Dissertations / Theses: 'Emotion in the clinic'

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Kneeland, Elizabeth Tepe. "Emotion Malleability Beliefs| Implications for Emotional Experiences, Emotion Regulation, Psychopathology, and Treatment." Thesis, Yale University, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13851894.

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Emotion dysregulation, or difficulties regulating one's emotions, has been increasingly identified as a transdiagnostic factor that can increase risk for and maintain a wide range of psychiatric disorders (Fernandez, Jazaieri, & Gross, 2016). Emotion malleability beliefs represent a potent psychological factor that relates to emotion regulation and, relatedly, holds important clinical implications for our conceptualizations of and treatment for a range of psychiatric disorders. The current dissertation includes one literature review and four empirical investigations that used an array of methodological approaches and possess different clinical and theoretical emphases to deepen and broaden the established influence of emotion malleability beliefs on emotion regulation and mental health.

Chapter 2 provides a theoretical model and discussion of how emotion malleability beliefs could aid in our understanding of several clinical disorders and could be harnessed to enhance motivation for and engagement in psychological treatment. The study described in Chapter 3 is an experimental investigation in which we demonstrate that emotion malleability beliefs can be experimentally manipulated and such an induction can exert a significant influence on individuals' state emotion regulation when coping with unwanted negative affect. The study presented in Chapter 4 consists of a longitudinal investigation that examines how emotion malleability beliefs relate to emotional experiences, emotion regulation, and clinical symptoms in first-year college students. The investigation included as Chapter 5 is of a daily diary study that elucidates how emotion malleability beliefs are tied to daily emotional experiences and emotion regulation as currently depressed individuals. Finally, the experimental study described in Chapter 6 clarifies how beliefs about emotion's malleability relate to treatment willingness, perceptions of agency over depression, and beliefs regarding prognosis. Overall, the work presented in this dissertation complement and extend past work on the role of emotion malleability beliefs in how individuals navigate their emotional worlds and cope with unwanted emotional experiences with the ultimate goal of promoting psychological adjustment and attenuating psychological distress. Future directions for theoretical and empirical work in this domain are presented in Chapter 7.

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Vautier, Caroline Michelle. "Regulatory performance, identity and emotion work : an ethnographic study of an infertility clinic." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.418140.

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Gibson, Kerry. "Politics and emotion in work with disadvantaged children : case studies in consultation from a South African clinic." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10551.

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Bibliography: p. 269-286.
This thesis explores the social and psychological dynamics of consultation partnerships established between a psychological clinic and a variety of children's organisations. The research aims to develop a deeper understanding of the process of consultation by making visible the emotional and political complexities involved. This kind of work is usually informed by the broad principles of community psychology and carries a concern with the broader political context of mental health. Typically, however, this approach gives less consideration to the emotional dynamics of this kind of community work and the subtle forms in which they might appear during the intervention. In this research, the concepts of community consultation are expanded through psychoanalytic theories of group, organisational and social processes.

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Fernández, Kirszman Javier. "Digital interventions for emotion regulation in emotional disorders." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Jaume I, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.6035/14109.2021.679918.

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This dissertation describes a way of organising the ample existing evidence in the field of digital mental health. For that purpose the DIU framework is presented (D for dissemination, I for improvement and U for understanding). This framework is applied to the specific field of emotion regulation in emotional disorders. In that sense, it presents a description of the current psychopathological transformation in order to outline the role of emotion regulation (ER) as a transdiagnostic and transtheorical mechanism of change. A review of all the existing developments in each of the categories of the DIU framework are described. Each section presents novel empirical results that show how digital interventions may serve to improve ER in emotional disorders. These empirical contributions used a variety of research designs and statistical solutions depending on the different contexts in which the studies were conducted.
Esta tesis describe una forma de organizar la evidencia existente en el campo de la salud mental digital. Para ello se presenta el marco DIU por sus siglas en inglés. Este marco se aplica al campo específico de la regulación emocional en los trastornos emocionales. En este sentido, se presenta una descripción de la transformación psicopatológica actual para describir el papel de la regulación emocional como mecanismo transdiagnóstico y transteórico de cambio. Se describe una revisión de todos los desarrollos existentes en cada una de las categorías del marco DIU. Cada sección presenta resultados empíricos novedosos que muestran cómo las intervenciones digitales pueden servir para mejorar la RE en los trastornos emocionales. Estas contribuciones empíricas utilizaron una variedad de diseños de investigación y soluciones estadísticas en función de los diferentes contextos en los que se realizaron los estudios.
Programa de Doctorat en Psicologia

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Wilson, Anne Cathryn. "The Impact of an Emotion Malleability Belief Manipulation on Emotion Regulation." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1559298189559479.

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Price, Natalee Naomi. "Longitudinal Links among Mother and Child Emotion Regulation, Maternal Emotion Socialization, and Child Anxiety." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1564512803649608.

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Otwell-Dove, Rebecca. "Adverse Childhood Experiences, Familial Emotion Socialization, and Adult Emotion Regulation: A Moderation Model." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3677.

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Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have been associated with maladaptive outcomes, including difficulties with emotion regulation (ER). ER difficulties, in turn, increase risk for experiencing physical and mental health problems. Parental emotion socialization is one factor that has been associated with ER skills across development. No known studies, however, have examined whether parental emotion socialization moderates the relationship between ACEs and ER difficulties. In the current study, undergraduates (N = 678) completed questionnaires about their history of ACEs, parental emotion socialization experiences, and current ER difficulties. Correlational results indicated a positive correlation between ACEs and ER difficulties. Results of the hierarchical multiple regression analyses found a significant moderation effect only within the context of distress reaction (DR) parenting. Results suggested that the link between ACEs and adult ER difficulties was stronger in the context of low to moderate DR parenting and relatively weak in circumstances of high DR parenting.

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Jones, Neena White. "Simulated Clinical Experience: An Investigation of Emotion Understanding and Management." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7481.

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Many investigators have documented that lack of emotional intelligence (EI) in professional nursing correlates with patient dissatisfaction, negative patient outcomes, and litigation. However, much less information is available to nurse educators for an effective instructional strategy to increase EI skills, specifically emotion understanding and management (the most influential branches of EI) in nursing students. Grounded in the theory of EI and the theory of simulation, the purpose of this quantitative quasi experimental study was to introduce educational technology as a useful strategy for influencing EI in a convenience sample of 88 second semester students in a baccalaureate program. Research questions for the study examined the treatment (human patient simulators, stressful situational scenarios, and role playing) for changing EI skill levels. Repeated measures, within factors analysis of variance was used to test for a relationship between the variables at three time periods during a semester. Key results for emotion understanding were significant with small effect, F(1.973, 171.686) = 7.526, p = .001, partial Ï2 = .047. Key findings for emotion management were significant with medium effect, F(1.827, 158.965) = 9.981, p < .0005, Ï2 = .063. However, conclusions were mixed for influence, as the instructional strategy resulted in negative EI learning (consistent decreased gain) for most participants. By weeding out irrelevancies, this study contributes to current nursing research and informs nursing educators of the need to continue the search for an effective strategy for teaching emotion understanding and management skills in nursing curricula.

