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Background: The two-polarity model of personality development posits that personality vulnerabilities, specifically dependency and self-criticism, play a critical role in adolescent psychopathology risk. This theoretical framework emphasizes the importance of understanding how these vulnerabilities manifest and develop during adolescence, as adoles...
Background: Adolescence involves a period of swift change, including the development of personality vulnerabilities (i.e., dependency and self-criticism) that act as transdiagnostic factors to psychopathology. Over the past several decades, numerous short revisions have condensed the Depressive Experiences Questionnaire (DEQ) into more efficient me...
Personality vulnerabilities (i.e., dependency and self-criticism) have been established as critical risk factors for psychopathology in general and for depression in particular. However, research does not address ways of treating those who score high on both dependency and self-criticism, or mixed-vulnerability individuals. To benefit these individ...
Interpersonal rejection is a well-documented risk factor for depression. The interpersonal consequences of depression, however, have been relatively unstudied. The present study aimed to examine the psychosocial functioning of depressed individuals when faced with interpersonal rejection. The differential consequences on two subtypes of depression...
Highly optimistic explanatory style (HOES) and highly pessimistic explanatory style (HPES) are two maladaptive ways to explain the world and may have roots in attachment insecurity. The current study aims to explore the effects of security priming – activating supportive representations of attachment security – on ameliorating these maladaptive exp...
In a recent study Liu, Smeesters, and Vohs (2011) found that money primes reactance, as defined by oppositional behavior. This reactance does not necessarily imply autonomy, or the reflective endorsement of one's actions. We posited, however, that by protecting personal choice from social influence money-primed reactance may help ensure autonomy un...
