Sentences with phrase «negative affective»

Previous studies also showed that dismissing attachment correlated both with an impairment of the ability to process negative emotions, particularly sadness (Strathearn et al., 2009), and to a proneness to inhibit negative affective responses (Leckman et al., 2004; Strathearn, 2006; Crittenden, 2008).

Negative affective states such as depression are associated with increased risk of coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and disability (2 - 4).

In my view, addictive behavior is often related to trauma or loss and develops as an adaptive strategy to cope with difficult or negative affective states and feelings.

This research used a mood induction technique that encouraged participants to think mood - congruent thoughts while listening to music intended to elicit a negative affective state.

According to socioemotional selectivity theory (SST), older adults are motivated to regulate their emotions such that positive affective states are maintained and negative affective states are avoided (Carstensen, Isaacowitz, & Charles, 1999).

Furthermore, the results indicated that husbands and wives were more similar to each other than to others in the sample, when considering their regulation of negative affective behavior, but no such relationship was found with respect to the regulation of their positive affective behavior.

For their first slider rating, 17 older and 8 younger participants indicated that they were in a neutral or positive mood and accordingly were classified as rapid regulators, whereas 17 older and 17 younger adults still reported experiencing a negative affective state — they were classified as nonregulators.

Although aspects of NA are associated with ineffective alleviation of negative emotions and moods, researchers have suggested that optimism might be related to the successful regulation of negative affective states (Gross & John, 2003; John & Gross, 2007).

We also focus on drug dependence, since negative affective states are a prominent feature of drug withdrawal and likely play a critical role in the persistence of drug addiction.

Each of these reactions then causes the other partner to continue or amplify his or her reaction such that a negative affective cycle results.

Negative affective reaction to partner's dominant behavior influences satisfaction with romantic relationship.

Relationship Matters Podcast Number 63 «Negative affective reaction to partner's dominant behavior influences satisfaction with romantic relationship»: Dr Gentiana Sadikaj from McGill University, Montreal discusses her recent article on how dominant behaviour can cause a negative effect on the partner by and then how that can affect the relationship quality.

Future studies should attempt to determine the mechanisms responsible for the impact of TM on school - related conduct problems and attendance by assessing possible changes in perceived negative affective and / or behavioral impact of stressors and / or utilizing mock conflict - evoking scenarios to determine possible changes in behavioral response patterns.

According to these authors, dogs that exhibit separation anxiety behavior suffer from an underlying negative affective state.

The scenario tends to result in negative affective experiences.

It's easy for people to dwell on negative affective states because, according to neuroscientists, there are more neural networks in the brain associated with negative affect than with positive affect (Baumeister, Bratslavsky, Finkenauer, & Vohs, 2001); some scientists even speculate that these may be in the ratio of 5 to 1.

Neural - hormonal responses to negative affective stimuli: impact of dysphoric mood and sex Mareckova K, Holsen L, Admon R, Whitfield - Gabrieli S, Seidman LJ, Buka SL, Klibanski A, Goldstein JM.

There is increasing evidence in humans and laboratory animals for biologically - based sex differences in every phase of drug addiction including acute reinforcing effects, transition from occasional to compulsive use, withdrawal - associated negative affective states, craving, and relapse.

Dr. Chartoff is interested in how chronic exposure to drugs of abuse changes the brain at molecular and cellular levels such that drug withdrawal elicits a protracted constellation of negative affective signs.

[Johannes Michalak, Katharina Rohde and Nikolaus F. Troje, How we walk affects what we remember: Gait modifications through biofeedback change negative affective memory bias] Scientists showed volunteers a list of negative and positive words, like afraid and anxious, or sunny and pretty.

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I believe that this description of the intentional subject is significant for our comparison with Whitehead, because adumbration for him begins at the affective level in terms of negative and positive prehensions and is then transmuted to the level of sense perception in presentational immediacy.

Results revealed that stroking velocity had a significant effect on TPT - item scores, showing higher positive and lower negative ratings for the affective touch compared to non-affective touch, thereby replicating previous studies.

