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Cognitive Impairment Among World Trade Center Responders: Long-Term Implications of Re-Experiencing the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks
This article examines the association between World Trade Center (WTC)-related post-traumatic stress disorder and cognitive impairment in WTC responders.
College Student Stress: Relationship Anxiety, Negative Affect, Self-Esteem, and Morality-Conscience Guilt
This poster describes measures of relationship anxiety, negative affect, self-esteem, and morality-conscience guilt used to discuss stress-coping methods of college students.
Complimentary/Alternative Medicine and Perceived Stress in People Living with HIV/AIDS
This poster examines the difference between contemporary and alternative medicine (CAM) and non-CAM users' total symptoms, dispositional optimism, pessimism, and perceived stress as well as how symptom load and outcome expectancies might predict stress perceptions.
Coping Strategies, Depression and Perceived Stress in HIV+ Individuals
This poster discusses how a complex view of coping can facilitate understanding of how patients adapt to HIV and help guide researchers in the development of interventions that fit the specific disease course.
Correlates of Knowledge/Attitudes towards Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Individuals
This poster examines relationships between depression, guilt, and lesbian, gay, and bisexual attitudes/knowledge.
Correlates of Stress in HIV+ Individuals: HIV-Stigma, Avoidance, and Depression
This poster investigates the relationships between factors contributing to perception of stress, depression, avoidant behaviors, and HIV stigma.
Deconstructing HIV-Related Stigma: Locus of Control and Trait Anxiety
This poster examines how patients with an internal health locus of control (HLOC) may result in reduced stigma and better management of HIV.
Depression Among College Students: Social Support, Self-Esteem and Loneliness
This poster examines how low levels of social support, low levels of self-esteem, and high levels of loneliness are associated with high levels of depression.
Depression in college students: Perceived stress, loneliness, and self-esteem
This poster illustrates a cross-sectional correlational study of the relationships between selected psychological factors (perceived stress, loneliness, self-esteem) and depressive symptoms in college students.
Elucidating the role of negative parenting in the genetic v. environmental influences on adult psychopathic traits
Article states that though adult psychopathic traits emerge from both genetic and environmental risk, no studies have examined etiologic associations between adult psychopathic traits and experiences of parenting in childhood, or the extent to which parenting practices may impact the heritability of adult psychopathic traits using a genetically-informed design. Utilizing a genetically-informed design, the authors found that both genetic and non-shared environmental factors contribute to the emergence of psychopathic traits.
Emergency Medical Workers' Mass Shooting Incident Stress and Psychological Recovery
This article identifies 36 emergency medical workers' most common stress reactions and recovery processes after a heavy-fatality mass shooting incident.
Evaluating the longitudinal risk of social vigilance on atherosclerosis: study protocol for the North Texas Heart Study
This article proposes a longitudinal measurement burst design to examine psychosocial determinants of subclinical atherosclerosis.
Factor Structure and Construct Validity of the Proposed Specifiers for Conduct Disorder (PSCD) Scale in Chinese Adolescents
Article examining the psychometric properties of the self-report version of Proposed Specifiers for Conduct Disorder (PSCD) Scale in a sample of community adolescents in mainland China. Findings provide preliminary evidence for the four-factor structure of the PSCD and support for the utility of the self-report PSCD for measuring psychopathic traits and CD in Chinese adolescents.
Gender Differences in Coping Methods of People Living with HIV: Predicting Perceived Stress
This poster examines gender differences in various coping methods used by people living with HIV.
Guilt: One Story Behind Psychological and Sexual Health
This poster examines the specific relationship three types of guilt have with markers of psychological and sexual health to provide an empirical basis to help understand the complex role guilt plays in college student's lives.
HIV and QOL: Role of Complementary/Alternative Medicine and Ethnic Identity
This poster examines the usage of Complementary Alternative Medicine (CAM) in the HIV+ population, particularly through the relationship between three quality of life dimensions (mental health, overall quality of life,and health transition) and ethnic identity.
HIV & Depression: A comparison between CAM and non-CAM users
This poster examines the relationship between two dimensions of quality of life, CAM usage, and depression in people living with HIV/AIDS through a study of HIV+ CAM users and non-CAM users recruited from Aids Service Organizations in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex.
The Human Spirit: Anxiety, Spirituality, and Depression in HIV+ Adults
This poster examines the relationships between anxiety, spirituality, and depression in persons living with HIV.
Inverted Social Reward: Associations between Psychopathic Traits and Self-Report and Experimental Measures of Social Reward
This article describes two studies of individuals with high levels of psychopathic traits. Study 1 explores what aspects of social reward are associated with psychopathic traits, and Study 2 administers these measures to a new group of participants along with two experimental tasks investigating monetary and social reward value.
Loneliness in College Students: Insensitivity Received, Coping and Self-Esteem
This poster discusses assessments of loneliness, self-esteem, and insensitivity in college students.
Pessimism, Sexual Trauma, and Personal Demographics: Covariates of Depression in College Students
This poster examines depression's relationship to the combination of pessimism, sexual trauma, living arrangements, and interpersonal dependency, as well as personal demographics in college students.
Positive States of Mind, Loneliness, and Anger: An Exploration of Resilience in the LGBT Community
This poster examines the association between positive states of mind, loneliness, anger, and resilience in LGBT individuals.
Psychosocial Factors Associated with the Self-Efficacy of Managing HIV/AIDS
This poster explores the relationship of depression, stress, and sleep quality with self-efficacy in Complementary and Alternative Medicines users living with HIV/AIDS.
The Relationship of Motivational Climates, Mindsets, and Goal Orientations to Grit in Male Adolescent Soccer Players
This article examines the relationships of the perceived motivational climate created by coaches (task-involving vs. ego-involving), athletes’ mindset (growth vs. fixed) and goal orientation (task vs. ego), to their grit. within the framework of achievement motivation theory.
Spirituality and Psychological Quality of Life in HIV+ Adults
This poster examines how people living with HIV/AIDS use spiritual beliefs to interpret the meaning of or perhaps appraise illness in such a way that it has a strong positive association with higher levels of psychological quality of life.
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