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Wang, Siyuan. "A SERIOUS GAME PROTOTYPE BASED ON STUDY TRAINING EMOTION REGULATION TO HELP COLLEGE STUDENTS REDUCE ACADEMIC PROCRASTINATION : Take ‘Cat Clinic’ as a case." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-20018.

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Academic procrastination is a common phenomenon among contemporary college students. This behavior seriously affected the graduation, physical and mental of college students. Playing games is a kind of procrastination behavior, which refers to short-term happiness through games and avoiding the pain caused by academic writing. The purpose of this article is to help students pay attention to using idle games to regulate emotions to reduce the frequency of academic writing procrastination. In terms of game design, the game type chosen is idle games. The study used the method of emotion regulation skill trend chart to divide the procrastinators into two groups for the experiment. The conclusion is that serious games based on learning emotion regulation can help procrastinators to improve their emotion regulation skills and reduce the frequency of procrastination to a certain extent.

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Brown, Marco-Antonio S. "PARENTING AND EMOTION REGULATIONIN PEDIATRIC TRICHOTILLOMANIA." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1466782561.

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Rimehaug, Tormod. "Emotional distress and parenting among community and clinic parents." Doctoral thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Regionalt kunnskapssenter for barn og unge - Psykisk helse og barnevern, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-16097.

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Background: The purpose of this thesis was to investigate the distribution of and the change in parental emotional distress and parenting dimensions by combining samples of community parents, non-parents and clinic parents. Clinic parents were involved in intensive inpatient family treatment related to their children’s psychiatric problems. Research questions: The focal themes of the three research questions were as follows: 1) Anxiety and depression among community parent and non-parent subgroups, 2) The stability of parenting dimensions among community parents 3) Longitudinal changes in parents related to family inpatient treatment in child psychiatry. Anxiety and depression among community parents. Overall, parenthood itself did not seem to have a primary influence on anxiety and depression in the population. In a large community health study (HUNT2) parents displayed only slightly less anxiety than nonparents, however, previous divorce and single status were found to be the risk factors for current anxiety, whereas single status was a risk factor for current depression. In the analyses, social class, education, gender and age were controlled for. Married and previously unmarried cohabiters represented the base level regarding anxiety and depression. The differences between these current results from Norway and results of previous research from the United States may be explained by the better economic conditions for families, more liberal attitudes regarding cohabitation and single parents and generous parental leave, child-care and supportive family policies. Parenting Stability: Parenting warmth was highly stable across the nine-month evaluation period, although it was not as stable as personality traits were. However, most of the observed instability in warmth originated from a small group of parents and was associated with low warmth, personality traits and experience with low maternal warmth in the parents’ own childhood. Stable low warmth was a rare occurrence. Parenting protectiveness was moderately stable, and its instability was associated with high protectiveness scores. Parenting authoritarianism was the most unstable; only one-third of parents reported the same level of authoritarianism when asked again after nine months. Longitudinal follow-up of parents in child psychiatry family inpatient clinics. Parents of children with attention, learning and developmental disorders reported significantly higher parenting warmth scores 3-month and 12-month follow-ups after treatment, compared to scores at the start of treatment, but it still remained lower than among community parents. However, normal levels of parenting warmth were reported at all points by parents of children with emotional problems, whereas no improvement was observed in parents of children with behavioral problems. Maternal anxiety and depression also improved significantly at 3-month and 12-month after treatment, yet anxiety and depression remained higher among family clinic mothers than among community mothers. Improvements in anxiety and depression were not related to child diagnostic categories. However, a reduction in parental anxiety was related to a general reduction in children’s symptoms, whereas a reduction in parental depression was related to improved parenting warmth.

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Daga, Suchi S. "Maternal Meta-Emotion and Child Socio-Emotional Functioning in Immigrant Indian and White American Families." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1355896051.

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Radford, Shirley Ann. "Emotion processing in Alzheimer's disease : the clinical implications." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/2719.

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The purpose of this study is to extend the literature on recognition and identification of non-verbal communicative signals of emotion in those suffering from Alzheimer's disease. To date, there have been few studies in this area, yet emotion processing deficits may have an important effect on the quality of life of Alzheimer's patients and their families. The experimental condition consisted of a set of tasks involving face and prosody discrimination problems in which participants were asked to choose between a number of stimuli presented on cards (facial cues) or on audio-tape (prosody cues). In addition, a measure of general cognitive ability was taken. Firstly, it was found that, relative to a group of healthy older adults, performance on cognitive tasks was depressed, while performance on emotion processing tasks was not depressed to the same extent. Thus, the ability to recognise and identity non-verbal affect cues in emotional facial expression and emotional prosody was relatively preserved in patients with Alzheimer's disease. Secondly, no relationship was found in the Alzheimer disease group between performance on face recognition and prosody tasks. This evidence is consistent with the notion that the mechanisms responsible for discriminating emotional facial expression are dissociated from those involved in discriminating emotional prosody. However, these findings need to be interpreted with caution in view of the small sample size and low statistical power. Lastly, a number of post-study hypotheses were generated in relation to the Alzheimer disease group. These related to the number and type of errors made on tasks of face and prosody discrimination and suggestions were made regarding further investigation in this area. Finally, limitations of the study, implications for clinical practice, such as assessment and intervention focussing on preserved emotion processing ability and suggestions for future research are considered.

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Rick, Jennifer Leigh. "Emotion Regulation and Relationship Satisfaction in Clinical Couples." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/73293.

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This study explored the relationship between the multidimensional construct of emotion regulation and relationship satisfaction in couples seeking couple or family therapy at an outpatient mental health clinic. Recognizing the necessarily interdependent nature of dyadic data, study data were analyzed via path analysis consistent with the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (APIM; Kenny, Kashy, and Cook, 2006). While overall emotion regulation was not found to be significantly related to relationship satisfaction, results indicated differential effects for the various dimensions of emotion regulation. Perceived access to emotion regulation strategies was significantly positively associated with relationship satisfaction for both men and women. Awareness of emotions was significantly negatively associated with satisfaction for men, with women displaying a trend toward significance, and acceptance of emotions was significantly negatively associated with satisfaction for women, with men displaying a trend toward significance. Women's acceptance of emotions was also significantly negatively associated with her partner's relationship satisfaction, while her ability to control her impulses was significantly positively associated with her partner's satisfaction. No partner effects were found for men's emotion regulation dimensions. Study limitations as well as research and clinical implications are discussed.
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Cella, Matteo. "Emotion-based learning : an experimental and clinical investigation." Thesis, Swansea University, 2009. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa42967.

