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12.05.2024 | Original Article

What Are You Ruminating About? The Development and Validation of a Content-Dependent Measure of Rumination

Despite the richness of the extant rumination literature, the lack of content-related measures has constrained the field to the investigation of general levels of rumination. The purpose of this study is to develop a valid and reliable domain …

verfasst von:
Christopher Marcin Kowalski, Donald H. Saklofske, Julie Aitken Schermer

Open Access 09.05.2024 | Original Article

Intergenerational Transmission of Social Anxiety: The Role of Parents’ Fear of Negative Child Evaluation and Their Self-Referent and Child-Referent Interpretation Biases

verfasst von:
Melis Dülger, Bram Van Bockstaele, Mirjana Majdandžić, Wieke de Vente

Open Access 29.04.2024 | Original Article

How Are You Feeling Today? Dynamic and Static Indices of Daily Affect Predict Psychological Adjustment One Year Later in a Multi-cohort, Longitudinal Investigation

It is well established that the presence of both acute and chronic stress pose risk for the development of affective symptoms and related disorders (Grant et al., 2004 ; Shields & Slavich, 2017 ). Yet how daily reports of emotion during those …

verfasst von:
Benjamin J. Mitchell, Brittany Baugher, Emily Gawlik, Julia Richmond, Pooja G. Sidney, Jennifer M. Taber, Clarissa A. Thompson, Karin G. Coifman

Open Access 24.04.2024 | Original Article

Intrusive Mental Imagery in Chronic Pain: Prevalence and Associations with Common Comorbidities

Chronic pain is defined as pain that persists for more than three months and characterised by significant emotional distress (International Classification of Diseases, 2021 ; ICD-11). Sub-categories include musculoskeletal pain, cancer-related pain …

verfasst von:
Jake Maxwell Watts, Simon E. Blackwell, Jo Daniels

23.04.2024 | Original Article

Interpretation Bias and Adolescent Social Anxiety: The Mediating Effect of Pre- and Post-Event Rumination

The purpose of Study 1 was to examine whether the inclination to interpret social cues increases adolescents’ SA via pre- and post-event rumination. We hypothesized that the level of IB at baseline would enhance participants’ pre-event rumination …

verfasst von:
Meng Yu, Jianping Wang

23.04.2024 | Original Article

The Regretted Actions and Inactions of Military Veterans and Psychological Problems

Military Service Members confront a wide variety of scenarios and events that are associated with psychological difficulties and long-lasting functional impairment (e.g., Maguen et al., 2020 ). Stein and colleagues ( 2012 ) found evidence for the …

verfasst von:
Christian L. Williams, Howard Berenbaum

23.04.2024 | Original Article

A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of a Brief Conflict Reappraisal Intervention for Community Couples with Young Children

The Love Together, Parent Together research program (L2P2) was designed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the goal of bolstering the relationships of parents with young children and preserving family well-being (Prime et al., 2022 , 2023 …

verfasst von:
Heather Prime, Amy Muise, Marc Jambon, Maya Koven, Alexandra Markwell, Mark Wade

28.03.2024 | Original Article

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Factors Related to Outcomes in Depression Among Youth with HIV

Youth with HIV (YWH) have high rates of comorbid depression (Benton et al., 2019 ; Brown et al., 2021 ), with some reports as high as 37% (Lynn et al., 2019 ). Treating depressive symptoms is critical, as depression can interfere with HIV treatment …

verfasst von:
Betsy D. Kennard, Larry K. Brown, Kristin Baltrusaitis, Miriam Chernoff, Graham J. Emslie, Jessica Jones, Sarah Buisson, Jaime Deville, Megan Wilkins, Amber Bunch, Chivon McMullen Jackson, Christy Beneri, David E. Shapiro, and IMPAACT 2002 Team

Open Access 25.03.2024 | Original Article

Attention and Interpretation Bias Modification Transfers to Memory Bias: Testing the Combined Cognitive Bias Hypothesis

Depression, as underscored by cognitive theories and empirical evidence, is marked by emotional cognitive biases. This suggests a preference for processing negative information over neutral or positive information (for a review, see Mathews & …

verfasst von:
Zhen Zhang, Janna N. Vrijsen, Alvaro Sanchez-Lopez, Ernst H.W. Koster, Eni S. Becker

21.03.2024 | Original Article

Therapeutic Potential of Embodied Cognition for Clinical Psychotherapies: From Theory to Practice

