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Psychometric Properties and Administration Measurement Invariance of Social Phobia Symptom Measures: Paper-Pencil vs. Internet Administrations
The psychometric properties of the online versions of assessment instruments for phobias and related symptoms were compared to those of paper-pencil versions. The examined measures were the Social Interaction ...
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Social Support and Problem-Solving as Moderators of the Relationship Between Childhood Abuse and Suicidality: Applications to a Delinquent Population
The purpose of the current study was to examine the relationship between childhood abuse, social support, and problem-solving appraisal within a juvenile delinquent sample. Hierarchical regression analyses wer...
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Assessment of Panic Frequency: Reliability and Validity of a Time-Line Follow-Back Method
The purpose of this study was to investigate the reliability and validity of a Panic Attack Frequency Calendar (PAFC), modeled after a time-line follow-back (TLFB) procedure (e.g., Sobell & Sobell, 1979). The ...
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Development, Reliability, and Validity of the Beliefs Toward Mental Illness Scale
The present study describes the development of a new scale to measure Beliefs toward Mental Illness (BMI), which was designed to measure cross-cultural differences in such beliefs as well as to predict treatme...
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The Relative Contribution of Diagnostic and Psychosocial Variables to Severity of Suicidal Ideation
The present study examined the relative contribution of diagnostic and psychosocial factors to the prediction of severity of suicidal ideation in a sample of 78 college students. Using hierarchical regression ...
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Specificity of Depressive Symptoms and Suicidality in a Juvenile Delinquent Population
Research which has related scores on the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI) to suicidality have generally neglected to examine the possibility that specific depressive factors within the CDI m...
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An expanded etiological model for suicide behavior in adolescents: Evidence for its specificity relative to depression
This study tests both the stress/social support and the stress/problem-solving etiological models for suicidality while controlling for depression. To this end, a depressed, high-suicide-ideating sample (N=68) wa...
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Diagnostic morbidity and its relationship to severity of ideation for a nonpsychiatric sample of chronic and severe suicide ideators
This study examined the relationships of frequency and type of psychiatric diagnosis to suicidality within a sample of chronically and severely ideating college-aged students (N=78). The most common diagnoses wer...
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Interpersonal violence: Expanding the search for long-term sequelae within a sample of battered women
Lifetime sexual and physical victimization histories were examined within a shelter and outpatient sample of battered women (N=43). Rates of prior victimization were very high with 71% of women reporting a childh...
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An investigation of the validity of the SPSI and SPSI-R in differentiating high-suicidal from depressed, low-suicidal college students
The present study examined the validity of the Social Problem-Solving Inventory (SPSI) and SPSI—Revised in differentiating 65 high-suicidal from 63 depressed, low-suicidal college students. Results from multiv...
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A dimensional analysis of claustrophobia
The present study investigated whether situational and cognitive dimensions of claustrophobia exist. To this end, the Claustrophobia Situations Questionnaire (CSQ) and the Claustrophobia General Cognitions Que...
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Measures of life stress and social support specific to an Asian student population
We designed two new measures—the Index of Life Stress (ILS) and the Index of Social Support (ISS)—to assist in the prediction of cultural adjustment for an Asian international student population. In the presen...
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Stress, social support, and problem-solving appraisal/skills: Prediction of suicide severity within a college sample
This study assessed whether stress, social support, and interpersonal problem-solving appraisal/skills were predictive of level of suicidality within a chronic suicidal college sample. Stepwise regression anal...
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Validity and reactivity of a system of self-monitoring suicide ideation
The present study describes the rationale and validation of a self-monitoring approach for suicide ideation. A sample of 49 severely ideating 18- to 24-year-old college students volunteering for a treatment st.....
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The problem-solving diathesis in depression, hopelessness, and suicide ideation: A longitudinal analysis
The problem-solving deficit (PSD) diathesis-stress model of suicide behavior proposed by Clum, Patsiokas, and Luscomb (1979) and expanded by Schotte and Clum (1982, 1987) was examined in a short-term longitudi.....
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Attributional style as a diathesis in predicting depression, hopelessness, and suicide ideation in college students
Attributional style was examined as a diathesis for depression, hopelessness, and suicidal ideation. A naturalistic stressor—obtaining a D or F on an Introductory Psychology exam—was used in a longitudinal des...
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Mechanisms of change in the treatment of panic
A growing body of research indicates that cognitive-behavioral (CB) treatments are superior to no treatment for panic. However, few compelling differences exist between treatments, questioning whether the addi...
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Validity and reliability of the panic attack symptoms and cognitions questionnaires
The present article reports on the development and validation of two self-report instruments designed to assess the symptoms and cognitions associated with panic attacks. The Panic Attack Symptoms Questionnair.....
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Imagery-induced arousal in individuals with panic disorder
Investigators have debated whether imagery can effectively induce arousal in persons suffering from anxiety disorders. Past research suggests that imaginal exposure to feared stimuli can successfully induce ar...
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Panic Disorders and Generalized Anxiety Disorders
The third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-III) (American Psychiatric Association, 1980) distinguishes between two principal types of “Anxiety States of Anxiety Neuroses,” namely, (1) “Panic ...
