Self Concept

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Cross-Sectional Relationship Between Social Capital, Self-Compassion, and Perceived HIV Symptoms. 
  • A Rorschach investigation of defensiveness, self-perception, interpersonal relations, and affective states in incarcerated pedophiles. 
  • 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. 
  • A comparison of perceived uselessness between centenarians and non-centenarians in China. 
  • A cross-lagged structural equation model of relational aggression, physical aggression, and peer status in a Chinese culture. 
  • A four-dimensional interpretation of risk taking 
  • A group approach with violent outpatients. 
  • A multinational study of self-compassion and human immunodeficiency virus-related anxiety. 
  • A piece of my mind. A perfect match. 
  • A social cognitive model of health for HIV-positive adults receiving care in India. 
  • A stage analysis of self-initiated smoking reductions. 
  • A systematic review of quality-of-life domains and items relevant to patients with spondyloarthritis. 
  • Acculturation, depression, self-esteem, and substance abuse among Hispanic men. 
  • Accuracy of child and adolescent weight perceptions and their relationships to dieting and exercise behaviors: a NHANES study. 
  • Accuracy of perceptions of overweight and relation to self-care behaviors among adolescents with type 2 diabetes and their parents. 
  • Adapting a Skin Cancer Prevention Intervention for Multiethnic Adolescents. 
  • Adolescent binge/purge and weight loss behaviors: associations with developmental assets. 
  • Adolescent preferences and reactions to language about body weight. 
  • Adult age differences in personality traits in the United States and the People's Republic of China. 
  • Advance directives and the personal identity problem. 
  • Age and sex differences in prospective effects of health goals and motivations on daily leisure-time physical activity. 
  • Age differences in self-perceptions of type A traits. 
  • Age, personality, and the spontaneous self-concept. 
  • Aggression, social acceptance, and race as predictors of negative adolescent outcomes. 
  • Am I a control?: Genotype-driven research recruitment and self-understandings of study participants. 
  • Anger-related dysregulation as a factor linking childhood physical abuse and interparental violence to intimate partner violence experiences. 
  • Anorexia nervosa--thinness as illness. 
  • Are associations between parental divorce and children's adjustment genetically mediated? An adoption study. 
  • Assessing psychologic symptoms in adolescents. 
  • Assessing weight-related quality of life in adolescents. 
  • Association between weight bias internalization and metabolic syndrome among treatment-seeking individuals with obesity. 
  • Associations among NEO personality assessments and well-being at midlife: facet-level analyses. 
  • Associations of weight-based teasing and emotional well-being among adolescents. 
  • Attitudes toward physical activity of white midlife women. 
  • Automatic activation of self-discrepancies and emotional syndromes: when cognitive structures influence affect. 
  • BIS and BAS interact with perceived parental affectionless control to predict personality disorder symptomatology. 
  • Behavior problems in children with the presenting problem of poor school performance. 
  • Beliefs about weight gain and attitudes toward relapse in a sample of women and men with obesity. 
  • Binge eating and weight-related quality of life in obese adolescents. 
  • Binge eating in an obese community sample 
  • Birthplace, culture, self-esteem, and intimate partner violence among community-dwelling Hispanic women. 
  • Black women in menopausal transition. 
  • Body image partially mediates the relationship between obesity and psychological distress. 
  • Body image perceptions and dieting among African-American pre-adolescent girls and parents/caregivers. 
  • Boys’ and Girls’ Relational and Physical Aggression in Nine Countries. 
  • Brain activity during episodic retrieval of autobiographical and laboratory events: an fMRI study using a novel photo paradigm. 
  • Burnout in Pediatric Residents: Three Years of National Survey Data. 
  • CaPOW! Using Problem Sets in a Capstone Course to Improve Fourth-Year Medical Students' Confidence in Self-Directed Learning. 
  • Calibrating the sociometer: the relationship between interpersonal appraisals and state self-esteem. 
  • Cardiovascular health knowledge and preventive practices in people living with HIV in Kenya. 
  • Changes in perceived uselessness and risks for mortality: evidence from a National sample of older adults in China. 
  • Changes in the relation of self-efficacy beliefs and behaviors across development. 
  • Changes in weight and weight-related quality of life in a multicentre, randomized trial of aripiprazole versus standard of care. 
  • Client characteristics associated with behavior change for treated and untreated aggressive boys. 
  • Clinical, demographic and social characteristics of psychotic depression. 
  • Cognitive coping strategies and blood pressure responses to real-life stress in healthy young men. 
  • Cognitive measures of adolescent depression: unique or unitary constructs? 