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Emotion-based learning has emerged as a concept referring to a specific class of learning in uncertain situations that is facilitated by a substantial input from the emotion system. The precise nature of this input, however, remains a controversial and wellstudied topic. The present thesis builds on existing emotion-based learning research and investigates several understudied and novel research questions in both experimental and clinical domains. In Chapter 1, a literature review outlines the evolution of research on emotion-based learning, its neuropsychological correlates and focuses on one of the most popular tasks used to measure the concept: the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT). The IGT is an experimental task developed in order to simulate real world complex decision-making. In it, participants make choices from decks of cards that vary in both frequency and magnitude of reward (gain) and punishment (loss). Advantageous decision-making involves foregoing immediate gains with higher long-term losses for lower immediate gains and lower long-term losses. Research has indicated considerable variability in the extent to which healthy controls produce evidence of advantageous learning on the IGT. Chapter 2 showed that placing time constraints on the critical decision-making period in the IGT systematically disrupted the performance of healthy participants. Chapters 3 and 4 introduced a novel variant contingency shifting IGT in which the reward and punishment contingencies were systematically altered following initial exposure to the task. Research was undertaken with a large sample, using a repeated exposure design and by measuring the autonomic skin conductance correlates of contingency shifting IGT performance. Chapter 5 extended the investigation to the dimensional spectrum of depression and schizophrenia by applying the task to participants scoring high and low on measures of psychosis proneness and depression. Results showed that individuals with high psychotic and depressive features displayed poor flexible emotion-based learning performance. Chapter 6 showed that patients with schizophrenia exhibit impaired performance compared to controls, while Chapter 7 showed that depressed patients also underperformed compared to controls, in both the initial and contingency shifting phase of the variant IGT. Overall, the findings of the present thesis offer insights into the nature of flexible emotion-based learning, as measured with the contingency shifting IGT, and its impairment, across healthy volunteers, individuals at higher risk of developing psychosis or depression and patients with schizophrenia and depression.

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Allan, Helen Therese. "'Sister will see you now' : managing emotions in a fertility clinic." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1999. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.533443.

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FERNANDEZ, KIRSZMAN JAVIER. "INTERVENTI DIGITALI PER LA REGOLAZIONE EMOTIVA NEI DISTURBI EMOTIVI." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/100608.

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Questa tesi descrive una modalità parsimoniosa di organizzare l'ampia evidenza prodotta in questi ultimi anni nel campo della salute mentale digitale. A tal fine, viene presentato il framework DIU (D per diffusione, I per miglioramento e U per comprensione). Questo quadro teorico è applicato al campo specifico della regolazione delle emozioni (ER) per i disturbi emotivi. L’obbiettivo è quello di fornire una descrizione dell'attuale cambiamento della psicopatologia e evidenziare il ruolo della ER come meccanismo di cambiamento transdiagnostico e transteorico. A tal fine, viene fornita una revisione di tutti gli sviluppi esistenti in ciascuna delle categorie del quadro DIU. Ogni sezione propone nuovi risultati empirici che mostrano come le terapie digitali possano aiutare a migliorare l'ER nei disturbi emotivi. Per realizzare tali contributi empirici, sono stati utilizzati svariati disegni di ricerca e diverse soluzioni statistiche a seconda dei diversi contesti in cui gli studi sono stati condotti. Nel complesso, questa tesi stimola la discussione su alcuni degli attuali dibattiti nell’area della psicologia clinica e suggerisce risposte teoriche ed empiriche al fine di migliorare il campo.
This dissertation describes a way of organising parsimoniously the ample existing evidence that has been produced along these years in the field of digital mental health. For that purpose the DIU framework is presented. That is, D for dissemination, I for improvement and U for understanding. This framework is applied to the specific field of emotion regulation in emotional disorders. In that sense, it presents a description of the current psychopathological transformation in order to outline the role of emotion regulation (ER) as a transdiagnostic and transtheorical mechanism of change. A review of all the existing developments in each of the categories of the DIU framework are described. Each section presents novel empirical results that show how digital interventions may serve to improve ER in emotional disorders. These empirical contributions used a variety of research designs and statistical solutions depending on the different contexts in which the studies were conducted. Overall, this dissertation boosts the discussion concerning some of the current debates in clinical psychology and suggests theoretical and empirical answers in order to improve the field.

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Premo, Julie Elizabeth. "The Effect of Toddler Emotion Regulation on Maternal Emotion Socialization: Moderation by Toddler Gender and Maternal Depressive and Anxious Symptomatology." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1366819990.

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Kromash, Rachelle, Shania L. Siebert, Hannah G. Mitchell, Kelly E. Moore, and Meredith K. Ginley. "A Replication of Measurement Invariance Across Gender of the 36-Item Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2021. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8888.

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McCord, Bethany L. "Asian Indian Immigrant and White American Maternal Emotion Socialization, Child Emotion Regulation, and Child Behavior Problems." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1408012765.

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Williams, Brittany V. "Emotion Regulation and Eating: An Evaluation of the Relationship Between Difficulties in Emotion Regulation and Eating Patterns in Obese Patients Seeking Bariatric Surgery." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3274.

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Obesity is a major health epidemic, impacting many people worldwide. Bariatric surgery is a common treatment for severe obesity and generally leads to improved overall health, remission of comorbid disease, and improved quality of life. Despite positive postsurgical results, many patients regain some to most of their weight following the procedure. Guidelines for presurgical psychological assessments have been developed to assist healthcare professionals in predicting outcomes for patients. Previous studies have focused on the impact of psychological illness on surgical outcomes, with mixed results. The current study aimed to assess the influence that difficulties in emotion regulation has on eating patterns in bariatric surgery patients. A total of 144 patients seeking bariatric surgery were included in the study. Results indicated no difference in severity of eating patterns among restricted, emotional, and external eating; though difficulties in emotion regulation was only significantly related to emotional (r = .427, p < .001) and external (r = .275, p < .001) eating patterns. Regression analyses indicated significant models for the impact of difficulties in emotion regulation on emotional (R2 = .254 F(5, 135) = 9.180, p < .001) and external (R2 = .094, F(5, 135) = 2.811, p = .019) eating. Specific predictors of emotional eating were discussed. Outcomes of this study highlight the importance of considering difficulties in emotion regulation in bariatric surgery patients due to the impact emotional dysregulation may have on eating patterns.

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Atchie, Mackenzie. "Dissociation/Schizotypy, Unusual Sleep Experiences, and Emotion Regulation." Thesis, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10977852.

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Past research has indicated that dissociation and schizotypy are highly correlated (Merckelbach & Giesbrecht, 2006; Watson, 2001). Although somewhat controversial, some research has suggested that dissociation and schizotypy traits constitute a unique personality domain often referred to as "oddity" (Watson, Clark, & Chmielewski, 2008). Past research has provided evidence for a relationship between these oddity facets and unusual sleep experiences, such as narcolepsy symptoms and nightmares (Koffel & Watson, 2009). It has been suggested that "unusual cognitive and perceptual experiences" may be the common theme that connects these concepts (Watson, 2001). In addition to the connection between oddity and sleep experiences, some studies have examined the influence of sleep disturbance, namely insomnia, on emotion regulation (Palmer & Alfano, 2017). The relationship between emotion regulation and unusual sleep disturbances is an area that has yet to be explored in the existing literature. Furthermore, studies concerning the relationship between emotion regulation and oddity are scarce. Lastly, how oddity, emotion regulation, and unusual sleep disturbances relate to one another has yet to be defined. This study found that unusual sleep disturbances and dissociation / schizotypy had a significant relationship with suppression. Overall, this study adds to the existing literature by building a foundation for future researchers concerning the relationships between these variables.

