Browsing by Subject "coping"
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-06)In the U.S. approximately 16% of people are affected by depression in their lifetime and it is estimated that depression will become the leading cause of disability worldwide by 2020 (Monroe & Reid, 2009). In order to ...
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(2017-04-19)Department: PsychologySickle cell disease is a chronic lifelong illness that affects 1 in 400 to 500 African Americans in the United States. In addition to being at increased risk for cognitive deficits, children with sickle cell disease may ...
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(2023-04-19)Department: PsychologyThe association between physiological and emotional responses over time, often termed concordance, has been theorized decades, yet empirical evidence has been mixed. The assessment of underlying biological mechanisms and ...
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(2006-04-07)Department: Nursing ScienceNURSING SCIENCE COPING AND HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE IN RENAL TRANSPLANT PATIENTS HONGXIA LIU Dissertation under the direction of Professor Kathleen Dwyer Purpose. The purpose of this study was to investigate ...
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(2010-08-26)Department: PsychologyThe stress associated parental depression poses a significant risk factor to offspring of depressed parents. However, the availability of psychosocial resources, such as coping and social competence, may counteract or ...
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(2022-07-22)Department: PsychologyEarlier studies on a family group cognitive behavioral (FGCB) preventive intervention of depression have shown positive intervention effects on adolescent mental health outcomes 12-months later through the use secondary ...
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(2009-12-17)Department: PsychologyThe present study examined changes in coping as a mediator of the efficacy of a preventive intervention program for children and adolescents of parents with a history of depression. Changes in coping as a mediator were ...
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(2011-08-01)Department: PsychologyOne community sample (N = 607) of youths generated self-reported responses to body dissatisfaction, from which the Adolescent Responses to Body Dissatisfaction (ARBD) inventory was constructed. A second similar sample (N ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2022-03-27)Children of depressed parents are at an increased risk for depression and other forms of internalizing and externalizing psychopathology, but certain factors may interrupt or moderate this transmission. Specifically, both ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2013-04-03)Perfectionistic tendencies and coping strategies have been implicated as important factors in both the onset and maintenance of eating disorders but have not been widely researched in conjunction with each other. Given the ...
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(2012-08-12)Department: PsychologyThe current study investigated the role of chronic stress in alterations in automatic attentional and stress reactivity processes that may affect vulnerability to mental and physical illness in women. Participants were ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-26)Historically, optimism has been studied as a dichotomous variable. However, research has found that there are two types of optimists: cautious/realistic and unrealistic/cockeyed. A cautious/realistic optimist is defined ...
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(2007-06-13)Department: PsychologyPSYCHOLOGY EXECUTIVE FUNCTION AND COPING IN SURVIVORS OF CHILDHOOD ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA LAURA KEYS CAMPBELL Dissertation under the direction of Professor Bruce Compas The current study examined executive ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2017)The present study examined the concurrent associations among executive functioning, coping, maternal depression history, and depressive symptoms in adolescents. The sample included 82 adolescents between the ages of 12 and ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2015-03-30)While new treatments have increased the survival rate of pediatric patients with brain tumors, they have also left this population with many adverse cognitive, emotional, and behavioral outcomes. Prior research provides ...
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(2017-08-10)Department: PsychologyStigma is a feature of many chronic health conditions, contributing to a “hidden burden of illness” that compounds the negative impact of a health condition on physical and mental well-being. The current study used a ...
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(2016-05-25)Department: PsychologyThis study examined concurrent maternal and child correlates of maternal coping socialization messages using a cross-informant, multi-method design. Maternal responsive/warm parenting behaviors were also examined as a ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2022-03-28)Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) predispose adolescents to a variety of physical and mental health problems and place them at an increased risk of experiencing additional major stressors later in life (Anda et al., ...
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(2010-01-04)Department: PsychologyThe objective of the study was to 1) understand the inter-relationships among variables of mother-child communication, maternal distress and illness-related stressors and 2) to isolate maternal distress and coping behaviors ...
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(2017-02-20)Department: PsychologyThe present study integrated and expanded upon two previously separate lines of research on stress and coping processes endemic to mothers faced with two significant sources of stress: mothers coping with a child’s cancer ...