  • Cognitive-behavioral intervention with aggressive boys: three-year follow-up and preventive effects. 
  • Collectivism and the meaning of suffering. 
  • Commentary: why do research on spirituality and health, and what do the results mean? 
  • Committed to work but vulnerable: self-perceptions and mental health in NEET 18-year olds from a contemporary British cohort. 
  • Comparison of men and women with binge eating disorder 
  • Comparison of the Duke Health Profile and the MOS Short-form in healthy young adults. 
  • Compensating, resisting, and breaking: a meta-analytic examination of reactions to self-esteem threat. 
  • Competent adolescents from different socioeconomic and ethnic contexts. 
  • Compliance and noncompliance in cancer patients. 
  • Concepts of human differences: a comparison of American, Japanese, and Chinese children and adolescents. 
  • Conceptual consumption. 
  • Concordance in the perception of couples recovering from primary surgical treatment of prostate cancer. 
  • Conformity development as a function of self-blame. 
  • Confronting and coping with weight stigma: an investigation of overweight and obese adults. 
  • Consistent Belief in a Good True Self in Misanthropes and Three Interdependent Cultures. 
  • Construct and concurrent validation of the MG-QOL15 in the practice setting. 
  • Construct validity of the Impact of Weight on Quality of Life Questionnaire. 
  • Construct validity of the need to belong scale: mapping the nomological network. 
  • Consumers' perceptions of the fairness and effectiveness of mandated community treatment and related pressures. 
  • Continuities and consequences of interactional styles across the life course. 
  • Continuous chest compression cardiopulmonary resuscitation training promotes rescuer self-confidence and increased secondary training: a hospital-based randomized controlled trial*. 
  • Contributions of frontopolar cortex to judgments about self, others and relations. 
  • Control beliefs and risk for 4-year mortality in older adults: a prospective cohort study. 
  • Correlates of perceived social support and equality of interpersonal relationships at mid-life. 
  • Correlates of psychosocial well-being among overweight adolescents: the role of the family. 
  • Correlates of suicidal ideation among an elderly depressed sample. 
  • Covering up what can't be seen: concealable stigma and mental control. 
  • Credit card debt, stress and key health risk behaviors among college students. 
  • Credit scores, cardiovascular disease risk, and human capital. 
  • Daily self-weighing and adverse psychological outcomes: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Death anxiety, dissent, and competence. 
  • Deconfounding the effects of dominance and social acceptance on self-esteem. 
  • Delay of gratification, psychopathology, and personality: is low self-control specific to externalizing problems? 
  • Delayed neuropsychologic dysfunction after liver transplantation for acute liver failure: a matched, case-controlled study. 
  • Delineating the maladaptive pathways of child maltreatment: a mediated moderation analysis of the roles of self-perception and social support. 
  • Depression rating scales. A critical review. 
  • Depression, anxiety, and functional impairment in children with trichotillomania. 
  • Depressive symptoms among informal caregivers of older adults: insights from the Singapore Survey on Informal Caregiving. 
  • Depressive symptoms and indicators of maternal health status during pregnancy. 
  • Depressive symptoms, self-esteem, HIV symptom management self-efficacy and self-compassion in people living with HIV. 
  • Determinants of patient satisfaction with ultrasound-assisted liposuction. 
  • Development and piloting of a mother and child intervention to promote resilience in young children of HIV-infected mothers in South Africa. 
  • Development and validation of the Psychological Adaptation Scale (PAS): use in six studies of adaptation to a health condition or risk. 
  • Development and validation of the State Hope Scale. 
  • Development of a clinical trials version of the Impact of Weight on Quality of Life-Lite questionnaire (IWQOL-Lite Clinical Trials Version): results from two qualitative studies. 
  • Development of a coping intervention to improve traumatic stress and HIV care engagement among South African women with sexual trauma histories. 
  • Development of the 17-item Duke Health Profile. 
  • Differential relation of psychological functioning with the history and experience of weight cycling. 
  • Discrepancies between explicit and implicit self-esteem: implications for mate retention strategies and perceived infidelity. 
  • Disputes over memory ownership: What memories are disputed? 
  • Dissecting daily distress in mothers of children with ADHD: an electronic diary study. 
  • Distinct functions of social support and cognitive function among older adults. 
  • Do Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Predict Burnout in Pediatric Residents? 
  • Do comparative self-appraisals during young adulthood predict adult personality? 
  • Do negative views of aging influence memory and auditory performance through self-perceived abilities? 
  • Does perception equal reality? Weight misperception in relation to weight-related attitudes and behaviors among overweight and obese US adults. 
