Extreme-groups designs in studies of dimensional phenomena: Advantages, caveats, and recommendations.

abstract：:This research blends 2 traditions of theorizing on the causes of crime, one focused on the role of individual differences and the other focused on structural and contextual variables. Two related studies examined the relations among impulsivity, neighborhood context, and juvenile offending. The first, cross-sectional ...

journal_title：Journal of abnormal psychology

authors： Lynam DR,Caspi A,Moffitt TE,Wikström PO,Loeber R,Novak S

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When confronted with an anxiety-producing threat to self-esteem, restrained eaters (dieters) increase their food consumption. The functional explanation suggests that increased eating temporarily counteracts or masks dysphoria for the restrained eater; externality or stimulus sensitivity theories propose that distress...

journal_title：Journal of abnormal psychology

authors： Polivy J,Herman CP,McFarlane T

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of studies have indicated that social support is associated with the course of depression. However, none of these studies have ruled out the potentially confounding effects of personality factors, such as neuroticism. The authors examined whether social support was related to the course of depression after co...

journal_title：Journal of abnormal psychology

authors： Lara ME,Leader J,Klein DN

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 126(2) of Journal of Abnormal Psychology (see record 2016-56318-001). In the article, Figure 1 had incorrect axis labels. There was also an error in the abstract, which did not state that ΔFN was calculated as FN to losses minus FN to gains. All versi...

journal_title：Journal of abnormal psychology

authors： Tsypes A,Owens M,Hajcak G,Gibb BE

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This commentary addresses the use of psychometric theory and methodology in the development of the 4th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV). Reliability issues include interdiagnostician reliability, temporally consistent diagnoses, and the relations of diagnostic criteria with...

journal_title：Journal of abnormal psychology

authors： Nelson-Gray RO

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Language disturbance in schizophrenia has been recently attributed to disturbed priming mechanisms. In the present study, event-related potentials (ERPs), were recorded to final words in sentences presented to 13 chronic patients with schizophrenia and 12 normal controls. Half of the final words fit a sentence context...

journal_title：Journal of abnormal psychology

authors： Niznikiewicz MA,O'Donnell BF,Nestor PG,Smith L,Law S,Karapelou M,Shenton ME,McCarley RW

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examined the reciprocal relations between rumination and symptoms of depression, bulimia, and substance abuse with longitudinal data from 496 female adolescents. Rumination predicted future increases in bulimic and substance abuse symptoms, as well as onset of major depression, binge eating, and substance ...

journal_title：Journal of abnormal psychology

authors： Nolen-Hoeksema S,Stice E,Wade E,Bohon C

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior analyses of the Wisconsin Inventory of Smoking Dependence Motives (Piper et al., 2004) implicated 4 subscales as primary dependence motives (PDM) indexing the core features of tobacco dependence, with the remaining subscales reflecting secondary dependence motives (SDM; Piper et al., 2008). The current study ext...

journal_title：Journal of abnormal psychology

authors： Piasecki TM,Piper ME,Baker TB

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although stressors appear to motivate marijuana use, and marijuana use, in turn, is believed to induce stress system neuroadaptations, relatively little empirical work has explicitly tested for stress neuroadaptations associated with heavy marijuana use. We examined stressor reactivity to threat of unpredictable elect...

journal_title：Journal of abnormal psychology

authors： Hefner KR,Starr MJ,Curtin JJ

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two fear-relevant imagery scripts were used as conditioned stimuli (CSs) in a differential learning paradigm with 5.5% CO2-enriched air as unconditioned stimulus (US). In another condition, 2 neutral scripts were used as CSs (N = 56). Within each condition, one script was imagined while breathing the CO2-enriched air ...

journal_title：Journal of abnormal psychology

authors： Stegen K,De Bruyne K,Rasschaert W,Van de Woestijne KP,Van den Bergh O

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Weight suppression, the difference between highest past weight and current weight, is a robust predictor of clinical characteristics of bulimia nervosa; however, the influence of weight suppression in anorexia nervosa (AN) has been little studied, and to our knowledge, no study to date has investigated the ways in whi...

journal_title：Journal of abnormal psychology

authors： Berner LA,Shaw JA,Witt AA,Lowe MR

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anxiety sensitivity (AS) has been defined as the fear of anxiety and anxiety-related sensations, and evidence suggests that AS plays an important role in the psychopathology of panic. It is entirely unclear whether the relation between AS and panic should be attributed to one (or more) of the AS group factors, the gen...

journal_title：Journal of abnormal psychology

authors： Zinbarg RE,Brown TA,Barlow DH,Rapee RM

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adolescent self-mutilative behavior (SMB) is a pervasive and dangerous problem, yet factors influencing the performance of SMB are not well understood. The authors examined the contextual features and behavioral functions of SMB in a sample of 89 adolescent psychiatric inpatients. SMB typically was performed impulsive...

journal_title：Journal of abnormal psychology

authors： Nock MK,Prinstein MJ

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multidimensional trait system has been proposed for representing personality disorder (PD) features in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) to address problematic classification issues such as comorbidity. In this model, which may also assist in providing scaffolding...

journal_title：Journal of abnormal psychology

authors： Wright AG,Thomas KM,Hopwood CJ,Markon KE,Pincus AL,Krueger RF

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study examined vulnerability to depression during the transition from early to middle adolescence from the perspective of the response styles theory. During an initial assessment, 382 adolescents (ages 11-15 years) completed self-report measures assessing rumination and depressive symptoms as well as a sem...

