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Personality Assessment (1):
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Personality Assessment
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We can tentatively point out that a group intervention may enhance the quality of infant-mother attachment. Nevertheless, because the study design was not randomized, the results of this study remain preliminary and need replication in a full randomized controlled trial designed study....
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PMID: 22059309
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Although peer influence has been implicated in recent theories of gender socialization, few investigations have tested whether children's gendered behaviours change over time as a function of peer experiences and whether some peer experiences may exacerbate, rather than dampen, gender non-conformity....
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PMID: 21592148
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The present findings suggest that a lower response to reward anticipation in the ventral striatum may be a vulnerability factor for the development of early nicotine use....
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PMID: 21362742
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We sought to establish the mechanisms underpinning behavioural difficulties in very pre-term (VPT) children in middle childhood by comparing their performance to that of term born peers on tasks of working memory, inhibition, and processing speed, and relating these to parent and teacher assessments...
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PMID: 21391967
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BACKGROUND. Teachers' judgments of student performance on a standardized achievement test often result in an overestimation of students' abilities. In the majority of cases, a larger group of overestimated students and a smaller group of underestimated students are formed by these judgments. AIMS. In...
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PMID: 21391968
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Despite the well-replicated finding that neuroticism is associated with increased susceptibility for psychopathology, it remains unclear what 'vulnerability as indexed by neuroticism' represents in terms of everyday life emotional processes. This study examined the association between neuroticism and...
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PMID: 21332518
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Praxis der Kinderpsychologie und Kinderpsychiatrie: Ergebnisse aus Psychoanalyse, Psychologie und Familientherapie (60)2 2011
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Despite international bans, more than 250,000 children and adolescents are exploited as soldiers worldwide, almost half of them in Africa. These children are exposed to a tremendous amount of violence and are often forced to commit atrocities themselves. In the present study, 330 former Ugandan child...
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PMID: 21425638
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Adolescence is a passage from dependence to adult responsibility. Alongside identity development, social-cognitive development, and the ability to construct a life story, adolescents become increasingly aware of both their potential responsibility in an expanded sphere of life and of complex, context...
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PMID: 21452749
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A one-factor common pathway model best fits the 4 BPD scales producing a highly heritable latent liability (heritability = 60%) and strong loadings on all 4 dimensions. Affective instability had the lowest trait-specific genetic loading, suggesting that it was a core feature of BPD. A complex...
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PMID: 21198457
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We discuss methodological innovations and advantages of this approach, including improved ecological validity and access to information about variability in emotions, change in emotions over time, the balance of positive and negative emotions, and the social context of emotional experience....
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PMID: 21112595
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This study aimed to investigate characteristics of Brazilian mothers' beliefs system, in the dimensions of autonomy and interdependence. A group of 600 women, half from state capitals and half from small towns, participated in the study. They were individually interviewed with Scales of Allocentrism...
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PMID: 20977030
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We present a Spanish validation of the Nicotine Dependence Syndrome Scale (NDSS) (Shiffman, Waters, & Hickcox, 2004). The sample was composed ofpatients, all daily smokers, who visited their General Practitioner (GP) at five Primary Health Care Centers in different cities of Spain (N = 637). The res...
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PMID: 20977042
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Psicothema (22)4 2010
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The purpose of this study is to determine the self-perceived quality of life of abstinent patients with alcohol dependence disorder during the first month of treatment, and how the presence of personality disorders, psychological adjustment, and the level of craving affect this perception. For this...
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PMID: 21044479
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Therapeutische Umschau (67)11 2010
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To assess depressive disorders a number of reliable and valid instruments exist. They are suitable for screening, assessment of the severity of depressive disorders and classification according to ICD-10 or DSM-IV criteria. Instruments are available as self-, as well as observer rating scales, check...
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PMID: 21043013
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This paper describes the development of the Measurement of Acculturation Strategies for People of African Descent (MASPAD), a bidimensional instrument designed to assess acculturation strategies (i.e., Traditionalist, Integrationist, Assimilationist, and Marginalist). Two studies were conducted to d...
