With substantive evidence suggesting that adolescents' disclosure is likely a protective factor against problem behaviors, as well as evidence that many adolescents will go to great lengths to avoid sharing information with parents, one may conclude that parents' face a formidable task. Previous studies have identified parental acceptance as a concurrent correlate of adolescents' behavioral dis...

Adviser: Professor Margaret Rosario The present study examined the relationships between maternal dissociation, mothers’ self-described parenting behaviors in child emotion regulation, and the emotion regulatory capacity of their children. These relationships were investigated in a sample of predominately low-income African-American and Latino mothers and children residing in a domestic violenc...

In a sample of 134 married couples randomly assigned to traditional or integrative behavioral couple therapy (TBCT vs. IBCT), a multivariate hierarchical growth curve analysis using latent variable regression revealed that measures of communication, behavior frequency, and emotional acceptance acted as mechanisms of change. TBCT led to greater changes in frequency of targeted behavior early in ...

background : the ability to accept illness is a major issue in the life of a person with cancer. acceptance of disease is simultaneously conducted at two levels: the emotional and cognitive-behavioral one. it is consequential to cancer af-fecting numerous aspects of patient's life, i.e. the physical, mental, social and the spiritual area. the aim of the study was to verify the influence of soci...

The purpose of this prospective study was to examine whether illness acceptance and helplessness predict the subjective health of patients with a cardiac problem over a six months period, after controlling for baseline subjective health. A second aim was to examine whether acceptance and helplessness remain stable over time. One hundred and six cardiac patients participated in the study (66 mal...

The main aim of this study was to examine the relationship of emotional instability with illness worry and perceived limitations due to chest pain, and investigate to what degree any associations are mediated by the following chest pain-related coping styles: acceptance, seeking emotional support, seeking instrumental support, and avoidance. Self-reported measures from 94 participants with non-...

Previous studies have documented the positive effects of mindfulness meditation on executive control. What has been lacking, however, is an understanding of the mechanism underlying this effect. Some theorists have described mindfulness as embodying two facets-present moment awareness and emotional acceptance. Here, we examine how the effect of meditation practice on executive control manifests...

Objectives: The associations between emotional skills encompassed in emotion regulation model and psychopathology were examined by investigating its ability to modify the emotion-mediated association between other emotion regulation skills and psychopathology.  Methods: A total of 465 students were selected using proposal sampling method. Data were collected using Emotion Regulation Skill...