The field of clinical psychology faces fragmentation stemming from diverse theoretical traditions, impeding a unified understanding of mental health (Gilbert, 2019 ; Gilbert & Kirby, 2019 ; Salvatore, 2011 ). The oversimplification of mental …

verfasst von:
Jennifer M. B. Fugate, Sheila L. Macrine, Eva M. Hernandez-Cuevas

16.03.2024 | Brief Report

Task Control in the Affordance Task as the Underlying Mechanism for the Imbalance Between the Goal-Directed and Habit Formation Systems in Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder

verfasst von:
Hadar Naftalovich, Dan Sacks, Eldad Keha, Eyal Kalanthroff

16.03.2024 | Original Article

Relationship Between Interpersonal Emotion Regulation and Social Support and Their Effects on Depressive Symptoms in Korean Emerging Adults

Emerging adulthood is a distinct developmental phase that falls between adolescence and adulthood (Arnett, 2000 ). During this period, these groups suffer from external transitions (Goldscheider & Goldscheider, 1999 ), which naturally leads to …

verfasst von:
Hyunmo Seong, Hajin Lim, Gi-Eun Jang, Gippeum Park, Jieun Kang, Sang Min Lee

04.03.2024 | Brief Report

Social Anxiety, Drinking Game Motives, and Drinking Game Outcomes Among a Large Multisite Sample of University Students

Using a large, multisite sample of undergraduates, the current study builds on prior work (e.g., George et al., 2019 ; Johnson et al., 1998 ; Kenney et al., 2014 ; Mulligan et al., 2016 ) by conducting a secondary analysis of an existing dataset of …

verfasst von:
Katherine Walukevich-Dienst, Byron L. Zamboanga, Amie R. Newins, Makayla L. Dehmer, Lindsay S. Ham, Timothy J. Grigsby, Su Yeong Kim

04.03.2024 | Original Article

Hopelessness as a Mechanism of the Relationship between Physical Pain and Thoughts of Suicide: Results from Two Smartphone-Based Real-Time Monitoring Samples

A review of the literature by Kirtley et al. ( 2020 ) highlights the multitude of psychological factors that are shared by chronic pain and suicidal populations (e.g., future orientation, defeat, and mental imagery). Moreover, there is a growing …

verfasst von:
Hannah R. Krall, Allison K. Ruork, Shireen L. Rizvi, Evan M. Kleiman

04.03.2024 | Original Article

Altered Neural Activity during Negative Reinforcement in People with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) causes significant disability and societal costs worldwide (Murray et al., 1996 ). OCD is characterized by obsessions (repetitive and intrusive internal events, including thoughts and images) and compulsions …

verfasst von:
Benjamin Panny, Rebecca B. Price, Anna Wears, Susanne E. Ahmari

Open Access 28.02.2024 | Original Article

Self-Burdensomeness, Self-Esteem and Suicidal Ideation

Self-esteem refers to an individual’s subjective evaluation of their worth as a person (Leary & Baumeister, 2000 ), which includes aspects of self-acceptance, self-satisfaction, and self-respect. Low self-esteem, in turn, is characterized by a …

verfasst von:
Tobias Teismann, Thomas E. Joiner, Morgan Robison, Julia Brailovskaia

Open Access 20.02.2024 | Original Article

Endogenous Cortisol Levels, Sleep or Vigilance: Which Factors Contribute to Better Exposure Therapy Outcomes in the Morning?

Although exposure therapy is considered the gold standard in the treatment of anxiety and stressor-related disorders, there is a substantial proportion of patients, who do not profit from treatment, and relapse is a common problem (Michael et al. …

verfasst von:
Marie Roxanne Sopp, Sarah K. Schäfer, Tanja Michael, Monika Equit, Diana S. Ferreira de Sá, Johanna Lass-Hennemann

Open Access 10.02.2024 | Original Article

Pilot Study Dismantling the Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy: Identifying the Active Ingredients

The present pilot study denotes the first step of a component analysis project (Kazdin, 2007 ; Kazdin & Nock, 2003 ) that ultimately (over-time) may result in the identification of the mechanisms of change involved in the evidenced-based treatment …

verfasst von:
Lee R. Long, Mark Foster, Kara Burr, J. Kim Penberthy, Tracy N. Baker, James P. McCullough Jr.

03.02.2024 | Correction

Correction to: The Roles of Intrusive Visual Imagery and Verbal Thoughts in Pre-Sleep Arousal of Patients with Insomnia Disorder: A Path Model

verfasst von:
Kutlu Kağan Türkarslan, Deniz Canel Çınarbaş, Lampros Perogamvros

29.01.2024 | Original Article

Gender Differences in Shame Among Individuals with Social Anxiety Disorder

verfasst von:
Roni Oren-Yagoda, May Rosenblum, Idan M. Aderka