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PMID: 21058816
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It has been speculated that novelty seeking (NS) behavior is related to the dopaminergic system. Fifty-two subjects completed the Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire and underwent single photon emission computed tomography with (123)I-iodobenzamide. A marginally positive correlation was noted b...
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PMID: 20970071
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Psychological Reports (107)2 2010
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Two measures of effect size are described for the Mantel-Haenszel test. Both measures belong to the r-family of effect size measures. One measure is based on a maximum-corrected model, and the second measure is based on a chance-corrected model.
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PMID: 21117463
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Psychological Medicine (40)10 2010
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Severity is an important characteristic of major depression (MD) and an 'episode specifier' in DSM-IV classifying depressive episodes as 'mild', 'moderate' or 'severe'. These severity subtypes rely on three different measures of severity: number of criteria symptoms, severity of the symptoms and deg...
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PMID: 20056021
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Psychological Reports (107)2 2010
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Masip, et al. (2009) conducted a study in which observers had to make truth-lie judgments at the beginning, middle, or end of a series of videotaped statements. They found a decline in truth judgments over time and explained this finding in terms of information processing mode. Recently, Elaad (2010...
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PMID: 21117486
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Psychological Reports (107)2 2010
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These results are believed to be of practical importance to the diverse organizations administering integrity tests....
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PMID: 21117489
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Psychological Reports (107)2 2010
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The emotional selection hypothesis describes a cyclical process that uses dreams to modify and test select mental schemas. An extension is proposed that further characterizes these schemas as facilitators of human need satisfaction. A pilot study was conducted in which this hypothesis was tested by...
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PMID: 21117494
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This paper introduces the Special Section on personality disorder and violence. The first paper evaluates the impact of removing the Psychopathy Checklist (PCL-R) as a mandatory element of a major approach to the assessment of violence risk-the HCR-20. The second paper considers violence to self as...
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PMID: 20958168
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Individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) report erratic and poorly regulated emotional behavior. However, these abnormalities have not been confirmed in laboratory studies. This may be because the emotional stimuli employed have not been sufficiently relevant or evocative of psychologi...
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PMID: 20958174
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Antisocial and psychopathic traits are essential to evaluate when assessing risk for violence using the HCR-20. The role of the PCL-R on the HCR-20 was investigated using a series of meta-analytic tests. Across 34 samples in which both tools were rated, AUCs for violence were similar (∼.69), and e...
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PMID: 20958169
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The present study aimed to ascertain the occurrence of personality disorders (PD) in adolescent patients with anorexia (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN) by means of the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Personality Disorders (SCID-II).
99 female adolescent patients (57 AN - restrictive type, 17 A...
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PMID: 20809470
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The diagnosis and classification of personality disorders in adolescence remains a controversially discussed topic.
This review reports recent research findings on the comorbidity and the diagnosis of personality disorders in adolescence and on their neurobiological and neuropsychological correlates...
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PMID: 20809468
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NAA aviators and flight officers, when compared to their AA counterparts, evidenced significant and substantive effect size differences on facets measuring negative emotionality, interpersonal effectiveness, and goal-orientation. CONCLUSION: FFM facet differences between AA and NAA officers were onl...
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PMID: 20824993
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Australasian Psychiatry (18)4 2010
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Testable observations, thoughtfulness and humility are helpful in clinical practice....
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PMID: 20645894
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Fifty subjects in control and forty-seven in intervention drinkers completing 1, 3, and 6 monthly intervals were followed-up. The follow-up of the change of AUDIT score after 1, 3, and 6 months of TGCBI in the two communities showed that intervention community, with TGCBI had a decrease in AUDIT sco...
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PMID: 20718176
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We studied the reliability and validity of two versions (64 items and 32 items) of the Spanish translation of the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems (IIP-64 and IIP-32) and their usefulness as screening instruments for personality disorders in a sample of 190 outpatients and 66 healthy subjects. Pa...
