCS not reflective of “true” self-compassion. We review the evidence for both positions and conclude that the data cannot yet resolve the debate. Neither position is proven to be right or wrong. We recommend the way forward is to let go of traditional factor analytic approaches and examine self-compassionate behavior as a dynamic network of interacting processes that are influenced by context. This leads us to three classes of testable hypotheses. The link between CS and UCS will depend on the timeframe of measurement, current circumstances, and in idual differences. We propose a middle ground to the SCS debate rather than supporting the single total score, 2-factor score (CSR and UCS) or the 6-factor score (the six subscales of the SCS), we argue these constructs interact dynamically, and the decision of which scoring method to use should depend on the three testable contextual hypotheses.
Developing an item pool to assess processes of change in psychological interventions: The Process-Based Assessment Tool (PBAT)
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2022
Self-nominated peer crowds, school achievement, and psychological adjustment in adolescents: Longitudinal analysis
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2008
Improving implementation of evidence-based practice in mental health service delivery: protocol for a cluster randomised quasi-experimental investigation of staff-focused values interventions
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 02-07-2013
Letting a little nonverbal air into the room: Insights from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy part 2: Applications
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-2005
Doing What Matters: A Review of Idionomic Methods for Examining the Heterogeneity of Valued-Action and Affect in Daily Life
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 08-09-2023
Disadvantages of being an individualist in an individualistic culture: Idiocentrism, emotional competence, stress, and mental health
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2004
Suicidal ideation and help-negation: Not just hopelessness or prior help
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2001
DOI: 10.1002/JCLP.1058
The link between emotion identification skills and socio-emotional functioning in early adolescence: A 1-year longitudinal study
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 20-02-2008
Cognitive ability, right-wing authoritarianism, and social dominance orientation: A five-year longitudinal study amongst adolescents
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2011
Mindfulness and its association with varied types of motivation: A systematic review and meta-analysis using Self-Determination Theory
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 25-11-2019
Abstract: Mindfulness has been shown to have varied associations with different forms of motivation, leading to a lack of clarity as to how and when it may foster healthy motivational states. Grounded in self-determination theory, the present study proposes a theoretical model for how mindfulness supports different forms of human motivation, and then tests this via meta-analysis. A systematic review identified 89 relevant studies (N = 25,176), comprised of 104 independent datasets and 200 effect sizes. We used a three-level modelling approach to meta-analyze these data. Across both correlational and intervention studies, we found consistent support for mindfulness predicting more autonomous forms of motivation and among correlational studies, less controlled motivation and amotivation. We conducted moderation analyses to probe heterogeneity in the effects, including bias within studies. We conclude by highlighting substantive and methodological issues that need to be addressed in future research in this area.
Mindfulness and Its Association With Varied Types of Motivation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Using Self-Determination Theory
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 30-12-2020
Abstract: Mindfulness has been shown to have varied associations with different forms of motivation, leading to a lack of clarity as to how and when it may foster healthy motivational states. Grounded in self-determination theory, the present study proposes a theoretical model for how mindfulness supports different forms of human motivation, and then tests this via meta-analysis. A systematic review identified 89 relevant studies ( N = 25,176), comprising 104 independent data sets and 200 effect sizes. We used a three-level modeling approach to meta-analyze these data. Across both correlational and intervention studies, we found consistent support for mindfulness predicting more autonomous forms of motivation and, among correlational studies, less controlled motivation and amotivation. We conducted moderation analyses to probe heterogeneity in the effects, including bias within studies. We conclude by highlighting substantive and methodological issues that need to be addressed in future research in this area.
On being tense yet tolerant: The paradoxical effects of trait anxiety and aversive mood on intergroup judgments
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 09-1999
When simplifying life is not so bad: the link between rigidity, stressful life events, and mental health in an undergraduate population
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-2005
Can acceptance and commitment therapy facilitate psychological adjustment after a severe traumatic brain injury? A pilot randomized controlled trial
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-02-2020
DOI: 10.1080/09602011.2019.1583582
Abstract: This study investigated if an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) intervention (ACT-Adjust) can facilitate psychological adjustment and reduce psychological distress following severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). The study design comprised a single centre, two-armed, Phase II pilot randomized controlled trial. Nineteen in iduals with severe TBI (PTA ≥7 days) who met a clinical threshold for psychological distress (Depression Anxiety Stress Scales-21 DASS > 9) were randomly allocated to either ACT-Adjust (
Can hopelessness and adolescents' beliefs and attitudes about seeking help account for help negation?