During a gloomy Manhattan winter, participants with seasonal affective disorder (SAD) sat in a room for 30 minutes daily with ionizers blasting enough negative ions to match the summer air, which is naturally more negatively charged than winter air.

A study conducted by Columbia University found that when participants suffering from seasonal affective disorder were exposed to negative ions, 58 percent of them reported feeling better and a loss of their usual symptoms.

The following are common characteristics of gifted children, although not all will necessarily apply to every gifted child: • Has an extensive and detailed memory, particularly in a specific area of interest • Has advanced vocabulary for his or her age; uses precocious language • Has communication skills advanced for his or her age and is able to express ideas and feelings • Asks intelligent and complex questions • Is able to identify the important characteristics of new concepts and problems • Learns information quickly • Uses logic in arriving at common sense answers • Has a broad base of knowledge; a large quantity of information • Understands abstract ideas and complex concepts • Uses analogical thinking, problem solving, or reasoning • Observes relationships and sees connections • Finds and solves difficult and unusual problems • Understands principles, forms generalizations, and uses them in new situations • Wants to learn and is curious • Works conscientiously and has a high degree of concentration in areas of interest • Understands and uses various symbol systems • Is reflective about learning • Is enraptured by a specific subject • Has reading comprehension skills advanced for his or her age • Has advanced writing abilities for his or her age • Has strong artistic or musical abilities • Concentrates intensely for long periods of time, particularly in a specific area of interest • Is more aware, stimulated, and affected by surroundings • Experiences extreme positive or negative feelings • Experiences a strong physical reaction to emotion • Has a strong affective memory, re-living or re-feeling things long after the triggering event

Intensities can be characterized by: • Extreme feelings: positive or negative feelings; complex emotions; connection with the feelings of others; grand laughter and tears • Physical reaction to emotion: stomachaches and headaches; blushing; rise in body temperature • Strong affective memory: re-living or re-feeling things long after the triggering event; nightmares; elaborate daydreams connected to actual events • There are five areas of overexcitabilities: psychomotor, sensual, imaginational, intellectual, and emotional.

The Positive Affect and Negative Affect Schedule (Watson et al., 1988; Terracciano et al., 2003) assessed the affective components of subjective well - being by requiring participants to indicate on a 5 - point Likert scale to what extent (1 = very slightly, 5 = extremely) they generally experienced 20 adjectives describing affective states (10 for positive affect and 10 for negative affect) during a specific period («in this moment, today, last week, last month, or generally&Negative Affect Schedule (Watson et al., 1988; Terracciano et al., 2003) assessed the affective components of subjective well - being by requiring participants to indicate on a 5 - point Likert scale to what extent (1 = very slightly, 5 = extremely) they generally experienced 20 adjectives describing affective states (10 for positive affect and 10 for negative affect) during a specific period («in this moment, today, last week, last month, or generally&negative affect) during a specific period («in this moment, today, last week, last month, or generally»).

However, Norlander, Johansson, & Bood (2005), as well as Archer, Adolfsson, & Karlsson (2008), considered positive and negative affect as parts of an affective profile model articulated into four different types: 1) «self - fulfilling profile», characterized by high levels of PA and low levels of NA; 2) «high affective profile», given by high levels of PA and high levels of NA; 3) «low affective profile», formed by low levels of PA and low levels of NA; and, finally 4) «self - destructive profile», given by low levels of PA and high levels of NA.

Mood - Related Negative Bias in Response to Affective Stimuli in Patients with Major Depression

Several affective variables also predicted decline in marital satisfaction, including a pronounced gender difference in negative affect reciprocity: Marital satisfaction declined most when husbands did not reciprocate their wives» negative affect, and when wives did reciprocate their husbands» negative affect.

For instance, greater vigilance to negative information may make one hesitant to express their thoughts and feelings in social contexts or behave in an assertive manner, making it difficult to form and maintain meaningful social relationships in individualistic societies, a social behaviour critical to reducing the risk of affective disorders for genetically susceptible individuals.