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PMID: 20695809
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We investigated to what extent the covariance among four main components of BPD is explained by shared genetic and environmental factors. Using an extended twin design, multivariate genetic models were applied to the scales of the PAI-BOR, a self-report questionnaire tapping four main features of BP...
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PMID: 20695804
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Our statistical analyses evaluated interrater reliability, theoretical validity, and convergent or divergent validity. Finally, an exploratory factor analysis was conducted.
The results revealed good psychometric properties for the French version of the SUMD. Both interrater reliability (ICC ranged...
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PMID: 20723280
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We performed a 2-step cluster analysis based on the above-mentioned personality variables. Clinical data were compared across clusters.
Four clusters were generated. Type I (disorganized and emotionally unstable) showed schizotypic traits, high impulsiveness, substance and alcohol abuse, and early a...
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PMID: 20723277
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These results imply that behavioral consistency in daily life stems from multiple sources, including situation selection and the distinctive influence of personality, and further suggest that tools for situational assessment such as the RSQ can have wide utility....
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PMID: 20658847
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The present study investigated the influence of race on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) treatment among 94 African American and 214 Caucasian female victims of interpersonal violence participating in 2 studies of cognitive-behavioral treatment for PTSD that were conducted sequentially and conti...
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PMID: 20658805
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We examined the influence of pre-disaster perceived social support on post-disaster psychological distress among survivors of Hurricane Katrina.
Participants (N = 386) were low-income mothers between 18 and 34 years of age at baseline (M = 26.4, SD = 4.43). The majority (84.8%) was African American;...
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PMID: 20658811
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To examine the efficacy of a developmentally appropriate parent-child cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) protocol for anxiety disorders in children ages 4-7 years.
Design: Randomized wait-list controlled trial. Conduct: Sixty-four children (53% female, mean age 5.4 years, 80% European American) with...
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PMID: 20658807
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We addressed 1 aspect of clinical utility by testing the incremental validity of 5-factor model (FFM) personality traits and borderline personality disorder (BPD) symptoms for predicting prospective patient functioning. Method: FFM personality traits and BPD features were correlated with one another...
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PMID: 20658814
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To examine the relationship between psychiatric disorders and sexual behaviors among adolescents receiving mental health treatment. Adolescents in mental health treatment have been found to have higher rates of HIV risk behavior than their peers, but data concerning the relationship between psychopa...
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PMID: 20658815
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Clinical and process outcomes indicate delivering cognitive-behavioral group treatment for PTSD-related anger problems via videoteleconferencing is an effective and feasible way to increase access to evidence-based care for veterans residing in rural or remote locations.
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PMID: 20122374
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Developmental Psychology (46)4 2010
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We examine (a) the normative course of eudaimonic well-being in emerging adulthood and (b) whether people's narratives of major life goals might prospectively predict eudaimonic growth 3 years later. We define eudaimonic growth as longitudinal increases in eudaimonic well-being, which we define as t...
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PMID: 20604600
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Psychiatria Danubina (22)2 2010
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We define personality disorders as maladaptive syndromes developed trough person-environment interaction. We conceptualize maladaptation as a failure of integrative functions of personality (i.e., those that carry out adaptive processes) caused by strong biogenetic dispositions or by pathological en...
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PMID: 20562740
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Journal of Adolescence (33)3 2010
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The present study examined the relation between self-esteem and temperament in a sample of 646 Mexican-American early adolescents (mean age=10.4). Findings show that (a) early adolescents with high self-esteem exhibit higher levels of Effortful Control but, contrary to findings in adult samples, do...
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PMID: 19740537
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Journal of Adolescence (33)3 2010
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The current study examined co-rumination (i.e., extensively discussing, rehashing, and speculating about problems) in the context of mother-adolescent relationships. Fifth-, eighth-, and eleventh-graders (N=516) reported on co-rumination and more normative self-disclosure with mothers, their relatio...
