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Approximately 48, 300 people die by suicide yearly in the United States (U.S.) alone. Just over half of these deaths result from self-inflicted gunshot wounds, which is to be expected given that 9 out of 10 attempts involving a firearm...
Numerous identified factors are associated with suicide cross-sectionally and across long follow-up periods, but methodological limitations have hindered examination of these constructs as short-term predictors of suicide risk. The use...
Suicide and depression are serious and growing public health problems. Despite their substantial global health burden, relatively few interventions have been found to be efficacious at preventing these conditions. The aims of the current...
A growing body of research has linked high distress intolerance (DI) to obsessions, but not other OCD symptom domains. However, existing research is correlational and experimental studies are needed before causal determinations can be...
Distress intolerance (DI) is a transdiagnostic individual difference variable reflective of the capacity to withstand aversive psychological states. DI is typically measured with self-report questionnaires or behaviorally via quit...
Joiner's (2005) interpersonal-psychological theory of suicidal behavior builds upon previous theories to provide a potentially more useful framework for differentiating between those who do and do not die by suicide. According to Joiner, ...
Individuals with Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) have a tendency to interpret ambiguous information in a negative or threatening manner (Buhlmann, McNally, Wilhelm, & Florin, 2002a; Clerkin & Teachman, 2008). Computerized interpretation...
Research supports that gay males may be at increased risk for eating disorders compared to heterosexual males, establishing a need to develop and empirically evaluate programs to reduce risk for this population. The present study...
Suicide claims the lives of approximately 32, 000 Americans each year. The interpersonal-psychological theory of suicide (IPTS; Joiner, 2005) was developed in an effort to clarify the nature of suicidality as well as to enhance risk...
Problematic anger is a phenomenon that is highly relevant to a number of psychological disorders and health outcomes yet remains under-studied and is often misunderstood. Although the field has largely rejected the value of cathartic...
Each year in the United States, over 44, 000 individuals die by suicide, and approximately half of these deaths occur from intentional, self-inflicted gunshot wounds. A crucial component of the clinical management of suicide risk is to...
Prior work on maladaptive coping behaviors has cited impulsivity as a risk factor. The concept of impulsivity, however, fails to address the potential role of negative affect in such behaviors. The UPPS Impulsive Behavior Scale attempts...
Research suggests that individuals high in trait anger have a cognitive bias for attributing hostile intentions to ambiguous situations. However, no studies have tested whether this interpretation bias can be altered to influence anger...
Cognitive-behavioral models of compulsive hoarding have identified information processing deficits of categorization and organization, decision-making and indecisiveness, memory, and attention as areas that may contribute to compulsive...
Effortful control (EC) is defined as the ability to inhibit or delay a prepotent response, typically in favor of a subdominant response. It has been suggested that, in young children (i.e., preschool-aged), EC is a multidimensional...
Individuals with body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) engage in ‘safety behaviors’ (SBs) aimed at checking, hiding, fixing, and reducing threat associated with their perceived flaw. SBs are thought to maintain symptoms and may play a causal...
Substance use is an individual and societal burden. Although many people experiment with substances, only a small proportion ever becomes addicted. Several theories have postulated how and why individuals become addicted to substances;...
What Intolerance of Uncertainty and Intolerance of Ambiguity Look like: A Construct Validation of Two Transdiagnostic Factors and Their Differential Relationship with Checking Symptoms
A growing body of literature has begun to examine the transdiagnostic qualities of a variety of etiological and maintaining factors. Research suggests that intolerance of uncertainty (IU) is one such transdiagnostic factor that has been...
Two core dimensions of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), harm avoidance and incompleteness, have been proposed to underlie overt symptom subtypes (Summerfeldt, 2004). Foa, Abramowitz, Franklin and Kozak (1999) have found that patients...
Joiner's (2005) theory suggests that there is a key difference between those who attempt and those who complete suicide. Although both attempters and completers have a desire for death, Joiner proposes that only those who complete...
Research evidences a link between eating disorders and suicidal behaviors, and capability for suicide has been proposed as a mechanism underlying this relationship. Negative body attitudes and experiences (BAE) are another promising set...
Reliance on self-reported screening for suicide risk may be contributing to a lack of progress in suicide prevention, in part, because of limitations related to stigma, ambivalence, and deception in responding. One change to potentially...
Research suggests that intolerance of uncertainty (IU) may be a maintaining factor for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Cognitive models contend that information-processing biases play an etiological role in anxiety. One such bias...
Recent research suggests that many dysregulated behaviors, such as binge-eating and non-suicidal self-injury, often occur during times of emotional distress. These behaviors also appear to decrease negative affect. Why is it, however, ...
Both psychological and physiological data support the concurrent validity of distinguishing between bulimia nervosa (BN) and purging disorder (PD) based on the presence vs. absence of binge-eating episodes, respectively. However, limited...
BACKGROUND: Exposure to weight stigma increases food consumption in individuals who are—or perceive themselves to be—overweight, and such exposure predicts greater odds of binge eating. To date, however, no study has experimentally...
Extant research suggests that safety behaviors (SBs) may be relevant to the development and maintenance of anxiety and obsessive-compulsive psychopathology; yet, their contribution to other forms of psychopathology, such as disorders of...
Suicide is a leading cause of death among young adults. Despite the relative affordability and accessibility of mental health care services for college students, rates of treatment utilization remain relatively low among undergraduates...
Introduction: Social support and loneliness have been identified as important factors in mental and physical health. People with social anxiety disorder (SAD) often report low levels of social support and high levels of loneliness (Alden...
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