  • Dysfunctional attitudes scale perfectionism: a predictor and partial mediator of acute treatment outcome among clinically depressed adolescents. 
  • Early adolescents' social standing in peer groups: behavioral correlates of stability and change. 
  • Eating disturbances in white and minority female dieters 
  • Effect of anticipated performance on the attributions of causality to self and others. 
  • Effect of children’s perceived rejection on physical aggression 
  • Effects of coping on health outcome among women with gastrointestinal disorders. 
  • Effects of exercise training on older patients with major depression. 
  • Effects of iPad Video Education on Patient Knowledge, Satisfaction, and Cardiac Rehabilitation Attendance. 
  • Effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction on emotional experience and expression: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Effects of self-esteem and expected duration of interaction on liking for a highly rewarding partner. 
  • Emerging Adult Women's Views-of-Self in Intimate Partner Relationships That Are Troubled. 
  • Emotion regulation difficulties in anorexia nervosa: Relationship to self-perceived sensory sensitivity. 
  • Emotion suppression in borderline personality disorder: an experience sampling study. 
  • Emotional complications of adolescent grand mal epilepsy. 
  • Emotional responses to goal attainment: strength of regulatory focus as moderator. 
  • Emotionally charged autobiographical memories across the life span: the recall of happy, sad, traumatic, and involuntary memories. 
  • Employment discrimination, segregation, and health. 
  • Encouraging patient adherence: primary care physicians' use of verbal compliance-gaining strategies in medical interviews. 
  • Endogenous and non-endogenous depressions: relations to life events, dysfunctional attitudes and event perceptions. 
  • Enhancing the psychological health of medical students: the student well-being committee. 
  • Estimated cost-effectiveness of growth hormone therapy for idiopathic short stature. 
  • Ethnic differences in symptoms experienced during the menopausal transition. 
  • Evaluating measurement models in clinical research: covariance structure analysis of latent variable models of self-conception. 
  • Evaluating the impact of a substance use intervention program on the peer status and influence of adolescent peer leaders. 
  • Examining the conceptual model of integrative cognitive-affective therapy for BN: Two assessment studies. 
  • Experimental avoidance as a mediator of the effects of adolescent sexual victimization on negative adult outcomes. 
  • Face symmetry assessment abilities: Clinical implications for diagnosing asymmetry. 
  • Factors associated with changes in physical activity: a cohort study of inactive adolescent girls. 
  • Familial heart valve disorder is not related to autonomy, social interaction style, or family dynamics. 
  • Family dinner meal frequency and adolescent development: relationships with developmental assets and high-risk behaviors. 
  • Family history of psychiatric disorder and low self-confidence: predictors of depressive symptoms at 12-month follow-up. 
  • Feasibility of using an iPod touch device and acceptability of a stigma reduction intervention with HIV-infected women in the Deep South. 
  • Finding brands and losing your religion? 
  • Flight from autonomy: problems of social change on an adolescent inpatient unit. 
  • Functional disability, disability transitions, and depressive symptoms in late life. 
  • Gender differences in antidepressant and activating drug effects on self-perceptions. 
  • Gender disparities in adult health: an examination of three measures of morbidity. 
  • Gender, race, and obesity-related quality of life at extreme levels of obesity. 
  • Generalized anxiety disorder and depression: childhood risk factors in a birth cohort followed to age 32. 
  • Glaucoma and associated visual acuity and field loss significantly affect glaucoma-specific psychosocial functioning. 
  • Group cognitive-behavioral treatment for internalized weight stigma: a pilot study. 
  • HIV-related stigma among an urban sample of persons living with HIV at risk for dropping out of HIV-oriented primary medical care. 
  • Health education needs of intimate partner violence survivors: Perspectives from female survivors and social service providers. 
  • Health needs and barriers to healthcare of women who have experienced intimate partner violence. 
  • Health-related quality of life in overweight and nonoverweight black and white adolescents. 
  • Health-related quality of life in patients seeking gastric bypass surgery vs non-treatment-seeking controls. 
  • Health-related quality of life varies among obese subgroups. 
  • Hierarchical classification and the integration of self-structure in late adolescence. 
  • High, usual and impaired functioning in community-dwelling older men and women: findings from the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Successful Aging. 
  • How strong is the relationship between functional status and quality of life among persons with stroke? 
  • Hypermasculinity and academic goal-setting: an exploratory study. 
  • I am too just like you: nonconscious mimicry as an automatic behavioral response to social exclusion. 
  • If I'm not hot, are you hot or not? Physical attractiveness evaluations and dating preferences as a function of one's own attractiveness. 