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Christenson, Gina DiTraglia 1966. "Psychophysiological correlates of emotion processing in Alzheimer's disease." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/282586.

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The main purpose of this study was to investigate whether emotion processing deficits previously reported in individuals with Alzheimer's disease (AD) represent a direct extension of their cognitive impairments or a specific emotion processing deficit, and whether affective information is available, but inaccessible to consciousness in AD. Another aim was to determine whether AD patients have the same emotional experiences to affective stimuli as do other healthy, but non-demented older individuals. An autonomic recognition paradigm was developed to compare overt (verbal report) and covert (electrodermal) facial affect recognition in 19 mildly to moderately demented AD patients and in 19 age- and education-matched cognitively-intact controls (NCs). Subjective reactions and physiological responses to emotionally-laden materials were also compared within and across groups. Contrary to expectation, the two groups did not significantly differ in their ability to correctly match an emotion name with an affective facial expression. As expected, both groups generated significantly more frequent event-related skin conductance responses (ER-SCRs) to congruent, as opposed to incongruent emotion name/facial expression stimulus pairs, and evidenced similar levels of electrodermal activity while viewing images which differed in emotional valence. There were no significant group differences in subjective reactions to emotional pictures; both AD patients and NCs rated positive, negative, and neutral slide images similarly across the dimensions of valence and arousal. AD patients did, however, have more difficulty discriminating facial identity and facial affect than did NCs. There was some indication that these relative impairments may have been related to the dual-task demands inherent in the tests employed. Performances on emotion processing tests used in this experiment did not significantly correlate with measures of orientation/mental status, dementia severity, or depression in either group. Taken together, the results of this study suggest that the difficulties AD patients have on emotion processing tasks are primarily related to specific cognitive demands of the tests employed and do not reflect a specific disruption in emotion processing systems.

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De, Wet Debbie. "Childhood depression, expressed emotion and psychotherapy : associations and interactions." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10401.

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Bibliography: leaves 46-53.
This study is concerned with the pursuit of ascertaining the efficacy of psychodynamic psychotherapy in the treatment of childhood depression. Additionally, it is concerned with exploring possible associations between childhood depression and expressed emotion and whether expressed emotion, changes in relation to changes in levels of childhood depression following a therapeutic intervention.

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Dawson, Glen C. Dawson. "CENTRAL AND PARASYMPATHETIC PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES IN ADOLESCENT EMOTION REGULATION." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1470247876.

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Larrazabal, Carrillo Maria Alexandra. "Distress Tolerance Predicts Day-To-Day Emotion Regulation Behaviors." W&M ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1563899047.

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Distress tolerance (DT), or the ability to effectively withstand aversive internal experiences, is related to diverse physical and mental health benefits, including resilience to depression, anxiety, and substance misuse. DT might prevent health problems by promoting more adaptive and less maladaptive emotion regulation decisions in the face of stressful events. The present study—a pilot investigation that is the basis for a forthcoming study—tested this hypothesis by examining between- and within-person associations of DT with a repertoire of 12 common emotion regulation strategies. We recruited 25 high-anxiety university students to complete surveys of DT and emotion regulation efforts in response to stressors for 14 consecutive days. Multilevel structural equation modeling analyses indicated that higher DT was inversely associated with select maladaptive regulatory strategies (i.e., procrastination and rumination) both within and across persons, although this trend unexpectedly did not extend to behavioral avoidance, experiential avoidance, drug use, suppression, or distraction. Findings regarding adaptive strategies indicated that higher DT may enable greater reflection, reappraisal and acceptance within, but not across, persons. Also, higher DT unexpectedly predicted less social support seeking and affect labeling between- and within-persons. In several cases, there were discrepant associations among DT and emotion regulation strategies across between- and within-person levels. In these scenarios, within-person associations were most consistent with theory and evidence. Taken together, findings suggest that higher DT limits maladaptive emotion regulation behaviors and inconsistently predicts adaptive regulatory efforts. We discuss our findings and their implications for theory and intervention.

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Sumida, Emi. "Clarifying the Relationship between Emotion Regulation, Gender, and Depression." DigitalCommons@USU, 2010. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/761.

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This study investigates the relation between emotion regulation problems and clinical depression. One goal of the present study was to bring increased clarity and parsimony to how emotion regulation is presently measured by consolidating three widely used instruments. In addition, of interest was an investigation of whether particular emotion regulation problems and management strategies interact with gender to predict either severity of overall depression symptoms or the presence of a formal mood disorder diagnosis. The results clearly showed that irrespective of a person's gender, particular emotion regulation indicators, both singly, and in combination, are, indeed, more strongly related to the severity of depression symptoms. Specific to the severity of self-reported depression within these 17 emotion regulation subscales are: (a) Difficulty Identifying Feelings (TAS-20 subscales); (b) Limited Accessed to Emotion Regulation Strategies (DERS subscale); (c) Positive Refocusing (CERQ subscale); (d) Self-Blame (CERQ subscales); and (e) Refocus on Planning (CERQ subscales). According to results, the two emotion regulation constructs specifically distinguish DSM mood disordered from nondisordered subjects: Factor 2: Loss of Control over Behavior and Perceived Helplessness; and Factor 6: Assuming, Accepting Blame or Responsibility. These two constructs are also included in the five subscales that form a linear combination accounting for maximum variance in BDI-II. When considered together, the results of the present study suggest that these two emotion regulation factors seem to be the most important in predicting not only severity of depression, but also in helping to provide diagnostic information of clinical depression (differentiating people with DSM Major Depressive Episode and Mood Disorder NOS, versus those without a mood disorder).

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Keyser, Jessica Dawn. "A Prospective Investigation of the Relation between Emotion Awareness and Disordered Eating: Moderating and Mediating Factors." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2010. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/59094.

