Journal ArticleSubst Use Misuse · 2025
OBJECTIVE: Understanding factors associated with early onset of substance use is critical as using alcohol or drugs at a young age is a strong predictor of later substance dependency. Experiencing stressful life events is associated with increased risk for ...
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Journal ArticlePloS one · January 2025
Socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with well-being outcomes across studies; however, there is wide variation in its measurement, particularly in adolescence. One key difference in measures of SES concerns whether participants relay objective informat ...
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Journal ArticleThe American journal of drug and alcohol abuse · November 2024
Background: The large-scale identification of people at risk of transitioning from relatively lower-risk to higher-risk alcohol use (e.g. problem drinking) remains a public health challenge despite advances in the identification of risk and protecti ...
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Journal ArticleSubstance use & misuse · January 2024
Objective: Adolescence is characterized by psychosocial and cognitive changes that can alter the perceived risk of negative effects of alcohol, opportunities to drink, and self-control. Few studies have investigated whether these factors change in t ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of health psychology · December 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic provides a naturalistic test of whether pandemic-related disruptions weaken habits and undermine behavior stability. We hypothesized that better capacity to effortfully guide behavior (self-regulation) would buffer this effect and be ...
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Journal ArticleJMIR Ment Health · April 28, 2023
BACKGROUND: Literature has underscored the dark aspects of social media use, including associations with depressive symptoms, feelings of social isolation, and diminished self-esteem. Social comparison, the process of evaluating oneself relative to another ...
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Journal ArticlePersonality and Individual Differences · April 1, 2023
This paper updates and extends prior work by meta-analyzing the fast-growing literature on the association between individual differences in trait self-control and multiple outcomes within the domains of physical activity, eating, and sleep. Random-effects ...
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Journal ArticleJMIR formative research · January 2023
BackgroundIndividuals with later bedtimes have an increased risk of difficulties with mood and substances. To investigate the causes and consequences of late bedtimes and other sleep patterns, researchers are exploring social media as a data sourc ...
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Journal ArticleInternational journal of behavioral medicine · April 2022
BackgroundThe infertility experience is often surrounded by frustration and discouragement associated with the thwarted goal to have a child. Though research has identified commonly used strategies to cope with infertility, this study is the first ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of adolescence · February 2022
IntroductionSelf-regulation has been identified as a highly promising target for interventions promoting broad wellbeing across development; however, there appear to be notable limitations in efficacy for early adolescents in particular. One possi ...
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Journal ArticlePersonality and individual differences · September 2021
Many studies have documented the role of self-regulation in predicting academic outcomes. However, fewer have comprehensively measured self-regulation or considered it simultaneously with contextual variables to test formally the often-advanced "risk-buffe ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Social and Personal Relationships · November 1, 2019
Improving on previous measures, we developed a multidimensional measure of relationship evaluation processes (REPs). In Study 1 (N = 523), we used exploratory factor analysis to identify the following eight dimensions: personal standards, social comparison ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of social psychology · January 2019
Previous research shows that people with high self-esteem cope with threats to the self by reducing the extent to which their self-worth is contingent on the threatened domain (Buckingham, Weber, & Sypher, 2012). The present studies tested the hypothesis t ...
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Journal ArticleNutrition and health · September 2018
Background:Nutrition interventions are used to increase knowledge, change attitudes and beliefs about healthy eating, to increase skills, and promote healthy eating.Aims:To review the effectiveness of published nutrition interventions imp ...
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