How Postpartum Depression Shapes Personal Work–Family Narratives
Postpartum depression (PPD) is a serious depressive episode arising in new mothers, with onset usually within a month after childbirth. Marked by severe sadness, anxiety, … Read more
Explaining Links Between Early Mindful Parenting and Later Child Behavior Adjustment
This 10-month longitudinal study examined the impact of mindful parenting on later child behavior problems.
What Is a Focus Group?
A focus group is a qualitative research method that involves facilitating a small group discussion with participants who share common characteristics or experiences that are relevant to the research topic. The goal is to gain insights through group conversation and observation of dynamics.
Interlinks Between Eating Symptoms, Distress and Cognitive Inflexibility in Anorexia
The study found that in people with anorexia nervosa (AN), weight/shape concerns and eating/dietary restraint had the strongest association, indicating they are closely interrelated symptoms.
Emotion Regulation And Depression Links Loneliness To Social Anxiety
Loneliness predicts future social anxiety symptoms and is thought to be mediated by emotion dysregulation and depression.
Emotion Regulation Strategy Choice In Depression: Choosing to Avoid the Positive?
Depressed individuals often use emotion regulation strategies that decrease pleasant emotions (e.g., distraction from positive stimuli, reduced positive rumination) or increase unpleasant emotions (e.g., negative … Read more
Is Emotion Regulation Training More Effective Than Self-Help For Mental Disorders?
The study tested whether group-based emotion regulation training (ART) would be more effective than a self-help bibliotherapy (BT) in reducing distress and preventing mental disorders in a sample at risk for developing psychotic, depressive, or anxiety disorders.
Interactional Synchrony
Interactional synchrony refers to the coordinated timing and dynamics between a caregiver’s and an infant’s social behaviors during interpersonal exchanges. This synchrony is a dance of sorts relying on the caregiver’s sensitive responsiveness to the child’s cues.
From I-Coping To We-Coping: A Qualitative Study on Parent–Child Dyadic Coping in Widowed Families
This study looking at parent-child units after spousal/parental loss, dyadic coping captures how the bereaved parent and children interact, communicate, and support one another in grieving and adjusting to their loss over time as an interconnected dyad.
Linking Dysfunctional Attitudes to Bipolar Depression
Dysfunctional attitudes were significantly higher in people with bipolar disorder compared to healthy controls based on a meta-analysis of 23 studies .