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Psychology
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Although research has shown that poor emotion awareness is significantly related to disordered eating, the majority of studies that have examined this relation have significant limitations. These limitations include lack of longitudinal data, little focus on the specificity of emotion awareness in predicting disordered eating versus general emotional distress, little focus on the roles of other emotional deficits, such as emotional avoidance and fear of emotions, an over-reliance on self-report data, a lack of research with sub-clinical populations, and a failure to examine possible interactions between emotion awareness and other known risk factors for disordered eating. The current study addressed some of these limitations by using a two-time point, prospective design to examine a variety of emotional processes, stress, dysfunctional appearance beliefs, and disordered eating in undergraduate females. At Time 1, participants (N = 187), ages 18-22, completed measures of emotion awareness, emotional avoidance, fear of emotions, depression, anxiety, dysfunctional appearance beliefs, life events/stress, and disordered eating. Three months later, at Time 2, participants (N = 158) repeated many of the Time 1 measures, in addition to completing a measure that assessed the frequency and subjective negative impact of life events experienced during the prospective period. Six main hypotheses were tested. As expected, emotion awareness was stable over time and was related to disordered eating cross-sectionally. Contrary to expectations, emotion awareness did not predict disordered eating prospectively, emotion awareness related more to depression and anxiety than to disordered eating, emotion awareness did not relate to disordered eating cross-sectionally or prospectively once emotional avoidance and fear of emotions were controlled, emotion awareness did not interact with life events/stress and dysfunctional appearance beliefs to predict disordered eating cross-sectionally or prospectively, and the ability to repair mood did not mediate the relation between emotion awareness and disordered eating. A notable finding involved the lack of specificity of emotion awareness to disordered eating versus depression and anxiety. In fact, depression and anxiety fully mediated the relation between poor emotion awareness and disordered eating. Following a review of the results, strengths and limitations, as well as clinical implications and potential future research directions are discussed.
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Hulette, Annmarie Cholankeril. "Intergenerational Relationships between Trauma, Dissociation, and Emotion." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11929.

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xvii, 103 p. : ill. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.
The purpose of this study was to investigate intergenerational relationships between trauma, dissociation, and emotion. Short and long term consequences of betrayal trauma on cognitive and emotion coping strategies in a sample of 67 mother-child dyads were explored. Group comparison, correlation, and regression strategies were used to examine relationships between the following variables: maternal and child trauma histories, maternal and child dissociation, maternal alexithymia, and child emotion coping strategies in response to distressful events. Experiences of high betrayal trauma were found to be related to higher levels of dissociation in both children and mothers. Furthermore, mothers who experienced high betrayal trauma in childhood and were subsequently interpersonally revictimized in adulthood were shown to have higher levels of dissociation than a group of mothers who had experienced high betrayal trauma in childhood but were not revictimized in adulthood. This may indicate that dissociation from a history of childhood betrayal trauma involves a persistent unawareness of future threats in the environment. Additional evidence consistent with this hypothesis was found. Maternal revictimization status was related to child interpersonal trauma history, suggesting that a dissociative unawareness for threats may extend to children. More generally, an association was found between maternal interpersonal trauma history and child interpersonal trauma history. Maternal dissociation was also predictive of maternal alexithymia. This relationship was examined because mothers high in alexithymia were hypothesized to display deficits in emotion socialization that could put their children at greater risk for dissociation. Evidence consistent with a relationship between maternal alexithymia and child dissociation was found. Furthermore, a significant association between maternal alexithymia level and child emotion coping strategy was revealed. Children with highly alexithymic mothers displayed higher levels of passive emotion coping strategies on a task assessing their reactions to a distressful parent-child event. This study provides evidence that the experience of parental trauma has intergenerational effects on children. It is an important first step towards longitudinal studies that can provide additional clarification of the nature of the relationships between these variables, as well as parent-child intervention studies that may help to prevent child trauma exposure and reduce symptomatology.
Committee in charge: Jennifer Freyd, Chairperson, Psychology; Jennifer Ablow, Member, Psychology; Philip Fisher, Member, Psychology; Debra Eisert, Outside Member, Special Education and Clinical Sciences

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Fussner, Lauren M. "Dynamics of Positive Emotion Regulation: Associations with Youth Depressive Symptoms." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1372799380.

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Preece, David A. "Measuring emotional reactivity, alexithymia, and emotion regulation as clinically relevant emotional constructs: theoretical considerations and the development of new psychometric measures." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2019. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2196.

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Many psychopathologies are characterised by abnormalities in emotional functioning, so clinicians and researchers need to assess emotional functioning to inform case conceptualisations and treatments, and to develop theoretical understanding of the mechanisms behind these psychopathologies. A comprehensive profile of emotional functioning requires information about at least three constructs, emotional reactivity, alexithymia, and emotion regulation, as each has been independently identified as an important transdiagnostic risk factor. Clinicians’ and researchers’ ability to assess these three constructs is, however, currently hampered by a lack of conceptual or definitional clarity, and consequently a lack of comprehensive or accurate psychometric measures. My research project was therefore one of both construct validation and measurement validation, with two interrelated aims: first, to establish compatible and empirically supported definitions of emotional reactivity, alexithymia, and emotion regulation; second, to develop and validate a set of new, comprehensive self-report measures based on these definitions, called the Perth series of measures. I use Gross’s (2015a) extended process model of emotion regulation as an integrating conceptual framework, to delineate definitions of emotional reactivity, alexithymia, and emotion regulation that are compatible with each other and consistent with existing empirical data. I then present six papers that report on factor analytic studies I conducted to test this framework’s parameters and evaluate existing measures or the new Perth measures. I propose in these papers that emotional reactivity, alexithymia, and emotion regulation are conceptually separable but linked constructs, because they correspond to different stages in the emotion generation and emotion valuation sequences described by Gross. My studies’ results indicate that the new Perth measures are structurally consistent with this framework, and appear to be comprehensive and valid measures of emotional reactivity (Perth Emotional Reactivity Scale), alexithymia (Perth Alexithymia Questionnaire), and emotion regulation ability (Perth Emotion Regulation Competency Inventory). This thesis therefore helps to delineate the theoretical structure of emotional reactivity, alexithymia, and emotion regulation, and provides clinicians and researchers with a set of psychometric tools that can operationalise these three constructs in greater detail than was previously possible.

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Walker, Bethany Lynn. "Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Combined Emotion Recognition and Emotion Regulation Intervention for Preschool Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1498150504281695.

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O'Connor, Mary-Frances. "Autonomic and emotion regulation in bereavement: A longitudinal study." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280491.

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Recent investigations have shown little evidence of differential improvement of written disclosure for bereaved individuals over a control condition. The present study hypothesized that a moderator may interact with disclosure. Vagal tone, as indexed by respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), was proposed to moderate the effect of written disclosure. Vagal tone has been shown as an individual difference in self-regulation in the infant literature, and more recently in adults with depression, anxiety, and daily stressors. The present study investigated thirty-five bereaved participants in a longitudinal design, with participants writing each week for three weeks, a one-week and one-month follow-up. As with previous studies, bereaved participants showed improvement over the two-month period, although no differential improvement was seen in the emotional disclosure group. As hypothesized, however, those participants with the highest RSA benefited most from the written disclosure, while RSA level did not predict outcome for those in the control condition. Future research should investigate if this moderator effect may be present in written disclosure for non-bereaved individuals.

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Fresco, David M., Amy K. Roy, Samantha Adelsberg, Saren Seeley, Emmanuel García-Lesy, Conor Liston, and Douglas S. Mennin. "Distinct Functional Connectivities Predict Clinical Response with Emotion Regulation Therapy." FRONTIERS MEDIA SA, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/623000.

