Defense Mechanisms
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Subject Areas on Research
- A caution on the use of the MMPI K-correction in research on psychosomatic medicine.
- A comparison of aggressive-rejected and nonaggressive-rejected children's interpretations of self-directed and other-directed rejection.
- Aberrant behaviors of young boys with fragile X syndrome.
- Avoidant Coping Mediates the Relationship Between Self-Efficacy for HIV Disclosure and Depression Symptoms Among Men Who Have Sex with Men Newly Diagnosed with HIV.
- Blood pressure responses to mental stress in emotionally defensive patients with stable coronary artery disease.
- Characterizing the effects of sertraline in post-traumatic stress disorder.
- Chronic avoidance helps explain the relationship between severity of childhood sexual abuse and psychological distress in adulthood.
- Color blindness and interracial interaction: playing the political correctness game.
- Coming to terms: parents' response to a first cancer recurrence in their child.
- Compensating, resisting, and breaking: a meta-analytic examination of reactions to self-esteem threat.
- Compensatory control and the appeal of a structured world.
- Complementary justice: effects of "poor but happy" and "poor but honest" stereotype exemplars on system justification and implicit activation of the justice motive.
- Depression, anxiety, and functional impairment in children with trichotillomania.
- Facial expression and the affective component of cynical hostility in male coronary heart disease patients.
- God and the government: testing a compensatory control mechanism for the support of external systems.
- In search of the silver lining: the justice motive fosters perceptions of benefits in the later lives of tragedy victims.
- Interaction of temperamental resistance to control and restrictive parenting in the development of externalizing behavior.
- Limbic system-adrenal cortex regulation in depression and schizophrenia.
- Major depression and personality disorder.
- Masked depression in a combined medical-psychiatric unit.
- Maternal depression in association with fathers' involvement with their infants: spillover or compensation/buffering?
- Mechanisms of change in dialectical behavior therapy: theoretical and empirical observations.
- Modifications in children's goals when encountering obstacles to conflict resolution
- Motivational and emotional aspects of the self.
- Multilevel regression analyses to investigate the relationship between two variables over time: examining the longitudinal association between intrusion and avoidance.
- Parents' and early adolescents' self-efficacy about anger regulation and early adolescents' internalizing and externalizing problems: A longitudinal study in three countries.
- Predictors of emotional numbing in posttraumatic stress disorder.
- Predictors of intimate partner violence revictimization: the relative impact of distinct PTSD symptoms, dissociation, and coping strategies.
- Protecting the self from the negative consequences of risky decisions.
- Relation of threatened egotism to violence and aggression: the dark side of high self-esteem.
- Religious attitudes and practices of hospitalized medically ill older adults.
- Religious belief as compensatory control.
- Self-compassion and reactions to unpleasant self-relevant events: the implications of treating oneself kindly.
- Social goals: relationship to adolescent adjustment and to social problem solving.
- Temperamental resistance to control increases the association between sleep problems and externalizing behavior development.
- The cost of self-protection: threat response and performance as a function of autonomous and controlled motivations.
- The effects of providing lung age and respiratory symptoms feedback on community college smokers' perceived smoking-related health risks, worries and desire to quit.
- The egoism and altruism of intergenerational behavior.
- The role of internalized homonegativity in the faith and psychological health of lesbians.
- Treatment of adolescents in family therapy after divorce.