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Psychology: Recent submissions
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Measurement of Behavioral and Emotional Outcomes of Youth in Foster Care: Investigation of the Roles of Age and Placement Type
(Springer Verlag, 2014-10-07)The Behavioral Assessment System for Children–2 (BASC-2) is used to assess behavioral and emotional outcomes for youth. Research providing evidence for use of the BASC-2 parent-report form historically has included biological ... -
Assessing the Straightforwardly-Worded Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale for Differential Item Functioning Across Gender and Ethnicity
(Springer Verlag, 2015-06)The Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale (BFNE; Leary Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 9, 371–375, 1983) assesses fear and worry about receiving negative evaluation from others. Rodebaugh et al. Psychological ... -
Dual Task Costs of Oral Reading for Young versus Older Adults
(Springer Verlag, 2014-02)A digital pursuit rotor was used to monitor oral reading costs by time-locking tracking performance to the auditory wave form produced as young and older adults were reading out short paragraphs. Multilevel modeling was ... -
A community-based approach to trials of aerobic exercise in aging and Alzheimer’s disease
(Elsevier, 2012)The benefits of exercise for aging have received considerable attention in both the popular and academic press. The putative benefits of exercise for maximizing cognitive function and supporting brain health have great ... -
Longitudinal assessment of self-harm statements of youth in foster care: Rates, reporters, and related factors
(Springer Verlag, 2015-12)Self-harm in youth is a risk factor related to mental health and future morbidity, yet, relatively little is known about the rates and course of self-harm in youth residing in foster care. This study examined self-harm ... -
Pilot Study Results for a Novel Behavior Plus Nutrition Intervention for Caregivers of Young Children with Type 1 Diabetes
(Elsevier, 2014)OBJECTIVE: This pilot study presents results for a parent-based educational intervention targeting mealtime behaviors plus nutrition among families of young children (M age: 5.0±1.2 years) with type 1 diabetes mellitus ... -
Keywords in the mental lexicon
(Elsevier, 2014-05-01)Network science draws from a number of fields to examine complex systems using nodes to represent individuals and connections to represent relationships between individuals to form a network. This approach has been used ... -
Native American Children and Their Reports of Hope: Construct Validation of the Children's Hope Scale
(Springer Verlag, 2014-05-25)Child reports of hope continue to be utilized as predictors of positive adjustment; however, the utilization of the hope construct has not been assessed within the culturally diverse Native American child group. The present ... -
The Effectiveness of Teacher-Child Interaction Training with Young Maltreated Children
(University of Kansas, 2016-12-31)Children under age six years are disproportionately exposed to maltreatment but are underrepresented in research on effective treatments (Lieberman et al., 2011). Parent-Child Interaction Therapy has been shown to be ... -
Evaluation of Healthcare Transition Outcome Predictors for Adolescents/Young Adults Living with Chronic Medical Conditions
(University of Kansas, 2016-12-31)Medical advances have resulted in increased survival rates for patients with chronic, pediatric-onset medical conditions. As these patients require long-term medical follow-up, pediatric providers must help prepare them ... -
Mindfulness in Individuals at Risk for Depression: The Role of Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies
(University of Kansas, 2016-12-31)A major aim of depression research is to study vulnerability factors for the onset and reoccurrence of the disorder. One area of research has investigated how mindfulness meditation can be used to prevent depression relapse ... -
Associations between family environment characteristics and mental health outcomes for youth in foster care: Residential versus traditional foster care placements
(University of Kansas, 2016-12-31)Foster care is meant to provide a safe, temporary out-of-home placement for children when biological caregivers are unable to care for them, yet little is known about how youth and foster caregivers perceive these new ... -
The Effect of Probiotic Supplementation on Self-Reported Sleep Quality
(University of Kansas, 2016-12-31)Objectives: A growing body of evidence suggests that the microbiome plays an important role in mental health. Few studies have examined how probiotic supplementation affects sleep quality. The current study investigated ... -
Motivation and Hedonic Hunger as Predictors of Self-Reported Food Intake in Adolescents: Disentangling Between-Person and Within-Person Processes
(University of Kansas, 2016-12-31)Background: Dietary behavior contributes substantially to health across the lifespan. Understanding interactions between stable characteristics and fluctuating drive states underlying youth’s food choices may inform methods ... -
Assessing the Feasibility of Using Telemedicine to Identify Depressive Symptomatology within the Long-Term Home Parenteral Nutrition Population
(University of Kansas, 2016-12-31)Home Parenteral Nutrition (HPN), a common nutritional support therapy, corrects for nutrient imbalances caused by a malfunctioning gastrointestinal tract outside a medical in patient setting. Patients utilizing HPN face ... -
Openness to Experience Rather than Overexcitabilities
(University of Kansas, 2016-08-31)In the theory of positive disintegration (TPD), Dabrowski (1967) describes manifestations of inner energy that serve a developmental purpose and might be more frequently found in gifted individuals, called overexcitabilities ... -
THE RELATIONSHIP OF RESILIENCE, SOCIAL SUPPORT, AND COMBAT HISTORY TO WELL-BEING IN STUDENT MILITARY VETERANS
(University of Kansas, 2016-12-31)Most research on veterans focuses on negative outcomes, but little is known about positive outcomes for veterans. The proposed study’s purpose was to examine the relationship of combat history, resilience, and social support ... -
A Matched Filter Hypothesis for Cognitive Control
(Elsevier, 2013-11-05)The prefrontal cortex exerts top-down influences on several aspects of higher-order cognition by functioning as a filtering mechanism that biases bottom-up sensory information toward a response that is optimal in context. ... -
Phonological similarity influences word learning in adults learning Spanish as a foreign language
(Cambridge university Press, 2012-07-01)Neighborhood density—the number of words that sound similar to a given word (Luce & Pisoni, 1998)—influences word-learning in native English speaking children and adults (Storkel, 2004; Storkel, Armbruster, & Hogan, 2006): ... -
A tachistoscopic study of the differentiation of perception
(University of Kansas, 1931)