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Psychology, Clinical
Laura Murray, Elana S. Israel, Emma G. Balkind, Brianna Pastro, Nathaniel Lovell-Smith, Scott E. Lukas, Erika E. Forbes, Diego A. Pizzagalli, Christian A. Webb
Summary: Anhedonia is a core symptom of depression that predicts worse treatment outcomes. Dysfunction in neural reward circuits is thought to contribute to anhedonia. This study examined whether laboratory-based assessments of anhedonia and reward-related neural function were associated with adolescents' subjective affective experiences in daily life, and found that there was a relationship between them.
PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE
(2023)
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Psychology, Applied
Aja Louise Murray, Zhouni Xiao, Xinxin Zhu, Lydia Gabriela Speyer, Yi Yang, Ruth Harriet Brown, Laura Katus, Manuel Eisner, Denis Ribeaud
Summary: This study examines the reliability and validity of a brief EMA-adapted measure of perceived stress (PSS) using EMA data collection design. The results show high reliability and significant correlations between the momentary stress scores and criterion validity measures at both within- and between-person level. Gender measurement invariance up to the scalar level is also supported. The findings suggest the use of the EMA-adapted PSS for researching momentary stress and its gender differences in community-ascertained samples.
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Psychology, Developmental
Salome Vanwoerden, Amy L. Byrd, Vera Vine, Joseph E. Beeney, Lori N. Scott, Stephanie D. Stepp
Summary: The study found that in daily life, parental invalidation behaviors, particularly punishing behaviors, were associated with more severe BPD symptoms, while ignoring behaviors were linked to fewer BPD symptoms. Youth-perceived support was predictive of fewer BPD symptoms.
JOURNAL OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY
(2022)
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Psychology, Developmental
Reout Arbel, Tyler B. Mason, Genevieve F. Dunton
Summary: This study found that children's daily emotion intensity, instability, and differentiation are associated with their internalizing symptoms. These emotional dimensions show positive relationships with internalizing symptoms, but are not risk factors for or residual manifestations of its progression among typical children.
JOURNAL OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY
(2022)
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Nutrition & Dietetics
Laura M. Koenig, Julia E. Koller, Karoline Villinger, Deborah R. Wahl, Katrin Ziesemer, Harald T. Schupp, Britta Renner
Summary: This study found that the perception of meal colour variety was positively related to vegetable consumption across different meal types, while it was negatively associated with sweets consumption for breakfast, dinner, and snacks. These results suggest that choosing meals with a variety of colours may be a promising strategy to promote a healthier diet.
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Psychology, Developmental
Aaron R. Dallman, Antoine Bailliard, Clare Harrop
Summary: This preliminary study using ecological momentary assessment in autistic adolescents found that negative affect is predicted by the quality of social interaction and enjoyment of the current activity, while affective instability predicts depressive symptoms. These results provide insights into risk factors for depression in this vulnerable population.
JOURNAL OF AUTISM AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS
(2022)
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Clinical Neurology
Tingyue Sun, Yang Yap, Yan Chi Tung, Bei Bei, Joshua F. Wiley
Summary: The study found that avoidance-oriented coping strategies increase negative emotional reactions to daily stressors, but approach-oriented coping strategies do not significantly affect positive emotional reactions.
JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS
(2023)
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Neurosciences
Stefanie L. Sequeira, Jennifer S. Silk, Elizabeth A. Edershile, Neil P. Jones, Jamie L. Hanson, Erika E. Forbes, Cecile D. Ladouceur
Summary: This study utilized fMRI computer tasks and ecological momentary assessment protocols to investigate the neural responses to social threat and their associations with brain regions related to threat processing in daily life. The findings suggested that daily life reactivity to perceived social threat was linked to neural activity in threat-related brain regions, as well as functional connectivity between these regions during rejection feedback. Unexpectedly, heightened amygdala and insula activation to peer acceptance in daily life was also observed in individuals with greater social threat reactivity, providing insights into brain-behavior associations supporting sensitivity to social evaluation in adolescence.
SOCIAL COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
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Psychology, Clinical
Esther Seidl, John Venz, Theresa Magdalena Ollmann, Catharina Voss, Jana Hoyer, Lars Pieper, Katja Beesdo-Baum
Summary: The study found that individuals with remitted anxiety disorders experience various negative experiences in everyday life, which cannot be solely explained by comorbidities. As individuals with remitted anxiety disorders still bear psychological burden and impairment, this may contribute to relapse, and interventions should be targeted at improving mental health.
DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY
(2021)
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Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
Bridgette Do, Tyler B. Mason, Li Yi, Chih-Hsiang Yang, Genevieve F. Dunton
Summary: The study found that higher than average levels of momentary stress within children significantly predicted lower levels of subsequent physical activity in the following 15, 30, and 60 minutes, while between-subjects stress was not significantly associated with subsequent physical activity levels. This suggests that within-day fluctuations in stress may act as a barrier for children engaging in physical activity.
PSYCHOLOGY OF SPORT AND EXERCISE
(2021)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Teresa O'Rourke, Carsten Vogel, Dennis John, Ruediger Pryss, Johannes Schobel, Fabian Haug, Julian Haug, Christoph Pieh, Urs M. Nater, Anja C. Feneberg, Manfred Reichert, Thomas Probst
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the impact of different coping styles on situational coping in everyday life situations and gender differences. The results showed that positive thinking and active stress coping had significant positive impacts on situational coping for all participants. For women, social support had a significant positive effect on situational coping, while for men, active stress coping had a significant positive effect on situational coping.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Ann-Kathrin Arend, Jens Blechert, Bjorn Pannicke, Julia Reichenberger
Summary: The study found that work confinements were positively associated with social media use, while social confinements were positively associated with watching television and social media consumption. Age and living situation can influence individuals' screen use behaviors.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2021)
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Psychology, Social
Luca Pancani, Daniel Waldeck, Ian Tyndall, Paolo Riva
Summary: Most psychological research on social exclusion has focused on internal validity, but it is becoming increasingly important to maximize external validity. This study used ecological momentary assessment to track exclusionary experiences and their impact on psychological distress. The results showed that social exclusion had a significant effect on distress, mediated by positive and negative emotions. Surprisingly, experiential avoidance did not moderate the exclusion-distress link, but did moderate the exclusion-positive emotions relationship.
PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
(2023)
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Psychology, Clinical
Christine Vinci, Christopher Cambron, Cho Lam, David W. Wetter
Summary: The study examines the impact of acute perceived discrimination on smoking lapse among Spanish-speaking Mexican Americans, with results suggesting that discrimination indirectly increases the risk of smoking lapse through negative affect, positive affect, and urge to smoke. Interventions should focus on developing strategies to buffer the impact of discrimination and manage negative affect and smoking urge directly, with just-in-time adaptive interventions potentially being useful in real-time delivery of treatment.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Jillian A. Johnson, Matthew J. Zawadzki, Dusti R. Jones, Julia Reichenberger, Joshua M. Smyth
Summary: The study examined the within-person covariation of momentary cortisol with momentary perceived stress, affective valence, and affective arousal in everyday life. The results showed that higher perceived stress and more negative affective valence were associated with higher cortisol levels, while affective arousal was not related to cortisol.
ANNALS OF BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE
(2022)