In a study of 130 French military, they found that personality disorders (labelled maladaptive traits) did not predict negative affect beyond the Big Five personality traits, suggesting that they have no incremental validity in predicting affective (military) work outcomes.

For example, the unfamiliar setting or negative prior medical experiences may affect child behavior, resulting in heightened stranger anxiety, negative affect, dampened affect, and / or restricted affective range.

Moreover, the patterns of activation and deactivation of brain regions in response to affective stimuli or in the course of mildly anxiogenic tasks vary quantitatively across subjects and can be predicted in part by individual differences in proneness to experience negative emotionality and anxiety, and by some polymorphic genes that influence behavior.

Attentional orienting skills, in particular, have been identified as a critical component of the regulatory process, since orienting has the direct effect of amplifying, at a neural level, the stimuli toward which attention is directed, changing the affective experience of the individual.17 Thus, orienting skills assist in the management of both negative and positive emotions, and consequently in the development of adaptive control of emotion and behaviour.

By watching caregivers model appropriate emotion regulation behaviors, discuss affective states, and modify their environments to alleviate negative affect, children internalize their histories of interactions with caregivers, and develop expectations and scripts for interactions in the parent - child dyad [45].

Clinicians provide children with psychoeducation to correct negative thoughts, to encourage affective expression, and to identify adults who can provide assistance, support, and nurturance to children.

Measures utilized include the Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence, the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia in School - Age Children — Present and Lifetime version (K - SADS - PL), the Pediatric Anxiety Rating Scale (PARS) and the Positive and Negative Affect Scale for Children (PANAS - C).

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This study examined the related contributions of the therapeutic alliance and negative mood regulation to the outcomes of Skills Training in Affective and Interpersonal Regulation plus Modified Prolonged Exposure (STAIR / MPE) for childhood abuse - related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Sixty adolescents (M age = 13.24, SD = 1.03, 66.7 % female) with high (HD) and low (LD) depressive symptoms rated the predominant affective expression in ambiguous stimuli with varying intensity (happy - sad, happy - angry, sad - angry) prior to and following a negative (social rejection), positive (social inclusion), or no social experience with the depicted model identities.

Measures utilized include the General Child Management Scale, Family Involvement Scale, Negative Parent — Child Affective Quality Scale, and the Substance Use Rules Communication Scale.

On other hand, individuals with negative mental representations can prefer being distant and detached from others, report no need for close relationships, and tend to distrust affective signals from others (Cassidy and Kobak, 1988; Mikulincer et al., 2003).

Parents reported a significant increase in general child management, family involvement, communication about rules regarding substance use and a significant decrease in negative parent — child affective quality.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This study evaluated the effectiveness of The Parent Project, among parents of at - risk youth in the areas of general child management, family involvement, negative parent — child affective quality, substance use rules communication, and parental self - efficacy (PSE) in the ability to affect adolescent substance use.

Affective statements are «I» statements that express a feeling, precisely describe a child's behavior, and make the child aware of the positive or negative impact of the behavior (Costello, Wachtel, & Wachtel 2009).

In summary, we established that the majority of both the husbands and the wives had state - dependent regulation of affective behavior, and that negative behavior was more persistent than positive behavior.

Cancer - specific stress at baseline was examined as a predictor of psychological (cognitive - affective depressive symptoms, negative mood, mental health quality of life) and physical functioning (fatigue interference, sleep problems, physical health quality of life), controlling for demographic and treatment variables.

The first application was based on observational data obtained from dyads to study their moment - to - moment behavior on an affective dimension running from negative affect to positive affect.

First, while controlling for several affective confounds on crying tendency makes interpretations in which crying results from greater negative emotionality less likely, it may be that the greater crying among persons high in DO reflects their specific emotional profile.

These behaviours include parental withdrawal, negative - intrusive responses, role - confused responses, disoriented responses, frightened or frightening behaviours, and affective communication errors, including contradictory responses to infant signals and failure to respond to clear affective signals from the infant.16