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Despite the success of available medical and psychosocial treatments, a sizable subgroup of individuals with commonly co-occurring disorders, generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and major depressive disorder (MDD), fail to make sufficient treatment gains thereby prolonging their deficits in life functioning and satisfaction. Clinically, these patients often display temperamental features reflecting heightened sensitivity to underlying motivational systems related to threat/safety and reward/loss (e.g., somatic anxiety) as well as inordinate negative self-referential processing (e.g., worry, rumination). This profile may reflect disruption in two important neural networks associated with emotional/motivational salience (e.g., salience network) and self-referentiality (e.g., default network, DN). Emotion Regulation Therapy (ERT) was developed to target this hypothesized profile and its neurobehavioral markers. In the present study, 22 GAD patients (with and without MDD) completed resting state MRI scans before receiving 16 sessions of ERT. To test study these hypotheses, we examined the associations between baseline patterns of intrinsic functional connectivity (iFC) of the insula and of hubs within the DN (anterior and dorsal medial prefrontal cortex [MPFC] and posterior cingulate cortex [PCC]) and treatment-related changes in worry, somatic anxiety symptoms and decentering. Results suggest that greater treatment linked reductions in worry were associated with iFC clusters in both the insular and parietal cortices. Greater treatment linked gains in decentering, a metacognitive process that involves the capacity to observe items that arise in the mind with healthy psychological distance that is targeted by ERT, was associated with iFC clusters in the anterior and posterior DN. The current study adds to the growing body of research implicating disruptions in the default and salience networks as promising targets of treatment for GAD with and without co-occurring MDD.

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Cameron, Margaret Eileen. "Parent and Friend Emotion Socialization as Correlates of Adolescent Eating Behavior." W&M ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1530192721.

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Eating disorders and disordered eating affect about half a million teenagers in the United States. Restrained eating is a type of disordered eating behavior where individuals limit their food intake to avoid weight gain, maintain their current weight, or lose weight. Although researchers have examined numerous predictors of this eating style, there are gaps in the literature related to the role of emotion socialization on restrained eating. Parents and peers continually interact with adolescents; as such, both groups often witness adolescents’ emotion expressivity behaviors. They can respond supportively or unsupportively and these responses contribute to adolescents’ emotion regulation strategies. The current study examined parents’ and friends’ supportive and unsupportive emotion socialization behaviors as correlates of adolescents’ restrained eating directly and indirectly through emotion regulation strategies (i.e., inhibition, dysregulation, regulation cope). Since gender differences are typical in how emotions are socialized and in restrained eating behaviors, the role of gender was examined. Data were collected from 91 youth (Mage = 16.50 years; 56.0% female; 76.9% Caucasian) and their parents (Mage = 49.30 years; 91.2% mothers). Youth responded to the You and Your Friends Questionnaire which assessed best friends’ emotion socialization, the Children’s Emotion Management Scales, which assessed adolescents’ emotion regulation behaviors, and the Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire, which assessed adolescents’ restrained eating. Parents completed the Emotions as a Child Questionnaire, which asked about parents’ emotion socialization. Conditional process analyses and parallel mediations were conducted to examine the direct and indirect effects of emotion socialization on restrained eating through emotion regulation and as a function of gender. Results indicated that emotion inhibition mediated the effects of friend supportive and passive unsupportive responses on restrained eating. Additionally, friend passive unsupportive responses predicted higher levels of restrained eating in girls and lower levels of restrained eating in boys. Lastly, parent and friend active unsupportive responses predicted restrained eating in girls, but in different directions. Parents’ active unsupportive responses predicted lower levels of restrained eating in girls, whereas friends’ active unsupportive response predicted higher levels of restrained eating in girls. These findings demonstrate that during adolescence individuals, especially friends, influence adolescents’ restrained eating behaviors. Further, girls may be at greater risk of restrained eating compared to adolescent boys.

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Harvey, Sarah Danielle Carol. "Finding Empathy: Discovering Pre-Medical Students' Perceptions of Empathy." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1594811077953078.

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Prause, Nicole. "Role of emotion and attention in variations in sexual desire." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3278474.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Program in Neuroscience, 2007.
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-10, Section: B, page: 6979. Adviser: William P. Hetrick. Title from dissertation home page (viewed May 21, 2008).

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Nyquist, Alex C. "A Structured Interview Measure of Emotion Awareness for Adolescents." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1594844524425887.

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Gingnell, Malin. "Ovarian Steroid Hormones, Emotion Processing and Mood." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Obstetrik & gynekologi, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-199791.

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It is known that some psychiatric disorders may deteriorate in relation to the menstrual cycle. However, in some conditions, such as premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), symptomatology is triggered mainly by the variations in ovarian steroid hormones. Although symptoms induced by fluctuations in ovarian steroids often are affective, little is known about how emotion processing in women is influenced by variations, or actual levels, of ovarian steroid hormones. The general aim of this thesis was to evaluate menstrual cycle effects on reactivity in emotion generating and controlling areas in the corticolimbic system to emotional stimulation and anticipation, in healthy controls and women with PMDD. A second aim was to evaluate corticolimbic reactivity during long-term administration of exogenous ovarian steroids. In study I, III and IV effects of the menstrual cycle on emotional reactivity in women with PMDD was studied. In study I, women with PMDD in displayed higher amygdala reactivity than healthy controls to emotional faces, not in the luteal phase as was hypothesised, but in the follicular phase. No difference between menstrual cycle phases was obtained in women with PMDD, while healthy controls had an increased reactivity in the luteal phase. The results of study I was further elaborated in study III, where women with PMDD were observed to have an increased anticipatory reactivity to negative emotional stimuli. However, no differences in amygdala reactivity to emotional stimuli were obtained across the menstrual cycle. Finally, in study IV the hypothesis that amygdala reactivity increase in the luteal phase in women with PMDD is linked to social stimuli rather than generally arousing stimuli was suggested, tested and supported. In study II, re-exposure to COC induced mood symptoms de novo in women with a previous history of COC-induced adverse mood. Women treated with COC reported increased levels of mood symptoms both as compared to before treatment, and as compared to the placebo group. There was a relatively strong correlation between depressive scores before and during treatment. The effects of repeated COC administration on subjective measures and brain function were however dissociated with increased aversive experiences accompanied by reduced reactivity in the insular cortex.

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Hodgdon, Hilary Bridgette. "Child Maltreatment and Aggression: The Mediating Role of Moral Disengagement, Emotion Regulation, and Emotional Callousness among Juvenile Offenders." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2009. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/52200.