  • Illness specific patterns of psychological adjustment and cognitive adaptational processes in children with cystic fibrosis and sickle cell disease. 
  • Impact of Age on Change in Self-Image 5 Years After Complex Spinal Fusion (≥5 Levels). 
  • Individual differences in self-regulatory failure and menstrual dysfunction predict upper respiratory infection symptoms and antibody response to flu immunization. 
  • Influence of genetic risk information on parental role identity in adolescent girls and young women from families with fragile X syndrome. 
  • Influence of racial disparities on patient-reported satisfaction and short- and long-term perception of health status after elective lumbar spine surgery. 
  • Innovative introduction to surgery in the preclinical years. 
  • Integrating a relaxation response-based curriculum into a public high school in Massachusetts. 
  • Integration of Spiritual Care in Hospital Care System in Iran. 
  • Intergroup helping as status relations: Effects of status stability, identification, and type of help on receptivity to high-status group's help. 
  • Internalized heterosexism among HIV-positive, gay-identified men: implications for HIV prevention and care. 
  • Interpersonal concerns and psychological difficulties of psoriasis patients: effects of disease severity and fear of negative evaluation. 
  • Intimate partner violence, depression, and resource availability among a community sample of Hispanic women. 
  • Is diabetes associated with poorer self-efficacy and motivation for physical activity in older adults with arthritis? 
  • It takes two to mimic: behavioral consequences of self-construals. 
  • John Henryism and Perceived Health among Hemodialysis Patients in a Multiracial Brazilian Population: the PROHEMO. 
  • Lateral prefrontal cortex and self-control in intertemporal choice. 
  • Leighton's theory of sentiments: explorations and speculations on barriers to interpersonal forgiveness. 
  • Lesbians, bisexual women, and body image: An investigation of gender roles and social group affiliation 
  • Life goals, satisfaction, and self-rated health: preliminary findings. 
  • Linking family hardship to children's lives. 
  • Listening to Religious Music and Mental Health in Later Life. 
  • Living with genetic risk: effect on adolescent self-concept. 
  • Living with sickle cell disease: traversing 'race' and identity. 
  • London's burning: recovering other geographies of health. 
  • Loneliness in childhood: toward the next generation of assessment and research. 
  • Long-term follow-up of patients with tetralogy of Fallot: physical health and psychopathology. 
  • Low self-esteem during adolescence predicts poor health, criminal behavior, and limited economic prospects during adulthood. 
  • Low self-esteem is related to aggression, antisocial behavior, and delinquency. 
  • Major depression and personality disorder. 
  • Making sense of misfortune: deservingness, self-esteem, and patterns of self-defeat. 
  • Managing motivational conflict: how self-esteem and executive resources influence self-regulatory responses to risk. 
  • Managing patients with complications of osteoporosis. 
  • Maps and mother goddesses in modern India. 
  • Marital status, marital satisfaction, and body image dissatisfaction 
  • Masculinity beliefs predict psychosocial functioning in African American prostate cancer survivors. 
  • Maternal navigational strategies: examining mother-daughter dyads in adolescent families of color. 
  • Maternal socialization goals, parenting styles, and social-emotional adjustment among Chinese and European American young adults: testing a mediation model. 
  • Measurement of self-concept and self-esteem in older people: state of the art. 
  • Membership has its (epistemic) rewards: need for closure effects on in-group bias. 
  • Menopausal symptom experience: an online forum study. 
  • Metasynthesis of qualitative research on living with HIV infection. 
  • Mindfulness-based eating awareness training for treating binge eating disorder: the conceptual foundation. 
  • Minimum Detectable Measurement Difference for Health-Related Quality of Life Measures Varies With Age and Disability in Adult Spinal Deformity: Implications for Calculating Minimal Clinically Important Difference. 
  • Modeling change in memory performance and memory perceptions: findings from the ACTIVE study. 
  • Mother and father socially desirable responding in nine countries: Two kinds of agreement and relations to parenting self-reports. 
  • Motivational and emotional aspects of the self. 
  • Moving beyond disclosure: women's perspectives on barriers and motivators to seeking assistance for intimate partner violence. 
  • Multi-modal examination of psychological and interpersonal distinctions among MPI coping clusters: a preliminary study. 
  • Muscle test comparisons of congruent and incongruent self-referential statements. 
  • Narcissism and the development of chronic pain. 
  • Narrating consciousness: language, media and embodiment. 
  • Neural activity associated with self, other, and object-based counterfactual thinking. 
  • Neural systems for guilt from actions affecting self versus others. 
