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Battered and nonbattered women's preferences for and expectations about liberal feminist, radical feminist, and cognitive therapy
(1997)Prior research has suggested that feminist therapy is an effective form of counseling for battered women (BW). To date however, virtually no studies have considered the importance of the client's expectations of, or ... -
Cognitive processes in acquaintance rape judgments : an information processing perspective
(1996)Acquaintance rape has been considered society's "hidden crime", often being seen as wrong, but not criminal (Bechhofer & Parrot, 1991). In comparison to other violent crimes, rape has the highest rate of acquittal and ... -
Effects of bright light intervention on typical and atypical depressive symptoms and predictors of response
(2004)The objective of the present study was to investigate within a prospective design the seasonality and depression predictors of light therapy response after controlling for treatment expectancy and pre-therapy functioning. ... -
Effects of sex, mood and sex-role beliefs on interpersonal responses to depressed persons
(1997)This study examined interpersonal reactions to depressed individuals as a function of the sex of a depressed person, and the sex and sex-role beliefs of the respondent. Egalitarian and traditional participants of both ... -
Explanatory style, coping style, and stress in seasonal affective disorder, subsyndromal seasonal affective disorder, and nonseasonal depression
(2002)Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is characterized by the regular onset and remission of depressive episodes that follow a seasonal pattern. The present study investigated differences among SAD, S-SAD (subsyndromal SAD), ... -
Heterosexual romantic preferences : the importance of physical attractiveness and humour
Previous research on human mate preferences has found that individuals, especially males, regard physical attractiveness as a very important attribute in potential mates. In contrast, humour, which has also been found ... -
Integrating the cognitive-specificity and dual vulnerability hypotheses : implications for vegetative and cognitive/affective differences in seasonal, nonseasonal, and sub-syndromal seasonal depression / Jennine S. Rawana.
(2006)This study compared seasonal affective disorder (SAD), nonseasonal depression, sub-syndromal SAD, and control groups on dysfunctional eating cognitions and behaviours, physical activity levels, cognitive content specificity ... -
Male sex role and responses to disclosures by adult male survivors of sexual abuse
(1996)Research evidence indicates that male survivors o f sexual abuse fear being labelled unmasculine or homosexual upon disclosure. They express the social maxim that masculine men don’t get sexually abused and gay men ... -
No man is a failure who has friends : the role of adaptive inferential feedback in hopelessness depression / Lize R. Jalbert. --
(2004)The theory of hopelessness depression (Abramson, Metalsky, & Alloy, 1989) states that the presence of the psychological state of hopelessness is a sufficient cause for the development of a specific subtype of depression ... -
Psychological characteristics in seasonal and nonseasonal depression
(2004)The present study compared three groups of individuals (Seasonal Affective Disorder or SAD, nonseasonally depressed or NSD, and healthy controls) to establish similarities and differences among them in various psychological ... -
Self-silencing, depressed mood, and anger expression and the meanings behind self-silencing within intimate relationships
(2005)The present study investigates the silencing the self theory (STS, Jack, 1991) which proposes that more women than men are depressed (Benazzi, 2000) because of their greater tendency to self-silence in relationships to ... -
Winter-summer comparison of psychological factors in seasonal mood changes / by Robert P. Dew.
(2008)"Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is characterized by the regular onset and remission of depressive episodes during the fall/winter months and remission during the summer. The present study compared psychological differences ...