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2005
DOI: 10.1002/JCLP.20206
The link between value motives, value success, and well-being among people diagnosed with cancer
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 25-08-2011
DOI: 10.1002/PON.1832
Value congruence, importance and success and in the workplace: Links with well-being and burnout amongst mental health practitioners
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2014
Empathy and nonattachment independently predict peer nominations of prosocial behavior of adolescents
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 19-03-2015
Using genetic algorithms to abbreviate the Mindfulness Inventory for Sport: A substantive-methodological synthesis
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2019
The stability and change of trait emotional intelligence, conflict communication patterns, and relationship satisfaction: A one-year longitudinal study
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2008
Evolving an idionomic approach to processes of change: Towards a unified personalized science of human improvement
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2022
When Average Isn't Enough: Identifying Meaningful Subgroups in Clinical Data
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 28-03-2023
Contextual Positive Psychology: Policy Recommendations for Implementing Positive Psychology into Schools
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 10-10-2016
A longitudinal person-centered perspective on youth social support: Relations with psychological wellbeing.
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 06-2017
DOI: 10.1037/DEV0000315
Abstract: Past research suggests that perceived social support from parents, teachers, and peers are all positively associated with wellbeing during adolescence. However, little longitudinal research has examined the implications of distinctive combinations of social support for developing adolescents. To address this limitation, we measured multiple dimensions of social support, psychological ill-health, and wellbeing in a s le of 2034 Australian adolescents (M
Toward a Unified Framework for Positive Psychology Interventions: Evidence-Based Processes of Change in Coaching, Prevention, and Training
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 10-02-2022
Hope, Friends, and Subjective Well-Being: A Social Network Approach to Peer Group Contextual Effects
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 18-10-2015
DOI: 10.1111/CDEV.12308
Abstract: Research on adolescence has previously shown that factors like depression and burnout are influenced by friendship groups. Little research, however, has considered whether similar effects are present for variables such as hope and subjective well-being. Furthermore, there is no research that considers whether the degree of hope of an adolescent's friends is associated with well-being over the in idual's level of hope. Data were collected in 2012 from a s le of 15-year-olds (N = 1,972 62% Caucasian 46% identified as Catholic 25% had professional parents) from the East Coast of Australia. Findings suggest that in iduals from the same friendship group were somewhat similar in hope and well-being. Multilevel structural equation modeling indicated that friendship group hope was significantly related to psychological and social well-being.
Toward empirical process-based case conceptualization: An idionomic network examination of the process-based assessment tool
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2022
Revisiting the link between low verbal intelligence and ideology
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2012
Enhancing recovery orientation within mental health services: expanding the utility of values
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 14-03-2016
Cognitive and psychological flexibility after a traumatic brain injury and the implications for treatment in acceptance-based therapies: A conceptual review
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-07-2017
DOI: 10.1080/09602011.2015.1062115
Abstract: This paper provides a selective review of cognitive and psychological flexibility in the context of treatment for psychological distress after traumatic brain injury, with a focus on acceptance-based therapies. Cognitive flexibility is a component of executive function that is referred to mostly in the context of neuropsychological research and practice. Psychological flexibility, from a clinical psychology perspective, is linked to health and well-being and is an identified treatment outcome for therapies such as acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). There are a number of overlaps between the constructs. They both manifest in the ability to change behaviour (either a thought or an action) in response to environmental change, with similarities in neural substrate and mental processes. Impairments in both show a strong association with psychopathology. People with a traumatic brain injury (TBI) often suffer impairments in their cognitive flexibility as a result of damage to areas controlling executive processes but have a positive response to therapies that promote psychological flexibility. Overall, psychological flexibility appears a more overarching construct and cognitive flexibility may be a subcomponent of it but not necessarily a pre-requisite. Further research into therapies which claim to improve psychological flexibility, such as ACT, needs to be undertaken in TBI populations in order to clarify its utility in this group.
Substance abusers report being more alexithymic than others but do not show emotional processing deficits on a performance measure of alexithymia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2009
Emotional intelligence and its relationship to workplace performance outcomes of leadership effectiveness
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 07-2005
Flourishing, languishing and moderate mental health: Prevalence and change in mental health during recovery from drug and alcohol problems
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-05-2015
A contextual approach to experiential avoidance and social anxiety: Evidence from an experimental interaction and daily interactions of people with social anxiety disorder.
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 08-2014
DOI: 10.1037/A0035935
The consequences of compulsion: A 4-year longitudinal study of compulsive internet use and emotion regulation difficulties.