  • Neuropsychological functioning as a moderator of the relationship between psychosocial functioning and the subjective experience of self and life in schizophrenia. 
  • New graduate nurses' perceptions of the effects of clinical simulation on their critical thinking, learning, and confidence. 
  • Nonverbal display of emotion in public and in private: self-monitoring, personality, and expressive cues. 
  • On the Concurrent Use of Self-System Therapy and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Guided Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation as Treatment for Depression. 
  • Osteoporosis in late life: does health locus of control affect psychosocial adaptation? 
  • Our trainees' confidence: results from a national survey of 4136 US general surgery residents. 
  • Over and over again: rumination, reflection, and promotion goal failure and their interactive effects on depressive symptoms. 
  • Overeating among adolescents: prevalence and associations with weight-related characteristics and psychological health. 
  • Overvaluation of shape and weight among overweight children and adolescents with loss of control eating. 
  • Parent and family associations with weight-related behaviors and cognitions among overweight adolescents. 
  • Parent-child connectedness and behavioral and emotional health among adolescents. 
  • Parietal cortex and representation of the mental Self. 
  • Past Actions as Self-Signals: How Acting in a Self-Interested Way Influences Environmental Decision Making. 
  • Patient predictors of caregiver burden, optimism, and pessimism in rheumatoid arthritis. 
  • Patient-reported quality of life with obesity - development of a new measurement scale. 
  • Patients' psychosocial experiences of attending Specialist Palliative Day Care: a systematic review. 
  • Patterns of physical symptoms and relationships with psychosocial factors in adolescents. 
  • Pediatricians' own weight: self-perception, misclassification, and ease of counseling. 
  • People over forty feel 20% younger than their age: subjective age across the lifespan. 
  • Perceived dyscognition reported by patients with fibromyalgia. 
  • Perceived social support among depressed elderly, middle-aged, and young-adult samples: cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses. 
  • Perceived stigmatization among overweight African-American and Caucasian adolescent girls. 
  • Perceived susceptibility to chronic kidney disease among high-risk patients seen in primary care practices. 
  • Perception of overweight and self-esteem during adolescence. 
  • Perception of poor health in the healthy older adult. 
  • Perceptions of patients' self-efficacy for managing pain and lung cancer symptoms: correspondence between patients and family caregivers. 
  • Personality Structure Among Centenarians: The Georgia Centenarian Study. 
  • Personality and persona: personality processes in self-presentation. 
  • Personality as a predictor of dietary quality in spouses during midlife. 
  • Personality, type A behavior, and coronary heart disease: the role of emotional expression. 
  • Potential neural embedding of parental social standing. 
  • Pre-simulation orientation for medical trainees: An approach to decrease anxiety and improve confidence and performance. 
  • Predictors of adverse events among pregnant smokers exposed in a nicotine replacement therapy trial. 
  • Predictors of cognitive change in older persons: MacArthur studies of successful aging. 
  • Predictors of depressive symptoms among Hispanic women in South Florida. 
  • Predictors of hopelessness among clinically depressed youth. 
  • Predictors of intimate partner violence revictimization: the relative impact of distinct PTSD symptoms, dissociation, and coping strategies. 
  • Predictors of pregnant quitters' intention to return to smoking postpartum. 
  • Predictors of self-efficacy for HIV prevention among Hispanic women in South Florida. 
  • Prevalence and correlates of sexual abuse reported by late adolescent school children in Sri Lanka. 
  • Prevalence and predictors of pervasive noncompliance with medical treatment among youths with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. 
  • Protecting the self from the negative consequences of risky decisions. 
  • Psychiatrists' transition from training to career: stress and mastery. 
  • Psychological and neural mechanisms of trait mindfulness in reducing depression vulnerability. 
  • Psychological correlates of obesity: moving to the next research generation. 
  • Psychological correlates of weight fluctuation. 
  • Psychological functioning of children with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus: a longitudinal study. 
  • Psychological inflexibility and symptom expression in anorexia nervosa. 
  • Psychological well-being among people with recently diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis. Do self-perceptions of abilities make a difference? 
  • Psychometric evaluation of a Brazilian version of the impact of weight on quality of life (IWQOL-Lite) instrument. 
  • Psychosocial and behavioral correlates of dieting among overweight and non-overweight adolescents. 
  • Psychosocial and cultural correlates of depression among Hispanic men with HIV infection: a pilot study. 
  • Psychosocial characteristics of pregnant and nulliparous adolescents. 
  • Psychosocial concerns and health-compromising behaviors among overweight and nonoverweight adolescents. 
  • Psychosocial outcomes in a weight loss camp for overweight youth. 
