Objective: Self-harming behavior is a major clinical issue in adolescence. Childhood trauma, emotion dysregulation, and self-criticism are the main concerns associated with self-harming behavior. In this study, we investigated the relationship between childhood trauma, emotion dysregulation, and self-criticism with self-harming behaviors among adolescents in Iran. Methods: A sample of 558 (263...

The purpose of this exploratory study was to cross-culturally examine associations among self-construals, comparative vs. internalized self-criticisms, self-compassion, and depressive symptoms. 1200 undergraduates in the city of Kyoto, Japan, and 420 college students in Tennessee and Michigan participated in this study. The results indicated that both independent and interdependent self-constru...

About ten percent of the Dutch working population suffers from chronic stress and high levels of emotional exhaustion. Chronic stress is associated with depressive and anxiety disorders, which are very prevalent in the population. One of the individual causes of chronic stress may be high levels of self-criticism. This context warrants a public mental approach. A self-help book was written base...

The concept of genre has had a significant place in cinema studies since the 1970s. Genre films are commercial feature telling identical stories with similar characters. Definition and debate genus genres tended to focus on mainstream, general Hollywood particular. In this study, it is aimed make generic evaluation movie Cape Fear directed by John Lee Thompson 1962. was selected teleological sa...

Lindquist, Siegel, Quigley, and Barrett (2013) critiqued our recent meta-analysis that reported the effects of discrete emotions on outcomes, including cognition, judgment, physiology, behavior, and experience (Lench, Flores, & Bench, 2011). Lindquist et al. offered 2 major criticisms—we address both and consider the nature of emotion and scientific debate. Their 1st criticism, that the meta-an...

The purpose of this study is to determine how acculturation, social support, family emotional involvement, perceived family criticism and stigma are associated with epilepsy self-efficacy and depression. A principal components analysis (PCA) was used to describe the salience of these characteristics within a sample of Hispanics with epilepsy. A total of 50 Hispanic adults of Mexican descent ide...

Several studies have suggested that self-forgiveness promotes psychological well-being. The state scale (SSFS) and the differentiated process (DSFPS) are two self-report questionnaires assess in psychotherapy, personal change, health. present study aims to examine psychometric properties of SSFS DSFPS a Portuguese sample, highlighting reliability validity for scores on both scales. We relations...

Abstract Objectives Colorectal cancer survivors are at risks of emotional distress and dysregulated diurnal cortisol rhythms. Dispositional self-compassion has been linked with better psychological adjustment greater positive affect. This study evaluated the associations between pattern, role affect in mediating this association, patients. Methods longitudinal recruited 127 Chinese colorectal s...

BACKGROUND Relapse is increased in people with psychosis who live with carers with high expressed emotion (EE). Attributional style has been used to understand EE at a psychological level. Previous studies have investigated carer appraisals for negative events in the patient's life. We therefore aimed to examine spontaneous carer attributions for both negative and positive events. Further, we d...