Objective: This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of transdiagnostic treatment on maladaptive personality traits and Mentalized Affectivity of patients with generalized anxiety disorder comorbid with depression. Methods: A quasi-experimental design with a single case method was used to conduct the research.The statistical population included people with GAD comorbid with depression ...

Childhood disorders are frequently characterized dichotomously into internalizing and externalizing symptoms. However, co-morbidity is the rule rather than the exception in child psychopathology [1]. Theories that explain comorbidity often focus on the overlap between criteria for disorders and similar etiologies. Negative affectivity is a construct that characterizes multiple disorders [2-5]. ...

Relations between brain electrical activity and performance on two cognitive tasks were examined in a normal population selected to be high on self-reported measures of Positive or Negative Affectivity. Twenty-five right-handed women, from an original pool of 308 college undergraduates, were the participants. EEG was recorded during baseline and during psychometrically matched spatial and verba...

This article examines the relation between adult shyness and sensory-processing sensitivity and posits a new model in which the interaction of sensitivity and adverse childhood environment leads to negative affectivity (with the highly sensitive being more impacted), which in turn leads to shyness. Consistent with this model, two questionnaire studies (Ns = 96 and 213) supported three hypothese...

This study examines vagal tone and two dimensions of temperament as predictors of emotion regulation (ER) strategy use among children (n = 54, ages 4-7) of mothers varying in risk for depression. In one protocol, ER strategies were coded by trained raters during a delay of gratification task. Physiological and psychometric data were collected in an independent and separate protocol: vagal tone ...

Two studies examined the relationships among trait negative affectivity, dispositional thought suppression, and intrusions in non-clinical samples. In Study 1 (N=87), participants were presented with a series of emotionally evocative images and intrusions were examined 48 h after presentation via self-report. In Study 2 (N=118), intrusions were examined using a behavioral Key-press and self-rep...

This investigation examined mediators of the longitudinal relation between negative affectivity and the development of problematic drinking behavior in adolescent boys and girls. In the present study, 499 early adolescents completed inventories of negative affectivity, attitudes toward delinquency, personal delinquency, and affiliation with delinquent peers. Positive attitudes toward delinquenc...

This study reports about the construction of a bidimensional measure of optimism and pessimism (defined as positive and negative outcome expectancies), called the Japanese Optimism and Pessimism Scale (J-OPS), and examines its reliability and validity. The participants were college students. The results revealed the following: (a) the J-OPS had sufficient reliability and validity, (b) optimism ...

Reactions to stressful negative events have long been studied using approaches based on either the narrative interpretation of the event or the traits of the individual. Here, we integrate these 2 approaches by using individual-differences measures of both the narrative interpretation of the stressful event as central to one's life and the personality characteristic of negative affectivity. We ...