  • Psychosocial variables associated with binge eating in obese males and females. 
  • Psychosocial variables associated with coping of HIV-positive women diagnosed during pregnancy. 
  • Pubertal changes in hormone levels and depression in girls. 
  • Putting together phylogenetic and ontogenetic perspectives on empathy. 
  • Quality of life and functional health of primary care patients. 
  • Quality of life effects of alprostadil therapy for erectile dysfunction: results of a trial in Europe and South Africa. 
  • Quality of life in hearing-impaired adults: the role of cochlear implants and hearing aids. 
  • Quid pro quo: the ecology of the self. 
  • Race, social support, and coping strategies among HIV-positive gay and bisexual men. 
  • Racial (vs. self) affirmation as a protective mechanism against the effects of racial exclusion on negative affect and substance use vulnerability among black young adults. 
  • Racial differences in gait mechanics associated with knee osteoarthritis. 
  • Reactive and proactive aggression in school children and psychiatrically impaired chronically assaultive youth. 
  • Recent experiences of weight-based stigmatization in a weight loss surgery population: psychological and behavioral correlates. 
  • Recruiting young adults into a weight loss trial: report of protocol development and recruitment results. 
  • Reducing contingent self-worth: A defensive response to self-threats. 
  • Regulatory concerns and appraisal efficiency: the general impact of promotion and prevention. 
  • Relation of threatened egotism to violence and aggression: the dark side of high self-esteem. 
  • Relationship of weight, body dissatisfaction, and self-esteem in african american and white female dieters 
  • Relationships between body satisfaction and psychological functioning and weight-related cognitions and behaviors in overweight adolescents. 
  • Religion, spirituality, and mental health of U.S. military veterans: Results from the National Health and Resilience in Veterans Study. 
  • Religious coping and quality of life among individuals living with schizophrenia. 
  • Remembering moral and immoral actions in constructing the self. 
  • Risk and protection in the development of problem behaviors in adolescents. 
  • Risk factors associated with overweight and obesity in college students. 
  • Role of self-presentation in the health practices of a sample of Irish adolescents. 
  • Role perceptions of divorcing parents. 
  • Search and recovery of autobiographical and laboratory memories: Shared and distinct neural components. 
  • Self perception in anorexia nervosa. 
  • Self- and peer perceptions and attributional biases of aggressive and nonaggressive boys in dyadic interactions. 
  • Self-compassion and reactions to serious illness: the case of HIV. 
  • Self-compassion and reactions to unpleasant self-relevant events: the implications of treating oneself kindly. 
  • Self-compassion and risk behavior among people living with HIV/AIDS. 
  • Self-compassionate reactions to health threats. 
  • Self-compassionate responses to aging. 
  • Self-complexity as a cognitive buffer against stress-related illness and depression. 
  • Self-concept in obese and normal-weight children. 
  • Self-discrepancies and emotional vulnerability: how magnitude, accessibility, and type of discrepancy influence affect. 
  • Self-discrepancies and vulnerability to body dissatisfaction and disordered eating. 
  • Self-discrepancies as predictors of vulnerability to distinct syndromes of chronic emotional distress. 
  • Self-discrepancies in clinical depression and social phobia: cognitive structures that underlie emotional disorders? 
  • Self-discrepancy and natural killer cell activity: immunological consequences of negative self-evaluation. 
  • Self-discrepancy in chronic low back pain: relation to pain, depression, and psychological distress. 
  • Self-discrepancy theory as a transdiagnostic framework: A meta-analysis of self-discrepancy and psychopathology. 
  • Self-efficacy and adjustment in cancer patients: a preliminary report. 
  • Self-efficacy and pain behavior among subjects with fibromyalgia. 
  • Self-efficacy expectations among traumatized adolescents. 
  • Self-efficacy for managing pain, symptoms, and function in patients with lung cancer and their informal caregivers: associations with symptoms and distress. 
  • Self-enhancement processing in the default network: a single-pulse TMS study. 
  • Self-esteem and obesity in children and adolescents: a literature review. 
  • Self-guides, autobiographical memory, and anxiety and dysphoria: toward a cognitive model of vulnerability to emotional distress. 
  • Self-in-relation theory and the role of the clinical nurse specialist. Part II: Application to advanced nursing roles in a professional practice model. 
  • Self-perceived video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy proficiency by recent graduates of North American thoracic residencies. 
  • Self-perception of uselessness and mortality among older adults in China. 
  • Self-perceptions of stability and change in personality at midlife: the UNC Alumni Heart Study. 
  • Self-presentational persona: simultaneous management of multiple impressions. 