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 06-2022
DOI: 10.1037/EMO0000769
Abstract: Little is known about how compulsive Internet use (CIU) relates developmentally to different aspects of emotion regulation. Do young people engage in CIU because they have difficulty regulating emotions (the "consequence" model), does CIU lead to emotion regulation problems (the "antecedent" model), or are there reciprocal influences? We examined the longitudinal relations between CIU and 6 facets of difficulties in emotion regulation. Adolescents (
Hope and emotional well-being: A six-year study to distinguish antecedents, correlates, and consequences
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-03-2015
On being mindful, emotionally aware, and more resilient: Longitudinal pilot study of police recruits
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-11-2010
Self-compassion protects against the negative effects of low self-esteem: A longitudinal study in a large adolescent sample
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2015
Report of the ACBS Task Force on the strategies and tactics of contextual behavioral science research
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2021
Emotional intelligence moderates the relationship between stress and mental health
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2002
Understanding and Improving Emotion Regulation: Lessons from Psychological Science and the Humanities
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 13-01-2022
Applying Emotional Intelligence
Publisher: Psychology Press
Date: 16-12-2013
The coming revolution in intervention science: from standardized protocols to personalized processes
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-09-2021
DOI: 10.1002/WPS.20892
Parental styles, gender and the development of hope and self-esteem
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-2008
DOI: 10.1002/PER.699
The Benefits of Believing You Can Change: Incremental Theories Weaken the Links Between Low Self-esteem and Negative Outcomes
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 30-07-2019
Abstract: Background: Intervention-related research suggests that there are two ways to combat the negative consequences of low self-esteem: improving the level of self-esteem, or reducing the links between low self-esteem and negative outcomes (L. Hayes & Ciarrochi, 2015). Incremental theories tend to prevent low-self-esteem from occurring in response to failure. Aims: We sought to examine whether incremental theories can also decouple the links between low self-esteem and negative outcomes in two large s les. Method: Study 1 surveyed 489 Australian female high school students (age: M = 14.7 SD = 1.5) and Study 2 surveyed a representative s le of 7,884 adult Americans of both genders (age: M = 47.9 SD = 16 52.5% female). Results: Moderation analyses in both s les showed that the links between low self-esteem and negative outcomes (lower wellbeing and achievement) were weaker for those with stronger incremental theories.Conclusions: People are likely to experience fluctuations in self-esteem due to success, failure, and social rejection. Those with chronically low self-esteem may be especially likely to benefit from interventions which promote perceptions of self-malleability.
High-frequency heart rate variability linked to affiliation with a new group
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 31-03-2023
A personalised-approach to identifying important determinants of well-being
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 25-01-2023
Abstract: Background. Identifying the most important psychological drivers of well-being for a particular in idual is critical to developing personalised interventions. Methods. We utilised three, intensive daily diary studies (within person measurement occasions N & ) across three data sets (n1=44 n2=37 n3=141) to examine within-person associations between clinically-relevant processes and a variety of outcomes. We utilised a novel idiographic algorithm, ”i-ARIMAX,” to calculate the strength of relationship (beta) between every process and every outcome within in iduals. We then submitted all betas to meta-analytic methods. Results. All process-outcome links were highly heterogeneous between in iduals. Processes that were associated with positive outcomes for some people were often unrelated to outcomes for others or associated with negative outcomes. Conclusion. i-ARIMAX might be used to guide personalised interventions and to reduce the number of candidate variables for complicated within-person analysis.
A configural approach to aspirations: The social breadth of aspiration profiles predicts well-being over and above the intrinsic and extrinsic aspirations that comprise the profiles
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 26-11-2019
Abstract: We conducted a person-centered analysis of the Aspiration Index to identify subgroups that differ in the levels of their specific (wealth, fame and image, personal growth, relationships, health, and community giving) and global intrinsic and extrinsic aspirations. In a Hungarian (N=3370 77% female age: M = 23.57), an Australian (N=1632 51% female age: M = 16.6), and an American s le (N=6063 82.2% female age: M = 21.86), we conducted separate bifactor exploratory structural equation models to disentangle the level of higher-order intrinsic and extrinsic aspirations from the shape of specific aspirations by using the resultant factor scores as indicators in latent profile analyses. The analyses yielded three replicable latent profiles: Disengaged from relationships and health (Profile 1) Aspiring for interpersonal relationships more than community relationships (Profile 2) and Aspiring for community relationships more than interpersonal relationships (Profile 3), with Profile 3 reliably experiencing the highest well-being. To demonstrate the incremental value of our approach to more traditional variable-centered methods, we used profile membership to predict well-being whilst controlling for the aspirations that comprise the profiles. Even in these highly conservative tests, profile membership explained additional variance in well-being. These studies make a unique contribution to the literature by identifying replicable latent profiles of aspiring that account for variance in well-being over and above the constituent variables.
