Kyla Machell Blalock

Journal Article Psychol Assess · February 2018 Three studies using samples of people in romantic relationships were conducted to create a new individual difference measure of partner strengths in couples. The 2 perceptions of partner strengths included (1) appreciation of their use and effectiveness an ... Full text Link to item Cite

The cascade of positive events: Does exercise on a given day increase the frequency of additional positive events?

Journal Article Personality and Individual Differences · January 1, 2018 Research suggests exercise promotes well-being while reducing the risk and symptoms of certain psychiatric disorders. Similarly, positive events improve quality of life and may minimize the impact of negative life events; a dearth of positive events is als ... Full text Cite

Personality Strengths as Resilience: A One-Year Multiwave Study.

Journal Article J Pers · June 2017 We examined how personality strengths prospectively predict reactions to negative life events. Participants were 797 community adults from 42 countries. At five points over the course of 1 year, participants completed a series of questionnaires measuring s ... Full text Link to item Cite

Family environment as a moderator of the association between anxiety and suicidal ideation.

Journal Article J Anxiety Disord · May 2016 Featured Publication The present study examined associations among anxiety symptoms, anxiety disorder diagnoses, perceptions of family support and conflict, and suicidal ideation (SI) in a clinical sample of psychiatrically hospitalized adolescents. Participants were 185 adole ... Full text Link to item Cite

Buffering the Negative Impact of Poverty on Youth: The Power of Purpose in Life

Journal Article Social Indicators Research · March 1, 2016 Adolescent poverty is associated with increased antisocial and decreased prosocial behaviors. Attenuating these negative effects is relevant for both individual and societal well-being. Research exploring how youth in poverty can escape antisocial behavior ... Full text Cite

Academic achievement at the cost of ambition: The mixed results of a supportive, interactive environment on socially anxious teenagers

Journal Article Personality and Individual Differences · January 1, 2016 Featured Publication Social anxiety impacts functional impairment in several life domains; in children, the most notable effect is a decline in academic performance. Socially anxious children report that communicating with peers and teachers, as well as public speaking are the ... Full text Cite

Attachment style and self-regulation: How our patterns in relationships reflect broader motivational styles

Journal Article Personality and Individual Differences · December 1, 2015 Individuals orient themselves in relationships using different goals and preoccupations, often conceptualized as four distinct attachment styles (Bartholomew & Horowitz, 1991). Individuals also orient themselves in the social world more broadly using diffe ... Full text Open Access Cite

Relationships between meaning in life, social and achievement events, and positive and negative affect in daily life.

Journal Article J Pers · June 2015 Research on meaning in life has generally focused on global meaning judgments. This study examined how people's daily experiences, represented by events that occur in daily life, influence their perceived sense of meaning on a daily basis. One hundred sixt ... Full text Link to item Cite

Positive emotion regulation: Addressing two myths

Journal Article Current Opinion in Psychology · January 1, 2015 To understand positive emotion regulation, researchers and practitioners must consider a person's unique motivation for specific behaviors within each situation rather than making sweeping (and ultimately inaccurate) generalizations. Two myths about the no ... Full text Cite

Perceived responsiveness during an initial social interaction with a stranger predicts a positive memory bias one week later.

Journal Article Cogn Emot · 2015 Prior research has found that perceiving positive responses from others following self-disclosures enhances social bonds and plays a role in the maintenance of romantic relationships. We sought to extend this effect by exploring perceived responsiveness to ... Full text Link to item Cite

Experiential avoidance and well-being: a daily diary analysis.

Journal Article Cogn Emot · 2015 Featured Publication Experiential avoidance (EA) is a regulatory strategy characterised by efforts to control or avoid unpleasant thoughts, feelings and bodily sensations. Most studies of EA have used trait measures without considering the effects of EA on psychological functi ... Full text Link to item Cite

A contextual approach to experiential avoidance and social anxiety: evidence from an experimental interaction and daily interactions of people with social anxiety disorder.

Journal Article Emotion · August 2014 Featured Publication Experiential avoidance (EA), the tendency to avoid internal, unwanted thoughts and feelings, is hypothesized to be a risk factor for social anxiety. Existing studies of experiential avoidance rely on trait measures with minimal contextual consideration. In ... Full text Link to item Cite

The iron status of children and youth in a community mental health clinic is lower than that of a national sample.

Journal Article J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol · March 2013 OBJECTIVE: Iron plays a key role in brain function, and a deficiency of iron has been implicated in various cognitive, motor, and psychiatric disorders. Because of recent evidence that iron deficiency may be related to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disor ... Full text Link to item Cite