  • Self-rated health and mortality in the high-functioning elderly--a closer look at healthy individuals: MacArthur field study of successful aging. 
  • Self-rated health in Pakistan: results of a national health survey. 
  • Self-recognition in autistic children. 
  • Self-regulation, rumination, and vulnerability to depression in adolescent girls. 
  • Self-regulatory cognition and immune reactivity: idiographic success and failure feedback effects on the natural killer cell. 
  • Self-reported ADHD and adjustment in college: cross-sectional and longitudinal findings. 
  • Self-reported and measured sleep duration: how similar are they? 
  • Self-specific processing in the default network: a single-pulse TMS study. 
  • Sense of humor, childhood cancer stressors, and outcomes of psychosocial adjustment, immune function, and infection. 
  • Serotonergic genotypes, neuroticism, and financial choices. 
  • Settlement has Many Faces: Physicians, Attorneys, and Medical Malpractice 
  • Sexual orientation and demographic, cultural, and psychological factors associated with the perpetration and victimization of intimate partner violence among Hispanic men. 
  • Sibling relationships in old age: a typology. 
  • Situational social problem-solving skills and self-esteem of aggressive and nonaggressive boys. 
  • Skilled or unskilled, but still unaware of it: how perceptions of difficulty drive miscalibration in relative comparisons. 
  • Smoking, internalized heterosexism, and HIV disease management among male couples. 
  • Social and personal resources and the prevalence of phobic disorder in a community population. 
  • Social anxiety and self-presentation: a conceptualization and model. 
  • Social anxiousness: the construct and its measurement. 
  • Social context of pain in children with Juvenile Primary Fibromyalgia Syndrome: parental pain history and family environment. 
  • Social information-processing mechanisms in reactive and proactive aggression. 
  • Social-cognitive processes of severely violent, moderately aggressive, and nonaggressive boys. 
  • Spinal deformity and mobility self-confidence among women with osteoporosis and vertebral fractures. 
  • Spirituality and religion in outpatients with schizophrenia: a multi-site comparative study of Switzerland, Canada, and the United States. 
  • Stability within the self: a longitudinal study of the structural implications of self-discrepancy theory. 
  • Stigma, perceived blame, self-blame, and depressive symptoms in men with colorectal cancer. 
  • Studying intergenerational transmission of eating attitudes and behaviors: methodological and conceptual questions. 
  • Suicidal ideation and behavior and noncompliance with the medical regimen among diabetic adolescents. 
  • Suicide and friendships among American adolescents. 
  • Summer camps for children with burn injuries: a literature review. 
  • Surrogates' perceptions about feeding tube placement decisions. 
  • Surviving critical illness: acute respiratory distress syndrome as experienced by patients and their caregivers. 
  • Survivors of childhood cancer and their guardians. 
  • Sustained pain reduction through affective self-awareness in fibromyalgia: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Symptoms of interpersonal sensitivity in depression. 
  • Systematic review of positive youth development programs for adolescents with chronic illness. 
  • Taking chances in the face of threat: romantic risk regulation and approach motivation. 
  • Taking tests in the magnet: Brain mapping standardized tests. 
  • Teasing, body image, and self-esteem in a clinical sample of obese women. 
  • Teasing, disordered eating behaviors, and psychological morbidities among overweight adolescents. 
  • Temperament moderates associations between exposure to stress and children's externalizing problems. 
  • Temporal view of the costs and benefits of self-deception. 
  • The Duke-UNC Health Profile: an adult health status instrument for primary care. 
  • The Relationship Between Weight Loss and Health-related Quality of Life in a Serbian Population. 
  • The association between spiritual and religious involvement and depressive symptoms in a Canadian population. 
  • The biphasic effects of alcohol: comparisons of subjective and objective measures of stimulation, sedation, and physical activity. 
  • The blood donor identity survey: a multidimensional measure of blood donor motivations. 
  • The concept of ego threat in social and personality psychology: is ego threat a viable scientific construct? 
  • The counterfeit self: the deceptive costs of faking it. 
  • The dysfunctional attitudes scale: psychometric properties in depressed adolescents. 
  • The effect of age on weight-related quality of life in overweight and obese individuals. 
  • The effects of aerobic exercise on endurance, strength, function and self-perception in adolescents with spastic cerebral palsy: a report of three case studies. 
  • The effects of race-related stress on cortisol reactivity in the laboratory: implications of the Duke lacrosse scandal. 
  • The function of self-esteem in terror management theory and sociometer theory: comment on Pyszczynski et al. (2004). 
  • The functional domain specificity of self-esteem and the differential prediction of aggression. 