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PMID: 19616839
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Journal of Adolescence (33)3 2010
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The frequency of health care use is crucial for adolescent well-being and health systems. The present study was the first to test a set of variables in a representative sample of Greek adolescents in order to identify factors that predict health care use and contribute to improving health service pl...
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PMID: 19596423
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The numerous temperament and personality constructs in childhood impede the systematic integration of findings on how these individual differences relate to developmental psychopathology. This paper reviews the main temperament and personality theories and proposes a theoretical taxonomy representin...
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PMID: 20238477
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Pediatrics (125)5 2010
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Resident confidence and knowledge regarding SRA were low, compared with assessment of medical illness. Interns in the SP plus lecture group had significantly greater confidence in screening adolescents for suicide risk factors and assessing suicidal adolescents (screening, 4.2 +/- 0.4; assessing, 4....
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PMID: 20385649
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The social information processing model does not explain relationally aggressive behavior. To prevent or reduce physical aggression, social information processing should be promoted among children of preschool age....
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PMID: 20464662
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British Journal of Health Psychology (15)Pt 2 2010
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Individuals reporting an asthma diagnosis showed a stronger negative evaluation of asthma than healthy individuals in the ST-IAT. This negative evaluation was positively related to the self-report of dysfunctional coping strategies. However, in the IAT introducing a downward social comparison with H...
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PMID: 19719906
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Students of the Medical Faculty are substantially different from the temperamental traits of people in the same age range and same-sex couples in the general population. Students of the Medical Faculty are characterized by lower emotional reactivity and perseverance. Characterized by their weaker te...
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PMID: 20568404
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The PsyPAM-system is a promising and user-friendly screening tool with a short processing time, and is well worth further development and testing in daily clinical practice....
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PMID: 19908174
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Our findings suggest that a higher maternal educational level, parent's perceived child functional impairment, teacher's perceived impaired peer relationship and hyperactivity-impulsivity, and child physical and developmental problems may be related to the psychiatric referrals of children with ADHD...
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PMID: 20069354
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This study tested components of a proposed model of child anxiety and examined the mediational roles of (1) maternal control behavior, (2) maternal external locus of control, and (3) child external locus of control in the association between maternal and child anxiety. Thirty-eight clinically anxiou...
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PMID: 20108034
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Child Maltreatment (15)2 2010
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This prospective, longitudinal study examined a sample of sexually abused and comparison girls to determine (a) whether there were patterns of behavior that differed between the groups and (b) whether nonverbal behaviors assessed at the initial visit (n = 147; M = 11.11 years; SD = 3.02) might predi...
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PMID: 20410025
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Child Maltreatment (15)2 2010
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The current study examines the effects of child internalizing and externalizing symptoms on increases in victimization over a 1-year period. Using longitudinal data from the Developmental Victimization Survey (DVS), analyses are based on a national probability sample of 1,467 childre...
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PMID: 19812391
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Anxiety state and trait are heritable and share some genetic factors but only trait showed normal distribution in healthy subjects, mood current status independence and significant liability for bipolar I disorder. A stair-step distribution of trait anxiety scores in the family members and controls...
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PMID: 19733400
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I report the result from a theoretical investigation that a multidimensional item response model is empirically indistinguishable from a locally dependent unidimensional model, of which the single dimension represents the actual construct of interest. A practical implication of this result is that m...
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PMID: 19840494
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Developmental Psychology (46)3 2010
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Growth modeling was used to examine the developmental trajectory of infant temperamental fear with maternal fear and depressive symptoms as predictors of infant fearfulness and change in infant fear predicting toddler anxiety symptoms. In Study 1, a sample of 158 mothers reported their own depressiv...
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PMID: 20438177
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A total number of 850 (49%) families replied, and 624 caregivers replied. The mean Total Problem Score (TPS) with 95% confidence interval was 17.3 (16.3-18.3) for parents' reports. Age-and gender-specific scale score findings for Danish preschoolers and schoolchildren were comparable. No differences...
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PMID: 20085433
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