Children's Positive and Negative Emotionality Depending on Their Eating Behaviors

The Moderating Role of Negative Emotionality, Positive Emotionality, and Low Constraint on the Relationship between Strain and Criminal Behavior

Title of Thesis: THE MODERATING ROLE OF NEGATIVE EMOTIONALITY, POSITIVE EMOTIONALITY, AND LOW CONSTRAINT ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STRAIN AND CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR Whytnee Foriest, Master of Arts, 2013 Thesis directed by: Professor Denise Gottfredson Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice General strain theory (GST) posits that strain causes crime (Agnew et al., 1992). Individuals who fai...

Influences of parent and child negative emotionality on young children's everyday behaviors.

Negative emotionality is linked to unfavorable life outcomes, but studies have yet to examine negative emotionality of parents and children as predictors of children's problem behaviors and negative emotion word use in everyday life. This study used a novel naturalistic recording device called the Electronically Activated Recorder to investigate the separate and interactive influences of parent...

The Effect of Negative and Positive Emotionality on Associative Memory: An fMRI Study

In general, emotion is known to enhance memory processes. However, the effect of emotion on associative memory and the underling neural mechanisms remains largely unexplored. In this study, we explored brain activation during an associative memory task that involved the encoding and retrieval of word and face pairs. The word and face pairs consisted of either negative or positive words with neu...

Relationship between positive and negative affect 1 On the relationship between positive and negative affect: Their..

Childrens Positive School Behaviors and Social Preference in Urban Elementary Classrooms

This study examined the associations between prosocial and academically oriented behaviors and social preference as a function of individual (i.e., gender), developmental (i.e., grade) and contextual factors (i.e., group descriptive norms). Data were gathered from a sample of 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade children (51% male, 97.5% African American) in 34 classrooms from high-poverty inner-city neighbo...