  • The hypercorrection effect persists over a week, but high-confidence errors return. 
  • The impact of psychologic factors on measurement of functional status. Assessment of the sickness impact profile. 
  • The impact of structured support groups for pregnant South African women recently diagnosed HIV positive. 
  • The impact of supervised exercise on the psychological well-being and health status of older veterans. 
  • The importance of narcissism in predicting proactive and reactive aggression in moderately to highly aggressive children. 
  • The importance of physical function to people with osteoporosis. 
  • The impostor phenomenon: self-perceptions, reflected appraisals, and interpersonal strategies. 
  • The influence of self-awareness on emotional memory formation: an fMRI study. 
  • The invalidity of disclaimers about the effects of social feedback on self-esteem. 
  • The meaning and measurement of age identity. 
  • The neural sociometer: brain mechanisms underlying state self-esteem. 
  • The neuropsychology of autobiographical memory. 
  • The pot calling the kettle black: distancing response to ethical dissonance. 
  • The prediction of adolescent homicide: episodic dyscontrol and dehumanization. 
  • The regulatory function of self-esteem: testing the epistemic and acceptance signaling systems. 
  • The relationship between health-related quality of life and weight loss. 
  • The relationship between self-rated health and health status among coronary artery patients. 
  • The role of internalized homonegativity in the faith and psychological health of lesbians. 
  • The role of parental involvement in youth sport participation and performance. 
  • The role of symptoms and self-efficacy in predicting physical activity change among older adults with arthritis. 
  • The serotonin transporter gene polymorphism (5HTTLPR) moderates the effect of adolescent environmental conditions on self-esteem in young adulthood: a structural equation modeling approach. 
  • The social self, body dissatisfaction, and binge eating in obese females. 
  • The spatiotemporal dynamics of autobiographical memory: neural correlates of recall, emotional intensity, and reliving. 
  • The touch that heals: the uses and meanings of touch in the clinical encounter. 
  • Thirteen dimensions of health in elderly Sri Lankans: results from a National Sri Lanka Aging Survey. 
  • Three Principles to REVISE People's Unethical Behavior. 
  • Time-dependent changes in positively biased self-perceptions of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a developmental psychopathology perspective. 
  • Turning points and lessons learned: stressful life events and personality trait development across middle adulthood. 
  • Twins Dispute Memory Ownership: A New False Memory Phenomenon 
  • Two measures of health-related quality of life in morbid obesity. 
  • Two versions of life: emotionally negative and positive life events have different roles in the organization of life story and identity. 
  • Undergraduate community psychology work-study programs: effects on self-actualization and vocational plans. 
  • Unintentional weight loss, its associated burden, and perceived weight status in people with cancer. 
  • Use of a brief version of the self-compassion inventory with an international sample of people with HIV/AIDS. 
  • Usefulness of standard BMI cut-offs for quality of life and psychological well-being in women. 
  • Victim derogation and victim enhancement as alternate routes to system justification. 
  • Virtual Orientation of Volunteer Short-Term International Health Teams to Increase Self-Confidence and Cultural and Global Health Competence. 
  • Visual memory loss and autobiographical amnesia: a case study. 
  • Voices of Women Facing HIV-Related Stigma in the Deep South. 
  • Volunteering and depression: the role of psychological and social resources in different age groups. 
  • Watching my mind unfold versus yours: an fMRI study using a novel camera technology to examine neural differences in self-projection of self versus other perspectives. 
  • Weight perceptions and weight control practices in American Indian and Alaska Native adolescents. A national survey. 
  • Weight stigmatization and ideological beliefs: relation to psychological functioning in obese adults. 
  • Weight, exercise, and health: children's perceptions. 
  • Weight-bearing physical activity among girls and mothers: relationships to girls' weight status. 
  • Weight-related quality of life in Spanish obese subjects suitable for bariatric surgery is lower than in their North American counterparts: a case-control study. 
  • Well-being in Australia--findings from the National Survey of Mental Health and Well-being. 
  • What is perfect health to an 85-year-old?: evidence for scale recalibration in subjective health ratings. 
  • Who Am I, and Who Do I Strive to Be? Applying a Theory of Self-Conscious Emotions to Medical Education. 
  • Who I am depends on how I feel: the role of affect in the expression of culture. 
  • Who/se we are: baptism as personhood. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Dodge, Kenneth A., William McDougall Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society
  • Grambow, Steven C., Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Schanberg, Laura Eve, Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Rheumatology
  • Yancy Jr., William Samuel, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Zafar, Syed Yousuf, Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke Science & Society