OBJECTIVE To understand the relationship between negative life events and suicide ideation, and how it was influenced by the mediating effect of depression. METHODS 1145 college students from one university were selected using cluster sampling. Both Symptom Check List (SCL-90) and Questionnaire were administered to measure depression and suicide ideation in the past week and on the prevalence...

Interpersonal forgiving was conceptualized in the context of a 2-factor motivational system that governs people's responses to interpersonal offenses. Four studies were conducted to examine the extent to which forgiving could be predicted with relationship-level variables such as satisfaction, commitment, and closeness; offense-level variables such as apology and impact of the offense; and soci...

The consequences of deployment extend beyond the service member to impact the entire family. The current investigation evaluated the unique challenges of family reintegration for partnered service members using a prospective design. In total, 76 partnered service members who deployed on a year-long, high-risk mission to Iraq were assessed across the entirety of the deployment cycle, i.e., pre-,...

People often try to improve their interpersonal skills to satisfy romantic partners. However, when and why a partner appreciates these efforts is an important but underaddressed question. The present research explored how people's theories that interpersonal abilities are either fixed entities or can be changed incrementally affect their responses to relationship partner's efforts at self-impro...

This study considers links between the number of types of violence to which women have been exposed, depression, and executive functions (EFs). Substantial research has established EF deficits among depressed individuals as well as individuals exposed to trauma. Studies have also indicated a relationship between trauma exposure and depressive symptoms across a range of traumatic events, such as...

We introduce interpersonal congruence—the degree to which group members see others in the group as others see themselves—as a moderator of the relationship between diversity and group effectiveness. A longitudinal study of 83 work groups revealed that functional and demographic diversity tended to undermine the functioning of groups with low interpersonal congruence, whereas these detrimental e...

OBJECTIVES This study is carried out with the aim of describing the pattern of health-promoting behaviors (HPBs) among middle-aged women and its relevant factors in Iran as a Muslim developing country. METHODS In a cross-sectional study, 483 middle-aged women were selected using cluster random sampling from Yazd city in Central Iran. An adjusted Persian version of Health Promoting Lifestyle P...

Assuming that interpersonal communication is a “deeply cultured process,” (Philipsen, 1992) this essay illuminates the different ways interpersonal communication is conceptualized in the U.S. and China through reviewing studies of one core symbol — face — in the two cultures. It demonstrates that embedded in the face concept are culture-specific notions of personhood that give rise to culturesp...