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Psychology
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Child maltreatment has been linked consistently to the development of aggressive behavior. However, not all maltreated youth later demonstrate increased aggression. The present study examined two avenues of inquiry to explain this observed heterogeneity in a sample of 470 serious juvenile offenders enrolled in a prospective longitudinal study. Official reports of maltreatment history were obtained from the Department of Human Services (DHS) in Philadelphia providing information about the nature and incidence of abuse and neglect in childhood of the study participants. The first line of inquiry explored if particular maltreatment subtypes, including physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect, and emotional maltreatment, as well as the severity and frequency of these maltreatment types, was related to increased aggression in adolescence. The second line of inquiry used structural equation modeling (SEM) to examine the impact of three mediational factors, namely, emotion regulation, moral disengagement, and emotional callousness, on the maltreatment-aggression relation. I expected that not only would maltreatment in childhood be related to increased aggression in adolescence, but that this relation would be mediated by disruptions in emotional and cognitive development. In addition, I expected that these underlying mechanisms would be specific to particular subtypes of maltreatment. As expected, child maltreatment was related to increased aggression among youth. Physical abuse and emotional maltreatment emerged as the two maltreatment subtypes that best predicted aggression, whereas neglect and sexual abuse were not related to increased aggression. The study findings also suggested that higher severity and frequency of maltreatment contributes to increased aggression. Additionally, physical abuse and emotional maltreatment appeared to have a multiplicative effect, in that the combination of these two maltreatment subtypes resulted in the highest levels of aggression among youth in this study. Finally, as hypothesized, poor self-regulation mediated the relation between physical abuse and aggression, while heightened moral disengagement mediated the relation between emotional maltreatment and aggression.
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Rasoulzadeh, Hanna Queen. "Emotion regulation and rumination mediate the relation between yoga experience and psychological health in a non-clinical Indian population." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för hälsa och välfärd, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-39260.

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This study was conducted in India, and the research plan was initially developed to provide further knowledge and perspective to the rapidly increased issues of psychological conditions in the country, regarding alternative treatments such as yoga and underlying mechanisms in the effects of yoga practice. The purpose of the study was to examine if emotion regulation and rumination may act as mediators between yoga experience and anxiety respectively depression. The study included 320 participants from eight different indian cities, four of the cities located in the north, three in the south and one city in the western part of India. This study had a quantitative design and had a questionnaire as a method for the data collecting. The results indicated that both emotion regulation and rumination at a significant level mediated the relationship between yoga experience and anxiety and depression respectively. These results can potentially bring further knowledge for countries (and individuals) that have higher levels of anxiety and depression in their populations, such as India, by providing a alternative perspective in the treatment and prevention of these conditions. In addition, the results can be beneficial for individuals that suffer from symptoms of anxiety, depression, difficulties with emotion regulation, and rumination.
Föreliggande studie utfördes i Indien. Forskningsplanen utvecklades för att ge ytterligare kunskap och perspektiv till den växande problematiken med psykiska ohälsa i landet, med fokus på alternativa behandlingar som yoga samt möjliga underliggande mekanismer i effekter av yoga utövande. Syftet med studien var att undersöka om emotionsreglering och ältande medierar relationen mellan yoga erfarenhet, och ångest respektive depression. Studien inkluderande 320 deltagare från åtta olika indiska städer, fyra av städerna ligger i norra, tre städer i södra och en stad i västra Indien. Föreliggande studie hade en kvantitativ design och hade enkäter som datainsamlingsmetod. Resultatet indikerade att både emotionsreglering och ältande signifikant medierade relationen mellan yoga erfarenhet och ångest respektive depression. Dessa resultat kan potentiellt utöka kunskapen för länder (och individer) som har högre nivåer av ångest och depression i sina populationer, som exempelvis Indien, genom att ge ett alternativt perspektiv i behandlingen och i det förebyggande arbetet av dessa tillstånd. Vidare kan resultatet av studien vara användbart för individer som har symptom av ångest, depression, svårigheter med emotionsreglering, och ältande.

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Suter, Emily. "Obesity : an emotion-focused understanding and the role of clinical psychology." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.587483.

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Obesity is a current priority for governments in developed countries, due to its increasing prevalence and associations with poor health. Clinical psychologists are among the professionals who work with people who are obese, considering both their physical and psychological wellbeing. In section one; a narrative review argues that the role of clinical psychologists in obesity treatment should be re-constructed. It suggests that that the predominant focus oh non-psychological outcomes, such as weight loss, may be misplaced given the evidence that cognitive and behavioural therapies lack efficacy in facilitating weight loss in the long term. Moreover, the review argues that by working towards weight loss outcomes, within a society preoccupied with thinness, clinical psychology may be making contingent the relationship between weight and psychological wellbeing. The review therefore argues that clinical psychologists are justified in shifting their focus from weight loss to psychological outcomes, which may enable a disassociation between weight and psychological wellbeing. Section two reports findings from a quantitative study examining the role of emotions in binge eating behaviours in people who are obese and seeking treatment for their weight. Fifty one people participated in the study. The variables: perception of threat from sadness and anger, as well as emotional expressiveness and emotional eating were considered, alongside a known predictor of binge eating, depression. The results of the study indicated that depression and emotional eating predicted binge eating; however perception of threat from sadness, anger and emotional expressiveness did not significantly contribute to the additional variance in this behaviour. The findings suggest that binge eating may serve an 'affect regulatory' function, although further research is needed to examine the nuances of emotional experience in this group of people.

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McGrory, Catherine Ferguson. "An investigation into the emotion-cognition interaction and sub-clinical anxiety." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2010. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1711/.