journal_title：Journal of abnormal psychology

authors： Abela JR,Hankin BL

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alterations in the perception of body signals (i.e., interoceptive awareness [IA]) are considered crucial for the development and maintenance of somatoform disorders (SFDs). However, competing theories come to different conclusions about whether IA is increased or decreased in SFDs. The present study investigated IA i...

journal_title：Journal of abnormal psychology

authors： Schaefer M,Egloff B,Witthöft M

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report used emotion-modulated startle to refine theoretically critical claims about negative affect during tobacco withdrawal. Forty-eight dependent smokers (assigned to either a 24-hr nicotine withdrawal condition or a continued smoking condition) and 48 nonsmokers participated in this study. Participants viewed...

journal_title：Journal of abnormal psychology

authors： Piper ME,Curtin JJ

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies have come to conflicting conclusions about whether posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with poorer memory for emotionally neutral information. The authors report a meta-analysis of 27 studies that investigated verbal and/or visual memory in samples with PTSD and healthy controls. The results ind...

journal_title：Journal of abnormal psychology

authors： Brewin CR,Kleiner JS,Vasterling JJ,Field AP

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors investigated prospectively assessed eating pathology (body image dissatisfaction and bulimia nervosa symptoms) among an ethnically and socioeconomically diverse sample of adolescent girls with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder-combined type (ADHD-C; n=93), ADHD-inattentive type (ADHD-I; n=47), and a...

journal_title：Journal of abnormal psychology

authors： Mikami AY,Hinshaw SP,Patterson KA,Lee JC

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reciprocal relations between self-reported substance use and delinquency were examined through the analysis of 4-wave panel data collected from 1,218 high school students. A longitudinal, latent-variable framework was used to investigate interrelationships between changing patterns of generalized involvement in these ...

journal_title：Journal of abnormal psychology

authors： Mason WA,Windle M

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social proximity typically helps individuals meet their belongingness needs, but several forms of psychopathology, including borderline and avoidant personality disorders (BPD and APD, respectively) are characterized by social difficulties. This experience-sampling study is one of the first to directly investigate the...

journal_title：Journal of abnormal psychology

authors： Gadassi R,Snir A,Berenson K,Downey G,Rafaeli E

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Groups of high-risk (alcoholic fathers), middle-risk (second-degree alcoholic relatives) and low-risk (no first- or second-degree alcoholic relatives) male college students were compared with respect to drinking behavior, sociodemographic variables, personality, cognitive functioning, and mental health and drug use pr...

journal_title：Journal of abnormal psychology

authors： Alterman AI,Searles JS,Hall JG

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we tested an attributional model of expressed emotion (EE) among Mexican-American families. A sample of 46 key family members of schizophrenic patients were measured on three dimensions: affect toward patient, controllability attributions, and level of EE. Consistent with an attributional model, we found...

journal_title：Journal of abnormal psychology

authors： Weisman A,López SR,Karno M,Jenkins J

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 5% of children are affected by attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and more boys are affected than girls. This study examined the magnitude of genetic and environmental influences on ADHD and several questions regarding sex differences in its prevalence and liability. The participants were 2...

journal_title：Journal of abnormal psychology

authors： Rhee SH,Waldman ID,Hay DA,Levy F

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study tested the extent to which gender role attributes and gender role ideology account for sex differences in internally directed psychological distress and in externally directed deviant behavior in a random sample of 2,013 adolescents. Results indicate that gender roles substantially mediate sex differences i...

journal_title：Journal of abnormal psychology

authors： Huselid RF,Cooper ML

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study sought to evaluate the current evolutionary adaptiveness of psychopathology by examining whether these disorders impact the quantity of offspring or the quality of the parent-child relationship across the life span. Using the National Comorbidity Survey, this study examined whether DSM-III-R anxiety, posttr...

journal_title：Journal of abnormal psychology

authors： Jacobson NC

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often display enhanced attention to detail and exhibit restricted behavior. However, due to a lack of comprehensive eye-movement modeling techniques, it is currently unknown whether these behavioral effects are also evident during scene viewing (i.e., detailed visual ins...

journal_title：Journal of abnormal psychology

authors： Heaton TJ,Freeth M

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schizophrenia is associated with deficits in P50 suppression to the second stimulus in a pair, a process often conceptualized as a preattentive index of sensory gating. This study assessed the malleability of the deficit by determining whether early attentional control can influence P50 gating across different phases ...

journal_title：Journal of abnormal psychology

authors： Yee CM,Williams TJ,White PM,Nuechterlein KH,Ames D,Subotnik KL

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drive for thinness is a cardinal feature of bulimia nervosa. However, the widely used Drive for Thinness (DFT) subscale of the Eating Disorder Inventory (Garner, 2004; Garner, Olmstead, & Polivy, 1983) appears to measure a desire to be thinner, not a desire to be objectively thin. We developed the Drive for Objective ...

journal_title：Journal of abnormal psychology

authors： Chernyak Y,Lowe MR

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Event-related potentials to critical verbs were measured as patients with schizophrenia and healthy controls read sentences word by word. Relative to their preceding context, critical verbs were (a) congruous, (b) incongruous and semantically unrelated to individual preceding words (pragmatic-semantic violations), (c)...

journal_title：Journal of abnormal psychology

authors： Kuperberg GR,Sitnikova T,Goff D,Holcomb PJ

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00