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More than Meets the Eye: Visual Attention Biases in Individuals with Chronic Pain
(2015-01-26)
The present study used eye-tracking technology to assess whether individuals who report chronic pain direct more attention to sensory pain-related words than do pain-free individuals. A total of 113 participants (51 with ...
Untying The Knot: A Qualitative Inquiry into the Enduring Marriage
(2015-01-26)
A qualitative analysis using a modified grounded theory approach was performed on 11 interviews from one representative of 11 marriages, including examples of both happy and unhappy marriages, in order to generate a ...
Examining Autobiographical Memory Specificity, Expressed Emotional Arousal and Client Experiencing in Emotion - Focused and Client - Centered Treatments of Depression: A Process - Outcome Analysis
(2015-08-28)
Research has consistently demonstrated that clinical depression is associated with a propensity toward generic, nonspecific autobiographical memory (ABM) recall (for a review see Williams, Barnhofer, Crane, Hermans, Raes, ...
Examining the Relationship between Autobiographical Episodic Memory and Theory of Mind in Developmental Amnesia and with fMRI: The Role of Personal Familiarity
(2015-01-26)
The purpose of this dissertation was to examine if, and under what conditions, autobiographical memory (AM) supported by the hippocampus benefits theory of mind (ToM). To this end, I attempted to address two main questions: ...
Narrative-Emotion Process Markers in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy For Generalized Anxiety Disorder: A Process-Outcome Study
(2016-11-25)
According to a narrative-emotion informed approach to psychotherapy, individuals enter psychotherapy when their narratives lack flexibility, emotional coherence and fail to integrate important lived experiences. Effective ...
The Effects of Active Social Media Engagement on Eating Disorder Risk Factors in Young Women
(2018-03-01)
This study examined how engaging with female peers on social media affects young womens body image and self-esteem. Participants were 90 female undergraduate students. Fifty participants left comments on photos of one of ...
Narrative - Emotion processing in Motivational Interviewing and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Generalized Anxiety Disorder
(2015-01-26)
Constructing adaptive narratives in therapy involves processing and symbolizing (i.e., storying) emotional experience. The Narrative-Emotion Process Coding System (NEPCS) is a tool for coding in-session client behaviors ...
The Relationship Between Rumination and Self-Concept Clarity
(2016-09-20)
The quest for self-clarity, coherence, and consistency is thought by some to be a frequent motivating factor. Historically, self-focused thought and self-monitoring have been seen as means of increasing self-clarity. ...
Conative Dysfunction in Schizophrenia: A New Empirically-Derived Framework
(2015-08-28)
Conative dysfunction, defined as deficits in performing motivated or volitional action leading to the functional outcome of reduced goal-directed activity (RGDA), is explored as a fundamental and highly impairing aspect ...
Self-Critical or Lacking in Self-Compassion? Distinct Constructs with Unique Predictions for Subjective Well-Being Over Time
(2018-11-21)
Self-compassion has been found to play an important role in mental health and well-being. In contrast, self-criticism is related to negative personality traits and various psychopathologies. There are well-known and valid ...