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This thesis combines behavioural and electrophysiological approaches in the study of the emotion-cognition interaction and sub-clinical anxiety. The research questions addressed in this thesis concern, specifically: the impact of emotion on attention; the interplay between attention and emotion in anxiety;and the cognitive construct of affect. Chapter 1 provides an introduction to emotion research, cognitive models of anxiety and motivates the thesis. Chapter 2 investigates whether affective processing is automatic. More specifically, to elucidate whether facilitated processing of threat in anxiety, evidenced by emotion-related ERP modulations, requires attentional resources. It was previously reported that emotional expression effects on ERP waveforms were completely eliminated when attention was directed away from emotional faces to other task-relevant locations (Eimer et al., 2003). However, Bishop et al. (2004) reported that threat-related stimuli can evoke amygdala activity without attentional engagement or conscious awareness in high-anxious but not low-anxious participants. Spatial attention was manipulated using a similar paradigm as Vuilleumier et al. (2001) and Holmes et al. (2003), to investigate the mechanism underlying the threat-related processing bias in anxiety by examining the influence of spatial attention and trait anxiety levels on established ERP modulations by emotional stimuli. Participants were instructed to match two peripheral faces or two peripheral Landolt squares. The Landolt squares task was selected since this is an attentionally demanding task and would likely consume most, if not all, attention resources. The ERP data did not offer support to the claim that affective stimuli are processed during unattended conditions in high-anxious but not low-anxious participants. Rather, it questions whether a preattentive processing bias for emotional faces is specific to heightened anxiety. This is based on the finding of an enhanced LPP response for threat/happy versus neutral faces and an enhanced slow wave for threat versus neutral faces, neither modulated by the focus of attention for both high and low anxiety groups. Chapter 3 investigated the delayed disengagement hypothesis proposed by Fox and colleagues (2001) as the mechanism underlying the threat-related attentional bias in anxiety. This was done by measuring N2pc and LRP latencies while participants performed an adapted version of the spatial cueing task.Stimuli consisted of a central affective image (either a face or IAPS picture, depending on condition) flanked to the left and right by a letter/number pair. Participants had to direct their attention to the left or right of a central affective image to make an orientation judgement of the letter stimulus. It was hypothesised that if threat-related stimuli are able to prolong attentional processing, N2pc onset should be delayed relative to the neutral condition. However, N2pc latency was not modulated by emotional valence of the central image, for either high or low anxiety groups. Thus, this finding does not provide support for the locus of the threat-related bias to the disengage component of attention. Chapter 4 further investigated the pattern of attentional deployment in the threat-related bias in anxiety. This was done by measuring task-switching ability between neutral and emotional tasks using an adapted version of Johnson’s (in press) attentional control capacity for emotional representations (ACCE) task. Participants performed either an emotional judgement or a neutral judgement task on a compound stimulus that consisted of an affective image (either happy versus fearful faces in the faces condition, or positive versus negative IAPS pictures in the IAPS condition) with a word located centrally across the image (real word versus pseudo-word). Participants scoring higher in trait anxiety were faster to switch from a neutral to a threatening mental set. This improved ability to switch attention to the emotional judgement task when threatening faces are presented is in accordance with a hypervigilance theory of anxiety. However, this processing bias for threat in anxiety was only apparent for emotional faces and not affective scenes, despite the fact that pictures depicting aversive threat scenes were used (e.g., violence, mutilation). This is discussed in more detail with respect to the social significance of salient stimuli. Chapter 5 in a pair of experiments sought to investigate how affect is mentally represented and specifically questions whether affect is represented on the basis of a conceptual metaphor linking direction and affect. The data suggest that the vertical position metaphor underlies our understanding of the relatively abstract concept of affect and is implicitly active, where positive equates with ‘upwards’ and negative with ‘downwards’. Metaphor-compatible directional movements were demonstrated to facilitate response latencies, such that participants were relatively faster to make upward responses to positively-evaluated words and downward responses to negatively-evaluated words than to metaphorincompatible stimulus-response mappings. The finding suggests that popular use of linguistic metaphors depicting spatial representation of affect may reflect our underlying cognitive construct of the abstract concept of valence. Chapter 6 summarises the research in the thesis and implications of the present results are discussed, in particular in relation to cognitive models of anxiety. Areas of possible future research are provided.

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Lindahl, Christina. "Associations between autistic traits and emotion recognition ability in non-clinical young adults." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Psykologiska institutionen, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-92080.

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This study investigated the associations between emotion recognition ability and autistic traits in a sample of non-clinical young adults. Two hundred and forty nine individuals took part in an emotion recognition test, which assessed recognition of 12 emotions portrayed by actors. Emotion portrayals were presented as short video clips, both with and without sound, and as sound only. Autistic traits were assessed using the Autism Spectrum Quotient (ASQ) questionnaire. Results showed that men had higher ASQ scores than women, and some sex differences in emotion recognition were also observed. The main finding was that autistic traits were correlated with several measures of emotion recognition. More specifically, ASQ-scores were negatively correlated with recognition of fear and with recognition of ambiguous stimuli.

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Bolla, Pranav R. "Rumination and Positive Autobiographical Memories in Depression: An Examination of the Undermining Effect of Maladaptive Emotion Regulation on Adaptive Emotion Regulation." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1560906139997184.

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Germine, Laura Thi. "Emotion Recognition and Psychosis-Proneness: Neural and Behavioral Perspectives." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10185.

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Schizophrenia is associated with deficits in social cognition and emotion processing, but it is not known how these deficits relate to other domains of neurocognition and whether they might contribute to psychosis development. The current dissertation approaches this question by looking at the relationship between psychosis proneness and face emotion recognition ability, a core domain of social-emotional processing. Psychosis proneness was inferred by the presence of psychosis-like characteristics in otherwise healthy individuals, using self-report measures. Face emotion recognition ability was found to be associated with psychosis-proneness across four large web-based samples and one lab sample. These associations were relatively specific, and could not be explained by differences in face processing or IQ. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), psychosis-proneness was linked with reduced neural activity in brain regions that underlie normal face emotion recognition, including regions that are implicated in self-representation. Additional experiments were conducted to explore psychosis-proneness related differences in self-representation, and a relationship was revealed between cognitive-perceptual (positive) dimensions of psychosis-proneness and (1) flexibility in the body representation (as measured by the rubber hand illusion), and (2) self-referential source memory (but not self-referential recognition memory). Neither of these relationships, however, explained the association between psychosis-proneness and face emotion recognition ability. These findings indicate that psychosis vulnerability is related to neural and behavioral differences in face emotion processing, and that these differences are not a secondary characteristic of psychotic illness. Moreover, poorer emotion recognition ability in psychosisprone individuals is not explained by generalized performance, IQ, or face processing deficits. Although some dimensions of psychosis-proneness were related to differences in measures of self-representation, no evidence was found that these abnormalities contribute to psychosisproneness related differences in emotion recognition ability.
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Quetsch, Lauren Borduin. "Emotion Regulation in Families of Children with Behavior Problems versus Nonclinical Comparisons." Thesis, West Virginia University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1588121.

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The following study explored the relationship between emotion regulation in children with and without externalizing behavior problems and their caregivers. The study examined emotion regulation in both clinical and comparison samples. The main research question for the study was determining if there was a link between parent and child emotion regulation in both clinical and comparison samples. Sixty families were collected from two rural populations in the United States. Families referred for parent training with children ages 2 through 8 were recruited for a clinical sample (n = 34) along with a nonclinical comparison group (n = 26). A blocking design was used. The sample was largely Caucasian (73.3%), boys (71.7%), aged 4.62 years. Parents completed measures related to child behaviors, parenting stress, and child and parent emotion regulation at a single time point. Family behaviors were also coded during structured behavioral observations. Analyses indicated higher rates of problem behaviors in the clinical group, higher rates of parenting stress, higher levels of parental emotion dysregulation, and higher levels of child emotion dysregulation. Parents of children in the clinical sample also used more negative verbalizations with their children. Parent emotion regulation was found to be correlated with child emotion regulation, parenting stress, child behavior problems, and parental use of negative speech toward their child during play situations. Findings from this research indicate a need to target and measure outcomes for emotion regulation in both parents and their children when working with families who are referred for treatment of child behavior problems.

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Varman, Liliana. "Effects of Binge Drinking and Depression on Emotion Processing in Emerging Adults." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1607540477576229.

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Siener, Shannon N. "PARENTING AND ADOLESCENT DEPRESSION: EMOTION REGULATION SOCIALIZATION AS A PATHWAY." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1372855498.

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DeMoss, Zachary T. "A Test of Specificity Between Emotion Regulation Repertoires and Affect: A Prospective Investigation." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1624358111265875.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Emotion in the clinic'

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