Mindfulness and acceptance approaches to sporting performance enhancement: a systematic review
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-11-2019
Can men do better if they try harder: Sex and motivational effects on emotional awareness
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2005
The distinctiveness and utility of a brief measure of alexithymia for adolescents
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2010
Perceptions of parental styles and Eysenckian psychoticism in youth: A prospective analysis
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2006
Validating measures of psychological flexibility in a population with acquired brain injury
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 06-2015
DOI: 10.1037/PAS0000050
Abstract: This study presents preliminary validation data on both the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-Acquired Brain Injury (AAQ-ABI) and the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II (AAQ-II). Data from 150 participants with ABI was subject to exploratory factor analysis on the AAQ-ABI (15 items). A subset of 75 participants with ABI completed a larger battery of measures to test construct validity for the AAQ-ABI and to undertake a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) on the AAQ-II (7 items). Three meaningful factors were identified on the AAQ-ABI: Reactive Avoidance, Denial, and Active Acceptance. Reactive Avoidance demonstrated good internal and test-retest consistency (α = .89) and correlated in expected directions with other related measures including the AAQ-II. CFA of the AAQ-II did not provide a good fit but did have similar correlations with measures of psychological distress as found in prior non-ABI s les. The results suggest both measures can be used with in iduals following an ABI but they index different facets of psychological flexibility. The AAQ-ABI appears to measure psychological flexibility about the thoughts and feelings relating to the brain injury itself while the AAQ-II measures psychological flexibility around general psychological distress. Future research could explore the additional 2 factors of the AAQ-ABI and use these measures in outcome studies that promote psychological flexibility in in iduals with an ABI.
When IQ is not everything: Intelligence, personality and academic performance at school
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2012
The development of collaborative parenting styles across high school: Consequences for youth mental health
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 06-03-2020
Abstract: Background. How are parents perceived by their children to develop during the high school years, and what are the consequences of this development for youth well-being? Methods. Each year from Grade 8 to 12, we administered measures of parenting style and well-being across 16 schools (Time 1 M age = 13.7, SD age = .45 N = 2043 49.6% Male). Utilizing a nonparametric algorithm for clustering developmental trajectories, we identified three profiles of change: a Stable profile (61.6%) a Collaborative-to-Coercive (19.3%) profile that involved a decrease in authoritative parenting (democratic guidance) and parental monitoring, and an increase in psychological control (coercive guidance) and a Coercive-to-Collaborative profile showing the opposite pattern (19.1%). Results. Parenting development profile uniquely predicted youth well-being, mental health, and self-esteem. This was the case even after controlling for average parenting style across highschool. The only youth who did not diminish in well-being across highschool where those who believed their parents to become increasingly collaborative. Parents with higher socio-economic status tended to become less collaborative and more coercive. Conclusion. We discuss the stage-fit model, and the benefit of parents developing their parenting style to match their young person’s increasing need for autonomy.
Do difficulties with emotions inhibit help-seeking in adolescence? The role of age and emotional competence in predicting help-seeking intentions
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2003
Self-Esteem Trajectories and Their Social Determinants in Adolescents With Different Levels of Cognitive Ability
Publisher: American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD)
Date: 11-2017
DOI: 10.1352/1944-7558-122.6.539
Abstract: This study examines the development of self-esteem in a s le of 138 Australian adolescents (90 males 48 females) with cognitive abilities in the lowest 15% (L-CA) and a matched s le of 556 Australian adolescents (312 males 244 females) with average to high levels of cognitive abilities (A/H-CA). These participants were measured annually (Grade 7 to 12). The findings showed that adolescents with L-CA and A/H-CA experience similar high and stable self-esteem trajectories that present similar relations with key predictors (sex, school usefulness and dislike, parenting, and peer integration). Both groups revealed substantial gender differences showing higher levels of self-esteem for adolescent males remaining relatively stable over time, compared to lower levels among adolescent females which decreased until midadolescence before increasing back.
Psychological consequences of cancer screening in HIV
Publisher: Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Date: 09-2013
Erratum to: Self-nominated peer crowds, school achievement, and psychological adjustment in adolescents: Longitudinal analysis [Personality and Individual Differences 44 (2008) 977-988] (DOI:10.1016/j.paid.2007.10.031)
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2008
Body Image–Acceptance and Action Questionnaire–5: An Abbreviation Using Genetic Algorithms
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2017
DOI: 10.1016/J.BETH.2017.09.006
Abstract: Body image concerns are typically linked with negative outcomes such as disordered eating and diminished well-being, but some people can exhibit psychological flexibility and remain committed to their valued goals despite being dissatisfied about their bodies. Such flexibility is most frequently measured by the Body Image-Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (BI-AAQ). This study used a recently validated, fully automated method based on genetic algorithms (GAs) on data from an American community s le (N
The role of emotion identification skill in the formation of male and female friendships: A longitudinal study
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-12-2013
Increasing valued behaviors precedes reduction in suffering: Findings from a randomized controlled trial using ACT
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2017
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